CMC Ontario

The Exorcist: An Operetta
2022-10-27 - 2022-10-29 | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
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Eli Pasic presents a one-man version of his newest comedy, The Exorcist: An Operetta! A tongue-in-cheek variation of the 1970s horror classic, Eli Pasic will render the tale by way of narration, dialogue, and song! Don’t miss a tuneful jaunt through this dazzling portal to hell! You’ll be possessed with laughter from start to finish!
Eli studied piano and composition at Berklee College of Music and was mentored by Broadway orchestrator Larry Blank (The Producers, The Drowsy Chaperone). He’s written a musical comedy with composer Henry Krieger (Dreamgirls, Side Show), which has been published by Broadway Licensing. For more details, visit www.elipasic.com.

Rivers Workshop: ContaQt - Online Rehearsal and Collaboration
2022-10-19 17:30 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
The Canadian Music Centre, in collaboration with the Canadian League of Composers, is pleased to announce Rivers (re-imagined): a monthly series of presentations and hands-on professional development workshops for composers.
These will be in-person events at the Canadian Music Centre’s Performance Space in Toronto, and they will be available for online streaming to ensure access for composers right across the country. Topics will include: grants, funding, and project management; contracts and licensing agreements; publicity and marketing; music technology; music education, and others.
The workshops will provide concrete guidance and clear, hands-on training for common professional scenarios encountered by the membership of both organizations, and they will be free to both Associate Composers of the CMC, as well as members of the CLC.
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Our first presentation/workshop will take place on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, at 5:30. Members of ContaQt New Music will discuss and demonstrate the aesthetic and technical elements of online rehearsal and collaboration.
Like many ensembles at the onset of the initial pandemic lockdowns, ContaQt was faced with discovering new ways to musically engage with each other and audiences. Led by the research and experimentation of Jerry Pergolesi and Andrew Noseworthy, and with technological facilitation by Jeff Morton, and online performance mentoring with Tina Pearson, we developed a means to play together in real-time from our isolated locations using a combination of digital audio workstations and the audio transmitter plugin, AudioMovers’ ListenTo.
Through this process, we became more integrated as a performing group than ever before and extended our artistic practice in ways that benefited our expanding repertoire that includes music by Brian Eno, original compositions, and improvisations. This music also embraces and engages with latency that is inherent to the internet. This workshop will demonstrate the potential for this performance practice and the possibilities for collaboration using this high-fidelity means of audio transmission.

NOTES TO THE UNFORGOTTEN
2022-10-04 19:30 - 21:30 UTC | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
General admission: $20.00
Student admission (with valid ID): $10.00

Description: Piano Lunaire honours those who have been lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, and those who continue to suffer with illness. Join us in Toronto, on Tuesday, October 4th at 7:30pm (at the Canadian Music Centre). The programme is highlighted by the work of rising star associate composer, Liam Ritz. His Nine Forgotten Variations for solo piano were commissioned by Piano Lunaire and the Brantford Music Club in 2021 with support from the Ontario Arts Council; we are thrilled to finally premiere this exquisite new work for keyboard. Also on the programme: piano music from the traditional canon alongside Adam Sherkin’s Aubades in Memoriam, featuring music dedicated to long-time patrons and supporters of PL who passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Note: This is a repeat of our Fall Gala performance, held at the Art Gallery of Hamilton on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 3:00pm.

SHHH!! Ensemble Album Launch: Meanwhile
2022-09-29 19:30 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
September 29, 7:30 pm
SHHH!! Ensemble Album Launch: Meanwhile
Join SHHH!! Ensemble and celebrate the release of their debut album “Meanwhile”, featuring electrifying new music for piano and percussion by some of Canada’s most creative voices.
SHHH!!… a powerful utterance designed to draw attention forward… creating space and awareness… opening ears to something important.
Percussionist Zac Pulak and pianist Edana Higham, the two members of the duo SHHH!! Ensemble, have carved a space for themselves as compelling performers, collaborators, and commissioners of electrifying new music. They have toured across Canada, performing works written for them by both established and emerging composers. A keen taste for experimentation and discovery has guided their “avant-accessible” projects, which they have workshopped at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, and the Canadian Music Centre, leading to feature performances at the Tuckamore Festival, Ottawa Chamberfest, Open Ears Festival of Music and Sound, the National Arts Centre #CanadaPerforms series, and a live-for-broadcast performance on the CBC Radio 2 program “In Concert.” Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Machines, Mannequins, and Monsters, a new double concerto written for them by Kelly-Marie Murphy, with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, as co-artistic directors of the Ottawa New Music Creators, Zac and Edana enjoy curating performances by leading Canadian and international artists in their home base of Ottawa, Ontario.
Tickets : $20

Book Launch: John Beckwith - Music Annals
2022-09-09 17:00 - 18:30 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Book Launch: John Beckwith – Music Annals
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Join us for the launch of the composer and writer John Beckwith’s 17th book, Music Annals. In this collection of 46 articles written over a period of some 41 years, Beckwith displays insatiable curiosity, sharp critical skills, a gracious literary style, and a boundless knowledge of music. Music Annals is a sequel to Beckwith’s well received and much praised earlier book Music Papers: Articles and Talks by a Canadian Composer 1961–1994 (Ottawa, 1997), and is being published in celebration of the author’s 95th birthday earlier this year. The launch takes place at the Canadian Music Centre, 20 St. Joseph Street, on Friday, September 9th at 5:00 pm.
Performances of two works by John Beckwith will also be heard at the launch:

Meanwhile for percussion and piano

SHHH!! ensemble

Chapters and Verse for two equal sopranos and viola, text by Paul Dutton

Caitlin Wood, Sara Schabas, sopranos; Rory McLeod, viola

Copies of the book will be available at the launch for the special reduced price of $10 each.

