News from the BC regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
The Canadian Music Center in BC (CMC BC) and Queer Arts Festival are pleased to co-present Queering The Air with Rachel Iwaasa on Friday, September 23, 7:30 pm, at the SUM Gallery, featuring pianist and performance artist Rachel Iwaasa, a ”keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse” (Georgia Straight). She will be performing works written by Queer and [...]
I'm writing this article on behalf of the entire team that makes up CMC BC to thank you for the support you have shown us through two years of the pandemic we've all endured together. The unique family that supports and makes possible the work we do is comprised of composers and musicians and scholars. [...]
LightSpace: A Spatialized Percussion Concert The Canadian Music Centre in BC, in partnership with the Redshift Music Society, is pleased to announce a free concert at the Roundhouse Exhibition Gallery on July 7th at 5pm. This show is the culmination of the CMC's inaugural R. Murray Schafer Spatial Music Workshop led by Jordan Nobles. [...]
The Vancouver Art Gallery introduces a new contemporary music series — New Music at the Gallery — presented in partnership with the Canadian Music Centre BC. New Music at the Gallery will draw on contemporary art themes and highlight a selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. The inaugural concert on Friday, May 27 from 5 [...]
Exactly two years ago today the Prime Minister of Canada announced a national lockdown, requiring everyone to close offices, studios, performance spaces, and workplaces and shelter in place at home in response to an international pandemic. It was a time of fear and massive uncertainty. Organizations were reeling, uncertain how to function. People were panic-buying, [...]
by Solomiya Moroz I am writing this on the 14th day of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war Putin has pronounced on the Ukrainian people which started at 4 am on February 24, 2022. Before this unjustified assault on the peaceful Ukrainian skies, culture and people, in a rumbling 2-hour speech, the [...]
Written By Canadian-Ukrainian composer Anna Pidgorna: At the moment much of the world is focused on the atrocities being committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The destruction is catastrophic, the attacks on the civilian population absolutely horrific. I was born in Ukraine and have family and friends there. Life as I knew it ended on [...]
by Sean Bickerton | Nov 4, 2021 | 0 comments NEW DISTANCE REHEARSAL TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO PERFORMING ARTS GROUPS IN VANCOUVER The Canadian Music Centre in BC and City Opera Vancouver today announced a new Jack Trip Virtual Studio headset rehearsal system now available for loan to performing arts groups in Greater Vancouver from the Canadian [...]
Today is our first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, created, in the words of the website set up to commemorate the occasion, to "honour the lost children and Survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of [...]
The Canadian Music Centre in BC and Redshift Music Society are pleased to announce the first-ever R. Murray Schafer Spatial Music Workshop, a free online seminar offered to composers across the country with the goal of exploring spatial (or ‘socially-distanced’) acoustic music. Building on the success of CMC BC’s Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings and [...]
