COLLABS Archives - Nadina Mackie

BBC Music Magazine Orchestra Awards 2025

Last day to vote for a bassoon concerto to be included in the BBC Music Magazine Awards 2025. CARNIVAL by Augusta Read Thomas is on the album Terpsichore’s Box of Dreams (album with waves on cover). C’mon, help us beat out the Czech Phil and Frankfurt Radio Orchestra! VOTE here, and thank you!!

WORLD PREMIERE APRIL 30 NEW YORK STATE

Newest concerto by American superstar Augusta Read Thomas, April 30 at 8 pm at SUNY Fredonia, New York. Open to public and livestreamed.

This composer is full of ferocious joy and energy, and this relatively short (13′) concerto has enthusiastically kicked my butt for the last few months. I’m truly looking forward to the event of playing it live with the committed and strong students at SUNY Fredonia with their leader, Dr Paula Holcomb.

I have made mixed media art as an almost unconscious part of the reflection and integration of this challenging and dynamic and very new piece of music.

And here is a quote from the composer:

“Music for me is an embrace of the world – a way to open myself up to being alive in the world in my body, in my sounds, and in my mind.”— Augusta Read Thomas

Hear Me On The Radio, Saturday,January 22

CBC is re-broadcasting my episode of “This Is My Music” program on Saturday, January 22, 2022, 10 am – noon on CBC Music/Radio 2 and streaming live here

This is from the time that Canada’s national radio station asked me to highlight some of the music I love. This invitation was a career highlight that surprised me because thus I joined a really illustrious lineup of fellow-performer-guest-hosts. Check out some of the other stellar hosts.

And my show will be available online for streaming at on Friday morning, January 21 here.

And while technically this show is geo-fenced to Canada-only, I think that clever, persistent people from beyond our borders can find their way in somehow… not sure how, but it has happened!

NEW CONCERTO by AUGUSTA READ THOMAS

I am so incredibly happy to tell you that my next concerto will be written by the luminous Augusta Read Thomas Commissioned by the State University of New York at Fredonia, spearheaded by conductor Paula Holcomb, this new work for solo bassoon and wind ensemble will be premiered and recorded at the end of April, 2022. Read more about this visionary project.

COUNCIL OF CANADIAN BASSOONISTS

We are an organization of professional bassoonists, teachers and students devoted to promoting the bassoon and in particular, helping students in remote parts of Canada to receive the support they need. And by remote, we mean locations that don’t have easy access to bassoon teachers and instruments (just about everywhere).

Through education and performances, both live and on CD, we give prospective bassoon players and listeners an opportunity to hear our noble instrument and become enchanted by it, just as we were—and are!

We also sponsor concerts and recordings involving bassoonists in solo and ensemble settings. Often these focus on presenting the bassoon in new and unusual ways, featuring the finest in Canadian bassoon playing as well as outstanding foreign artists.

On the education front, we put students in touch with teachers, and support them, sponsorING live events that bring students and professionals together.

As a federally-registered education charity, we can supply tax receipts for all donations of equipment, including bassoons, reeds, and music, as well as funds for scholarships and instrument maintenance.

We know that a world of possibility exists within the voice of the complex and rare bassoon; we are willing to go the extra mile to support both the instrument and the students. Please join us!

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