Awarded Projects: September 2023 Concert Sponsorship Fund
The ACWC extends their congratulations to Coreen Morsink and Olivia Adams for being awarded the September 2023 Concert Sponsorship Fund. The Concert Sponsorship supports funding for concerts, events, or workshops organized by an ACWC member or if a key collaborator is an ACWC member. Details regarding each composer’s upcoming project can be viewed below.
Coreen Morsink
A Celebrational Concert of Canadian and Greek Women Composers
“A special educational concert featuring compositions of Canadian and Greek Women composers will take place at St. Catherine’s British School, Kifissia (Athens), Greece played by violinist Argyro Seira and pianist Penny Sue Joyce. The concert will feature the work of five composers who are members of the Association of Canadian Women Composers, (ACWC/ACC) Linda Catlin Smith, Sophie Dupuis, Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, Stella ter Hart and Coreen Morsink (who is also Greek). Greek women composers featured will be Fani Kosona, Roxani Chatzidimitriou and Xenia Konstantinidou. The concert will explore the compositional techniques of women composers in ancient Greece, modern Greece and Canada, leading up to a discussion of our present-day group of Greek and Canadian women composers on the programme. The concert is free of charge and will be live streamed for world-wide viewing.”
The concert will be on March 4th, 18:00, 2024, St. Catherine’s Theatre, Kifissia, Greece
Olivia Adams
Music By Women Performance Marathon
Women have primarily shaped my life in music through the influence of teachers, conductors, mentors, composers, researchers, and performers. Ever since I performed at the "Music by Women Festival" at Mississippi Women’s University in 2020, I dreamt of hosting a similar in Ottawa. It is my pleasure to announce that the first Music by Women Performance Marathon in Ottawa will take place on March 9th, 2024, from 1-4 PM at the 10,000 Hours Rehearsal Studio (353 Montreal Road, Suite 102). The mission of this festival is to create a come-and-go music marathon fundraiser of three straight hours of music composed by women to amplify the music of composers and raise money for the women’s shelters in Ottawa during Women's History Month. I hope to connect musicians across industries, genres, and generations by including every variety of composition, genre, ensemble, and ability are welcome to participate in this event. The only musical criteria for participating in this event is that your music must be composed (or co-written) by a woman. There is no charge to participate or attend, but there will be a donation box or an online QR Code to donate. 100% of the event proceeds will go to the Ottawa Women’s Shelters. I am thrilled to partner with the Association of Canadian Women Composers and 10,000 Piano Rehearsal Studios as sponsors for this event. If you have any questions about the event or would like to volunteer, sponsor, or support us with a donation, contact Olivia Adams at oamusicstudios.ca. You can learn more by visiting our webpage here.
Musicians interested in performing or those who would like their students to perform can register for the event here.
