May 30, 2013

Call For Poster Designs

VISI / Art Song Lab 2013

Vancouver / South Coast AreaConcerts

Vancouver Island / Gulf IslandsArea Concerts

Central / Northern BC AreaConcerts

Out of Province / InternationalConcerts

CNMN Call For Proposals

Composer Opportunities: Canada

Composer Opportunities:International

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Clarinet / Piano RecitalShawn Earle & Sisi Liu

Newsletter of the Canadian Music Centre, BC Region

Dear friends,

We are always accepting submissions for futureeditions of Centrepulse. Please send all details, as wellas a brief description, to bcregion@musiccentre.ca.

We also welcome reader-submitted articles and othernews items on the subject of Canadian music andcomposers.

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Alan Matheson Jazz SeptetCall For Poster Designs

Deadline: Friday, June 21More Information: available here

Vancouver Pro Musica invites B.C. visual artists tosubmit poster designs for the upcoming AlanMatheson Jazz Septet concert on July 12, 2013 at theJazz Cellar. The winning designer will be given a $250 cash awardand have their name appear in the concert program.

Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) SONGFIRE Festival 2013Selected Events Featuring Canadian Music

Date: Friday, June 14Time: 7:00 PMTickets: $10 (cash only)

Clarinettist Shawn Earle andpianist Sisi Liu present aprogram of works by ElliotWeisgarber, Jordan Nobles,Alban Berg, LeonardBernstein, and Carl Maria vonWeber.

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Right now, we're looking formore volunteers to continuethe very important work on ourComposer Files DigitizationProject. Are you interested inlearning about the lives, worksand careers of BC composers?If yes, this is the task for you!

VISI Dates: May 30 - June 26 Full Event Listings: available here

Art Song Lab: Community Discussion onContemporary Performance Practice and Creation Date: Sunday, June 2Time: 5:00 PMPlace: Epiphany Hall, UBC A spirited discussion of art song in contemporarysociety led by VISI's co-directors of Art Song Lab andContemporary Performance Studies programs.Featuring guest speakers Bob Baker, Florestan RecitalProject, and Canadian Art Song Project. Free andopen to the public. Art Song Lab: Wordsong Date: Monday, June 3Time: 8:00 PMPlace: Roy Barnett Hall, UBC A program of song, poetry, and discussion withFlorestan Recital Project, featuring baritone AaronEngebreth and pianist Alison d'Amato. Four musicalsettings of Wallace Stevens's Disillusionment at TenO'Clock, presented in an interactive format of activediscussion between performers and audience aboutthe poem and its musical interpretations. Free andopen to the public. Workshop with Poet/Writer Betsy Warland Date: Monday, June 3Time: 2:30 PMPlace: Canadian Music Centre 837 Davie St. Workshop with Composer, Jocelyn Morlock Date: Tuesday, June 4 Time: 2:30 PM Place: Canadian Music Centre (837 Davie St.) Art Song Lab is thrilled to present two excitingworkshops on the nature of text/music collaboration bycomposer, Jocelyn Morlock and poet/writer, BetsyWarland. Each will provide insight into the craft of theirspecific practice in a way that will be helpful to a wide

array of artists. These public workshops feature open-work sessions on pieces written specifically for ArtSong Lab 2013, providing valuable support to the songcreation process. Audiences experience the dynamismof creating and interpreting poetry and music. Bothworkshops are free and open to the public. SongSparks 1 Date: Tuesday, June 4Time: 6:00 PM Place: Pyatt Hall, VSO Sch. Music (843 Seymour St.) SongSparks 2: Guest Writer, Betsy Warland inAttendance Date: Wednesday, June 5Time: 6:00 PM Place: Canadian Music Centre (837 Davie St.) SongSparks 3: Guest Composer, Jocelyn Morlockin Attendance Date: Thursday, June 6Time: 2:00 PM Place: Canadian Music Centre (837 Davie St.) SongSparks are interactive workshops whereaudience, poets, composers, and performers cometogether to experience and discuss the developmentand interpretation of new songs written for Art SongLab 2013. All SongSparks concerts are free and opento the public.

