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UBC High Notes
Winter 2008
Director’s Welcome
W
elcome to the tenth edition of High Notes, celebrating the recent
activities and major achievements of faculty and students in the
UBC School of Music. I think you will have to agree that the diversity
and quality of achievements surveyed within these pages is most
impressive and inspiring.
The past year has included many amazing highlights, undergraduate
soprano Simone Osborne winning the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions and the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal
Competition; doctoral pianist Sergei Saratovsky playing as a finalist
in both the Montréal and Sydney International Piano Competitions;
Choral Director and Professor Bruce Pullan receiving the Order of
Canada; Ethnomusicology Professor Michael Tenzer winning a prestigious Killam Research
Fellowship; the inaugural Knigge Music Competition; and the world premiere of the Canadian
opera The Dream Healer by Lloyd Burritt and Don Mowatt, featuring Judith Forst, John
Avey, and Roelof Oostwoud with the UBC Opera Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. These
outstanding achievements express the excellence of our individual and collective efforts in the
School.
The coming year will be just as exciting. The renovation of the historic Old Auditorium is now
underway, and will be completed in early 2010. Our first-year class is larger than ever, and they
will be inspired by the achievements of their undergraduate and graduate student peers, and the
many accomplished alumni in whose footsteps they follow. 2008 is the centenary year of UBC,
and our concert season has already included an extraordinary centenary gala concert with the
CBC Radio Orchestra and the University Singers, featuring operatic superstar (and UBC
Music alumnus) Ben Heppner and the premiere of Earth Songs by Composition Professor
Stephen Chatman. Upcoming major performances this year include Brahms’ German Requiem
on November 29, and Verdi’s Falstaff in four performances, March 5–8, and the second annual
Knigge Music Competition (for Piano) will take place February 21–22. Just recently, String Fest,
on November 21–22, included the Mary and Kathleen Tierney Memorial Concert, featuring
two exceptional 18th-century violins given to the School by Mary Tierney. Events such as these
celebrate the vision and generosity of our donors, and express our deep gratitude, but the impact
of donors’ generosity also runs much deeper and further because it gives young artists the means
and motivation to pursue excellence and inspire others throughout their lives. We thank all our
donors for their generous support.
I hope you enjoy this snapshot of the School of Music, and that it will stimulate your interest in
our activities. I welcome your questions and comments, and I hope you will take the opportunity
to join us at some of our many public concerts and lectures this season. Thank you for being part
of our musical community!
Sincerely,
Richard Kurth
Director, UBC School of Music
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Publications and lectures
R
ichard Kurth
Published “Twelve-tone Compositional
Strategies and Poetic Signification in
Schönberg’s Vier Stücke für gemischten Chor,
Op. 27”, Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg
Center 7, 2005, 157-186.
Published “Multiple Modes of Continuity and
Coherence in Schoenberg’s Piano Piece, Op.
11/1,” Musical Currents from the Left Coast,
ed. Jack Boss and Bruce Quaglia, 282-298
(Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars
Press, 2008).
J
ohn Roeder
Led a graduate student workshop on
Analyzing Contemporary Music at the Society
for Music Theory Conference in Nashville,
November 2008.
Published “Art and digital records: paradoxes
and problems of preservation”, Archivaria 65,
2008, 143-55.
M
ichael Tenzer
Presented his research on music
and periodicity during a colloquium on
“Categories and Categorizations” at the
Sorbonne (Paris, May 21, 2008). Tenzer was
the keynote speaker at the German Society
for Music Theory in Graz, Austria, Oct. 10,
2008. A few days later he gave lectures at
the University of Toronto as the Wilma and
Clifford Smith Visitor in Music (Oct. 14-18,
2008)
N
athan Hesselink
Presented conference papers at Wesleyan
University (Connecticut, USA) and the Pusan
National Center for Korean Traditional
Performing Arts (South Korea).
Guest editor and contributor to a special issue
of the journal World of Music, entitled “Music
and Politics on the Korean Peninsula”.
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lan Dodson
“Formal Functions, Phrase Expansions,
and Qualities of Motion in Chopin’s Prelude
No. 6 in B Minor,” presented at the conference
Performing Romantic Music, held at Durham
University (UK) in July 2008. In this paper
Dodson used ideas from recent theories of
phrase structure in tonal music to interpret
patterns from an analysis of expressive timing
in 30 recordings of Chopin’s B Minor Prelude.
N
orman Stanfield
Completed his research on the
tambourine with an article in the quarterly
journal Canadian Folk Music (Vol. 41.4)
that describes its history and sophisticated
performance practices in the hands of the
Salvation Army Timbrel Brigades. The
brigades are a surprising addition to the more
familiar world of the Salvation Army silver
bands and mass choirs. He also submitted a
favourable assessment, upon request of Oxford
Press University, for an exciting new book on
Popular Music in Canada, the first of its kind.
