On Wednesday, January 16, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra launches its 6th Annual New Music Festival, its first under Music Director Otto Tausk, who took the helm from long-time VSO Music Director (and New Music Festival creator extraordinaire) Bramwell Tovey at the beginning of VSO's 100th Anniversary 2018 / 2019 season. This New Music Festival is also [...]
It is with great appreciation and affection that we announce the departure of much-loved CMC BC librarian Stefan Hintersteininger, who leaves us to join the UBC Library as a Team Leader in Language Services. This is a wonderful opportunity for Stefan who has served Canadian composers, performers, and audiences with us for more than 10 [...]
On Monday evening, January 21st, the 2018 / 2019 season of the Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series resumes with a Celebration of the remarkable music and career of Owen Underhill. The concert, which features a wide variety of solo and chamber works dating from 1987 to present day (and including two premieres), will be held [...]
For more than 40 Years the CMC has championed Canadian music in BC. And thanks to your efforts and support, Canadian music is thriving across the province. 2018 was a truly wonderful year! We heard some extraordinary music and performances. Learned a lot from the remarkably talented young composers participating in our seminars. Made new [...]
Two weeks ago I drove up to Penticton, BC to speak with a group of music teachers from the BCRMTA's South Okanagan region. It was a wonderful opportunity to present four of our five BC Legacy Composer Documentary films. I tried to tell them about the composer's lives, and to place them in the social, [...]
Reprinted by permission of Carmen Leier, President, South Okanagan Branch, BCRMTA. On Friday, October 19, the South Okanagan Branch of the BC Registered Music Teachers' Association (BCRMTA) held its first Professional Development workshop of the season in Penticton, along with invited non-Registered Music Teachers in our ongoing outreach initiative. Our invited guest, Sean Bickerton, Director of [...]
On Monday we celebrated the music of Janet Danielson in the second sold-out concert of our series, which was dedicated to Women's History Month. It's a little hard to believe, but women did not gain the right to vote in Canada until 1916, when Manitoba became the first province to extend universal suffrage. Quebec was last, finally acknowledging [...]
We have embarked together on an epic voyage of discovery over the past three years — an exploration of worlds both familiar and strange, some both at once. Our magically intimate Murray Adaskin Salon has transported us back to a time of ancient legend explored vividly through Heather Pawsey’s brilliant one-woman show, perfectly expressed through Jeffrey [...]
The Canadian Music Centre's Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series opens this coming Monday evening with the Borealis String Quartet performing all three Imant Raminsh String Quartets. https://youtu.be/7n9cxD_3mTs Also featured is The Engine Room, a new work by Thomas Beckman, which was written for and premiered as part of our signature Jean Coulthard String Quartet [...]
The Borealis String Quartet with Thomas Beckman (centre) Named in honour of one of British Columbia’s most beloved legacy composers and teachers, the Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings allow emerging composers to gain experience writing for string quartet, along with the invaluable opportunity of having their pieces read, workshopped, rehearsed, and performed by a professional [...]