In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer George Crotty about convincing your parents to take music lessons, getting in touch with your roots, and finding your own way in a music career. CMC: What are your plans as we ease out of the pandemic? How has your form of artistic practice [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with Véronique Noël, 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 [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer Fellow, Cadu Verdan 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 [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with the participants in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra's reading sessions, Andrew James Clark, Sophie Dupuis, Nathalee Jacques, and Paul Alexander Lessard to discuss their participation in the reading sessions on June 23rd and 25th conducted by Gary Kulesha. Sophie and Nathalee's readings were the culmination of their [...]
We catch up with Associate Composer Benjamin Sajo about responding to the pandemic with an increased need to write for oneself, moving to Nunavut and the role that music educators play in young musicians' lives.
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer fellow, Luis Ramirez 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 [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer fellow, Matthias McIntire 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 [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer fellow, Arie Verheul van de Ven to discuss his participation in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellowship program.
CMC Ontario Interim Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with emerging composer and co-recipient of the 2021 Friends of Canadian Music Award, Maria-Eduarda Mendes Martins to discuss her participation in the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellowship program.
BY LISA CONWAY Banner Photo: Sabrina Schroeder performing at Tidal ~ Signal. Credit, Alistair Henning. My first introduction to Sabrina Schroeder’s work was via a Vimeo video from the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE, New York chapter). The video featured a live performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The stage lighting is mysterious and blue, [...]