Table of Contents
Director’s Welcome
Publications and Lectures
Vancouver International Song Institute
ArtsWay
Composition News
Spotlight on Opera
Music Miscellany
Awards, Appointments and Research
Recordings
Performances
Student News
Strings
Young Artists Experience Masterclasses
Alumni News
UBC and the CBC Radio Orchestra
In Memoriam
Donor Profile: Paul Mortiz
Old Auditorium Renewal Project
Donor List
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Vancouver International Song Institute
Why do People Sing?
Mothers sing lullabies to their babies, Alzheimer’s patients sing melodies from their prom night
60 years ago, groups spontaneously sing to celebrate a stranger’s birthday. Song resounds among
all human communities. From Asia to Australia, from Nunavut to Nigeria, every culture sings its
stories. As ancient as humankind, song chronicles our collective journey across time.
The second annual Vancouver International Song Institute (VISI) was held at UBC in June
2008, under the Artistic Direction of Professor Rena Sharon in collaboration with a North
American collective of distinguished musicians and scholars, including faculty and alumni from
UBC. VISI is a nexus for the interdisciplinary study, research, and performance of song. It is an
intensive two-week summer training program for emerging performers, teachers, and listeners.
International experts acknowledge The Song Institute as a unique and important summer
program in song studies. Its integrated design folds masterclasses with world-class artists into a
program of expansive learning in a supportive and experimental environment.
Participants at VISI 2008 attended a variety of workshops including poetry, history, vocal
physiology, neuroscience, music therapy, and stagecraft. In collaboration with Health Arts
Society (ArtsWay), young artists performed in professional venues and at health care facilities.
Teachers renewed their inspiration and studied new strategies to present song in their
communities. Listeners attended lectures, masterclasses and customized study workshops. A
festival of 16 song recitals in English and French framed the study program. Composers and
poets from across Canada were featured in forums, concerts, and CBC broadcasts.
Visit www. songinstitute.ca for the full calendar of events.
Margo Garrett in masterclass with VISI participants.
Photo: Tom Foley
VISI 2008 Faculty:
Benjamin Butterfield
Alison d’Amato
Robyn Driedger-Klassen
Tyler Duncan
Margo Garrett
Sima Godfrey
Richard Kurth
Rosemarie Landry
François Le Roux
Laura Loewen
Phoebe MacRae
Scott McCoy
Lynne McMurtry
Kevin McNeilly
Lambroula Pappas
Susan Platts
Bob Pritchard
Catherine Robbin
Erika Switzer
Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson
Bradley Vines
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ArtsWay Ambassador Program
T
he 2007-2008 academic year was the
inaugural season of the ArtsWay UBC
Ambassador Program. It is a new initiative
between the UBC School of Music and
the Health Arts Society, who deliver over
600 professional performances a year to
people in health care facilities across the
Lower Mainland. The program funds the
opportunity for senior students to play in
some of these performances. The ArtsWay
UBC Ambassador Program performed over
40 concerts for audiences in health care
facilities during its first season.
Devon Joiner, Heather Beaty & Jared Miller
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he honoured musical ambassadors chosen by audition were: pianist Devon Joiner,
composer Jared Miller, flutist Heather Beaty, and singers Debi Wong and Jeremy Bowes
with pianist Damien Jinks. Their repertoire varied in style and genre from Mozart sonatas
to Gershwin songs and included Jared Miller’s own compositions, allowing these versatile
musicians to share their music with mindful attention to each audience’s preferences and needs.
The staff and residents of the health care facilities have responded in an overwhelmingly positive
way to this program and every Ambassador has expressed a wonderful sense of fulfillment from
the performing opportunities. Health Arts Society, and Eugenia Choi, the ArtsWay UBC
coordinator, look forward to continued success in the program with a new season of even more
performances by a growing roster of UBC Ambassadors.
ArtsWay UBC Music Ambassadors for 2008 - 2009
Jeff Pelletier & Chris Hutchinson flutes
Thomas Beckman viola
Christine Jones piano
Sunny Qu piano
Nadia Chana voice
Aquizamin Garcia guitar
Lucy Yu & Silvia Tang flute & bassoon
David Locke-Norton, Sunny Shams & Stephanie Nakagawa vocal trio
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Composition News
H
ighlights from Stephen Chatman’s
performances of last season include
Tara’s Dream, with l’Orchestre Symphonique
de Montréal and a performance of Proud
Music of the Storm which was paired with Sir
Paul McCartney’s Ecce Cor Meum (Canadian
premiere). His commissions for this season
include works for Tafelmusik, the UBC
Centenary Gala (UBC Singers and CBC
Radio Orchestra) and the Surrey Children’s
Choir. Look for new publications by Chatman
from E.C. Schirmer, Boston and Oxford
University Press. Works include his Varley
Suite for solo violin.
