by Webmaster | Jul 2, 2025 | current project
Elevating a Canadian Pioneer’s Art Song Legacy The Canadian Art Song Project (CASP) is proud to announce a groundbreaking research and publication initiative dedicated to the solo vocal works of R. Nathaniel Dett (1882–1943). Born in Drummondville, Ontario, and...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Jun 18, 2025 | featured projects, Video Projects
Canadian Art Song Project is excited to share a sneak peek at the next chapter in our journey of blending art song with animation: The Piece Atop His Pate — a new animated short based on “Bobby Hull,” a wonderfully engaging song by the late Jocelyn Morlock...
by CASP Editor | Jun 17, 2025 | Commissions, Industry News
June 17, 2025 Canadian Art Song Project is excited to announce the commissioning of a song cycle by composer Pouya Hamidi. I Will Greet the Sun Again explores themes of night, family, and intimate love, tracing a journey from darkness to light through the poetry of...
by CASP Editor | Jun 17, 2025 | Performances, upcoming event
Pouya Hamidi’s I Will Greet the Sun Again performed by Elizabeth Polese and Steven Philcox. As part of the evening concert on Friday, August 1st at Walter Hall, the Toronto Summer Music Festival will present a new work from composer Pouya Hamidi, commissioned by...
by CASP Editor | Feb 14, 2025 | press
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 JUNO nomination for a Canadian Art Song Project...
by CASP Editor | Oct 17, 2024 | Commissions, Podcast
After a long hiatus, we are back to discuss Canadian art song! In this episode of Conversations with Canadian Art Song Project, tenor Lawrence Wiliford and pianist Steven Philcox sit down with award-winning composer Matthew Ricketts and internationally acclaimed...
by Webmaster | May 3, 2024 | featured projects, Video Projects
Canadian Art Song Project is excited to announce the release of our first animation project: The Wild Goose. The song “The Wild Goose” was originally written by singer / songwriter Wade Hemsworth and arranged for Canadian Art Song Project by Cecilia Livingston...
by CASP Editor | Feb 7, 2024 | Performances, upcoming event
Canadian Art Song Project is excited to be offering two performances in the next few weeks. On Wednesday, February 28th CASP will be celebrating Black History Month by presenting a program of art song by Black Canadian composers at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre at...
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 | Feb 1, 2024 | Recordings
Canadian Art Song Project is pleased to announce the release of our seventh commercial recording of Canadian art song repertoire for voice and piano. Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song / La mélodie canadienne à travers les voix de la communauté noire...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Oct 20, 2023 | Recordings
Over the past several months Canadian Art Song Project has been rehearsing and recording with our collaborating artists for our next commercial audio release: Known to Dreamers. This recording focuses on the contributions of Black composers and writers in Canadian art...
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 | Feb 16, 2023 | Performances
Canadian Art Song Project is thrilled to present the video premiere of Three Songs on Poems of Anne Michaels by Christos Hatzis. Commissioned to celebrate CASP’s 10th Anniversary in 2021, hopes of a live premiere were dashed with the arrival of Covid-19....
by Lawrence Wiliford | Dec 19, 2022 | Blog
John Beckwith composer, educator, writer (March 9, 1927 – December 5, 2022) Canadian music lost one of its great champions with the passing of John Beckwith. CBC Music posted an announcement of his death on Monday, December 6, and CBC Radio’s Metro Morning...
by Lawrence Wiliford | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog, featured projects
October 4, 2022 We have been quietly working on a number of projects over the last several months. One of these has been the recording and filming of Christos Hatzis’ new work, Three Songs on Poems of Anne Michaels, commissioned by CASP in celebration of our...
by Webmaster | Mar 9, 2022 | Performances
In Celebration of John Beckwith’s 95th birthday, CASP is releasing a music video performance of Beckwith’s Four Short Songs – settings of German poems by Wassily Kandinsky as translated to English by Elizabeth R. Napier. Released as part of CASP’s REACHING...
by Webmaster | Mar 1, 2022 | Recordings
The Canadian Art Song Project is proud to announce the release of FOUND FROZEN: SONGS OF JEFFERY RYAN. The new recording features premiere commercial recordings of composer Jeffery Ryan’s Of Passion’s Tide (1991), Found Frozen (1997), and Miss Carr in Seven...
by Webmaster | Feb 7, 2022 | Blog
The premiere performance of Another Day, a new song cycle by Abigail Richardson-Schulte, was released on video at 10:00 am Tuesday, February 22, 2022 through Picanto.ca. Produced by CASP in collaboration with Jeunesses Musicales Canada, the video features soprano...
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...
