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Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
PRAIRIE SOUNDS
Spring 2008
The Canadian Music Centre, Prairie Region cordially invites you
to our Third Annual Gala Event Saturday, May 31st 2008
Join us as the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra presents
Evelyn Glennie and the Titan
CMC
Adaskin at age 84. Photograph courtesy of Marten Bot
The CMC Prairie Region has
its own radio program called
the Canadian Music Centre
Presents. It airs every Tuesday
from 9-10 am on CJSW 90.9
FM Calgary and can be heard
in real-time on the internet
at www.cjsw.com. The show
has been on the air for over
eighteen years and features
mostly new recordings of
Canadian music on CD.
All of the music comes
from the library of the CMC.
Pledges of financial support
are necessary to keep the
radio program. Please
support the show by tuning
in and making a pledge. Call
(403) 220-7403.
Repertoire:
Canadian composer, Christos Hatzis: “Tongues of Fire”
with Evelyn Glennie, percussion
e
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D Major “Titan”
e
Roberto Minczuk will conduct the combined
CPO and Calgary Youth Orchestra
Concert in the Jack Singer Concert Hall to begin at 8:00 p.m.
Please join us at 6:00 p.m. for a pre-concert reception in the EPCOR Centre’s Founders Room
for wine, tapas and a Silent Auction. There will also be a reception at intermission.
RSVP: (403) 220-7403, or e-mail [email protected]
Tickets: $100 p.p., concert and receptions included, also a $25 tax receipt.
If you already have tickets for the concert, the ticket for the event will be $50.00.
PRAIRIE SOUNDS Spring 2008• Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Editor’s Notes
Issue #63 Spring 2008
ISSN 0822-7500
Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Prairie Sounds is the newsletter of the Canadian
Music Centre, Prairie Region and is distributed to
supporters of Canadian music in the Prairies.The
Canadian Music Centre is a nonprofit charitable
organisation that exists to encourage and promote
the awareness, appreciation, performance and
study of contemporary Canadian music, in particular that of its Associate Composers. Names of the
Associate Composers of the CMC appear in bold.
The opinions expressed herein are not necessarily
the opinions of the Canadian Music Centre.
Editor: John C. Reid
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PRAIRIE NEWS
Shelley Marwood and Andrew
Staniland Win 2008 Emerging
Composers Competition
This year’s Emerging Composers Competition
was set for an exciting conclusion as the contest
was tied heading into the February 3 concert
with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra at
this year’s Winnipeg New Music Festival with
the assembled panel of Paul Steenhuisen and
Trevor Grahl, composers; Tamara Bernstein,
music critic; Bartley Kives,journalist; and WSO’s
composer-in-residence Vincent Ho holding
five votes, and the evening’s audience ballots
holding two for a total of seven.
CMC Prairie Region Welcomes
Two New Associate Composers
The Canadian Music Centre
welcomes Jason Cullimore and
Aaron Gervais as new Associate
Composers of the CMC.
previously won a Grand Prize
for Jazz and a Top-Four Finalist
placing for Electronic Music in
the John Lennon Songwriting
Contest.
Perhaps the best-possible outcome was achieved
with a tie vote following all of the tabulations
and so Andrew Staniland and Shelley
Marwood were presented as co-winners of the
fifth annual ECC — wow!
Also exciting has been the recent Calgary 2008
JUNO Awards and the CMC’s participation
in the Bid Committee and the Host Committee and the first-ever JUNO classical music
showcase “Meet the 2008 JUNO Awards Classical Nominees” April 5 at the Grand Theatre at
the JUNOs. I want to personally thank Stephen McHolm of Honens and Joe Fingerote of CBC
Radio for making this event happen.
