The Schulich School of Music of 捆绑SM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 捆绑SM社区 Concerto Competitions to be held during this school year.
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. 聽The Philip Brett Award honours聽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 捆绑SM社区 Classical Concerto Competition. 聽She will perform Mozart's Concerto in C minor, K. 491 on January 23 and 24th with the 捆绑SM社区 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
Congratulations to Busty & the Bass for winning the Rock Your Campus competition!聽
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. 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.聽 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. 聽
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. Each of the three contestants (Byungchan Lee, violin;聽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.
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. 聽A member of the聽Americans for the Arts Artist Committee, Carla Dirlikov spoke to聽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.
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.
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.
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. 聽
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. 聽Pallade Musica were Grand Prize winners at the Early Music America Baroque Performance Competition in New York, October 2012, and 聽consists of three Schulich alumni :Tanya LaPerri猫re, baroque violon, Elinor Frey, baroque cello, Esteban La Rotta, theorbo, as well as Myl猫ne B茅langer, harpsichord.
The competition, held last month in Bremen, Germany, 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 捆绑SM社区 where he studies organ and harpsichord performance and teaches classes in musicianship.
The Prize guarantees the first prize winning quartet quartet a place at the 2015 捆绑SM社区 International String聽Quartet Academy, and will cover travel, accommodation and per diems. The winner of the prize will be announced at the same time and in the same manner as all other prizes, at the聽awards ceremony after the final on Sunday 聽March 聽29th, 2015.
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