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Click here to enjoy our 2-page Fall, 2017 Highlights newsletter. This one features a number of choral and vocal works just released by Kelly-Marie Murphy – The Darkest Midnight in December; Eric Robertson – Variations on the Sussex Carol, Richard Cohen – Eight Bright Candles, Larysa Kuzmenko – Christmas Bells and Dreams, Bramwell Tovey – Rittenhouse Carol; Victor Togni – Alleluia!; Gary Kulesha – Blue Heron Near the Old Mill;

Also featured – Kelly-Marie Murphy’s win of the prestigious Azrieli Foundation composition award to create a double concerto for cello and harp based on a proposal for a new work which expresses an aspect of the Jewish experience with the utmost creativity, artistry and musical excellence. This work will be premiered at a Gala concert on October 15, 2018.

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We welcome composers Donald Steven, one of only three composers to win a Juno Award for Pages of Solitary Delights – written for Maureen Forrester (listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0v9brWASfE), and a Jules Leger Prize, for In the Land of Pure Delight (listen at https://soundcloud.com/impartial-music/in-the-land-of-pure-delight) both pieces now published by Counterpoint.

Richard Cohen – long-time member of the Toronto Symphony horn section, and a talented composer.

Serouj Kradjian – Artistic Director of the Amici Ensemble of Toronto, as well as pianist, and composer

Also New works by Victor Davies – new opera A Tale of Two Cities; Larysa Kuzmenko – Golden Harvest; new edition of Pierre Mercure – Kaleidoscope; Eric Robertson – A Carol for Christmas & Crossing Over; Johnny Cowell – Trumpet Concerto & Sangre de Toro Bravo-Blood of the Brave Bull

Our Young Composers’ Series is now launched

Our Summer, 2016 edition of our newsletter features articles on Bramwell Tovey‘s latest work, Time Tracks, a suite from his opera The Inventor, just premiered by the New Zealand Symphony; our new composer Larysa Kuzmenko‘s premiere of her new work Golden Harvest, in celebration of the Immigrant Experience, and specifically about the 125th anniversary of the beginning of Ukrainian immigration to Canada. Also featured are Victor Davies’ Tuba Concerto- Concerto for Tubameister, being performed next January by Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, with young up-and-coming Tuba Soloist, Justin Hickmott.
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Our Winter edition of our newsletter Highlights is now available. Features:
Johnny Cowell’s 90th birthday celebration, additions to our catalogue include music by Larysa Kuzmenko and Sid Robinovitch. Learn about our new representation of the Toronto band of Firefighters called Firesound and their orchestra show, new publications and important upcoming performances.

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December 7, 2015 is our composer/arranger Marc Fortier’s birthday. Marc is one of Counterpoint’s new composers in 2015. I will let the words of Jeffrey Saultanof, American Historian/Domposer/Arranger/Conductor, expert on many things musical, including composer Robert Farnon, tell you about Marc Fortier, written on his Facebook Page:

Jeffrey Sultanof

Dec 7, 2015

Several years ago, Gene Lees made me aware of an arranger/conductor in Canada named Marc Fortier, who was a big Robert Farnon fan. Marc and I quickly became friends, lost touch for awhile, and reunited on Facebook. He is one of the top arranger/conductors in all of Canada, whose concerts are sell-outs wherever he appears. He one of the youngest men I know, but with worlds of experiences. He also has the biggest heart imaginable. I don’t mind saying that we have a mutual admiration society between us, which makes me extraordinarily proud. Today is his birthday, and I hope he has a wonderful one. His music is represented by an excellent rental company/distributor, and anyone who conducts orchestras should check out what they have: www.cpmusiclibrary.ca. The director has the best of Canadian music, right where Marc belongs.

Marc Fortier has put together a wonderful show called Celebration 2017 for Canada’s 150th Birthday. Your orchestra should present it. Listen to samples through this link

Our Summer Highlights issue has an article about this project. See it here.

Read our Summer Newsletter issue including: Celebration 2017 – a light orchestra program for Canada’s 150th Birthday + other works you can program for 2017; New edition of Victor Togni’s Five Liturgical Inventions; Pierre Mercure Anniversaries coming up…   Click this link Latest Highlights

Our Winter 2014 issue of Highlights features articles about Bramwell Tovey, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Victor Davies, Jacob Plachta, Gary Kulesha as well as a list of interesting upcoming performances.
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Bramwell Tovey has created a new arrangement of his trumpet concerto, Songs of the Paradise Saloon, for solo trumpet and brass band. Come here the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Canada’s premiere brass band, perform this work with trumpet soloist Andrew McCandless, principal trumpet of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra on

Sunday, October 26, 3 p.m. at Jane Mallet Theatre at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front St. E. Toronto

Check our this YouTube link of Bramwell talking about this piece:

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#MalcolmForsyth‘s Double Concerto for Cello and Viola, was performed by cellist @Amanda.Forsyth and violist #JethroMarks with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, conducted by #PinchasZukerman, March 6 & 7/14.
This performance was wonderful. The rapport between the soloists was excellent. There are two cadenzi and the glorious interplay between Amanda and Jethro was exquisite. The middle movement, the Adagio Cantabile was delightful. Very enjoyable.