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LSM Newswire: “Canadian violinist, violist, and educator Barry Shiffman has been appointed Associate Dean of The Glenn Gould School and Dean of the Young Artists Performance Academy at The Royal Conservatory. He will begin his position on September 7, 2010.”
Edmonton Journal: “Influential workshop attracts some of the best talent from all over the world.”
CBC News: “John Estacio of Edmonton, Peter Paul Koprowski of Ottawa, and Ana Sokolovic of Montreal are the winners of the National Arts Centre Awards, which encompass musical commissions and residencies valued at $75,000 each.”
Estacio has been a faculty member at The Banff Centre and was composer of The Banff Centre opera commissions Filumena and Frobisher.
CBC: “Amid tough economic times for many arts organizations, Toronto’s Tafelmusik Baroque orchestra and chamber choir ended its 30th anniversary year with its ninth consecutive operating surplus…. Another highlight was The Galileo Project, Taffelmusik’s co-production with The Banff Centre. The concert toured Ontario and Mexico this year and is slated to travel to the U.S., Asia and Australia.
FFWD: “As an institution devoted to creativity, The Banff Centre provides for its artists and other residents because it expects a lot of them, and the musicians recruited for the Indie Band Residency are no exception. The program, the brainchild of the Banff Centre’s director of music, Barry Schiffman, and the director of audio, Theresa Leonard, is a bit of a departure for the institution, which typically has focused on classical and jazz for its residencies.”
CBC: “
Composer, conductor and celebrated flutist Robert Aitken has won the Canada Council’s $50,000 Walter Carsen Prize…. A former director of the Banff Centre’s winter program in Music, Aitken has also established and led a number of musical series….”
CBC Radio 3: “This week The Banff Centre of the Arts announced the bands and producers that will be taking part in their second annual Indie Band Residency… Make sure to stay tuned to the blog for updates from within the walls of the Banff Centre Indie Band Residency as producer Chris Kelly will be blogging for us as he goes through it with his band Analog Bell Service.”
The New Yorker: Alex Ross writes, “Evan Hurd, who photographed Adams for my Profile, traveled to Banff in June to observe the making of Inuksuit and produced this short documentary.”
All About Jazz: Interview with Seattle trumpeter Chad McCullough, who was part of this year’s jazz residency. “The whole experience up there was very cool. The faculty was Joshua Redman, Tony Malaby, Jerry Granelli and Don Byron. On top of that there were 60 musicians from all over the world. We were pulling 20-hour days, playing, writing and arranging. They have a club on the campus with four bands playing every night. There’s also a recording studio so you have people putting projects together left and right. It was also eye-opening to hear people from all over the world; guys from Slovakia who could just crush everyone on the piano. It was a life changing experience.”
CBC: “Alaska-based composer John Luther Adams’s new work, Inuksiut [sic], which will debut Sunday at the Banff Centre for the Arts, is his first piece designed to be performed outdoors.”
