CMC BC News
Live! Queering The Air with Rachel Iwaasa September 23
The Canadian Music Center in BC (CMC BC) and Queer Arts Festival are pleased to co-present Queering The Air with Rachel Iwaasa on Friday, September 23, 7:30 pm, at the SUM Gallery, featuring pianist and performance artist Rachel Iwaasa, a ”keyboard virtuoso and avant-garde muse” (Georgia Straight). She will be performing works written by Queer and [...]
Thank You!
I'm writing this article on behalf of the entire team that makes up CMC BC to thank you for the support you have shown us through two years of the pandemic we've all endured together. The unique family that supports and makes possible the work we do is comprised of composers and musicians and scholars. [...]
Light Space
LightSpace: A Spatialized Percussion Concert The Canadian Music Centre in BC, in partnership with the Redshift Music Society, is pleased to announce a free concert at the Roundhouse Exhibition Gallery on July 7th at 5pm. This show is the culmination of the CMC's inaugural R. Murray Schafer Spatial Music Workshop led by Jordan Nobles. [...]
Announcing New Music Series @ VAG Co-Presented By CMC BC
The Vancouver Art Gallery introduces a new contemporary music series — New Music at the Gallery — presented in partnership with the Canadian Music Centre BC. New Music at the Gallery will draw on contemporary art themes and highlight a selection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century music. The inaugural concert on Friday, May 27 from 5 [...]
The Unaccompanied Project
Exactly two years ago today the Prime Minister of Canada announced a national lockdown, requiring everyone to close offices, studios, performance spaces, and workplaces and shelter in place at home in response to an international pandemic. It was a time of fear and massive uncertainty. Organizations were reeling, uncertain how to function. People were panic-buying, [...]
Notes on Music in Times of War
by Solomiya Moroz I am writing this on the 14th day of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war Putin has pronounced on the Ukrainian people which started at 4 am on February 24, 2022. Before this unjustified assault on the peaceful Ukrainian skies, culture and people, in a rumbling 2-hour speech, the [...]