Dear BC Associate Composers of the Canadian Music Centre:
We exist to champion you and bring your music to life — by producing CDs and music videos and score videos of your compositions, and sponsoring and producing concerts that feature your music, and preserving your music in our library,
We also encourage others to perform your music by presenting Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence to ensembles that share our passion for Canadian music. And we provide awards to participants that play Canadian works at music competitions.
We sponsor orchestral commissions by the Vancouver and Victoria Symphony orchestras through participation in the Hugh Davidson Fund — more than 19 orchestral commissions since 2016. And we foster the audience that loves your work as well as the next generation of composers that will help keep this tradition alive, offering three scholarships to university composition students totalling $4500 each year.
I am writing this letter to ask you to do your part. Please. Help us help you. Pay your 2023 Associate Composer professional fee to the Canadian Music Centre. We rely on your fees to show granting bodies the degree of support we have from the community we represent. And to help support the programs we provide.
Click here to pay your fee now:
We invest thousands of dollars every year in producing music videos — 50 Unaccompanied recordings during the pandemic. And we will produce 10 new Duets recordings this year in partnership with Redshift Music. We also produce score videos — 130 produced so far with a goal of 50 more a year every year.
We are here every day for you. And we are here for the future, securing your legacy in the decades to come. Long after your own websites will be there to promote your music, we will be.
This year we are also investing $20,000 in our new Regional Collaboration Initiative to sponsor performances around the province wherein at least one half of the music is by BC composers. And we invest thousands of dollars each year providing free composition workshops to emerging composers.
We have also captured the entire history of Canadian music in BC in our Digital Archive of 25,000 artefacts, a rich research resource unique to BC.
But we are a small team of just three people and we can’t do it all on our own. We need your help. So please do your part. You owe it to yourselves.
Click here to pay your fee now:
Thank you,
Sean Bickerton,
BC Director