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...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Jan 28, 2016 | Commissions, Industry News, Performances
2015 was a big year for us, but 2016 is going to be EVEN BIGGER! In 2015 Canadian Art Song Project premiered three new works: Marjan Mozetich’s Enchantments of Gwendolyn, Peter Tiefenbach’s The Long Walk Home and Erik Ross’s The Living Spectacle. In...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Jan 6, 2016 | Commissions, Industry News, Performances
In this first recording exclusively devoted to the music of Polish-born Canadian composer Norbert Palej, CLOUD LIGHT immerses listeners in music that actively grapples with the modern understanding of art song and demonstrates that it is still a genre capable of the...
