Constantinople weaves together threads from East-West, sacred-secular, past-present, real-mythical, high art-popular culture and much more. The strength of its underlying message is reinforced by the way Christos Hatzis challenges our expectation that its music belongs in one genre or another.

After fifteen years of pushing the envelope, show-casing and commissioning chamber works by young Canadian composers, Continuum contemporary music is launching its first CD, entitled Continuum 1.