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… Announcing The Piece Atop His Pate
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… CASP commission premieres at Toronto Summer Music
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 Known to Dreamers
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… Performances coming up in Feb. / March
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… Known to Dreamers: Black Voices in Canadian Art Song
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… Known to Dreamers recording sessions finished.
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… Songs by Christos Hatzis video release
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 in Toronto featured a conversation… Some thoughts about John Beckwith…
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.… Four Short Songs by John Beckwith video release
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… New Release: Found Frozen: Songs of Jeffrey Ryan
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… 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… Opera Ramblings reviews SEA VARIATIONS
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… 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… The Wholenote reviews CLOUD LIGHT
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,… 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… 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… 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… Barczablog reviews The Living Spectacle
We are happy to announce that in the 2015-16 season CASP will begin a new series of concerts: The Canadian Art Song Project Recital Series. This, the first series of ticketed concerts presented by CASP,… Canadian Art Song Project Recital Series begins in 15-16 Season