John C. Reid
CMC Prairie Regional Council
2007-2008
Glen Carruthers, Brandon
Neil Currie, Saskatoon
Quenten Doolittle, Calgary
Allan Gilliland, Edmonton
James Hiscott, Winnipeg
Mary Ingraham, Edmonton
David McIntyre, Regina
Naomi Lacey, Calgary
Richard Mercer, Calgary
Isabelle Mills, Saskatoon
John Partridge, Calgary
Serge Rand, Calgary
Roberta Stephen, Calgary
CMC Prairie Region Voting Members
2007-2008
Jorie Adams, Banff
George Andrix, Edmonton
Martin Arkell, Calgary
Colleen Athparia, Calgary
Allan Bell, Calgary
Allan Bevan, Calgary
Victor Botari, Edmonton
T. Patrick Carrabré, Brandon
Glen Carruthers, Brandon
Cheryl Cooney, Red Deer
Neil Currie, Saskatoon
David Dahlgren, Moosomin, SK
Quenten Doolittle, Calgary
Paul Dornian, Calgary
Tim Eckert, Edmonton
John Estacio, Edmonton
Charles Foreman, Calgary
Marnie Giesbrecht, Edmonton
Lynden Gill, Calgary
Allan Gilliland, Edmonton
Carmen Gorgichuk, Grande Prairie
Elsie Hepburn, Edmonton
James Hiscott, Winnipeg
Michael Horwood, Cowley, AB
Patricia Hrynkiw, Calgary
Mary Ingraham, Edmonton
Patrice Jegou, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Keith Davies Jones, Winnipeg
Mel Kirby, Calgary
Jacobus Kloppers, Edmonton
Naomi Lacey, Calgary
John Lowry, Calgary
James Mason, Banff
Michael Matthews, Winnipeg
Bob McPhee, Calgary
Diana McIntosh, Winnipeg
David McIntyre, Regina
Richard Mercer, Calgary
Isabelle Mills, Saskatoon
Pauline Minevich, Regina
Tom Mirhady, Calgary
Marilyn Nasserden, Calgary
Laurelie Nattress, Edmonton
Kenneth Nichols, Brandon
Winston Noren, Calgary
Gladys Odegard, Edmonton
Deanna Oye, Lethbridge
Jack Partridge, Regina
John Partridge, Calgary
John Pauls, Calgary
Alain Perron, Regina
James Picken, Calgary
Audrey Poirier, Calgary
Tanya Prochazka, Edmonton
William Pura, Stonewall, MB
Serge Rand, Calgary
Leonard Ratzlaff, Edmonton
Allen Reiser, Calgary
Ursula Rempel, Winnipeg
Don Ross, Edmonton
Lore Ruschiensky, Regina
Friedemann Sallis, Calgary
Bill Sands, Calgary
Jane Sather, Regina
Peter Savage, Calgary
William Sgrazzutti, Regina
Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, Edmonton
Apollonia Steele, Calgary
Roberta Stephen, Calgary
Jamie Syer, Sundre, AB
Phyllis Thomson, Winnipeg
Wayne Toews, Saskatoon
Angelo Toselli, Calgary
Russ Whitehead, Edmonton
James Whittle, Edmonton
PRAIRIE SOUNDS Spring 2008• Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Jason Cullimore
From left: William Orr, Shelley Marwood, John Reid, Lorna Orr, Andrew Staniland.
The Canadian Music Centre (CMC) Prairie Region is proud
to announce that Shelley Marwood and Andrew Staniland are
this year’s recipients of the Emerging Composer Award for their
compositions entitled Illumination (by Shelley Marwood) and
Protestmusik (by Andrew Staniland). Both works, written for
orchestra, were performed at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s
New Music Festival in February 2008.
The two $500 prizes were presented on February 4th, 2008 at a
concert entitled And You Call THIS Music!? as part of the Winnipeg
Symphony Orchestra’s Centara Corporation International New
Music Festival. This concert took place at the Manitoba Centennial
Concert Hall in Winnipeg.
Shelley Marwood is in her final year of a Master’s Degree in
composition at the University of Calgary. She has had works
performed or read by the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Calgary
Philharmonic Orchestra, University of Calgary Orchestra, Lands
End Chamber Ensemble, University of Calgary String Quartet
and Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. Marwood is currently
working on an upcoming commission for the Windsor Symphony
Orchestra. Her composition teachers have included Jens Hanson,
Brent Lee, Allan Bell and David Eagle.
