Anmore composer scores music in début ballet
[UBC Music student] Jack Campbell’s “Absence & Creation” will have two showings in Vancouver, will feature four of Ballet BC’s emerging artists, and will include the UBC School of Music’s New Coast Chamber Ensemble. Photo: Jack Campbell (left) with UBC Alum Antony Knight./Jeff Topham for TriCity News
Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!
We are thrilled to congratulate Harry Xie (DPMS ’24) for winning First Prize for his performance of Henri Tomasi’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone; and runner up Yanqing Zhang (DMA candidate) who performed Óscar Navarro’s III CONCERTO for Bb/Eb Clarinet.
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
Opera on the brain
How does operatic training affect memory, cognitive functioning, and learning? The Wall Opera Project, funded by Peter Wall Institute, has been looking deep inside the brains of UBC opera students to unveil the science behind these changes. / UBC Magazine
UBC Music student Emily Liang named an Eileen Southern Scholar
Emily Liang, MA (2nd-year, Musicology) was recognized at the American Musicological Society Award Ceremony November 10, 2023. Congratulations!
The Cunning Little Vixen sopranos revel in UBC Opera’s rare performance of Janáček’s bittersweet fable
“I think this opera is very human in a way–even if we have animals all around,” says Iguavita in a separate call. “It’s a very honest opera full of human conflict, passion, emotions, obsession, love. So if you let yourself connect with it, you can relate a lot to the fox, a hen, a horse, or many characters that you wouldn’t normally relate to in real life. – The Stir
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
‘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
Matheus Moraes joins Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony
Matheus Moraes (MMus ’19, DMA Candidate) has been accepted for the Principal Trumpet position with the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony. Matheus is currently studying with Larry Knopp.