These are a Few of Our Favourite Bees - Artists Talk
2022-07-07 19:30 - 21:00 UTC | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
These are a Few of Our Favourite Bees investigates wild, native bees and their ecology through playful dioramas, video, audio, relief print and poetry. Inspired by lambe lambe – South American miniature puppet stages for a single viewer – four distinct dioramas convey surreal yet enlightening worlds where bees lounge in cozy environs, animals watch educational films and ethereal sounds animate bowls of berries (having been pollinated by their diverse bee visitors). Displays reminiscent of natural history museums invite close inspection, revealing minutiae of these tiny, diverse animals, our native bees. From thumb-sized to extremely tiny, fuzzy to hairless, black, yellow, red or emerald green, each native bee tells a story while her actions create the fruits of pollination, reflecting the perpetual dance of animals, plants and planet. With a special appearance by Toronto’s official bee, the jewelled green sweat bee, Agapostemon virescens!
In this Artist Talk, Sarah Peebles, Ele Willoughby, Rob Cruickshank and Steven Humphrey will discuss their artistic practices and themes related to the exhibition.
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Greg Bruce - Workshop: Embrace Lofi!
2022-06-26 12:00 - 13:30 UTC | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Embrace Lofi! Cassette Tapes and Creative Practice
In this workshop, post-digital saxophonist Greg Bruce will discuss his philosophy surrounding cassette tapes and demonstrate how he uses them in his musical practice. Greg will begin by discussing how we can think about physical electronic media and the importance of materiality in music making. Following this, he will cover the fundamentals of cassette tapes: the glory of wow and flutter, the differences between cassette types, and what tapes, players, and recorders to look out for (among other topics).
Next, Greg will demonstrate the wide range of creative uses for a simple cassette recorder. This portion of the workshop will show participants how to make several types of tape loops and demonstrate various recording and playback techniques. All the equipment and materials required for this practice are intended to be affordable and easy to find, whether buying new or thrifting, so that participants can easily try this DIY, lofi practice at home.
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Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan Symposium
2022-06-05 19:00 - 23:00 (America/Toronto) | ON
An online event hosted by the Canadian Music Centre and Arraymusic, featuring scholars and practitioners from Indonesia, Canada, and the USA. The two online panels will explore these topics on Sunday, June 5 (June 6 in Indonesia). You are welcome to join in the discussion.

OVERVIEW

In the 133 years since Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel – among many thousands of other Europeans – first encountered Sundanese gamelan, wayang, angklung and dance at the 1889 Paris Exposition Universelle, the diverse musics of Indonesia has fascinated Western musicians. It was the excitement of first discovering Balinese gamelan music 78 RPM discs that inspired Canadian pianist, composer and researcher Colin McPhee to move to Bali in the 1930s. His pioneering work has inspired many others to study and more recently to perform on gamelan.Around 1960 gamelan courses began to be offered in universities in the US, and in Canada on the heels of Expo ’86 Vancouver the site of the First International Gamelan Festival and Symposium. These developments had several long-term impacts on a small cadre of American composers. It provided them hands-on opportunities to learn these musical cultures, as well as serving to embed composers and performers from various Indonesian regions in American academic and artistic circles.The first gamelan group in the country, Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan (ECCG) has pioneered a Canadian approach to exploring hybrid links between post-classical and world music. Founded in 1983, this professional eight-musician Toronto cooperative plays its own bespoke West Javanese-style degung. Its mandate includes commissioning new works by Canadian and international composers, as well as presenting new interpretations of Sundanese music. ECCG has a long history of inviting Sundanese and Javanese musicians, composers, puppeteers and dancers to work with the group live and in the recording studio. In 2002 ECCG toured three cities in Java with a Toronto-based modern dance company performing and engaging in workshops. What ethical issues arise in such cultural and professional interactions? For example, what is ECCG’s relationship to Toronto’s Indonesian community and to musicians and music scenes in Indonesia? What do Indonesian musicians think of ECCG and other “outsider” groups playing various types of gamelan? What are the many-facetted implications of playing – and creating gamelan music – outside its region of origin?Jointly organized by ECCG, Arraymusic, and the Canadian Music Centre, this online symposium will begin to engage these questions and explore the broader context of Evergreen’s pioneering work. Featuring practitioners and scholars from Indonesia, Canada and the USA, this symposium seeks to plumb the current state of international gamelan music creation today and in the future.

SCHEDULE

June 5th 7:00pm to 8:30pm EDT – 4:00pm to 5:30 pm PDT – June 6th 7:00am to 8:30am WITA

Roots and Offshoots – Gamelan in contemporary Indonesian music

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Panelists:

Arya Deva Suryanegara (Bali/Canada), composer, performer – Université de Montreal
Iwan Gunawan (West Java) composer, musician, music educator, gamelan leader – Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung
SutrisnoHartana (Central Java/Canada), composer, musician, music educator, researcher – Simon Fraser University
PutuHiranmayena (Bali/United States), composer, musician, musicologist – Grinnell College
Moderator: Jody Diamond, American Gamelan Institute

8:30pm EST to 9:00pm EST – Break

June 5th 9:00pm to 10:30pm EDT – 6:00pm to 7:30 pm PDT – June 6th 9:00am to 10:30am WITA

Lost in Translation? When instruments and music are taken out of their cultural contexts.