Andrew Staniland is a composer and new media performer
whose music is performed and broadcast internationally. Recent
commissions include works for the virtuoso group Toca Loca and the
Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Andrew’s music has been described
as “beautiful and terrifying” (The New Yorker) and as a composer
who “will emerge as one of the most individual voices in this
country” (National Arts Centre press release). He holds a doctorate
in composition from the University of Toronto, and has received
numerous accolades, including top prizes in the SOCAN Young
Composers Competition. He is Affiliate Composer with the Toronto
Symphony Orchestra.
Jason Cullimore was born in
Regina, Saskatchewan in 1972.
He studied composition and
music theory throughout his
childhood as well as during his
degrees in Science and Music
Psychology. After his graduation
in 1999, he returned to Regina to
devote his time to composition.
Cullimore has developed
an extensive and varied library
of original work. His concert
works have been performed by
the full Victoria Symphony,
by the twelve-member Regina
Symphony Chamber Players
and by mixed groups combining
orchestral instruments with jazz
and electronic instrumentation.
A noted soundtrack composer, he
has been nominated for a Gemini
and having won a Saskatchewan
Motion Picture Industry
Association Award for his Thomas
Tallis – influenced soundtrack to
the film “Slatland”.
Cullimore has been recognized
in song-writing competitions:
his orchestral pieces have won
prestigious finalist placings
in both the Unisong and the
UK International Songwriting
Competitions. His work in other
styles has also done well; he has
Aaron Gervais
Aaron Gervais was born in
Edmonton, Canada in 1980.
He received a Bachelor of Music
with honours from the University
of Toronto (2002-2005), and a
Master’s Degree at the University
of California at San Diego. His
teachers have included Chan
Ka Nin, Chinary Ung, Philippe
Manoury, and Martijn Padding,
among others. In addition, he
has participated in masterclasses
with composers such as Gilles
Tremblay, Mario Davidovsky,
Denys Bouliane, François Paris,
and Helmut Lachenmann.
He has had performances and
commissions from ensembles in
several countries, including the
Nieuw Ensemble, the Ensemble
contemporain de Montreal, the
Nouvel ensemble moderne, the
University of Alberta’s Academy
Strings, Tapestry New Opera
Works, the Esprit Orchestra, and
the Arditti Quartet. His music
has been performed in Canada,
the USA, Cuba, Germany,
and the Netherlands. Radio
broadcasts include CBC Radio 2,
Radio-Canada’s Espace musique,
and Toronto’s CIUT.
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PRAIRIE NEWS
World Café Symposium at the
2007 WCMAs in Moose Jaw,
Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra’s Saskatchewan
New Music Festival
The Canadian Music Centre, Prairie
During this year’s New Music Festival in
Winnipeg, the Canadian Music Centre
Prairie Region’s special project New Music
in New Places hosted a World Café Style
symposium. Hosted by Prairie Regional
Director, John Reid, Associate Composers
Jim Hiscott and Sara Scott Turner
opened the discussions.
Organized as a World Café, participants
were broken into rotating groups of four,
Sara Scott Turner
which resulted in a discussion as to how
we can continue to nurture the growth of new Canadian music!
Highlights from the discussions included: how to capitalize on the
individual attributes of unconventional spaces, challenging the
comfort levels of musicians and performers, exploring new ways of
disseminating new Canadian Music such as through iTunes, and
emphasizing the importance of educating and involving children and
youth in the production and performance of new music.
Thank you to everyone who came and participated in the
discussions! Symposium participants included William and Talia
Pura, T. Patrick Carrabré, Jim Hiscott, Sara Turner, John Reid,
Randolph Peters, Sid Robinovitch, Shelley Marwood, William and
Lorna Orr, Alain Fisette, Ken Stone, Josh Peters, Tommy Kucera,
Beth Lowes, Muriel Smith, and Ron Paley.
New Music in New Places is supported by the SOCAN
Foundation and the Government of Canada through the Canada
Music Fund.