Art Song Lab - Playing With Fire

Date: Friday, June 7Time: 8:00 PM Place: Orpheum Annex (823 Seymour St.)

The creative culmination of a six-poet, 12-composercollaboration. Hailing from across North America, the18 artists will create a scintillating program of worldpremieres following a week of rehearsals andworkshops in the Art Song Lab.

Living Song: An Evening of Songs from NorthAmerican Composers and Poets

Date: Saturday, June 8Time: 8:00 PM

Place: Barnett Hall, UBC (6361 Memorial Rd.)

The concert features the world premiere ofQuintessence by Lloyd Burritt on poems of MarilynLerch, performed by mezzo-soprano Julie Stimson,pianist Terence Dawson, and the Microcosmos StringQuartet. This concert also includes works by JackBehrens, Denis Gougeon, Oskar Morawetz, JocelynMorlock, Michael Oesterle, and more.

Antiphons: From Hildegard von Bingen to Lloyd Burritt

Date: Sunday, June 9Time: 8:00 PMPlace: WVUC (2062 Esquimalt Dr., W. Vancouver)

Celebrated actress Joy Coghill, joined by mezzo-soprano Gayle Shay, saxophonist Julia Nolan andpianist Arlene Shrut will perform Lloyd Burritt'sTriptych, poetry by Marilyn Lerch. In their firstappearance at SONGFIRE, Stellaria will offer aselection of Renaissance classics, interwoven with theworld premiere of Lloyd Burritt's The Faerie Queen.EnChor will conclude the evening with celebratedCanadian works.

From Quebec With Love: 150 Years of Quebec Melodies

Date: Wednesday, June 19Time: 8 PMPlace: Barnett Hall, UBC (6361 Memorial Rd.)

Join Le duo lyrique Laplante-Duval and pianist FrancisPerron for a lecture recital covering 150 years ofQuebec melodies, from Calixa Lavallee to LionelDaunais. The concert will also include works by AlexisContant, Achille Fortier, Maurice Blackburn, JeanVallerand, Clermont Pepin, Francois Morel and AndreMathieu.

Art Song Lab: From the Cradle to the Cabaret Date: Monday, June 24Time: 8:00 PM Place: Roy Barnett Hall, UBC (6361 Memorial Rd.) An eclectic evening of song with VISI faculty artistsand guests; Alison d'Amato, Terence Dawson, LynneMcMurtry, Neil Miskey and Tracy Satterfield. Featuringthe world premiere of A Spirit Alive in a Ready Body,

by composer/writer duo Ray Hsu and Michael Park.

Vancouver / South Coast Area Concerts Turning Point EnsembleRound Midnight Rudolf Komorous Meets Thelonious Monk Dates: Friday, May 31 ; Saturday, June 1 Time: 8:00 PM Place: SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts Address: 149 W. Hastings St., Vancouver Tickets: $35 / $33 / $10 More Information: available here DATE ADDED! Date: Sunday, June 2 Time: 7:30 PMPlace: Langley Community Music School Address: 4899 207 St., Langley Tickets: Adult $25 / Senior $20 Student $15 / LCMS Student $10 In Strange Sphere, the Turning Point Ensemble linkstwo iconoclasts whose music has a unique signatureand startling originality. Thelonious Sphere Monk, withhis quirky genius and sharply chiseled music, isinfluential to jazz musicians and contemporarycomposers alike. Rudolf Komorous, recently turned 80,is one of Canada's most inventive and influentialcomposers. His music, with its melancholy and strangebeauty, has a Monk-like purity and individuality. Theconcert includes Komorous' Strange Sphere based onBlue Monk, and 23 Poems about Horses for narratorand ensemble based on the Tang dynasty poetry of LiHo. An assortment of the West Coast's most distinctivemusicians including Christopher Butterfield, JohnKorsrud, David MacIntyre, and Tony Wilson payhomage to the music of Monk and Komorous with newworks. In addition, the TPE will premiere Fantasy onThemes of Thelonious Monk by Paris-based Monkscholar and jazz musician, Joe Makholm. Richmond Orchestra & Chorus AssociationMaple Leaf Forever Date: Saturday, June 1 Time: 7:30 PM Place: Fraserview MB Church

