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• Fred Pattison Competition Winner 2025

• Maritsa Brookes Concerto Competition 2024-25 Winners

• Trombone quartet performs at London Knights game

• Don Wright Faculty of Music mourns the loss of former dean Jack Behrens

• In Tune: 25 Years of New Horizons Band

• Transformational gift strikes a chord for Western’s Don Wright Faculty of Music

• Young-Ja Park 2024-25 Chamber Music Award Winners

• 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