Professor Richard King received two Grammy awards this past weekend in the categories of Best Contemporary Instrumental Album ("Bass & Mandolin" Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer) andBest Orchestral Performance (John Adams: "City Noir" David Robertson, conductor, St. Louis Symphony) both on the Nonesuch label. With these two latest awards, Prof. King now has a total of 14 Grammy awards.
Chair of Music Performance Stéphane Lemein has recently released a CD of piano quintets with the Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc.Read more from Le Devoir critique Christophe Huss's February 6th review in which he describes the recording as 'intelligently programmed- a real jewel.' (Full review in French)
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Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc, Stéphane Lemelin (piano).
Risk produced an archival CD for a community in the Gaspé, and the prize recognizes the remarkable docmentation or research in a field connected to dance, music, song, and traditional Francophone storytelling within the Americas. The CD was the result of extensive research into the musical traditions of the Gaspé community. Laura Risk and her collaborator Glen Patterson first digitized and catalogued over 70 hours of recordings and then selected the 46 tracks that are found on the recording. The CD is accompanied by a bilingual booklet which also contains photographs.
Nominations for Canada's top music prize, the Junos, were announced last week. Schulich and 鶹AV grads & faculty factor into 22 nominations:
A valued member of theSchulich School of Music since 2007, Professor Mark Fewer was recently named a William Dawson Scholar, an award which recognizes a faculty member's outstanding and original contributions as well as their world-class caliber. Fewer is a highly-regarded soloist and chamber musician, whose performances of both classical and jazz have been described as “genre-bending”. He has appeared widely in North America and also abroad throughout Europe, Australia, and the Far East.
Description: EDEA 472 students in their final semester of theirMusic Education degree are combining with volunteer members fromthe New Horizons Montreal Band, a intergenerational concert bandnow in their second year of operation. The seniors are learninghow to play band instruments (most are in their 2nd year of thisprocess), and the 鶹AV Students are learning to becometeachers.
The Schulich School of Music is thrilled to announce the appointment of legendary Canadian tenor Ben Heppner to the voice faculty of the Schulich School of Music for the academic year 2015-16. One of Canada’s greatest artists, Mr. Heppner has received acclaim on the world’s most prestigious opera stages, including the Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, La Scala, and the Vienna State Opera. Mr. Heppner will teach over a dozen voice students and contribute immensely to the rich and dynamic life of the Voice Area at the School.
Professor Fabrice Marandola is interviewed by LeDevoir in a special section dedicated to the grand opening of LeVivier at his new address, the 'Gesù-Centre de création' inMontreal. Le Vivier comprises 34 music ensembles andorganisations dedicated to new music. Fabrice Marandola has been thePresident of the Board of Directors since last fall.
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The live@CIRMMT concert, "De souffles et de machines" performedby the Quasar saxophone quartet, has been selected as a finalistfor a 30th Grand Prix du Counseil des arts de Montréal.
Next season look for the participation of several Schulich alumni in different productions at the Canadian Opera Company. In October 2015 the COC will present the world premiere of Pyramus and Thisbe, written by composer Barbara Monk Feldman. The work is inspired by the beauty, light, and colour of her native Gaspé Peninsula and is a timeless story of star-crossed lovers. In February 2016 Jordan de Souza will conduct two performances of the Canadian Opera Company's production of Le Nozze di Figaro.
Working with researchers from the Technische Universität Berlin and the University of Montreal, Prof. McAdams compared reactions to various pieces of music from two groups of people: 40 Mbenzélé Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest and 40 Canadians in Montreal. “The emotional diversity of music depends on who we are, what we’ve experienced and who we identify with — that’s the most exciting part of music,” McAdams says.
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Schulich Professor alcides lanza, pianist, conductor and composer is the winner of the XIII Prize Tomás Luis de Victoria 2014, offered by the SGAE Foundation in Madrid. This prize recognizes his substantial contribution to the enrichment of the musical life of the Ibero-American people. It also recognizes lanza's distinguished career as a composer and pedagogue.The award ceremony took place on May 28, 2015, at the Auditorium of the Real Academia de las Artes, Madrid, Spain
The Schulich School of Music congratulates former Dean of Music, Professor John Grew, alumni Jens Lindemann (BMus’88), and Faculty Advisory Board Member Joan Ivory (BA’54) on their being named among the 95 newest appointees to the Order of Canada named December 26th, 2014. The honour, established in 1967 by the Queen, recognizes contributions to Canada; its motto, desiderantes meliorem patriam means "they desire a better country." Appointees are made on the recommendation of an independent advisory council headed by Canada's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.