"You've got to write the music you hear." These powerful words from acclaimed Canadian composer Daniel Janke are the very embers that fuel the fire of artistic creation. Amidst a tour for Map of You, his new genre-blurring album—written by Janke and performed by classical pianist & soprano Rachel Fenlon—Janke sat down with Joël Blackshaw [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer Fellow, Michael Maevskiy to discuss his participation in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellowship program. The program was launched in collaboration with the Ontario Region of the Canadian Music Centre in our 18-19 Season. The program is aimed at connecting early career composers with [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Michelle Lorimer about the importance of play and discovery in the creation of music, cultivating a music career like you would care for a garden and the fact that music is a gift both received and given. What got you excited about music [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Nolan Hildebrand about Black Sabbath, the importance of listening to lots of music (including a long listening list!), and pushing yourself to be more hardcore than what you may have initially thought. What got you excited about music at a young age? I [...]
September 3rd, 2024 The rates for the performance space have not had a significant change since 2015. Given rising costs for space in Toronto, and a desire to increase staff capacity in the region, CMC Ontario has decided to introduce a new fee structure for rentals of the performance space. These new rates have come [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Andrew James Clark about classical music as a way to organize your life, serendipitous encounters when purchasing music and the non-universality of music. What got you excited about music at a young age? Music itself was exciting enough. When I was very young I [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Graham Campbell about making the leap from jazz to classical music to film scoring and the connections between all three. What are your plans as we ease out of the pandemic? How has your form of artistic practice changed? During the pandemic I made [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Colin Tucker about their idiosyncratic and all encompassing approach to composition and text scores and how they relate to positionality, critical theory, and decolonization - including an upcoming work at the CMC in Toronto! What are your plans as we ease out of the [...]
The Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellowship program was launched in collaboration with the Ontario Region of the Canadian Music Centre in our 18-19 Season. The program is aimed at connecting early career composers with professionals in the orchestral world to nurture and develop new skills through mentorship and the creation of a new work. On [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Benjamin Gabbay about the power of music, ways to be experimental without losing the audience, and fulfilling very specific commission requests. What got you excited about music at a young age? Music itself! I remember listening (and dancing) on repeat to a CD [...]