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Panelists:

Leslie Tilley (Canada/United States), ethnomusicologist, music analyst – Massachussets Institute of Technology
Iwan Gunawan (West Java) composer, musician, music educator, gamelan leader – Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung
Curtis Andrews (Canada), composer, musician, ethnomusicologist
Juro Kim Feliz (Phillipines/Canada), composer
Moderator: Menon Dwarka, Arts Consulting Group

Labyrinth Ontario - Panel Discussion: Modal Composition
2022-06-02 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Ross Daly and Araz Salek, both frequently composing in and across various modal traditions, discuss modal music composition, the utilization of determined modal idioms in new compositions, and what is required of a composer work creatively across modalities.
Hosted by Labyrinth Ontario and the Canadian Music Centre, Ontario Region; this event will be livestreamed.
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Reimagining
2022-04-07 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | ON
Reimagining | a concert of new works for accordion & clarinet
The culmination of a multi-year project sees Joseph Petric (accordion) and Martin Carpentier (clarinet) perform new duo works developed by an international roster of composers. New relationships, formed in the creation of each piece, serve to refract and re-imagine their instruments, their role, function, contexts and interpretive possibilities. The programme will hint at ambiguity, vulnerability, and fresh artistic perspectives offered by the confounding of expectation.
Both Petric and Carpentier have pursued careers as champions of process, challenging orthodoxies while embracing the nexus of memory, aesthetics, and understanding achieved through their performance practice.
Here reimagining is a renewal of process, embedded within each new creation.
This concert will be presented as a livestream. Audiences can join through the CMC livestream event, on this page
Concert Programme |
Transonique, Gabriel Mălăncioiu – ROM
Biarc, Kathryn Knowles – CAD
foxred, Daryl Jamieson – CAD/JAP
más tranquila (for pauline), D. Edward Davis – USA
Kinamulaìtan, Juro Kim Feliz – PP/CAD
More about the programme | Juro Kim Feliz (PP-CAD) offers a traditional, almost modernist rigour in the writing, yet confounds expectation with lyricism, and warm textural soundscapes; Gabriel Mălăncioiu (ROM) offers an Eastern European perspective of the clarinet and accordion tinged with Stravinskian impulses; Kathryn Knowles (CAD) offers a work which confounds expectation with episodic excursions; Edward Davis (USA) draws on the Conjunto accordion tradition with warmth and episodic declarations, tinged by (and dedicated to) Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening traditions; Daryl Jamieson (JAP-CAD) delivers a transparent and ethereal work that triggers internalized and ritualized spaces.
Technical Personnel |

Audio recording, Peter Lutek
Graphics, Nigel Baines

Performer Biographies
Joseph Petric, photo credit: Bo Huang
Joseph Petric |Joseph Petric’s staunchly individualistic approach as concert and recording artist has drawn return engagements to Asia, Europe, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, the former Soviet bloc, North America and the Middle East. Maintaining an active concert and recording schedule he has appeared as a soloist at major venues such as Seiji Ozawa Hall, BBC Radio3, Washington’s Kennedy Center, the Berlin Philharmonic, and at international festivals London Southbank, IRCAM Agora, Tanglewood, and Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Festival. His work onstage has been met with acclaim in key publications such as the London Independent, Washington Post, New York Times, and Berliner Tage.
Petric’s penchant for collaborating with living composers has yielded generous financial support from the Koussevitsky Foundation, Swedish Reikskonzerter, the Laidlaw Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation among others, resulting in more than 350 commissions (including 20 concertos) and a discography of 40 titles.
Petric is also a devoted pedagogue and, in addition to providing specialized mentorship to a global roster of private students, he remains a sought-after guest for international masterclasses and lectures. This dimension of his practice also extends into the realm of writing. His recent works, which bridge the musicological, historical and personal, have been published by Germany’s Augemus Press.
Martin Carpentier, photo credit: Michaël Esterez
Martin Carpentier |Martin Carpentier earned his Bachelor’s in Clarinet Performance, magna cum laude, from McGill University, where he studied with Emilio Iacurto. He went on to serve as Principal Clarinet with the Orchestre des jeunes du Québec. After studying under Karl Leister (Principal Clarinet with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) in 1992 and subsequently obtained his Master’s Degree in Performance from the Université de Montréal, under the supervision of André Moisan.A highly sought-after clarinetist, Martin Carpentier is a member of Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM) and of Pentaèdre. He also performs regularly with the Orchestre Métropolitain, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, the Opéra de Montréal, Les Violons du Roy and I Musici de Montréal, and has recorded CDs with Société des vents de Montréal, Pentaèdre and NEM. Martin teaches clarinet at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), the Université de Montréal and at Collège Vincent-d’Indy.
Composer Biographies

