CMC BC News
March 8 CMC BC Gala Features Three Great Young Canadian Artists
Timothy Chooi Pianist Avan Yu & Violinist Timothy Chooi are two of the most internationally-celebrated young soloists BC has produced in a generation! Winner of the 2010 Montreal Symphony Competition, Timothy Chooi grew up in Victoria and received the Sylva Gelber Award in 2015 and was recently awarded the 1717 Windsor-Weinstein Stradivarius on loan from the Canada Council. [...]
Victoria Symphony Receives Award of Excellence
Vancouver, BC – The Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia (CMC BC) is pleased to honour the Victoria Symphony (VS) with an Award of Excellence for the VS’s extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music. The award was presented onstage to VS Music Director Maestro Tania Miller and the Victoria Symphony by the CMC’s BC Director Sean Bickerton, [...]
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Presented With Award of Excellence
Vancouver, BC – The Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia (CMC BC) has presented the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO) with an Award of Excellence for the VSO’s extraordinary contribution to Canadian Music at the closing night of their New Music Festival on Sunday, January 29, in the Orpheum Theatre. The award was presented to Maestro Bramwell Tovey, VSO Music Director, by Sean Bickerton, [...]
Turning Point Ensemble Honoured With Award of Excellence
Vancouver, BC – The Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia (CMC BC) is pleased to announce that Turning Point Ensemble was presented with an Award of Excellence this year for its extraordinary contribution to Canadian music. The award was presented by CMC BC Director Sean Bickerton to Owen Underhill, Turning Point Artistic Director on Friday, January 27 [...]
Vancouver Symphony’s 2017 New Music Festival
The Vancouver Symphony launched its most ambitious New Music Festival ever Tuesday night – six performances from January 24 - 29 including a ground-breaking partnership with Early Music Vancouver dubbed New Music for Old Instruments and performances by Hard Rubber Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Standing Wave Ensemble, Glenn Buhr & The Button Factory Band, as well as the Langley Fine Arts School Youth Choir, and UBC University Singers & Choral Union.
BC Director Sean Bickerton Talks To CBC About New Series
There's a new place in Vancouver's West End dedicated to teaching more of us about contemporary Canadian classical composers. The Canadian Music Centre in B.C. opened in 1959. Its mission: to promote the ever-changing world of new classical music in the country. The organization recently moved to its new home in the heart of Davie Village. The new [...]