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Faculty, High Notes, Publications, Research

Dr. Anabel Maler and Dr. Robert Komaniecki receive Emerging Scholar Article Award

November 14, 2024
Event Highlights, In the Media

UBC Bands' Home Away from Home soundtracks the changing of seasons

November 7, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, High Notes, Students

Hamilton Lau wins first prize at the Robert and Ellen Silverman Piano Concerto Competition at UBC

September 29, 2024
Alumni, In the Media

UBC Music alum Jaeden Izik-Dzurko Wins First Prize at the Leeds 2024 Piano Competition

September 23, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Research

UBC Professor Alex Fisher awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

September 17, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements, High Notes, In the Media

UBC Music Alum Jeff Toyne awarded Emmy for Music composed for TV Series "Palm Royale"

September 9, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

Wanna be like who? Meet the man who ranked every Disney song

August 1, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

UBC Professor Dr. Robert Pritchard retires from the UBC School of Music

July 26, 2024
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

UBC Lecturer of Music Theory, Dr. Robert Komaniecki goes viral after ranking every single Disney animated film song

July 24, 2024
Event Highlights, Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

A Spanish Hour? reimagines French one-act opera with a playful queer lens

July 22, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes, Spotlight

From UBC graduate student to Professor Emeritus, Dr. Terence Dawson retires from UBC School of Music

July 19, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Equity, High Notes, Research, Students

PhD Student, Sherryl Sewepagaham awarded 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

July 3, 2024
Alumni

UBC Music alum Jeff Toyne nominated for two Emmy Awards

June 26, 2024
Achievements, High Notes, Students

UBC DMA Candidate Matthew-John Knights selected as Symphony Nova Scotia's fifth Maria Anna Mozart Award Recipient

June 19, 2024
Alumni, In the Media

This UBC alum composed the score for Apple TV+'s Palm Royale

June 11, 2024
Alumni, Faculty, High Notes

Pride Special: Presenting authentically, without fear by Vancouver Opera

June 10, 2024
Alumni, Equity, Faculty, High Notes, Students

Vancouver Chamber Choir set to premiere T. Patrick Carrabré's Histoires des Métis in Longhouse concert

June 3, 2024
High Notes, In the Media, Students

Opera Canada: 38 QS for Neil Craighead

May 30, 2024
Achievements, High Notes, Students

Highlights, shout-outs, and advice from the Class of 2024

May 22, 2024
Alumni, In the Media

UBC Music Alum, Jaeden Izik-Dzurko wins 1st prize at the 2024 Montreal International Music Competition

May 21, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Dr. David Fung appointed as Associate Director, Graduate, UBC School of Music

May 6, 2024
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Jaelem Bhate named as PEI Symphony Orchestra's New Music Director

May 1, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing new UBC Strings faculty member, Ryan Davis

April 22, 2024
Achievements, Faculty, In the Media, Research

Dylan Robinson and Sherryl Sewepagaham win Friends of Canadian Music Award

April 16, 2024
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Hedy Law appointed as Acting Director, UBC School of Music

April 12, 2024
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré steps down as Director of the School of Music.

April 11, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Students

Canadian Music Centre awards prizes to UBC Composition students

April 9, 2024
Event Highlights, High Notes, Students

UBC student Sasha Luchkov hopes to help fellow refugees with Concert for Peace

April 9, 2024
In the Media, Students

UBC Chamber Strings hold tribute to fiddler and politician Wally Firth

April 5, 2024
In the Media, Research

Faculti: T. Patrick Carrabré, Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water)

April 2, 2024
Achievements, High Notes

The 2024 Silverman Piano Concerto Competition finalists

March 24, 2024
High Notes, In the Media, Spotlight

How a Composer was Reunited with a Long-lost Score

March 19, 2024
Announcements, Faculty, Research

MUSIC research cluster awarded grant in research excellence

March 7, 2024
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media

'I didn't think I could get there': Q&A with Treaty 8 composer performing at Carnegie Hall

February 26, 2024
High Notes, In the Media

‘Strings of the Universe’ Celebrates the Connections Between Weaving and Music

February 26, 2024
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media

These Indigenous artists are putting queer love in the spotlight

February 15, 2024
Faculty, In the Media

If Alicia Keys's voice cracks at the Super Bowl, but it's edited out, did it even happen?

