Two weeks ago I drove up to Penticton, BC to speak with a group of music teachers from the BCRMTA's South Okanagan region. It was a wonderful opportunity to present four of our five BC Legacy Composer Documentary films. I tried to tell them about the composer's lives, and to place them in the social, [...]

Reprinted by permission of Carmen Leier, President, South Okanagan Branch, BCRMTA. On Friday, October 19, the South Okanagan Branch of the BC Registered Music Teachers' Association (BCRMTA) held its first Professional Development workshop of the season in Penticton, along with invited non-Registered Music Teachers in our ongoing outreach initiative. Our invited guest, Sean Bickerton, Director of [...]

On Monday we celebrated the music of Janet Danielson in the second sold-out concert of our series, which was dedicated to Women's History Month. It's a little hard to believe, but women did not gain the right to vote in Canada until 1916, when Manitoba became the first province to extend universal suffrage. Quebec was last, finally acknowledging [...]

We have embarked together on an epic voyage of discovery over the past three years — an exploration of worlds both familiar and strange, some both at once.  Our magically intimate Murray Adaskin Salon has transported us back to a time of ancient legend explored vividly through Heather Pawsey’s brilliant one-woman show, perfectly expressed through Jeffrey [...]

The Borealis String Quartet with Thomas Beckman (centre) Named in honour of one of British Columbia’s most beloved legacy composers and teachers, the Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings allow emerging composers to gain experience writing for string quartet, along with the invaluable opportunity of having their pieces read, workshopped, rehearsed, and performed by a professional [...]