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.
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, […]