CMC BC News
Jon Washburn Wins CMC BC 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
"Conductor and Composer Jon Washburn was presented with CMC BC’s 2019 Barbara Pentland Lifetime Achievement Award at his final concert conducting the Vancouver Chamber Choir as Music Director Friday night, May 10. My remarks in presenting the award to Jon follow: It would be impossible to conceive of anyone on this Earth more deserving of the Canadian [...]
Meet Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré, UBC School of Music’s new director
"The University of British Columbia welcomes Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré as the new Director of the School of Music. An internationally renowned composer, teacher, and media personality, Dr. Carrabré will assume the role starting July 1st, 2019. “I am delighted that Dr. Carrabré will take on the leadership of the School of Music. His [...]
Carl Winter Wins 2019 Pentland Prize in Composition
Vancouver-based composer Carl Winter Wins 2019 Pentland Prize in Composition for his piece, Grey Matter.
Bramwell Tovey Awarded 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
The world has only ever known one Leonard Bernstein. And any orchestra today would give their eyeteeth to find another. Yet that is exactly what the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has had, and indeed what the entire nation of Canada has been fortunate to have ever since Maestro Bramwell Tovey first moved to this country in 1989.
Chor Leoni Announces Three Finalists of C/4 Composition Competition
Vancouver’s Chor Leoni Men’s Choir and Artistic Director Erick Lichte announced the three finalists of their national 2018 Canadian Choral Composition Competition (C/4).
VCM Composer Collective Returns In Partnership With CMC
The Victoria Conservatory of Music’s Composer collective, started by Stephen Brown, is back, sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre’s Victoria Creative Hub! The new iteration of the collective will be hosted by composer Christopher Reiche Boucher, CMC’s Victoria Engagement Leader.