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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|

Hugh Davidson Fund Promotes Canadian Orchestral Music

The Victoria Foundation has just published an article saluting the Hugh Davidson Fund recently established in the memory of the late Mr. Hugh Hanson Davidson (May 27, 1930 – July 14, 2014). "Hugh Davidson’s passion for music and his support of contemporary composers and composition has been felt in our community through the private commissions of [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-02-27T09:08:42-08:0027 February 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Hugh Davidson, Sean Bickerton, Victoria Foundation, Victoria Symphony|

March 8 CMC BC Gala Features Three Great Young Canadian Artists

Timothy Chooi Pianist Avan Yu & Violinist Timothy Chooi are two of the most internationally-celebrated young soloists BC has produced in a generation! Winner of the 2010 Montreal Symphony Competition, Timothy Chooi grew up in Victoria and received the Sylva Gelber Award in 2015 and was recently awarded the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius on loan from the Canada Council. [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-02-23T03:40:27-08:0023 February 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Avan Yu, Canadian Music Centre, CMC BC, Stefan Hintersteininger, Timothy Chooi|

Victoria Symphony Receives Award of Excellence

Vancouver, BC – The Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia (CMC BC) is pleased to honour the Victoria Symphony (VS) with an Award of Excellence for the VS’s extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music. The award was presented onstage to VS Music Director Maestro Tania Miller and the Victoria Symphony by the CMC’s BC Director Sean Bickerton, [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-02-06T03:17:37-08:006 February 2017|Categories: News|Tags: Canadian Music Centre, CMC BC, Jared Miller, Jeffrey Ryan, Sean Bickerton, Tania Miller, Victoria Symphony|

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Presented With Award of Excellence

Vancouver, BC – The Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia (CMC BC) has presented the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) with an Award of Excellence for the VSO’s extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music at the closing night of their New Music Festival on Sunday, January 29, in the Orpheum Theatre. The award was presented to Maestro Bramwell Tovey, VSO Music Director, by Sean Bickerton, [...]

By sean.bickerton|2017-01-30T04:41:48-08:0030 January 2017|Categories: News|

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