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Linda Catlin Smith has new work premiering later this month! ‘Dark Flower’ will be the first in a series of digital concerts marking Thin Edge New Music Collective's 10th anniversary season. Incredibly excited for Linda and Thin Edge, really looking forward to this one. March 20, 8pm

Congratulations Holly!!!!

Hello All, Due to the current lock down in Ontario, we have had to delay the recording of several episodes of Press Play. We will post updates here, to our social media and email list about dates for upcoming episodes as soon as we have them. In the mean time, while you wait for the remaining 8 episodes of the season, please enjoy our first 6 episodes here: https://www.continuummusic.ca/press-play/

Episode 6: NoaNoa January 14, 2021, 7pm NoaNoa is a groundbreaking work written in collaboration with flutist Camilla Hoitenga, with electronics under the supervision of Jean-Baptiste Barrire and programmed by Xavier Chabot. According to Leslie, despite her desire to write a piece for solo flute, and with Camilla Hoitenga already in mind, Kaija Saariaho found the single line potential of the flute a frustration. So she found a way to make it an extraordinary, polyphonic ins...trument by employing singing, speaking and multiphonics. The voice is used to speak fragments of Paul Gauguin’s text sometimes whispering, sometimes screaming, sometimes uttering a stream of percussive consonants while at the same time playing the flute. Additionally, there are 63 pedal points written into the music with precise specificity. The pedal is used to start and end resonance, as well as to trigger pre-recorded sounds. In NoaNoa, Kaija Saariaho’s preoccupation with colour and texture distills into an exotic and sensual soundscape. NoaNoa, for solo flute and electronics (1992) 9’ by Kaija Saariaho (FN) Leslie Newman, flute

EP 6 of PRESS PLAY Tonight at 7pm! Leslie Newman preforms NoaNoa by Kaija Saariaho! Check out our FB or our website: https://buff.ly/3o7E9ag

PressPlay episode tonight @ 7pm!! We will be sharing space with Leslie Newman in conversation about Kaija Saariaho’s NoaNoa. Watch it here: https://buff.ly/3o7E9ag

Great Line up for this year's X Avant at the Music Gallery! Oct 1-18 ALL SHOWS FREE TO STREAM via: https://musicgallery.org/xavant

Late into the night on our marathon day of recording at the Canadian Music Centre yesterday, we recorded the marvellous Rhoma Spencer with percussionist Nikki Joshi. The whole day was remarkable and it was such a treat for us to hear our friends and colleagues making music again! Many thanks to the CMC team including Matthew Fava and Joseph Glaser on HD video, and special thanks for the audio recording talents of Pouya Hamidi. Stay tuned for details on our many digital episodes soon to come!!

Mezzo-Soprano Andrea Ludwig and pianist Gregory Oh are also in the Canadian Music Centre studio today and sounding so magical. Stay tuned for our digital series on the way!!

Recording the incredible Leslie Newman today at the Canadian Music Centre. Stay tuned for our new digital episodes!

Details for our exciting 36th season coming soon!

Applications for PIVOT 2021 composer mentors and mentees close tonight at midnight. All composers receive fees and there is no fee to apply. In PIVOT 2019, our composer participants were: Amy Brandon (CA), Nathan Friedman (CA), Émilie Girard-Charest (CA), Solomiya Moroz (CA), Luke Nickel (CA) and Lieke van der Voort (CA) - enjoy this YouTube playlist of the sold out concert. It begins with our third Teen Composer Award winner, Sarah Lu. Link to the application is in the comments.

Two days left to apply to PIVOT (link in comments) In 2017, our inaugural year, our composer participants were: Rebecca Bruton (CA), Maxime Corbeil-Perron (CA), Juro Kim Feliz (PH/CA), Beavan Flanigan (CA), Evelin Ramon (CU/CA) and Bekah Simms (CA). Check out the YouTube playlist of that concert here! Note the concert begins with our 1st Teen Composer Award, featuring Cindy Chen.

REMINDER - 4 days left to apply to PIVOT. Applications are for both participant and mentor composers and all receive fees for their important work. APPLY NOW!!

Applications are open for PIVOT! Deadline is September 13th. Continuum is excited to reprise our role in partnership with the Canadian League of Composers/La Ligue Canadienne des Compositeurs and the Canadian Music Centre!

Video Premiere #3, August 30th, 7pm 1) Vez (2005, rev. 2015) Ana Sokolovic (CA) Allison Rich, cello 2) Nocturne for ES** (2019) Anna Höstman (CA) Jackie Leung, piano... 3) Nothing to do with Explosions* (2020) Holly Winter (CA) The HATCH 2020 ensemble See more

Just a reminder that the second HATCH 2020 Live Video Premiere starts at 7pm EDT! https://www.facebook.com/continuum.toronto/live

Video Premiere #2, August 29th, 7pm 1) hiraeth (migration no. 2) (2017) Emilie Lebel (CA) Florence Laurain, flute 2) Lines (1991) Harry Freedman (CA) Madison Freed, clarinet... 3) abject* (2020) David Foley (CA) The HATCH 2020 ensemble See more

Going live soon with the second HATCH 2020 video premiere!

Video Premiere #1, August 28th, 7pm 1) Stand Alone (2019) Michael Oesterle (CA) Roxanne Sicard, violin 2) The Spirit and the Dust (2015) Dinuk Wijeratne (CA) Nikki Joshi, marimba... 3) Lines Between* (2020) Robyn Jacob (CA) The HATCH 2020 ensemble See more

A quick note for everyone who may be sharing the live video broadcast link with friends and family who are not Facebook users: 1) you DO NOT need to have a profile on Facebook to participate; 2) Facebook displays the time of the event as 4:00pm (PDT) if you are not signed into the platform. The broadcast time is 7pm EDT; and 3) a window will pop up encouraging you to log in/ sign up - just click not now if you do not wish to sign up. ... Here is the link for all the HATCH 2020 live video broadcasts starting tonight at 7pm! https://www.facebook.com/continuum.toronto/live

Thanks to Continuum music Toronto for including me in their 2020 HATCH mentorship program! My piece Lines Between premieres Friday night at the address below! A...lso Saturday and Sunday feature premieres by Holly Winter and David Foley! Grateful to have worked with some incredible musicians on this project. Continuum Contemporary Music See more