The Canadian Music Centre in British Columbia (CMC BC) proudly reveals its renovated home, the Vancouver Creative Hub (837 Davie Street) with 40-seat black box theatre, the Murray Adaskin Salon, an urban cultural hotspot for Canadian music & the local arts community. The newly upgraded CMC branch will open October 14, 2016 with the first performance of CMC BC’s inaugural Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series – four recitals dedicated to iconic Canadian composers.
The Murray Adaskin Salon is named for one of BC’s most beloved composers. With new lobby and box office in association with Tourism Vancouver's Tickets Tonight, the venue is rentable by local arts groups at affordable rates serving as a much-needed accessible space for creative exploration. A refurbished Heintzman Salon Grand piano, once played by Benjamin Britten, is the stunning centerpiece of the new theatre. Owned by Adaskin during the time he penned the majority of his great works, the keyboard was purchased by CMC BC from his estate in 2002. A revered educator, Adaskin taught many of today’s generation of BC composers who studied with him at the same Heintzman piano.
CMC BC’s Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series comprises of four recitals, each in tribute to an esteemed CMC Associate Composer who left a lasting mark on Canada’s music landscape: Murray Adaskin, Barbara Pentland, Jean Coulthard, and Elliot Weisgarber. Each performance was curated by individual Artistic Advisors appointed by CMC BC as champions of Canadian music with a special connection to the composer they will commemorate. Every recital will begin with the premiere of a CMC commissioned documentary on the highlighted composer produced by local, award-winning filmmaker John Bolton.
The 2016/17 Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series includes:
Murray Adaskin Celebration, October 14, 2016 at 7pm
Artistic Advisor: Rodney Sharman, Composer
Barbara Pentland Celebration, November 18, 2016 at 7pm
Artistic Advisor: Barbara Pritchard, Pianist
Jean Coulthard Celebration, February 10, 2017 at 7pm
Artistic Advisor: David Gordon Duke, Composer
Elliot Weisgarber Celebration, April 7, 2017 at 7pm
Artistic Advisor: Karen Smithson, Flutist and Daughter to Weisgarber
For complete details of the Murray Adaskin Salon Concert Series lineup, visit: musiccentrebc.ca
Season Subscriptions ($99) are now available at: musiccentrebc.ca/concerts/