The Banff Centre: Communications

Barry Shiffman appointed to The Royal Conservatory

Jim Swanson — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:42:01 +0000

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.”

Toward Zero waste initiative at 2009 Banff Mountain Festivals a success

Jim Swanson — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:42:21 +0000

Banff Mountain Film Festival:Facebook: “The Banff Mountain Festivals has been working hard for the last two years to implement a Toward Zero Waste Initiative for our 10 day event here at The Banff Centre. We just received the numbers, which we’re very proud of: 89% of all waste collected was recycled or composted instead of ending up in the landfill.”

Jazz elite flock to Banff Centre

Jim Swanson — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:43:14 +0000

Edmonton Journal: “Influential workshop attracts some of the best talent from all over the world.”

Sally Borden climbing coordinator named to national climbing team

Jim Swanson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:27:24 +0000

Rocky Mountain Outlook : Chris Neve named as one of Canada’s four national climbing team coaches.

Art from one end of the world [Walter Phillips Gallery]

Jim Swanson — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:55:29 +0000

Calgary Herald: Nancy Tousley reviews Ragnar Kjartansson’s The End: “Kjartansson’s brilliant, poignant piece about rustic simplicity and the romantic sublime, spatialized music and the space of images, camaraderie and collaboration, icons and reality, beginnings and endings, adventurous mountain men and pioneering artists is a little, or a lot, like life.”

Literary Journalism chair Ian Brown wins Canada’s richest non-fiction prize

Jim Swanson — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:22:35 +0000

CBC News: “Toronto journalist Ian Brown has won British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, Canada’s richest non-fiction prize. Brown, a Globe and Mail writer, won for his moving story about life with his disabled son, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son.”

Brown is Rogers Communication Chair of Literary Journalism.

Old men can dance

Jim Swanson — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:31:36 +0000

The Globe and Mail: Discussion of The Three Man Project: Full Bloom, wich premiered at The Banff Centre on January 9.

Estacio and Murrell preview new work for the Vancouver Opera

Jim Swanson — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:47:00 +0000

The Globe and Mail: “Lillian Alling, the first full-length piece Vancouver Opera has ever commissioned for its main stage, will have its world premiere next fall, but about 50 VO donors, staff and colleagues got a preview earlier this month…. The opera, written by Estacio and Murrell, is based on the real-life story of Lillian Alling, a Russian immigrant who arrived in New York in the 1920s and proceeded to walk across the continent to British Columbia.”

John Estacio among composers winning National Arts Centre awards

Jim Swanson — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:25:43 +0000

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.

Tafelmusik ends birthday year in the black

Jim Swanson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:33 +0000

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.