February 28, 2012 @ 2:00pm
BC Creative Hub
837 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC
Tickets: FREE! (RSVP’s required)

Open to the general public, music appreciators and musicians alike. Please note that NO music reading skills are necessary.

RSVP to CMC BC Region:

• eMail: bcregion@musiccentre.ca
• phone: (604) 734 ‐ 4622

A lovely afternoon is in store for the audiences interested to understand and hear what is new on the Croatian contemporary music scene. Listen to the lecture, listen to the music and join in the discussion. Renowned Croatian composer Sanja Drakulić will be in attendance, offering insights offer insights into her own music and as well as introduce the current Croatian music landscape.

This concert is presented by Vancouver ProMusica.

Sanja Drakulić

Sanja Drakulić, pianist and composer (Zagreb, 1963) graduated in piano (P.Gvozdić) from the Music Academy in Zagreb and specialized in piano in Nice, Weimar, Paris and Moscow (R.Kehrer).

She studied composition at the École Normale de Musique A.Cortot in Paris, the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, the Academy of Music in Zagreb (S.Horvat) and from 1987 at the P.I.Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow (A.Pirumov, Y.Boutsko), winning the Master of Fine Arts (1992) and the Doctor of Musical Arts (1994) degrees and studying musicology (E.Gordina) and organ (O.Yanchenko). She was a teaching assistant in composition at the same conservatory for two years.

Her composition Five Intermezzos for piano solo was awarded the first prize at the All‐Russian Young Composers’ Competition in Moscow (1993). She was awarded Yeltsin’s Presidential Scholarship for composers and numerous prizes for compositions in Croatia.

She is a member of the Croatian Composers’ Society, the Russian Composers’ Association and the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.

She works as a Full Professor at the Art Academy/Department of Music, J.J.Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. She teaches composition and music theory at the international master classes and seminars. Drakulić served as the program director of the International Music Festival in Pula, Croatia.

Her works have been performed by internationally acclaimed soloists, ensembles and orchestras in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, the USA, etc. She also performs her own piano works.

Her opus includes music for solo instruments, concertos, chamber music, choral, orchestral, electro‐acoustic music, ballet and opera.

February 29, 2012 @ 7:30pm (preview concert)
Zion United Church
2315 Pleasant Valley Blvd,
Armstrong, BC
Tickets: by donation ($10 suggested)

March 2, 2012 @ 7:30pm
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
921 20th Street NE
Salmon Arm, BC
Tickets: $15 general; student “Shugo” tickets available from the Salmon Arm Art Gallery for $5
Available through: Acorn Music or from choir members; you may call (250) 832-7921 or  email

March 4, 2012 @ 2:30pm
St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
921 20th Street NE
Salmon Arm, BC
Tickets: $15 general; student “Shugo” tickets available from the Salmon Arm Art Gallery for $5
Available through: Acorn Music or from choir members; you may call (250) 832-7921 or  email

March 11th @ 2:30pm
St. Mary’s Church
1144 Trans-Canada Highway
Sorrento, BC
Tickets: $15 general

The ‘dead of winter’ which occurs between the fall and spring equinox can describe a bleak time, both in nature and in our lives.  In the natural world, however, this period is not one of death as much as dormancy, when life hibernates, waiting for the warmth and light of spring to signal a time for rebirth, growth, and a flowering and fruition of purpose.  So with our interior lives. What might feel dead in us may in fact be simply dormant, and despite our perennial doubts, darkness gradually yields to light and new life.

The  selection of songs about autumn and spring remind us that every season of the year and of our lives contributes its own beauty and worth. We can ‘winter through’ a time of dormancy with confidence that what is unrealized in our lives will spring forth in a joyous season of surprises. The falling leaves of autumn signalling winter’s approach shall yield to spring and ‘glorious summer’.

The concerts include pieces by Canadian composers Stephen Chatman, Eleanor Daley, Elizabeth Knudson and Wade Hemsworth (arr. Ron Smail). Other composers are Morten Lauridsen, Passereau, Jules Massenet, Vaughan Williams and Astor Piazzolla.

