The Canadian Music Centre acts today as one of the major leaders in servicing the new music community by not only making music and information of Canadian composers accessible, but also by proactively forging new avenues to ensure that the music is heard and performed to an ever wider audience. Through special projects and partnerships with various ensembles and organizations, the Canadian Music Centre has raised the profile and visibility of Canadian composers and has evolved into a central nerve centre for the dissemination and promotion of Canadian music. The CMC helps to establish and solidify the careers of its members by providing ongoing networking opportunities through workshops and various consultation services.

The CMC’s reach of services is extensive and expands into all facets of the music sector. CMC serves researchers, educators, students, the media and ultimately the public as an active advocate and promoter of Canadian new music. With accessibility being central to the CMC’s mission, the Centre makes available on loan over 22,000+ scores and/or works of Canadian contemporary music composers through its lending library, offers on-demand printing, provides music repertoire consultations, and maximizes the use of new media technologies to reach an ever greater audience. The CMC also engages in a number of National outreach projects, is digitizing all its scores and works, conducts research, and administers several awards.

The CMC maintains its own label, Centrediscs, and also distributes currently more than 1300 CD and DVD titles featuring the music of its Associate Composers and other Canadian recording artists via its CMC Distribution Service Inc. unit. The CMC’s website offers advanced features including an online library catalogue, scores and archival audio samples of composers’ music, a Podcast, streaming of over 9000 archival recordings, award-winning interactive educational tools for teachers and students, a news section, web-links and a national concert calendar listing composers’ premiers and concerts.

The Centre remains committed to devoting significant effort and emphasis on placing the works of Canadian composers front and centre in the minds of Canadians. The CMC works to ensure that Canadian composers are gaining greater visibility through their works being discovered and taught to young performers. With the mission of advancing the development and growth of a vibrant and healthy new music community, the CMC has endeavoured to break down pre-conceived notions about new music by providing high quality and memorable first hand musical experiences by featuring some 40 concerts and events through its popular New Music in New Places program.

Board of Directors

Allan G. Bell, Calgary AB - President
Owen Underhill, Vancouver - Vice President & Acting Treasurer
Bob Bauer, Halifax NS
Michel Beauchemin, Montréal QC
Jerome Blais, Halifax NS
Nicolas Gilbert, Montréal QC
Christien Ledroit, Hamilton ON
Andrew MacDonald, Lennoxville QC
David McIntyre, Regina SK
Heather Pawsey, Vancouver BC
Bob Pritchard, Burnaby BC
Micheline Roi, Toronto ON
Victoria Warwick, London ON
CMC Executive Director: Elisabeth Bihl