How Sign Language Analyzes Musical Form
This article reframes sign language cover songs as music analysis.
Listenings: A publication following the Soundings exhibition
Curated by Dylan Robinson and Candice Hopkins Publication details:Listenings: A publication following the Soundings exhibition Listenings is published by the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery with Information Office. Weblink: belkin.ubc.ca/product/listenings From the Belkin Gallery: “Listenings is published in response to and alongside Soundings: An […]
Cris Derksen’s New Album: THE VISIT
Featured UBC Alum: Cris Derksen, Cello (BMus ’07) Released: November 6, 2025 Description: Cris Derksen, a Juno-nominated Indigenous cellist and composer, is internationally renowned for her genre-defying music that bridges the traditional and contemporary. Hailing from Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta, Derksen comes from a lineage of chiefs from the NorthTall Cree Reserve on her […]
Standing Wave: in an archipelago
Featured UBC Faculty and Alumni: Vern Griffiths percussion; Christie Reside, flute and UBC Alum AK Coope, clarinet (BMus) Release: October 2025 on Redshift Description: in an archipelago (2020) – James O’Callaghan In an archipelago is a work for sextet and electronics, or any combination of its constituent parts, from solos, various possible duos and trios, […]
Haitham Haidar: Zaytoun
Featured UBC Alumni: Zaytoun by UBC Music alum Haitham Haidar (BMus‘13) Release: August 2025 on Athene Description: Tenor Haitham Haidars debut solo album Zaytoun (meaning Olive in Arabic) is a captivating collection of beautiful Baroque and Arabic songs, interlaced with poetry and musical improvisations, an exploration of the intersection between Baroque and Arabic music. Whether […]
Beethoven, Medtner & Schumann: Piano Works
Featured UBC Alumni: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, piano (MMus ’23) Label: Steinway & Sons Description: Steinway & Sons is proud to present an album by one of Canada’s most exciting young talents, pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko. Winner of the 2022 Hilton Head International Piano Competition and the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, Izik-Dzurko’s playing has been praised for its exemplary precision […]
Entangled Histories: Opera and Cultural Exchange Between Vienna and the Italian States After Napoleon
Author: Claudio Vellutini Publication details: Oxford University Press Weblink: doi.org/10.1093/9780197656594.001.0001 Abstract: Entangled Histories discusses the role of opera in the patterns of cultural exchange across the Austrian Empire in the decades following the wars against revolutionary and Napoleonic France. It argues that new modes of opera production and dissemination between Vienna and the Italian states […]
French Reflections, vol. II: Vienna to Paris (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 8,9,10- L’heure du berger for Winds and Piano, op. 20 by Jean Françaix Recording details: Vienna and Paris have long been cultural powerhouses across art forms. Haydn, the founder of the Classical style, and Mozart, who refined and augmented it, are represented in this volume by […]
Understories
Ensemble: Dálava Featured UBC Students and Alumni: Julia Úlehla (PhD ’21) and Aram Bajakian (PhD Candidate) Recording details: Pi Recordings, April 25th, 2025 Dálava, the genre-defying ensemble led by vocalist Julia Úlehla with guitarist Aram Bajakian (Lou Reed, John Zorn, Diana Krall), returns with Understories, a deeply evocative new album that explores uncharted territories of […]
Mourning for the Death of a Political System: Cantonese Opera and Cantopop in 香 • 夭 Requiem HK (2017)
Author: Hedy Law Publication details: In East Asian Voices of Resistance Against Racism in Music, edited by Maiko Kawabata and Ken Ueno, 138–149. Cambridge: Ethics Press, 2025. Weblink: ethicspress.com/products/east-asian-voices-of-resistance-against-racism-in-music Abstract: The negative racialization of East Asian musicians in Western classical music manifests through tropes of othering such as “Yellow Peril,” Orientalism, and various harmful stereotypes. This volume centers […]