CALL FOR COMPOSERS & PERFORMERS

New Music Session 2012 with the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM) at the Domaine Forget – August 12 to 25, 2012

Application Deadline: February 15th, 2012

Created in 1995 by Lorraine Vaillancourt (conductor and NEM artistic director) and Denys Bouliane, the New Music Session at the Domaine Forget in St-Irénée (Quebec), one of a kind in Canada, welcomes every year approximately 20 composers and performers from all over the world. During two weeks, participants get to work closely and daily with the musicians of the NEM and attend different workshops given by renown guest composers. At the end of the session, the participants (musicians) join the musicians of the NEM to perform the works written by the composers during three concerts at the Françoys-Bernier concert hall at the Domaine Forget.

Artistic coordinators: Denys Bouliane and Lorraine Vaillancourt
Guest composers in 2012: Lasse Thoresen (Denmark) and John Rea (Canada)

You are a composer or a performer interested in taking part in the New Music Session 2012, download the  application form.

February 11, 2012 @ 8:00pm

Joyce Yang has grown into one of her generation’s top pianists right before our very eyes. She performs Rachmaninoff’s wildly-popular Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and the orchestra plays a suite from Der Rosenkavalier (the Knight of the Rose) and Ravel’s intense, Romantic La Valse. Also on the programme is Canadian composer Scott Good‘s The Kiss.

Conductor / Performers

• Bramwell Tovey, conductor
• Joyce Yang, piano

Repertoire

• Good‘s The Kiss
• Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
• R. Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier: Suite
• Ravel’s La Valse

Below please find a list of new works in our library collection. As always, just send me a note if you’d like to see any of them!

-Stefan Hintersteininger
Librarian, CMC BC Region

Instrumental Works

Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra

• L’engin de mort (orchestra), Louis Babin
• Night passages (chamber orchestra), Alan Belkin
• Kahseta’s tekeni-ahsen (orchestra), Denys Bouliane
• Esquisse no.2 (orchestra), Maurice Dela
• Symphonie-itinéraire pour le retour de Jacques Cartier [symphonie no 2] (orchestra), Marc Gagné
• Danses symphoniques (orchestra), Stewart Grant
• Alice (orchestra), Denis Gougeon
• 7 fables  (string orchestra), Denis Gougeon
• Planète baobab (orchestra), Denis Gougeon
• Mouvance (orchestra), Robert Lemay
• Perce-neige (orchestra), Antoine Ouellette
• Zefiro torna … [e’l bel tempo rimena] (orchestra ), John Rea
• Concerto pour orchestre (orchestra), Ana Sokolovic
• Symphony golden dragon (orchestra), Edward Top
• Rose Latulipe (orchestra), Maurice Blackburn
• Projet “peuple” (orchestra), André Ristic
• Marble sparks (chamber orchestra), Edward Top
• Most beautiful bird of paradise (chamber orchestra), Edward Top
• Waarom elders? Why elsewhere? (chamber orchestra), Edward Top

Solo Instrument(s) and Orchestra

• 34 [concerto for electric guitar and ensemble], Edward Top
• Et une porte d’ombre se referme (violin, orchestra), Robert Lemay
• La fenêtre II (violin, chamber orchestra), Yannick Plamondon
• Concerto for violin and two orchestras, Edward Top
• Music for viola and orchestra, Matthew Davidson
• Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre, Gilles Bellemare
• Vols et vertiges du Gamache [concerto pour violoncello], Denys Bouliane
• Canto del piccolo (flute/piccolo, orchestra), Denis Gougeon
• Concertino (trombone, orchestra), Alan Belkin
• Transports dangereux (violin, string orchestra) /André Ristic
• Sonate Saint François (piano, string orchestra), Antoine Ouellette

 Keyboard

•  A la manière de Nino Rota (piano), Raynald Arseneault
• Qui suis-je? (piano), Louis Babin
• L’heure bleu (harpsichord, electronics), Andre Hamel
• Sonate (piano), Edward Top

