Viva Voce, one of Montreal's best professional choral ensembles gave its last concert on Tuesday night at Bourgie Hall.Viva Voce closedits 17th seasonwith music by Renaissance rock star and Monteverdi role model, Cipriano De Rore.Founder and conductor Peter Schubert says he's always looking for enticing ways to program a concert, and anniversaries are sometimes helpful.
The latest edition of Circuit musiques contemporaines,Volume 26, no. 1, is devoted tothe Societé de musique contemporaine de Québec's (SMCQ)Homage Series composer of the year, Professor John Rea. Reahas been celebrated by the SMCQ throughout the 2015-2016 musical season. The magazine includesarticles and contributions by Jimmie LeBlanc, Maxime McKinley, Anne Marie Messier and Michel Robert, Julien Bilodeau and John Rea himself. The issue is illustrated by artist Nicholas Voeikoff-Erens.
Professor Jacqueline Leclair,Associate Dean ofAcademic and Student Affairsgroup, Ensemble Signal, performed a remarkable, hour-long work by Hans Abrahamsen in New York City March 24th, and received this New York Times review.Leclair teaches oboe, coaches chamber music and is also Woodwind Area Chair here at the Schulich School of Music.
Benjamin Deschamps, a Schulich School of Music Master's student has been awarded the 'Bourse de Création Jazz' by the Conseil des Arts de Montréal (CAM). The $5,000 award will be used to help fundthe production of his second jazz recording. The award was announced on March 17, at the opening of the Jazz en rafale concert series. Deschamps is curently finishing his Master's degree as a student of Professor Joe Sullivan and has also studied with Professors Kevin Dean and Jean-Nicolas Trottier.
On March 21st, 2016 theQS World University Rankings by Subject 2016 were announced and ۲ݮƵ's Schulich School of Music was named the top Canadian performing arts university in the country.QSrankings highlight the world’s top universities in 42 subjects, based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact. The Schulich School of Music was ranked 26th overall. Other participating Canadian institutions include University of British Columbia, University of Montreal, and University of Toronto.
Le Chœur Schulich de l'Université ۲ݮƵ sera en concert à la Chapelle du Musée de l'Amérique à Québec vendredi 11 mars. C'est un retour aux sources pour le directeur artistique du Chœur Schulich, Jean-Sébastien Vallée, qui vient de Québec et y a poursuivi ses études en musique.
Research at ۲ݮƵ is often celebrated for its international collaborations and recognition; but its importance at home, in the province of Quebec, is equally meritorious. This was never more apparent than at the recent award ceremony of the (SQRM) when the outstanding work of six young ۲ݮƵ musicologists and theorists were recognized. On Nov. 11, 2015, four ۲ݮƵ students were the finalists for the annual paper competition.
Professor Marcelo M. Wanderleyhas been awarded anInternational Chair for 2016-2020.Prof. Wanderley is the first ۲ݮƵ researcher to be awarded this chair and is among the four awardees this year.Inriais theFrench National Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. This is the first time a Professor of Music is awarded this chair, attesting to the wide variety of research directions and the impact of the work developed at the Schulich School of Music at ۲ݮƵ University.
Anna Peletsis, a doctoralpianostudent of Professor Marina Mdivani, has won the ۲ݮƵ Concerto Competition and will perform next season with the McGIll Symphony Orchestra. A graduate of theTchaikovsky Moscow Conservatoire where she with professors Sergey Dorensky, Pavel Nersessian and Nikolai Luganski, she alsowon the 1st prize of the International Piano Competition "Nikolai Rubinstein" in Paris in 2004. She has participated in the “Jose Iturbi” masterclasses in Valencia, Spain and in amaster classof French Music in Paris, France.
Brent Proseus, a student of Professor Richard Stoelzel, Brass Area Chair, has been namedwinner of the 2016 Schulich School of Music Woodwinds, Brass, and Percussion competition. Brent’s firsttrumpet teacher was his father, Eric and hecontinued hisstudies with Gregg Good. Brent was principal trumpet inthe Michigan Junior High All-State Band and he was principal trumpet in the Michigan All-state Orchestra as well as the lead trumpet in the Michigan All-State Jazz Band.
On Feb. 7,Chelsea Ruswas named the winner of the inaugural Wirth Vocal Prize. According to the Schulich School of Music’s website, the $25,000 prize is given to “an exceptional voice student… in recognition of outstanding accomplishment as a singer and significant promise for an international career.” Pretty heady stuff for any young singer – but especially so for Rus, who had never even heard an opera until her first year of college in 2009 back home in Abbotsford, B.C.
If, as Mark Twain said here in 1881, you can’t throw a brick in Montreal without breaking a church window, it must be equally true that you can’t go very far in this once very religious city without stumbling across a pipe organ. And often a damned good one.
Cellist , an alumni of the Schulich School of Music,has wonthe early-music recording of the year award for her discBerlin Sonatas on the label. Fascinated with the cello’s origins and the creative process of new music, Elinor Frey plays both period and modern instruments.
Professor Emeritus John Grew, former Dean of Music,will be invested into the Order of Canada on Friday, February 12th 2016 in a ceremony at Rideau Hall. The ceremony, which begins at 10:30amEST,will be webcast live from the Governor General of Canada's . A webcastlink will be available on their homepage before 10:30am on Friday.