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?
“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
“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
Arts Umbrella hosts performance of Debra Sparrow-inspired composition Strings of the Universe
Strings of the Universe, composed by UBC Music student Jack Campbell and inspired by renowned Musqueam artist Debra Sparrow’s weaving, will be featured at Arts Umbrella on February 25 at 2 pm.
Midnight at the opera: Enchantment and ardor take centre stage in Cendrillon
Pop culture has turned to spinning this fairytale in particular on its head countless times. Not UBC Opera — they preserved all the class. Courtesy Sarah Race Photography/ Ubyssey
Q & A with Dr. Leigh VanHandel
We caught up with the Chair of our Music Theory Division to discuss her music theory origin story, what excites her most about teaching, and her involvement with roller derby!
UBC Opera’s Cendrillon conjures a fairy-tale world with some serious singing
As Cinderella and her Prince Charmant, soprano Alexandra Baird and mezzo Katie Fraser relish the chance to stage Massenet’s magic-dusted masterpiece at the Chan Centre / Stir Vancouver
Anmore composer scores music in début ballet
[UBC Music student] Jack Campbell’s “Absence & Creation” will have two showings in Vancouver, will feature four of Ballet BC’s emerging artists, and will include the UBC School of Music’s New Coast Chamber Ensemble. Photo: Jack Campbell (left) with UBC Alum Antony Knight./Jeff Topham for TriCity News
Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!
We are thrilled to congratulate Harry Xie (DPMS ’24) for winning First Prize for his performance of Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone; and runner up Yanqing Zhang (DMA candidate) who performed Óscar Navarro’s III CONCERTO for Bb/Eb Clarinet.
Vancouver pianist Corey Hamm reflects on a Ligeti-filled holiday.
UBC Professor Corey Hamm performs Ligeti’s entire, complex Concerto for Piano and Orchestra as part of a Turning Point Ensemble concert with conductor Fabián Panisello at the Annex on January 12 and 13. / Stir