February 15, 2024
Alumni, Event Highlights, High Notes, In the Media, Students

Emerging Artists of Ballet BC and New Coast Players come together for Absence; Creation, February 17

February 14, 2024
High Notes, In the Media, Research, Spotlight, Students

Arts Umbrella hosts performance of Debra Sparrow-inspired composition Strings of the Universe

February 7, 2024
High Notes, In the Media, Students

Midnight at the opera: Enchantment and ardor take centre stage in Cendrillon

February 6, 2024
Faculty, High Notes, Research, Spotlight

Q & A with Dr. Leigh VanHandel

February 1, 2024
In the Media, Students

UBC Opera's Cendrillon conjures a fairy-tale world with some serious singing

January 26, 2024
Alumni, In the Media, Students

Anmore composer scores music in début ballet

January 25, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, High Notes, Students

Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!

January 20, 2024
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

Vancouver pianist Corey Hamm reflects on a Ligeti-filled holiday.

January 8, 2024
Event Highlights, High Notes, In the Media

‘Joyful, festive and glorious’: UBC Choirs and the Vancouver Brass Orchestra delight in the holidays with Gloria

December 15, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Students

Five concert grand pianos and five virtuoso pianists from the UBC School of Music take to the stage in Inspired at the Chan performance

November 21, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media, Research, Students

Opera on the brain

November 15, 2023
Achievements, High Notes, Research, Students

UBC Music student Emily Liang named an Eileen Southern Scholar

November 15, 2023
Faculty, In the Media, Research

Taylor Swift mania hits Vancouver

November 4, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, High Notes

Congratulations to newly Tenured UBC Music faculty!

November 2, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Spotlight, Students

The Cunning Little Vixen sopranos revel in UBC Opera's rare performance of Janáček’s bittersweet fable

October 31, 2023
Faculty, In the Media

UBC Wind Ensemble merges western classical music and Hindustani rāga-inspired works in Tarot

October 28, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements

Iman Habibi, Winner of the 2022 Azrieli Commission for Jewish Music

October 27, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media, Research

The sounds of the Métis, the music and the many years of untold stories

October 18, 2023
Announcements, High Notes, Research

Arts Umbrella donates Korean percussion instruments to the UBC School of Music

October 11, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, High Notes, Research, Spotlight, Students

DMA Student Risa Tonita named a UBC Public Scholar for 2023/24!

September 25, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Research

New Music: Métis Songs by School of Music Director, T. Patrick Carrabré

September 18, 2023
Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, High Notes, Research

Production featuring exclusively 2SLGBTQ+ artists receives grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and BC Arts Council

September 11, 2023

Gain upper-level credits for Dance: MUSC419

September 7, 2023
Alumni, In the Media

Meet UBC Music alum Albert Chan!

September 4, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

When I Stop Saying Your Name — Five Songs of Grief by Leslie Uyeda, Text by Lorna Crozier

September 1, 2023
Alumni, In the Media

Janna Sailor: From Violinist to Conductor, Pioneering Change Through Music

August 28, 2023
Alumni, Spotlight

People of Arts: Jonathan (Jono) Lee

August 17, 2023
Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

Meet UBC School of Music Alum Spencer Britten!

August 10, 2023
Achievements, High Notes, In the Media, Students

UBC Student Hamilton Lau included in CBC's '30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30' list

August 1, 2023
Alumni, Faculty, High Notes, In the Media, Research, Students

'Everything grew out of the spine': Emmalena Fredriksson's cyborg dystopia at Dancing on the Edge

June 29, 2023
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media

All-female festivELLE devotes event to Jocelyn Morlock and her advocacy for mental health

June 28, 2023
Alumni, In the Media

Vancouver Inter-Cultural Orchestra's Summer Concert Series has a few surprises in store

June 22, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes, Spotlight

UBC Professor Dr. John Roeder to retire after 38 years at the UBC School of Music

June 12, 2023
Achievements, High Notes, Students

Matheus Moraes joins Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

June 12, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, High Notes

UBC Music alum Gage Sippel accepted for tuba position in the National Academy Orchestra of Canada

June 9, 2023
Alumni, Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

Michael Dirk demonstrates Wurlitzer organ for Silent Movie Mondays

June 9, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media, Research, Spotlight

ASMTA presents UBC Music Director and Métis composer, T. Patrick Carrabré

May 31, 2023
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media, Spotlight

'A tricky place to be': Navigating Canada’s classical music scene with Luka Kawabata

May 19, 2023
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media, Spotlight

