CMC BC News
A Celebration of The Life & Music Of Alexina Louie
I met Alexina Louie many years ago in New York. Two of the pianists I managed at Columbia Artists Management — Ralph Markham & Kenneth Broadway — were performing a suite she had written on tour. It featured a movement beautifully evocative of gamelan music and I’ve never forgotten it. I had never before heard [...]
3 Composers Win Awards At Chor Leoni’s C4 Composition Competition
On Friday night, May 10, 2019, three winners of Chor Leoni's C4 Competition received Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence for Outstanding Composition. Jordan Nobles, CMC Associate Composer and CMC BC Librarian was on hand to present the awards to composers Kevin Pirker, Elizabeth Knudson, and Allan Bevan. L-R: CMC BC's Jordan Nobles presenting Pentland Awards to C4 [...]
8 x 5: 8 New 5-Minute Quartets Inspired By Art
Join us Monday evening, June 17 at 7pm in the architecturally spectacular rennie museum for '8 x 5' — a special evening featuring the world premiere of eight new, five-minute string quartets performed by the internationally renowned Borealis String Quartet. Experience these eight new quartets written by emerging composers, surrounded by the galleries of art [...]
Jon Washburn Receives 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 [...]
Winners Of 2019 Vancouver Chamber Choir Young Composers Competition
(pictured above: five winners of Grade Five Song-Writing Competition) On Friday night, May 10, 2019, CMC BC presented Barbara Pentland Awards of Excellence for Outstanding Composition to winners of the Vancouver Chamber Choir's Young Composers Competition. BC Director presenting Antoine Villéger with Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence BC Director Sean Bickerton, on hand [...]
CMC BC Welcomes New Members To BC Advisory Council
CMC BC is pleased to welcome three new members to the BC Advisory Council of the Canadian Music Centre, who were were elected at the BC Annual Meeting held on Monday, April 15, 2019 in CMC BC's Murray Adaskin Salon. The new Council members are Rosemary Thompson, Music Director of the Okanagan Symphony; and Joanne Harada, former VP [...]