Events - upcominG
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Feb 2 2024 - Megumi Masaki performs “See the Freeze / Hear the Thaw” at the University of Toronto New Music Festival.
Feb 17 2024 - Carmen / Black Ice Sound presents the “Crow-Chiu” duo with Wesley Hardisty at NACC
Feb 25 2024 - Luminous Voices performs my choral fiery feminist piece “Crooked by Nature” in Calgary at the Knox United Church. This is a joint concert with another amazing choir I’ve collaborated with: the Canadian Chamber Choir!
April 14 2024 - Dead of Winter (incredible Winnipeg-based choir) performs one of my works in their show “Of Countertenors and Consorts”. Other works by Renaissance masters William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, and renowned contemporary Cree composer Andrew Balfour will be on the program.
June 6-9 2024 - Longshadow Music Festival - see the Longshadow website for upcoming information!
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Jan 13 2024 - World Premiere of “Now at the First Fire of the Fall” for SATB by commissioning group Ensemble ArtChoral, directed by Matthias Maute, at the Maison symphonique, Montreal.
Jan 20 2024 - Ragged Ass Swing Band plays “Dance Yourselves Ragged” - a great night of big band swing music. Carmen has her trombone debut!
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January 10-19 2023 - Canadian Chamber Choir performs Where Waters Meet with Sherryl Sewepagaham (Dene/Cree drum song performer) in Windsor and London, Ontario
January 14 2023 - Sbot N Wo - click here for details - live voice+electronics performance / workshop in Yellowknife - presented by Black Ice Sound (Carmen Braden) and the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre
February 5 2023 - “The Bedrock Cycles” performance in Orléans, ON (Ottawa) - with Rachel Mercer (cello), Angela Park (piano), Jessica Linnebach (violin) presented by “5 at the First” - POSTPONED
Feb 18 2023 - Inaugural Ragged Ass Swing Band concert at the Top Knight, Yellowknife NT - SOLD OUT!!!
February 25 2023 - New North Collective performance in New Westminer, BC (Carmen joining live!)
February 25 2023 - Central Alberta Chamber Orchestra performs “Every Freeze is Different” in their concert ‘Midwinter Melange’ in Red Deer, Alberta
February 26 2023 - Central Alberta Chamber Orchestra performs “Every Freeze is Different” in their concert ‘Midwinter Melange’ in Ponoka, Alberta
April 6 2023 - Black Ice Sound and NACC co-present Echo Chamber - live music and contemporary dance, in their production “Portraits of Home” - features performances of Carmen Braden’s “The Raven Conspiracy” string quartet, “I can finally feel the sun” for solo violin, and a brand new choreography by Yellowknife choreographer Tomiko Robson.
April 22 2023 - Soundstreams presents “The Seed Knows” - Erika Raum (violin) and Wesley Shen (piano), St. Andrew's Church, Toronto ON
May 4 2023 - World Premiere - Mark Fewer commission “You Know It’s Coming You Just Don’t Know When” - new work for violin, piano, and string quartet - Toronto - Women’s Music Club of Toronto
June 1-4 2023 Strata Festival - composer in residence - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
June 15-17 2023 Longshadow Music Festival - Yellowknife NWT
June 17 - 23 Elektra Women’s Choir is touring the Lost Words project in England! The first performances of my work in the UK, alongside 9 other Canadian Composers.
• June 17, 2023 • 7:00 pm - Peterborough International Women’s Choral Festival – Gala Concert, Peterborough Cathedral•June 19, 2023 • Peterborough - 7:30 pm - Key Theatre
•June 20, 2023 • 7:30 pm - Cambridge - West Road Concert Hall, with special guest, author Robert Macfarlane as reader!
•June 23, 2023 • 7:30 pm - London, England - St. John’s Smith Square
June 20 - 23 2023 - Key of T performance by Ari Agha - Indianapolis, Indiana at the conference for Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed
June 25 2023 - performance of “The Bedrock Cycles” by Rachel Mercer, Angela Park and Jessica Linnebach at “5 at the First” in Hamilton, ON.
