The Vancouver Art Gallery introduces a new contemporary music series — New Music at the Gallery — presented in partnership with the Canadian Music Centre BC. New Music at the Gallery will draw on contemporary art themes and highlight a selection of twentieth- and...
Written By Canadian-Ukrainian composer Anna Pidgorna: At the moment much of the world is focused on the atrocities being committed by Russian forces in Ukraine. The destruction is catastrophic, the attacks on the civilian population absolutely horrific. I was born in...
By Ukrainian- Canadian composer Solomiya Moroz I am writing this on the 14th day of the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, a war Putin has imposed on the Ukrainian people which started at 4 am on February 24, 2022. Before this unjustified assault on the peaceful...
by Lera Auerbach, a Ukrainian-American pianist, composer, and conductor. My mother was born in 1940 to a Jewish family in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine. As Hitler’s army marched East in 1941, my grandparents abandoned all their possessions (including their beloved...
Exactly two years ago today the Prime Minister of Canada announced a national lockdown, requiring everyone to close offices, studios, performance spaces, and workplaces and shelter in place at home in response to an international pandemic. It was a time of fear and...
The Canadian Music Centre in BC (CMC BC) is joining with the Vancouver Chamber Choir and Vetta Chamber Music to celebrate Stephen Chatman’s long-delayed 70th Birthday — a unique opportunity to immerse yourself in the music of one of our nation’s most celebrated...
The Year In Review Background We are living through an unprecedented time, a true inflection point in world history, with multiple crises intersecting and in many ways overwhelming our ability to process, let alone respond. If 2020 was a devastating year for the...
Wednesday, December 8 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm The University of Victoria School of Music faculty, alumni and special guests perform works by legendary Czech-Canadian composer, bassoonist, and teacher Rudolf Komorous, in celebration of his 90th birthday. Performers...
