We are thrilled to share that our album Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song has been nominated for a 2025 JUNO Award in the category of Classical Album of the Year (Small Ensemble)!. This is the second… READ MORE »JUNO Nomination for Known to Dreamers
Canadian Art Song Project is proud to announce that Healey Willan: Summer Night and other songs for voice and piano has been nominated for a 2020 JUNO Award as Classical Album of the Year: Vocal… READ MORE »Willan: Summer Night – 2020 JUNO Nominee
Posted on October 31, 2019 Summer Night is a CD of songs by Healey Willan produced by the Canadian Art Song project and due to be released on the Centrediscs label next month. Willan is… READ MORE »Opera Ramblings reviews SUMMER NIGHT
The Canadian Art Song Project welcomes Marion Newman and Ian Cusson for a compelling discussion Robert Rowat · CBC Music · Posted: Sep 26, 2019 6:00 AM ET Conversations with CASP is the podcast of the Canadian Art Song Project, an organization… READ MORE »CBC Music highlights CASP podcast
Published May 23, 2019 on operaramblings.blog – Link to article This year’s Canadian Art Song Project commission is a setting of poems by EJ Pratt by Dean Burry entitled Sea Variations. It was given its… READ MORE »Opera Ramblings reviews SEA VARIATIONS
Written by Roger Knox Published: 28 November 2017Link to article Sing Me at Midnight – Songs by John GreerTracy Dahl; Kevin McMillan; Delores Ziegler; John GreerCentrediscs CMCCD 24717 (musiccentre.ca) This Canadian Art Song Project CD… READ MORE »The Wholenote reviews Sing Me at Midnight
Posted Nov 2016 on definitelytheopera.wordpress.com Link to article Since I didn’t grow up in the Anglo tradition, the name Healey Willan was completely unknown to me before this concert. I’m told anybody who’s ever attended a… READ MORE »Definitely the Opera review: Healey Willan and the Art Song: A New CASP project
By Rick MacMillan, Summer 2016 Opera Canada [Excerpt] Four prominent Canadian singers come together on this disc featuring three song collections and one short scene for vocal quartet by Norbert Palej, Associate Professor of Composition… READ MORE »Opera Canada reviews CLOUD LIGHT
By John Terauds on March 14, 2016 Cloud Light, a new release of art songs by Toronto-based composer Norbert Palej reflects the here and now in the Canadian Art Song Project. Cloud Light: Songs of… READ MORE »Musical Toronto reviews CLOUD LIGHT
Written by Robert Tomas, Published: 23 February 2016Link to article Cloud Light – Songs of Norbert PalejBogdanowicz; McGillivray; Wiliford; Woodley; PhilcoxCentrediscs CMCCD 22315 The song or chanson or lied died with Benjamin Britten – or… READ MORE »The Wholenote reviews CLOUD LIGHT
By Leslie Barcza, Posted on barczablog.com February 20, 2016 Link to article “The Pilgrim Soul” was the name given to tonight’s collaboration between pianist Emily Hamper and baritone Phillip Addis for Canadian Art Song Project… READ MORE »barczablog reviews The Pilgrim Soul
by Robert HarrisSpecial to The Globe and Mail Link to articlePublished Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 Title The Pilgrim SoulVenue Enoch Turner SchoolhouseCity TorontoDate Reviewed Friday, February 19, 2016 Great art can break out anywhere, any… READ MORE »The Globe and Mail: The Pilgrim Soul provides thematic base for operatic tour de force
Posted on operaramblings.blog on February 15, 2016Link to article Canadian Art Song Project has just issued its second CD; Cloud Light. It’s a collection of four contrasting works by Polish-Canadian composer Norbert Palej. The first,… READ MORE »Opera Ramblings reviews CLOUD LIGHT
By Deirdre Kelly, Posted on CriticsatLarge.ca – Link to article Art song is a centuries-old musical practice that the Canadian Art Song Project has made avant-garde. The Living Spectacle, the first in a series of… READ MORE »Songs of the Earth: Canadian Art Song Project and The Living Spectacle
Published November 8, 2015 on definitelytheopera.wordpress.comLink to article CASP started its concert series auspiciously last night at the Extension Room, with the pieces by three living composers (two Canadian and one American) and a mini-lieder cycle… READ MORE »CASP, gasp! Definitely the opera reviews CASP series launch concert
Posted on November 8, 2015 by Leslie Barcza – Link to article (The) Canadian Art Song Project aim to explore the art song in all its manifestations. Tonight CASP took a bold new step in… READ MORE »Barczablog reviews The Living Spectacle
The Canadian Art Song Project wants to put a new focus on an unsung genre of our vocal artsBy Neil Crory, Opera Canada, Winter 2014 ART SONG (n): A song written to be sung in… READ MORE »Opera Canada features CASP: “Of music and sweet poetry”
Ash Roses. Music of Derek Holman. Toronto, ON: Centrediscs CMCCD 19914, 2014. 1 compact disc (59:03). Contents: The Four Seasons (20:55) (Lawrence Wiliford, tenor; Liz Upchurch, piano) – Ash Roses (22:37) (Mireille Asselin, soprano; Liz… READ MORE »Ash Roses – CAML Review – Issue 42 No. 3 November 2014
Posted on operaramblings.com – Link to article Tenor Colin Ainsworth and pianist Stephen Ralls today presented three song cycles written for them by Derek Holman. The first, The Death of Orpheus (2004) sets two translations… READ MORE »Opera Ramblings review: A Play of Passion
Born in England in 1931, Derek Holman was Music Master at Westminster Abbey School and assistant organist at St. Paul’s Cathedral before he moved to Toronto in 1965. He held several organist and choirmaster positions,… READ MORE »Opera Canada reviews ASH ROSES CD