News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
Dear Friends, Like you, we believe the world needs Canadian culture more today than at any time in its past. We believe that young people deserve to learn how to express themselves and tell their own stories through music. And we believe in providing opportunities to support emerging composers; while championing those at the peak [...]
Canada Music Week is a nation-wide celebration of Canadian composers and their music established by the Canadian Federation of Music Teachers' Associations in 1960 to commemorate their 25th Anniversary. It takes place each year in the third week of November in order to include November 22, dedicated to St. Cecilia, Patron Saint of Music. To celebrate Canada Music Week [...]
Republished from The Conversation, an academic journal, with the permission of author and CMC Associate Composer John Burge: It’s been years since I attended high school and university in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, but I can clearly recall heading down to the Hire-a-Student office in Calgary after finishing exams, checking the job postings [...]
[envira-gallery id="2998"] "Somehow, music can stir our souls and bridge the gap between what we imagine the world to be and what we conceive as its potential state of being. When hungry souls hear from a great symphony those cherished, dreamed-of and longed-for expressions and can say, ‘that is the way I have always felt [...]
Our celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia this November 2 are taking three forms — musical, social, and historical. We have commissioned a new, 40-second fanfare for trumpet; that fanfare will be premiered at a party, our Gala Open House, on Friday, Nov 10, from 5 - 7pm at [...]
CMC BC Head Librarian Stefan Hintersteininger recently spent the weekend of October 19th through 22nd in Prince George, performing as guest principal cellist with the PGSO for the orchestra's 2017/2018 New Beginnings season-opening concert, O Canada! Celebrating Canada's 150th Birthday. The concert was part of a larger festival in honour of Canada's 150th, and included [...]
Bill Orr / CMC BC Curator of Archives: To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia, we have invited the five people who have served as BC Director since its founding to reflect on events during their tenure. Heather Pawsey is a celebrated soprano, a long-serving member of the CMC in BC's [...]
Bill Orr / CMC BC Curator of Archives: To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia, we have invited the five people who have served as BC Director since its founding to reflect on events during their tenure. Bob Baker was CMC BC's Director from 2009 until 2015. It was a tremendous honour [...]
From November 2-8, 2017, Canada welcomes the world as Vancouver hosts the ISCM World New Music Days 2017. Since its founding in 1922, the International Society for Contemporary Music has been the world’s premier network for new music. Each year, its festival is hosted in a different city around the globe. Next month, the Canadian League of [...]
Dedicated to BC Legacy Composer Barbara Pentland, CMC BC's unique Pentland Awards seek to recognize extraordinary contributions to Canadian music, excellence in composition, and outstanding performances of Canadian music in the Province of BC through four distinct awards. On Wednesday March 22, 2017, Langley Community Music School held its annual Young Composers Competition, adjudicated by Rodney [...]