by CASP Editor | Dec 5, 2021 | Commissions, Industry News
December 5, 2021 Canadian Art Song Project is very pleased to announce the commissioning of Maria Thompson Corley. She will be composing a group of songs for soprano Jonelle Sills (jonellesills.com), setting commissioned texts by Kanika Ambrose (kanikaambrose.com),...
by CASP Editor | Dec 5, 2021 | Commissions, Scores
Iranian-Canadian composer Afarin Mansouri This new work includes three beautiful and powerful song settings of Persian love poetry using the untranslated Persian texts of Hāfez, Malek Jan Nemati and Jalāl ad-Din Muhammad Rumi. Premiered by soprano Miriam Khalil and...
by CASP Editor | Mar 1, 2019 | Commissions
Canadian Art Song Project is thrilled to announce that award-winning composer Afarin Mansouri has been commissioned to write a new set of songs for soprano and piano. This new work is being composed for soprano Miriam Khalil and will be premiered as part of the...
by CASP Editor | Feb 23, 2018 | Commissions
My first encounter with art song, and song cycles, was in high school. I was taking music history lessons to prepare for an RCM exam, and our textbook included “Ich grolle nicht,” from Schumann’s Dichterliebe. Although classically-trained voices still sounded alien to...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Feb 17, 2018 | Commissions, Industry News
Canadian composer Tawnie Olson was was awarded Second place in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) 2018 Art Song Composition Award competition for her composition, Three Songs on Poems by Lorri Neilsen Glenn. On this work Richard Pearson Thomas,...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Jul 18, 2017 | Commissions, Recordings
Canadian John Greer is considered among the most active and prolific contemporary composers of song in our country. His works and individual songs have been performed widely across the Canada and internationally by students and professionals of the highest...