Gabriel Mălăncioiu |The coexistence of intuition and reason in the formation of the composer Gabriel Mălăncioiu (born in 1979 in Brașov) is due to the graduation of both the Faculty of Automatics and Computers and the Faculty of Music and Theater from Timișoara. In addition to the decisive influence of Maestro Remus Georgescu – the one who initiated him in the study of musical composition, during his master's and doctoral studies at the Gheorghe Dima National Academy of Music in Cluj-Napoca, he met important personalities such as Cornel Ţăranu, Adrian Pop, Valentin Timaru and Eduard Tereny.
Gabriel Mălăncioiu's music has been presented to audiences on five continents in over 270 concerts, performed by prestigious ensembles such as Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, the Slovenian Chamber Choir or the Aventure ensemble, by performers such as Florian Mueller, Gudrun Hinze or Richard Craig, by conductors such as Michael Wendeberg, Huba Hollókői or Martina Batič. Composer Corneliu Dan Georgescu remarked that Gabriel Mălăncioiu is "one of the most active personalities, a confident and very original voice in the contemporary musical landscape". His scores are published by Universal Edition.
Gabriel Mălăncioiu is a member of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists, of the Executive Committee of ISCM – Romanian section – and of some international music organizations such as Vox Novus (USA), La Villa des Compositeurs (France/Italy), Temp'ora (France), Access Contemporary Music (USA), Society of Composers (USA). Gabriel Mălăncioiu is currently teaching Modern composition techniques, Orchestration and Musical Analysis at the West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Music and Theater.
Kathryn Knowles | Kathryn Knowles is a composer, cellist, conductor, and writer from Inverary, Ontario and currently based in Toronto, Ontario. Her musical works have been played in workshops by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the New Orford String Quartet, and the Penderecki String Quartet.
Kathryn is interested in multidisciplinary artistic exchange, and in exploring the creative process. She holds a Bachelor of Music and a Master of International Business from Queen's University, as well as a Master in Music Composition from the University of Toronto where she was awarded the Joseph Armand Bombardier Canadian Graduate Scholarship. During her time at U of T, Kathryn initiated and led the creation of an annual interdisciplinary conference to showcase artistic creation-based research known as the Multidisciplinary Creative Conference.
In addition to her work as a composer and writer, Kathryn is a Centre Director with Sistema Toronto, the Music Director of Music4Life String Orchestra, and the Founder of Mad Endeavour. Kathryn is a strong advocate for the accessibility and appreciation of music and art in today's society and she values the constant pursuit and celebration of knowledge.
Daryl Jamieson | Daryl Jamieson (b.1980) is from Halifax, Nova Scotia. He studied at Wilfrid Laurier University with Glenn Buhr and Linda Catlin Smith, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama with Diana Burrell, and then with Nicola LeFanu at the University of York. He has lived in Japan since 2006, first studying under Jo Kondo at the Tokyo University of the Arts. He is currently an assistant professor of composition at Kyushu University, and his music is published by Da Vinci Edition, Osaka, and the Canadian Music Centre.
Jamieson's work explores time and place, and is heavily influenced by nō theatre and Japanese poetry. One of his largest works is a trilogy of musical theatre pieces called the Vanitas
Series, which received the 2018 Toshi Ichiyanagi Contemporary Prize. In his citation, Ichiyanagi called the Vanitas Series 'an epic musical work of extraordinarily elegance and contemporary topical perspective'. Jamieson's other pieces include solo, chamber and orchestral works, and many songs. Since 2016 he has begun to incorporate field recordings and site-specific projects into his work, particularly in his ongoing utamakura and Decants series. His music has been performed around the world by many artists, including the Quatuor Bozzini, the Thin Edge New Music Collective, Muromachi Ensemble, and Satoko Inoue.
He founded the intercultural musical theatre company Atelier Jaku in 2013. He is also active as a researcher, writing on aesthetics of the Kyoto School and Buddhist philosophy, as well as contemporary music and spirituality. He has received grants and awards from the Canada Council for the Arts, among others.

D. Edward Davis |D. Edward Davis is a composer whose work engages with the sounds of the environment, exploring processes, patterns, and systems inspired by nature. His pieces have recently been presented at the CEMIcircles Festival of Experimental Music and Intermedia in Denton, TX (2019), the Boston Microtonal Society (2018), the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival in Richmond, VA (2017), the EcoSono Environmental Music and Sound Art Festival in Anchorage, AK (2017), and the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA (2016). His work has been performed by F-PLUS, a.pe.ri.od.ic, Polyorchard, [Switch~ Ensemble], Verdant Vibes, Occasional Symphony, No Exit New Music, Musica Nova, Callithumpian Consort, and many othe
rs. Davis holds degrees in composition from Duke University, Brooklyn College, and Northwestern University. His former teachers include Antoine Beuger, John Supko, Amnon Wolman, David Grubbs, Amy Williams, and Michael Pisaro. Davis currently lives in New Haven, CT, where he teaches at the University of New Haven.
Juro Kim Feliz |With music "[thriving] in the sustained tension, like the kinetic energy emanating from the corners of a frame, the opposing forces holding up a house" (Rachel Chiong, 2022), Toronto-based composer Juro Kim Feliz has presented his work across Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe. Born in the Philippines, he studied composition at the University of the Philippines and McGill University under Jonas Baes and Melissa Hui. Other mentors include composers Liza Lim, Linda Catlin Smith, and Japanese koto artists Hiroko Nagai and Masayo Ishigure. Since winning the Goethe Southeast Asian Young Composer Award (2009), Feliz received commissions and performances from artists including Continuum Contemporary Music, Liminar, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Ensemble x.y, Marilène Provencher-Leduc, Wesley Shen, and Renee Fajardo. He received a "Highly Commended" distinction award for Hanggang sa Paglubog ng Araw at the Ars
Electronica Forum Wallis (2018) and was nominated for the "Excellence Award in Music and Entertainment" at the Golden Balangay Awards (2019) in Canada. Commercial releases include Gandingan sa Kagiliran in the compilation album "Millennial Masters Vol. 7" (Ablaze Records, 2017) and Hanggang sa Takipsilim in "Mind & Machine Vol. 4" (Ravello Records, 2022).

Chris Pruden's Suns
2022-03-05 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Suns is a set of solo piano improvisations and compositions performed by Toronto pianist Chris Pruden.
While already recognized as a notable Canadian pianist/keyboardist in several projects (Tara Kannangara, Sammy Jackson, Zinnia, Future Machines, Language Arts), this is the first release under his own name.
Suns, released on Elastic Recordings, is refreshingly informal, recorded amongst friends, documenting unfinished thoughts and new reflections in the moments they arrive and depart. Pruden exhibits technical and musical control that is always on the edge, tumbling through insecurities and surrendering to the sound of the moment. It is both meditative and frenetic, playful and serious, vulnerable and resilient.
The seven pieces take influences from the music of György Ligeti, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Unsuk Chin, Ann Southam, and Elliott Carter (whose piano piece Catenaires is featured as a final track).
The album launch will feature a performance from Chris, and a set of music from Yunjin Claire Lee. The event will be live streamed. No tickets will be made available publicly.