INTERVIEW | Composer Cris Derksen Talks About Nîpîy's Songwalks, A Concert With Amadeus Choir

May 17, 2023
Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

UBC Music alumni Erika Switzer and Tyler Duncan release "A Left Coast"

May 16, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Spotlight, Students

Vancouver's Chor Leoni sings of mental health and wellness in The Turning

May 7, 2023
Admissions, Announcements, High Notes

Introducing Kathryn Anderson, Manager of Recruitment & Admissions

April 26, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes, Spotlight

UBC Symphony Orchestra visits Germany in first ever European tour

April 25, 2023
Achievements, High Notes, Spotlight, Students

Armand Birk selected as Conducting Fellow at Tanglewood Music Centre

April 25, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

UBC Alum Monica Chen appointed as Assistant Conductor of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

April 4, 2023
Achievements, High Notes, Spotlight, Students

UBC DMA student Caroline Olsen newest member of Kamloops Symphony Orchestra.

April 2, 2023
Achievements, High Notes, Spotlight, Students

PhD Candidate, Oscar Smith receives Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award.

March 30, 2023
Achievements, Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

Lauren Visel appointed as Director of Symphony Band and Lecturer at Carleton College

March 29, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Remembering Jocelyn Morlock

March 28, 2023
Achievements, Faculty, High Notes

UBC Assistant Professor Marina Thibeault's album Viola Borealis, wins Juno Award for Classical Album of the Year

March 12, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

'Music is everything': Musician, professor in B.C. shines the spotlight on West African music, dance

February 27, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, Research

Connecting continents through the pipe organ

February 24, 2023
Alumni, Announcements, High Notes

Vancouver Fringe appoints Duncan Watts-Grant as Executive Director

February 23, 2023
Faculty, In the Media, Spotlight

NBA All-Star Game singer changes Canadian anthem in nod to Indigenous rights

February 22, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Students

Fast-rising B.C. pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko joins Spain’s Casals Quartet in Vancouver for a winning performance

February 20, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Research, Spotlight, Students

This UBC PhD student is fulfilling her fantasy, one note and one game at a time

February 16, 2023
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

Total Eclipse of the Heart: The most epic song ever written

February 10, 2023
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media

A Midsummer Night's Dream's Spencer Britten forges a new path in opera

February 8, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing new Music Theory faculty members, Anabel Maler and Robert Komaniecki

February 7, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Research, Spotlight, Students

Listen: PhD candidate Marina Gallagher explores the music of Final Fantasy

February 3, 2023
Faculty, In the Media

UBC Opera's The Florentine Straw Hat a mid-winter charmer

February 1, 2023
Event Highlights, High Notes, In the Media, Spotlight

Music, Art and Architecture Library exhibition that explores activism in classical music extended until February

January 31, 2023
High Notes, In the Media, Research, Students

UBC Music scholar, Marina Gallagher's Final Fantasy is a PhD in ludomusicology

January 24, 2023
Achievements, In the Media, Spotlight, Students

BMus/BEd student, Kristine Choi wins Phoenix Chamber Choirs’ Student Composition Competition

January 20, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, High Notes, Students

Announcing the UBC Concerto Competition winners!

January 19, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Remembering Helen Chen Lee

January 18, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Remembering Beth Orson

December 16, 2022
Alumni, High Notes, In the Media

Harpist, Vivian Chen (MMus '22) performs at the Christmas with Chor Leoni

December 9, 2022
Announcements, High Notes, Students

Meet the UBC School of Music's Quartet-in-Residence!

December 7, 2022
Announcements, Faculty

Remembering Marjorie Hougham

November 29, 2022
Faculty, High Notes, In the Media

UBC Wall Opera Project is bridging neuroscience and music training

November 24, 2022
Achievements, Alumni, Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

UBC Music Faculty and Alum win Society for Music Theory Publication Awards⁠

November 13, 2022
Admissions

Applying to our graduate program?

