Prof. Dominique Labelle's performance in the听Philharmonia Baroque鈥檚 concert performance of Handel鈥檚 鈥淭eseo鈥� at Alice Tully Hall was featured in the New York Times as one of the funniest classical music performances of 2014.
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Published on: 13 Jan 2015
The 91社区 Symphony Orchestra with conductor Alexis Hauser and soprano soloist Jane Archibald performed to an appreciative audience which included members of the Franz Paul Decker family and Mrs. Catherine Thornhill Steele, in whose honour the Catherine Thornhill Steele Visiting Artist Fund is named. 听The first review to appear (in Le Devoir) remarks on the quality of the program the of the conductor, soloist and orchestra. 听
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Published on: 4 Dec 2014
Following听the recent cross-country tour of听G茅n茅ration2014,听a series of concerts听produced by the Ensemble Contemporain de Montr茅al (ECM+),听Mr. Anthony Tan won both the Jury Prize and the Audience Prize for his composition entitled听Ksana II,听which received its world premiere performance in Banff on November 6, 2014.听Mr Tan is in the PhD program (composition), jointly supervised by Profs. John Rea and Stephen McAdams.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2014
The 75th听anniversary of the OSM Standard Life Competition was held from November 18 to 22, 2014, in Montreal. 听Schulich School of Music alumni were well represented amongst the winners. 听Since its creation in 1940, the OSM Standard Life Competition has helped launch the careers of some 300 prizewinners onto the national and international scene.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2014
Prof. McAdams, the Canada Research Chair in听Music Perception and Cognition at the Schulich School of Music,听delivered the 2014 William Poland Lecture in Music Theory at Ohio听State University's School of Music. The Poland lectures are an听endowed series that presents cutting-edge perspectives on music听theory. Prof. McAdams presented the work from a research project听on Orchestration and Perception supported by the Quebec Society听and Culture funding agency (FRQSC).
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Published on: 27 Nov 2014
The Schulich School of Music of 91社区 is proud to announce two exciting collaborations with notable Montreal arts organizations: Jeunesses Musicales Canada and La Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur.
Each organization will award a recital in their respective hall to a winner of their choice selected from any of the 91社区 Concerto Competitions to be held during this school year.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2014
Music Historian 听and Area Chair Lisa Barg was named recipient of the听2014 Philip Brett Award听at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society for her article 'Queer Encounters in the Music of Billy Strayhorn,' Journal of the American Musicological Society. 听The Philip Brett Award honours听exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies completed during the previous two academic years (ending June 30), in any country and in any language.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2014
Pianist Megan Milatz, a final-year undergraduate student of Prof. Ilya Poletaev has been named this year's winner of the 91社区 Classical Concerto Competition. 听She will perform Mozart's Concerto in C minor, K. 491 on January 23 and 24th with the 91社区 Symphony Orchestra in a concert to be held in Redpath Hall. 听Ms. Milatz, from Weyburn, Saskatchewan, was also the winner of the Shean Piano Competition held in Edmonton, Alberta this past May. 听
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Published on: 12 Nov 2014
Congratulations to Busty & the Bass for winning the Rock Your Campus competition!听
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Published on: 11 Nov 2014
We often applaud the world-class performers at the Schulich School of Music, but this week it is our humanities-based research that takes center stage.听 From Nov. 6 鈥� Nov. 9, 2014, 20 professors and graduate students lead the way when the American Musicological Society and the Society for Music Theory host their joint annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.听 The number of presentations alone is impressive given that this is the largest and most important conference of humanities-based research in music; it is also the largest number of presentations given by any school. 听
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Published on: 31 Oct 2014
Following an exciting public recital competition held on Sunday October 19th in Tanna Schulich Hall, Jury chair Prof. Douglas McNabney听announced听Byungchan Lee听as winner of the Golden Violin Competition. Each of the three contestants (Byungchan Lee, violin;听Andrea Stewart, cello; Elizabeth Skinner, violin) are current students at the school and were chosen by the string faculty based on their demonstrated exceptional talent and contribution to musical and cultural life at the school.
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Published on: 21 Oct 2014
In August, Mezzo-soprano Carla Dirlikov joined officials from the White House, fellow Hispanic artists and Americans for the Arts staff at the听White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics' Policy Forum for Music and the Arts. 听A member of the听Americans for the Arts Artist Committee, Carla Dirlikov spoke to听students, parents and school officials at Meadow Homes Elementary School in Concord, California about her firsthand experience in pursuing the arts, becoming a role model, and the opportunities that school and music teachers provided for her.
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Published on: 21 Oct 2014
Infusion Baroque won both the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the Early Music America Baroque Competition held at the University of Chicago. The group is made up of four Schulich School of Music grads: Sallynee Amawat, baroque violin, Alexa Raine-Wright, baroque flute and recorder, Camille Pacquette-Roy, Baroque cello, and Rona Nadler, harpsichord. The prize is worth 3,000$ plus 5 concerts with major presenters of early music, a feature article in the Early Music America magazine and other opportunities.
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Published on: 17 Oct 2014
Winners were announced today for the Student听Recording Competition at the 137th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society听in Los Angeles. 听Two students of the sound recording听area were finalists.
Pawel Leskeiwisz won Silver in the Traditional Acoustic Recording听category and听Fei Yu won Gold in the Modern Studio Recording category.
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Published on: 17 Oct 2014
The Banting Fellowships听听program provides funding to exceptional postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the Canada's economic, social and听research鈥慴ased听growth. 听The 70k renewable fellowships are designed to听attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally, to听develop their leadership potential and to听position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow. 听
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Published on: 8 Sep 2014
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