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Vancouver's Contemporary Music Calendar
May 2003

Note: The following information is subject to change. Please confirm times and venues.



PARALLELA TUESDAYS
Presented by The Sugar Refinery
Tuesdays at 10:00 pm
The Sugar Refinery, 1115 Granville St.
Tickets: By donation (suggested donation $3)
Info: 604.683.2004
The Sugar Refinery presents Parallela Tuesdays curated by Skye Brooks and JP Carter featuring experimental improv every Tuesday night.


UNDER EXPOSURE: Emerging artist series
Presented by Western Front New Music
Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 pm
Vancouver Art Gallery, Robson and Howe
Admission by donation.
Info: 604.876.9343 newmusic@front.bc.ca www.front.bc.ca <http://www.front.bc.ca>
Expose yourself to the world of music and meet some of Vancouver‚s newest music innovators and special guest artists. Hear them play and discuss their approaches to making music.
Drosera Ensemble: Kimla Attiana, Nick Apivor, percussion; Sarah Cardwell, oboe and english horn; and Jessica Werb, cello.


IKON OF LIGHT
Presented by Chor Leoni
Saturday May 3 at 8:00 pm
Holy Rosary Cathedral, 646 Richards St at Dunsmuir
Tickets: $22 / $18 through Ticketmaster 604.280.3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca <http://www.ticketmaster.ca>
Info: 604.682.4554
Three of Vancouver's champion choirs (Chor Leoni, Elektra Women‚s Choir, and the Christ Church Cathedral Choir) combine to present music from the Russian Easter tradition in the glorious setting of Holy Rosary Cathedral. The concert features rarely heard works by Bortnyanski, Sviridov, Gretchaninoff, Schnittke, and more, all laced together by the haunting chants from the Russian Orthodox Easter service.


MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS
Sunday, May 4 at 7:30 pm
Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue
Tickets: $10 / $8
Info: musicwithoutborders2003@yahoo.ca
The Nishihara & Kage Duo (Alison Nishihara, piano; Eileen Kage, taiko/percussion), on a double bill with mezzo-soprano Aliya Ahmad, perform classical and new music compositions. This concert will include art songs by Brahms, Britten, and Oliver, as well as taiko/percussion and piano adaptations of the Khatchaturian sonata and a Ginastera dance. The three musicians will also present piano/taiko/voice interpretations of Bachianas Brasileras and Hamabe no uta.


NEARLY SEE CLEARLY
Presented by Roundhouse Productions and the Live In Space concert series
Sunday, May 4 at 8:00 pm
Star Theatre, HR MacMillan Space Centre, 1100 Chestnut St.
Tickets: $23 / $19
Info: 604.738.7827 http://melodicenergy.com/EarthShow.html
An intergalactic legend written by Don Xaliman and Babette Santos, Nearly See Clearly takes a refreshing look at the stars and planets, exploring their musical influences here on earth. Throughout the ages, ancient civilizations would look to the sky for inspiration and express these sparks of wisdom through their melodies and rhythms. The projections, music and soundscapes will take you far beyond the common, while your body is relaxing in the spacious comfortable seating of the Sky Theatre.
This special concert features the Melodic Energy Commission (Don Xaliman, electro-bass; Randy Raine-Reusch, ancient instruments; Richard Hite, symphonic gongs; George McDonald, theremin; Babette Santos, flute; Micheal Louw, percussion) on stage under the 360 degree, deep space projected environment and laser show provided by Craig McCaw and John Tanner of Roundhouse Productions.


SONGSTORY
Presented by Vancouver Chamber Choir
Friday, May 9 at 8:00 pm
Ryerson United Church, 2195 West 45th Avenue at Yew St.
Info: 604.738.6822 info@vancouverchamberchoir.com
The Vancouver Chamber Choir's Millenium project was a short history of choral music intended for young people. The result, entitled 'The Never-Ending Song', has for far been heard only in schools, but now is presented in concert. With music by Samuel Barber and R. Murray Schafer, and featuring the winners of the Elementary, Secondary and University classes of the 6th Biennial Young Composers‚ Competition.


LEIMGRUBER / DEMIERRE / PHILLIPS
Presented by Costal Jazz and Blues
Friday, May 9 at 8:00 pm
Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue
Tickets: $15 / $12 through Ticketmaster 604.280.3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca <http://www.ticketmaster.ca>
Info: Jazz Hotline 604.872.5200 / 1.888.438.5200
This new trio formation comprises three internationally acclaimed instrumentalists whose interactive work in sound and dynamics produces new and interesting methodologies in the area of free improv. With Urs Leimgruber, sax; Jacques Demierre, piano; and Barre Phillips, bass.


FRED HO
Presented by Coastal Jazz and Blues and the F.U.S.E. Music Series
Friday, May 16 at 8:00 pm
Pendulum Gallery, HSBC Bank Lobby, 885 West Georgia Street
Tickets: $11 / $9 through Ticketmaster 604.280.3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca <http://www.ticketmaster.ca>
Info: Jazz Hotline 604.872.5200 / 1.888.438.5200 http://www.coastaljazz.ca
Fred Ho is a one-of-a-kind Chinese-American baritone saxophonist, composer, writer, political activist, and leader of the Afro-Asian Music Ensemble and the Monkey Orchestra. Larry Birnbaum writes in Down Beat: "Fred Ho's style is a genre unto itself, a pioneering fusion of free-jazz and traditional Chinese music that manages to combine truculence and delicacy with such natural ease that it sounds positively organic."


