CMC Ontario News
Earmark // Jeff Smallman
"Hearing that music in a real concert hall, and watching the 'choreography' of the orchestra, had a giant impact on me."
Earmark // Stephanie Orlando
"...what I heard absolutely blew my mind—it was the most disjunct, dissonant, non-tonally centred music I’d ever been exposed to. Growing up taking classical piano lessons had never led me to this sort of contemporary music, but I wanted to know more."
EQ 2018 Participant Announcement
Composer and sound artist Rose Bolton, in collaboration with the Canadian Music Centre and Musica Reflecta, is excited to announce the participants for EQ: Women in Electronic Music 2018.
Sound Reaction to Violence Against Women
By Frank Horvat On December 6, 1989, I was 15 years old—a grade 10 student at Nepean High School. Growing up under the care of two loving parents in a quiet, upper middle class neighborhood in Ottawa, life was predictable and somewhat sheltered. Watching the news with my parents on that fateful night shattered all [...]
Call for Proposals: Harry Freedman Recording Award
The Harry Freedman Fund was established by the Freedman family to commemorate the pioneering Canadian composer.
In Memoriam: David Keane
The Canadian Music Centre remembers CMC Associate Composer David Keane who passed away on Tuesday, June 20, 2017 after a long struggle with dementia and ALS.