[envira-gallery id="2709"]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 over that time to reflect on events during their tenure. Christine Purvis was the first BC Director of the Canadian Music Centre, working [...]

Forty years ago, in 1976, the national Board of Directors of the Canadian Music Centre formed an ad hoc British Columbia Committee, consisting of Allen E. Clingman, Robert Creech, Dennis Tupman, and Christine Callon. (Twenty-four others were part of that effort, including George Laverock, the current chair of CMC BC Regional Advisory Council.) Thanks to their [...]

Montreal's Quasar Saxophone Quartet brings its “Territoires sonores” project to Vancouver's Western Front at 303 - 8th Ave. East in Vancouver this evening at 5pm where four Canadian composers – Rebecca Bruton (Alberta),  Émilie Girard-Charest (Quebec), Alec Hall (Ontario), and William Kuo (British Columbia) – will present the results of their research and creation residency. The [...]

As you'll have seen from Stefan Hintersteininger's posts from Orchestra North up in Smithers, CMC BC had a busy summer! I thought you'd enjoy seeing a few of the highlights from June. We had a lot of fun, made new friends, went places, and did new things. Isn’t that what summer is all about? Final [...]

Canadian music lost one of its great scholars, musicians and friends this summer. Erich Schwandt uncovered, edited and published two volumes of music of New France from the archives of the Ursulines and Hôtel-Dieu, Québec. The importance of this research should not be underestimated. Erich’s work made pieces available for study and performance that are [...]

Recently, the Orchestra North Summer Program invited CMC BC's Stefan Hintersteininger to participate in their 2017 summer session in Smithers, BC, as part of an exciting new community partnership we've formed with this dynamic organization. We wanted to help document some of the incredible work that is being done by these highly dedicated and passionate [...]