Classical/Concert


Zosha Di Castri’s remarkable breadth and diversity

Composing concert music with its performers in mind

Cassandra Miller nominated for two 2024 Ivors Classical Awards

U.K. competition celebrates best in contemporary classical m...

Composer Cris Derksen’s Controlled Burn

Cellist braids together Indigenous, electropop, and classica...

Ric’key Pageot: Live keyboardist for Madonna, Christina Aguilera, Cher

Invents new genre with Parlor Social; spotlights work of Bla...

SOCAN Town Hall allows composers to better navigate the digital landscape

Our representatives answer dozens of questions during two-ho...

Picanto.ca to present inaugural 7X Festival online

First fest from new platform for contemporary Canadian music

Jean-Michel Blais: 100 pages of sheet music later…

“I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a popularizer”

Classical composers in pandemic times

How did they respond to isolation, racial reckoning, social ...

SOCAN mourns the loss of concert music composer R. Murray Schafer

Incorporated nature into his works

Nearly $75,000 goes to 23 recipients of SOCAN Foundation Awards

For Young Composers, Emerging Screen Composers, in 2021

Hildegard: Days of Ecstasy

When Helena Deland and Ouri write together, the whole is gre...

Get to know some of our 2021 SOCAN Award winners!

Via video interviews with Ian Cusson, Harm Franklin, Madelin...

Apply now for 2021 SOCAN Foundation Awards of more than $97,000 in total

For Young Composers, Emerging Screen Composers, and Young Ca...

SOCAN mourns the loss of composer, SOCAN member André Gagnon

Won Lifetime Achievement Award at 2019 Montréal SOCAN Award...

2020 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers, Emerging Screen Composers

Nearly $75,000 distributed to 29 prize recipients

Apashe: Like a Trap Opera

His “Renaissance” aspires to excellence

SOCAN Foundation awards almost $125,000 in total to 36 young music creators

In 2019 editions of Canadian songwriter, composer, screen co...

Apply now for Musicworks 2019 Electronic Music Composition Contest

Submission Deadline: October 25, 2019

SOCAN composer Alexina Louie awarded $50,000 Molson Prize for 2019

To continue her contributions to Canada’s cultural heritag...

SOCAN mourns the loss of member composer Derek Holman

Member of the Order of Canada passes away at 88

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