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Canada Music Week is an annual event where music teachers, students and their families gather together in their local communities to celebrate Canadian music. Canada Music Week events are presented in various formats: from recitals, to workshops, to contests - all with the premise of including music by Canadians for Canadians.
The aims of Canada Music Week are to bring to the attention of the public, through various means, the importance of Canadian music; to support composers and performers of Canadian music; to introduce contemporary music to young Canadians and stimulate a keener appreciation and understanding of this music; and to encourage music educators to widen their knowledge and experience of Canadian works.
Canada Music Week is dedicated to music in its fullest sense but since 1967 particular focus has been on the Canadian cultural content. Thousands of Canadians experience Canada Music Week festivities each year in their communities. In 1957 Violet Isfeld, who was then president of the Canadian Federation of Music Teacher's Association, proposed that a National Week for Music be initiated in 1960 to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the Federation. The response was enthusiastic and the celebration so successful that the next year (1961) it was decided by CFMTA council to make "Canada Music Week" an annual event.
For more information on the history of Canada Music Week, please click:
www.cfmta.org/student_competitions/canada_music_week.php
Canada Music Week Reports:
 2008 Report
2009 Report
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