November 8, 2022
Announcements, Faculty

Remembering Andrew Dawes, Professor Emeritus of Music

November 1, 2022
Alumni, High Notes

Games in Music: Behind the Scenes with composer and UBC alum Antony Knight

October 30, 2022
High Notes, Students

Games in Music: Behind the Scenes with composer and UBC student Gabriella Yorke

October 30, 2022
Achievements, High Notes, Students

MMus student Vivian Kwok wins 3rd prize at the SOCAN Young Composer Awards

October 28, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Research and Publication: Finding the Beat: Entrainment, Rhythmic Play, and Social Meaning in Rock Music

October 28, 2022
Achievements, High Notes, In the Media, Students

The Hilton Head International Piano Competition presents 2022 First Prize Winner Jaeden Izik-Dzurko in Review

October 18, 2022
Achievements, High Notes, In the Media, Students

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, Winner Of The 2022 Hilton Head Piano Competition, to Perform at Weill Recital Hall

October 11, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, High Notes

Professor Dorothy Chang wins Classical Composer of the Year

October 5, 2022
Faculty, In the Media

Pandemic project leads to performances for One, Two, Trio

September 30, 2022
High Notes, In the Media, Students

Classical compositions and contemporary connections: An interview with the Matrix Duo

August 30, 2022
Achievements, Research

Research and Publication: Sound and the Conversion of Space in Early Modern Germany

August 30, 2022
Faculty, In the Media

Inspired at the Chan kicks off with internationally-acclaimed pianist David Fung

August 30, 2022
In the Media

Opera returns to Bard on the Beach on September 12 and 13

August 15, 2022
Announcements, Faculty

Remembering Jim Sparks

August 9, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Andrea Grant, Lecturer, Vocal Coach

July 24, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Hyejung Jun, Assistant Professor of Choral Conducting

July 15, 2022
High Notes, In the Media, Research, Spotlight

Elektra sings Snewíyalh tl’a Staḵw (Teachings of the Water), an act of reconciliation through the arts

June 9, 2022
Faculty, In the Media

Krisztina Szabó: Artist in Focus

May 10, 2022
Achievements, High Notes, Students

Robert and Ellen Silverman Piano Concerto Winner: Jaeden Izik-Dzurko!

May 2, 2022
Achievements, Faculty, High Notes

Professor Dorothy Chang nominated for Juno Award for "Flight".

March 8, 2022
High Notes

Meet the UBC School of Music’s Quartet-in-Residence!

March 3, 2022
High Notes, Students

Congratulations to Hamilton Lau, winner of the UBC Concerto Competition!

February 26, 2022
Announcements, High Notes, Students

UBC Music Students selected for 2022 National Youth Band of Canada!

February 22, 2022
Announcements

Remembering Rose-Ellen Nichols

February 5, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Dr. Dylan Robinson, Associate Professor

November 15, 2021
Faculty, In the Media

Q & A with David Fung

October 6, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Dr. David Fung, Assistant Professor of Piano

July 30, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Dr. Kofi Gbolonyo, Lecturer in African Music and African Studies

July 5, 2021
Alumni, In the Media

Virtual vocal arts project pays tribute to remains discovered at residential schools

June 24, 2021
In the Media

The Desautels Faculty of Music premieres Roan Shankaruk’s ‘The Fox’

June 24, 2021
High Notes, Students

2020-21 Contemporary Players Series

June 17, 2021
Alumni, In the Media

Allegra Chamber Orchestra’s amplifies female voices from across Canada in their latest event: FestivELLE

June 17, 2021
Achievements, High Notes

Congratulations, Class of 2021!

June 2, 2021
In the Media

Weekly Update, May 21, 2021: Plans for Fall 2021

May 25, 2021
In the Media

UBC invites you to get In Tune With Your Brain on May 15

May 19, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, High Notes

UBC Music nominations galore at the 2021 Western Canadian Music Awards

May 19, 2021
In the Media

Classical music: B.C. youth orchestras reach out with Apollo Initiative

May 5, 2021
High Notes

Commemorating the legacy of Justice Thomas Berger with music and art

April 29, 2021
Media

UBC Bands — Remote Ensemble Showcase

April 21, 2021
High Notes

High Notes | Spring 2021 Edition

April 19, 2021
Alumni, High Notes

Alumni Making Waves: Opera débuts, a virtual piano app, and a project to reclaim languages and cultures erased by colonialism

April 19, 2021
Achievements, High Notes

Catching Up With Our Students: National Youth Band, Cosi fan tutte, and a collaboration with UBC Neuroscience

April 19, 2021
Achievements, High Notes

Beyond the Gates: Sea shanties, Finnish Jazz, a Juno nomination, and more

April 19, 2021
Achievements, High Notes

Winter concerts 2021

April 18, 2021
In the Media

Collingwood Summer Music Festival Announces Schedule

April 17, 2021
Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

Cris Derksen is home

April 16, 2021
Achievements, High Notes, Research

Research and Publications: Music, Pantomime, and Freedom in Enlightenment France, Queer Identity and Visibility in the Wind Band, and more

