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Luis Ramirez wins the 2018 Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition
from Prairie
on October 25, 2017

Luis Ramirez wins the 2018 Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition

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nief-norf Summer Festival 2018 Call for Scores & Composition Workshop
from National
on October 19, 2017

nief-norf Summer Festival 2018 Call for Scores

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Local composer's piece about Canadian seasons to be performed by Kingston Symphony
from National
on October 18, 2017

"The changing of seasons is something every Canadian understands and has experienced and the Kingston Symphony is hoping to bring some of those feelings to life in their latest concert, entitled Canadian Seasons.

The all-Canadian concert will be performed at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts on...

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24 Questions For James Rolfe
from National
on October 17, 2017

A few times a month, Ludwig Van poses 60 questions to an artist who has made a mark on Toronto’s music scene. Each artist picks and chooses, with a minimum response of 20.

"A staple composer in Toronto, James Rolfe has worked in many facets of creative life in our city, from choral, chamber...

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Esprit Orchestra celebrates 35 years of championing Canadian composers
from National
on October 13, 2017

"Prepare to get out your cellphones as part of this season’s Esprit Orchestra program: you’ll be participating in a performance about the birth and maturity of the telephone.

The February concert will begin with a Eugene Astapov composition that includes an 1885 recording of Canadian telephone inventor...

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An-Lun Huang oratorio gets world premiere in San Jose
from National
on October 11, 2017

"An-Lun Huang’s music has been heard around the world — in 1995, pianist Lang Lang won the First Prize in the International Tchaikovsky Youth Piano Competition with the Chinese-Canadian composer’s “Chinese Rhapsody No. 2.”

This week, Bay Area music lovers can hear one of Huang’s major works, as Symphony...

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A murdered composer, a lost libretto...could this be Canada's greatest opera?
from National
on October 10, 2017

Against the Grain Theatre is making the case that Claude Vivier's 'Kopernikus' is a masterwork

"Against the Grain Theatre is an innovative and nontraditional opera company. The company sings in pubs, invades mansions and does radical things with music, staging and scores. And this summer at...

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Meet the Canadian composer who's created a basketball symphony for the TSO
from National
on October 3, 2017

"Jared Miller doesn't remember a time when he didn't love music.

"I can't even use words to convey how much I love music and all types of music," Miller told CBC's Our Toronto. "So to have the privilege to create it and to play it is really something special in my mind."

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Christina Petrowska-Quilico: An award-winning champion of Canadian music
from National
on October 3, 2017

"When Ottawa-born pianist Christina Petrowska-Quilico was only 10 years old, she performed Joseph Haydn’s Concerto in D Major with Toronto’s Conservatory Orchestra – and amazed the audience. By the time she was a teen, the New York Times was using such descriptors for her talent and skill as Promethean, phenomenal...

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Tribute to Jan Matejcek | Hommage à Jan Matejcek
from National
on September 29, 2017

The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) offers its condolences to the family and friends of Jan Matejcek. Following his arrival in this country, Jan became a major force on the contemporary music scene. In his early days he worked for the CMC, then moved into the area of performing rights, culminating in the creation of...

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