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• Western Music develops talent in High School Vocal Competition

• Clarinet student Finn Inglis wins 2024-25 Winds, Brass & Percussion Concerto Competition

• Announcing the 2024 London Symphonia Fellows

• Western music grad Jeff Toyne wins Emmy

• Two recent grads make CBC Music’s ‘30 under 30’ list

• Toy Story: Western musicology researcher explores sounds of childhood in the 1950s

• Music graduate Ryan Breen overcomes rare disease and finds love in the process

• Three Western students accepted to World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Youth Wind Orchestra

• Doctoral candidate Yumi Jang selected for Toronto Summer Music Academy's Emerging Artist Program

• This grad is on fire. John Yun on Alicia Keys’ Broadway musical team

• Sophie Roland named as 2024 Faculty Scholars Award recipient

• PhD student composer Neda Samavati selected as a Future Award winner at Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra

• Seven students, alumni selected for NYO Canada 2024

• Music Education professor adam patrick bell named Canada Research Chair in Music, Inclusion and Accessibility

• Musical gallery weaves science and art in a symphony of tornadoes

• Diane Mills honoured with Western Award of Excellence

• High School Composition and Songwriting Contest Results

• Master's Student Julia Brotto Named Apprentice Conductor for Canadian Chamber Choir

• Vancouver Recital Society Visiting Artist Series Announcement

• Fred Pattison Competition Winner 2024

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition 2023-24 Winners

• Announcing TorQ Percussion Quartet Residency

• Young-Ja Park 2023-24 Chamber Music Award Winners

• Announcing the 2023 High School Vocal Competition Winners

• Announcing the 2023 London Symphonia Fellows

• Guitarist, composer Madeline Hall, current BMus student, named to CBC Music's annual classical "30 under 30" list

• PhD student Joel Martinez-Lorenzana leads Music Making Creative Lab in El Salvador

• Two top finalists from Western at Chicago International Music Competition

• Class of 2023: DMA graduate Connor O’Kane pianist for Banff Centre’s summer opera program

• Class of 2023: Music grad Emma Pennell raises their voice

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Paul Green

• BMus student Sophia Daunt, soprano, earns First Place at London Kiwanis Music Festival Rose Bowl

• Five singers, one collaborative pianist selected for COC Summer Opera Intensive

• Take a bow! Western well represented in NYO Canada 2023 program

• Making music with artificial intelligence: Composition grad Jeff Lupker is co-founder of Staccato

• Celebrating Mahler: Western's connection to the great composer plus upcoming concerts and exhibition

• Announcing winners of 2022-23 High School Competition

• Jonathan De Souza’s Music Theory Spectrum article among “Most Read of 2022”

• Doctoral student Ethan Allers joins Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra

• Fred Pattison Competition Winner 2023

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition 2022-23 Winners

• Young-Ja Park 2022-23 Chamber Music Award Winners

• Recent PhD graduate Kelly Bylica earns Outstanding Dissertation Award from Council for Research in Music Education

• DMA student Yumi Jang earns Gold Prize in 2022 International European Classical Music Pianist Award competition

• Master's student Seokho Park earns Young Artist of the Year at 15th annual Korea Opera Awards

• Welcome NATS - Ontario Chapter Vocal Showcase

• Oboe student Biz Tucker wins 2022 Winds, Brass & Percussion Concerto Competition

• Vice Provost (Academic Programs) Susan Lewis joins Western, appointed Professor of Musicology

• Announcing the 2022 London Symphonia Fellows

• Voice alumnae, students study and perform in Italian summer opera program

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Peter Smith

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Alan Heard

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Rick Semmens

• Class of 2022: Lara Plokhaar and her service dog complete campus career

• PhD student Cadu Verdan named Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra Composer Fellow

• Alumni rank in top three of Aeolian Hall’s inaugural songwriting contest

• Class of 2022: Vocal performer Tyrese Walters is planning a career in choral conducting

• Five students heading to Prague with WASBE's Youth Wind Orchestra

• Denis Jiron to join Western as Assistant Professor of Trombone

• Post-doc scholar explores hip hop influence on Inuit youth

• Aaron Hodgson named Teaching Fellow at Western

• Darren Hamilton, MMus’16, named 2022 MusiCounts Teacher of the Year

• Host of Western connections at 2022 Junos

• Inaugural High School Performance and Songwriting Competition results

• Music Recording Arts student Nick De Souza earns International Portuguese Music Award

• Viola students well represented in 2022 National Youth Orchestra of Canada

• PhD Candidate Eric Zwicker earns Indigenous Graduate Student Research Award at Western

• BMus student Madeleine Hall, guitar, wins London Kiwanis Rose Bowl

• Three alumni part of “golden buzzer” performance in Canada’s Got Talent audition