Chris Pruden Bio & Music
Chris Pruden is a pianist/keyboardist based in Toronto, ON. Heavily influenced by jazz, contemporary classical, folk, rock and electronic music, Chris has performed across North America, China, and Europe. He is a frequent sideman and collaborator with Tara Kannangara, Sammy Jackson, Zinnia, Language Arts, Future Machines, and Ronley Teper's Lipliners.
Yunjin Claire Lee Bio & Music

Yunjin Claire Lee is a Korean Canadian pianist, keyboardist, sound designer, composer and producer; a sought-after collaborator for creating electrifying soundscapes. She has worked on local and international projects in an extensive range of genres including traditional and avant-garde jazz, contemporary classical, musique concrète, ambient techno, synthwave, and pop.
Her debut album Voluntary Response (2020) – a solo piano improvisation recordings weaved with electronic processing via Rabid Elephant's prototype synth, gained her an international fanbase in the experimental music scene. Her ambient electronic singles Underwater Arcade (2020) and Dive (2021) had been featured on radio stations across the country such as CJSW 90.9 FM, CKUT 90.3 FM, CITR 101.9 FM, and CHMA 106.9 FM.
In October 2021, she was featured on Discover Women in Jazz series on JAZZ.FM91, showcasing a new electro-acoustic duo with Ben Grossman on hurdy-gurdy. They are currently working on a new album to be released in 2022.
Photo credit: Brendan Mariani
Dive by Yunjin Claire Lee
About Elastic Recordings
Elastic Recordings is the co-creation of Canadian vibraphonist, Michael Davidson, and Canadian double bassist, Dan Fortin. It is a collective outlet exploring the spaces where composition and improvisation overlap; the points at which nostalgia meets the present moment.
The label will promote music that fits between the gaps of genre and that has been historically difficult to classify.

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Hanging by a Thread
2021-11-26 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | ON
The Canadian Music Centre will host Hanging By a Thread, the inaugural virtual production by Toronto new vocal music concert series, Slow Rise Music. Slow Rise Music was founded by musicians McKenzie Warriner and Tristan Zaba in 2021 to break new ground in classical performance and, by showcasing the human voice in contexts different and arguably more relevant than traditional operatic or choral presentations, improve access and give new life to the art form.
Hanging by a Thread features works from three composers: Isaac Zee, a Vancouver-based composer/violinist from Hong Kong; Anika France Forget, a UK-based Franco-Ontarian composer/vocalist; and Tristan Zaba, a composer/vocalist/rock musician originally from Alberta. Each piece explores the theme of “survival,” on commissioned texts by Canadian poets Pamela Galloway, Aude A. Saint-Laurent, and Tristan Zaba.

In keeping with the Slow Rise mission, Hanging By a Thread explores multi-instrumentalism—the concept of players singing and playing instruments simultaneously, which is common in popular music but unusual in classical presentations. All pieces will be performed by co-founders McKenzie Warriner on soprano voice and piano, and Tristan Zaba on bass voice and electric guitar. Hanging by a Thread will take place live on YouTube. There is no charge to view aside from an optional donation to Slow Rise Music’s gofundme campaign.

Programme
À vol d’oiseau | Anika-France Forget (composer), Aude A. Saint-Laurent (poet)
Cardinal | Isaac Zee (composer), Pamela Galloway (poet)
Elsewhere There Was Daylight | Tristan Zaba (composer, poet)
Full Programme / Text & Artist Bios

SLOW RISE MUSIC GOFUNDME PAGE

Wounded Landscapes
2021-11-13 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | ON
Wounded Landscapes is the culmination of nearly three years of collaboration between pianists Megan Thibeault (Halifax), Justin Paul Ortez (Michigan), and composer Cory Harper-Latkovich (Toronto). The result is three new works for piano: two solo works which evoke each respective pianist’s sensibilities as an artist, and one piano duo which synthesizes elements of the solo works.
Societies of Solitude written with Megan Thibeault is a suite of shorter pieces which are individually unique in tone and energy and represent Thibeault’s own dynamic style as a performer.
Wounded Landscapes written with Justin Paul Ortez on the other hand, is a large piece that stretches the perception of time and form and reflects Ortez’s own patience and focus as a performer.
evocation, Intimacy takes elements of the two solo pieces and presents them in a performance which reflects the ritual of collaboration that created itself: solitude, coming together, intense focus, improvisation, creation.

Building Up
2021-10-07 19:00 - 20:30 (America/Toronto) | ON
The Association of Canadian Women Composers/Association des compositrices canadiennes, in partnership with the Canadian Music Centre presents Building Up – a virtual concert celebrating women composers supporting each other through their creative practices. The program features composers from across the country, performed by a quartet of flute, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion. This event is part of the ACWC/ACC’s 40th anniversary celebrations and is one of many virtual events taking place across the country this year.
Performed by Amanda Lowry (flutes), Naomi McCarroll-Butler (bass clarinet + alto saxophone), Yang Chen (percussion), Cecilia Lee (piano), and Stephanie Orlando (piano + electronics). Recording and video editing by Kristen Antunes and Ricci Ebron.
Program:
Sophie Dupuis, Wingless Birds Can Fly Too (flute, alto sax, piano, percussion)
Roxanne Nesbitt, wild bells no. 3 (prepared piano, percussion)
Catherine Bevan, Evening Prayers (solo piano)
Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Glad Day, Cosmic Womb (flute, alto sax, piano, percussion, electronics)
Cléo Palacio Quintin, Verano In Extensio (flute, bass clarinet, percussion, electronics)
Heather Hindman, All Together Now (flute, bass clarinet, electronics)
Monique Jean, low memory #2 (piccolo, bass flute, electronics)
Rebekah Cummings, Fearless (flute, percussion, electronics)
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Thin Edge / Dark Flower
2021-04-16 20:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | ON
Dark Flower is the first in a series of digital concerts marking Thin Edge New Music Collective’s 10th anniversary season. Named in honour of Linda Catlin Smith’s newest piano quartet, Dark Flower was commissioned by TENMC with generous support from the Ontario Arts Council. This concert is a celebration of the group’s long-standing relationship with Linda. A guiding voice, and mentor to so many within the contemporary music community, she has been a source of inspiration to Thin Edge from the earliest days of our ensemble.
Dark Flower is free to attend virtually, with the option to contribute a PWYC donation to TENMC through their Canada Helps Page.
During these difficult times, if you have the means to contribute the price of a ticket, we would like to suggest that in lieu of donating to TENMC, you direct your funds towards the Native Youth Resource Centre.
PROGRAMME
Jonathan Bailey Holland | The Intimacy of Harmony (2013), for solo piano
Sarah Hennies | Lake (2018) for violin, vibraphone and piano
Alex Jang | Three Short Pieces (2020) for piano, percussion and violin*
Linda Catlin Smith | Dark Flower (2020) for piano, violin, viola, cello**
TENMC Performers
Amahl Arulanadam – Cello
Cheryl Duvall – Piano
Nathan Petitpas – Percussion
Aysel Taghi-Zada – Viola
Ilana Waniuk – Violin
Click here to view the full program and artist bios