Centrediscs Receives
Three JUNO Nominations
Three Associate Composers of the Canadian Music Centre
have received JUNO nominations in the category of “Classical
Composition of the Year”. Brian Current’s work This Isn’t Silence
on the recording of the same title, performed by the Winnipeg
Symphony Orchestra, Andrey Boreyko, conductor as well as A
Child’s Cry from Izieu by Oskar Morawetz from the recording
of the same title, performed by violinist Jasper Wood and
pianist David Riley. The third nominee was Jeffrey Ryan for his
work Quantum Mechanics from the recording of the same title,
performed by Scott St. John and Annalee Patipatanakoon, violins;
David Harding, viola; and Roman Borys, cello. The Canadian
Music Centre would also like to congratulate Associate Composers
R. Murray Schafer and Christos Hatzis who also received
nominations in this category.
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Region and CBC Radio Regina presented
the first ever classical music showcase at
the Western Canadian Music Awards on
October 20, 2007. This showcase featured
Vancouver guitarist Michael Strutt
who was nominated for Outstanding
Classical Recording as well as bassoonist
Jesse Read – who was unable to attend,
George Andrix
Edmonton pianist Sylvia ShadickTaylor, and Saskatoon’s trumpet and piano duo Dean McNeill and
Bonnie Nicholson. This concert was co-presented by CBC Radio
Saskatchewan and the Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New
Places special project (funded by SOCAN Foundation and the
Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund). Featured
in this concert were works by Allan Bell, Ron Hannah, Elizabeth
Raum, George Andrix, Piotr Grella-Mozejko, Allan Gilliland
and David McIntyre. The winner of the Outstanding Classical
Composition category was Owen Underhill for his work Canzone
di Petra. The nominees for this category included Allan Gordon
Bell, Barbara Pentland, Stephen Chatman, and Vincent Ho. The
winner of the Outstanding Classical Recording category was James
Ehnes for his recording Barber/Korngold/Walton.
New Music in New Places: Prairie Region Events 2007/08
CMC’s series of national performances called New Music in New Places is designed to bring Canadian
contemporary music out of concert halls and into the lives of Canadians. Here are some photo samplings.
It’s in the Books, Tribute to Murray Adaskin
Richard Belford, Annette Floyd, Lynn Ewing, Naomi
Friesen. Inset, Monte Keene Pishny-Floyd
Western Canadian Music Awards Micheal Strutt
First Ever Classical Showcase
Concert During JUNOFest
For the first time the JUNO classical music nominees were featured
in a star-studded JUNOFest concert on April 5, 2008. This concert
featured GRAMMY Award winning violinist James Ehnes; cellist
Matt Haimovitz in a performance of After Shakespeare with special
guest, Roots nominee David Francey; composer Brian Current
conducting Calgary’s Kensington Sinfonia in a performance
of his own work, For the Time Being; and a pre-recorded video
performance by the Gryphon Trio. All the featured artists were 2008
JUNO Awards Nominees. Meet the 2008 JUNO Award Classical
Nominees was co-presented by CBC Radio 2 in association with
JUNOFest, the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region (New Music
in New Places is supported by The SOCAN Foundation and the
Government of Canada through the Canada Music Fund), and the
Host Committee for the 2008 JUNO Awards.
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Choral Music By Robert Turner
Canzona Choral Group, Directed by Henry Engbrecht.
Ensemble Resonance
Gemira McClary, Brinna Brinkerhoff, Jeffrey Neufeld, Stan Climie.
The Calgary
Saxophone
Quartet at the
Art Gallery of
Calgary
Bryan Vance,
Holly DeCaigny,
Ami Longhi, Mark
Michalak, Jeremy
Brown.
“They Sang, They Danced”
Biggar Instrumental Ensemble, Dr. David Kaplan
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COMPOSER NEWS
Piotr Grella-Mozejko
Piotr Grella-Mozejko’s decadelong collaboration with the
outstanding Swiss saxophonist
and champion of Piotr’s
music, Laurent Estoppey, was
celebrated on February 3rd
2008 in Vevey, Switzerland, by
a retrospective of Piotr’s work.