Bowed Strings

• Coups d’archets – 12 easy pieces (violin), Robert Lemay
• Mosaic (viola), John Winiarz
• Verbe (string quartet), Gilles Bellemare
• Four dances for string quartet, Matthew Davidson
• Jeux de cordes (string quartet), Denis Gougeon
• Sonate (violin, piano), Michel R. Edward
• Sonatine (viola, piano), Michel R. Edward
• La Charmeuse (violin or cello, piano), Alexis Contant
• Sonate (cello, piano), Michel R. Edward
• Portrait parle (violin, cello, piano), Ana Sokolovic
• … en weende hij bitter (for violin, cello, piano), Edward Top
• Quintetto (piano quintet), Edward Top

Plucked Strings

• Memory riot (guitar, electronics), Tim Brady

Woodwinds

• La Chasse caribous (flute), Michelle Boudreau
• Brumes matinales et textures urbaines (saxophone quartet, electronics), Andre Hamel
• Intimate echoes (resonances intimes) (tenor saxophone, piano), Robert Lemay
• Ligne(s) médiane(s) (oboe, alto saxophone, clarinet, bassoon), Robert Lemay
• Schietgebedjes (Ejaculation prayers) (oboe d’amore, clarinet, basset horn, soprano saxophone, bassoon), Edward Top
• Temps de passage version B (solo saxophone, clarinet, flute, oboe, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone), Robert Lemay
• Submergé (oboe, piano), John Rea
• Duo (soprano saxophone, piano), Denis Gougeon

Percussion

• Hit (percussionist solo), Edward Top
• Double smooth disaster (2 vibraphones), Edward Top

Mixed Instrumental Ensembles

• Folioles 1 (2 flutes, string quartet), Raynald Arseneault
• Nonet no.2 (flute, clarinet, horn, trumpet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano), Alan Belkin
• Tekeni – Ahsen (violin, cello, piano, 2 percussion), Denys Bouliane
• Traces (tenor saxophone, percussion, electric guitar, sampler, piano), Tim Brady
• Les portes d’Ebbe (clarinet, string quartet), Sylvaine Martin De Guise
• Fougères II (12 guitars, double bass, native drum, maracas), Antoine Ouellette
• Jetty (flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, electronics), Yannick Plamondon
• Environnements improvisés (flute, clarinet, percussion, piano, violin, cello), André Ristic
• Motel 8 (flute, bass clarinet, harp, piano, violin, cello), André Ristic
• The stillpoint (violin, vibraphone), Edward Top

Vocal Works

Voice and Keyboard

•  Le jeu des citations (baritone, piano), Denis Gougeon
• Mélodies en éventail (mezzo soprano, piano), Francois-Hugues Leclair

Voice(s) and Instrumental Ensemble

• The waves (medium voice, flute, cello, piano), Allan Crossman
• Lied I (mezzo-soprano, cello, piano), Pierre Michaud
• Aliquid stat pro aliquo (coloratura soprano, soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor or baritone), Edward Top
• Hammer cantate (vocal quartet, mixed choir, string trio), Edward Top
• Lied der Schwermuth (String quartet no.2) (bass-baritone, string quartet), Edward Top
• Die drie gouden haren van de duivel (speaker, children’s choir, ensemble), Edward Top
• The overwhelming blankness of the ultimate meaninglessness of tragedy (2 ensembles, soprano, actor), Edward Top

 Choir

• Après tant d’années (SATB, piano), Louis Babin
• Stairs (SATB, piano), Louis Babin
• Dring, dring (SSTB), Ana Sokolovic

Staged Vocal Works and Opera

• L’ange casseur (soprano, chamber orchestra), Yannick Plamondon
• The midnight court, Ana Sokolovic
• Svadba (six female voices), Ana Sokolovic

February 14th @ 8:00pm
Cocoa Nymph
3739 W 10th Avenue
Vancouver, BC
Tickets: $12

Sidewalk Cellist Clara Shandler invites you a romantic evening of baroque and contemporary music, “Chocolate and Candlelit Cello Music”, at the Cocoa Nymph February 14th as a celebration of love for cello music. The program will feature the entire third suite by J.S. Bach as well as a number of contemporary works for cello, including two new works commissioned from Vancouver composer Elliot Vaughan, and a number of compositions by Clara Shandler herself!

