The Multifunctional Pianist: The Recipe for Orchestral Color and Playing
Author: Wong, Lucas Publication details: NATS Journal of Singing Excerpt:As vocal pianists throughout our studies and careers, we all work with piano reductions encountered in choral and operaticrepertoire. Singers, who study these works through the lens of a piano score or reduction, depend on accompanists’ or coaches’ expertise in realizing these scores, while adapting accordingly […]
Philip Glass: The Complete Piano Etudes
Artist: Leslie Dala (MMus’96) Recording details: Redshift Records, released March 4, 2021 Link
Emmerich Kálmán Symphonic Poems: Saturnalia, Endre és Johanna
Performers: UBC Symphony Orchestra, UBC Opera Ensemble, Scott Rumble (MMus’18) and Elana Razlog (DMPS’16, MMus’17) Conductor: Jonathan Girard Music: Emmerich Kálmán and Charles Kálmán Recording details: Operetta Archives, November 2020 Link
My Soul Upon My Lips
Composer: Jeffrey Ryan Featured UBC faculty performers: Adjunct Professor of Oboe Beth Orson, saxophonist and sessional lecturer Dr. Julia Nolan, and Professor of Piano Dr. Corey Hamm Featured tracks: Beth Orson (oboe & English horn) in Quince Corey Hamm (piano) in Arbutus Julia Nolan (alto saxophone) in Luminous Blue Recording details: Redshift Records, released October […]
Julius Röntgen: Piano Music Vol. 5 – Music for 2 Pianos
Artists: Mark Anderson and Michelle Mares Recording details: Nimbus Records, October 2020 Link
L’heure exquise
Recorded at Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy Artist: Lucas Wong, piano Engineer: Federico Furlanetto Description: This disc explores transcriptions and works by J. S. Bach, Berlioz, Franck, Godowsky, Grainger, Hahn, Hess, Liszt, Mascagni, Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Puccini, Schubert, Strauss, and Lucas Wong.
English Songs à la Française
Artists: Tyler Duncan (BMus’98) and Erika Switzer (BMus’97, MMus’00) Recording details: Baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer join forces in a brilliant recital of English songs, written by French composers. Duncan and Switzer have been leading figures in the world of art song, and share a deep connection to songs of the Romantic period, […]
Transcendent Beethoven
Artist: David Fung Transcendent Beethoven Steinway & Sons (STNS 30081) Release Date: 08/07/2020 Recorded live on January 19, 2013 at Morse Recital Hall, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Engineer: Corin Lee Art Direction: Jackie Fugere Design: Cover to Cover Design, Anilda Carrasquillo Photos of David Fung: Studio D2 A new addition to Steinway & Sons’ Beethoven […]
Art Song Pedagogy and Performance Practice: Re-envisioning the Realm in the 21st Century
Author: Sharon, Rena Publication details: The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume II: Education. Edited by Helga R. Gudmundsdottir, Carol Beynon, Karen Ludke, Annabel J. Cohen. Weblink: https://www.routledge.com/ Abstract: The Routledge Companion to Interdisciplinary Studies in Singing, Volume II: Education examines the many methods and motivations for vocal pedagogy, promoting singing not just as […]
Piano and Erhu Project Vol. 3
Artists: Corey Hamm and Nicole Ge Li Featured UBC composer: Stephen Chatman Remember Me, Forever Recording details: Redshift Records, released June 5, 2020 Link