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Live from Banff!
August 2010 by Debra Hornsby

Beginning August 30, nine young quartets from six countries will gather in Banff for the 10th BISQC.

Hard Core Logo: LIVE
August 2010 by Debra Hornsby

The language is R rated. The music is in your face. But Michael Scholar Jr. insists that the story he is telling is as much a piece of Canadiana as beavers and lumberjacks.

Time traveller
February 2010 by Debra Hornsby

Banff Centre iCORE researcher Chris Chafe melds his skills as a composer, musician, and scientist to explore the intersection between time, distance, and music

Arts and ideas converge in <em>boulderpavement</em>
February 2010 by Debra Hornsby

New online multi-media magazine offers snapshots of creativity and thought, on a Canadian and international scale.

A <em>String Quartet</em> is born
February 2010 by Debra Hornsby

Celebrated composer John Adams muses on the joys and hazards of new music, as his latest work, created for the St. Lawrence String Quartet, debuts in Banff.

Sound = Action for U.K. filmmaker
February 2010 by Debra Hornsby

Award-winning filmmaker Paul Diffley discovers the art of invisible sound as he mixes music with action thanks to a Centre audio scholarship.

Looking back — Dancing forward
February 2010 by Debra Hornsby

David Earle is sitting in Three Ravens Wine Bar musing about the future and remembering the past. Balancing a wine glass on his knee, and with an energy that belies his 70 years, he speaks quietly but passionately about the new works his dance company is perfecting in Banff, and how 25 years ago a Banff Centre commission changed the course of his life and of contemporary dance in Canada.