April 15, 2021
Alumni, In the Media

Anna Netrebko, Lisette Oropesa, Michael Fabiano, Luciano Pavarotti & Philip Glass Lead Week 58 & 59 of Metropolitan Opera Nightly Streams

April 14, 2021
High Notes, Spotlight

Emmerich Kálmán, Rediscovered

April 14, 2021
High Notes

Playlist: A Musical Time Capsule with Dr. Stephen Chatman

April 13, 2021
High Notes, Spotlight

Chatman through the years

April 12, 2021
High Notes, Spotlight

Conjuring the future

April 9, 2021
In the Media

Niche classical recordings garner Juno nominations

April 8, 2021
In the Media

City Opera Vancouver Answers Questions About Wigs in ‘Perruqueries’

March 29, 2021
High Notes

Music as Medicine: An Interview with UBC's Dr. Shimi Kang

March 22, 2021
Media

UBC Symphony Orchestra: Looking Back, Looking Ahead

March 17, 2021
Achievements, High Notes

International Women's Day at the UBC School of Music

March 8, 2021
Admissions

Applied to the BMUS program? Here’s an update on the process

March 8, 2021
In the Media

Okanagan Symphony Orchestra invites people to virtual concert 'Suites & Serenades'

March 1, 2021
Media

UBC Bands - Winter Showcase

February 26, 2021
In the Media

Vancouver Island Symphony will make a splash with fish-themed quintets concert

February 23, 2021
In the Media

How virtual field trips are bringing animals, art, music and more directly to students

February 21, 2021
Admissions

Audition advice from our faculty!

February 16, 2021
Media

UBC Symphony Orchestra

February 11, 2021
Media

Microcosmos Quartet with Corey Hamm, piano

February 10, 2021
Admissions

A short guide to undergraduate auditions

February 9, 2021
In the Media

Inglewood's Festival Hall to honour late Amy Willier with augmented reality mural

February 5, 2021
Admissions

Join the #SoM80DAYS challenge!

February 4, 2021
In the Media

Winnipeg New Music Festival caps its 30th anniversary with contemplative, eclectic program

January 30, 2021
In the Media

Classical music is much more than a white European men's club

January 27, 2021
In the Media

Wednesday Noon Hours: Roger Cole and Terence Dawson connect music and memories

January 26, 2021
In the Media

Review: VSO's performance of Mozart's Gran Partita shines regardless of the setting

January 18, 2021
Spotlight

Strings at the UBC School of Music

January 7, 2021
In the Media

Still Creek Press Hits the High Notes at the Opera with Drytac SpotOn Floor 200

January 6, 2021
Admissions

I’ve applied to a graduate program! What now?

December 21, 2020
In the Media

The Complication of Lyrebirds

December 8, 2020
High Notes

High Notes | Fall 2020 Edition

December 7, 2020
High Notes, Spotlight

Taking inspiration from Beethoven—and the pandemic

December 7, 2020
Alumni, High Notes

Alumni Making Waves: Isolation Commissions, opera in virtual reality, and a cabinet position

December 4, 2020
High Notes

New Faces and Faculty Milestones

December 3, 2020
High Notes

Finding our new normal during the pandemic

December 3, 2020
High Notes

Catching Up With Our Students: Songs of Comfort, new commissions, an SSHRC grant, and a percussion fundraiser

December 3, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

Research and Publications: New grants, Art Song pedagogy, Baroque composer Gregor Aichinger

December 2, 2020
In the Media

Wearable art, metallic fringe, tie-dye sweatsuits: The looks from the 2020 edition of Indigenous Fashion Week

December 2, 2020
Admissions

Why study at the UBC School of Music?