MOZART, TCHAIKOVSKY, PÄRT
Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, May 24 at 8:00 pm
Monday, May 26 at 8:00 pm
Orpheum Theatre, Seymour at Smithe
Tickets: $70.75 to $24.25 through Ticketmaster 604.280.3311 or www.ticketmaster.ca <http://www.ticketmaster.ca>
Info: 604.876.3434
Conductor Eri Klas and soloist Louis Lortie present Mozart‚s Piano Concerto No. 22. Also on the program: Tchaikovsky‚s Symphony No. 4, and Orient & Occident for String Orchestra by Arvo Pärt.



COMING UP IN JUNE



LOSCIL & RANDY JONES
Presented by the Blinding Light!
Friday, June 6 at 8:00 pm
Blinding Light! Cinema, 36 Powell Street
Tickets: $5
Info: 604.878.3366 www.blindinglight.com <http://www.blindinglight.com>
Join us for an evening of computer-enabled sounds and images. Randy Jones and loscil, aka Scott Morgan, will be performing live, interactive, computer-based audio-visual works. Randy Jones will premiere new audio-visual work made with JITTER, the programming environment he helped develop for San Francisco-based record label Cycling ‚74. Jones has performed at Technicolor-Berlin, the Transmissions Festival in Chicago, and the Festival de Musica Electroacoústica in Havana. loscil will also be using the Max/MSP/Jitter software environment to explore relationships of sound and image in a live performance context.


COMMUNITY NEWS


Taste New Music offer free tickets for probing questions at
www.tastenm.front.bc.ca <http://www.tastenm.front.bc.ca>
For the next several months, aural curiosity seekers can log onto www.tastenm.front.bc.ca <http://www.tastenm.front.bc.ca> , and receive free tickets to New Music shows in Vancouver by taking part in a little information gathering. The Taste New Music project seeks to gather the many new audiences of New Music, in each's multi-faceted forms, faces, curiosities, meshings, and meldings.

The collaborators - Western Front Music, Coastal Jazz and Blues Society, Diane Kadota Arts, Hard Rubber Orchestra, Vancouver New Music, and Standing Wave - have helped found the vibrant community for experimental music and sound creation in Vancouver. From all its roots - jazz, classical, electronica, punk, surrealism, dada and improv, New Music is becoming a force of collaboration, participation and audience devotion.

Starting this Spring, and continuing next Fall and Winter, Taste New Music will give audiences curious to try 'this New Music thing' a chance to do so.

Taste New Music.... at www.tastenm.front.bc.ca <http://www.tastenm.front.bc.ca>



Competition for Emerging Composers/Sound Artists
in British Columbia
Eligibility

The competition is open to composers and sound artists who are:
ð Residents of British Columbia for at least 12 months at the date of application.
ð Under 35 years of age.

Note: previous winners may not apply.

General Entry Regulations

ð Only one work per participant may be entered per category.
ð An entry fee of $20 per work (in the form of a cheque or money order payable to Vancouver New Music) must be submitted with the completed entry form.

Complete guidelines and regulations are included with the entry form.

Categories

01 Chamber Music (solo or ensemble up to 15 musicians, with or without electronics)

02 Digital Music
Computer compositions (electroacoustic, acousmatic and experimental)
Electronica (dub, techno, ambient, noise, digital, DJ-culture, etc.)

03 Interactive Music/Sound & Media
Interactive music works (installations, performance, audience participation, virtual reality, multimedia, telecommunication, etc.)
Sound and Media (sonic sculpture, intermedia/sound driven visuals, soundspace projects, radio works, generative musics, net-music, etc.)
One first prize winner in each category
will receive a cash prize of $1,000
Deadline for all categories
May 31, 2003 (postmarked)

You can download full documentation and application form from our website www.newmusic.org <http://www.newmusic.org> . If you need more information email info@newmusic.org.
Competition for Emerging Composers/Sound Artists in British Columbia
Vancouver New Music
837 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1B7

NEW MUSIC RADIO



Are You Serious? Music
Hosted by Colin MacDonald
Sundays, 9 am - 12 pm
CiTR 101.9 FM (on the web at www.citr.ca <http://www.citr.ca> )
Contemporary art music from around the world.

Musica Nova
Hosted by Andrew Czink
Wednesdays, 10 - 11 pm
Co-op Radio - CFRO 102.7 FM
Experimental, concert and electronic music.

Two New Hours
Hosted by Larry Lake
Sundays, 10:05 pm - 12 am
CBC Radio Two 105.7 FM in Vancouver, 92.1 FM in Victoria
Contemporary concert music from around the world.

West Coast Performance
Hosted by Michael Juk
Sundays, 12:06 pm
CBC Radio Two 105.7 FM in Vancouver, 92.1 FM in Victoria

Manner of Operation
Hosted by Joel Herman
Thursdays, 9 - 10:30 pm
CFUV 101.9 FM in Victoria (streaming Real Audio at http://cfuv.uvic.ca)
New Music, 20th Century composition, and other assorted experimental music.

Arctangent
Hosted by Ken Goudsward
Wednesdays, 12 noon to 1:00 pm
CFUR 88.7 FM, cable 101.5 in Prince George (webstream at IP 142.207.112.41:8000)
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