UBC Music Faculty and Alum win Society for Music Theory Publication Awards
Leigh VanHandel, Dylan Robinson, and Leslie Tilley win Society for Music Theory Publication Awards!
Games in Music: Behind the Scenes with composer and UBC alum Antony Knight
Composers Antony Knight (BMus ’22) and Gabriella Yorke (BMus ’23) talk about their role in arranging medleys for the upcoming concert Games in Music: Halo, WoW, LOTR.
Virtual vocal arts project pays tribute to remains discovered at residential schools
“Two musical artists are joining together on a vocal arts virtual video project that pays tribute to the recent discovery of the unmarked graves of hundreds of children at residential schools across the country. Lil’wat composer Russell Wallace and Toronto artist Hussein Janmohamed plan to compile clips of people singing into a tribute video.”
Allegra Chamber Orchestra’s amplifies female voices from across Canada in their latest event: FestivELLE
“In the summer of 2020, Allegra Chamber Orchestra performed a Jocelyn Morlock piece called “Solace” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. This year, the company has worked with the Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra to develop an Indigenous event, featuring Métis soprano Melody Courage, which will be happening in August.”
Alumni Making Waves: Opera débuts, a virtual piano app, and a project to reclaim languages and cultures erased by colonialism
Tenor Spencer Britten (MMus’17) was featured as an opening soloist in Against the Grain Theatre’s Messiah/Complex, a bold cross-Canada performance of Handel’s Messiah created in partnership with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. A timeless piece of music with a distinctly Canadian twist, Messiah/Complex is performed in Arabic, Dene, English, French, Inuktitut, and Southern Tutchone, showcasing a […]
Cris Derksen is home
Award-winning cellist Cris Derksen (BMus’07) on the urgency of Indigenous activism in the arts, the importance of hustle, and the future of live music in a post-pandemic world Cris Derksen is home. The COVID pandemic has brought the Juno-nominated cellist’s life on the road — more than a decade of near constant-travel, with frequent stops on […]
Anna Netrebko, Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Luciano Pavarotti & Philip Glass Lead Week 58 & 59 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams
“The company will also showcase the streaming premiere of the 1984 telecast of Verdi’s “Simon Boccanegra,” starring Sherrill Milnes, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, and Vasile Moldoveanu and the 2000 telecast of Beethoven’s “Fidelio,” with Karita Mattila, Ben Heppner, Falk Struckmann, and René Pape.”
Alumni Making Waves: Isolation Commissions, opera in virtual reality, and a cabinet position
In November, B.C. Member of Legislative Assembly Anne Kang (BMus’99) was named Minister of Advanced Education and Skill Training in Premier John Horgan’s new cabinet. She previously held the position of Minister of Citizens’ Services. Dr. Linda T. Kaastra (BMus’90, PhD’08) published Grounding the Analysis of Cognitive Processes in Music Performance: Distributed Cognition in Musical Activity […]
World-renowned indigenous cellist and composer Cris Derksen live streams from the Tidemark this December
“In a world where almost everything — people, music, cultures — get labelled and slotted into simple categories, Cris Derksen represents a challenge.”
Gerard Schneider, Anna Gabler & Francisco Brito Highlight Tiroler Festspiele’s Winter Season
“The festival will also present a new production of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” with Simon Bailey, Simone Osborne, Donato di Stefano, Francisco Brito, and Liviu Holender.”