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Strings Division
Strings Division
Strings Division
The Don Wright Faculty of Music offers strings students diverse course options and performance opportunities including solo and studio recitals, weekly faculty-led masterclasses, and ensembles (including symphony and chamber orchestras), plus competitions and awards including the Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition and the Young-Ja Park Chamber Music Competition.
Western Music also offers learning opportunities, residencies and masterclasses with international guests of renown. Annual Artists in Residence have included New Orford String Quartet, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra and Ensemble Made In Canada.
The annual Western/London Symphonia Fellowship program provides real-world experience for five string students to perform with London Symphonia.
The Music Building and Talbot College house over 100 practice rooms, studios, and large and small rehearsal spaces, plus three modern performance venues with concert pianos and state-of-the-art recording capabilities.
Western's String Instrument Bank is a collection of more than 40 fine Italian, French and English instruments and bows, which are available for loan to select string students in Music Performance and are carefully maintained by our resident luthiers.
In the Spotlight
January 2026
September 2025
March 2025
March 2024
August 2023
In Performance
New Orford String Quartet Residency
String students performing side-by-side with Western's official artists in residence.
Symphony Orchestra
Excerpts from Gershwin's An American in Paris; conductor, Simone Luti (March 2025)
Contact
String Division Coordinator
Annette-Barbara Vogel
Professor - Violin
TC 110
avogel@uwo.ca