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UBC Assistant Professor Marina Thibeault’s album Viola Borealis, wins Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year

 
Thibeault, with Orchestre de l’Agora led by Nicolas Ellis, performs music by Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks, Anishinaabe composer Melody McKiver, the very first viola concerto—composed around 1716 by Telemann.

‘Music is everything’: Musician, professor in B.C. shines the spotlight on West African music, dance

 
UBC Professor of African studies and ethnomusicology, J. S. Kofi Gbolonyo speaks to CBC News about bringing West African culture to the world stage.

Connecting continents through the pipe organ

 
UBC Organ instructor Michael Dirk connecting musicians in Vancouver and Kigali, Rwanda in cross-continental pipe organ performance.
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