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 [...]
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Andrew Noseworthy about finding music in an isolated community, DIY aesthetics, listening broadly, and remaining true to your values. What are your plans as we ease out of the pandemic? How has your form of artistic practice changed (if it has at all)? I've [...]
A modest bunch, us Canadians tend to be. For many artists in this country, growing up as a music student meant the exposure to – welcomed or otherwise – contemporary Canadian composers. Such prescriptions appeared on pedagogical lists and exam repertories. Unfortunately, even understandably, many young performers took these fellow Canadians for granted. Reasons exist [...]
In this slightly different instalment of Earmark, Kathleen Shimeta, the chair of the board of the Gena Branscombe Project gives us a bit of insight into the life and work of Gena Branscombe and her relationship to Canada. Kathleen, along with the Branscombe estate, have recently made Gena a posthumous Associate Composer of the [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer Fellow, Gavin Fraser 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 [...]
For immediate release, Jun 5, 2023 (Toronto ON): Canadian Music Centre 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto ON The CMC is pleased to announce the selection of Ronald Beckett as the inaugural winner of the Walter MacNutt Prize. For his winning proposal, Ronald will write a 6 minute work based on three short poems by William Blake [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with Hsiu-Ping Wu, a participant in the latest edition of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Explore the Score program to discuss his participation in the reading session. Since 2012, the TSO has given some of Canada’s top emerging composers an opportunity to hear their works rehearsed in [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with Coreen Morsink, a participant in the latest edition of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s Explore the Score program to discuss her participation in the reading session. Since 2012, the TSO has given some of Canada’s top emerging composers an opportunity to hear their works rehearsed in a [...]