As you may have surmised from the title, I've been re-reading Hilary Mantel's glorious Booker Prize-winning Cromwell Trilogy, which culminates in The Mirror And The Light. One of the many things that struck me through this second reading was the constant presence of plague in the shadows of the main storyline. There was no understanding [...]
The BC Annual Meeting of the Canadian Music Centre will be held on Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm in the Murray Adaskin Salon at 837 Davie Street in Vancouver. 2016 was a truly memorable year for the Canadian Music Centre. Nationally the organization adopted a new Mission, to be the catalyst that connects [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]