• Adam Patrick Bell to join Western as Associate Professor of Music Education

• Ukrainian art song performances offer hope and healing

• Celebrating World Piano Day

• Sharon Wei named 2022 Faculty Scholar at Western

• BMus student Patricia Wrigglesworth joins 2022 National Youth Choir of Canada

• Flute student Gillian Derer earns social media sponsorships

• Western launches new creative arts and production program

• 2021-22 Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition Winners

• Message from Dean Michael Kim in celebration of Black History Month

• Fred Pattison Piano Competition Winner 2022

• Expert insight: Why music should be part of parents’ pandemic survival strategy

• Encore! Chamber music, friendship, and Mendelssohn's Octet concert and research series

• Inspiring Minds: Ghosts of Madwomen Past: Historical and Psychiatric Madness on the Late Twentieth-Century Operatic Stage

• Student Blog - Love Over Hate: A Beautiful Rendition of Middle and Near-Eastern Music

• Research Officer Karen Kueneman honoured with the 2021 Western Award of Excellence

• Western Music well represented at Met Opera Competition

• Celebrating World Choral Day

• Faculty member Annette-Barbara Vogel, violin, leads new Magisterra Summer String Institute

• Dr. Tracy Wong named Assistant Professor of Choral Studies

• New Western Libraries acquisition - Elephantine chant book dates to 1600

• Students, faculty perform Terry Riley’s "In C" outdoors across campus

• Mezzo-soprano Hillary Tufford, BMus'15, MMus'17, joins Vancouver Opera's Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program

• Amy Steggles, BA'06, helps COVID ‘long-haulers’ breathe through song

• Pianist Vladimir Soloviev, BMus’13, joins Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio

• Celebrating a Decade of Leadership: Betty Anne Younker’s term as Dean ends

• Three students, recent grads named as finalists in 2021 Vancouver International Music Competition

• Critical thinking in music education can change the world: grad students learn from international scholars in unique summer course

• Music faculty, projects earn major SSHRC funding grants

• Congratulations Spring 2021 Music Graduates

• PhD Candidate Diana Wu wins the Society for American Music’s prestigious Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship

• Saxophone student Alessandro Calicchia earns prize at International Music Competition Opus 2021

• Pianist Kyung Kim joins Western’s Music Performance Studies Department

• Simone Luti featured in Museum London’s 80th anniversary virtual exhibition

• Western's Schulich Medicine & Dentistry school adds music performance diplomas to new MD+ offerings

• Michael Kim appointed Western's next dean of the Don Wright Faculty of Music

• Celebrating World Voice Day

• New artwork unveiled, rooted in pandemic resilience

• Norma Coates elected president of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music – U.S. Chapter

• Young-Ja Park 2020-21 Chamber Music Award Winners

• Students, alumni join National Youth Orchestra of Canada 2021 online season

• Juno nominations reflect diverse talents of alumni, faculty

• Students take on challenge to ‘Change the World’

• Black History Month alumni feature: The Musical Journey of Dr. Jamie Hillman

• Saxophonists Alessandro Calicchia and Lexi Graham perform at NASA 2021 Region 10 virtual conference

• Safe practices and new barriers keep Music Faculty humming along

• Joseph Phillips collaborates on tango film for Valentine's Day

• Fred Pattison Piano Competition Winner 2021

• 2020-21 Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition Winners

• Handful of music classes continue in-person through lockdown

• Professor Paul Woodford quoted in Newsweek on Biden Inauguration Music

• Cathy Benedict releases new "Music and Social Justice" book this month

• Betty Anne Younker named to Mayor's 2021 Honour List

• Ansari: Music research pivots amidst the pandemic

• Michael Cavanagh appointed Artistic Director of the Royal Swedish Opera

• Music Recording Arts student Nicholas De Souza wins music competition

• Jonathan De Souza wins SMT Emerging Scholar Book Award

• Five Western Music students and faculty present at AMS/SMT Virtual 2020

• Musicians’ health measures ‘new for everybody’

• Virtual Conference Continues Annual Graduate Symposium Tradition

• Music/business degrees hit high notes, open doors

• Grad thrives in concert of art and science

• Congratulations to the 2020 Music Graduates!

