October 2, 2024 The Don Wright Faculty of Music is pleased to welcome postdoctoral associate in musicology Kristin Franseen, who started at Western in May 2024.
March 13, 2024 bell was one of six Western professors named to the prestigious program on March 13, 2024 and is the first CRC in music to be named at Western.
March 1, 2024 On Friday, March 1, science, research and music joined forces to present a musical gallery experience, Kaleidoscope of Creativity: Tornadoes, Oceans and Climate.
November 28, 2023 Postdoctoral scholar and ethnomusicologist Raj Singh has been featured by Western University's Impact Project for her work on the cultural importance of hip-hop for Inuit communities.
November 28, 2023 A journal article by Western music theory professor Jonathan De Souza has received the 2023 Award for Excellence in Jazz Scholarship.
October 31, 2023 Western musicology graduate students, faculty and alums made a strong contribution to this year's Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Ottawa (October 19-22, 2023).
October 31, 2023 Jonathan De Souza gave the keynote lecture, and several recent/current Western Music graduate students played key roles at this year’s Sound Meaning Education Conference at the University of Guelph’s IISCI.
September 5, 2023 Jonathan De Souza gave two presentations at the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition in Tokyo. This five-day event at Nihon University involved music scholars, psychologists, neuroscientists, and other researchers from across the globe.
September 1, 2023 Music History professor Kate Helsen will participate as a co-investigator in an exciting new $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership grant, over the next 7 years.
September 1, 2023 Music Education faculty member adam bell has learned he was successful as a co-applicant on an application for a SSHRC Insight Grant.
August 25, 2022 Don Wright Faculty of Music is pleased to welcome and host Dr. Michael Schutz (Associate Professor of Music Cognition and Percussion, McMaster University) as a Visiting Fellow Western Research Chair.
March 23, 2022 Congratulations to violist Sharon Wei, Associate Professor, Music Performance Studies Department, who was named as a faculty scholar at Western.
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.
December 2, 2020 Emily Abrams Ansari, Assistant Dean of Research, discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic in a recent article.
November 18, 2020 Music Theory professor Jonathan De Souza has won the Society for Music Theory's 2020 Emerging Scholar Book Award for his 2017 book Music at Hand: Instruments, Bodies, and Cognition.
October 29, 2020 The Don Wright Faculty of Music will be well represented at the virtual joint meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and the Society for Music Theory.
April 13, 2020 Musicologist James Grier has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship – one of just seven Canadians among 173 global scholars, writers and artists.
April 8, 2020 Music Theory professor Jonathan De Souza was named as Faculty Scholar by Western University. Western selected 16 Faculty Scholars this year to recognize their significant achievements in teaching or research.
March 6, 2020 The world premiere of a composition by Western University faculty member Omar Daniel was performed during a Fridays at 12:30 lunchtime concert.
February 10, 2020 Don Wright Faculty of Music professor Robert Toft translates classical music of the 16th to 19th centuries, into today’s sound, based on a careful study of original context.
December 8, 2019 Professor Robert Toft's new book, Recording Classical Music (Routledge) has a new companion website including scores, audio recordings, and case studies.
December 9, 2019 The Don Wright Faculty of Music made a strong showing this year at the Society for Music Theory (SMT) and the American Musicological Society (AMS) annual meetings – the leading conferences in these fields.
October 17, 2019 Musicology professor Kate Helsen is using big data to analyze 6,000-plus Gregorian chant manuscripts in a unique effort to understand their language and melody.
October 17, 2019 Collaborative Piano professor John Hess, along with a team of research collaborators, has launched the Irish Language Art Song website.
October 16, 2019 A new, revised edition of Jay Hodgson's "Understanding Records: A Field Guide to Recording Practice" has been released, including new developments in the process of recording.
October 4, 2019 Western composer Paul Frehner remastered an electroacoustic piece of his called "Submerged Echoes" for a new short film now being shown at film festivals across Canada.
October 4, 2019 Patrick Schmidt has a new book out, aimed at music teachers. "Policy as Practice: A Guide for Music Educators" examines the practical implications of policy for music educators.
