Please note that we will be closed on December 22 — 26, 2006 (your orders received during that period will be processed and confirmed on Wednesday, December 27) and on December 30, 2006 — January, 2, 2007 (orders received during that period will be processed on Wednesday, January 3). Everyone at actuellecd.com wish you a merry holiday season!

Four DAME albums are nominated for the 2006 Opus Prizes. Steve Reich: Different Trains by the Bozzini Quartet and Three Cities in the Life of Dr Norman Bethune by Tim Brady are both nominated in the “Disc of the Year — modern and contemporary musics” category. As for Chansons de la belle espérance by Pierre Cartier and The Feeling of Jazz by Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay, they are nominated in the “Disc of the Year — Jazz and world musics” category. Additionally, Filature by Joane Hétu is nominated for “Premiere of the Year.” The 10th Opus Prize Gala will take place on January 28, 2006 at the Salle Claude-Champagne, Université de Montréal.

8 selections of 6 CDs for only $60, shipping and tax included! It’s the tasty DAME special for the Holidays. The ideal offer if you want to find a gift for a loved one as well as one for yourself! Each selection of 6 CDs is chock full of surprises:

• Six Jazz CDs, with {nbio:berthiaume_an}, {nbio:lepage_ro}, {nbio:nisenson_da}, the {nbio:ensembleenpieces_}, the Trio Derome Guilbeault Tanguay and the trio Évidence
• Six String Music CDs, with {nbio:duchesne_an}, Pierre-Yves Martel, the Bozzini Quartet, {nbio:berthiaume_an} in duo with {nbio:bailey_de} and {nbio:frith_fr}, {nbio:lussier_re} and the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
• Six Contemporary Music CDs, with {nbio:ceccarelli_is}, {nbio:roger_da}, {nbio:brady_ti}, the Bozzini Quartet and L’Hexacorde
• Six Actuelle Songs CDs, with {nbio:cartier_pi}, Antenata, {nbio:falaise_be} and D. Kimm, {nbio:letarte_ge}, {nbio:hetu_jo} and Frank Martel
• Six Improv CDs, with {nbio:auclair_me}, {nbio:freedman_lo}, {nbio:boyko_db} {nbio:duncan_ch} {nbio:martin_je}, {nbio:leandre_jo} and {nbio:lenoci_gi}, Nous perçons les oreilles as well as {nbio:tanguay_pi} and {nbio:walsh_to}
• Six Noise/Bruitist CDs, with {nbio:robert_jo}, Taxonomy, {nbio:arcand_pi}, Klaxon Gueule, {nbio:labrosse_di} and {nbio:tetreault_ma} as well as {nbio:tetreault_ma} and {nbio:otomo_yo}
• Six Thematic CDs, with {nbio:tabassian_zi}, {nbio:cote_mi}, {nbio:lepage_ro}, {nbio:derome_je}, {nbio:tetreault_ma} and {nbio:cartier_pi}
• Lastly, Six Musique Actuelle CDs, with {nbio:belanger_marie} and {nbio:guilbeault_no}, {nbio:bull_ar} and {nbio:heikalo_da}, Noma, {nbio:lepage_ro}, Lee Pui Ming and the trio {nbio:goldstein_ma} {nbio:heward_jo} {nbio:wiens_ra}

This offer ends January 10, 2007.

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

A portrait and three concerts by Martin Tétreault are available on the Bande à part website, broadcaster (via satellite, web and FM band) of emerging and exploratory musics:

• Martin Tétreault, profession: chirurgien sonore [Martin Tétreault: Sound Surgeon], a podcast in French presenting his work and featuring three exclusive tracks;
• Étude de feedback [Feedback Study], a concert with Bernard Falaise;
• Solo de batterie sur vinyle avec quatre tourne-disques [Drum Solo on Vinyl with Four Turntables], a concert with Alexander MacSween;
• Martin Tétreault au Studio du Musée Juste pour rire, a performance with Marina Rosenfeld (USA), Philip Jeck (UK), and Martin Ng (Australia) at the Mutek festival.
• ++Vinylistik: Le craquement des platinistes

Today the Fondation SPACQ has awarded six prizes of excellence to composers and authors. The Prix Richard Grégoire for film and television music was awarded to Robert Marcel Lepage. The composer has created over one hundred scores for documentaries, television series, animation films, short films, and feature films.