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Call for Scores: Explore the Score Orchestral Composition Reading & Career Development Session
from National
on July 16, 2019

Calling all Canadian composers! We are collaborating with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra to offer an orchestral composition career development session, Explore the Score. Submissions are now open and close on Sunday, September 8, 2019.

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In Memoriam: Michael Colgrass (1932-2019)
from National
on July 5, 2019

The Canadian Music Centre joins with Canadian and wider music communities to mourn the loss of Associate Composer Michael Colgrass. Colgrass passed away on July 2nd, 2019 at the age of 87, having made immeasurable contributions to music, education and performance.

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In Memoriam: Dr. Charles Mills Wilson (1931-2019)
from National
on June 27, 2019

The Canadian Music Centre offers condolences to the family of Dr. Charles M. Wilson, who passed away peacefully on June 13, 2019 at the age of 88.

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SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Canadian Songwriters
from National
on June 24, 2019

"The Award for Young Canadian Songwriter was created through a joint partnership with Sirius XM Canada Inc., and is designed to celebrate emerging and talented songwriters in Canada. Submissions to the talent competition must be from genres of popular music, such as: folk, blues, rock and roll, hip-hop, R&B,...

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Congratulations to Alexina Louie for winning the Canada Council Molson Prize
from National
on June 12, 2019

The Canada Council Molson Prizes

The Molson Prizes are awarded to two people—one in the arts and one in the social sciences or humanities—who have distinguished themselves by their outstanding achievements. These prizes are funded by an endowment from the Molson Foundation and are administered in...

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SOCAN Young Composer Awards
from National
on June 10, 2019

This annual competition is designed to recognize Canadian composers who are 30 years of age and under, for original concert music works in the following five categories: large ensemble, chamber ensemble, solo or duet, vocal, and electroacoustics.

Deadline: June 13, 2019

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New Music for Louis Riel Score Co-commissioned By Canadian Opera Company And National Arts Centre
from National
on June 5, 2019

The Canadian Opera Company and the National Arts Centre have co-commissioned a new work to replace the music from the Kuyas aria that opens the third act of Louis Riel by composer Harry Somers and librettist Mavor Moore. Composer Ian Cusson, of Métis and French-Canadian descent, has been...

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Voices in the Wilderness: Thinking about Murray Schafer in 2019
from National
on May 31, 2019

"On a particularly sunny and warm May day in Belfast – one might even have called it summery – my thoughts turned to the coming season, and to the phenomenon of music performed in the great outdoors, or even deep in the wilderness, if the friends and followers of Murray Schafer are to be emulated. My reverie...

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In Memoriam: Derek Holman (1931-2019)
from National
on May 28, 2019

The Canadian Music Centre joins with the Canadian music community, in particular in the Toronto region, to mourn the loss of Associate Composer Derek Holman. Dr. Holman died in Ottawa on May 20, 2019 at the age of 88.

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Canada's music community remembers Derek Holman
from National
on May 23, 2019

"The conductor, organist and composer died on May 20, 2019, at the age of 88

Canada's classical and church music communities are mourning the loss of Derek Holman, the accomplished Toronto-based organist, conductor and composer, who died on May 20 at the age of 88.

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