November 29, 2021 Music Education graduate students Kelly Bylica and Laura Benjamins, with Performance professor Sophie Roland, have published two new studies of experiential learning this year.
September 16, 2021 Assistant Professor Kate Helsen comments on, and sings from an important 17th century volume of sacred vocal music acquired by Western Libraries.
September 7, 2021 Annette-Barbara Vogel, violin Professor and String Division Coordinator at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, performs on a new CD, "First Ladies – Three Romantic Violin Sonatas".
June 24, 2021 Faculty members James Grier and Robert Toft are recent grant recipients from Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Emily Ansari is also a project collaborator and co-applicant on a SSHRC grant.
May 13, 2021 Mark Ramsay, Assistant Professor of Music Education and Coordinator of Choral Activities at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, has been selected Co-Chair for the Choral Canada/Choirs Ontario Podium 2022 conference.
May 11, 2021 Along with 79 other Londoners, Simone Luti, conductor of the Western University Symphony Orchestra, and head coach and music director for Western’s opera program, was asked to contribute by writing a response to an artifact chosen from Museum London’s collection.
April 15, 2021 Professor Coates, who is jointly appointed to the Don Wright Faculty of Music and Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western, begins her two-year term as president in May 2021.
February 23, 2021 Emily Abrams Ansari, associate professor of Music Research, discusses how hearing music can be either a source of comfort or an annoyance for those at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, in a recent article.
February 12, 2021 A collaboration between London’s Payadora tango ensemble and PointeTango, a dance duo that combines ballet training with tango dancing, has produced “Tango in the Dark”, a film to be released on Valentine's Day.
January 29, 2021 This month sees the release of a new book by Music Education professor Cathy Benedict, published by Oxford University Press. Titled Music and Social Justice: A Guide for Elementary Educators.
January 20, 2021 Paul Woodford, Music Education Professor at the Don Wright Faculty of Music, was quoted in a Newsweek.com article about the music for American President Joe Biden's Inauguration Day.