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Photo: Brian Hawkes
orothy Chang completed her three-year
residency last May with the Albany
Symphony Orchestra with the performance
of her composition Along the River of Stars,
conducted by David Alan Miller in the Palace
Theatre, Albany, NY. In August, Strange
Air premiered at the Cabrillo Festival of
Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, CA.
Beyond Shadows, a new work for mixed
chamber ensemble, premiered in November
Dorothy Chang
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by the Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber
Players during their annual Premieres concert.
In another kind of premiere on October
16th, Dorothy gave birth to her, and husband
Paolo’s, new baby daughter Mira Si-En Chang
Bortolussi.
M
ichael Tenzer’s Resolution, premiered
at The Chan Centre in January of
last season. Commissioned by the American
Composers Orchestra, it received additional
performances in New York and Philadelphia.
Tenzer was Composer-in-Residence at
Eastman School of Music (Oct. 21-25, 2008).
R
amona Luengen’s commissioned work
My World, My Heart (mixed Choir,
a cappella) was performed in November by
Island Voices Chamber Choir, in memory
of their conductor, Frances Keene. Her
Laudate Dominum (SATB chorus and piano)
was published recently by Classica Music
Publishers.
J
effrey Ryan was commissioned by UBC
alumnus Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa for Saturn
(study in white), as part of her Cosmophony
project— a suite of piano works inspired by
the solar system. My Soul Upon My Lips for
flute and piano was premiered by Tiresias as
part of Vancouver’s Pride in Art Festival in
August. His triple concerto, Equilateral was
premiered by the VSO last February and then
performed by the Toronto Symphony in April.
Ryan is the Vancouver Symphony’s Composer
Laureate. The VSO performed his Linearity of
Light in Vancouver, during their Fall tour of
Asia and will perform it again in their Spring
2009 Ontario/Québec tour. Also in 2009,
the world premiere of Ryan’s solo piano work,
Fornax Chemica, in Toronto and the New
York premiere of his marimba concerto Twoby-Four.
Spotlight On Opera
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ast March the UBC Opera Ensemble
performed the exhilarating World
Premiere of The Dream Healer. Professor
and Director of Opera Nancy Hermiston,
directed the opera based on Timothy Findley’s
novel Pilgrim. Focused on Carl Jung at the
Burghölzli Clinic in Zürich, it is a story about
the disintegration of the psyche.
In April, Hermiston and writer/composer
Paula Rosen established the UBC Children’s
Opera Ensemble. Together with the Vancouver
Holocaust Education Centre, they produced
Hans Krasa’s children’s opera, Brundibar,
first performed in the Terazin concentration
camp. Special Guest was Ela Weissberger, an
original cast member and child survivor of
Terazin. The Children’s Ensemble will appear
this season in Hänsel und Gretel and Falstaff as
well as in their own production in April 2009
of Optica Delusions, a newly composed work by
Paula Rosen.
In June, Hermiston and the UBC Opera
Ensemble remounted Die Fledermaus (original
performances December 2007) to sold-out
houses at Coquitlam’s Evergreen Theatre
before taking the production to Ontario.
Members of the Ensemble also appeared
as soloists in Bach’s major vocal work,
Magnificat with the Westben Festival Chorus,
and presented Vaughan Williams’ Serenade
to Music in partnership with the Westben
Festival Orchestra.
The UBC Opera Ensemble presented Handel’s
Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni in
the Czech Republic in July. They rounded out
the summer by bringing their very polished
Don Giovanni to Vancouver audiences at Bard
on the Beach.
The Ensemble will travel to China for the
first time in late April 2009. They will be in
Beijing and Chengdu for two weeks working
with the Sichuan and Beijing Conservatories.
They will then head to the Westben Festival
in Campbellford, Ontario and then to their
European summer home, Teplice, Czech
Republic.
The cast of The Dream Healer
Simone Osborne (centre) with the UBC Opera Ensemble
Photo: Tim Matheson
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Musical
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n March, Dr. Corey Hamm
and Vancouver New Music
organized Rzewski Fest
with performances by UBC
students, faculty, and the
composer Frederick Rzewski
himself. Hamm gave world
premieres of new solo and
chamber works by Chris Paul
Harman, Jacob ter Veldhuis,
George Fenwick, David
Rakowski, Michael Tenzer,
asper Wood performed
Gordon Fitzell and other
at the summer music
BC composers as part of the
festivals in Muskoka, Ontario Sonic Boom Festival with The
and New Brunswick which
Nu:BC Collective. This season
celebrated the music of
Dr. Hamm is busy with
Ravel and Applebaum. His
performances of Frederic
string trio, Triple Forte,
Rzewski’s solo epic The
(with cellist Yegor Dyachkov
People United Will Never Be
and pianist David Jalbert),
Defeated! in cities all over the
performed at the Elora and the world.
