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,… READ MORE »ANOTHER DAY video premiere
She will be composing a group of songs for soprano Jonelle Sills.
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… READ MORE »Āshéghāné-Hā, now available
Maria Thompson Corley, announced as NATS composer mentee.
Steven Philcox and Lawrence Wiliford reflect on the need for CASP to do a better job supporting and amplifying diverse and systemically disadvantaged voices.
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
Healey Willan: Summer Night and other songs for voice and piano is now released!
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
A personal reflection regarding Classical music that incorporates Indigenous song and story
by Lawrence Wiliford
Mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and composer Ian Cusson join host Lawrence Wiliford in a discussion about representing Indigenous song and story in Canadian art music and song
We have been in the studio for a new recording project focussing on the works for voice and piano by Vancouver-based composer Jeffrey Ryan. This month we have been recording our 2018 commission, Miss Carr… READ MORE »Jeffrey Ryan, Miss Carr in Seven Scenes
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
Derek Holman had a significant impact on me as I began to look into the Canadian art song repertoire after moving to Canada in the early 2000’s. He had an incredible, challenging wit and I… READ MORE »We remember Derek Holman with a playlist of his songs
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… READ MORE »Afarin Mansouri is commissioned for 2020
As we anticipate the premiere of our latest commission, Steven Philcox sat down with composer Dean Burry and tenor Michael Colvin for a discussion about the new work and its inception. Dean Burry is one of Canada’s most active… READ MORE »Episode 5: Dean Burry’s Sea Variations
Lawrence Wiliford and Steven Philcox talk with John Greer, one of Canada’s most performed living song composers about his life and career. We had a wonderful conversation with John Greer about his musical education, his international work as… READ MORE »Episode 4: Conversation with John Greer
Since founding Canadian Art Song Project in 2011, Steven and I have been regularly asked for suggestions of Canadian art song repertoire by voice teachers, students and professionals at all levels in their careers. There… READ MORE »New school year, new Canadian song repertoire