July 14 - 16 2023 - Carmen performs live with the great Yellowknife band Flora and the Fireweeds at the iconic summer Folk on the Rocks music festival in Yellowknife
July 25 2023 - Chamberfest performance of “You Know It’s Coming You Just Don’t Know When” performed by Mark Fewer (violin), Jeanie Chung (piano), and the Thalea String Quartet
August 21 2023 - World Premiere - “The Crossover and The Exodus Suite (Jig+Reel) arrangement of a brand new work by Dene fiddler Wesley Hardisty and Ensemble Made in Canada - for fiddler and piano quartet, at the Big Lake Festival in Wellington, Ontario.
SPECIAL POST ABOUT THE MUSICAL JOURNEY OF THIS COLLABORATION WITH WESLEY HARDISTY + THE EMIC QUARTET
September 1-3 2023 - composer in residence at the Banff International String Quartet Festival
Oct 3-8 2023 - Pawakan MacBeth premieres with Carmen’s sound design at the Neptune Theatre, Halifax Nov Scotia
Oct 18 - 26 2023 Pawakan MacBeth tours the NWT including Yellowknife, Hay River, Fort Smith, Fort Simpson NWT
Nov 3 2023 - Gillian Smith releases “Tree Talk” on her album “En Route” released by Leaf Music, live performances
Nov 24 2023 - Matt Haimovitz releases “The Arranged Marriage to the Oranges” for solo cello - part of the Primavera Project, on the album “Primavera IV: the heart”
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February 9 2022 - “Preludes” album release by Julia MacLaine (solo cello) featuring my composition “Play Time” - inspired by Bach’s Cello Prelude in C.
February 19 2022 - Online streamed concert - Music from the Edges of Canada - Carmen in concert!
Feb 24 2022 - Schulich Singers perform “Crooked by Nature” - Montreal, QC
Feb 26 2022 - Pembroke Symphony Orchestra performs “Blood Echo” - Pembroke, ON
March 2 - New Orford String Quartet performs “Raven Conspiracy” - London, ON - live streamed + in person
March 4/5 2022 - New Orford String Quartet performs “Raven Conspiracy” Vancouver Chamber Music Society
March 4 2022 - “Ecology of Being” album release by Duo Concertante (digital and physical) - featuring violin and piano composition “The Seed Knows”
March 26 2022 - Brock University Singers perform world premiere of “Return to the Blur” for SATB
May 4 2022 - “Bodies Creating Sounds” World Premiere for piano and transgender singer - Phoenix, Arizona - Ari Agha, “Singing in the Key of T - Voice, Gender and Change” performance - Arizona State University
May 9 2022 - New Orford String Quartet performs “Raven Conspiracy” Calgary, Mount Royal University
May 13 2022 - New Orford String Quartet performs “Ravens Conspiracy” Edmonton, AB
May 17 2022 - World Premiere with the Orchestre Classique de Montréal for string orchestra and percussion “She rides hear bike with a cello on her back and a baby in the basket” featuring percussionist Catherine Varvaro
May 14 - 19 - National Youth Choir performs “Crooked by Nature” on their Ontario tour (Ottawa May 14; Kingston May 15; Manotick May 16; Chorale du Centre d'excellence artistique de l'Ontario (CEAO) May 17; Toronto - Podium choir conference May 19)
June 2 - 5 2022 - Open Ears guest workshops and performances - Kitchener ON - songwriting workshops, panelist, concert featuring choral works, and solo live performance of original songs
June 23 - 26 2022 - Longshadow Music Festival - Yellowknife NT
July 4 2022 - Chicago performance of new work “Bodies Creating Sounds” - for voice and piano at the USA National Association of Teachers of Singing conference - commissioned and performed by transgender creator Ari Agha
July 5 2022 - CBC Choral Concert - features the National Youth Choir performance of “Crooked by Nature” at Podium (Toronto, May 2022), conducted by Jean-Sébastien Vallée
July 22 2022 - “Domino Domino Domino” - World Premiere - Elora Singers + TorQ Percussion - Elora Festival, Ontario. SATB + percussion quartet
July 26 2022 - Toronto Summer Music performance with Duo Concertante of my work “The Seed Knows” as part of “The Ecology of Being” project
July 26 2022 - Toronto Summer Music performance with New Orford String Quartet of my Raven Conspiracy
July 30 2022 - Stratford Summer Music Festival performance with Duo Concertante of my work “The Seed Knows” as part of “The Ecology of Being” project
August 17 2022 - Quatuor Vibrances performs my Raven Conspiracy in PEI at the BigLake Journeys Festival! Haven’t had many (any?!) works performed there before!!!
