CMC BC News
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 [...]
CMC BC Advisory Council Achieves Gender Parity
The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce that the BC Advisory Council has achieved gender-equity for the first time in its 40-year history. BC Members of the CMC unanimously elected a slate of seven (7) new members to the BC Advisory Council at the Annual Meeting held last night, April 17, 2018, in the [...]
The Murray Adaskin Salon Is Available For Rental
The Canadian Music Centre's Vancouver Creative Hub is available for rentals, including the Murray Adaskin Salon — a 44-seat, urban, black-box performance space — and the 14-seat CREATE boardroom. Named after beloved BC composer Murray Adaskin, the Salon is a uniquely intimate, affordable, completely accessible, 44-seat black-box theatre in the heart of downtown Vancouver. It [...]
Vancouver Sings One Song
The Canadian Music Centre in BC was thrilled to partner this year with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (VCBF) to co-present Vancouver Sings One Song (VSOS), a massed choir concert featuring several hundred singers in Christ Church Cathedral on Tuesday, April 3 at 6:30 pm. The massed rehearsal/performance was led by choral director Kathryn Nicholson along with Host Choir, Sound Eclectic, brilliantly organized [...]
Celebrating Hildegard Westerkamp and Vancouver’s Unique Soundscape
Ever since its founding, Vancouver has been a brash city of big dreams, rough ambition, and industrial sounds — a noisy, sprawling brat of a frontier town. It’s fitting we mark noon every day with the triumphal blast of a ship’s horn, and sound the “all’s well” at nine o’clock every night with the boom [...]
Heather Pawsey Unheard!
Photo: Diane Park, Rachel Rose, Heather Pawsey, Jeffrey Ryan, and Maggie MacPherson (Credit: Tom Hudock) Last Friday, March 23, CMC BC and AstroLabe Musik Theatre co-presented a tour-de-force one-woman show by Soprano Heather Pawsey that was both hauntingly beautiful and profoundly moving. The program centred around the Vancouver premier of Jeffrey Ryan's Unheard based on poetry by [...]