Two works by Vivian Fung, WMCT’s commissioned composer in 2016, will be performed at Roy Thomson Hall. Dust Devils on March 3, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian, and Earworms, a newly commissioned work with the National Arts Centre Orchestra conducted by Alexander Shelley, on March 24.
Vivian Fung at Roy Thomson Hall Read More »
Emily D’Angelo, 2016 WMCT Scholarship recipient, currently a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Young Artists Development program, is one of this year’s winners of the George London Foundation Awards. Read the complete story, written by Sara Schabas, 2012 WMCT Scholarship recipient, in LudwigVan/Toronto.
George London Award to Emily D’Angelo Read More »
The 2015 Career Development Award winner describes his professional and personal development over the last two years.
An interview with Charles Richard-Hamelin Read More »
Music in the Afternoon has just become a performing arts partner in the Cultural Access Pass (CAP) program. CAP is available to all new Canadians over 18, following their citizenship ceremony, and lasts for one year. It’s a year of free admission to more than 1,400 Canadian museums, art galleries, and historical sites, plus opportunities to attend concerts, dance and other events by performing arts partners right across Canada.
CAP is delivered by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC), a national charity co-founded in 2006 by WMCT Patron the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul. ICC programs and projects inspire inclusion, and the practice of active citizenship, including ownership of our collective culture and spaces.
Music in the Afternoon invites New Canadians Read More »
Our celebrated 2015 Career Development Award winner will appear in Peter Oundjian’s final Mozart Festival, on January 19, 2018, to perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto no.23 in A major, K.488, with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Details and ticket information on the TSO website.
Charles Richard-Hamelin’s next Toronto appearance Read More »
Vivian Fung, who was WMCT’s commissioned Canadian composer for 2016, has written a new Clarinet Quintet, “Frenetic Memories,” for the Daedalus Quartet with Romie de Guise-Langlois, who performed for us in March 2016. This work featuring WMCT “Alumni” will be live-streamed from Lincoln Center, Thursday November 9, at 9 pm.
Premiere of Vivian Fung’s new work for the Daedalus Quartet live streaming Read More »
Vivian Fung, whose horn trio “Bounce”, was commissioned for Jamie Sommerville’s concert last November, sends news of more premieres across North America this fall.
Vivian Fung, WMCT’s 2016 Composer Read More »
More Singers than Hockey Players Read More »
The WMCT had the best Annual Meeting in town!
Half an hour of positive reports from the treasurer and president, then a mini-recital by Scholarship and Fellowship winners, a free lunch, and a floral “Thank you” to volunteers who plan and staff Music in the Afternoon, serve on awards, finance, and fundraising, committees, and document the history of the WMCT. For more photos, taken at the Women’s Art Association, see the WMCT Facebook page.
Volunteers honoured at the AGM Sept. 28 Read More »
