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Maestra Tania Miller Wins 2017 Friends of Canadian Music Award

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-17T04:35:10-07:0017 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Carmyn Slater, Christopher Reiche, Jared Miller, Sean Bickerton, Tania Miller, Timothy Chooi, Victoria Symphony|

Bozzini String Quartet Plays Underhill

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-16T08:10:17-07:0016 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Bozzini String Quartet, Owen Underhill|

Cathy Fern Lewis & CMC BC Present Nocturnes: Canadian Art Songs

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, [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-04T03:57:00-07:004 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Cathy Fern Lewis, Rachel Iwaasa, Rodney Sharman|

First Jean Coulthard String Quartet Reading This Saturday

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-03T09:38:58-07:003 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Borealis String Quartet, Farshid Samandari, Jean Coulthard, Kwantlen Polytechnic University|

Four From BC Nominated for Classical Composition Of The Year At WCMAs

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-03T03:16:39-07:003 May 2017|Categories: News|

Vancouver Classical Music Continues Series on BC Legacy Composers

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-02T09:23:33-07:002 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Elliot Weisgarber|

CMC BC Chair George Laverock Receives Leadership Award

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-05-01T02:52:59-07:001 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: BC Community Achievement Awards, George Laverock|

Annual BC Meeting of Canadian Music Centre

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-03-23T03:52:27-07:0023 March 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Annual Meeting, Canadian Music Centre, George Laverock, Sean Bickerton, Stefan Hintersteininger|

Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings

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 [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-03-10T07:53:27-08:0010 March 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Borealis String Quartet, Farshid Samandari, Kwantlen Polytechnic University|

Owen Underhill Receives Lifetime Achievement Award At CMC BC Gala

by Sean Bickerton Last night, on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 CMC BC held its first annual Gala Fundraising Concert in CMC BC's new Murray Adaskin Salon, featuring two of the most internationally celebrated young soloists BC has produced in a generation – Pianist Avan Yu and Violinist Timothy Chooi – in concert with our own Stefan Hintersteininger, [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-03-09T08:29:43-08:009 March 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Avan Yu, Bramwell Tovey, Owen Underhill, Timothy Chooi|

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