Sept 23 - 25 2022 - musical scavenger hunt! My new work for solo vibraphone commissioned + included in the “SPHERE Festival” in Ottawa, partnership with the NAC Orchestra and the Canadian Museum of Nature.
October 1/2 2022 - “The Lost Words” - World Premiere of “Lark” and “Heather” for choir and accompaniment - part of the Electra Women’s Choir amazing multi-composer project based on the incredible book “The Lost Words” by Robert MacFarlane - Vancouver BC
Oct 20 2022 - “Hear the Freeze, See the Thaw” - World Premiere - Megumi Masaki (piano + multimedia) - Yellowknife NT, Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
Nov 4/5/6 2022 - Edmonton Symphony Orchestra premiers the new chamber orchestra arrangement of my Raven Conspiracy (originally for string quartet). Pretty stacked concert - Grieg, Ravel and Stravinsky on the program too - conducted by US conductor Michael Stern.
Nov 2-4 2022 - Canadian Chamber Choir performs Where Waters Meet with guest artist Aaron Prosper on a Nova Scotia Tour (Parrsboro, Halifax, Truro)
Nov 12 2022 - Polycoro performs Aviva Swims in Winnipeg Manitoba
Nov 27 2022 - World premiere of “24 hours at 24 months” by wind quintet Pentaedre in Montreal!
Dec 3 - 10 2022 - The Breathing Hole play by Colleen Murphy runs at the National Arts Centre, with my original sound design, directed by Reneltta Arluk.
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April 15 2021 - World Premiere (online) of “Play Time” for solo cello - Julia MacLaine cellist, Groundswell presenter, performed in Chelsea Quebec
April 14 2021 - Ottawa Choral Society (online) guest artist presentation
March 17 2021 - World Premiere (online) of “Raven Duo” for two violins - Robert Uchida and Laura Veeze. Edmonton AB. Adaptation of The Raven Conspiracy movement 3 Something Shiny
March 13 2021 - Performance of “Bend Willow Brand” at Chamberfest (streamed/live). Performed by members of the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Ottawa
March 6 2021 - World Premiere (online) of “Aviva Swims” by Aeolian Singers, Halifax NS
February 25 2021 - Creative Catalyst Workshop - piano accompanying (online)
June 15 2021 - Yellowknife Farmers Market
July 2 2021 - Single Release - “Kick Kick” from upcoming album Seed Songs.
July 18 2021 - Folk on the Rocks - Yellowknife NT - live performance!
July 26 2021 - ChamberFest - Ottawa ON - live performance and live stream - “The Seed Knows” performed by Duo Concertante
July 30 2021 to August 1 - Ramble and Ride - Yellowknife NT - live performance, busker-style!
August 3 2021 - ChamberFest - Ottawa ON - live performance and live stream - “The Raven Conspiracy” performed by EchoChamber
August 17 2021 - Farmers Market - live performance, lets play some jazz!
August 20 2021 - Single Release - “Menu” from upcoming album Seed Songs
Sept 11 2021 - Quartuor Vibrances performs my Raven Conspiracy String Quartet in Quebec City (my Quebec City debut!) at Les Escapades Musicales de la Cité.
October 15 2021 - Seed Songs Album RELEASE!
November - work with Megumi Masaki on the Hearing Ice project, commission for piano+media, ice+climate change
December 10 2021 - Live at NACC - Music from the Edges of Canada series
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January 9 2020. Gillian Smith (violin) and Mary Castello (piano) perform Magnetic North. Denton Hall, Wolfville NS.
January 25 and 26 2020. The Regina Symphony Orchestra plays my wind quintet What Happens When We Move on their concert “Coming Together”.
January 31 2020. Sackville NB’s Mount Allison University presents “Trombone, North of 60”, with trombonist Dale Sorensen. Dale has commissioned and will premiere my new work for trombone+percussion “Ghost of a Giant in the Ground” with Joël Cormier on percussion.
Multiple Dates - Northern Sites 360 - The frozen-piano-in-ice 360-degree video I made with Western Arctic Moving Pictures is going on tour!
Jan 31 - Feb 9 Whitehorse YK - Available Light Film Festival
Dawson City YK - Dawson International Film Festival - Postponed to Oct 8-11 2020
February 4-8 2020. Guest composer at Acadia University (my undergrad school!) for their new music week. Wolfville, NS.
