Announcing the finalists of the third edition of the Graham Sommer Competition!
The Schulich School of Music of McGill University is pleased to announce five finalists for the third edition of the Graham Sommer Competition for Young Composers.
Cecilia Livingston Awarded the Louis Applebaum Composers Award
Composer Cecilia Livingston is the recipient of this year’s Louis Applebaum Composers Award. This year’s $15,000 award recognizes excellence for a body of work in the field of composition for theatre, music theatre, dance and opera.
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of Members of the Canadian Music Centre to be held VIRTUALLY via Zoom on Saturday, June 15, 2024
HPO Selects Participants for 21-22 Composer Fellowship Program
The HPO has selected two successful candidates set to participate in the 21-22 HPO Composer Fellowship Program. The program designed in collaboration with the Ontario Region of the Canadian Music Centre provides early career composers with a tuition-free training opportunity that connects them with professionals in the orchestral world.
SMCQ Announces 2021-2022 Season of Events
This season, five monographic concerts will take place, each featuring the music of André Hamel, Jean Lesage, Simon Bertrand, Michel Longtin and Linda Bouchard.
Congratulations to Adam Basanta on receiving the Sobey Art Award!
Amid COVID-19, Sobey Art Award to give $25K to each longlisted artist / Reconceived 2020 edition aims 'to champion and support the practices of 25 artists'
Harry Freedman Award 2020 Winner – Monica Pearce
The Canadian Music Centre announces 2020 Harry Freedman Recording Award winner
Call for Nominations Friends of Canadian Music Award 2019
Every year, the Friends of Canadian Music Award honours those who have demonstrated an exceptional commitment, on a national scale, to Canadian composers and their music. The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) and the Canadian League of Composers (CLC) jointly administer and present this award. The Friends of Canadian Music Award is in the amount of $2000. [...]
Review: Soundstreams goes cerebral, to haunting effect
The Canadian contemporary music company Soundstreams, known for difficult and cerebral works, has mounted a music and theatre production about the life and ideas of admired Quebecois composer Claude Vivier.
