Prof. Lisa Barg receives the 2014 Philip Brett Award
Music Historian 聽and Area Chair Lisa Barg was named recipient of the聽2014 Philip Brett Award聽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.
Pianist Megan Milatz named the 2014 winner of the UU直播 Classical Concerto Competition
Pianist Megan Milatz, a final-year undergraduate student of Prof. Ilya Poletaev has been named this year's winner of the UU直播 Classical Concerto Competition. 聽She will perform Mozart's Concerto in C minor, K. 491 on January 23 and 24th with the UU直播 Symphony Orchestra in a concert to be held in Redpath Hall. 聽Ms. Milatz, from Weyburn, Saskatchewan, was also the winner of the Shean Piano Competition held in Edmonton, Alberta this past May. 聽
UU直播 jazz group wins CBC's "Rock Your Campus" competition
Congratulations to Busty & the Bass for winning the Rock Your Campus competition!聽
20 Schulich School of Music Scholars Take Center-Stage in Milwaukee!
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.聽 From Nov. 6 鈥� Nov.
Byungchan Lee winner of the Golden Violin Competition
Following an exciting public recital competition held on Sunday October 19th in Tanna Schulich Hall, Jury chair Prof. Douglas McNabney聽announced聽Byungchan Lee聽as winner of the Golden Violin Competition.
Former UU直播 Opera student Carla Dirlikov and the White House for the Value of an Arts Education
In August, Mezzo-soprano Carla Dirlikov joined officials from the White House, fellow Hispanic artists and Americans for the Arts staff at the聽White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics' Policy Forum for Music and the Arts.
Infusion Baroque wins the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the Early Music America Baroque Competition
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.
Schulich students win prizes at the 137th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society
Winners were announced today for the Student聽Recording Competition at the 137th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society聽in Los Angeles. 聽Two students of the sound recording聽area were finalists.
Pawel Leskeiwisz won Silver in the Traditional Acoustic Recording聽category and聽Fei Yu won Gold in the Modern Studio Recording category.
Schulich welcomes Banting Fellowship recipient Karen Desmond.
The Banting Fellowships聽聽program provides funding to exceptional postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the Canada's economic, social and聽research鈥慴ased聽growth. 聽The 70k renewable fellowships are designed to聽attract and retain top-tier postdoctoral talent, both nationally and internationally, to聽develop their leadership potential and to聽position them for success as research leaders of tomorrow.
Schulich grads awarded second prize at prestigious Van Wassenaer Early Music Competition
The competition, begun in 1986, has launched the careers of many Early Music ensembles, and has been incorporated into the Utrecht Early Music Festival as of this year. 聽Twelve semi-final groups participated in the competition.
Schulich Doctoral student Mark McDonald third-prize winner at the prestigious International Arp Schnitger Organ Competition
The competition, held last month in Bremen, Germany, the Arp-Schnitger Organ Competition is 聽in honour of the country's most important Baroque Organ builder. 聽 Third prize winner, Mark McDonald is a doctoral student at the Schulich School of Music of UU直播 where he studies organ and harpsichord performance and teaches classes in musicianship.
Announcing the establishment of the MISQA prize at the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition
The MISQA Prize guarantees the first prize winning quartet quartet a place at the 2015 UU直播 International String聽Quartet Academy, and will cover travel, accommodation and per diems.
Professor Ichiro Fujinaga and his team of researchers awarded 2.5 million dollar grant from SSHRC to build digital musical recognition tools.
(From UU直播 Newsroom Feed)聽 For Ichiro Fujinaga, the thought of a thousand years of print and manuscript music collecting dust on the shelves of libraries and museums around the globe motivates him to think beyond the limitations of technology. What if digitized musical scores could be searched for a sequence of pitches, rhythms, and text? Music scholarship would be forever transformed.
Schulich School of Music students in the band SHYRE were interviewed this morning on Global TV
Read story on Global Montreal.
Web link - http://bit.ly/1AUkjjW
Musicology professor Lloyd Whitesell's course Music and Queer Identity in Montreal Gazette's 'Cool Courses'.
From Elton John to Tchaikovsky, 聽Lloyd Whitesell's course examines the role that stigmatization plays in musical creation and explores the taboos in classical music. WEBLINK:聽http://bit.ly/1pz4882
