CMC Ontario News
Earmark / Gena Branscombe
In this slightly different instalment of Earmark, Kathleen Shimeta, the chair of the board of the Gena Branscombe Project gives us a bit of insight into the life and work of Gena Branscombe and her relationship to Canada. Kathleen, along with the Branscombe estate, have recently made Gena a posthumous Associate Composer of the [...]
An Interview with HPO Fellow Gavin Fraser
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with HPO composer Fellow, Gavin Fraser 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 selects Ronald Becket as the inaugural winner of the Walter MacNutt Prize
For immediate release, Jun 5, 2023 (Toronto ON): Canadian Music Centre 20 St. Joseph Street, Toronto ON The CMC is pleased to announce the selection of Ronald Beckett as the inaugural winner of the Walter MacNutt Prize. For his winning proposal, Ronald will write a 6 minute work based on three short poems by William Blake [...]
Follow Up: Hsiu-Ping Patrick Wu on the TSO’s Explore the Score
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with Hsiu-Ping Wu, 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 [...]
Follow Up: Coreen Morsink on the TSO’s Explore the Score
CMC Ontario Regional Director Joseph Glaser sat down with Coreen Morsink, 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 [...]
Earmark / Julia Jacklein
In this instalment of Earmark, we catch up with Associate Composer Julia Jacklein about taking time to focus on the essentials, ways in which research and study intersect with music and when to know to call it quits on a composition. CMC: What are your plans as we ease out of the pandemic? How [...]