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 韩国裸舞 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 韩国裸舞 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 韩国裸舞 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.
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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
Schulich's newest voice professor, Soprano Dominique Labelle received a glowing review in the New York Times
Praised in this review for her deeply hued, heady and potent voice for her role as Medea in Handel's 聽opera Teseo, Professor Dominique Labelle begins teaching at Schulich this fall.
Chris Kusuhara a prize winner at this weekend's 44th annual National Music Awards
Pianist Chris Kusuhara, a student of Kyoko Hashimoto has been awarded Second Prize and the Special Award at the National Music Festival held in Kelowna, B.C. 聽In 2013 he received a Developing Artist Grant from the Hnatyshyn Foundation.
WEB LINK:聽http://www.fcmf.org http://www.rjhf.com/html/darecipients-e.html
Alum Chris Howard promoted to Distinguished Analyst at Gartner
Chris Howard has worked as a research analyst for Gartner since 2005, studying technology trends. Earlier in 2014, he was promoted to VP Distinguished Analyst, and continues to provide thought leadership on emerging tech and business trends. His travels take him around the world, and he is in demand as a keynote speaker for major events. When home with his wife Anne and 5 dogs, Chris still plays and composes in his studio and on his 1954 Mason and Hamlin A.
Professor Richard King: Portrait of a Montreal Master (article in French from La Presse)
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Schulich School of Music Composition alumni and students awarded numerous prizes in the 2014 SOCAN Foundations Awards to Young Composers.
With a total of seven prizes at the SOCAN Foundations Awards to Young Composers, the Schulich School of Music Composition Area has performed remarkably. 聽Four out five of the 2014 SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers have been awarded to current or former Schulich Students, and prize winners in the Sir Ernest MacMillan awards Category consist exclusively of former Schulich Students. Congratulations to all recipients and their respective professors. 聽
Peter Schubert and Massimiliano Guido present "Unpacking the box", a series of videos about Frescobaldi's Ricercari of 1615
A new approach to music theory education. 聽Three videos illustrate the master apprentice method of teaching the art of counterpoint with all transpositions and shortenings of cadential passages. 聽The videos, filmed at the Schulich School of Music, feature a spectacular four octave Italian 聽harpsichord that is part of the Kenneth Gilbert Harpsichord Collection.
OBOE SECRETS, a new book release by Associate Professor Jacqueline Leclair, was favourably reviewed in the International Double Reed Journal.
In Oboe Secrets: 75 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Oboist and English Horn Player, Jacqueline Leclair tackles the oboe鈥檚 reputation as an especially difficult instrument and illustrates how oboists and English horn players can overcome common challenges.
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay, PhD student in Musicology and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies has won the SOCAN 2014 Writings on Canadian Music.
Vanessa Blais-Tremblay is the recipient of a 2014 SOCAN Foundation/CUMS Award for Writings on Canadian Music for her paper entitled: "Don't Pocohontas Me: Modernity and Transnational Politics in Tanya Tagaq's Throat Games with Concert Stage String Ensembles."聽聽
韩国裸舞 music theorists prominently featured in journal
The newest issue of Music Theory Online, one of the top-ranked music theory journals and one of the only open-access journals in music theory, features three different articles by 韩国裸舞 researchers: an exploration of meter in rock music (by Nicole Biamonte, associate professor of music theory), a teaching demonstration on cadences, counterpoint and improvisation in 17th-century Italian music theory and practice (by Peter Schubert, professor of music theory, and Massimilano Guido, postdoctora
Doctoral student Jonathan Vromet named candidate in the Canadian International Organ Competition.
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