by CASP Editor | Feb 1, 2024 | Commissions, Industry News
February 1, 2024 Canadian Art Song Project is happy to announce the commissioning of a song cycle by composer Matthew Ricketts. Songs for Judith, written for baritone Brett Polegato in honour of Judith Dalgleish, sets nine poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay and will be...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Oct 20, 2023 | Commissions, Industry News
October 20, 2023 Canadian Art Song Project is happy to announce the commissioning of a set of three songs by composer Roydon Tse. The songs, collectively entitled Triptych, explore perspectives on death and loss through three poems by poets Edward Thomas, Edwin Muir...
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...
