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Art of Piano 2025

Overview  

Twenty selected participants will have the unique opportunity to study with world-class piano faculty, engage meaningfully with both mentors and peers, and practice in the inspiring setting of the Banff Centre, surrounded by the breathtaking beauty of the Canadian Rockies.

Art of the Piano seeks well-rounded, advanced pianists who are confident in public speaking and eager to embrace and draw inspiration from their natural surroundings.

Description

Define your artistic vision, enhance your performance confidence, and advance your career through:

Jazz & Sonic Arts 2025

Overview  

The Jazz & Sonic Arts program is an innovative development opportunity for early and mid-career jazz and sound artists. It encourages participants to explore new directions in their artistic practice, become changemakers, and advance their creative potential as performers, collaborators, and creators.

Engage with sound in innovative ways, using improvisation, experimentation, and technology to expand the sonic possibilities of music. Jazz and Sonic Arts are ever-evolving and diverse genres, creating a powerful synergy that inspires creativity and leads to multidimensional, transcendent artistic experiences. They serve as catalysts for cultural dialogue, empowerment, societal change, and ecological awareness.

Audio Engineer: Soundweavings 2025

Dates

Application Deadline: November 20, 2024

Program Dates: April 22 – May 9, 2025

Overview

The Audio Engineer professional training program is a continuing education opportunity designed for emerging recording engineers with mature artistic insight, advanced practical skills, and significant professional experience or a high level of professional training. Learning objectives have been integrated into artistic residency programs, inviting exciting opportunities for collaboration and connection in this redeveloped applied-learning program.

Soundweavings: Intercultural Music Residency 2025

Dates

Application Deadline: November 20, 2024

Program Dates: April 28 – May 09, 2025

Overview  

This two-week residency offers musicians and ensembles from diverse cultural and artistic backgrounds dedicated space and time to focus on their craft. Embracing music from all traditions and breaking boundaries, the program encourages connections between musicians using both traditional world instruments and Western instruments and voice. 

Indigenous Haute Couture – Creation & Embellishments 2025

Dates

Application Deadline: November 27, 2024

Program Dates: April 02 – May 01, 2025

Online: April 01 – 05, 2025 In Person: April 07 – May 02, 2025

Overview

This five-week hybrid residency, led by D’Arcy Moses, supports twelve Indigenous designers in advancing their personal design projects. 

The online portion equips designers to arrive on campus ready to create haute couture garments or accessories. Once on campus, they will focus on pattern development and embellishments while benefiting from full access to our Visual Arts facilities

Playwrights Lab 2025

Dates

Application Deadline: October 23, 2024

Program Dates: April 21 – May 03, 2025

Overview

The newly reimagined Playwrights Lab 2025 program offers an inspiring, interdisciplinary, and inclusive environment for both emerging and established playwrights, dramaturgs and creators of new theatrical work. We invite playwrights to develop compelling new work, with urgent narratives across all genres. Join us during this pivotal time when the theatre community is facing both crisis and renewal and where playwrights are the foundation for leading the way forward. 

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