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We Won A Juno! 🎉

We Won A Juno! 🎉

Ensemble Made in Canada was first nominated for, and now has won a Juno Award for “Classical Album of the Year: Solo or Chamber”! Thank you to @TheJUNOAwards for this incredible honour and to our 14 amazing composers, whose music brought this project to life. […]

A Juno Nomination for MOSAÏQUE!

A Juno Nomination for MOSAÏQUE!

Hurray! Our MOSAÏQUE album got nominated for a JUNO award! We are jumping with joy! Here’s the moment from the nomination broadcast. Congratulations to all the other nominees! Thanks to all of our sponsors and donors that helped bring this project to life, thanks to […]

EMIC welcomes new cello

EMIC welcomes new cello

Ensemble Made in Canada (EMIC) has named cellist Trey Lee as a full member. Trey replaces founding member Rachel Mercer, who performed with the group for over 11 seasons. Mercer, who left the group in January 2020, will be focusing her time on other projects, […]

EMIC Nominated for Prix Opus: Concert de l’année

EMIC Nominated for Prix Opus: Concert de l’année

Ensemble Made In Canada was nominated in 3 categories of the 22nd Prix Opus, run by the Conseil québécois de la musique. Our Mozart and Mosaïque concert for Concerts aux Iles du bic on August 8, 2018, was nominated under the category Concert de l’année […]

A New Era

A New Era

Ensemble Made In Canada is thrilled to introduce its newest members, pianist Philip Chiu and violist Sheila Jaffé. EMIC also wishes to acknowledge the outsized contributions of its outgoing founding members, Angela Park and Sharon Wei. Says violinist Elissa Lee, “The personal and musical bonds […]

Western News

Western News

Album marks end of ‘quite a ride’ for ensemble JANUARY 17, 2020 BY DEBORA VAN BRENK Many months and thousands of kilometres since they started their cross-country project to bring new Canadian classical music across cultures and languages, Ensemble Made in Canada is showcasing its […]

The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail

The Ensemble Made in Canada piano quartet takes on a country-sized musical initiative Hank Snow’s been everywhere, man, but has he been to Iqaluit and Pouch Cove, N.L.? The Ensemble Made in Canada has, with remote outposts such as Yellowknife and Sechelt, B.C., still on […]

This is My Music

This is My Music

for Saturday, June 15, 2019 Each week, This Is My Music is hosted by one of Canada’s foremost international classical artists. The host selects a program of mainly classical music and presents it in a lively, engaging manner, enriched with personal anecdotes and insights. This […]

Western News

Western News

Ensemble crosses unique Canadian landscape On the home stretch of a cross-Canada tour, Western’s Ensemble-in-Residence is learning as much as they are sharing about this country. In Norway House, Man., a community that’s an 800-kilometre drive north of Winnipeg, they marvelled at a virtuoso Cree […]

Ensemble in Iqaluit!

Ensemble in Iqaluit!

Nice documentary about our time in Iqaluit, Nunavut as part of the MOSAÏQUE Project tour. Thanks to Mark Aspland of Aksut Media.