Music for Incandescent Events : Skyview, Here (version 4)
2020-10-25 07:40 - 2020-10-31 18:30 (America/Toronto) | ON
Music for Incandescent Events : Skyview, Here (version 4)
Audio for skyscapes around sunset and sunrise. Livestream & downloadable for portable sky-viewing adventures.
25 – 31 October at dawn & dusk | 07:40 + 18:10 (variable times)

South-Western Ontario, online | We invite audiences to tune-in during scheduled audio streams on Facebook during the week of October 25 occurring roughly at dawn and dusk for those based in South-Western Ontario. Streaming will coincide with the shifting light around sunrise/sunset within a broad zone ranging approximately from Peterborough in the East, to London in the West, and Barrie in the North. Tune in as the sky begins to change colour.

Across Canada, offline | Audiences are also invited to download the dawn-dusk audio files for this work in order to listen offline at a self-directed time based on their location. We encourage you to creatively locate yourself off-line via bicycle, ferry, boat, walking, or driving with your portable listening device.

CLICK HERE to download Music For Incandescent Events

Schedule of streaming events |

Sunday, October 25, 7:40 & 18:10
Monday, October 26, 7:40 & 18:10
Tuesday, October 27, 7:40 & 18:10
Wednesday, October 28, 7:45 & 18:05
Thursday, October 29, 7:45 & 18:05
Friday, October 30, 7:45 & 18:00
Saturday, October 31, 7:45 & 18:00

All instances will be streamed on the CMC Facebook Page.
Instructions for experiencing the pieces | Place yourself with a skyscape view of your choice, indoors or outdoors. Adjust your soundscape to your liking (e.g. open windows, sit under a tree, near waves or find a reflective surface, etc.). Listen online live or via audiofile (download) during sunset and/or sunrise, using good quality loudspeakers, headphones or earbuds.

About the Piece | Music for Incandescent Events meditates our perception of time, memory and place, creating a space for contemplation, for awareness of one’s physical environment, and for exploration of consciousness in the moment.

Each iteration of Incandescent Events combines different improvised short melodies and tones performed on a slightly de-tuned shô (Japanese mouth-organ), re-recorded several octaves lower than original pitch. I recorded these melodies at very close range while sitting near a reflective wall, catching rich beat patterns and sum/difference tones. These and additional frequencies beyond the range of human hearing transform into unexpected, complex audio events at slower play-back speeds, several octaves down.
Music for Incandescent Events version 1 (2002) is published on Somethings #1 (Last Visible Dog). Version 2 (installation) was commissioned by wade Collective for wade project in June, 2004, for Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands; it showed at the McLuhan International Festival of the Future, “Scanning Nature” exhibition October, 2004 (DeLeon White Gallery rooftop deck. Version no. 3, Colour Temperature Event (for Gabriola Island, Berry Point, 2017), was curated for The QR Anthology

~ Sarah Peebles

Freesound 03
2020-10-08 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto) | ON
Freesound kicks off its 2020-21 season online with a livestream from the Canadian Music Centre featuring recent works for clarinet, violin, and piano, by composers Jason Doell and Anna Höstman. The ensemble includes Aysel Taghi-Zada, Wesley Shen, and Anthony Thompson.
Program |
strings of sound mapping the thresholds of a liminal space (2019) Jason Doell
Arctic Blooms (2020) Anna Höstman
Tributary (2018) Anna Höstman

Hommage à Hétu
2020-09-30 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | ON
An iconic figure of 20th century composition in Canada, Jacques Hétu (1938-2010) contributed beloved works to the repertoire of soloists and chamber groups. Join us for a livestreamed recital featuring some of Hétu’s earliest works written as a young man, as well as pieces completed during a period of establishment and wider influence. The music of Hétu will be realized by a talented group Toronto musicians.
This concert marks the 10th anniversary of Hétu’s death, and Dr. Robin Elliott, director of the Institute for Music in Canada, will also give a presentation illuminating the life and works of Hétu.
Audiences are encouraged to contribute through Paypal to support the participating artists.
Program
Variations, Op. 8 | Bryn Blackwood, piano
Les clartés de la nuit, Op. 20 | Maeve Palmer, soprano and Bryn Blackwood, piano
Prelude et danse, Op. 24 | Jean-Luc Therrien, piano
Ballade, Op. 30 and Fantaisie, Op. 59 | David Potvin, piano
Sonata for cello and piano, Op. 63 | Younggun Kim, piano and Junkyu Park, cello
Viewers will be invited to donate before and during the performance. All proceeds will go towards the artists.

