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UBC student Sasha Luchkov hopes to help fellow refugees with Concert for Peace

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

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

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

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

‘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

‘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

These Indigenous artists are putting queer love in the spotlight

These Indigenous artists are putting queer love in the spotlight

Contemporary cellist Cris Derksen (BMus’07) has been challenging traditional norms in the classical music world, including hosting the Banff Centre’s Canadian Indigenous Classical Music Gathering in 2019. / Photo: Curtis Perry for CBC News

If Alicia Keys’s voice cracks at the Super Bowl, but it’s edited out, did it even happen?

If Alicia Keys’s voice cracks at the Super Bowl, but it’s edited out, did it even happen?

“I think some people are a little bit freaked out by that. That millions and millions of people can witness something happen, and then the official record will just carry no evidence that it happened, and there will be no acknowledgement that it changed,” [Lecturer, Music Theory] Robert Komaniecki told CBC News. Photo: Steve Luciano/The Associated Press

Emerging Artists of Ballet BC and New Coast Players come together for Absence; Creation, February 17

Emerging Artists of Ballet BC and New Coast Players come together for Absence; Creation, February 17

“Absence; Creation” was created by UBC Music student Jack Campbell and UBC Music alum Anthony Knight, featuring emerging artists from Ballet BC and a new ensemble of UBC Music students called New Coast Ensemble./ Stir Vancouver