February 9 2020. Fredericton’s University of New Brunswick Centre for Musical Arts presents myself, Mark Adam (percussion), Nadia Francavilla (violin) and Norman Adams (cello) in concert with works from my newest album Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars.
February 9 2020. Calgary’s Ensemble Resonance performs The Raven Translations (clarinet, piano, violin, soprano) - which they commissioned and premiered in 2019! Their concert: Music, Words & Technology: the Impact.
Feb 16, Feb 23, May 16 2020 - Music Composition Workshops for Yellowknife music students, with special guest session with Prairie Debut / NACC Artists Amy Hillis and Megan Milatz.
February 23 2020. Calgary’s Luminous Voices premieres a new choral work of mine inspired by women living in the Tudor age. alongside many beautiful Rennaisance vocal works and another new commission by Zachary Wadsworth in their concert “The Tudors”.
March 1 2020. Winnipeg choir Canzona premieres a new choral work of mine in their concert “Canzoni d'Amore - Love Songs” featuring works by women composers in the 18th and 21st Centuries - including Canadians Laura Hawley, Marie-Claire Saindon and myself.
POSTPONED/CANCELLED May 6 and 7 2020. Vancouver women’s choir Elektra premieres “The Lost Words: A Spell Book” project with 10 Canadian composers commissioned to set the text of this fantastic book for treble choir and accompaniment. I got to set the texts for the “Lark” and “Heather” spells!
MOVED ONLINE May 16 2020 - Music Composition Workshops for Yellowknife music students, with special guest session with Prairie Debut / NACC Artists Amy Hillis and Megan Milatz.
POSTPONED/CANCELLED June 6 2020. Aeolian Singers premiere “Aviva Swims” - my new work for treble choir+accompaniment in Halifax NS.
MOVED ONLINE / POSTPONED / CANCELLED - Multiple Dates - Duo Concertante premieres a new work of mine for violin and piano, as part of their “Ecology of Being” concert, along with 4 other new works by Canadian composers Dawn Avery, Ian Cusson, Melissa Hui and Bekah Simms.
July 30 Toronto Summer Music
August 1 Stratford Summer Music
August 3 Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival
August 9 Tuckamore Festival: Cape Broyle
August 10 Tuckamore Festival: St John’s (Festival opener for 20th anniversary of the festival)
August 24 Musique Royale: Lunenburg NS
August 29 2020. Online streamed concert - Carmen’s first one! 7:30pm Presented by NACC, WAMP and NorthwesTel. Free to view on NACC and WAMP’s facebook pages, NACC’s YouTube page, and NorthwesTel Community TV channel. *** Watch the full concert online here!
November 26 2020. Online premiere / radio premiere - Duo Beija-Flor premiere’s “The Culture of Isolation” for flute/guitar. Teaser video here. And watch the youtube premiere here. Or tune in to Calgary’s CJSW Noise radio program to hear from me and the performers at 8:3pm MT.
POSTPONED - December 13 2020. Aeolian Singers premiere “Aviva Swims” my new work for treble choir+accompaniment in Halifax NS.
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January 17 2019. Pass the Music On - fundraiser for Music Teachers Association NWT. Playing with Lawrence Nayally
February 28 2019. Open Workshop - The Creative Process
March 2 2019. Carmen in Concert - Snowking’s Winter Festival (Yellowknife)
March 17 2019. World premiere Undersurface - Hasselberg & Lewis cello/soprano duo (Yellowknife)
March 26 2019. Preshow - Carmen live - Chor Leoni concert, Northern Arts and Cultural Centre
April 4 2019. Pacific Contact juried showcase (Vancouver)
April 5 2019. World premiere The Raven Translations - Ensemble Resonance, commissioned by New Works Calgary
April 15 - 30 2019. recording in Nova Scotia with producer Mark Adam
April 21 and 28 2019. Songwriting through Improvisation - workshops through Music Interchange (Yellowknife)
June 14 - 16 2019. inaugural Longshadow New Music Festival
September 26 2019. Yellowknife Album Release Party - Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars
September 27 2019. OFFICIAL ALBUM RELEASE!! Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars
September 28 2019. Black Ice Sound co-presents amazing young pianist Anastasia Rizikov (Piano Six Artist).
