Alchemy Rose

08/31/2024

We are still looking for sponsors for the Creative Music Writing Competition awards. Any amount you can donate is welcome. Your donation can be dedicated in memoriam or otherwise. We've only raised $250 so far and we need $650 pay for the awards. You will have a chance to see some of the performers in concert in a few weeks. Here's a video of one of our winners, Joel Cook, performing his composition "Whispers of Hope". If any of you watched his performance at the final festival concert last March, you will remember what a remarkable young pianist he is. Please give what you can; message me directly. Means a lot to our composers. Thank you!

07/06/2024

Just assembling the Creative Music Writing Competition entries for the 2024 Adjudicator, Alberta composer, Kristen Flores # Kristin Flores, composer and want to share some submissions. It always seems like an stunning, exciting amount of creative voice and talent from Alberta young musicians, and this year is no exception. Here is Daybreak by Marina Tinga from St. Albert. She is 17. If you'd like to sponsor a composer award ($100) or honorable mention ($30) please contact me. You can dedicate the award as you wish, eg, in memoriam.

05/07/2024

Premiere of Beethoven's Symphony 9 was 200 years ago this day.

Listen to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and its final movement, “Ode to Joy,” as it was originally performed. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of this iconi...

04/23/2024

My buddy Rizwana Janmohamed has gotten me to join her team for the annual Kidney Foundation fundraising 100km walk through the mountains and held in Sept 2024. It'll be fun & rewarding to train with this energetic group of community activists! Anyway, our fundraising goal is $2200 each. Any small amount you can contribute would be welcome and tax deductible. Here is my fundraising page link:

Your Support Means the World to Me. Kidney disease is on the rise, affecting one in 10 Canadians. I am taking part in Kidney March, a 100-kilometre journey thi

04/21/2024

Fellow musician Charlie Green sent me his friend's recent video answering the ole question "What is Classical Music." Cool and quirky thought process here; informative and fun. Highly recommended!

You might know what 'classical music' is, but could you define it for a visiting Martian? Not so easy? Here's why the standard definitions don't make much se...

04/17/2024

It's that time of year! The annual Creative Music Writing Competition for amateurs has opened - all ages, stages and levels of unpublished composers welcome. https://aptaonline.net/apta-programs/apta-annual-creative-music-writing-competition/ Closes June 1; score & recording required. There's prizes and a professional performance opportunity in Edmonton in Sept 2024 at the winners & honorable mentions concert. Get started early since it takes a while to notate one's composition.

APTA Annual Creative Music Writing Competition APTA invites your submissions of an original composition for any solo instrument, including voice, or any combination of instruments, to the annual Creative Music Writing Competition. Entrants will receive a critique of their work by a highly qualified....

03/17/2024

Here is part 2 of the festival showcase concert! Some fine Beethoven, Haydn and all your fav Chopin featured here:

Here is the recording of the second half of the final showcase concert for the APTA Festival held at St. David's United Church from March 4-16 in Calgary, Al...

03/17/2024

Here is part 1 of last night's Festival Showcase Concert:

Here is the recording of the first half of the final showcase concert for the APTA Festival held at St. David's United Church from March 4-16 in Calgary, Alb...