Faculty
Faculty Concert: Songs of Poldowski
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, CanadaFaculty Concert Series Songs of Poldowski Anne Grimm, soprano Bruce Vogt, piano An evening of songs from the Belgian-born British composer and pianist Régine Wieniawski (1879-1932), who, under her pseudonym ‘Poldowski’, wrote some of the finest French art songs of the twentieth century. The concert will be introduced with a talk on the life and music of […]
Faculty Concert: Ajtony Csaba – Music for the senses
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, CanadaFaculty Concert Series UVic’s Symphony Orchestra conductor, Ajtony Csaba, presents an adventurous evening of compositions for keyboard instruments, movement, electronic sounds and projections from the post-instrumental performance practice domain. Program: Annesley Black: Earl Brown's Forgotten Piece in Moholy-Nagy's Light-Space-Modulator John Adams: Hallelujah Junction Dieter Schnebel: Nostalgie Stefan Prins: Piano Hero #1 Helmut Lachenmann: Guero and […]
Faculty Concert (Reprise): Grimm sings Grimm and Lang sings Lang
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, CanadaFaculty Concert Series Anne Grimm, soprano Jennifer Lang, mezzo-soprano Harald Krebs, piano UVic voice instructor Anne Grimm sings works by a close friend of Brahms named Julius Otto Grimm (1827-1903), and the prominent local mezzo-soprano Jennifer Lang sings songs by Josephine Lang (1815-1880). Both singers will be accompanied by UVic theory professor and dynamic pianist, […]
Postponed to July 5: Quartet Fest West: Lafayette String Quartet and guests
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, Canada*This concert has been postponed to July 5. If you are unable to attend the rescheduled concert, you may use your ticket for another concert at QFW or request a refund. For inquiries, please email quartetfestwest@uvic.ca. Join the Lafayette String Quartet as they present a program featuring singer/songwriter and drummer Nicole Mandryk in her new […]
Quartet Fest West: Lafayette String Quartet and guests
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, Canada*This concert was rescheduled from June 27. All tickets purchased for June 27 will be honoured.* Join the Lafayette String Quartet as they present a program featuring singer/songwriter and drummer Nicole Mandryk in her new work “Singing Through Generations” co-composed with Leila Lustig. Yariv Aloni will join the LSQ for Mendelssohn’s beautiful Viola Quintet in […]
Quartet Fest West: Gala Concert
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, CanadaLafayette String Quartet With Beth Root Sandvoss, cello Jody Johnson, double bass And Quartet Fest West participants The Lafayette String Quartet with guest cellist Beth Root Sandvoss perform an evening of charming and uplifting music including Boccherini’s Cello Quintet in C and Vivaldi’s Concerto for two celli. A trio made up of Quartet Fest West […]
17th Annual Lafayette Health Awareness Forum: Our Planet, Our Health
Christ Church Cathedral 930 Burdett Ave, Victoria, BC, CanadaPresented in partnership with UVic's Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health and Christ Church Cathedral Guest speakers: Suzanne Simard, author, UBC Professor in Forest and Conservation Sciences Valeria Stoynova, MD, General Internal Medicine Katlia Lafferty, author, Climate Writer in Residence, West Vancouver Library With performances by the Lafayette String Quartet Join us for the final […]
Installation opening: Untitled (insect light) by Christopher Butterfield
OtherAn audio installation by Christopher Butterfield Christopher Butterfield has made two sound installations in recent years, both collaborations with visual artist Sandra Meigs: Room for Mystics, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2017, and The Warblers, in Victoria and Calgary in 2021 and 2022. Untitled (insect light) continues his interest in simple, low volume […]
Puppets Forsaken presents: The Noisebau
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall University of Victoria, MacLaurin Building, B-Wing, Victoria, BC, CanadaPuppets Forsaken (David Gifford & Natali Leduc) With work by Mowry Baden And a performance by Christopher Butterfield Puppets Forsaken (UVic Visual Arts instructor David Gifford & Natali Leduc) presents The Noisebau, an interactive installation/performance of sounding sculptures. Under the auspices of puppetry and stage magic, The Noisebau creates an operatic soundscape of acoustic noise that could pose […]
Christopher Butterfield: Untitled (insect light)
OtherAn audio installation by Christopher Butterfield Christopher Butterfield has made two sound installations in recent years, both collaborations with visual artist Sandra Meigs: Room for Mystics, at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2017, and The Warblers, in Victoria and Calgary in 2021 and 2022. Untitled (insect light) continues his interest in simple, low volume […]