by Kristy Farkas | Sep 19, 2024 | Faculty, News
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…
by johnt | Mar 22, 2024 | Faculty, News
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.
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 johnt | Oct 4, 2022 | Faculty, News
While they’ve long been considered stars in the world of classical music, UVic’s Lafayette String Quartet are now officially astronomical, thanks to the newly named asteroid (613419) Lafayettequartet…
by Kristy Farkas | Jan 31, 2022 | Faculty, News
The internationally acclaimed Lafayette String Quartet (LSQ), the only all-female ensemble in the world still with all four original members, is ending their time as an ensemble after more than 35 years of performances and three decades of teaching with UVic’s School of Music…
by Kristy Farkas | Nov 25, 2021 | Faculty, News, Research
The latest recording by School of Music professor, Suzanne Snizek, entitled Chamber Music (Re)Discoveries, is now available through Centaur Records and can be found on streaming platforms…
by Kristy Farkas | Jul 4, 2021 | Faculty, News
Dr. Alexis Luko, a noted musicologist, educator and university administrator, has been appointed Director of the School of Music, Faculty of Fine Arts, for a 5-year term beginning July 1, 2021…
by Kristy Farkas | Jun 23, 2020 | News
Canadian music has lost a giant in the form of pianist, trombonist, and composer Hugh Fraser (1958-2020). In addition to his teaching at UVic, Hugh was head of the Banff Centre for the Arts Summer Jazz Program and taught at the Royal Academy…