When a trio of talented pianists perform at the pro series Homecoming Concert on Thursday, Oct. 13, they’ll be joined in the spotlight by the Brandon University (BU) School of Music’s newest star.
The Brandon University team selects a new piano at the Steinway Factory in New York.
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Brandon University (BU) will be hosting its first in-person Homecoming celebration since 2019, from October 13 to 16, 2022.
Megumi Masaki (photo credit: Robert Hechler)
The weekend will be filled with a multitude of events including the usual favourites such as the Homecoming Dinner and Awards Ceremony, the Athletics Wall of Fame Brunch, and the Pro Series concert featuring BU’s Megumi Masaki, who was named to the Order of Manitoba this past spring.
Brandon University’s (BU’s) School of Music is partnering with a long-running Manitoba concert series for the first concert of the pro series season.
Nine-piece Ensemble Télémaque, from Marseille, France, will open the 2022-23 pro series with a performance on Thursday, Sept.
Brandon Chamber Players are pleased to continue celebrating the return to live music with their third concert of the 2021-22 season! Ricefall features pianist Everett Hopfner and local student musicians performing incredible works by contemporary composers.
The 45th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré) for the performance of Canadian and contemporary music is pleased to announce its 2022 prize winners:
1st Prize: David Potvin
2nd Prize: Gabrielle Gagnon-Picard
3rd Prize: Edward Enman
City of Brandon Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work: David Potvin
Finalist Prizes (in alphabetical order): Risa Tonita, Paul Williamson, Andrew Zhou
On April 23, 2022, six of Canada’s best emerging pianists performed live-streamed recitals for the 45th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré) in Piano.
The E-Gré Competition began in 1976 and is the most important annual Canadian and contemporary music competition.
The Brandon University (BU) School of Music is pleased to announce that Marika Galea has been appointed to a tenure-track position.
An award-winning multi-instrumentalist, composer and writer, Galea is also an outstanding educator, having joined the School of Music in 2021 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Jazz and Contemporary Popular Music.
Brandon University (BU) alumni will be front-and-centre as the Brandon Chamber Players continue celebrating the return to live music with their second concert of the 2021/2022.
Here We Are features new, original jazz compositions by Brandon-based saxophonist Aren Teerhuis.
Brandon University (BU) musicians will take centre-stage when the Brandon Chamber Players (BCP) bring live music back to the Lorne Watson Recital Hall this month.
The featured performers will all be BU School of Music faculty members or Eckhardt-Gramatté Conservatory of Music instructors when BCP holds its Sing & Strum concert on Saturday, Feb. 12. There will be two performances, beginning at 3 p.m.
Common themes in their work, and experiences shared by their communities, helped bring Brandon University (BU) School of Music professor Melody McKiver together with filmmaker Sean Stiller for a new project.
McKiver’s latest album is the official motion picture soundtrack for Stiller’s lauded documentary Returning Home, which intertwines the stories of the Pacific wild salmon and the effects of Canada’s residential school system.
It is with profound sadness that the School of Music at Brandon University (BU) announces the death of William Gordon, who passed away peacefully while surrounded by his loving family, on the evening of October 14th.
Professor Gordon, known to so many of us as “Bill”, joined BU’s faculty in September 1970, retired from the full-time faculty at the end of 2013, and continued to teach university courses until 2020.