Dr. Hedy Law appointed as Acting Director, UBC School of Music
Dr. Law is currently Associate Professor of Musicology and Associate Director, Graduate at the UBC School of Music. Her appointment is from May 16, 2024 to June 30, 2025.
Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré steps down as Director of the School of Music.
Dr. Carrabré will continue his role as a faculty member in the School of Music composition division and as Director of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. His directorship at the School will end May 15. An Acting Director will be announced soon.
Canadian Music Centre awards prizes to UBC Composition students
UBC Composition students Joanne Na, Hope Salmonson, Mark Marinic were awarded prizes from the Canadian Music Centre BC.
UBC student Sasha Luchkov hopes to help fellow refugees with Concert for Peace
Proceeds from Concert for Peace will support Thrive Refuge’s Fine Arts Bursary Program to provide fine arts education to incoming refugees.
UBC Chamber Strings hold tribute to fiddler and politician Wally Firth
The event will feature a short film about Firth’s life and politics, as well as video of him talking about and playing fiddle music. /Emily Blake for Cabin Radio
The 2024 Silverman Piano Concerto Competition finalists
Finalists Hamilton Lau (BMus), Lucy Moon (BMus) and Daniel Tong (MMus) advance to the finals to perform with the UBC Chamber Orchestra and Jonathan Girard in September.
How a Composer was Reunited with a Long-lost Score
UBC Music Librarian Kevin Madill reunites composer with their lost score, 20 years after being lost in a flood.
MUSIC research cluster awarded grant in research excellence
The MUSIC cluster will develop collaborative and interdisciplinary research projects, educational opportunities, and community outreach projects in music cognition. Dr. Leigh VanHandel, Chair of the Music Theory Division, is the Cluster Lead.
‘I didn’t think I could get there’: Q&A with Treaty 8 composer performing at Carnegie Hall
Cree musician, Cris Derksen (BMus’07) will perform music inspired by the Indigenous tradition of controlled burns /CBC News
‘Strings of the Universe’ Celebrates the Connections Between Weaving and Music
The new collaborative work from Debra Sparrow and Jack Campbell was performed on violin, harp and double bass at the Arts Umbrella. / The Tyee