Address: 11295 Mellis Drive, Richmond Tickets: $18 / $15 / $6 More Information: available here We celebrate the music of our own country in aprogram that includes original repertoire andarrangements by Canadian musicians including ImantRaminsh, Lydia Adams, Ron Smail and Larry Nickel.The concert will feature flutist Bernard Blary performingMichael Conway Baker's Flute Concerto no. 2, as wellas Baker's The Mountains, from the orchestral suiteThrough The Lions' Gate. NEW! Chor Leoni's Best of BardA Retrospective of Twenty Years of Fun! Dates: Monday, June 24 ; Monday, July 1Times: 3:00 PM & 8:00 PM (both days)Place: BMO Mainstage Tent at Bard on the BeachAddress: Kits Point at foot of Whyte Ave., VanierPark Tickets: various More Information: available here Chor Leoni closes its twentieth anniversary seasonwith Best of Bard, a retrospective of show-stoppersfrom the choir's annual extravaganzas at the Bard onthe Beach tent. The choir has opened the vaults andput together a concert that encompasses Broadwayfavourites, Canadian folksongs, pop, Bollywood,Country and Western, and much more. The concertwill include works by Canadian composers KenCormier, Greg Martin, Ron Smail, and Don Macdonald.

Vancouver Island / Gulf Islands Area Concerts NEW!

St. John The Divine Anglican ChurchOrgan Concert

Date: Thursday, May 30Time: 7:00 PMPlace: St. John The Divine Anglican ChurchAddress: 1611 Quadra St., VictoriaTickets: $5More Information: available here

David Stratkauskas plays music by Alain, Bach,Durufle, Anthony Genge, Pachelbel, Part, and thepremiere of a new piece by Jocelyn Morlock.

SALT New Music Festival & Symposium Date: until June 2 More Information: available here The SALT New Music Festival and Symposium is aone week event occurring from May 25th to June 2nd,2013, at Open Space and at the University of VictoriaSchool of Music in Victoria, BC, Canada. The event iscreated, organized and hosted by the TsilumosEnsemble, a quartet of musicians comprising DanielPeter Biro (Guitar), Joanna Hood (Viola), Ajtony Csaba(Piano, Harpsichord and Conductor) and KristoferCovlin (Saxophones). The festival integrates local andinternational performers to present performances ofgroundbreaking new music to Victoria audiences. Open Space Wandelweiser Collective + Quatuor Bozzini Dates: Saturday, June 8 ; Sunday, June 9 Times: 2:30 & 8:00 PM (both days) Place: Open Space Address: 510 Fort St. Tickets: various More Information: available here Come and explore the music of the Wandelweisercollective with Montreal's Quatour Bozzini. TheWandelweiser collective is known for their use ofsilence in contemporary music resulting in a quietmusic that is both engaging and, at times, meditative.With a focus on listening, this music draws you in andopens your ears. For this weekend, Jürg Frey, ThomasStiegler, Antoine Beuger, and Daniel Brandes will be atOpen Space to perform and answer questions abouttheir music.In anticipation of this event, Open Space is proud tocommission Victoria's Daniel Brandes' new work, atenuous we.

Central / Northern BC Area Concerts Please let us know of any upcoming events!

Out of Province / International Concerts Please let us know of any upcoming events!

CNMN Call For ProposalsFORUM 2014 Calgary

Deadline: August 15, 2013Session Dates: January 24-26, 2014More Information: available here

The FORUM 2014 steering committee is pleased toannounce a CALL FOR PROPOSALS for theCanadian New Music Network's 6th national FORUMbeing held in January 24 to 26, 2014 in Calgary,Alberta.

