MMus student Vivian Kwok wins 3rd prize at the SOCAN Young Composer Awards
MMus student Vivian Kwok wins 3rd prize at the SOCAN Young Composer Awards for her composition, Distant. “Distant was an internal dialogue I frequently had with myself in the heat of the Hong Kong protests that began in mid-2019, which were triggered by the introduction of the Fugitive Offenders amendment bill, and evolved into a […]
Professor Dorothy Chang wins Classical Composer of the Year
Composer and professor Dorothy Chang was nominated for a Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for her composition, Flight.
Elektra sings Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water), an act of reconciliation through the arts
Teachings of the Water was conceived by ethnomusicologist Jeanette Gallant, the five-piece a cappella work is based on Squamish text gifted by Tsitsáyxemaat (Rebecca Duncan) and scored by Métis composer T. Patrick Carrabré
Professor Dorothy Chang nominated for Juno Award for “Flight”.
Composer and professor Dorothy Chang was nominated for a Juno Award for Classical Composition of the Year for her composition, Flight.
The Desautels Faculty of Music premieres Roan Shankaruk’s ‘The Fox’
“The University of Manitoba’s Desautels Faculty of Music is delighted to present Roan Shankaruk’s new opera The Fox, adapted from D.H. Lawrence’s classic novella of the same name.”
2020-21 Contemporary Players Series
The UBC Contemporary Players work every year with UBC Composition majors to commission, workshop and premiere music for subsets of the ensemble. This year, the Contemporary Players worked with eight composers who wrote duos and solos for the players, limiting the size of works to allow them to operate in accordance with COVID restrictions and […]
UBC Music nominations galore at the 2021 Western Canadian Music Awards
UBC Music nominations galore at the 2021 Western Classical Music Awards! Three of our faculty composers, Edward Top, Jocelyn Morlock and T. Patrick Carrabré, and alumna Katerina Gimon were nominated for Classical Composer of the Year. Faculty pianist Corey Hamm who is part of PEP (Piano and Erhu Project) with Nicole Ge Li was nominated […]
Conjuring the future
An exciting new multimedia collaboration between Professor Bob Pritchard and Turning Point Ensemble imagines one possible future for humanity — and points to another for classical music performance WATCH: Synapses (6:15) An oboist wanders barefoot in near-darkness. He plays a string of searching notes, trails off, and begins again, elaborating the melody. He stops, peers. […]
Cross-Continental “Orbit” Features New Works by Indigenous Composers
“Cris Derksen’s Latency was designed with Zoom as both inspiration and model. Weary of waging war with bandwidth and its inevitable technical difficulty, Derksen simulates latency, creating its characteristic stutters and glitches using precisely calculated delay.”
‘I saw a hole in the classical music world that I wanted to fill,’ conductor/composer Bhate says
“Bhate has chosen his ensemble’s repertoire from contemporary composers and historical figures who, for one reason or another, have been invited out of the canon.”