• Statement on racism from Music Dean Betty Anne Younker

• PhD Candidate April Morris wins Society for American Music's Mark Tucker Award

• Victoria Meredith and Leslie Higgins honoured with National Choral Awards

• Ansari: Music helps us remember who we are and how we belong during difficult and traumatic times

• Mark Ramsay to join Western as Coordinator of Choral Activities

• James Grier named Guggenheim Fellow

• Jonathan De Souza named Faculty Scholar

• Watch online: Leslie Kinton performs Beethoven piano sonatas

• Pandemic has led to global outbreak of music

• COVID-19 Updates at Don Wright Faculty of Music

• Public Events Cancellation Notice

• Fred Pattison Piano Competition Winner 2019-20

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition Winners 2019-20

• Weather advisory to impact Talbot and Medway parking lots Jan 11-12

• Recent Music Education grad Siobhan Waldock wins CMEA/ACME Undergraduate Essay Contest

• Remembering and celebrating 20 years of New Horizons Band

• Western welcomes NATS - Ontario Chapter Vocal Showcase 2019

• Alumnus Francesco Milioto named Opera San Antonio music director

• Western’s New Horizons Band celebrates 20 years

• Ryan McCaul, BMus’17, harnesses ‘power of music’ for all

• Assistant Professor Kate Helsen revolutionizes the study of medieval music

• Alumna Genevieve Fisher named among 2019 20 Under 40 Award recipients

• Musicologist James Grier awarded prestigious Margaret Wade Labarge Prize

• Alumna Vicki St. Pierre heads Ontario Youth Choir in residence at Western

• Annual Graduate Symposium on Music celebrates 20 years

• Musical meet up in Lucca, Italy for Western's AEDO and London's Amabile Choir

• Colleen Richardson begins role as President Elect of World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles

• Western University Singers finalist in National Choir Competition

• DMA piano student Connor O’Kane earns semi-final spot in 2019 Stepping Stone

• Soundscape Composition project premiere

• Western hosts ISPME biennial Music Education conference

• Interview with Kate Helsen on PBnJ - Professors Beyond Jobs

• Notable organist John Vandertuin, BMus’82, MMus’88, finds keys to perfect sound

• Ensemble crosses unique Canadian landscape

• Western hosts the Atlantic Festivals of Music

• Andrea Kalyn and Phil Murphy to be inducted into Alumni Wall of Fame

• Piano professor Leslie Kinton named Honorary Fellow of RCM as member of piano duo Anagnoson & Kinton

• FIMULAW 2019: Interdisciplinary connections forged at Research Day

• Published: Abrams Ansari, Daniel and Woodford recognized at annual authors event

• Roland: Bringing teaching into the world

• Western Music celebrates the JUNOS

• London Music Scholarship Foundation Competition Winners 2019

• Michael Cavanagh brings ‘epic scope’ vision to opera stage

• Alumnus David Marlatt receives Canadian Band Association 2019 Canadian Composer Award

• North American Saxophone Alliance Conference at Western February 22-24

• Fred Pattison Piano Competition Winner 2019

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition Winners 2019

• Ontario Music Educators’ Association Survey: Deadline January 31

• Study tunes into musician concerns with hearing loss

• Master's student James Lowrie chosen for 2019 Soundstreams Emerging Composer Workshop

• Commentary: Prof. Norma Coates CBC interview on the controversy surrounding the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

• Cello festival in Ecuador co-founded by Master’s student and cellist Ivan Fabara

• Mapping memories in El Salvador nets team Humanitarian award

• Norma Coates lectures at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

• Alumna sings ‘O Canada’ at Vimy Memorial, meets Prime Minister

• Victoria Boerner - highly commended student - Undergraduate Awards

• PhD student composer Andrew Noseworthy interview with I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

• Music researcher Andrew Goldman riffs off brain’s role in improv

• Alumna Andrea Kalyn named as New England Conservatory President

• Celebrating three Western composers at the SOCAN Foundation Awards for Young Composers

• Music grads named to CBC’s listing of 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30

• Music Education student Steven Wolfe introduces The Piano Project

• Mark Sirett and Gloria Gassi honoured by Choral Canada for Canada 150 Commission

• Convocation and Awards Ceremony 2018

• PhD Candidate Gabriela Ocadiz Velazquez leads immigrant and refugee youth ensemble

• Music Education Chair Patrick Schmidt says arts need political champions

• New book: Emily Abrams Ansari “The Sound of a Superpower: Musical Americanism and the Cold War”

• Graduate student and opera singer Bethany Hynes researching 'voice image'

• Graduates featured in Tapestry Opera’s Emerging Artists of Songbook VIII

• Graduate student Kristal Daniels brings inter-generational music to the community at Oakcrossing Retirement Living

• Musicology PhD Candidate Mackenzie Enns in Top 25 of SSHRC Storytellers Challenge

• Sophie Roland joining Western University Teaching Fellows Program

• FIMULAW 2018: Fostering interdisciplinary innovation

• Colleen Richardson honoured with Canadian Band Association International Band Award

• Alumna Laura Lee Matthie honoured with 2018 MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award

• Opera fundraiser floats cash to dragon boat team

• Faculties to showcase interest in interdisciplinary research

• Popular Music Studies grad Patrick Dal Cin recorded Top 20 iTunes charts hit in Talbot College