Collingwood Summer Music
Festivals. Wood’s wife, Grace
he annual Jean
gave birth to their first child,
Coulthard Readings for
Ryan James Wood on
emerging BC composers will
May 18, 2008.
take place on March 4 and 5,
2009. Named in honour of
the late composer and former
UBC Music faculty member,
the Jean Coulthard Readings
allow young composers from
around BC the chance to hear
one of their works performed
by the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra, under the baton
of Assistant Conductor
Evan Mitchell. Participating
students will also attend
a masterclass with VSO
Composer-in-Residence Scott
Good.
he University Singers
went to Scotland and
England during the summer
break 2008, and performed at
many churches and cathedrals.
The tour culminated in a
concert in Eton College
Chapel which included a tour
by the Precentor (Director
of Music), who is a former
student of Bruce Pullan.
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Photo: Stefan Rahmstorf
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Eugenia Choi in Norwegian Arctic
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E
ugenia Choi performed
in concerts from
Amsterdam to Los Angeles,
but her most exhilarating
venue was aboard the National
Geographic ship the Endeavor
in the Norwegian Arctic
above 78° N latitude. Choi
was invited to perform during
a 10-day climate change
summit. At the summit were
some of the most influential
people in the world today,
including Former President
Jimmy Carter, Madeleine
Albright, Ted Turner, Google
founder Larry Page, and
CEOs of DuPont, and eBay.
P
atricia Hoy is the
Artistic Director for
the Coral Wind Chamber
Music Festival which had its
inaugural season this past
August in Ucluelet, BC. The
festival brought together an
eclectic audience of surfers,
fishermen, locals and seasoned
chamber music lovers. Leading
artists from across North
America were invited to
perform in the festival’s series
of four concerts.
R
obert Silverman
performed Addinsell’s
Warsaw Concerto with the
UBC Symphony Orchestra
in October and Beethoven’s
2nd Piano Concerto with the
Mississauga Symphony in
November. In February, he
will perform Brahms’ Piano
Concerto No. 1 with Seattle’s
Philharmonia Northwest and
Manuel da Falla’s Nights in the
Gardens of Spain in Stratford
in the spring.
Miscellany
J
ulia Nolan performed and
gave a masterclass for the
Eugene Rousseau Celebration
at the University of North
Carolina-Greensboro in
October. Nolan was elected a
member of the International
Committee (Canadian
representative) for the World
Saxophone Congress XV in
Thailand where she’ll perform
in July 2009. Nolan is soloist
in Fred Stride’s Concerto for
Alto Saxophone and Wind
Ensemble with UBC and
UVIC Wind Ensembles,
January and February 2009.
D
avid Harding
performed at the Sitka
Autumn Classics Festival
in Anchorage in September
and was concerto soloist in
Alexina Louie’s Winter Music
with The Turning Point
Ensemble November 28th and
30th. Jeremy Berkman was
trombone soloist in Louie’s
Ricochet on the same concerts.
Philharmonic at Strings in
the Mountains, Colorado,
where she also performed
with Trio Verlaine. The trio
gave the Canadian premiere
of Six Departures by Jeffery
Cotton at Festival Vancouver.
In October, she went on the
China/Korea tour with the
Vancouver Symphony.
U
BC Instructor John
van Deursen founded
the string group Orchestra
Armonia in Vancouver and
held three performances last
season. This season holds more
performances with Orchestra
Armonia, as well as an
appearance as guest conductor
with the UBC Orchestra and
Symphony of the Kootenays,
with violinist Jasper Wood as
soloist.
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n the fall, Lorna McGhee
was Principal Flautist
with the London Symphony
Orchestra in England. The
LSO toured Europe and
recorded Vaughan Williams’
Symphony No. 4 and
Rachmaninov’s Symphonies 1
and 2 on the LSO Live label.
ver the summer, Heidi
Krutzen was a featured
soloist with the Shanghai
Quartet at the Oregon Bach
Festival and with principal
players of the New York
ene Ramsbottom
presents the 24th season
of “Out For Lunch” and the
Spotlight on UBC concert
sub-series at the Vancouver
Art Gallery. Ramsbottom
has been invited to be the
Featured Artist Performer in
January 2009 at Wright State
University’s annual Clarinet
Symposium.
