Tim Brady and Marjan Mozetich won the Jan V Matejcek Prize for concert music, awarded by SOCAN on November 21 and 22, 2006.

Composer Hans Tutschku won the First Prize (Category A) in the Musica Nova 2006 International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Prague, Czech Republic) for his work Rojo. Silent Red by Mathew Adkins was amongst the finalists.

John Oliver’s composition Dust (available on the CD Double Entendre) is a finalist in the Outstanding Classical Composition category of the Western Canadian Music Awards to be held in Winnipeg on October 22, 2006.

Several artists from Québec will take part in “Waves,” a media art event held at the Arsenals exhibition hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art, in Riga on August 25 to September 17, 2006. Steve Heimbecker, Jean-Pierre Aubé, and Artificiel (Alexandre Burton, Julien Roy, Jimmy Lakatos and Pascale Malaterre) are amongst the selected artists.

Pete Stollery has received a commission from the Institut international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges (IMEB). He will compose the new acousmatic work in April and September 2007 in Bourges (France).

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