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.
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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.
Music Enrichment at Brandon University (ME@BU) is offering free sessions for students and educators as they return to their school music programs.
The instrument-specific advanced musicianship sessions will be held online on Tuesday, Nov. 9. Sessions will be held for flute, clarinet, saxophone, percussion, trumpet, French horn, trombone and low-brass, including tuba and euphonium.
From the Canadian University Music Society (MusCan):
The Canadian University Music Society is pleased to announce that Luis Ramirez is the recipient of the 2021 SOCAN Foundation George Proctor Prize for his presentation entitled “The Online Composer-Audience Collaboration.”
Luis Ramirez
The George Proctor Prize is awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual conference of the Canadian University Music Society.
The 44th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré) for the performance of Canadian and contemporary music is pleased to announce its 2021 prize winners:
Julien Siino
1st Prize
Julien Siino (with pianist Edward Liddall)
2nd Prize
Isabella Perron (with pianist Todd Yaniw)
3rd Prize
Ariel Carrabré (with pianist Michel-Alexandre Broekaert)
City of Brandon Prize for the Best Performance of the Commissioned Work
Julien Siino (with pianist Edward Liddall)
Finalist Prizes (in alphabetical order)
Christopher Hwang (with pianist Younggun Kim)
Julia Mirzoev (with pianist Meagan Milatz)
David Liam Roberts (with pianist Godwin Friesen)
On September 18 and 19, 2021, six of Canada’s best emerging string players performed live-streamed recitals for the 44th Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition (E-Gré) in Strings. The E-Gré Competition began in 1976 and is the most important annual Canadian and contemporary music competition.
Award-winning musician and composer Melody McKiver (they/them pronouns) has been hired on a tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of Composition in Brandon University’s (BU’s) School of Music.
Starting this fall, McKiver will teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Composition.
A highly regarded Manitoba musician and educator is joining the faculty of Brandon University’s (BU’s) School of Music.
Ken Gold has been a mainstay on Manitoba stages and in classrooms for 36 years.