CMC BC News
VCM Composer Collective Returns In Partnership With CMC
The Victoria Conservatory of Music's Composer collective, started by Stephen Brown, is back, sponsored by the Canadian Music Centre's Victoria Creative Hub! The new iteration of the collective will be hosted by composer Christopher Reiche Boucher, CMC's Victoria Engagement Leader. Christopher is dedicated to maintaining Brown's original concept for the collective as a place for [...]
Chor Leoni Announces Three Finalists of C/4 Composition Competition
Vancouver’s Chor Leoni Men's Choir and Artistic Director Erick Lichte announced the three finalists of their national 2018 Canadian Choral Composition Competition (C/4). “We are thrilled to bring back our C/4 composition competition,” says Lichte. “This initiative allows Chor Leoni to connect with three new-to-us composers in an extraordinary way and also allows us to [...]
Bramwell Tovey Awarded 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award
The world has only ever known one Leonard Bernstein. And any orchestra today would give their eyeteeth to find another. Yet that is exactly what the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has had, and indeed what the entire nation of Canada has been fortunate to have ever since Maestro Bramwell Tovey first moved to this country in 1989. [...]
George Laverock: The Legacy of Hugh Davidson
We asked George Laverock, who knew Hugh Davidson well, if he would write an article about Hugh's unique contribution to musical life in light of the Vancouver Symphony's upcoming premiere of Marcus Goddard's Violin Concerto, which was commissioned with support from the recently launched Hugh Davidson Fund at the Victoria Foundation: ---------------------------------------- A long-time volunteer [...]
The Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series: A Mid-Season Recap
It may be hard to believe, but here we are in December, and already halfway through the Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series' second season. So far, we have enjoyed three fabulous, sold-out concerts featuring the music of Lloyd Burritt, Jean Ethridge, and Hubert Klyne Headley. Our immersive, single-composer concert experience allows audiences to enjoy a [...]
A Festival Of Light At Sun’s Furthest Remove
Dear Creators, Music-makers, Innovators, Poets, Lyricists, Those with Song In Their Hearts, Those That Listen With Ardour, Enthusiasts of Euterpe, and Cohorts of Calliope: Thank you for all of the joy, meaning, insight, catharsis, excitement, emotion, surprise, delight, happiness, sorrow, and deep connection that you have given us this past year! Hoping the year's shortest [...]