E
lizabeth Volpé Bligh
was part of a five-member
panel on “Body Mechanics
and Relaxation at the
Harp” during the American
Harp Society convention
in Detroit, Michigan in
June. In September, Bligh
premiered her arrangements
of Dvorak’s Song to the Moon
and Rameau’s Fanfarinette
for two harps, at Harpists’
Tribute to Jurgen Gothe. This
fundraiser concert showcased
nine harpists including UBC
alumni Janelle Nadeau
and Lani Krantz. Bligh has
founded the West Coast
Harp Society to promote harp
concerts and prepare for the
World Harp Congress to take
place in Vancouver in 2011.
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Photo: Brian Hawkes
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G
John van Deursen
erence Dawson’s
performance and
masterclass at the University
of Lethbridge last season,
honoured retiring music
department head,
Dr. George Evelyn. Faculty
member at VISI, Dawson
and UBC graduate Robyn
Driedger-Klassen, soprano,
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Awards, Appointments & Research
T
he UBC School of
Music has a reputation
for excellence in its faculty,
students and alumni.
Examples of this excellence
are reflected in the following
accomplishments:
Society, and the first time the
prize was awarded to a nonKorean.
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B
Photo: Karen Tregillaf
athan Hesselink
is winner of the
2008 Lee Hye-gu Award
for outstanding research
conducted on a Korean
music topic. The award was
presented in Seoul by the
Korean Musicological Society
for his book P’ungmul: South
Korean Drumming and Dance
(University of Chicago Press,
2006). This is the highest
honour awarded by the
ichael Tenzer is one
of ten outstanding
Canadian researchers who
have been awarded $70,000
each in the 41st annual
competition for Killam
Research Fellowships,
administered by the Canada
Council for the Arts.
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ancy Hermiston
has been chosen to
receive the 2008 Dorothy
Somerset Award. The award
“recognizes faculty members
who have made outstanding
contributions to the fields of
Art, Music, Creative Writing,
Theatre, or Film.”
J
ohn Roeder and Michael
Tenzer co-received
the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research
Bruce Pullan
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n October, Jasper Wood’s
recording A Child’s Cry
from Izieu – the complete
Works for violin and piano
by Oskar Morawetz won the
western Canadian Music
Award for “Outstanding
Classical Recording.”
Photo: David Cooper
ruce Pullan, head of our
choral programs, has
been appointed as a Member
of the Order of Canada. This
is Canada’s highest civilian
honour. Pullan will travel
to Ottawa for the induction
ceremony December 12th,
which will take place at
Rideau Hall. This will be
Bruce’s last year at the School
of Music as he is retiring.
n Germany, Dr. Alexander
Fisher received a DAAD
(Deutscher Akademischer
Austausch Dienst /German
Academic Exchange Service)
Faculty Research Visit
Grant in April, to continue
researching his book, Music,
Piety, and Propaganda
in Counter-Reformation
Bavaria. DAAD offers
grants to subsidize one to
three months of research in
Germany to post-secondary
scholars at US and Canadian
institutions.
Council of Canada standard
research grant in March
2008 to study the various
techniques and dimensions of
musical periodicity.
Jasper Wood
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he 50th Annual
Grammy Award for
Best Instrumental Soloist(s)
Performance (with Orchestra)
was awarded in February to
James Ehnes for the recording
Barber/Korngold/Walton:
Violin Concertos, Bramwell
Tovey, conductor with
the Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra on CBC Records.
Many UBC Music faculty are
members of the VSO.
Recordings
Jane Coop
The Romantic Piano Volume One
Skylark Music
Re-issue of one of the most popular piano
collections ever produced by CBC.
Sara Davis Buechner
The Bach-Busoni Edition Vol. 1
Koch
This First of three volumes includes Bach-Busoni
Concerto in d minor live at The Chan Centre with
the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Bramwell
Tovey conducting.
Stephen Chatman
Due East
Centrediscs
Choral music by Stephen Chatman performed by
the Vancouver Chamber Choir.
Trio Verlaine: Lorna McGhee flute,
David Harding viola, Heidi Krutzen harp
Fin de Siècle the Music of Debussy & Ravel
Skylark Music
Receiving rave reviews, this CD also includes
arrangements by Jocelyn Morlock commissioned
by the trio.
Phoenix Chamber Choir
Ramona Luengen, Artistic Director
A Road Less Traveled
Live performances from 2007 European Tour
Jeffrey Ryan
Launch Pad
Centrediscs
Penderecki String Quartet
CD includes Jeffrey Ryan’s String Quartet #3
(sonata distorta).
