Schulich School of Music Composition alumni and students awarded numerous prizes in the 2014 SOCAN Foundations Awards to Young Composers.
With a total of seven prizes at the SOCAN Foundations Awards to Young Composers, the Schulich School of Music Composition Area has performed remarkably. 聽Four out five of the 2014 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers have been awarded to current or former Schulich Students, and prize winners in the Sir Ernest MacMillan awards Category consist exclusively of former Schulich Students. Congratulations to all recipients and their respective professors. 聽
Peter Schubert and Massimiliano Guido present "Unpacking the box", a series of videos about Frescobaldi's Ricercari of 1615
A new approach to music theory education. 聽Three videos illustrate the master apprentice method of teaching the art of counterpoint with all transpositions and shortenings of cadential passages. 聽The videos, filmed at the Schulich School of Music, feature a spectacular four octave Italian 聽harpsichord that is part of the Kenneth Gilbert Harpsichord Collection.
OBOE SECRETS, a new book release by Associate Professor Jacqueline Leclair, was favourably reviewed in the International Double Reed Journal.
In Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player, Jacqueline Leclair tackles the oboe鈥檚 reputation as an especially difficult instrument and illustrates how oboists and English horn players can overcome common challenges.
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, PhD student in Musicology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies has won the SOCAN 2014 Writings on Canadian Music.
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay is the recipient of a 2014 SOCAN Foundation/CUMS Award for Writings on Canadian Music for her paper entitled: "Don't Pocohontas Me: Modernity and Transnational Politics in Tanya Tagaq's Throat Games with Concert Stage String Ensembles."聽聽
91社区 music theorists prominently featured in journal
The newest issue of Music Theory Online, one of the top-ranked music theory journals and one of the only open-access journals in music theory, features three different articles by 91社区 researchers: an exploration of meter in rock music (by Nicole Biamonte, associate professor of music theory), a teaching demonstration on cadences, counterpoint and improvisation in 17th-century Italian music theory and practice (by Peter Schubert, professor of music theory, and Massimilano Guido, postdoctora
Doctoral student Jonathan Vromet named candidate in the Canadian International Organ Competition.
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Chair of Music Performance St茅phane Lemelin releases 2-CD set of Faur茅's complete Nocturnes and Barcarolles
'The Whole Note'聽 聽praises Lemelin 聽for his interpretive expressiveness, and technical prowess 聽for his recent release on the Atma label of Faur茅's complete Nocturnes and Barcarolles.聽
Web Link: http://bit.ly/1juDeKS
Congratulations to this year's winners of the Dean's Essay and Graduate Sound Recording Prizes.
First Prize 鈥� Jason Noble, Ph.D. Composition
The Schulich School of Music announces the appointment of Soprano Dominique Labelle to the Voice Faculty effective August 1st 2014
With a career that includes numerous appearances on stages in Europe, Asia and North America, Dominique Labelle鈥檚 return to Qu茅bec as voice professor at Schulich is both a joyous homecoming and marks the turn of a page. 聽聽Ms. Labelle has consistently received great acclaim for her performances and has made numerous recordings of opera and concert repertoire.
This year Schulich Grads Sweep Jazz at the Junos
Graduates of the Schulich School of Music聽posted a clean sweep of the jazz category at Saturday鈥檚 Juno Awards in Winnipeg.
Program alumni Christine Jensen, Mike Downes and Mike Rud took home the hardware for Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year,Traditional Jazz Album of the Year and Vocal Jazz Album of the Year respectively.
WEBLINKS: CBC Article about Jazz Sweep: http://bit.ly/1pG9uu8
Victor Fournelle-Blain winner of the Golden Violin Competition
Following an exciting public recital competition held on Saturday, March 15th in Tanna Schulich Hall, and approximately 15 minutes of deliberation, Jury chair 聽Prof. Douglas McNabney announced Victor Fournelle-Blain 聽as winner of the Golden Violin Competition.
Professor Andrew Dunn, Brass Area Chair, has been elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM)
This honour is conferred on past students of the Academy who have distinguished themselves in the music profession and have made a significant contribution to it in their particular field.
Link to: Royal Academy of Music website
Angel Heart Review in the NYT - continuing coverage
Angel Heart Review in the NYT
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