News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
On Sunday, June 11th, the Canadian Music Centre in BC presented Norman Nelson with a Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence for his many years of dedicated service to Canadian music. As a founding member of the legendary Purcell Quartet, Norman Nelson commissioned and premiered dozens of works by leading Canadian composers during the quartet's existence [...]
On Friday night (June 23), CMC BC held a CD Launch Party for Jocelyn Morlock's New CD Halcyon, just released on CMC's Centredisc label. Marina Hasselberg and Miranda Wong performed the beautifully evocative title track from the CD for a packed Adaskin Salon. And BC Director Sean Bickerton interviewed Jocelyn about her work and the album [...]
Queer Arts Festival is presenting a free performance of Cris Derksen's landmark Orchestral Powwow this Saturday, June 24 at 7pm in the Roundhouse Turntable Plaza at 181 Roundhouse Mews in Yaletown. The Canadian Music Centre in BC is proud to be a Community Partner of Queer Arts Festival, and to have the opportunity to co-present this groundbreaking performance [...]
It's not every day of the week that eleven new string quartets are premiered. But that's what the Borealis String Quartet did in CMC BC's Murray Adaskin Salon on Friday, June 9, for a young audience packed into our small, intimate new performance space. The works they performed were remarkable for their variety and originality [...]
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 [...]