2026 Canadian Jazz Composers Workshops: April 25, 2026 - with Chelsea McBride June 6, 2026 - with Daniel Hersog - GIVING THE ESSENTIALS: WRITING EFFECTIVE DRUM PARTS - Allison Au During this session, Allison will share select scores from her 2024 Juno award-nominated album "Migrations", written and arranged for a ten-piece chamber jazz ensemble [...]
7 / SONGS OF RIVER & FIRE 7.30pm, Thursday, April 30 Desautels Concert Hall, University of Manitoba Melody Courage and Marion Newman, vocals Anne Manson, conductor Themes of motherhood, loss, and joy emerge in a program that spans opera, Indigenous voices, and folk tradition, with song and spirit rising together like flame and tide. Métis [...]
Shadowy incorporeal timbres melt upon the skin as a dream of velvet sound unfolds, while liquid rhythms pulse through golden light of melting clocks. Experience this as UltraViolet performs music by Anthony Braxton, Mirela Ivičević, Larisa Vrhunc, Robert Lemay, and Zoltan Jeney Robert Lemay - Zones d'Ombre (Canadian premiere)' Mirela Ivičević - Car II Larisa [...]
Program Discover Mahler's mighty First Symphony as the Calgary Phil, conducted by Earl Lee, perform this orchestral epic that takes you from the joys of springtime — through rustic dances to an ironic funeral march — and culminates in victory over worldly despair. Before it, relish the rich, nostalgic poetry of Robert Schumann's eloquent Cello Concerto, [...]
Program Discover Mahler's mighty First Symphony as the Calgary Phil, conducted by Earl Lee, perform this orchestral epic that takes you from the joys of springtime — through rustic dances to an ironic funeral march — and culminates in victory over worldly despair. Before it, relish the rich, nostalgic poetry of Robert Schumann's eloquent Cello Concerto, [...]
2026 Canadian Jazz Composers Workshops: June 6, 2026 - with Daniel Hersog GIVING THE ESSENTIALS: WRITING EFFECTIVE DRUM PARTS - Allison Au During this session, Allison will share select scores from her 2024 Juno award-nominated album "Migrations", written and arranged for a ten-piece chamber jazz ensemble (vocals, saxophone, vibraphone, piano, bass, drums, and string quartet). [...]