Vancouver New Music

Vancouver New Music engages communities in the exploration, creation, and experience of progressive and outstanding new music.

Supporting creativity, innovation, curiosity and a multiplicity of voices and ideas, we are committed to curating practices, not only works, and embracing the rhizomatic expansion of current modes of sound and music creation. In nurturing a sense of place and a sense of being, these streams of collaborative activities can become tools and spaces to inspire, motivate, engage, and sustain current sound, music, and other artistic practices as vital parts of cultural life in our community.

Founded in 1973, Vancouver New Music regularly commissions and premieres new works by Canadian and international composers, and presents an annual festival that focuses each year on a theme within the new music landscape and explores the interaction of contemporary music with other disciplines such as theatre, installation, and media arts. Other activities include the Parallels workshop/presentation series with visiting artists, ensemble workshops and presentations open to the community, and other sound-, art-, and new-music related community events, such as Soundwalks and the One-Page Score Project.