Welcome to the Canadian Music Centre

The Canadian Music Centre has been supporting, preserving, and celebrating the works of Canadian composers since 1959. As proud and passionate advocates, we offer innovative resources for discovering, exploring, listening to and playing Canadian music online and in five regional hubs.

Serving composers, artists, performing organizations, educators, students and audiences of all ages, we offer a feast for the ears from the heart of our unique cultural experience!

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Mission

CMC is the catalyst that connects you to the ever-evolving world of Canadian musical creation through performance, education, and promotion.
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History

Entering its sixth decade, CMC is a living witness to the creative spirit flourishing across the country and resonating beyond our borders.
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Welcome to the Canadian Music Centre

The Canadian Music Centre has been supporting, preserving and celebrating the works of Canadian composers since 1959. As proud and passionate advocates, we offer innovative resources for discovering, exploring, listening to and playing Canadian music online and in five regional hubs.

Serving composers, artists, performing organizations, educators, students and audiences of all ages, we offer a feast for the ears from the heart of our unique cultural experience!

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New from Centrediscs

The idea for this project emerged during the confinement period of the pandemic, when I was home and away from my colleagues. I wanted to continue working and playing my instrument, the English horn. Simply wanting to expand my knowledge of the repertoire specifically written for this particular instrument, I embarked on a search for works by Canadian composers. The idea of this recording project surfaced as I tried to listen to these works: though there was already an array of Canadian works for the English horn, I realized that few of them had been recorded. I would like to think that the present recordings will give these compositions a new impetus, and that new interpretations will surface, giving this music a chance to live on in our collective memory, and to once again take flight.
– Mélanie Harel
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The Canadian Music Centre acknowledges that we are situated on sacred land where music has been created for many thousands of years.  The CMC central office is on the Treaty Lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit.  This meeting place of Tkaronto is now home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island.  We recognize the need for wise stewardship of the land surrounding the Great Lakes, the traditional territory of the Anishinabek, including the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potowatomi and the Haudenosaunee, including the Huron-Wendat, the Kanien’keha:ka, and the Seneca. 

As a pan-Canadian organization, the CMC respects and affirms the inherent Treaty Rights of all Indigenous People across this land.  The CMC acknowledges the historical oppression of lands, cultures, and the original Peoples in what we now know as Canada and fervently believes Music can contribute to the healing and decolonizing journey we all share together.