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The School of Music is a leader in music scholarship, from music theory to ethnomusicology. Faculty contribute actively to all aspects of music research, and support students develop their research interests.

Research Spotlight

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UBC Professor Alex Fisher awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

 
Dr. Fisher awarded grant for his research: Sounding Difference: The Acoustic Culture of Catholic Germany in an Age of Religious Conflict.

PhD Student, Sherryl Sewepagaham awarded 2024 Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship

 
Sherryl's research is focused on revitalizing the Cree language through Indigenous songs and examining gender within Cree traditions. Sherryl is studying with Associate Professor Dr. Dylan Robinson xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah).

Dylan Robinson and Sherryl Sewepagaham win Friends of Canadian Music Award

 
Associate Professor, Dylan Robinson has selected PhD student Sherryl Sewepagaham to receive support as an emerging artist through this award.
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Keyboard

Rediscovering Couperin & Rameau

Artists: Lucas Wong piano Release Year: 2018 Recorded at Fazioli Concert Hall, Sacile, Italy Engineer: Federico Furlanetto Description: A great…

Voice & Opera | Choirs

Where Waters Meet

Artists: UBC Music PhD student Sherryl Sewepagaham, composer; Canadian Chamber Choir Release date: September 2024 Description (from Canadian Chamber Choir…

Keyboard | Early Music

A Prayer for Peace

Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Alexander Weimann, organ Redshift Records Recorded at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver Producer: Denise Ball Recording/mix…

Composition

one more way to see

Featured UBC Faculty Artist: Jennifer Butler composer Redshift Records Released November 4, 2023 CREDITS Producer/Réalisateur: Jennifer Butler Recording engineers, digital editing,…

Featured Publications & Productions

Musicology

Confraternities, Congregations and Aural Culture in Counter-Reformation Germany

Author: Alexander Fisher Publication details: In Listening to Confraternities: Spaces for Performance, Patronage and Urban Musical Experience, edited by Tess Knighton, 272–304.…

Music Theory

Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music

Author: Anabel Maler  Publication details: Oxford University Press, Oxford Studies in Music Theory Weblink: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/seeing-voices-9780197601976?cc=ca&lang=en&   Abstract: First monograph-length analytical study…

Musicology

Edita Gruberová’s Wig: Belcanto Revival and Staging Practices at the Turn of the 21st Century

Arthor: Vellutini, Claudio Publication details: Edita Gruberová’s Wig: Belcanto Revival and Staging Practices at the Turn of the 21st Century,…