{ Monthly Archives }
Globe and Mail: Reviewer calls dance performance choreographed by three Clifford E. Lee award winners — Peter Quanz, Crystal Pite, and Sabrina Matthews — a “triumph of Canadian choreography.” The show was commissioned by Natonal Ballet of Canada artistic director Karen Kain.
Banff Crag and Canyon: “Banff Centre sous-chef Jeffrey Merrin cooked his way to the top in the national Copper Skillet competition in Toronto earlier this month.
He’s now going to face chefs from around the world at the end of March in the International Chef of the Year competition hosted by the International Association of Conference Centers.”
Globe and Mail: “One of the most highly anticipated shows of the season is the National Ballet’s exciting mixed program, featuring three world premieres by Canadian choreographers, all past winners of the prestigious Clifford E. Lee Award.”
CBC: Evolution is evolving — the CBC Radio-Canada composers competition gets underway this week at the Banff Centre. Five young Canadian composers selected to write pieces for one ensemble — competing for the $20,000 National Composition Grand Prize among other awards — are now settling into their ‘huts’ to write.
You can hear from the composers themselves throughout the week on “The Signal” (10 p.m.), leading up to the special live broadcast of the finished works on March 26.
They’ve also been blogging over on the Evolution website.
Four of the five Evoution finalists have works that are currently available online at Concerts On Demand: David Adamcyk, Geof Holbrook, Andrew Staniland, Vincent Ho.
CBC: Toronto philanthropist James D. Fleck will receive the Ramon John Hnatyshyn Award for Voluntarism in the Performing Arts, recognizing his more than 35 years of supporting arts organizations, including chairing The Banff Centre’s board of directors. The award is among the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for 2009.
