Nominees for the 2024 Western Canadian Music Awards were announced on Tuesday, May 14, and they included CMC Associate Composers Dorothy Chang, Emilie Cecilia LeBel, Farshid Samandari, Jeffrey Ryan, and Vincent Ho, as well as Centrediscs artists Allegra Chamber Orchestra (performing music by AC Alice Ping Yee Ho), Suzie LeBlanc (performing music by AC Jérôme [...]
WNMF 2024, Canada’s biggest festival dedicated to contemporary art music is back.
Join ECMA this year in the host city of Halifax, NS, as the event lights up the stages with East Coast music from May 3 - 7, 2023. Further announcements from ECMA, including showcasing artists, conference details, and more will be unveiled in the coming weeks.
Three weeks to the day after attending Chalmers House (home of the Canadian Music Centre) for the launch of John Beckwith’s book Musical Annals, I was back in the same space (though arranged in a more intimate horseshoe pattern for the attendees), for the return of Edana Higham and Zac Pulak, aka SHHH!! Ensemble.
Congratulations to our Associate Composer Nominees
A message of congratulations for the 2021 Friends of Canadian Music Award (FCMA) recipient Mark Takeshi McGregor!
Canadian Art Song Project is very pleased to announce Laurence Jobidon and Jesse Plessis as the inaugural mentees in the Chung-Wai Chow and John Wright Art Song Mentorship Programme for Composers!
Spring is Juno time, the annual awards for Canadian-made recordings.
Fans of the American violinist Joshua Bell will arrive next week to Ottawa’s Southam Hall and Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto to see and hear the virtuoso work with Mendelssohn’s best E-minor ideas. And no doubt the audience will stick around to witness the National Arts Centre Orchestra (NACO) present Debussy’s sea-faring showpiece La mer. Intertwined within the established pieces, though, potent lesser-known works are also featured: French composer Lili Boulanger’s sorrowful 1918 composition D’un Soir Triste (Of a Sad Evening) and Canadian composer Jocelyn Morlock’s My Name Is Amanda Todd, an inspirational piece on the life and death of a 15-year-old native of Port Coquitlam, B.C. who, in 2012, took her own life, the victim of online abuse and high-school bullying..."
