Ari Cohen Mann’s New Album: VORTEX
Featured UBC Alumni: Ari Cohen Mann, Oboe (BMus ’12) Release: 2025 Description: The album features works by Kevin Day, Jennifer Higdon, Jocelyn Morlock, C. Tyler Nickel, and Rodney Sharman, and includes the world-premiere recording of Jean Coulthard’s The Enchanted Island. You can pre-save VORTEX here: https://orchid-music.lnk.to/VORTEXem Music videos including Kevin Day’s VORTEX and C. Tyler Nickel’s English Horn Sonata (third movement): https://www.youtube.com/@oboeari
Cris Derksen’s New Album: THE VISIT
Featured UBC Alumni: 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 […]
TAUBERT, W. Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2, 4, 6 (Romantic Piano, Vol. 2)
Artist: Lucas Wong Release Year: 2025 Recorded at Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy Engineer: Federico Furlanetto Description: As part of a brand new Naxos series “Romantic Piano”, this disc explores world premieres of Taubert’s piano works.
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 […]
Sustenance
Featured UBC Alumni: Iman Habibi (BMus ’08, MMus ’10) Featured Track: Offering of Water (2023) for violin and piano 1. of life 2. yasna 3. purify 4. it shall flow if from tears 5. to life Label: Spektral Records Recording details:
French Reflections, vol. VII: Renascence (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 4-11- Quatuor pour la fin du temps by Olivier Messaien Recording details: Crumb’s cataclysmic Black Angels, a passionate anti-war statement, balances Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time), a devoutly spiritual work composed in a prisoner of war camp. Two imaginative […]
French Reflections, vol. VI: Vocal Exchange (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 2,3,4,5- Selected Preludes for Clarinet and Piano by Aleksandr Scriabin; 13. Première rhapsodie pour clarinette et piano by Claude Debussy Recording details: Vocal Exchange juxtaposes treasured songs from three cultures. Russian-American soprano Erika Baikoff offers her unsurpassed vocal skill and bewitching personality in songs by Lizst, […]
French Reflections, vol. IV: Trios and Trumpets (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 1,2,3- Trio in E-flat major for Piano, Clarinet, and Viola, K. 498, Kegelstatt by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; 4,5,6,7- La revue de cuisine by Bohuslav Martinů Recording details: Trios and Trumpets gathers music from Austria, Hungary, and France. The piano trio is represented by Mozart and Chaminade, and […]
French Reflections, vol. III: Quartets and Harps (2024)
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet Label: Music@Menlo LIVE Featured Tracks: 4,5,6- Octet for Two Clarinets, Harp, String Quartet, and Bass by Charles Martin Loeffler Recording details: When speaking of favorite quartets, no one would leave out the famous Adagio from Barber’s 1936 quartet, performed in this volume by rising classical stars, the Viano String Quartet. Loeffler’s recently-discovered […]
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 […]