The concert, presented by the
extraordinary local collective,
Compagnie CH.AU, featured
several chamber and solo pieces,
including the world première
of aagyn for tenor saxophone
(1983). This was a part of the
group’s portrait concerts whose
previous editions were devoted,
respectively, to John Cage, Heinz
large chamber ensemble (1111
1110 1P str (11111)), based on
stories about wolves heard as a
child, will be premiered by an
ensemble of Winnipeg musicians
conducted by Alain Trudel at
Westminster United Church,
Winnipeg, on May 20th. This
piece was also written with a
grant from the Manitoba Arts
Council. Night on an Old Trade
Route (SATB) was commissioned
by the Flin Flon Community
Choir. It will be premiered
paper outlining Adaskins’s
contributions to Canadian
music, particularly his innovative
Composer Exhibition concerts
of 1967. At the Dec. 1 New
Music in New Places concert
honoring Adaskin, several
of Kaplan’s compositions for
klezmer band were performed.
His Aria for Piccolo Trumpet was
performed by Professor Dean
McNeill.
Supported by the City of
Saskatoon, the Saskatoon
Jewish Cultural Association
presented a Festival of Klezmer
Music on November 25th. The
Campus on January 13th. On
January 20th he was the guest
composer/conductor in Biggar,
Saskatchewan at their New
Music in New Places event. For
the event Kaplan wrote They
Sang, They Dance, a composition
based on Canadian folk-songs
for an instrumental ensemble.
Michael Matthews
Michael Matthews
Jim Hiscott
Piotr Grella-Mozejko
Holliger, Tom Johnson, Olivier
Messiaen and Steve Reich. Then
on March 15th, the worldrenown New York Hip Hop
artist, DJ Spooky applied
his celebrated remix and
interpretative skill to Piotr
Grella-Mozejko’s 3rd String
Quartet, TrancePaining (Black
Wings Has My Angel).
Jim Hiscott
Hiscott’s work Shadow Play for
flute and tabla was premiered
by Laurel Ridd and Shawn
Mativetsky on February 25th
at Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall,
the University of Winnipeg.
This piece was commissioned
by Shawn Mativetsky with a
grant from the Manitoba Arts
Council. A new composition for
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by that choir, with conductor
Crystal Kolt on May 24th, in
the Grand Tipi in Cranberry
Portage as part of the Cranberry
Portage Arts Festival.
Other performances include
Red Dawn a piece for flute,
clarinet, and percussion written
in 1977 which will be performed
by Erin Lesser, Trevor Jorgenson,
and Gregory Beyer in Oswego,
New York State at the SUNYOswego Ke-nekt’ Performing
Arts Series on March 5th, 2008.
David Kaplan
The University of Saskatchewan
Wind Orchestra performed
Kaplan’s Centennial March on
November 23, 2007 and the U.
of S. Concert Band played his
Coben Cres March at a special
concert honoring Murray
Adaskin on November 30th.
At the Adaskin Memorial
Conference (Nov 30-Dec1,
2007) Kaplan presented a
David Kaplan
event featured Monte Keene
Pishny-Floyd’s Kaddish and
two premieres by Kaplan:
Suite for Double Bass and Piano
(Spring Festival), and Suite for
Brass Quartet (performed by
the Meewasin Brass Quartet).
Kaplan’s An Evening in Lublin
for Saxophone Quartet
was played by the U. of S.
Saxophone Quartet. A group of
fifty students from Saskatoon
high schools opened the
program followed by the Walter
Murray Klezmer Band. Dancers,
singers (including Saskatoon’s
new Hazzan, Neil Schwartz)
and the Saskatoon Klezmer
Band (playing several of Kaplan’s
compositions) also participated.
Kaplan presented a lecture,
The Role of Music in African/
American Culture at the
Diefenbaker Centre, U. of S.
