News from the Ontario regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
"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 [...]
Canadian Tawnie Olson is one of three composers featured on the latest album by four-time GRAMMY-Award winning choir The Crossing. The album, the choir’s 37th recording, and titled At Which Point, was released on the New Focus label on April 4.
Ruth, the musical drama by composer Ronald Beckett and librettist Roger Bayley, will take the stage on May 10 in Brantford, Ontario. It’s the first time the popular opera returns to Southwestern Ontario since 2017.
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Three prize winners have been named for the very first Rachel Laurin Composition Competition. Audiences will be able to hear the winning new works at the upcoming Organ Festival Canada, which takes place from July 7 to 19 in Kitchener and Guelph, Ontario.
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 [...]
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 [...]
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with David Occhipinti, 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 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 [...]