A celebration of all that is the contemporary guitar featuring Montréal guitarist/composer Tim Brady and his exciting work 20 Quarter Inch Jacks for twenty electric guitarists. Also featured is Calgary’s Oberon Guitar Trio with the world premiere of a new work by John Abram and Steve Reich’s classic Electric Counterpoint.

Join us for a special pre-concert reception at 7 pm celebrating the launch of "Secret of the Seven Stars", a new CD release on Centrediscs featuring the music of composers David Eagle and Hope Lee.

ECM+

Saturday November 3, 2012

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
8 pm, pre-concert talk at 7:20 pm

A national celebration of young Canadian composers with Véronique Lacroix and the Ensemble Contemporain de Montréal. The 7th edition of the Generation biennial composition contest introduces new works by emerging composers Annesley Black (Ontario), Gabriel Dharmoo (Québec), Marielle Groven (Nova Scotia) and Riho Esko Maimets (Ontario), in an evening of discovery animated by composer Nicholas Gilbert.

Svadba (The Wedding)

Tuesday January 8, 2013

Leacock Theatre, Mount Royal University
8 pm, pre-concert talk at 7:20 pm

Composer Ana Sokolovic’s award-winning a capella chamber opera in a concert presentation by Toronto’s Queen of Puddings Music Theatre. A vibrant theatrical work for six female voices, sung in Serbian, with Sokolovic’s richly folk-imbued music.

Eighth Blackbird

Saturday January 26, 2013

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
8 pm, pre-concert talk at 7:20 pm

From Chicago, one of America's finest virtuoso new music ensembles (a co-production with pro Musica Calgary and the Happening Festival of New Music and Media) in a concert of exciting new music from the USA and Europe.

Aventa Ensemble

Monday March 4, 2013

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
8 pm, pre-concert talk at 7:20 pm

New works for voice and ensemble with Victoria's stellar new music ensemble lead by conductor William Linwood. Featured are works by Michel Gonneville, Laurie Radford, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Kaija Saariaho.

From Up There and Down

Saturday March 23, 2013

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall, Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
8 pm, pre-concert talk at 7:20 pm

From Edmonton, Roger Admiral and Gillaume Tardiff present new work by Howard Bashaw and Michael Oesterle for piano and piano and violin. Also on the program, composer and electronic instrument inventor, d. Andrew Stewart from Lethbridge, will introduce Calgary audiences to new works for his unique instrument, the T-Stick.

Helen Pridmore in concert

Sunday April 21, 2013

Studio C, Lower Level of Art Central, 100 7 Ave SW
8 pm

Join Canadian soprano Helen Pridmore for a recital celebrating the release of her solo CD, on the Centrediscs label, Janet. The concert will feature her incredibly versatile voice, unaccompanied and in a way not usually heard from a classical vocalist. She creaks and groans, produces bird calls, Hallowe'en-like sound effects, incredibly high notes and more! 

The concert and CD present works by Canadian composers from across the country that have been written especially for Pridmore. The Whole Note says of the album, “Clearly, the composers have all been attracted to Pridmore’s unique skill set and manner of working. The resulting music takes full advantage of her attractive and flexible voice, impressively extended technical and stylistic range and — perhaps most important of all — adventuresome spirit.” She will also be performing a work by John Cage to celebrate his 100th birthday, which just passed in 2012. Her previous disc Between the Shore and the Ships won Best Classical CD at the recent East Coast Music Awards (ECMAs), held in Halifax in early March.