Michael Matthews has been
working hard to expand the
scope of his performances
outside of Canada. These efforts
have borne particular fruit
in Mexico, as revealed by the
following performances. This
year will include performances
of a new work commissioned
by the Ensemble Sortisatio in
Leipzig (world premiere), De
Reflejo a Fulgor with Duane
Cochran, commissioned by
Cochran and the Centro
Mexicano para la Música y
las Artes Sonoras, in Mexico
City (world premiere), Vertical
Garden with Alejandro Escuer
in Morelia, Peso ancestral
commissioned by the University
Singers for their South American
Tour. Performances will also
include Partita: Images/Fragments
with Rolf Schulte and James
Winn in Winnipeg, Symphony
No.3 with Saskatoon Symphony
Orchestra in Saskatoon (world
premiere), Preludes with Roger
Admiral and Plexos Ensemble in
Edmonton, Night Music with
Oleg Pokhanovski and Edmund
PRAIRIE SOUNDS Spring 2008• Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region
Dawe in Winnipeg, Song
Fragments with Peter Vinograde
in New York, and Sonata for Two
Pianos with Naomi Niskala and
Oksana Ezhokina in the USA
(world premiere).
In 2007 performances
included Vertical Garden with
Alejandro Escuer and Visiones
Sonoras in Mexico City, El
Viento Helado with Mexico
City Woodwind Quintet
celebrating the 35th Festival
Internacional Cervantino in
Guanajuato (world premiere), of
the rolling worlds with Fernando
Dominguez in Mexico City
(Mexican premiere), Away, Tear
Away with Foro Internacional
de Música Neuva “Manuel
Enriquez” in Mexico City (world
premiere of revised version), and
Vertical Garden with Alejandro
Escuer at the 2007 New Music
Miami ISCM Festival.
Matthews’ work The Language
of Water was selected by the
Canadian Jury to represent
Canada at the 2008 ISCM
Festival in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Diana McIntosh
Last fall McIntosh was
commissioned by the CBC for
a work for percussion, piano,
tape and spoken text. The work,
entitled, Prodigies of the Nose,
will be premiered by Beverley
Johnston, percussion/spoken
text and the composer, piano/
spoken text, at the Heliconian
Hall in Toronto on Thursday,
May 15th. The program, Wonder
Worlds of McIntosh will feature
five of McIntosh’s recent works,
four of which will be premieres.
Imaginings, for spoken text and
viola, and Moments Ago, for
violin and piano feature Parmela
Attariwala, violin/viola and the
composer. McIntosh will also
premiere two of her solo works,
Opening Windows for spoken
text and piano, with text by
Gertrude Stein, and Aunt Kate,
for spoken text, piano and tape,
about McIntosh’s aunt who lived
in Banff and was influential
in her life. A recent solo piano
work of Diana’s, From a Dark
Journey will be performed by
American pianist James Winn
on Sept. 23, 2007 during the
regular Sunday morning service,
with the Anglican archbishop
Fred Hiltz in attendance.
His work Meditations on
an Antiphon for St. Cecelia was
performed by Verna Weibe,
piano and Lottie Enns-Braun,
organ, as part of a concert
at Young United Church,
Winnipeg on Nov.4, 2007.
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His music has been presented
in festivals such as Amsterdam’s
Gaudeamus Music Week and
Toronto’s New Wave Festival, and
was selected as a representative
for Canada in the 2008 World
Music Days in Lithuania. One of
his solo pieces, Flüsse-Einflüsse,
was chosen as a required
exam piece for the graduating
accordion students at the
Staatliche Hochschule für Musik
Trossingen in 2006.
Congratulations to Associate Composers
Allan Bell and Robert Turner
Diana McIntosh
on a GroundSwell concert at
the University of Winnipeg on
April 17th. Diana will give a solo
concert of her music featuring
her theatrical work, Solitary
Climb for CV Arts in Invermere,
B.C. on Friday, June 6, 2008.
Diana is presently working
on a commissioned work for
percussionist Ben Reimer for
solo percussion which will be
premiered next fall.
