News from the Prairie regional office of the Canadian Music Centre.
COMING SOON! Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Presents: ArcherFest, November 22 & 23 Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Violet Archer This festival is presented in partnership with the National Music Centre and the Alberta Registered Music Teachers Association (ARMTA) Special discounted tickets for our CMC community members will be released soon!
In this documentary, Indigenous composers, musicians, artists and scholars, as well as representatives from the COC and CMC discuss what’s at stake when settler artists misappropriate and misuse indigenous song and ceremony and how to broach a move towards reparation and redress.
June 7 (choral) | June 21 (instrumental) Join CMC Associate Composer D. Geoffrey Bell in his “Modern Composers Toolbox” series, as he dives into the world of digital software for emerging composers!
"Here we have a musical landscape of piano works from eleven representatives of the next generation of Canadian composers – all of these being women" - Jerry Ozipko
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It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Dr. Keith Davies Jones; beloved husband and father; caring physician; musician and composer; animal lover; life giver.
CD 88 - Beautifully Relentless, Op. 322 (Ying/Yang Melody Cycle) for three horns, piano and drums The I Ching can be organized in a circle. It is a gradual pattern like the changes in weather through a year. There are beautiful patterns including fascinating opposites. He has organized this set into a pattern which has [...]
Connor Chee and Renata Yazzie edited and compiled this fantastic new repertoire book for elementary piano players. The book features compositions from Jessica McMann / V. Jessica Sparvier-Wells, Sonny-Ray Day-Rider, and Beverley McKiver.
In honour of Black History Month, CMC Prairie is paying tribute to Robert Nathaniel Dett (October 11, 1882 - October 2, 1943), a Canadian-American composer.
The Canadian Music Centre: Prairie Region is pleased to announce that composer and performer Nic Bray (Manitoba) is the winner of the 2025 Emerging Composer Competition (ECC) for his piece, "Spruce".