Cover 📸: Stacy Lee
Editor @jenniepunter.bsky.social
Designer: Thang Vu
Copy Editor: Mary Dickie
Manager: Taylor Kozak
Digital Communications: Jordan Currie
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Cover 📸: Stacy Lee
Editor @jenniepunter.bsky.social
Designer: Thang Vu
Copy Editor: Mary Dickie
Manager: Taylor Kozak
Digital Communications: Jordan Currie
And thank you to our readers, advertisers, subscribers, board of directors, followers, and funders" Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Canadian Heritage and SOCAN Foundation.
Huge thanks to our MW153 writers:
Graham Latham
Rosie Long Decter @rosield.bsky.social
Tom Beedham @tombeedham.bsky.social
Jesse Eckerlin
Abiola Regan
Brennan McCracken @brenmccracken.bsky.social
Matt Horseman
and our reviewer ensemble ❤️ 🎶
And don't forget to order a copy and subscribe here:
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Take a look at what's inside our new issue, including Quinton Barnes's experimental R&B, Corie Rose Soumah's electroacoustic music, DeForrest Brown, Jr.'s Detroit techno and much more! Plus, 12 new or unreleased tracks from featured artists on our accompanying CD 💿
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Winter waves are melting into spring. Please remove your earmuffs—Musicworks 153 is here! 🎉 🌸
Check out the lineup of artists at @mutek.bsky.social!
Pictured ⬆️: Corie Rose Soumah (coming soon in MW 153) setting up on the stage of Hugh's Room in Toronto. 📸: Jesse Sarkis, courtesy of Soundstreams.
Get caught up on our first e-newsletter of 2026! 🎉 Check out stories on our international musical escapades, a new music festival + conference we're supporting by @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social, and messages from our friends at @torontosymphony.bsky.social ⬇️
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Have you preordered our upcoming issue yet? 👀
Click here to see who's featured in Musicworks 153:
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And don't forget to preorder MW Issue 153 💿
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You can also catch the singer, songwriter and trumpeter in @wavelengthmusic.bsky.social's Festival on March 19 in Toronto. Musicworks is proud to be a media partner of the inaugural Wavelength Music Festival + Conference! 🎶
www.wavelengthmusic.ca/festival/wav...
For Juno-nominated Tara Kannangara, performing is the most pure form of musical expression. “There’s an unknown energy that you get to play with, and you can feel it in the room—that can’t be replicated,” she told writer Abiola Regan, coming soon in Musicworks 153. (📸: Howard Billerman)
Kevin Lau, “Kevin Lau: Kimiko’s Pearl” (📸: Bo Huang)
Nicole Lizée, “Music for Body-Without-Organs” (MW 105 & 112, 📸: Diane Park)
Linda Catlin Smith, “Linda Catlin Smith: The Complete Piano Solos (1989-2023) Vol. 1 – The Plains” (MW 133, 📸: Claire Harvie)
We've listened to all five—have you? 🎵
Congratulations to the Canadian composers up for Classical Composition of the Year at this year’s #junoawards, happening March 29! Some of these artists have been featured in Musicworks!
Amy Brandon, “Cloud Path” (MW 134, 📸: Jeff Cooke)
Andrew Staniland, “The Laws of Nature” (MW 122, 📸: Bo Huang)
Composer Corie Rose Soumah stands in front of electronic music equipment, wearing a black turtleneck sweater and black skirt, with curly hair and wearing glasses.
The three members of Tempête Solaire are wearing dark clothing and stand beside each other in front of various pipes and electrical wires in a grey corner of a basement or industrial space.
Michael Scott Dawson sits with a mirror and lamp behind him, over his left shoulder. He wears a cap that says Western Electroacoustic Research, glasses, and a dark buttoned-up
Meet these Canadian artists in Musicworks 153, dropping soon! 1 Corie Rose Soumah uses aesthetic and elements in hypersonic collages. 2 Tempête Solaire creates saturated instrumental avant music. 3 Michael Scott Dawson makes field recordings and songs. Pre-order or subscribe to support our work.
The #OrchestratedRCM series continues on January 22 when #KishiBashi brings his genre-blending music to #KoernerHall, backed by the @royalconservatory.bsky.social Orchestra. Make a night of it with speciality cocktails and a DJ-led afterparty! 🎻🎶🥃
Tickets on sale now at rcmusic.com/performance.
We are happy to announce that our annual operating grant from the Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario has been renewed for 2026. We appreciate the OAC’s abiding confidence in our small but far-reaching Toronto-based organization. Thank you, @ontarioarts.bsky.social !
The #KoernerHall experience, reimagined. Cory Wong headlines the first concert of a bold new series titled Orchestrated tonight at Koerner Hall. Come early, stay late. 🎶🍸 #TorontoEvents #OrchestratedRCM
www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/cory-wong
The cover of Musicworks' Fall 2025 print issue shows Lisa Conway, wearing a white shirt, her brown hair in a bun on top of her head and her eyes looking down, sitting in front of a reel-to-reel tape machine. The names of artists or projects in the issue are printed on the cover: ASKO, Kalun Leung, Susie Ibarra, Mali Obomsawin, Koala karnival, Cluster
Lisa Conway works with analog synths, reel-to-reel, and alphorns! Mali Obomsawin taps into jazz, folk, and Abenaki roots. Susie Ibarra opens ears to nature’s rhythms. Kalun Leung slides into uncharted territory. Marek Tyler’s ASKO echoes nêhiyaw ways of living. www.musicworks.ca/whats-inside...
Cover of Musicworks magazine, issue 151, is a black-and-white photo of Quebec musician Rémy Bélanger de Beauport scrunching his face as he playing the cello. Pink and green text shows names or artist also featured in the issue: Kathryn Patricia Cobbler, Lola de la Mata, Michiyo Yagi, Sarah Pagé, and Hiroko Nagai, Yoo Doo Right, and Edzi'u.
Rémy Bélanger de Beauport (soundmaker communities), Lola de la Mata (instruments explore tinnitus), Michiyo Yagi, Sarah Pagé, Hiroko Nagai (koto liberation), Yoo Doo Right (formidable post-rock), Kathryn Patricia Cobbler (loop-pedal viola), Edzi'u (dream stories).
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"a treasure trove of diversity, encompassing multilingual vocals, epic instrumental rock-outs, freak-folk meanderings, electronics-heavy abstractions, and abundant warm grooves." " New album from cellist Peggy Lee, guitarist Cole Schmidt, and pals. Full review here!
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Hot on the heels of winning the 2025 Juno for Contemporary Roots Album for STRANGE MEDICINE, composer, banjoist & singer @kaiakater.bsky.social hits Toronto tonight, Apr. 4. Warm up with Chaka V. Grier's profile of Kaïa, now posted for your online reading enjoyment!
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