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1605 2017

Bozzini String Quartet Plays Underhill

By |16 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Last Wednesday night, CMC BC co-presented a performance by the Bozzini String Quartet in the Murray Adaskin Salon of the first two string quartets written by Owen Underhill – String Quartet No. 1 (1974) and Northern Line – Angel Station (String Quartet No.2) (1996). Owen is an Associate Composer of the CMC and recent recipient of [...]

405 2017

Cathy Fern Lewis & CMC BC Present Nocturnes: Canadian Art Songs

By |4 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , , |

CMC BC is pleased to co-present Cathy Fern Lewis, Rodney Sharman & Rachel Iwaasa in Nocturnes: An Evening of Canadian Art Song, this Friday, May 5, 8pm, in the Murray Adaskin Salon at 837 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC. Cathy Fern Lewis The programme features music by Murray Adaskin, Linda Caitlin Smith, Rodney Sharman, [...]

305 2017

First Jean Coulthard String Quartet Reading This Saturday

By |3 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , , , |

The Canadian Music Centre in BC is pleased to announce the very first Jean Coulthard String Quartet Reading this Saturday, May 6 from 1 - 3pm in collaboration with the Borealis String Quartet and Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Faculty of Arts, and Composer-in-Residence Farshid Samandari. Eleven composers submitted works for the reading: When the Moon is in [...]

305 2017

Four From BC Nominated for Classical Composition Of The Year At WCMAs

By |3 May 2017|Categories: News|

Four of five 2017 nominations for Classical Composition of the Year are from BC this year, as are four of the five nominees for Classical Artist or Ensemble of the Year at the 2017 Western Canadian Music Awards. Nominees for Classical Composition of the Year are: "Pots 'n Pans Falling"  by Edward Top; "Immersion" by Jordan Nobles; "Raven Tales" by Marcus Goddard; "Choir [...]

205 2017

Vancouver Classical Music Continues Series on BC Legacy Composers

By |2 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: |

vanclassical.com is continuing its coverage of BC Legacy Composers in parallel with CMC BC's Celebrating Our Legacy Concert Series. This month the 'Go-to blog' for classical music in Vancouver is featuring a new article: CELEBRATING THE WEST COAST COMPOSERS: ELLIOT WEISGARBER (1919-2001) by Flutist Karen Suzanne Smithson, who is Weisgarber's daughter: Throughout the latter decades of the [...]

105 2017

CMC BC Chair George Laverock Receives Leadership Award

By |1 May 2017|Categories: News|Tags: , |

Congratulations to CMC BC Regional Advisory Council Chair George Laverock on receiving a BC Community Achievement Award and the inaugural 2017 Mitchell Leadership Award! George Laverock receiving Award. Laverock was cited for a vision of Vancouver as a creative centre for world-class music that has driven a remarkable commitment to community involvement: "George has made a [...]

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