Music professor Lauren McCall keen to extend realities
When it comes to attracting new talent to our faculty, national borders are no barrier. Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Lauren McCall is the newest professor to join our School of Music faculty…
Kirk McNally wins REACH Award for advocacy and activism
The Provost’s Advocacy and Activism Awards recognize the achievements of individuals or groups in the university who demonstrate dedication to the advancement of social equity through advocacy and/or activism…
Steven Capaldo has world premiere at Invictus Games
When over 550 wounded warriors walk and wheel into the closing ceremonies of Vancouver’s Invictus Games, they’ll be entering to the celebratory sounds of a triumphant new fanfare, specially composed for the event by School of Music professor Steven Capaldo…
Lauren McCall joins School of Music
The School of Music is thrilled to welcome Dr. Lauren McCall as Assistant Research Professor in composition and music technology. Dr. McCall will join our school on Jan. 1, 2025. Dr. McCall is a composer and music educator from Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in Music Technology from the Georgia Institute of Technology…
Quartet Fest West returns
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…
Remembering guitarist Alexander Dunn
It is with profound sadness that we share the news that our friend and School of Music colleague, Dr. Alexander Dunn, passed away unexpectedly on the morning of May 8. “This is a loss that will be deeply felt by members of our School and the wider music community,”…
Opera star Marion Newman joins UVic Music
Critically acclaimed Canadian opera singer and national CBC Radio host Marion Newman joins the teaching faculty at the School of Music. The 2022 UVic Distinguished Alumni Award recipient (BMus ’93) will officially join as an assistant professor on July 1, 2024.
Chamber Singers mark 50 years at UVic Music
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…
Saying farewell to the Lafayette String Quartet
When violinists Ann Elliott-Goldschmid and Sharon Stanis, violist Joanna Hood and cellist Pamela Highbaugh Aloni made the decision to pursue a career as a professional string quartet in 1986, they had no idea where their collective journey as the newly formed…
Harald Krebs & A Place of Infinite Possibility
Harald Krebs is an internationally respected music theorist, award-winning Distinguished Professor, past president of the Society for Music Theory, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; also the head of our theory program, he is now retiring after 37 years of scholarship and teaching…