December 2, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

Fall 2020 Concerts

December 1, 2020
High Notes

Beyond the Gates: Classical Composer of the Year, virtual festivals, and a UBC début

December 1, 2020
In the Media

CRITIC'S PICKS | Classical And Opera Streams You Absolutely Need To See This Week

November 30, 2020
Media

Liberating Performances: Jose Franch-Ballester & Guests

November 28, 2020
High Notes

New Recordings: Röntgen, Ryan, and a world première recording of Emmerich Kálmán

November 28, 2020
Alumni, In the Media

World-renowned indigenous cellist and composer Cris Derksen live streams from the Tidemark this December

November 27, 2020
Faculty, High Notes, Spotlight

Dehcho: A musical journey along the Mackenzie River

November 26, 2020
Admissions

Frequently asked questions for international students

November 25, 2020
In the Media

Cris Derksen plugs in her cello for PAC livestream

November 24, 2020
Alumni, In the Media

Gerard Schneider, Anna Gabler & Francisco Brito Highlight Tiroler Festspiele’s Winter Season

November 20, 2020
In the Media

Fall streams from Early Music Vancouver to explore heady mix of repertoires

November 9, 2020
High Notes

Dispatches from COVIDland

November 6, 2020
Media

Introducing our new faculty member Krisztina Szabó, mezzo-soprano

November 4, 2020
Admissions

How do I choose an undergrad program?

November 2, 2020
In the Media

Cross-Continental “Orbit” Features New Works by Indigenous Composers

October 26, 2020
Media

Roy Barnett Recital Hall 10th Anniversary - Jane Coop, piano

October 21, 2020
Alumni, In the Media

'I saw a hole in the classical music world that I wanted to fill,' conductor/composer Bhate says

October 21, 2020
Faculty, In the Media

Wednesday Noon Hours honours late School of Music Professor with a beautiful and stirring performance

October 20, 2020
High Notes

The show will go on

October 15, 2020
Faculty, In the Media

Violist Marina Thibeault performs in a tribute to Hans-Karl Piltz on October 14

October 9, 2020
In the Media

Instrument 'masks' and puppy pee pads help music classes continue in schools

October 4, 2020
Achievements, Alumni, Faculty, High Notes

Stephen Chatman and Mark Takeshi McGregor win at the 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards

October 2, 2020
Faculty, Media

Wednesday Noon Hours presents Mark Anderson, piano

September 30, 2020
In the Media

Pianist Mark Anderson gets all classical on your ass this Wednesday

September 25, 2020
High Notes, Spotlight

Celebrating the Roy Barnett Recital Hall at 10

September 15, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

Announcing the 2020-21 concert season

September 10, 2020
Announcements, High Notes

Welcome to the UBC School of Music

September 8, 2020
In the Media

Guide aims to help music students play along with physical distancing

September 5, 2020
Alumni, In the Media

Let world-renowned Indigenous cellist Cris Derksen give you a concert from their living room

September 4, 2020
In the Media

UBC's Krisztina Szabo voices excitement about heading back to school

September 2, 2020
In the Media

Bali and Burnaby music students collide in Mepalu Sari avant-gamelan project

September 1, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Dr. Gloria Wong, Sessional Lecturer in Ethnomusicology

August 24, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Jeremy Berkman, Sessional Lecturer in Trombone

August 17, 2020
Students

UBC Music Students In Conversation with Jeremy Dutcher

August 11, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Krisztina Szabó, Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera

August 11, 2020
Achievements, Alumni, High Notes

Ron Cohen Mann listed to CBC’s "30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians under 30"

August 6, 2020
High Notes

Dispatches from COVIDland

July 30, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

Emily Liang wins the 2020 Cantonese Lyrics Competition

July 29, 2020
Admissions, Announcements

Dr. T. Patrick Carrabré appointed Director of the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

July 27, 2020
In the Media

Cantopop ballad with COVID-19 twist co-written by UBC contest winner

July 25, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Alan Matheson, Sessional Lecturer in Jazz Trumpet and Piano

July 21, 2020
Faculty, In the Media

Corey Hamm Joins The Elite In Rzewski

July 15, 2020
In the Media

Classical music: Vancouver composer Stephen Chatman worth celebrating

July 14, 2020
Admissions, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Dr. Michael Tenzer, Professor of Ethnomusicology

July 13, 2020
Admissions

Meet Your Advisor: Katherine Evans, Manager of Admissions and Recruitment

July 2, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Jose Franch-Ballester, Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Chamber Music

June 30, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Marina Thibeault, Assistant Professor of Viola

June 29, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

School of Music faculty and alumni nominated for 2020 Western Canadian Music Awards

June 24, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: Elizabeth Volpé Bligh, Adjunct Professor of Harp

June 22, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: The Blue Cottage

June 22, 2020
High Notes

The "New" Old Aud

June 17, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

Congratulations, Class of 2020!

