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The live@CIRMMT concert, "De souffles et de machines" performed听by the Quasar saxophone quartet, has been selected as a finalist听for a 30th Grand Prix du Counseil des arts de Montr茅al.听
Next season look for the participation of several Schulich alumni in different productions at the Canadian Opera Company.听 In October 2015 the COC will present the world premiere of Pyramus and Thisbe, written by composer Barbara Monk Feldman.听 The work is inspired by the beauty, light, and colour of her native Gasp茅 Peninsula and is a timeless story of star-crossed lovers. In February 2016 Jordan de Souza will conduct two听 performances of the Canadian Opera Company's production of Le Nozze di Figaro.
Working with researchers from the Technische Universit盲t Berlin and the University of Montreal, Prof. McAdams compared reactions to various pieces of music from two groups of people: 40 Mbenz茅l茅 Pygmies in the Congolese rainforest and 40 Canadians in Montreal. 鈥淭he emotional diversity of music depends on who we are, what we鈥檝e experienced and who we identify with 鈥 that鈥檚 the most exciting part of music,鈥 McAdams says.
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Schulich Professor alcides lanza, pianist, conductor and composer is the winner of the XIII Prize Tom谩s Luis de Victoria 2014, offered by the SGAE Foundation in Madrid. This prize recognizes his substantial contribution to the enrichment of the musical life of the Ibero-American people. It also recognizes lanza's distinguished career as a composer and pedagogue.听The award ceremony took place on May 28, 2015, at the Auditorium of the Real Academia de las Artes, Madrid, Spain
The Schulich School of Music congratulates former Dean of Music, Professor John Grew, alumni Jens Lindemann (BMus鈥88), and Faculty Advisory Board Member Joan Ivory (BA鈥54)听 on their being named among the 95 newest appointees to the Order of Canada named December 26th, 2014.听 The honour, established in 1967 by the Queen, recognizes contributions to Canada; its motto, desiderantes meliorem patriam means "they desire a better country." Appointees are made on the recommendation of an independent advisory council headed by Canada's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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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The 不良研究所 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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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.
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.
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).
The Schulich School of Music of 不良研究所 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 不良研究所 Concerto Competitions to be held during this school year.
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.
Pianist Megan Milatz, a final-year undergraduate student of Prof. Ilya Poletaev has been named this year's winner of the 不良研究所 Classical Concerto Competition. 听She will perform Mozart's Concerto in C minor, K. 491 on January 23 and 24th with the 不良研究所 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
Congratulations to Busty & the Bass for winning the Rock Your Campus competition!听