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unusual facts about Canadian Music Centre



Donald Steven

A member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre, he won a BMI Student Composer Award in 1970, the Canadian Federation of University Women's Golden Jubilee Creative Arts Award in 1972, the 1987 Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year (for Pages of Solitary Delights) and the 1991 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music (for In the Land of Pure Delight).

Maya Badian

Badian is now a professor of theoretical studies, examiner, proof reader, and exam maker for the Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music Examinations and also a member of the Canadian League of Composers, and an Associate member with the Canadian Music Centre.

Olivier Thouin

After winning the Prix d’Europe and the Canadian Music Centre’s Prize in 1997, he pursued further studies at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague with Ivan Straus.

William Beauvais

More recently Beauvais has devoted much time to his own creative output writing music for The Montreal Guitar Trio, the Canadian Music Centre, Jeffrey McFadden and the Echo Women's Choir.


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Émile Nelligan

Matthew de Lacey Davidson • QUATRE MÉLODIES QUÉBÉCOISES : Music set to four poems by three Québécois authors: Albert Lozeau (1878-1924), Blanche Lamontagne-Beauregard (1889-1958), and Émile Nelligan (1879-1941), 2012 (1 partition: 44 pages, available from the Canadian Music Centre, The American Composers Alliance, and SOUNZ - The New Zealand Music Centre).

John Estacio

In 2004 the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Geoffrey Moull recorded Variations on a Memory for a new CD that was also nominated for a Juno Award and became the best-selling disc of the Canadian Music Centre in 2005.

Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra

A self-produced CD recording conducted by Geoffrey Moull titled Variations on a Memory of five contemporary compositions (works of John Estacio, Jeffrey Ryan, Regent Levasseur, Alexina Louie and Aris Carastathis) became the best-selling album of the Canadian Music Centre in 2005, was nominated for a Juno Award and was awarded international distribution to radio broadcasters by the SOCAN Foundation.