Composer Opportunities: Canada Jubilate! Chamber ChoirInvitation For Composers

More Information on Jubilate!: available here

Jubilate! is a fine choir, under the direction of Dr. LarryNickel. We have a very exciting 2013/2014 seasonplanned. Composers are invited to audition for thechoir as singers, and thereby learn about choral writingfrom the inside. Join the choir and write a piece for us!Please contact Dr. Larry Nickel atlarrynickel@mac.com for more information. Cypress Choral Music PublishingCall For Scores

More Information on Cypress: available here

Cypress Choral Music is a small publishing companydedicated to bringing fine Canadian choral music tothe world. We are currently seeking submissions offine and approachable choral music to add to ourcatalogue. Please contact Dr. Larry Nickel atlarrynickel@mac.com for more information.

Camerata New Song CompetitionCall For Submissions Deadline: Friday, May 31 More Information: available here The Halifax Camerata Singers, under the artisticdirection of Jeff Joudrey, is committed tocommissioning, performing and recording music ofCanadian composers. The New Song Competitionprovides an opportunity for emerging composers tocontribute to the rich body of Canadian choral musicand to have a new work performed by one of Canada'sleading chamber choirs. This competition is open to Canadian citizens andpermanent residents currently living in Canada, andwho identify themselves as "emerging composers".Current members of the Halifax Camerata Singerschoir or Board are not eligible. Entries must be post-marked no later than May 31, 2013, and will be judgedby a blind jury of musicians selected by the HalifaxCamerata Singers. The winner will be announced inJuly 15, 2013, and the winning composition will bepremiered at a concert in Halifax in the winter of 2014. 2013 Jules Léger Prize For New Chamber Music Deadline: Saturday, June 1 More Information: available here This annual prize for Canadian composers, valued at$7,500, is designed to encourage the creation of newchamber music and to foster its performance byCanadian chamber groups. Tapestry OperaComposer-Librettist Laboratory Residency Deadline: Monday, June 10More Information: available here Tapestry is pleased to accept submissions for the2013 Composer-Librettist Laboratory (LibLab). ArtisticDirector, Wayne Strongman and Artistic DirectorDesignate, Michael Mori, are eager to meet a broadcross section of writers and composers interested inopera as a dramatic musical genre. The LibLabprovides a ten-day intensive residency for composersand writers who have become leaders in theirrespective fields, and are now interested in writing for

the dramatic art form. Musicworks MagazineElectronic Music Composition Contest /Sonic Geography Writing Contest Deadline: Friday, June 14 More Information: available here Composition Contest: Compose a piece in one of thefollowing genres: Acousmatic, Audio art,Electroacoustic, Glitch, Intelligent dance music,Microsound, Noise, Turntable art, or Video music. Nomaximum length. Writing Contest: Choose a location. Any location. Youhave 500 words to describe how sound defines thisplace. Listen to your local coffee shop, grocery store,or commute to work. Choose anywhere-urban or rural,indoors or outside, busy and loud or mysteriouslyquiet-and describe what you hear. How does soundinfluence the people around? How does it toy with yourexpectations? How does it create the experience? Vancouver Pro Musica Further Series Alan Matheson Jazz SeptetCall For Scores Deadline: Friday, June 14More Information: available here Vancouver Pro Musica invites BC composers to submitnew works for consideration for performance by theAlan Matheson Jazz Septet on Friday, July 22, 2013 atthe Jazz Cellar. This concert is part of a presentationof Vancouver Pro Musica as part of the Further concertseries. As part of this concert, the Ensemble willpresent an instrumental workshop on Saturday, May11, and a reading session on Saturday, June 22. TorQ Percussion Composition Competition Deadline: Saturday, June 15Session: July 14 - 21More Information: available here Registration: available here TorQ Percussion Quartet (Toronto, ON) and MarkAdam (Head of Percussion, Acadia University,Wolfville, NS) are pleased to announce the 2013 TorQ

