A partnership with Little Giant Chinese Chamber Orchestra
A documentary by Patty Chan that explores the history and legacy of the Chinese Instrumental Music Group of Toronto (CIMGOT), Toronto’s first traditional Chinese orchestra (1969-1987). This film was created…
A workshop review from Upper Canada College: “Patty and other musicians from the Centre for Music Innovations came to visit my grade 10 music class last week. All three were…
Canadian composer John Oliver was CMI's first featured composer, and is currently in Taipei for the premiere of his work on December 11th. Hope you can attend! Here is a…
On the December 11th concert presented by gCO 小巨人絲竹樂團, led by Chih-Sheng Chen, Jon Lin Chua's work: Reminiscences of Yuan Xiao 《忆·元宵》will also be featured. Jon Lin is an award winning young…
Canadian composer Alice Ho's "Buddha's Song" will be performed at gCO 小巨人絲竹樂團's December 11th concert in Taipei, led by Chih-Sheng Chen: Buddha’s Song This composition is inspired by a childhood memory: growing up…
The Centre for Music Innovations (CMI) will be embarking on a project that will help make Chinese orchestral videos accessible to the English reader, with introductions to the repertoire, composers,…
Introducing Doug Miller, who will join us in presenting our upcoming Chinese Music Workshop at York University! He will be introducing the dizi, an instrument in the wind section of…
Last but not least is the Percussion section. There are many different Chinese percussion instruments that belong to the following families: drum, gong, cymbals, and wooden instruments. The Chinese orchestra…
The bowed strings. This section in the Chinese orchestra comprises mostly of instruments from the Huqin family: the gaohu, erhu, and zhonghu - all 2 string fiddles; along with the…
The plucked strings. This section comprises of many different instruments and gives the Chinese orchestra an added texture and colour that is different from the western orchestra. Introducing this section…
