Winnipeg New Music Festival
WNMF 2024, Canada’s biggest festival dedicated to contemporary art music is back.
The 2023 East Coast Music Award Nominees!
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.
Meanwhile, Back at Chalmer’s House…
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.
2022 JUNO Award Nominees
Congratulations to our Associate Composer Nominees
2021 Friends of Canadian Music Award
A message of congratulations for the 2021 Friends of Canadian Music Award (FCMA) recipient Mark Takeshi McGregor!
Congratulations to Laurence Jobidon and Jesse Plessis for being selected for the Art Song Mentorship Programme!
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!
Niche classical recordings garner Juno nominations
Spring is Juno time, the annual awards for Canadian-made recordings.
Jocelyn Morlock says her Juno-winning piece My Name is Amanda Todd stands up for itself
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..."
Signalling a Musical Sea Change | Composer Alexina Louie and cellist Rachel Mercer
"The recent announcement of composer Alexina Louie as the winner of the 2019 Molson Prize in the Arts, the first time the $50,000 prize has been awarded to a female composer, signalled something of a sea change in the world of Canadian music that’s been developing gradually. The prize was presented to Louie by the [...]
