Dear Friends, I'm writing this on Thursday, December 10, 2020, as this terrible year slowly begins to wind down. Like many of you, we here at CMC BC have been so busy responding to the urgent crisis that overtook us all at the beginning of the year that it is perhaps only now that  we [...]

Members elected a more diverse Advisory Council at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Music Centre in BC, including Indigenous and GLBTQ2S+ representation, a preponderance of women, and growing participation by racialized minorities. The new Chair of the Council is composer Jennifer Butler, elected with the members listed below. As Jennifer Butler stated: "Composers work [...]

CMC BC held the organization's first-ever online Annual Meeting on Tuesday, October 27, at 7pm, the meeting being delayed into the Fall as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the meeting, composer Jennifer Butler was elected Chair of the BC Advisory Council, replacing composer Keith Hamel, who has stepped down after more than thirty [...]

Philanthropist, pianist, teacher, and founder of the Deux Mille Foundation, Marnie Carter, was awarded the Canadian Music Centre's Barbara Pentland 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award for her extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music on Tuesday, October 27 at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Music Centre in BC. (Marnie Carter is pictured above with her daughter, Beth Carter, Beth's [...]

Does the title of this article — The Fall Of 2020 — sound a little too dire? I didn't mean it to, when we have so much good news to share. I wrote it thinking about the time of year, not realizing then how ominous it sounded. But afterwards I decided that making do with what [...]