News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
CMC BC's Heather Molloy and BC Director Sean Bickerton were at Music on Main’s sold-out 20th Season Celebration at the Vancouver Playhouse on March 23rd to present Artistic Director David Pay a Barbara Pentland Lifetime Achievement Award. According to Bickerton: "David Pay has coached and mentored more than 300 composers, performing artists, and arts [...]
The Music of Canada presented by Pacific Spirit Choir 3:00pm • May 10th • West Vancouver United Church 2062 Esquimalt Avenue, West Vancouver Tickets . Pacific Spirit Choir, a festival chorus that performs on the North Shore, is hosting its first ever all-BC composers concert on May 10th, 3:00pm at West Vancouver United Church. Canadian [...]
The 7th Sound of Dragon Music Festival Thursday, April 2 to Sunday April 5, 2026 The Annex & 8East, Vancouver Information . The Sound of Dragon Society presents the 7th Sound of Dragon Music Festival and redefines Chinese music with ground-breaking cross-cultural programming in Vancouver’s biennial celebration of Asian sounds: . 1) Jade Emperor’s [...]
CMC BC exists to champion our composers, foster the next generation of music and sound creators, and to act as a resource centre, sharing everything we have with the new music ecosystem of the province that brings our composer’s music to life. As our programs have evolved over the past few years, here is [...]
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 [...]