Ron Mannix: Distinguished Business [title] Leader • [section] • Cover
Music, environment, the development of the Alberta Family Wellness initiative covering children and health and wellness are all catered for under the Norlien Foundation which Mannix founded and endowed in 1998 that initiates strategic projects to enhance the life of all Canadians.
The unique complex is managed by Triovest, a company formed through a unification of Toronto-based Redcliff Realty and Tonko Realty Advisors of Calgary. A fully-integrated commercial real estate investment and management company, it offers a comprehensive suite of services to pension funds and other investors. Today it manages a portfolio of more than $7 billion in value across the country including many well-known office buildings in Calgary. One of these is Customs House – the sandstone block on 11th Avenue SE that Mannix has been involved with and it’s the building in which the National Music Centre is operating with their Music Museum collection and many different programming activities. Mannix says his mother initiated his interest in music; she was an accomplished organist and piano player and he remembers many fun times of playing guitar in a University of Alberta band. 48 • June 2015 BUSINESS IN CALGARY | businessincalgary.com
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Ron Mannix, founder and director of Coril Holdings.
With a need to grow and a broader vision to establish a national catalyst for discovery, innovation and renewal through music, the original Cantos Music Foundation has evolved into the exciting new National Music Centre (NMC) that is scheduled to open next year. Cantos and NMC can both trace their history back to the installation of the Carthy organ in the Jack Singer Concert Hall in 1987, a gift that became the genesis of the International Organ Festival. Covering over 160,000 square feet and the remake of the legendary King Eddy Hotel, the new NMC building includes a collection of more than 2,000 rare instruments and artifacts, exhibition space telling the stories of music in Canada, three recording studios and a 300-seat performance space. The National Music Centre is destined to inspire a new generation of music lovers across the country. Music, environment, the development of the Alberta Family Wellness initiative covering children and health and wellness are all catered for under the Norlien Foundation which Mannix founded and endowed in 1998 that initiates strategic projects to enhance the life of all Canadians.
National Music Centre, scheduled to open next year.