2012 In The News
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May
May 7
Sydney Morning Herald profiles the Banff Mountain Film Festival Tour
The Sydney Morning Herald covers the Banff Mountain Film Festival as it tours through Australia.
April
April 4
On Wednesday, March 28 at the Governor General's Awards for Visual and Media Arts, eminent curator Diana Nemiroff was honoured with the award for Outstanding Contribution in recognition of the many significant contributions she has made in contemporary visual arts in Canada over the course of her pioneering curatorial career. Kitty Scott, director of Visual Arts at The Banff Centre, both nominated Nemiroff for the award and introduced her at the awards ceremony held at Rideau Hall.
March
March 30
TD Bank Group wins Business for the Arts Award for Banff Centre partnership
Nominated by The Banff Centre, TD Bank Group has won a 2012 National Business for the Arts Partnership Award for support of artists in the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music.
March 7
Choreographer Aszure Barton named 2012 Koerner Foundation Distinguished Guest Artist
With a unique summer mentorship and performance program for emerging professional ballet dancers, original choreography is at the heart of dance at The Banff Centre, and this year, the Centre has named internationally renowned choreographer Aszure Barton the 2012 Koerner Foundation Distinguished Guest Artist in Choreography.
March 6
Jeff Melanson talks with Alberta Venture about the arts and the economy.
In an interview with Alberta Venture Jeff Melanson discusses the relationship between arts and the ecomony.
March 6
Jeff Melanson in Avenue Magazine: "Collaboration is essential."
Banff Centre president Jeff Melanson is featured in Avenue Magazine's Self Portrait segment.
March 5
Kelly Ripa will broadcast Live! from the Eric Harvie Theatre stage
Banff National Park has been chosen as the perfect winter wonderland setting for one of America’s top syndicated talk shows, ‘LIVE! with Kelly’, which is coming to the picturesque Rocky Mountain destination in April.
March 3
Quatour Zäide wins first prize at Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna
The third place winners of the 2010 BISQC placed first in the string quartet category of the fifth International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition, which commemorates the personality and oeuvre of Joseph Haydn. Competgition repertoire places emphasis on chamber music from both the First and the Second Viennese School.
February
February 27
Jasper Quartet recalls "guerilla-style" street concerts at BISQC
Members of the Jasper String Quartet recall experiences as Quartet in the Community during the 2007 Banff International String Quartet Competition, in the Syracuse Post-Standard.
February 27
Writer, director Brian Quirt appointed director, Banff Playwrights' Colony
The Banff Playwrights’ Colony at The Banff Centre, one of the most intensive creative experiences for the development of new Canadian plays, has appointed Brian Quirt as director, effective in the spring of 2013.
February 10
The Globe and Mail praises Tafelmusik's House of Dreams, developed here at The Banff Centre.
Wednesday evening, Tafelmusik treated its Toronto audience to the big-screen experience of House of Dreams. Like the Galileo Project, this multi-media show House of Dreams was developed and workshopped here at The Banff Centre.
February 8
Interview with newly appointed jazz director Vijay Iyer in JazzTimes
Pianist and composer Vijay Iyer will take over as director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in 2013. In this JazzTimes interview, he says he "refuses to see himself as diverging drastically from the jazz tradition."
January
January 19
Hail Bright Cecilia: The Cecilia String Quartet makes its Buffalo debut
"Prizewinners at international string quartet competitions in both Osaka, Japan in 2008 and Bordeaux, France, in 2010 and the winners of a Galaxie Rising Stars Award in Canada, the group went on to capture the First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, Canada's most prestigious, in 2010."
January 11
Cecilia String Quartet sets great music aglow
“Northwestern University’s three-weekend Winter Chamber Music Festival began the evening of January 6…. The concert opened with Mozart’s String Quartet No. 16, which he dedicated to Haydn. The work had bursts of fun, which the players handled with sparkling dexterity. Sir Georg Solti said he believed in God because of Mozart. After hearing the Cecilia play this quartet, I know why.”
