We are excited to announce that Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré has been appointed the role of Director of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, in addition to his current role as Director of the School of Music!
Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré
“The Chan Centre has been an important performing arts presenter for over two decades, so I’m looking forward to working with the team here to ensure that work continues. But I am also hoping to reach out and make new connections: across the campus, in the community and beyond. Bringing different artists together to create projects where they can explore and take chances is also something I’m interested in supporting,” says Dr. Carrabré.
Dr. Carrabré joined UBC as the Director of the School of Music in 2019, having previously served as Dean of Music and Vice-President, Academic and Research, at Brandon University. For well over a decade, he worked closely with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, including six seasons as composer-in-residence and co-curator of the orchestra’s New Music Festival. He is also an acclaimed artist-researcher in his own right. Construction of identity is a long-term theme in his work, manifesting in his compositions and concert and radio programming. The creation of shared musical spaces with Indigenous and non-Western musicians has also been a significant theme of his work.
“As Director of the Chan Centre, Dr. Carrabré will be in a position to create new synergies across UBC and the broader community, and to work closely with faculty and staff in the development of the Chan Centre’s strategic direction,” says Dr. Gage Averill, Dean of the UBC Faculty of Arts. “This appointment recognizes UBC’s interests in providing academic-artistic direction of units within its Arts and Culture District, and in balancing the Chan Centre’s focus on the academic success of our students with its role as an important resource and venue for Vancouver’s arts community.”
Read Dr. Carrabré’s Q&A with the Chan Centre here.
