Trio Garibaldi: In Faded Sepia
Featured UBC Faculty: Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet & David Fung, piano with Marina Thibeault Release: March 2026 on ATMA Classique Description: With In Faded Sepia, the Garibaldi Trio offers a musical journey where memory, lyricism, and stylistic contrasts intertwine in a remarkably rich sonic palette. The album brings together works by Lowell Liebermann, Dorothy Chang, and […]
Ari Cohen Mann’s New Album: VORTEX
Featured UBC Alum: 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 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, […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]