Oct 2-6 2019. BreakOut West and the Western Canadian Music Awards (Whitehorse)
October 12 2019. World premiere Where Waters Meet - Canadian Chamber Choir (Yellowknife / Edmonton)
October 26 2019. Ensemble Made in Canada - Mosaïque Project - piano quartet visits Yk! (Yellowknife)
November 16, 17, 20, 21 2019. Toronto Symphony Orchestra Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars - Full orchestra premiere
November 18th, 2019. Canadian Music Centre launch of Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars album, at the CMC National office in Toronto.
November 24-30, 2019. Banff Faculty Residency. Free public performance on Friday Nov 29th.
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January 4 2018. Bentway Skate Trail Opening. Carmen plays!
January 20 2018. The Raven Conspiracy performed in Ottawa - WolfGANG Sessions, NAC Orchestra members
May 4 2018. Robert Uchida and Peter Allen, Brahms Sonatas *Presentation Series event
May 4-6 2018. World Premiere of Foxy Fox’s Musical Games, Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition, Brandon MB
May 3 2018. Gryphon Trio Listen Up! Gala Concert, Saskatoon SK
May 26 2018. Canadian Women Composers Project - Clarisse Tonigussi, Yellowknife NT *Presentation Series event
June 9 2018. World Premiere of In the Marrow Lives a Woman, Land’s End Ensemble, Calgary, AB
July 6-8 2018. Atlin Arts and Music Festival, Atlin BC. Carmen plays!
July 22 2018. Folk on the Rocks, Yellowknife NT. Carmen plays!
July 24-27 2018. Songwriting workshop, Stratford Summer Music, Stratford, ON
September 8 2018. University of Calgary Alumni Weekend
October 24 2018. 2018 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré) Winner violinist Amy Hillis at NACC, Yellowknife, NT.
October 4 - 13 2018. New North Collective Tour. Carmen plays with awesome folks.
November 15 2018. Carmen Braden in Concert - Album fundraiser concert, Yellowknife NT. Carmen plays! *Presentation Series event
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January 24 2017. Ravens - Official Album Launch, King Eddy - Calgary
February 6 2017. New North Collective, Whitehorse Yukon, Available Light Film Festival.
February 24, 25 2017. The Committed - Shake Those Tail Feathers
March 12, 26 2017. Ice Seasons - World Premiere, Spiritus Chamber Choir, Yellowknife and Calgary
June 9 2017. Bend Willow Branch - World Premiere, COSY, Yellowknife
July 18 2017. James Ehnes and Carmen play Magnetic North, Stratford ON.
July 30 - September 22 2017. The Breathing Hole - World Premiere, Stratford Festival (sound design)
August 2 2017. Songs of the Invisible Summer Stars - World Premiere, TSO Chamber Soloists, Toronto
August 11 2017. Carmen Braden in concert - Stratford Summer Music Festival Cabaret Series
September 13-17 2017. WCMA Nomination Classical Composition of the Year / BreakOut West
December 21 2017. Problematic Orchestra - World Premiere, Whitehorse
December 9 2017. Raven Conspiracy performance - National Arts Centre members, Yellowknife
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February 11-13 2016. ArtArctica performance, Helsinki Finland
April 3 2016. Fundraiser concert - Recording first album
April 23, 24 2016. House concert fundraisers
May 12 2016. Caribou Masquerade - Carmen plays museum concert
May 29 2016. James Ehnes performs Magnetic North, Toronto, 21C Festival, Koerner Hall
December 1 2016. Joined the New North Collective
December 4-10 2016. NWT Tour - Broken Hearts and Madmen - Patricia O’Callaghan and the Gryphon Trio
December 2, 3 3016. Solstice Shadows - Aurora Chorealis premiere
December 7 2016. Wide Quietness - video
December 10-20 2016. Collaboration with Moxi Zishi - Chinese Artist on the aurora
December 22 2016. Ravens Yellowknife Album Launch Concert
December 31 2016. New Years Eve - the Committed at the Multiplex
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September 18 2015. Bedrock Cycles performance - Association of Canadian Women Composers
December 16 2015. Rest of Night - world premiere, clarinet+doublebass Groundswell, Winnipeg
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January 29 2014. Parhelia - world premiere - University of Calgary Orchestra