Twenty-six-year-old bassist, composer, and arranger (MMus ’19) has been named this year’s ! Performing at various events and bars since the age of 16, Carl has travelled with his art through Quebec and France as a solo artist, as well as alongside other musicians and bands of all kinds.
The results of JM Canada Foundation’s Do Mi Si La Do Ré (Home Sweet Home) Contest are in and we are pleased to see members of the Schulich alumni represented among the list of winners! Congratulations to:
Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960–2000 by Laurel Parsons and Dean Brenda Ravenscroft has won the in the book category! An adjudicator of the award praised the book for its incredible and necessary research and was specifically impressed with the original and rigorous analysis of music by women composers.
This year’s Virtual Convocations took place June 17-18. As is customary in ۲ݮƵ’s traditional graduation ceremonies, these virtual convocations featured short musical performances including a recording of ۲ݮƵ’s Hail, Alma Mater, a song that has been sung by the late Prof. Winston Purdy, Prof. Tracy Smith Bessette, and now, .
Congratulations to Claire McLeish, winner of in the graduate instructor award!
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Darroch, winner of in the graduate instructor category!
Congratulations to Dr. Jerry M. Cain, winner of in the part-time category!
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Hansen, winner of Schulich’s 2019-20 Teaching Award in the full-time category!
Congratulations to Professor Nicole Biamonte, winner of in the full-time category!
Over the past few weeks, several of our students have received awards for their exciting research projects. Follow the links to read more about each winner's exciting projects.
James Donaldson: Topics and Formal Process in Post-Tonal Music
Shulamit Sarid: Welcome to the Jungle – 2Cellos and the Genre-Audience Relationship
Congratulations to Omer Barash, winner of the 2019-20 Andrew Svoboda Memorial Prize for Orchestral Composition. Omer’s orchestral piece will be premiered by the ۲ݮƵ Symphony Orchestra in the 2021-2022 season.
A huge congratulations are in order for Cathy Martin, Coordinator and Liaison Librarian at the Marvin Duchow Music Library, on being awarded ۲ݮƵ’s 2020 Librarian Excellence Award! This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to the Library, its users, and its mandate.
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Kenneth Gilbert on April 16, 2020.
A world-famous harpsichordist and scholar – and the founder of the Early Music Program at ۲ݮƵ – Prof. Gilbert maintained a long and distinguished association with our faculty as a professor from 1964 to 1972 and then again as an Adjunct Professor from 1999 to 2015; he was awarded an honorary doctorate from ۲ݮƵ in 1981.
The Schulich School of Music is pleased to announce that this year’s Eleanor Stubley Recording Prize will go to Martin Daigle (MMus '20) and Omar Miranda (M.Mus. '21) for their project “Mossy Cobblestone”.
On the occasion of World Hearing Day, the Schulich School of Music of ۲ݮƵ University and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) are pleased to announce the launch of their Hearing Care Platform (HCP). Conceived in partnership with the NSERC-EERS Industrial Research Chair in In-Ear Technologies (CRITIAS) at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), this project is designed to assess the noise exposure experienced by ۲ݮƵ music students.