The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has unveiled the lineup for their 7th Annual New Music Festival (VSONMF) which will run from January 11-16, 2020 in a number of venues across the city. VSO 2020 New Music Festival is centred around the theme of (Re)Creation and features concerti performed by the artists who commissioned them, Max Richter’s re-imagining of Vivaldi's [...]
Our 2019-2020 Celebration Series opens with a special 60th Birthday Celebration of Canadian Composer Jacqueline Leggatt on Sunday, October 27, 2019, at 7:00 pm in the beautifully-refurbished Koerner Recital Hall. A co-presentation with the Vancouver Academy of Music where Leggatt is Head of Theory, this unique Celebration features CMC BC’s new Ensemble-In-Residence, Vetta Chamber Players, along with Vanier Park [...]
The Canadian Music Centre BC (CMC BC) is pleased to announce Season 4, with six unforgettable concerts celebrating seven outstanding composers: Jacqueline Leggatt, Jocelyn Morlock, Jordan Nobles, Ernst Schneider, Ross Alden, Stephen Chatman, and Leila Lustig. This 2019 - 2020 season is our most ambitious concert season ever, featuring exciting new collaborations with the Okanagan Symphony, [...]
Pictured beneath Martin Creed's installation 'Everything Is Going To Be Alright' are members of the Borealis String Quartet with Dr. Jennifer Butler (3rd L); Rennie Museum Director Wendy Chang (4th L); Jordan Nobles (2nd R) & Sean Bickerton (R) from the CMC Last Monday evening, the internationally-celebrated Borealis String Quartet premiered eight new five-minute string quartets [...]
Please join us June 17 for a completely unique evening of music, art, creativity, and camaraderie as we celebrate new voices in a new, completely unique space. https://vimeo.com/338988341 CMC BC is pleased to present the world premiere of 8 new 5-Minute String Quartets performed by Borealis String Quartet in the architecturally stunning Rennie Museum [...]
I met Alexina Louie many years ago in New York. Two of the pianists I managed at Columbia Artists Management — Ralph Markham & Kenneth Broadway — were performing a suite she had written on tour. It featured a movement beautifully evocative of gamelan music and I’ve never forgotten it. I had never before heard [...]
On Friday night, May 10, 2019, three winners of Chor Leoni's C4 Competition received Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence for Outstanding Composition. Jordan Nobles, CMC Associate Composer and CMC BC Librarian was on hand to present the awards to composers Kevin Pirker, Elizabeth Knudson, and Allan Bevan. L-R: CMC BC's Jordan Nobles presenting Pentland Awards to C4 [...]
Join us Monday evening, June 17 at 7pm in the architecturally spectacular rennie museum for '8 x 5' — a special evening featuring the world premiere of eight new, five-minute string quartets performed by the internationally renowned Borealis String Quartet. Experience these eight new quartets written by emerging composers, surrounded by the galleries of art [...]
Conductor and Composer Jon Washburn was presented with CMC BC's 2019 Barbara Pentland Lifetime Achievement Award at his final concert conducting the Vancouver Chamber Choir as Music Director Friday night, May 10. My remarks in presenting the award to Jon follow: It would be impossible to conceive of anyone on this Earth more deserving of the Canadian [...]
(pictured above: five winners of Grade Five Song-Writing Competition) On Friday night, May 10, 2019, CMC BC presented Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence for Outstanding Composition to winners of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Young Composers Competition. BC Director presenting Antoine Villéger with Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence BC Director Sean Bickerton, on hand [...]