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Coming Up: A four-concert George Enescu Festival February 3-5, 2017
In this piece, George Ensescu festival organizer Ilya Poletaev discusses his passion for the music of the composer and his motivations for organizing this first festival dedicated to his music with Schulich graduate student Chris Maskell.
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Riffing on a Legend: Jazz Concert Inspired by Martin Luther King Junior
Jazz musicians paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. with a concert based on his speeches and words. The concert at used speeches by the civil rights leader as an auditory backdrop to the instrumental pieces.
Link to CTV News item in sidebar.
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performance taps the music of Martin Luther King Junior
Schulich School of Music jazz professor and grammy-nominated composer John Hollenbeck marks Martin Luther King Day with unique performance. (Full CBC article in sidebar link)
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Schulich School of Music and the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Academy
The Schulich School of Music at is now one of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra Academy’s collaborating organizations, joining founding participants The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music.
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Pianist Madeline Weber receives Abner Martin Music Scholarship
Madeline Weber, student of Professor Marina Mdivani is the recipient of the $4,000 Abner Martin Music Scholarship for 2016/17.
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Zi Hua Tan finalist for the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award
Zi Hua Tan, a Doctoral composition student of Prof. John Rea has been named a finalist for the 2017 Toru Takemitsu Composition Award. Out of 115 entries from 36 countries, Zi Hua Tan’s composition, …at the still point… was chosen to be among the four finalists of the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award 2017.
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Schulich nominees for the Prix Opus
Finalists for the Conseil québécois de la musique's Prix Opus were announced last Friday, and once again there are many nominated who are Schulich alumni and/or faculty. The Prix Opus were established in 1996 to highlight the excellence and diversity of Québec's musical offering, and are awarded in many different categories. The winners will be announced in a Gala event to be held on Sunday, February 5, 2017.
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Schulich Chamber Music Competition Winners Announced
The Annual Schulich School of Music Chamber Music Competition took place Tuesday, December 6, in Tanna Schulich Hall. Two groups were declared winners and will travel to Europe for exchange visits to conservatories.
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Rice University Students Visit Schulich School of Music
Last month, seven Rice University students traveled from Houston to Montréal to expand Rice’s Gateway Study of Leadership research program at . Much of the time spent at was at the Schulich School of Music, where the students met with Interim Dean Julie Cumming, Prof.
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Alex Soloway announced winner of the Classical Concerto Competition
Artist Diploma Piano Student Alex Soloway has been announced as the winner of this year's Classical Concerto Competition. He is a student of Prof. Ilya Poletaev and was also a winner in 2014 of the Chamber Music Competition as a member of the Aeolus Trio.
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Grammy Nominations for Schulich alumni and professors
The Recording Academy has announced the nominees for the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards. Included in this list were several nominees from Schulich.
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First and third prizes to Rashaan Allwood and Joel Peters in OSM Manulife Competition
The 2016 edition of the OSM Manulife Competition took place last week. This year's categories were strings and organ, for which the semi-final string rounds took place in Tanna Schulich Hall at the Schulich School of Music. The semifinals for organ took place in the Église Saint-Jean-Baptiste and the finals in the Maison symphonique de Montréal at the Grand-Orgue-Pierre-Béique.
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Compositional Collaboration between the OSM and the Schulich School of Music.
When Schulich School of Music composition students write pieces for orchestra it may be that they dream of their works someday being performed by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, with all the finesse and polish that a world-class orchestra brings to contemporary music. For three students, Doyoon Kim, Francisco Ferro and Xue Han, this was exactly what happened, when on November 10th, the O
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Mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh wins Wirth Vocal Prize
Following an evening of exceptionally high-level vocal artistry from all three finalists, Jean-Philippe Mc Clish, Simone McIntosh and Igor Mostovoi, last night the members of the Jury declared mezzo-soprano Simone McIntosh, a Master's voice student of Dominique Labelle the winner of the 2016-2017 Wirth Vocal Prize