As an extension of her participation in the CMC Multilocation festival (July 12-23, 2021) we invite claire rousay to join Toronto-based April Aliermo in conversation. Each artist explores the intimate and the personal within their individual sound practice, making for a fertile discussion of meaning and motivations in their work. The conversation will be released as a podcast, and listeners will hear reflections and reactions as claire and April reveal the nature of their creative impulses while triangulating the relationship of space, sound, and feeling.

Learn more about the festival | https://cmccanada.org/multilocation/
claire rousay | https://clairerousay.com
April Aliermo | https://aprilaliermo.com

CMC Presents Multilocation is generously supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Canadian Heritage, The SOCAN Foundation, FACTOR, The Ontario Arts Council, The Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Foundation. This presentation is also supported by The McLean Foundation and the Canada Arts Presentation Fund.

Intro and outro music features excerpts from Ann Southams "Reprieve"

Multilocation | April Aliermo & claire rousay in conversation

Composer Ken Nichols sits in THE COMPOSER'S CHAIR and shares a lifetime of experiences in a wide-ranging interview with CMC archivist John S. Gray. (May 16, 2012)

The Composer's Chair, Episode 23 - Ken Nichols

Music by Gary Kulesha

Performed by Charles Hamann and Frédéric Lacroix

Canadian Works for Oboe and Piano is a sweeping 2-CD compilation of fine Canadian repertoire for oboe and piano from the past 70 years. A celebration in honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial, the collection highlights the oboe’s personal, singing quality and is unified by the lyrical essence of all the works. This recording includes several Canadian oboe classics, three new works created especially for this project, three new arrangements of existing pieces, and a few interesting discoveries, including the world premiere of a work written some 40 years ago by a major composer but never performed live. The two discs feature an even mix of sonatas, shorter stand-alone works, and what could be considered suites. With one exception, all the works on these discs are receiving their first recorded performances here.

Canaidan Works for Oboe & Piano

Canadian Music for Oboe and Piano

Lyric Sonata for oboe and piano

Music by Brian Current

Performed by VC2

Faster Still takes its name from the album’s second piece, in which the tempo accelerates and slows nearly constantly, turning time into a pliable plaything. Composer Brian Current finds, curiously, that the more continuous the acceleration, the calmer things become – fast and still, once opposites, can exist simultaneously. In Current’s first album of chamber works, time and texture are explored and transformed in ensembles ranging from two cellos (duet for cellos) to a small chamber orchestra with singer (Inventory). Featuring soloists Patricia O’Callaghan, Duo Concertante, the Blue Engine String Quartet, and the VC2 cello duo, Faster Still displays the breadth and depth of Brian Current’s dynamic writing for small ensembles.

Faster Still

Duet for Cellos

Music by Stephen Chatman

Performed by the University of Toronto MacMillan Singers, Hilary Apfelstadt, conductor

Stephen Chatman’s choral music is lyrical and expressive, an effective wedding of musical texts and well-crafted melodic and harmonic writing. In Dawn of Night, the music represents a range of characteristics, depending on the poetry. In this particular collection of music, much of the poetry is by female writers: Joanna Lilley, Christina Rossetti, Sarah Teasdale, and Tara Wohlberg; Walt Whitman and Canadian poet Archibald Lampman are also represented. One of Canada’s most frequently performed composers,

Dawn of Night

There Will Be Stars

Music by Vincent Ho

Performed by Dame Evelyn Glennie, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor

In this exciting new CD, The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra (WSO) performs two monumental works by critically acclaimed composer Vincent Ho – The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion & Orchestra, and Arctic Symphony. Recorded live by CBC Radio and digitally re-mastered, these world premiere performances highlight Ho’s creative achievements during his years as the WSO’s composer-in-residence (2007-2014).

Canadian Music Centre