Mistress Class Summer 2020
2020-08-05 16:00 - 17:30 (America/Toronto) | ON
A series of presentations and discussions that centre the experience and knowledge of women, trans, and non-binary identified artists in music.
The Mistress Class works to create a respectful space for building knowledge and community, and seeks to disrupt both the narrative and the form of the traditional master class.
The Summer 2020 webinars are free to attend! Participants can register for individual sessions, or for the full series. In order to make these sessions available to more participants, we will be hosting them as Zoom webinars. The chat will be available during sessions for attendees to communicate with each other and with the organizers. We also invite participants to share questions in advance to help guide each discussion.
Class 1: Sound Advice | Sage Kim, Heather Kirby
Wednesday, August 5, 4:00-5:30 EDT
Workshop attendees sit in on sessions with mastering engineers, learn about the software and hardware they use, the differences between the creative and technical aspects of their work, and the collaborative spaces between artist and engineer.
Class 2: Gear and Studio Tours | Lisa Conway (L CON), Vanese Smith (Pursuit Grooves), Maylee Todd
Wednesday, August 12, 4:00-5:30 EDT
Guest artists show us around the space(s) where they create and record music, and the tools they use to do so (instruments, hardware, software). Counter to the idea that there is only one correct (read expensive) professional studio set-up, we are interested in how artists are creative and resourceful–with space, with gear, with knowledge.
Class 3: Health and Wellness | Beth Pickens
Wednesday, August 19, 4:00-5:30 EDT
A therapeutic professional who specializes in working with artists explores what it means to do creative work during a pandemic. What is the toll? What is the reward? How can we take care of ourselves and use our skills to help take care of others? How do we understand the meaning and importance of our work in a time of pandemic and of political upheaval? This session may also feature a guest artist.
Class 4: Writing and Composing | Kinnie Starr
Wednesday, August 26, 4:00-5:30pm EDT
Our guest artist discusses her writing process: where it starts, where it ends, what happens in between; how it has changed over the course of her career; when it feels good, when it hurts; what ignites her; what frustrates her. We also discuss how her writing process has changed (or not) over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accessibility | If there are any needs that you would like organizers to be aware of please contact matthew.fava@cmccanada.org, or include a comment during your registration through Eventbrite.

Songs about Living With: Breath, Being, and Transformation | POSTPONED
2020-04-17 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED | Advanced ticket purchases will be refunded. We will be coordinating dates in the future for this performance to take place in Toronto.
Songs about Living With: Breath, Being, and Transformation was originally scheduled on April 17 at the Canadian Music Centre but will not take place at that time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Feel free to contact matthew.fava@cmccanada.org with any questions.

POSTPONED | Brodie West Quintet / Concert
2020-03-27 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED | Advanced ticket purchases will be refunded. We will be coordinating dates in the future for this performance to take place in Toronto.
The Brodie Quintet residency at the CMC, originally scheduled from March 24-27, will not take place. We are discussing possible alternatives for livestream engagement at this point, dependent on further communications from public health officials. We apologize for any inconvenience. Feel free to contact matthew.fava@cmccanada.org with any questions.

POSTPONED | New Musical Resources Day 3 / Activations
2020-03-26 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada

POSTPONED | New Musical Resources Day 2 / Distinctions
2020-03-25 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada

POSTPONED | New Musical Resources Day 1 / Get Rhythm
2020-03-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada

CCMP Panel & Workshop | RESTRICTED
2020-03-21 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESTRICTED | Advanced ticket purchases will be refunded. This event is now closed to the general public, and will be convened through a video conference with core participants joining remotely.
The CCMP Panel was originally scheduled on March 21 at the Canadian Music Centre but will not take place at that time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Feel free to contact matthew.fava@cmccanada.org with any questions.

Tradition & Disruption
2020-03-07 20:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Tradition and Disruption explores some of the opposing and conflicting forces behind the creation of piano music in the classical European tradition from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Through their works, every composer on this program portrays the co-existence of multiple cultural, national, stylistic and geographic elements. In some cases, as with Bach, Tajčević, Chopin or Liszt, this contrast integrates smoothly with traditional forms and modes of expression; in others, as in the case of Rachmaninov, Maksimović and Sokolović, the disruptive elements strive to break loose from the confines of centuries’ old tradition.
In his personal and expressive performing style, Canadian-Serbian pianist Viktor Lazarov brings to you a recital of his favourite styles: Baroque, Romantic and Contemporary. In his original programmes, Lazarov continues to champion the music inspired by Balkan themes, such as the works of composers Marko Tajčević, Svetlana Maksimović and Ana Sokolović.
Time / Doors 7:30 pm, Concert 8:00 pm
Tickets / $25 General, $15 Senior/Student
Programme /
J.S. Bach, Prelude and Fugue in f-sharp minor BWV 883
Marko Tajčević, Seven Balkan Dances
Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne op. 27 no. 2 in D-flat major & Nocturne op. 9 no. 1 in B-flat minor
Serguëi Rachmaninov, Etude op.39 no. 5 in E-flat minor
Svetlana Maksimović, Three Choreographic Etudes
Ana Sokolović, Danses et Interludes
Franz Liszt, Paraphrase on Themes from Rigoletto