Percussion Seminar Composition Competition beingrun in conjunction with the 2013 TorQ PercussionSeminar this July 14-21 at Acadia University (Wolfville,NS).This inaugural competition is an extension ofTPS's mandate to be a leading forum for contemporarypercussionists from across the country and beyondlooking to learn, experiment, dissect, expand andredefine their craft. Similarly, the 2013 TorQPercussion Seminar Composition Competition aims toinspire the creation of fresh, bold, experimental andrelevant new works for contemporary percussionensemble. This year's competition is open tocomposers of all ages and countries of residence. Langley Community Music SchoolPulse Young Composers Competition

Deadline: Monday, July 15Competition: Friday, July 26Cost of Level A - Pre-collegiate: $50Cost of Level B - Collegiate: $75More Information: available here Young composers are invited to participate in theLCMS Young Composers' Competition as part ofPULSE Music Program and Festival. Composers willhave the opportunity to work with Pulse faculty duringan afternoon workshop where their pieces will beperformed and critiqued by the ensemble and jury. Thewinning compositions will be premiered by the facultyduring the festival. Rules and Regulations Each composer may submit only one work. The submission should consist of one full score andperformance parts. The score and parts must beprofessionally rendered. The work may be scored forthe following: piano duo, violin and piano, piano trio(violin, piano, cello). The duration of the work must beno more than five minutes. The submission must be anoriginal, un-commissioned and un-published work withno previous public performance. The submittedcompositions will be judged by a three member jurycomprised of respected members of the musiccommunity, including a member of the Pulse facultyFollowing the workshop, a winner will be announced.Cash prizes will be awarded. All decisions of thejudges are final. Contact: Elizabeth Bergmann,Director Summer Programmes, LCM.

Victoria Conservatory of MusicHummie Mann Seminar On Film Scoring

Session Dates: August 24 - 28More Information: available here

Hummie Mann, a two-time Emmy Award-winningcomposer/arranger/conductor who has collaboratedwith some of Hollywood's most celebrated directors inboth theatrical and television films, and Head Instructorfor the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program inSeattle Washington, offers this summer in Victoria, BCa 5-day introductory seminar to film scoring and thebusiness of film.

Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation$12,000 Award For Organ Composition 2014

More Information: available here

The Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation ispleased to announce its Award for 2014 inComposition for Organ. This is in recognition of SirErnest MacMillan's celebrated career as a composerand organist. The Sir Ernest MacMillan MemorialFoundation Award is intended to provide significantcareer development opportunities for a youngCanadian musician. The recipient is chosen through anational competitive process; 26 awards have beengiven since 1985. More information on the AwardProgram will be provided June 15, 2013, at the website of the Sir Ernest MacMillan Memorial Foundation.

Composer Opportunities: InternationalNORTH / SOUTH CONSONANCE (New York)Call For Scores For 2013 / 2014 Season

Deadline: June 1, 2013More Information: available here

All composers are eligible for consideration. Solo,chamber ensembles and chamber orchestra works upto 18 performers will be considered. Vocalists,percussion and/or electronics are acceptable. Onework will be selected for recording on the North/Southlabel. US $27 non-refundable fee per compositionsubmitted required.

ensemble mise-en (New York)Call For Scores 2014

Deadline: August 1, 2013More Information: available here

ensemble mise-en will be curating a contemporarymusic festival in NYC in June 2014 (exact date TBA).We would like to invite you to submit your music forconsideration in the festival concert programs. Theguidelines for the submissions are as follows:Applicants may be of any nationality and age. Selectedcomposers must be present at the festival in June2014 in New York City. There is NO FEE for yoursubmission. You may only send one piece percategory. Submission Categories: Works for mixedensemble (1-14 players), Works for fixed media(stereo), Works for mixed ensemble with fixed media,New piece/performance proposal (1 page max.).

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