Canada’s Musical Mosaic: Podcast Launched
Welcome to the podcast “Canada’s Musical Mosaic,” featuring interviews with incredible musicians who have contributed to the country’s rich and diverse cultural heritage! I hope you will join me on this journey as we discover the cultural and stylistic influences of leading artists and what it means to them to be Canadian.
About the podcast:
Discover Canada's musical heritage and learn more about the musicians who have helped to make Canada one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world, in the podcast “Canada’s Musical Mosaic” with host, pianist, composer and Canadian culture expert Rea Beaumont
Thanks for listening,
Rea
ABOUT THE HOST:
Dr. Rea Beaumont (RAY-ah BO-mont) is an internationally recognized pianist, composer, educator and scholar. She is an expert in Canadian music and culture, and her book Composer Barbara Pentland: The Music and the Message was a finalist for an international award. She is frequently invited as an artist-in-residence and a guest speaker, presenting lectures and lecture-recitals at leading institutions in North America and Europe.
Beaumont’s albums continue to be broadcast around the world and highlight important social issues to initiate change. Her latest recording Timeless was chosen as ‘Album of the Week’ on CBC, Creating a Landscape has been streamed over 150,000 times, A Shrinking Planet was one of the first albums to highlight the influence of globalization in new music, and A Conversation Piece features her work “Shattered Ice” that protests against environmental destruction in the mythic Northwest Passage of the Canadian Arctic. She has premiered many works in collaboration with leading composers such as R. Murray Schafer, including her own works and those commissioned for her by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Beaumont has received awards from The Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, FACTOR, Toronto Arts Council, SOCAN, and is a recipient of the Ontario Arts Council’s prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship. Formerly faculty at the University of British Columbia, she is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto.
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*The music for Canada’s Musical Mosaic trailer is from Rea Beaumont’s "Aldeburgh - By the Sea" from her album Timeless