New Music: Métis Songs by School of Music Director, T. Patrick Carrabré
Métis Songs was commissioned by Harbourfront Centre for their Summer Music in the Garden concert series and released on WinterWind Records.
Production featuring exclusively 2SLGBTQ+ artists receives grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council
“A Spanish Hour?” is a Queer-English reimagining of Maurice Ravel’s “L’heure Espagnole”, a one-act comédie musicale from 1911, directed by UBC School of Music Associate Professor J. Patrick Raftery, who also co-wrote the English libretto with dramaturge Peter Tiefenbach.
When I Stop Saying Your Name — Five Songs of Grief by Leslie Uyeda, Text by Lorna Crozier
UBC Assistant Professor and mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó wrote an article for Art Song Canada’s Fall Issue, “Women and Song” about her experience premiering the new song cycle, “When I Stop Saying Your Name: Five Songs of Grief,” composed by Leslie Uyeda, poetry by Lorna Crozier—two artists who have a profound artistic connection that spans almost two decades. Photo: Bo Huang
‘Everything grew out of the spine’: Emmalena Fredriksson’s cyborg dystopia at Dancing on the Edge
UBC team helps develop Emmalena Fredriksson’s cyborg-like costume in ‘Ecdysis’. UBC Associate Professor, Music Technology Bob Pritchard led the team of students/alumni which included Daniel Tsui (BMus, BSc, MMus), Danielle Lee (BMus) and Alaia Hamer (BA, BFA). Photo: Luciana Freire D’Anuncia/Vancouver Sun
UBC Professor Dr. John Roeder to retire after 38 years at the UBC School of Music
Dr. Roeder reflects on his teaching life, how he discovered music theory through science, and shares what excites him about music technology today.
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.
ASMTA presents UBC Music Director and Métis composer, T. Patrick Carrabré
Interview with Dr. Carrabré where he talks about his keynote appearance at the Arizona State Music Teachers Association (ASMTA) Conference where he will present Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water)—a composition he scored, based on Squamish text by Tsitsáyxemaat (Rebecca Duncan), performed by the Elektra Women’s Choir.
UBC Symphony Orchestra visits Germany in first ever European tour
The UBC Symphony Orchestra and University of Stuttgart Academic Orchestra reunite in Germany
Remembering Jocelyn Morlock
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our dear friend and colleague, Jocelyn Morlock.
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.