"Today’s video premiere features Land’s End Ensemble and percussionist Ben Reimer performing “Twister” by composer Vincent Ho from their upcoming album Kickin’ It 2.0. The second album from the Calgary-based ensemble (John Lowry, violin; Beth Root Sandvoss, cello; Susanne Ruberg-Gordon, piano; Vincent Ho, Artistic Director), Kickin’ It 2.0 is dedicated to new works by contemporary Canadian [...]
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Toronto, ON, Canada La version française suit. POSITION SUMMARY The Canadian Music Centre/Centre de musique canadienne (CMC) founded in 1959, is a dynamic and established charitable Not-for-Profit organization. With five regional offices across the country, the CMC provides access for performing organizations, the cultural community and individuals to [...]
Festival hosted Western Canadian Music Awards Thursday night in Whitehorse "Yellowknife composer Carmen Braden had something to celebrate in Whitehorse Thursday night — she was named classical Composer of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards. The ceremony is part of BreakOut West music festival, which runs through this weekend. Braden said it feels [...]
"When Carmen Braden’s name was called from the shortlist of five nominees at the 2019 Western Canadian Music Awards in Whitehorse on Oct. 3, she was so surprised that she didn’t know how to react. Having been selected as composer of the year, edging out two of her own teachers, Braden said she was both [...]
"Has anyone even heard of such a thing? An entire concert devoted to the piano music of a living Canadian composer? Well, they had in Calgary last month, when the Honens Piano Festival titled one of its featured events Alexina Louie at 70. Aside from the indelicacy of referring to the Toronto composer’s age, it [...]
Yellowknife's Carmen Braden was named classical composer of the year at the Western Canadian Music Awards in Whitehorse on Thursday night. Braden, who just released her second studio album, was selected from a shortlist of five – including two of her former teachers, Allan Bell and Laurie Radford. "There are heavyweights on that list. When [...]
POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Development and Communications Assistant Toronto, Ontario, Canada Version française ci-dessous General Information The Canadian Music Centre/Centre de musique canadienne (CMC) was established in 1959. CMC is a dynamic and established charitable Not-for-Profit organization. With five regional offices across the country, the CMC provides access for performing organizations, the cultural community and individuals to [...]
Kamloops Symphony opens Nexus show with music of Jean Ethridge "Kamloops Symphony treated Shuswap classical music lovers to an aural feast. Called Romantic Elements, the season opener, held at the United Church on Friday, Sept. 27, featured works by Mendelsshon, Tchaikovsky and Salmon Arm composer Jean Ethridge. The concert opened with the premiere of Ethridge’s [...]
"It’s 2004. I am taking my first composition course at Mount Allison University. I have recently become enamoured of new music and am catching up on a long list of listening in the basement of the Alfred Whitehead Memorial Music Library. I come across Memory Forms (2001), a serene-looking disc with a still-life pear standing [...]
The Canadian Art Song Project welcomes Marion Newman and Ian Cusson for a compelling discussion "Conversations with CASP is the podcast of the Canadian Art Song Project, an organization dedicated to creating and celebrating Canadian art song, and its latest episode takes a close look at the appropriation of Indigenous story and song in Canadian [...]