21st Century Cello
2020-03-06 19:30 - 21:30 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Music from the 21st Century written by cellists, for cellists. The programme will focus on five works by Canadian cellist-composers commissioned by VC2, each inspired by one of the Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano. These pieces were commissioned for the duo by their former teacher and Albertan cello virtuoso Shauna Rolston-Shaw. The five works will be contrasted with two newly commissioned works by esteemed Canadians Kelly-Marie Murphy and Vincent Ho as well as other cello centric works from at home and abroad that explore the vast sonic capabilities of the cello duo.
Time | Doors 7:00pm, Concert 7:30pm
Programme |
Ex Animo, Hunter Coblentz (b. 1988)
Heist 2, Vincent Ho (b. 1975)
Five Little Pieces, Andrew Downing (b.1973)
Entsprechung, Matt Brubeck (b.1961)
Ridge and Furrow, Fjola Evans (b. 1987)
Final Glimpse, Kelly-Marie Murphy (b. 1964)
Arboreto Salvatico, Giovanni Sollima (b. 1962)
Dogged, Fjola Evans (b. 1987)
Duo? o Du…, Thomas Demenga (b. 1954)
Two Cellos, Dilations, Hunter Coblentz (b. 1988)
Triumvirate, Raphael Weinroth-Browne (b.1989)
About the artists | VC2 Cello Duo is an innovative cello duo ensemble that captivates audiences through their performances of classical masterworks, unknown gems and boundary pushing music. Comprised of cellists Amahl Arulanandam and Bryan Holt, CBC Radio says VC2 is “a tight unit, with excellent intonation and expression.” They present artistically challenging, yet accessible programs in venues ranging from intimate cabarets to Roy Thomson Hall.
As respected cellists, they have performed as part of leading music organizations including the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra, National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Soundstreams, Art of Time Ensemble, Continuum Contemporary Music, New Music Concerts, Music in the Barns, Thin Edge New Music Collective, and others. The duo has been featured artists at Ottawa Chamberfest, Indian River Festival, Ottawa New Music Creators, 21C Music Festival, Ritornello Festival, and the Prairie Cello Institute. Committed to the creation of new works by living composers, especially to create works based on the Beethoven Cello Sonatas project. In addition to their performances, VC2, with the generous support of the Ontario Arts Council, recorded these works and in fall 2018, released the album Beethoven’s Cellists which CBC Radio calls a “First-rate” recording.
In February 2018, VC2 embarked on a tour of the East Coast of Canada, presented by Debut Atlantic. The duo also spent time summer 2018 at the soundSCAPE performance and composition exchange in Maccagno, Italy and brought home a number of new works by emerging international composers. VC2 is thrilled to be one of Prairie Debut’s 2019-20 Touring Artists.

TAXES | a workshop for artists
2020-02-18 13:00 - 15:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Time / 1:00-3:00 pm, doors at 12:30 pm
Dealing with the stress and confusion of tax season can be especially challenging for artists. Artbooks Senior Tax Preparer Tova Epp leads a workshop for composers, musicians, and other artists that will help participants prepare for tax season, offering insights into managing and tracking your finances.
Tova will guide participants through various topics ranging from eligible deductions, to handling grants, document preparation, and more! There will be opportunities for participants to ask questions during the workshop.
We encourage you to register in advance to attend in person, and to submit questions upon registration. This workshop will be livestreamed. The information provided in this workshop will be relevant to any artist filing their taxes within Canada. Click here to view workshop handouts.

KappaMusik Crossing
2020-02-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Experimental Music for Ensembles, Drums, and Electronics | James Harley / Philippe Hode-Keyser
This new disc represents decades of musical exploration, rooted in jazz but pushing far out from that tradition. All of the music is based on notated scores for large ensembles (« big bands ») but improvisation plays a large role. Performances by Hode-Keyser in Montreal of existing music composed in the 1980s by Harley led to two new works composed specially for Hode-Keyser’s Ensemble Kappa. These scores question the jazz tradition through a lense shaped by immersion in European contemporary music, after Harley had spent six years living in London, Paris, and Warsaw. KappaMusik was premiered at the Open Ears Festival in Kitchener.
This CMC presentation will explore the dynamic relationship between notated musical scores and creative interpretation/improvisation. The Cool Hearts Band will perform two versions of Sabbath, one of the works included on the CD, alongside a discussion of the creative process that shaped the project.
James Harley is Professor of Music and Critical Studies in Improvisation at the University of Guelph. Philippe Hode-Keyser is a musician and band-leader in Montreal.
Admission Free*
Time / 2:00-4:00 pm / Doors at 1:30 pm
*Audience members who make a $20 donation to the CMC during advanced registration or at the door will receive a free copy of the album courtesy of the artist.

Ethereal Sounds
2020-02-05 20:00 - 22:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Ethereal sounds written by Canadian, American, and European composers, this 21st century cello program links disparate times, geographies, and modes of music making. Some moments draw upon the familiar sounds of the cello as a solo instrument, while others will extend and augment the instrument with elaborate textures and pre-recorded lines layered to culminate in a nourishing cello experience.
Programme /

Philip Glass, Orbit; The Secret Agent; The Paris Sky
Kaija Saariaho, Sept Papillons
Fjóla Evans, Augun
Giovanni Sollima, Alone
India Yeshe Gailey, (untitled new piece)
Michael Harrison, Just Ancient Loops

About the artist /
India Yeshe Gailey is a cellist, composer, and improviser based in Montréal. Compelled to play music that speaks to our time, she draws from many eras and genres, performing as a solo artist and collaborator in halls, museums, bars, galleries, homes, and castles around the world. In 2017, she released her first solo album, Lucid, a collaboration with three emerging Canadian composers. More recently, she earned her Master of Music degree under the tutelage of Matt Haimovitz at McGill’s Schulich School of Music.
Other recent highlights include working with Philip Glass at the Scotia Festival of Music, winning a Graduate Mobility Award from McGill to perform in Germany, and holding a fellowship at Garth Newel Music Center in Virginia. India tours regularly with the environmental chamber jazz quartet New Hermitage, a group which received Music Nova Scotia’s 2019 “Classical Recording of the Year” award for their live improvisation with bass clarinettist Jeff Reilly. Noted as “a young musician to watch” (Scotia Festival), India is the recipient of several awards and honours, including five Nova Scotia Talent Trust scholarships and the Yuh Lih and Marion Kuo Award for Instrumental Excellence.
