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511 2020

CMC BC’s First Online Annual Meeting

By |5 November 2020|Categories: News|

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 [...]

511 2020

Marnie Carter Honoured with Barbara Pentland 2020 Lifetime Achievement Award

By |5 November 2020|Categories: News|

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 [...]

110 2020

The Fall Of 2020

By |1 October 2020|Categories: News|

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 [...]

2909 2020

Saturday In The Park With Mark

By |29 September 2020|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

On Saturday, September 19, I had the rare pleasure of reading ten poems I wrote during lockdown, accompanied by one of this city's great musicians — flutist-extraordinaire (and WCMA’s new Classical Musician of the Year!) Mark Takeshi McGregor — in George Wainborn Park. Here is a short video of two: https://vimeo.com/461665607 Our improvised beat poetry [...]

1708 2020

Introducing New CMC BC Administrator Heather Molloy

By |17 August 2020|Categories: News|

The Canadian Music Centre in BC is excited to introduce our new BC Administrator, Heather Molloy. Heather Molloy joins CMC BC with a strong background in arts administration, having worked in a supervisory role in the box office at Bard on the Beach; as well as for Applause: Dinner Theatre; Vancouver International Film Festival; and the Old Auditorium [...]

2307 2020

Wishing You All The Joy That Summer Can Offer

By |23 July 2020|Categories: News|

I thought it would be helpful to provide a brief update on our plans for the rest of the summer as we take some time to allow staff a needed break and begin to prepare for the fall. Today marks the last release until September of our Unaccompanied Online Concert Series, which has run continuously with [...]

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