Kenneth Nichols
Allan Bell Elected to the Royal Society of Canada
Allan Bell, an associate composer of the
Canadian Music Centre, was elected to
the Royal Society of Canada in 2007. He
was selected on the basis of his exceptional
contributions to the intellectual life of
Canada and in recognition of his work
as a composer. Bell is a fellow of the
arts division of the society’s Academy of
the Arts and Humanities and is the first
Faculty of Fine Arts scholar to receive
this honour. Bell is recognized nationally
Allan Bell
and internationally as an educator and
composer. His compositions have been performed across Canada,
the United States and Europe. His music can be heard on the BBC,
CBC, Radio France and NPR and has been profiled in North
American television documentaries.
Robert Turner Named Manitoba’s Artist of Distinction
Kenneth Nichols
Nichols wrote a new anthem for
SATB, organ, and piano for the
125th anniversary of
St. Matthew’s Cathedral in
Brandon, Manitoba. It was
performed at the cathedral
Associate composer Robert Turner has been named Manitoba’s
‘artist of distinction’. This annual prize given by the Manitoba Arts
Council of $30,000 was presented to him officially at a reception on
March 13th. Turner has
written more than seventy
compositions and his work
includes three symphonies,
four concertos, three
string quartets and two
operas. His music has been
featured on numerous CDs
and has been broadcast
on CBC Radio. In 2003
he was presented with the
T. Patrick Carrabré, Diana McIntosh, William
Pura, Robert Turner
Order of Canada.
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Donors of the Canadian Music Centre Prairie Region Association
Endowment Builders
The following individuals have made
Endowment commitments which,
when fully realized, will add over
$100,000 to the CMC Prairie Region
Fund of the
Calgary Foundation:
Anonymous
Violet Archer
Calgary Universal
Foundation for the Organ
David Dahlgren
Quenten & Joyce Doolittle
Michael Horwood
Richard Mercer
David McIntyre
Isabelle Mills
James Picken
John Reid
Sylvia Shaddick-Taylor
Brian Unverricht
Composers’ Circle ($5,000 +)
Anonymous
Benefactors ($1000 - $4999)
Anonymous
John Lacey, Calgary, AB
Naomi Lacey, Calgary, AB
William Lacey, Calgary, AB
Isabelle Mills, Saskatoon, SK
Clarice Siebens, Calgary, AB
Shirley Wolfe, Calgary, AB
Patrons ($500 - $999)
Richard Mercer, Calgary, AB
Ester Ondrack, Spruce Grove, AB
Roberta Stephen, Calgary, AB
Sustainers ($250 - $499)
Carol Brisbin, Calgary, AB
Thomas Kucera, Winnipeg, MB
Michael Matthews and Therese Costes, Winnipeg, MB
Tom & Isobel Rolston, Banff, AB
R. Murray Schafer, Indian River, ON
Contributors ($100 - $249)
Marjorie Adams, Banff, AB
George Andrix, Edmonton, AB
Martin Arkell, Calgary, AB
Adin Bauman, Brandon, MB
John Beckwith, Toronto, ON
Hallgrimur Benediktsson, Calgary, AB
Daryl Caswell, Calgary, AB
Eugene Cramer, Calgary, AB
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Tom Mirhady, Calgary, AB
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Marilyn Nasserden, Calgary, AB
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Ken Nichols, Brandon, MB
Winston Noren, Calgary, AB
John Partridge, Calgary, AB
John Pauls, Richmond, B.C.
