artistic retreats à la musica intima
Audience members often ask us about our artistic process. How do we plan our repertoire as a collective? How do ideas transform into concerts and seasons? Answer: we shut ourselves in a house for...
View Articlethe art of the stage costume
This season, musica intima's costumes were made by fabulous local designer Malene Grotrian. Today, we're inviting you to come backstage with us! Jenna Booth from Malene Grotrian Design gives an inside...
View Articlemaking sense of our stories: wine and music pairing
Wine Monkey’s Paul Watkin, our favourite wine connoisseur, blogs about his specially selected wine-and-song pairings for our season soirée on May 15th.Often our best memories are of the simplest...
View Articlecomposing for voice: Adam Hill writes about novum musica
This year, we launched our very first public reading session, novum musica. Emerging composers Sarah Jaysmith, Lynn Yang, Trevor Hoffman, Remy Siu and Adam Hill received feedback on their pieces. Adam...
View Articlethis land: composer notes
Our next concert , this land (October 26 - 27), premieres commissions by BC composers Ed Henderson and Imant Raminsh in collaboration with the Stó:lō Nation. Using texts from Naxaxalhts'i's retelling...
View Articlelight for the Child: a musical setting of the birth of Christ
Jacob Gramit (musica intima baritone) elaborates on the programming for our upcoming Christmas concert, light for the Child.From top to tail, light for the Child chronicles many aspects and...
View ArticleWhy are Christmas music concerts so popular?
This week, musica intima soprano Caitlin Beaupré blogs about what it is that makes Christmas concerts so popular. What is it about music at Christmas time? Love it or hate it, the holidays are full of...
View ArticleA tooth-tingling tapestry
As revealed on our recent tour to Tofino, most of the ensemble members of musica intima have a healthy appreciation for candy. In the last two years on touring buses large and small, the ensemble has...
View ArticleHeritage Hall and ensemble ginger people at Christ Church
Our concert this weekend at Christ Church Cathedral will feature a few special treats. As mentioned in our previous blog, our concert this weekend at Christ Church Cathedral will feature some special...
View ArticleAnnual Giving Blog
musica intima | making music with many voices, including yours and mineHere at musica intima, we believe that the arts matter, and that music contributes to a vital society. Having been a part of...
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