CMC BC’s Legacy Composer Film Series celebrates the very first generation of composers to do something quite revolutionary – write Western concert music on the West Coast of Canada. Made possible by a grant from the BC Arts Council, the films focus on five of these BC Legacy Composers: Murray Adaskin, Barbara Pentland, Rudolf Komorous, Jean [...]
In a moving ceremony, the Canadian League of Composers (CLC) and the Canadian Music Centre (CMC) presented Tania Miller with the 2017 Friends of Canadian Music Award at her last concert conducting the Victoria Symphony as Music Director last Sunday, May 14 at the Royal Theatre in Victoria. Composer Christopher Reiche, President of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC), and Sean Bickerton, BC Director of the [...]
Last Wednesday night, CMC BC co-presented a performance by the Bozzini String Quartet in the Murray Adaskin Salon of the first two string quartets written by Owen Underhill – String Quartet No. 1 (1974) and Northern Line – Angel Station (String Quartet No.2) (1996). Owen is an Associate Composer of the CMC and recent recipient of [...]
CMC BC is pleased to co-present Cathy Fern Lewis, Rodney Sharman & Rachel Iwaasa in Nocturnes: An Evening of Canadian Art Song, this Friday, May 5, 8pm, in the Murray Adaskin Salon at 837 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC. Cathy Fern Lewis The programme features music by Murray Adaskin, Linda Caitlin Smith, Rodney Sharman, [...]
The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce the very first Jean Coulthard String Quartet Reading this Saturday, May 6 from 1 - 3pm in collaboration with the Borealis String Quartet and Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Faculty of Arts, and Composer-in-Residence Farshid Samandari. Eleven composers submitted works for the reading: When the Moon is in [...]
Four of five 2017 nominations for Classical Composition of the Year are from BC this year, as are four of the five nominees for Classical Artist or Ensemble of the Year at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards. Nominees for Classical Composition of the Year are: "Pots 'n Pans Falling" by Edward Top; "Immersion" by Jordan Nobles; "Raven Tales" by Marcus Goddard; "Choir [...]
vanclassical.com is continuing its coverage of BC Legacy Composers in parallel with CMC BC's Celebrating Our Legacy Concert Series. This month the 'Go-to blog' for classical music in Vancouver is featuring a new article: CELEBRATING THE WEST COAST COMPOSERS: ELLIOT WEISGARBER (1919-2001) by Flutist Karen Suzanne Smithson, who is Weisgarber's daughter: Throughout the latter decades of the [...]
Congratulations to CMC BC Regional Advisory Council Chair George Laverock on receiving a BC Community Achievement Award and the inaugural 2017 Mitchell Leadership Award! George Laverock receiving Award. Laverock was cited for a vision of Vancouver as a creative centre for world-class music that has driven a remarkable commitment to community involvement: "George has made a [...]
The BC Annual Meeting of the Canadian Music Centre will be held on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Murray Adaskin Salon at 837 Davie Street in Vancouver. 2016 was a truly memorable year for the Canadian Music Centre. Nationally the organization adopted a new Mission, to be the catalyst that connects [...]
The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce a new education program, the Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings, in collaboration with the Borealis String Quartet and Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Faculty of Arts, and Composer-Mentor Farshid Samandari. Named in honour of one of British Columbia’s most beloved legacy composers and teachers, the Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings will allow emerging composers to [...]