• London Music Scholarship Foundation Competition Winners 2018

• Brazilian professor Iuri Soares keys in on music education

• Fred Pattison Piano Competition Winner 2018

• Composer Sarah Quartel, BMus’05, BEd’06, signs with prestigious Oxford University Press

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition Winners 2018

• Music alumna Carolyn Holdsworth, BMus’01, MMus’03, finds self, community in new venture

• Backing raises Stephanie Ciccarelli’s (BMusA’06) Voices among elite firms

• Alumna Celina Di Cecca, BMus’08, fiddles while career burns bright

• Famed director, choreographer Allison Grant, BMus’79, back for Carmen

• Once star Jeff Hamacher, BMus’93, finds magic at Western

• Clark Bryan and Lori Burns inducted into Alumni Wall of Fame

• Three Music students living with more than 100 seniors in a care home

• Music grad Erik Mandawe named as London’s first Artist in Residence

• Mourning the loss of former Music dean Hugh McLean

• Classical music provides lens for Vietnam War

• New Horizons Band heads to Poland

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Richard Parks

• PhD student Aiden Hartery awarded scholarship to write opera on history of Red Bay and the Basque whalers of the 16th Century

• Music students to play with National Youth Orchestra

• LMSF Competition Winners 2017

• Violist Karen Duong accepted to Curtis Young Artist Program with full scholarship

• Alumna Adrianne Pieczonka featured on Canadian Opera series stamp by Canada Post

• Abrams Ansari and Ocádiz travel to El Salvador to participate in interdisciplinary research project

• Fred Pattison Piano Competition Winners 2017

• PhD Candidate Kristen Wallentinsen wins first SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship competition

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition Winners 2017

• Alumnus Michael Schade named Officer of the Order of Canada

• Professor James Grier elected as Fellow in The Royal Society of Canada

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Don McKellar

• Jason Mile recognized as Highly Commended entrant in The Undergraduate Awards

• Katie McBean, viola, to represent Ontario at National Music Festival in Edmonton

• Mohamed-Aly Farag, MMus (Composition) graduate, premieres new Flute Concerto with Cairo Symphony

• Alumnus Gerald Fagan named to Order of Canada

• Voice Student Colin Bell Semi-Finalist at NATS National Competition

• New music research project uses big data to create an electronic monk

• Jack Richardson London Music Awards 2016

• Music Education master’s student Danxu Ma creates new choir to bridge culture, memory

• Paul Frehner premiere at TSO’s New Creations Festival

• Congratulations to the 2016 LMSF Competition Winners and Finalists

• Congratulations to James Masschelein winner of the 2016 Fred Pattison Piano Competition

• Paul Frehner premiere at TSO’s New Creations Festival

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Award Winners 2015-16

• Thunder Bay piano tuner hits the right notes

• Researchers dive into the ‘Epicentre of Elvi’

• Music Faculty at Ann Arbor Symposium

• Find us at OMEA - November 2015

• Two alumni in COC Ensemble Studio Competition Finals

• Emily Abrams Ansari receives 2015 Kurt Weill Prize

• Rebecca Shaw - Highly Commended - The Undergraduate Awards 2015

• Alumna Kara-Lis Coverdale featured in Manchester Guardian

• Berthold Carrière, MMus’73: Western confers honorary Doctor of Music, honoris causa at Spring convocation

• PhD student (Music Theory) Kristen Wallentinsen, wins Best Student Paper Award at Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory conference

• Alumni and students honoured at the 2015 Jack Richardson Music Awards

• The Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of Dean’s Advisory Council member Joseph Samuels (1942-2015).

• Alumnus Adam Scime wins 2015 Toronto Emerging Composer Award

• Emily Abrams Ansari, Assistant Professor in Music History, won the Cambridge University Press Award

• Musical Theatre program takes to the summer stage

• Popular Music alumna Megan Miller's band And the Kids

• Western Don Wright music faculty UWOpera's presentation of La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini

• Mother, daughter lead Music Theatre on the Thames production of popular musical

• CBC's Piano Hero has Western Music's Dan Luong competing - Vote!

• Faculty of Music Awards Ceremony - Sunday, January 18 - 1:30 p.m. - von Kuster Hall

• Donation funds music award in name of Richard Manuel, singer/piano player in The Band

• Grad School: The Untold Story

• Alumnus Eric Fujita accepted to the Canadian Opera Company's three week mentoring program

• January 6, 2015
  

  Western University music historian, James Grier, makes near 1,000-year-old discovery

• January 4, 2015
  

  SASAH Concert Series - Dia de los Muertos

• January 3, 2015
  

  Jarrett McCourt (tuba, BMus 2013)