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Barbara Poole, Edmonton, AB
Tanya Prochazka, Edmonton, AB
William Pura, Stonewall, MB
Serge Rand, Calgary, AB
Leonard Ratzlaff, Edmonton, AB
Elizabeth Raum, Regina, SK
Craig & Verna Reid, Calgary, AB
George and Marilyn Reti, Calgary, AB
Rozsa Foundation, Calgary, AB
Bill Sands, Calgary, AB
Jane Sather, Regina, SK
Peter Savage, Calgary, AB
Marnie & Joachim Segger, Edmonton, AB
Sylvia Shadick-Taylor, Edmonton, AB
Apollonia Steele, Calgary, AB
Phyllis Thompson, Winnipeg, MB
Wayne Toews, Saskatoon, SK
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Ray Twomey, Calgary, AB
James Whittle, Hinton, AB
Stan Witkin, Toronto, ON
Diane Zinyk, Edmonton, AB
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Roberta Allen, Edmonton, AB
Audrey Andrist, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Katherine Ardo, Calgary, AB
Colleen Athparia, Calgary, AB
Helen Barclay, Kindersley, SK
Raymond Baril, Edmonton, AB
Allan G. Bell, Calgary, AB
Heather Blakley, Saskatoon, SK
Allan Bevan, Calgary, AB
Norbert Boehm, Lethbridge, AB
Debra Cairns, Edmonton, AB
Patrick Carrabré, Brandon, MB
Glen Carruthers, Brandon, MB
Brenda Coke, Calgary, AB
Cheryl Cooney, Red Deer, AB
Alison Crabb, Airdrie, AB
Aileen Craig, Calgary, AB
Deborah Crookes, Edmonton, AB
Neil Currie, Edmonton, AB
David Dahlgren, Moosomin, SK
Jan Dammann, Edmonton, AB
Carol Donhause, Regina, SK
Quenten Doolittle, Calgary, AB
East Kootenay Teachers Assn., Kimberley, B.C.
Tim Eckert, Edmonton, AB
E-Gre National Music Competition, Brandon, MB
John Estacio, Edmonton, AB
George Fenwick, Calgary, AB
Dianne Ferguson, Ottawa, ON
Paul Fu, Calgary, AB
Anton Gartshore, Sarina, ON
David Gill, Carbonear, NL
Allan Gilliland, Edmonton, AB
Carmen Gorgichuk, Grande Prairie, AB
Alison Grobb, London, ON
Michelle Hawkins, Camrose, AB
Elsie Hepburn, Edmonton, AB
Elaine Higgin Case, Calgary, AB
James Hiscott, Winnipeg, MB
Janos Horvath, Calgary, AB
Patricia Hrynkiw, Calgary, AB
Ethel Huber, Calgary, AB
Jack Hurt, Edmonton, AB
Mary Ingraham, Edmonton, AB
Jacobus Kloppers, Edmonton, AB
Lorraine Kneier, Calgary, AB
Linda Kundert-Stoll, Calgary, AB
Bernard Leveille, Saint-Boniface, MB
James Mason, Banff, AB
Joy McFarlane-Burton, Biggar, SK
Diana McIntosh, Winnipeg, MB
David McIntyre, Regina, SK
Bob McPhee, Calgary, AB
Joan Munro, Edmonton, AB
Jeanne Niebergall, Lanigan, SK
Gladys Odegard, Edmonton, AB
Jennifer O’Neill, St. John’s, NL
Robert Ouellette, Quebec, QC
Jack Partridge, Regina, SK
Alain Perron, Regina, SK
James Picken, Calgary, AB
Margaret Ramsay, Calgary, AB
David Ramsey, Calgary, AB
Allen Reiser, Calgary, AB
Rideau Music, Calgary, AB
Judith Ritchie, Winnipeg, MB
Jean Robin, Lethbridge, AB
Zoltan Roman, Victoria, B.C.
Don Ross, Edmonton, AB
Lore Ruschiensky, Regina, SK
Friedemann Sallis, Calgary, AB
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William Sgrazzutti, Regina, SK
Les Smith & Carmen Tellier, Calgary, AB
John Standing, Winnipeg, MB
Jamie Syer, Sundre, AB
Hiromi Takahashi, Edmonton, AB
Sarah Templeton, London, ON
Maryan Threndyle, St. Albert, AB
Gloria Thurn, Calgary, AB
Ann Trump, Calgary, AB
Peter Van Ginkel, Winnipeg, MB
Verna Veikle, Cut Knife, SK
Nancy Vincent, Three Hills, AB
Viola Wallbank, Edmonton, AB
Michael Whalley, Calgary, AB
Michele Wheatley-Brown, High River, AB
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Kelly Wrzosek, Sexsmith, AB
Po Yeh, Calgary, AB
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