Viola Borealis
Artist: Marina Thibeault, viola Recording details: ATMA Classique, released March 25, 2022 With her latest album, Viola Borealis, violist Marina Thibeault explores the musical links between several northern cultures. From the 2016 concerto by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks to solo works by Anishinaabe composer Melody McKiver to the very first viola concerto—composed around 1716 by Telemann—the elections on this album showcase the […]
Of Glow and Abandon
Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Ryan Davis viola Recording details: Released on all platforms on December 2021. Praised by The WholeNote as showcasing multitudes of colours and possibilities, with much skill and imagination, Radia, the moniker for Saskatchewan-raised artist Ryan Davis, has swiftly emerged as a singular creative force. Unifying his extensive classical training with the […]
Soaring Spirits
Ensemble: UBC Symphony Orchestra, UBC Choirs Jonathan Girard, conductor Featured UBC composers: Dorothy Chang, Stephen Chatman, Keith Hamel Featured UBC artist: Paolo Bortolussi Recording details: Redshift Records, released October 1, 2021 Link
New Jewish Music, Volume 3 – Azrieli Music Prizes
Artist: Krisztina Szabó Singing 2020 Azrieli Prize Winner, Yotam Haber’s Estro Poetico Armonico III Recording details: Analekta, released October 1, 2021 Link
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.