Ramona Luengen’s work Maude performed
by Sequitur New Music Ensemble, New York
To Have and To Hold
Koch 2007
Sequitur New Music Ensemble, New York
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Performances at the
Photo: Brian Hawkes
Humperdinck’s
Hänsel und Gretel
December 11 – 14,
Chan Centre
Director Nancy Hermiston
and Conductor Leslie Dala
lead the Opera Ensemble in
Engelbert Humperdinck’s
version of the fairytale Hänsel
und Gretel. Performed in
English, this tale will enchant
children of all ages.
Masterclasses and Piano
Recital by
Christopher Taylor
January 15-17, Recital Hall
American pianist Christopher
Taylor is this season’s guest
artist and pedagogue in
the Dal Grauer Memorial
Lectures. Works by
Beethoven, Bach, and Liszt.
UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Knigge Music Competition
& Winners Concert
February 21 & 22,
Recital Hall
Eight finalists compete on the
21st with winners announced
at the end of the day. On the
22nd, the top four pianists
will perform in concert,
followed by awards.
Admission is FREE both days.
Pacific Spirit Concerts
Recital Hall
Enjoy musical retreats
with performances by our
distinguished faculty and
guest artists followed by light
appetizers with the artists.
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Hanne-Lore Knigge, 2008 Knigge
Winner Scott Meek, and Dieter Knigge.
Photo: Brian Hawkes
A Masked Ball
Dinner and Dance
February 13,
Chan Centre
UBC Opera’s fifth annual
fund raiser. Gourmet dinner
and musical serenade with the
Dal Richards Orchestra and
the UBC Opera Ensemble.
The perfect evening for you
and your valentine.
Verdi’s Falstaff
March 5 – 8, Chan Centre
This richly comedic
portrait of Sir John Falstaff
features a flood of melodies,
inexhaustible rhythms, and a
quicksilver orchestral palette.
Directed by Nancy Hermiston
and conducted by Dwight
Bennett, this opera is sung in
Italian with English surtitles.
Guest artists Peter Barcza
and Andrew Greenwood will
appear in the role of Sir John
Falstaff.
Borealis String Quartet
March 21, Recital Hall
Works by Schubert and
Beethoven.
UBC School of Music
UBC Symphony Orchestra
January 23 & April 4
Chan Centre
The 70-member orchestra
performs symphonic works
from the 18th, 19th and 20th
centuries. The Orchestra
also performs with the UBC
Opera Ensemble, and in joint
concerts with the University
Singers and UBC Choral
Union.
Scholarship Winners
Concert
March 22, Recital Hall
An afternoon of music
performed by scholarship
award recipients to honour
those who support our
students through donations to
scholarship funds.
UBC Symphonic Wind
Ensemble
January 31, March 26 & 27
Chan Centre
This ensemble is dedicated
to performing the finest
and most challenging wind
repertoire.
Admission is FREE.
MIke Dowler
UBC Symphony Orchestra
Photo: Brian Hawkes
Photo: Brian Hawkes
Terence Dawson and Jane Coop
Wednesday Noon Hour Series
Wednesday Noon Hours
Ongoing, Recital Hall
Visit our web site
www.music.ubc.ca for a
complete listing of noon hour
concerts.
Baccalaureate Concert
May 20,
Chan Centre
Features students graduating
from the UBC School of
Music.
Admission is FREE.
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Student News
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DMA student Sergei Saratovsky was one of six
finalists at the Montreal International Musical
Competition in May. Saratovsky won the Award
for Best Canadian Artist which came with a
$5,000 prize.
Stephanie Lind, PhD student, won the 2008
George Proctor Prize from the Canadian
University Music Society for best graduate
student paper presented at their conference in
Vancouver in June.
Devon Joiner, (3rd year piano performance),
won Second Prize in the inaugural national
Knigge Music Competition last February.
Photo: Sgt. Serge Gouins
he inaugural B. Mus Dean’s List was
announced this past academic year.
Students who complete 27 credits or more in
any Winter Session, with an overall average
of 85% or higher, receive the notation “Dean’s
List” on their transcript. Twenty-seven students
achieved this distinction in 2007.
Left to right: Sergei Saratovsky, 1st prize winner Nareh
Arghamanyan, and Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada
Canadian artist. In addition to a cash prize,
Jared performed a half recital in Toronto which
included some of his own works.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra’s Jean
Coulthard Reading Session in January 2008
included works by three UBC students: Iman
Habibi, Daniel York and James Wade. The
VSO played each work at the Orpheum Theatre.
