CMC BC News
Ian Hampton Receives Barbara Pentland Award Of Excellence
Cellist Ian Hampton was presented with a Barbara Pentland Award of Excellence at the CMC BC book launch on Saturday, June 23, at 4pm in the CMCs Murray Adaskin Salon for Ian's new memoir Jan in 35 Pieces published by The Porcupine’s Quill. Introducing Ian to the standing room only crowd overflowing the Murray Adaskin Salon, [...]
Jeremy Dutcher Youth Workshop: How Many Ways Can You Sing a Song?
The Queer Arts Festival, in partnership with Full Circle - First Nations Performance Society and the Canadian Music Centre in BC, are pleased to present a free workshop for youth, How Many Ways Can You Sing a Song? on Tuesday, June 26, 4pm, at the Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre. This session will be [...]
The Surprising Consilience of The Music of Barry Truax With The Paintings Of George Seurat
To fully appreciate the extraordinarily creative, unique, and iconoclastic approach of Barry Truax to composition, it is helpful to consider another great innovator, the painter Georges Seurat (1859-1891). Like Seurat, Barry Truax explores the world of beauty, poetry, and passion that animate his work through the quantum. Where Seurat invented Pointillism, Truax created an entirely [...]
‘Jan in 35 Pieces: A Memoir In Music’ by Ian Hampton
On Saturday, June 23, at 4pm in the CMCs Murray Adaskin Salon, the Canadian Music Centre will host a book launch for cellist Ian Hampton’s new musical memoir Jan in 35 Pieces, published by The Porcupine’s Quill. After an introduction by the CMC’s BC Director Sean Bickerton, Ian Hampton will read from his new book [...]
Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings 2018: Call for Applications
DEADLINE EXTENDED! The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce the 2018 Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings, offered in collaboration with the Borealis String Quartet, Composer-Mentor Rita Ueda, and the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Named in honour of one of British Columbia’s most beloved legacy composers and teachers, the Jean Coulthard String Quartet Readings [...]
An Evening with John Stetch, Inaugural Winner of the Pentland Prize in Composition
SOLD OUT! The Canadian Music Centre in BC is thrilled to announce an evening with composer and pianist John Stetch, inaugural winner of CMC BC's Pentland Prize, a $1,000 scholarship awarded annually to a graduate composition student at UBC, SFU, or UVIC. Join us for this intimate, free concert on Friday, June 1st, from 7:00 to 8:00 [...]