Turning Point Ensemble wins Rio Tinto Alcan arts award
Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble is the winner of the 2010 Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award, it was announced Tuesday. Founded in 2002 and co-directed by Owen Underhill and Jeremy Berkman, Turning Point is a music group devoted to exploring the repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Since its inception, the TPE has been steadily growing a core audience; in recent seasons interdisciplinary productions such as last year’s multimedia production of avant gardist Erik Satie’s Relache have been both critical and practical successes.
The award, offered since 1999, gives $60,000 to B.C. arts groups in a three-year rotation between dance, theatre and music. Winning groups create a new work to be premiered in a four-performance run at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Past music winners have included Modern Baroque Opera, for a production of Peter Hannan’s opera 120 Songs about the Marquis de Sade; The Hard Rubber Orchestra ( Enter/Exit); and Vancouver New Music’s Marginalia.
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