In February 2008, soprano Simone Osborne,
now in her 4th year at UBC, was one of
five singers to be selected as winner of the
Metropolitan Opera National Council
Auditions. Alumnus Rhoslyn Jones (B. Mus
2002; M.Mus 2004) won first place in the
The Victoria Symphony Orchestra chose the
Regional competition in New Orleans. Osborne
first movement of Jared Miller’s To B-Flat
continued to have a spectacular year at the
as one of the eight pieces performed during
Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara
their orchestral reading session last April.
where she was co-winner of the Marilyn Horne
Miller was also one of two winners of the 2008 Foundation Vocal Competition. As part of her
Ben Steinberg Musical Legacy Award. This
prize, Osborne will perform in a solo recital
award is given each year to a young Jewishin the Marilyn Horne Foundation series “On
Wings of Song” held in New York City.
Third year B. Mus student, Eric North was
commissioned by Ramona Luengen to compose
a choir piece for the Phoenix Chamber Choir’s
25th anniversary concert in November.
Simone Osborne
Photo: Kevin Clark
DMA students Aaron Young and Timothy
Corlis have been chosen for Vancouver
Symphony Olympic commissions. They will
each create a three-minute work inspired by the
Olympics, which will then be performed by the
VSO conducted by Maestro Bramwell Tovey.
Corlis’ work was performed in November and
Young’s will be performed in February.
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Strings
Gagliano violins donated to the
School debut on UBC stages
T
his fall, two 18th-century Neapolitan violins,
made by legendary luthiers Alessandro
Gagliano and grandson Ferdinand Gagliano,
and donated to the school by the family of Mary
Tierney, debuted at UBC. Second year student
Dae Jin Kim, performed the Sibelius Violin
Concerto at The Chan Centre as a soloist with the
UBC Symphony Orchestra using the Alessandro
Gagliano violin.
Mary Tierney
The violins were also featured at String Fest in
November as part of the Mary and Kathleen
Tierney Memorial Concert. Bach’s Concerto for
Two Violins in d minor, BWV 1043 was chosen as
the perfect work to exemplify the beauty of these
instruments. UBC violin students Christine
Lin & Samuel Tsui successfully competed for the
honour of performing the Bach concerto using the
Gagliano violins.
Photo: Steven Lemay
Borealis String Quartet—
UBC’s Quartet-in-Residence
T
his season, the quartet will perform
at the Metropolitan Museum in New
York City; the National Academy of Science
in Washington, DC; the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa; the Pro Music Society
in Montreal; and as part of the Beethoven
String Quartet Cycle series at the Illsley Ball
Nordstrom Recital Hall in Seattle. They will
also be returning to Taiwan for a nationwide
tour. You may hear the Borealis String
Quartet on February 4th in our Wednesday
Noon series and they will present an evening
of Schubert and Beethoven on March 21st
in the Recital Hall. Catch them downtown
as part of the Christ Church Cathedral
Concert Series February 21st and May 9th.
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Young Artist Experience
I
n August, the UBC School of Music hosted the 13th annual Young Artist Experience (YAE)
program. The YAE is a unique interdisciplinary chamber music program (strings and piano)
that blends intensive music studies with workshops in arts, humanities, science, and social
responsibility. Professors Rena Sharon, Corey Hamm and Jasper Wood served as Artistic
Directors for the exciting two-week program, working alongside Executive Director, Diane
Sanford (B.Mus ’81). Students were coached daily on masterpieces from the traditional chamber
repertoire (such as Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, and Shostakovich) and works by lesser known
composers like Nikolai Kapustin and Ali Askin.
I
n addition, students experienced hands-on workshops with visiting experts in a variety of
disciplines including theatre, Hip Hop, the Science of Sustainability, fiddling, blues piano, the
recovery of Rwanda, drumming, and dance. Students performed at UBC, West Vancouver, and
as part of the ArtsWay outreach concerts. Often the faculty of YAE performed along with them,
making the experience a truly memorable one. The faculty and staff of YAE are looking forward
to another exciting program next summer!
Students Rheana Slack, Nicole Linaksita and Junmo Kim rehearsing
Beethoven’s Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3 with Corey Hamm.
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Photo: Laurie Townsend
MasterClasses
Pinchas Zukerman with student Alexis Carter.
T
he UBC School of Music is proud to
offer students the opportunity to learn
one-on-one with some of the most respected
professionals from a variety of genres and
disciplines in music. Some highlights of this
year include:
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t. Lawrence String Quartet
Masterclass and lecture - Sept. 18, 2008
While performing in Vancouver on June
Goldsmith’s Music in the Morning Series
in September, the quartet plus two of their
former members gave an amazing and
energetic lecture/demonstration on the
Dvorak Sextet and a masterclass with two
UBC student quartets.
Sponsored by Music in the Morning.
C
Photo: Laurie Townsend
atherine Vickers
Masterclass and lecture - Oct. 9, 2008
Catherine Vickers gave a public piano
masterclass followed by a lecture based on her
book, The Listening Hand.