June 17, 2020
Admissions, Faculty, Spotlight

Meet Your Professor: J. Patrick Raftery, Assistant Professor of Voice

June 15, 2020
Admissions, Announcements

Update on 2020-21 course registration

June 15, 2020
In the Media

Faculty adjust to a new COVID-19 reality: online, physically-distanced classes

June 12, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: Summer Spirit

June 12, 2020
In the Media

From Bach tributes to Bohemian Rhapsody, UBC prof's clarinet video project reaches across communities

June 9, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, High Notes

Introducing Dr. Leigh VanHandel, Associate Professor of Music Theory

June 8, 2020
In the Media

Combatting social isolation during COVID-19

June 1, 2020
High Notes

Music students join Faculty of Medicine initiative to support seniors during COVID-19

June 1, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: Jazz Piano in Transcription

May 22, 2020
In the Media

Copyright bots and classical musicians are fighting online. The bots are winning.

May 21, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: The Natural World

May 15, 2020
High Notes

Update on the Fall Semester

May 14, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: Comfort and Joy

May 7, 2020
In the Media

VSO working through lockdown

May 6, 2020
High Notes

High Notes | Spring 2020 Edition

April 23, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: Cantonese Music

April 20, 2020
High Notes, Spotlight

From Aerosmith to Van Halen: How the UBC School of Music helped shape rock music history

April 16, 2020
In the Media

Social Listening: What's on in Sask. live-streaming concerts this week

April 16, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: Little Mountain Sound

April 15, 2020
High Notes

Remembering Hans-Karl Piltz (1923–2020)

April 14, 2020
Alumni, High Notes

Alumni Making Waves: Solo shows, virtual orchestra, and a lifetime achievement award

April 10, 2020
High Notes

Research and Publications: Italian voices in London, The Philosophy of Rhythm, and love songs

April 9, 2020
Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

Liberating the Queen in Me

April 8, 2020
High Notes

New Recordings: A Quinary, A North American Songbook, and more

April 7, 2020
High Notes

Beyond the Gates: Juno nominations, new compositions, and Women of the Italian Baroque

April 6, 2020
Achievements, High Notes, Students

Catching Up With Our Students: Awards, scholarships, and tours to Europe and the Philippines

April 3, 2020
In the Media

Watch this inspirational Canada Post employee sing in his delivery van

April 3, 2020
Faculty, High Notes

Around the World in Six Tones: Exploring the Global Phenomenon of Cantonese Music

April 2, 2020
In the Media

The Isolation Diaries: Flutist Mark Takeshi McGregor

April 2, 2020
In the Media

UBC University Cantonese Music Course

April 1, 2020
High Notes

Playlist: Jazz Piano In Transcription

March 31, 2020
In the Media

Vancouver musical duo Giving Shapes to a new, genre-hopping sound

March 31, 2020
In the Media

Spring Arts Preview 2020: Three must-sees in classical music

March 13, 2020
In the Media

Orchid Ensemble embraces interculturalism on From a Dream

March 11, 2020
In the Media

Review: Materna Requiem a raw and beautiful tribute

March 8, 2020
In the Media

BC’s nature inspires Juno nominee with ties to Powell River

March 4, 2020
In the Media

Classical music: Discover the unsung women of Italian baroque

March 3, 2020
High Notes

Audition advice from our faculty!

February 28, 2020
In the Media

Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards 2020: Ryan Reynolds, Tantoo Cardinal, composer Alexina Louie

February 27, 2020
In the Media

Alexina Louie announced as the recipient of the 2020 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement

February 27, 2020
In the Media

Canzona concert a tribute to how the other half loves

February 26, 2020
In the Media

The Joys of Angela Hewitt's 'Bach Odyssey' at UBC

February 26, 2020
High Notes

Watch: VO2 max fitness testing for musicians

February 25, 2020
In the Media

This Burnaby composer is up for a Juno Award

February 24, 2020
High Notes

Applied to the BMUS program? Here’s an update on the process

February 18, 2020
In the Media

REPORT: The COC’s Splendiferous 2020-21 Season Reveal

February 11, 2020
Achievements, High Notes

The 2020 Silverman Piano Competition finalists

February 10, 2020
In the Media

The new Hansel and Gretel has wisdom and themes that transcend the world created by the Brothers Grimm

February 7, 2020
In the Media

UP College of Music, University of British Columbia collaborate for laptop orchestra music concert

