Orchestras Canada

The Canadian Dance Assembly, one of Orchestras Canada’s valued partners in the Performing Arts Alliance, has just appointed Nathalie Fave as its new Executive Director, succeeding Shannon Litzenberger. Ms Fave is a published poet and has a strong background in arts and community organizing. The Greater Victoria Youth Orchestra has announced the appointment of Yariv [...]

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In June 2008, the board of Orchestras Canada approved a strategic plan intended to guide our national association’s activities from 2008-09 to 2010-11. In the fall of 2009, OC board chair Ann Lewis-Luppino suggested that we re-visit the plan with a view to considering our progress to date, and revising the plan to reflect what [...]

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We’ve recently added a fresh collection of sold service contract templates from a range of member orchestras. You can find them on our website, here.

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One of the actions outlined in OC’s new Strategic Plan is to “use our newsletter and the blogging capacity on our website to feature in-depth stories about members’ successes and challenges”. It’s time to admit the truth: while we sincerely strive to make Orchestra News as fresh and interesting as possible (46 times per year), [...]

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As regular readers of Orchestra News may recall, OC was fortunate to receive grant support from both the Canada Council’s Flying Squad program and the Ontario Arts Council’s Compass program last fall to commission a report from consultants Angela Birdsell and Cathy Smalley on the professional and leadership development needs of current and future Canadian [...]

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Orchestras Canada/Orchestres Canada has been made aware of challenges that certain orchestras are facing in getting or renewing work permits for non-Canadian contracted musicians and music directors. To help us better understand the nature and extent of the issue – and discern the most useful role we might play in it – we would sincerely [...]

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Both Imagine Canada and the Canadian Conference of the Arts have written to Industry Minister Tony Clement to express their concern about the Government of Canada’s decision to replace the mandatory long form census with a voluntary household survey. You can read Imagine Canada’s letter here and the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ letter here.

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Symphony Nova Scotia has announced the appointment of Emma Penick as its new Director of Development. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra has announced the appointment of Stephanie Rauhut as the new Manager of the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra and assistant in the Education department.

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Presentation at the Orchestras Canada Annual Meeting, Winnipeg by Sophie Galaise, General Manager, OSQ, and Head of ContactCulture.ca Table of Contents 1. Word of Welcome 2. Background 3. About the Network 4. Network Objectives 5. Organizational Structure 6. Member Contributions 7. A Series on Joint Initiatives On-site surveys Monthly electronic newsletter Survey on cultural behaviour [...]

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