For further information, please visit her website.

February 25, 2012 @ 7:30pm
Calvary Community Church
1205 Rogers Way
Kamloops, BC
Tickets: $24 genereal; $10 student/youth
Available via:

• Kamloops Live! Box Office
• Open noon to 6:00 pm, Monday – Saturday
• Phone
• (250) 374 – 5483
• 1 (866) 374 – 5483
• Visit the box office at 1025 Lorne Street, Kamloops, BC
• www.kamloopslive.com

Join Catherine Dochstader, Cvetozar Vutev, Martin Kratky, Naomi Cloutier and Peter Collins for a pleasant evening of chamber music

Programme

• William George‘s Canadiana Suite
• McMillan’s Fancy Nat
• Hoyer’s Three American Folk Songs
• Hummel’s Adagio, variations and Rondo on Shone Minka, Op.7

February 12, 2012 @ 2:00pm
Great Hall, Museum of Anthropology
UBC,
Vancouver, BC

Three emerging composers from the CMC & Canadian League of Composers Mentorship Program are working with Chor Leoni‘s men’s youth initiative MYVoice, and the BC Girl’s Choir to produce three original compositions inspired by their experience of the exhibition.

A documentary about the process will be screened at the UBC Museum of Anthropology before a public performance at the exhibition closing.

February 5, 2012: 9:00am – 6:00pm
6344 Memorial Road
Old Auditorium
UBC,
Vancouver, BC
Registration: at the door at 9:00 am Sunday, February 5
Admission: General $30; Students $20
Cash or cheques only, made payable to University of British Columbia

A full day day of concerts, workshops and masterclasses featuring guest artists Daniel Perantoni, tuba and Ralph Sauer, trombone.

More than 300 brass enthusiasts, young and old, came out to UBC for the inaugural BrassFest! on a rainy January Sunday in 2011 to fill the Old Auditorium for a day of concerts, workshops and masterclasses. BrassFest! returns with a forecast of sunshine and more of everything brass. Guest artists this year are Daniel Perantoni, a renowned tuba soloist and now Professor at Indiana University and Ralph Sauer, former principal trombonist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

These two heavyweights in the brass world will be featured soloists in concert and give workshops. UBC School of Music faculty members will also be leading workshops and involved in the concerts. Other performance groups are the Vancouver Brass Project, an ensemble with many of Vancouver’s top brass players, the UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Little Mountain Brass Band, a community ensemble, as well as chamber groups of UBC School of Music students. BrassFest! is presented by the UBC School of Music and coordinated by Dr. Robert Taylor, Director of Bands at UBC.

Created for Brass players of all ages and levels, BrassFest! invites participants to bring their instruments to play in workshops, get tips from top level musicians, and learn more about their instruments and brass repertoire.

Workshops:

• Play Along With the Pros
• Led by VSO musicians and UBC School of Music faculty members
• Trumpets: Larry Knopp and Alan Matheson
• French Horns: Benjamin Kinsman and Richard Mingus
• Trombones: Jeremy Berkman and Gregory Cox
• Euphoniums and Tubas: Peder Maclellan

Lecture:

• Hotter Than That: A Short History of the Jazz Trumpet with Alan Matheson

Masterclasses:

• Trombone Masterlcass with Ralph Sauer
• Euphonium and Tuba Masterclass with Daniel Perantoni

Mass Brass Reading Session:

• for all participants to play together

Brass Resource Centre:

• featuring equipment and sheet music displays by The Brass Cellar, Cherry Classics, Harrison Mouthpieces, Long & McQuade, Matterhorn Music, Northwest Musical Services, Tom Lee Music, and more!

Full schedule for BrassFest! and biographies of guest artists of Daniel Perantoni and Ralph Sauer are available on the BrassFest! website.