Congratulations to Claire McLeish, winner of in the graduate instructor award!
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Darroch, winner of in the graduate instructor category!
Congratulations to Dr. Jerry M. Cain, winner of in the part-time category!
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Hansen, winner of Schulich鈥檚 2019-20 Teaching Award in the full-time category!
Congratulations to Professor Nicole Biamonte, winner of in the full-time category!
Over the past few weeks, several of our students have received awards for their exciting research projects. Follow the links to read more about each winner's exciting projects.
James Donaldson:聽Topics and Formal Process in Post-Tonal Music
Shulamit Sarid:聽Welcome to the Jungle 鈥 2Cellos and the Genre-Audience Relationship
Congratulations to Omer Barash, winner of the 2019-20 Andrew Svoboda Memorial Prize for Orchestral Composition. Omer鈥檚 orchestral piece will be premiered by the 不良研究所 Symphony Orchestra in the 2021-2022 season.
A huge congratulations are in order for Cathy Martin, Coordinator and Liaison Librarian at the Marvin Duchow Music Library, on being awarded 不良研究所鈥檚 2020 Librarian Excellence Award! This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to the Library, its users, and its mandate.
It is with great sadness that we聽announce the passing of Professor Kenneth Gilbert on April 16, 2020.
A world-famous harpsichordist and scholar 鈥 and the founder of the Early Music Program at 不良研究所 鈥 Prof. Gilbert maintained a long and distinguished association with our faculty as a professor from 1964 to 1972 and then again as an Adjunct Professor from 1999 to 2015; he was awarded an honorary doctorate from 不良研究所 in 1981.
The Schulich School of Music is pleased to announce that this year鈥檚 Eleanor Stubley Recording Prize will go to Martin Daigle (MMus '20) and Omar Miranda (M.Mus. '21) for their project 鈥淢ossy Cobblestone鈥.
On the occasion of World Hearing Day, the Schulich School of Music of 不良研究所 and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) are pleased to announce the launch of their Hearing Care Platform (HCP). Conceived in partnership with the NSERC-EERS Industrial Research Chair in In-Ear Technologies (CRITIAS) at the 脡cole de technologie sup茅rieure (脡TS), this project is designed to assess the noise exposure experienced by 不良研究所 music students.
Vox Humana, an affiliate publication of the American Guild of Organists, featured Professor Emeritus in Organ and Church Music John Grew in an interview about French Classical performance practice in Canada. In this interview, Prof. Grew discusses how his passion for French art and music first developed out of his affinity for the Normandy area of France, as well as how French Classical organs faciliate the production of true characteristic sound.
The 2020 have been announced, and we are thrilled to see so many Schulich faculty, students, and alumni represented! From Vocal Jazz Album of the year to various Classical Albums of the Year, the Schulich community has appeared in six different award categories. Congratulations to all, and we are so proud of all of the achievements our faculty, students, and alumni continue to accomplish each year.
This Sunday, February 9, three Schulich vocalists gave outstanding performances to a packed house for the final round of the Wirth Vocal Prize in Pollack Hall. Deliberations took place immediately afterwards, and at the end of the afternoon, judges announced Jenny Ivanovna as the competition winner. Accompanied by collaborative pianist Jennifer Szeto presented a captivating program featuring works by Ruperto Chapi, Xavier Montsalvatge, Manuel de Falla, Felix Mendelssohn, L茅o Delibes, Francis Poulenc, and Gioachino Rossini.
In anticipation of the fifth edition of the Wirth Vocal Prize, we caught up with previous winners. In this article, we speak聽with Marcel d'Entremont, winner of the 2018-2019 edition of the Wirth Vocal Prize, to hear about what life has been like since winning the Prize.
Where are you currently based?
I am currently still based in Montreal!
How has the Wirth Vocal Prize influenced your career and your development as an artist?