Vancouver’s award winning chamber orchestra, Turning Point Ensemble, is offering an opportunity for up to four young composers to develop new work with the 16 member ensemble and its conductor/Artistic Continue Reading →
When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. Continue Reading →
Apply now to be in the 2015 National Youth Band of Canada. Performances in May 2015. Online Application http://www.canadianband.org/#!national-youth-band/cpda National Youth Band of Canada Audition Deadline The National Youth Band Continue Reading →
Our Friends at the Royal Conservatory of Music have published a new brochure outlining the benefits of Music Education. You can find a pdf version on their website here.
Updated April 17It seems that every few years in this province of BC we encounter a movement that wishes to cut the “frills” from education in order to balance the Continue Reading →
A piano teacher looks at what it takes to succeed in music, why parents should care, and what they can do to help their kids. (This article applies to much Continue Reading →
December 7, 1-3pm, a free workshop by legendary jazz drummer Louis Hayes at Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club (3611 W. Broadway). * All workshops are free of charge and open to the public. Students wishing to perform Continue Reading →
New research into how and when the muse strikes finds that even fairly mundane activities can feed in to new insights For a musician, it’s an elusive question: where to Continue Reading →
CONDOLEEZZA RICE trained to be a concert pianist. Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, was a professional clarinet and saxophone player. The hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner is Continue Reading →
The Fraser MacPherson Music Scholarship Fund was initiated to foster the music education of BC’s most promising young jazz instrumentalists. Scholarships are available up to the amount of $2000.00 each Continue Reading →