DEADLINE EXTENDED! The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce the 2018 Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings, offered in collaboration with the Borealis String Quartet, Composer-Mentor Rita Ueda, and the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Named in honour of one of British Columbia’s most beloved legacy composers and teachers, the Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings [...]

SOLD OUT! The Canadian Music Centre in BC is thrilled to announce an evening with composer and pianist John Stetch, inaugural winner of CMC BC's Pentland Prize, a $1,000 scholarship awarded annually to a graduate composition student at UBC, SFU, or UVIC. Join us for this intimate, free concert on Friday, June 1st, from 7:00 to 8:00 [...]

The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce that the BC Advisory Council has achieved gender-equity for the first time in its 40-year history. BC Members of the CMC unanimously elected a slate of seven (7) new members to the BC Advisory Council at the Annual Meeting held last night, April 17, 2018, in the [...]

The Canadian Music Centre's Vancouver Creative Hub is available for rentals, including the Murray Adaskin Salon — a 44-seat, urban, black-box performance space — and the 14-seat CREATE boardroom. Named after beloved BC composer Murray Adaskin, the Salon is a uniquely intimate, affordable, completely accessible, 44-seat black-box theatre in the heart of downtown Vancouver. It [...]

The Canadian Music Centre in BC was thrilled to partner this year with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (VCBF) to co-present Vancouver Sings One Song (VSOS), a massed choir concert featuring several hundred singers in Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:30 pm. The massed rehearsal/performance was led by choral director Kathryn Nicholson along with Host Choir, Sound Eclectic, brilliantly organized [...]

Ever since its founding, Vancouver has been a brash city of big dreams, rough ambition, and industrial sounds — a noisy, sprawling brat of a frontier town. It’s fitting we mark noon every day with the triumphal blast of a ship’s horn, and sound the “all’s well” at nine o’clock every night with the boom [...]

Photo: Diane Park, Rachel Rose, Heather Pawsey, Jeffrey Ryan, and Maggie MacPherson (Credit: Tom Hudock) Last Friday, March 23, CMC BC and AstroLabe Musik Theatre co-presented a tour-de-force one-woman show by Soprano Heather Pawsey that was both hauntingly beautiful and profoundly moving. The program centred around the Vancouver premier of Jeffrey Ryan's Unheard based on poetry by [...]

On Saturday afternoon, March 24, the CMC and CBC co-presented the JUNOs Classical Showcase in CBC Vancouver's Studio One at 700 Hamilton Street. Featuring jaw-droppingly great performances by Soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian, Pianist Jan Lisiecki, Tiresias Duo (Rachel Iwaasa & Mark McGregor), Bass-Baritone Philippe Sly, and ARC Ensemble among other remarkable artists, the concert was produced by [...]

Leslie Uyeda, Composer By Janet Danielson as if everything she has ever been begins, inside, to sing. — Lorna Crozier, from “A Summer’s Singing,” in Everything Arrives At The Light (McClelland and Stewart, 1995) Leslie Uyeda has made an enormous contribution to the musical life of Vancouver as pianist, vocal coach, conductor, music director, and [...]

From left to right: Rodney Sharman, CMC BC Head Librarian Stefan Hintersteininger, Jocelyn Morlock, James Carter, Chor Leoni Artistic Director Erick Lichte, First Prize winner Marie-Claire Saindon, Second Prize winner Benjamin Bolden, Third Prize winner Gerda Blok-Wilson. Photo credit: Phil Jack, Chor Leoni. "Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold" (in Shakespeare's words) was not [...]