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
Five concert grand pianos and five virtuoso pianists from the UBC School of Music take to the stage in Inspired at the Chan performance
UBC Music students Fergus Kwan, Hamilton Lau, Oleksandr Luchkov (replacing Christine Ngai), Vivienne Thamrin, and Daniel Tong perform in Piano Fantasy: Star Wars, Harry Potter, Holst. / Stir Vancouver
Congratulations to newly Tenured UBC Music faculty!
UBC Music Faculty Jose Franch Ballester, David Fung, Claudio Vellutini, and Dylan Robinson have been promoted with Tenure.
DMA Student Risa Tonita named a UBC Public Scholar for 2023/24!
UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies feature
Risa Tonita: The pianist’s self: Political action in piano performance as a relational practice
UBC Student Hamilton Lau included in CBC’s ’30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30′ list
‘Wonder is the beginning of wisdom,’ says Hamilton Lau, quoting Socrates.
Photo: Michelle Koebke/Diamond’s Edge Photography
Michael Dirk demonstrates Wurlitzer organ for Silent Movie Mondays
UBC Music Faculty member and organist Michael Dirk (BMus ’04) demonstrates the “bells and whistles” of the Orpheum Theatre’s historic Wurlitzer organ, on which he’ll perform for Silent Movie Mondays.
UBC Music alumni Erika Switzer and Tyler Duncan release “A Left Coast”
Composers include Jeffery Ryan, UBC Music emeriti, Stephen Chatman, Jean Coulthard and more.
Connecting continents through the pipe organ
UBC Organ instructor Michael Dirk connecting musicians in Vancouver and Kigali, Rwanda in cross-continental pipe organ performance.
Fast-rising B.C. pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko joins Spain’s Casals Quartet in Vancouver for a winning performance
UBC Music student Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (MMus) to perform with Spain’s Casals Quartet, for Friends of Chamber Music concert on Feb 28 at Vancouver Playhouse.
Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!
Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 UBC School of Music Concerto Competition! Open to all music students, the annual competition is an opportunity for young musicians to perform with the UBC Symphony Orchestra.