High Notes

Honour Dr. Bob Pritchard and Dr. Keith Hamel’s Legacy

Honour Dr. Bob Pritchard and Dr. Keith Hamel’s Legacy

This new award in music technology and new media will provide students with the incentive to explore bold ideas, take creative risks, and shape the future of music and performance.

UBC Professor Keith Hamel retires from the UBC School of Music

UBC Professor Keith Hamel retires from the UBC School of Music

We caught up with Professor Hamel to hear how progressive rock music ignited his passion for computer music, and to learn what continues to excite him about the evolving world of music technology.

David Metzer

How recession pop music may be making a comeback

Host Gloria Macarenko sits down with UBC Professor of Musicology, David Metzer, to learn how an economic downturn can influence music./ CBC On the Coast

UBC Opera visits Harbin Normal University in China for Cross-Cultural Exchange

UBC Opera visits Harbin Normal University in China for Cross-Cultural Exchange

UBC Opera Ensemble perform Thunderstorm at the Harbin Conservatory of Music in Heilongjiang Province, China. / Images from Harbin Normal University

UBC Music student Linda Ruan wins First Prize in the 2025 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition

UBC Music student Linda Ruan wins First Prize in the 2025 Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition

UBC Music Students Linda Ruan (DMPS 2nd yr) received First Prize and Hamilton Lau (BMus’24, MMus 1st yr) received Second Prize, at the 48th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition. / Photo: E-Gré Competition

PhD Student, Holly Bergeron-Dumaine receives Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

PhD Student, Holly Bergeron-Dumaine receives Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

Holly Bergeron-Dumaine’s research encompasses Music Pedagogy, counter-canonical approaches to Popular Music studies & pedagogy, and analysis of music in video games with an emphasis on Timbre & Genre.

From Bach to beats: How Ryan Davis is redefining the viola’s sound

From Bach to beats: How Ryan Davis is redefining the viola’s sound

Blending classical roots with the pulse of folk, electronic, and hip-hop, School of Music professor Ryan Davis—known by his moniker “Radia”—is carving out a space for the viola that is both fresh and timeless. His journey as a violist and composer defies tradition, embracing a fusion of genres to breathe new life into an instrument often overshadowed in classical music./ UBC Faculty of Arts

UBC Music Alum Jack Campbell

Vancouver violinist makes epic music for math that ‘changed the human race forever’

UBC Music Alum Jack Campbell (BMus ’24) has created music based on the mathematics used to crack the Enigma code during the Second World War. /Credit: Vancouver is Awesome

Dr. Anabel Maler

Music and Disability Studies Q & A with Dr. Anabel Maler, Professor of Music Theory

“I’d like to suggest that songs like River Song reveal that music can be better defined as organized movement, rather than organized sound. How might this change our understanding of musical expression? What does it mean for movement to become musical?” ~ Dr. Anabel Maler

Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!

Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!

Congratulations to saxophonist Sunny Wu (BMUS ‘27) for winning First Prize for his performance of Jacques Ibert’s “Alto Saxophone & Orchestra”.