September 28, 2019 Emily Abrams Ansari, whose research studies the relationship between music and politics, said a good campaign song is one that reflects the values of a party.
September 9, 2019 Grier awarded Prize for his book Ademarus Cabannensis, Monachus et Musicus (Brepols, 2018) about the musical life and legacy of of medieval monk Adèmar de Chabannes.
Apr. 16, 2019 Don Wright Faculty of Music mezzo-soprano Patricia Green performs in New Music Concerts: "Luminaries" - a tribute to Gilles Tremblay and Pierre Boulez.
Apr. 3, 2019 Graduate students and professors from the faculties of Information and Media Studies, Music, and Law at Western discovered interdisciplinary connections at a research day held March 22, 2019 at Western Law.
Mar. 22, 2019 Associate Professor, Norma Coates, was interviewed by Constance Grady for Vox on March 8 for an article titled, "Michael Jackson, R. Kelly, and the dangerous intimacy of fandom."
Jan. 11, 2019 Director of Research, Cathy Benedict co-authors "A Qualitative Study of the Effects of Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Use on Music Perception in Performing Musicians."
Jan. 15, 2019 Kathleen McLean of the Music Library at Western University recently curated an exhibit featuring her research on the Toulouse-Philidor Collection.
Jan. 14, 2019 Professor Paul Woodford has published a new book, which has just been released by Routledge: “Music Education in an Age of Virtuality and Post-Truth”.
Dec. 6, 2018 Associate professor Norma Coates and Local musician, Amanda Lynn Stubley join CBC London Morning to discuss pulling the holiday classic "Baby, It's Cold Outside" from radio airwaves.
Nov. 9, 2018 Congratulations to Emily Abrams Ansari and the entire “Surviving Memory in Postwar El Salvador” team for earning this year's Western Humanitarian Award.
Nov. 9, 2018 Faculty member Dr. Norma Coates has been invited to speak at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as part of its special exhibit “Stay Tuned: Rock on TV”.
Oct. 24, 2018 PhD (Composition) student, Andrew Noseworthy and one of his NYC collaborators, Aaron Garcia were recently interviewed by the online New Music publication: I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
Jun. 5, 2018 Chair of Western’s Music Education Department Patrick Schmidt is giving music teachers a voice by conducting surveys and interviews with music teachers and arts supervisors across Ontario.
May 24, 2018 DMA candidate and opera singer Bethany Hynes is conducting research on Voice Image, which aims to encourage singers to have a more positive relationship with their voices and themselves.
Apr. 23, 2018 Professor Sophie Louise Roland, Chair, Music Performance Studies, is one of five new Teaching Fellows who will be joining the Western University Teaching Fellows Program starting May 1, 2018.
Nov. 21, 2017 Don Wright Faculty of Music composers Omar Daniel and Paul Frehner had works performed at the World New Music Days - ISCM 2017 Vancouver conference, November 2 - 8.
Nov 7, 2017 Kate Helsen presents Gregorian Analytics at Eastman School of Music Symposium: Machine-Reading and Crowdsourcing Medieval Music Manuscripts
July 7, 2017 This academic conference drew together music education academics from around the world including several presentations from the Don Wright Faculty of Music
July 7, 2017 The 2017 symposium sought to encourage and stimulate discussion on a wide range of topics relating to the philosophy of music education from international and interdisciplinary perspectives.
June 23, 2017 The Don Wright Faculty of Music was well-represented by students, alumni, and faculty at the recent annual meeting of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, Canada Branch.
June 14, 2017 Omar Daniel's STELCO, a new composition commissioned by Calgary's Land's End Ensemble, received its première on May 26, 2017 at the Bella concert hall in Calgary.
June 9, 2017 Aaron Hodgson has just released a new album: inner voice. The album features Hodgson (trumpet) accompanied by Vanessa May-lok Lee (piano) and fellow DWFoM faculty: Jill Ball (percussion).
June 2, 2017 Ruth Wright was an invited keynote speaker at The 10th International Conference for Research in Music Education, held April 24-27 2017 at Bath Spa University, UK.
April 19, 2017 Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Catherine Nolan has been invited to deliver this year's Keynote Address at the upcoming Music Theory Midwest 2017 Conference, May 19-20, 2017.