February 7, 2020
In the Media

SCRUTINY: NACO And Joshua Bell Offer Luscious Interpretations Of Morlock, Mendelssohn And Boulanger

February 7, 2020
High Notes

A short guide to undergraduate auditions

February 5, 2020
In the Media

Sharing music from generation to generation

February 5, 2020
In the Media

Calgary Philharmonic Commissions Five New Works For Year Of Beethoven

February 5, 2020
In the Media

Photo Flash: Canadian Opera Company's New Production of HANSEL & GRETEL

February 5, 2020
In the Media

Review: ‘Kiinalik’ an unsettling yet profound new perspective on the North

January 31, 2020
In the Media

UBC Opera to premiere The Passenger at symposium Auschwitz 75

January 31, 2020
In the Media

A Pathbreaking and Splendid 'The Passenger' from UBC Opera

January 30, 2020
In the Media

Hansel and Gretel: COC’s new Toronto-based staging

January 30, 2020
In the Media

Take An Arctic Journey Far North Right In Canada’s Capital City, Ottawa

January 30, 2020
Achievements, Alumni, High Notes

School of Music grads nominated for 2020 Shean Piano Competition

January 29, 2020
Alumni, Faculty, High Notes

School of Music faculty and alumni nominated for 2020 Juno awards

January 29, 2020
Alumni, Faculty, In the Media

Jocelyn Morlock says her Juno-winning piece My Name is Amanda Todd ‘stands up for itself’

January 29, 2020
Faculty, In the Media

Wen Wei Dance and Turning Point Ensemble make calligraphy move in Flying White

January 28, 2020
In the Media

Standing Wave rolls into Kay Meek Arts Centre

January 24, 2020
High Notes

The Art of Zen Music Playing

January 22, 2020
In the Media

Classical music: UBC Opera mounts long-neglected Weinberg story of the recent past

January 21, 2020
In the Media

A life-changing trip to the Arctic inspired this North-meets-South multimedia show

January 17, 2020
In the Media

Opera urges “never forget”

January 17, 2020
In the Media

Windsor Symphony set to perform 'achingly beautiful' Madama Butterfly

January 15, 2020
High Notes

The 2020 UBC Concerto Competition winners

January 13, 2020
In the Media

J. Patrick Raftery - Tenor

January 13, 2020
In the Media

Town Talk: Wall Ball hands Union Gospel Mission an 80th-birthday gift

January 10, 2020
In the Media

Opera singer Rachel Fenlon changing course

January 9, 2020
High Notes

Woodwinds, brass and percussion at the UBC School of Music

January 8, 2020
In the Media

Composer Jennifer Butler messes with Messiaen at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra's New Music Festival

January 8, 2020
Spotlight

A life dedicated to cultural exchange

April 3, 2019
Students

From wearable instruments to 3D-printed violins

April 2, 2019
Alumni, High Notes

Forces to be reckoned with

March 29, 2019
Spotlight

Calling all music lovers

November 14, 2018
Alumni, High Notes, Students

A studio of one's own

April 16, 2018
Announcements, Spotlight

The Gift of Music

April 16, 2018
Alumni, Spotlight

“You don’t have to fit in a box”: Debi Wong on opera’s potential to create spaces for underrepresented voices

January 30, 2018
Spotlight

Episode 02: How 'situated' is your ear?

January 23, 2018
Alumni, Spotlight

Composer and conductor Hussein Janmohamed on choral singing, identity, and fostering cultural understanding

November 17, 2017
Alumni

Pianist Lucas Wong on finding new ways to inspire audiences and students

November 1, 2017

Remembering Donald Brown (1925-2017)

November 1, 2017
Spotlight

Episode 01: What is a ballad?

October 24, 2017
Alumni, Spotlight

Engineering’s loss is music’s gain

May 10, 2016

In Memoriam: Dr. Elizabeth Lamberton (MA ’78, PhD ’88)

March 10, 2016
Alumni, High Notes, Spotlight

Teaching at the heart of giving

January 21, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

A daughter’s privilege: advancing the arts, forestry and medical discoveries

December 9, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Austrian-Canadian Joseph Kandler built musical ties between beloved countries

November 2, 2014
Spotlight

An enduring commitment to music education

October 26, 2014
Spotlight

Sharing the joy of music

October 26, 2014
Spotlight

Bridging learning and cultural exchange

October 26, 2013
Spotlight

Celebrating a passion for music

October 26, 2013