News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]