CMC Ontario

CMC Presents: Imagined Spaces
2026-01-22 19:30 - 2027-01-22 22:00 (America/Toronto) | Chalmers Performance Space, 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, ON, M4Y 1J9, Canada
Thursday, January 22, 2026
Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm
CMC Presents : Imagined Spaces
with Dame Cook and Sergei Kofman
Contrasting wildly different approaches to integrating acoustic and electronic music these two artists imagine ways in which instruments and sound design create spaces both real and imagined.
Coming off a residency at Chalmers House this summer, Sergei’s music explores the relationship between acoustic piano, live processing, and modular synthesizer. Using a pitch tracking algorithm to control the synthesizer, the music explores the connection points and failures of technology. Dame Cook’s recent album “in that bedroom, in that white house” in contrast samples instruments and room noises in a deconstruction of bedroom pop aesthetics. Coupled with their superimposed film projections the effect is of being in multiple places at the same time.
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Sergei Kofman (b. 1996) is a composer and producer based in Toronto. Sergei works in a wide range of mediums, including recorded and live experimental electronic music, film music, and music production. Sergei completed a masters degree in Composition from the University of Toronto in 2020, where he was awarded the 2021 Ann H. Atkinson prize for his piece Voices in the Whir.

In 2022, Sergei received support from the Toronto Arts Council for his project, I Hear the Scent of Change and Stillness, an EP which was released in 2023, accompanied by a concert at Toronto’s ArrayMusic.
Sergei also works under the artist name Measure, an experimental electronic solo project which encompasses most of his musical output. Under the Measure moniker, Sergei releases solo work, performs live across Toronto, and contributes music to film and media projects. His credits include Nick Funness’ film The Hedonist, Brigita Gedgaudas’ dance-technology piece Be Vardų, Be Kojų, and Parisa Sabet’s art installation project Sabzeh.
Sergei/Measure is currently working on his debut full-length album, “Artefacts”, with the Toronto-based label Halocline Trance.

Ticket price:
General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students. $10 anytime
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202

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CMC Presents : Solo Works
2026-02-19 19:30 - 2027-02-19 22:00
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm
CMC Presents : Solo Works
with Wesley Shen and Roan Ma

