News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, Sean Bickerton, will present What Is Music? as part of Capilano University’s Re-Sounding Music lecture series on Friday, January 30, from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the BlueShore Financial Centre for Performing Arts (2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver). Music moves us more deeply than any other [...]
CMC BC is excited to launch Frozen Light, an exhibition of photography, a video installation, and a new eponymous composition by Jordan Nobles. The exhibition runs Tuesday, November 25 through December 5 in our Murray Adaskin Salon, and is open to the public from 1pm - 4:30 pm weekdays. Frozen Light is a photographic [...]
The East Vancouver Community Music School was founded with a mandate of nurturing our musical community, building connections between music students and neighbours, of supporting music teachers, composers, performers, and the web of connections that makes up the musical ecosystem of Vancouver. Every year since 2015 the non-profit school has hosted a “Celebrate Canada [...]
On Friday, Oct.17th ,7:30pm, this cello recital “Dialogue into the Mist” is featuring cello contemporary music by Canadian composers. Yiyang Xue is currently a doctoral cello student at University of British Columbia, she is an artist residency at Canadian Music Centre at BC in this season. In this concert, she will play with two wonderful [...]
HUGH DAVIDSON COMPOSER READINGS 2026 Each season, the Victoria Symphony puts out a call for composers to submit new work to be read by the orchestra. Dedicated to the late Hugh Davidson, a composer and champion of new music at the CBC and the Canada Council, this program provides the opportunity for composers writing music [...]
“Be Mused is a must-see performance for the music lover” – Paula Cain, Piano Teacher, Victoria, B.C, On Saturday, October 18, 2025, Victoria’s Aerie Trio bring their concert Be Mused to Vancouver. The trio (Diane Berry, flute, Maria Wang, cello, Kathryn Le Gros, piano) will be joined by soprano Marnie Setka-Mooney in this performance [...]
'Map of You' DC release party featuring Rachel Fenlon Composer statement This collection of songs was born out of an opera I have in development. One of the characters is faced with the question of whether or not they have truly experienced love in their life. It points to the existential nature of love. [...]
To everyone who has presented, performed, taught, studied, or composed Canadian music and sound over the past year; to everyone who has donated what they can to help support the Canadian Music Centre BC; to all those organizations and ensembles and practitioners we have collaborated with over the past season. Thank You! “Ars longa, vita [...]
CMC BC has been busier this season than ever before, sponsoring concerts of music by BC composers, presenting awards and scholarships, hosting events and Artists in Residence, and engaging with our community around the province. Performances We have sponsored ten performances since January, including Standing Wave’s Compocon on February 24, where Sean presented the ensemble [...]
In this exciting chamber concert, the VICO’s intercultural wind quintet performs the world premieres of new works created by participants in its 2025 Sounds Global Composers’ Workshop: composers not only from BC (an impressive contingent including Nimus Belanger, Joanne Na, Niloufar Zahed, Vahid Massah, Emil Qing Zhuo Wu, and John Patrick MacLachlan) but also as [...]