by johnt | Jun 24, 2024 | Alumni, Events, Faculty, Students
The chamber music experience Quartet Fest West returns to the School of Music from June 24-July 5 with a lineup including former members of the Lafayette String Quartet, guest artists the Jasper String Quartet, the Breakwater Quartet plus this year’s student…
by johnt | Jun 6, 2024 | Alumni, Students
When it comes to career paths, most music students aspire to professional positions after graduation—playing with an orchestra, say, or becoming a chamber musician or band teacher. Not so with Philip Manning, who took a different approach to his own musical career:…
by johnt | Mar 4, 2024 | Alumni, Concerts, Faculty
For 50 years, the UVic Chamber Singers have proven to be one of the most endearing — and enduring — ensembles in our School of Music. Over the years, the Chamber Singers have performed to enthusiastic audiences in 140 cities and 30 countries on 6 continents, and have been recorded for broadcast on the CBC…
by Kristy Farkas | May 19, 2023 | Alumni, Events, Faculty, Research
The School of Music will be exploring sound as a foundational practice with Sound Genres, a special multimedia symposium running May 26-28 and funded in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council…
by Kristy Farkas | Mar 31, 2023 | Alumni, Faculty, Research
Forget the gold watch: noted composer and longtime School of Music professor Christopher Butterfield is marking his UVic retirement with the March 31 release of his latest album, Souvenir. Performed by longtime musical collaborators Aventa Ensemble…
by johnt | Nov 4, 2022 | Alumni, News
When Calgary-based Logan Wood was looking for a leading post-secondary music and computer science degree program, he quickly realized that there was only real choice for him. “In comparing programs across the country, UVic stood out for me,”…
by Kristy Farkas | Mar 10, 2021 | Alumni
School of Music alumna and composition instructor Anna Höstman has been nominated for a 2021 Juno award for Classical Composition of the Year for her piano solo, Harbour.
by Kristy Farkas | Jan 8, 2021 | Alumni
Congratulations to UVic Music alumna Klisala Harrison on her recent publication from Oxford University Press of Music Downtown Eastside, a landmark book on music, human rights and poverty…
by Kristy Farkas | Dec 29, 2020 | Alumni
The School of Music was saddened to hear of the passing of UVic alumnus Glen Carruthers on December 24, 2020. An administrator, pianist and noted musicologist, he died of cancer at his Ontario home at the age of 66…
by Kristy Farkas | Dec 12, 2020 | Alumni
At the edge of Canada’s Kluane Icefield, School of Music alumna Diyet van Lieshout recorded a unique retelling of Handel’s Oh Thou that Tellest in Southern Tutchone, the dialect of the ancestral lands where she was born…