Presenting two of Toronto’s most dynamic new music performers playing a selection of works dear to them. The two will play solo sets of piano music and violin music as well as a piece or two for violin and piano. The concert will also be the premiere of Sonny-Ray Day Rider’s work that is the CLC’s ISCM Commissioning Project for Indigenous Artists.
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Wesley Shen is a Toronto-based pianist and harpsichordist specializing in the performance of contemporary music. He can be found in equal measure as a solo, collaborative, chamber and orchestral musician. He regularly performs with a number of groups including Continuum New Music, New Music Concerts, Esprit Orchestra, Soundstreams, and FAWN Chamber Creative. He is also a core member of the Freesound Ensemble, one of Toronto’s newer contemporary music collectives. In more traditional settings, he can also be seen performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra.
A passionate advocate for new music, Wesley works closely with many of Canada’s top composers including Linda Catlin Smith, Anna Höstman, Bekah Simms, and James O’Callaghan. He can be heard on a number of recent albums including Emilie LeBel’s landscapes of memory, Bekah Simms’ Bestiaries, and Monica Pearce’s Textile Fantasies. He has also received numerous grants from the Canada Council of the Arts to commission over a dozen new works for both solo harpsichord and solo piano. He continues to strive to create and contribute to these deeply fruitful collaborative relationships between performers and composers, as well as promote the harpsichord as an expressive and exciting contemporary music instrument.
As well as the piano and harpsichord, Wesley has added a number of additional instruments to his palette, namely the shō and more recently the Ondes Martenot. Wesley is a co-founding member of shshcc, a trio of two shōs and accordion with Michael Murphy and Matti Pulkki, commissioning and performing newly created works for this unique ensemble.
Recent appearances include performing Morton Feldman’s Patterns in a Chromatic Field with Amahl Arulanandam, Gérard Grisey’s Vortex temporum with Freesound Ensemble, Henryk Gorecki’s Harpsichord Concerto with Esprit Orchestra, and will soon be performing with Opéra de Montréal on Ondes Martenot in the new opera Clown(s) by Ana Sokolovic.
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Roan Ma is a multi-faceted musician passionate about creating space within the classical music world where diverse voices are represented. Her work focuses on rediscovering music and musicians obscured by time and social constrictions, as well as challenging the conventions of classical violin through contemporary repertoire.
Roan received her BM and MM degrees in violin performance from the Manhattan School of Music, graduating from her Masters with the Hugo Kortschak Commencement Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chamber Music. She then received her Master of Music Education from Columbia University’s Teachers College. During her tenure in New York City, Roan also worked at Manhattan School of Music’s Orto Center for Recording Arts and Distance Learning as both a Recording Engineer and as the Recording Arts Manager. Currently, Roan is pursuing a DMA in violin performance at the University of Toronto studying under Jonathan Crow and Mark Fewer.
Recent festivals and residencies include IRCAM’s ManiFeste 2023, Continuum Contemporary Music’s 2023 HATCH mentorship program, Bang on a Can’s 2024 Summer Festival, The Next Festival of Emerging Artists (with the Kronos Quartet), and Darmstadt Summer Course 2025. Roan currently works as Continuum Contemporary Music’s Artistic Producer through their MAP program.
Roan also leads an active academic life in addition to her performance career. Recent paper and lecture-recital presentations of her research at conferences include Female Baroque Composers Hidden in the Male Canon at the Rutgers University Musicological Society’s Graduate Student Conference, Problems in Progress and Preservation Within Music Conservatories at Columbia University’s “Facing Climates” Conference, Kaija Saariaho’s Electronics: Reconceptualizing Authorship in Composer-Engineer Collaboration at Carleton University’s Music, Sound, and Liminality Conference, and Her Music or Their Music?: Electronics in Kaija Saariaho’s Compositions and Career at McGill University’s Graduate Music Symposium. Her doctoral research at the University of Toronto concentrates on music for violin and electronics from a pedagogical and performance perspective.

Ticket price:
General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students. $10 anytime
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202

Supported by:

CMC Presents : Crossover
2026-05-21 19:30 - 2027-05-21 22:00
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm
CMC Presents : Crossover
with Cope Land and Eunice Keitan
Join us for an unforgettable evening of Jazz fusion! Montreal-based Cope Land blends synthesizers and nu-metal aesthetics with the spontaneity of Jazz in a combination that is wholely unique. Toronto-based Eunice Keitan, on the other hand blends neo-soul with the multicultural aesthetics of her home country of Malaysia bringing the chinese guzheng to her unique Jazz vocal style.
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Cope Land is a genre-bending band from Montreal, Canada, creating music that is exciting, original and varied. Led by guitarist Ben Copland Gilbert, this bilingual group fuses alternative and progressive rock with rap, jazz and metal, sounding powerful and virtuosic both in performance and on recordings. Improvisation gives way to cutting rap verses, only to be swept away by soaring vocals over heavy guitar riffs, leading to a music that often surprises. Available in several ensembles, combining a variable brass section with an ensemble of vocals, guitar, synthesizer, bass and drums, Cope Land always captivates with its driving rhythms, intensity, and dynamics. The band has been lucky enough to grace many Canadian festivals, most notably a main stage performance at the Montreal International Jazz Festival and Festival Vue sur la Relève. They just released their second album, “Expire”, on February 14, 2025. This album, more so rock music than ever before, is sung and rapped half in English, half in French.

Eunice Keitan is a Malaysian/Canadian singer-songwriter whose music reflects her diverse international background and eclectic influences. With a captivating blend of Neo-Soul and World Folk styles, Eunice creates a unique sonic landscape that is both soulful and innovative.
Her latest EP, supported by The Toronto Arts Council, showcases Eunice’s talent for reimagining traditional Asian soundscapes in a modern context. Her music has been featured on CBC music, The Toronto Guardian, Exclaim Magazine, Stereofox, Now magazine, and Canadian Beats. Her previous work has also been nominated for a Toronto Independent Music Award.

Ticket price:
General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students. $10 anytime
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202

Supported by:
