BRANDON, MB — Third-year music student, Jinsung Kim recently won first place in the Young Artist Series CFMTA Western Tour Competition held in Winnipeg. Thanks to this achievement, the young pianist will embark on a recital tour of various cities throughout Western Canada during the upcoming academic year.
Category: Faculty of Arts
BRANDON, MB — Brandon University drama professor James Forsythe and his colleague, sessional instructor Gordon Portman are joining forces with local actors Blair Bolduc and Connor Lavell in “The Drawer Boy”, an award winning comedy/drama by Canadian playwright Michael Healey. This is also the latest offering by Forsythe’s theatre company Pet Projects Productions.
BRANDON, MB — The students of the 4th year English course, “Imagining Manitoba,” taught by Dr. Di Brandt at Brandon University, have produced a multi-media display celebrating “Southwestern Manitoba: The Birthplace of the Modern Canadian Novel”. Their work will be exhibited in the Brandon College Alcove, on the second floor of BU Library.
March 16, 2012
BRANDON, MB — The 2011-2012 pro series, an annual presentation by the School of Music, continues with a recital featuring violinist Kerry DuWors and pianist Futaba Niekawa. Their programme will include duo works by Mozart, Fauré, Debussy, Enesco and Stockhausen.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
BRANDON, MB — The Brandon University Opera Ensemble, under the co-direction of School of Music Assistant Professor David Playfair and sessional instructor Gordon Portman, presents a new adaptation of Mozart’s comic opera, “The Marriage of Figaro”. This is the Opera Ensemble’s third full-length production — Mozart’s Cosi fan tutte was produced in 2008 and Britten’s Albert Herring in 2010.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
BRANDON, MB — A play about Afghanistan, written by Brandon University Drama Professor James Forsythe, will be performed in Montreal. He has established a script development agreement with Teesri Duniya Theatre, in Montreal, to workshop his play script entitled “Safer Ground”.
posted March 8, 2012
BRANDON, MB — To mark International Women’s Day, professors have selected 17 remarkable women students to be honoured during a campus celebration organized by the BU Status of Women Review Committee. They range in age. Their fields of interest vary.
posted February 27, 2012
BRANDON, MB — The trials and tribulations of a young woman, nicknamed “Miss Witherspoon” in the afterlife, will be explored this week on the Evans Theatre stage, with opening night slated for Thursday evening. “Miss Witherspoon” was written by Christopher Durang, an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced on- and off-Broadway, in regional theaters throughout North America, and internationally.
posted February 23, 2011
BRANDON, MB — World-acclaimed Icelandic composer Kjartan Ólafsson has been on the Brandon University (BU) campus this week for the 2012 New Music Festival (BUNMF), entitled “Music Gates of the Arctic”. He will be in attendance to hear the world premiere of two of his recent works in the Lorne Watson Recital this weekend.