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Vancouver Pro Musica is pleased to announce a partnership with Composer Gathering

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Vancouver Pro Musica is pleased to announce a partnership with Composer Gathering.

We are happy to support this new initiative for metro Vancouver-area composers, performers and arts enthusiasts.

The Composer Gathering is a monthly get-together featuring composer presentations on new and existing works, lively discussions on a variety of musical topics, and workshops with guest performers and speakers.

We encourage you to visit the Composer Gathering website to learn more about this exciting new series.

Help Support Vancouver Pro Musica

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Dear composers and fans of Canadian new music,

As we head towards 2016 and another year of great music, we’d like to ask all of you to consider making a donation to Vancouver Pro Musica to help us continue to put on the best events possible. Vancouver Pro Musica is a non-profit organization of BC composers mandated to sponsor, promote and produce concerts showcasing new music created by BC composers and performed by BC musicians. Your help will provide us achieve goals like:

  • Sponsoring, promoting, and performing concerts of new original compositions by BC composers at some of Vancouver’s best venues; (more…)

Congratulations to Glenn Sutherland

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 “Glenn Sutherland Announced Winner of CMC Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition”

 We are pleased to share the news that Glenn Sutherland, is the winner of the 13th annual CMC Prairie Region Emerging Composer Competition, 2016. The jury was Alexander Mickelthwate, Music Director, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; Meredith Johnson, Principal Bass, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra; and Sid Robinovitch, Associate Composer, Canadian Music Centre who adjudicated submissions anonymously. Sutherland will have his orchestral work,To See Again with Spirit Eyes, performed at “Back to the Future: World Premieres from Canada” on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra. “

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Congratulations to Anthony Dunlop

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Congratulations to Vancouver-based graphic designer Anthony Dunlop for his winning Electroacoustic Festival 2015 poster design, and for becoming our new Graphic Artist-in-Residence this concert season! Check out his website to see examples of his past work: www.anthonydunlop.com. We’re looking forward to working with Anthony this year and seeing his designs for our upcoming concerts.

Further Series Success

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Thank you everyone for sharing a wonderful evening of new music with us at Pyatt Hall on Saturday night. A special thanks for Microcosmos performing beautifully the music of British Columbia composers. It is incredible to see new music come together and be shared by our community. This has been an outstanding addition to the Further Series, and we hope to go even further! Thank you again to everyone in attendance, and involved in making this a fantastic night of music.

-Brent Chauvin / Vice President of Vancouver Pro Musica

Congratulations to Ka Bo Yuen

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CONGRATULATIONS!! to Ka Bo Yuen who has been selected as Vancouver Pro Musica’s graphic-artist-in-residence for the 2014/15 season! She has already designed the graphics to the Electroacoustic Festival, and we look forward to seeing her designs for the upcoming Microcosmos String Quartet (as part of the Further concert series); the Sonic Boom Festival; and the Ethos ensemble concert (as part of the Further concert series).

BIO: Ka Bo Yuen is a Vancouver artist passionate about graphic design, drawing and photography. She graduated from The University of British Columbia in 2013 with a Double Major in Visual Arts and Art History (BA). www.kaboyuen.wix.com/portfolio

Highway 1: A Success Story

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We have wrapped up our first ever concert event outside of the Lower Mainland, the aptly named Highway 1 concert, and are very pleased to say that it was a successful venture! (more…)

Welcome To Our New Website!

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We are proud to announce the launch of our newly redesigned website.  On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, welcome!  Here are some new features to check out:

  • Updated navigation and search functions, making it easy to find the information you want.
  • Optimized for viewing on multiple devices – PC, iPhone, tablet, or Android you have the same experience.
  • Upcoming Events page with search filters for event type.
  • Call For Scores page for quick and easy access to information on all our active calls for scores.
  • Online submissions for all future calls for scores.

We hope you enjoy our new website.  Please, take a moment and look around.