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ational Arts Centre Orchestra
Educational Outreach activities
Masterclasses and workshops - Oct. 24 & 27, 2008
Pinchas Zukerman - Violin Masterclass
John Kimura Parker - Piano Masterclass
Christopher Millard - Orchestra Excerpt
Workshop
Alexina Louie - Composition Lecture
Yosuke Kawasaki - String sectional workshop
with UBC Chamber Strings
R
aphael Wallfisch
Cello Masterclass - Nov. 5, 2008
While performing with the Vancouver
Symphony Orchestra in Vancouver, English
cellist Wallfisch gave a solo recital for the
Wednesday Noon series and a masterclass with
UBC students.
Sponsored by the Vancouver Symphony and the
Jemini Foundation.
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he Alcan String Quartet
Masterclass - Nov. 19, 2008
Based in Chicoutimi, Québec, the quartet is
comprised of violinists Laura Andriani and
Nathalie Camus, violist Luc Beauchemin, and
cellist David Ellis.
C
hristopher Taylor
Piano Masterclasses - Jan. 15 & 16, 2009
American pianist Christopher Taylor is this
season’s guest artist and pedagogue in the Dal
Grauer Memorial Lectures.
Catherine Vickers with student Wen-Chi Fan.
Sponsored by the Dal Grauer Memorial
Lectures and the UBC President’s Office .
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Alumni News
rian Gibson (B.Mus
‘65) composed a
symphonic suite to accompany
the unveiling of Boeing’s
newest passenger jetliner,
the 787 Dreamliner. The
five-movement piece was
performed by members of the
Vancouver Symphony in July
2007 at the Boeing facility in
Everett, WA. He composed
and produced the music, and
wrote the story outline for a
post-apocalyptic rock musical,
Anna’s Tale: The Truth about
Christmas, currently in the
hands of a major LA studio.
B
aritone Tyler Duncan
(B.Mus ‘98) took first
prize by unanimous decision
at the prestigious New York
Oratorio Society’s Lyndon
Woodside Solo Competition
in April 2008. Duncan
received the $7,000 Ruth
Lopin Nash Award for first
place.
Photo: Minoru Sato
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at Jay’s (B.A. Music
Minor ‘04) single, Love
When I Can aired on ABC’s
hit TV show, Men In Trees
in March 2008. Her music
and bio can be found on her
Myspace page.
James Hill
Many Musics project. He is
also a director of Victoria’s
Aventa ensemble and a
member of the Experimental
eoffrey Wilson (PhD,
Musicology ‘07) is now a
hoslyn Jones (B.Mus ‘02, Music Collective. He lives
in Toronto with his wife,
Lecturer of Music History and
M.Mus ‘04) returned
musicologist Sherry Lee (PhD,
Theory at Wartburg College
to Vancouver in November
Musicology ‘03).
in Waverly, IA.
as leading lady Tatiana in
Vancouver Opera’s production
ileen Walsh (B.Mus
of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene
ohn Trotter (B.Mus
‘03) received her master
Onegin.
‘98) is a DMA student in
of music degree and her
Conducting at the University
kulele virtuoso James
performance diploma from
of Michigan. In 2006, he was
Hill (B.Mus ‘03) will
Indiana University (‘05, ‘06)
selected as one of ten emerging
perform in Vancouver at the
and is now Second Clarinet
conductors from around
Music on Main series in April the world (and the only
and Bass Clarinet with
2009. His concert will include Canadian) to participate in
Symphony Nova Scotia.
the world premiere of a
the Eric Ericson International
newly commissioned work by Master Class on Choral
Giorgio Magnanensi. Check
and Orchestral Conducting
out video clips at
in Sweden and Denmark.
www.ukulelejames.com.
During the summer of 2008
he conducted the National
Arts Centre Orchestra in
regory Lee Newsome
(M.Mus Composition
a concert and studied with
2000) is Music Services
Helmuth Rilling at the Organ
Manager at the National
Bach Festival. In the spring
Office of the Canadian Music of 2009 Trotter returns to
Centre where he oversaw the
Vancouver to guest conduct
development of the Composer the Vancouver Chamber
Portraits - Influences of
Choir.
Eileen Walsh
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UBC and the CBC Radio Orchestra
Centennial Gala at The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts
U
BC Alumnus Ben
Heppner, the CBC
Radio Orchestra, and
the University Singers
celebrated UBC’s centenary
on September 28th. It was
a spectacular afternoon of
music with a programme that
included the world premiere
Stephen Chatman and Ben Heppner
of Earth Songs, the new work
for orchestra and chorus by
UBC’s Stephen Chatman,
commissioned for the event.
This exquisite celebration
was broadcast nationally on
CBC Radio 2 and on Sirius
Satellite Radio during the
Thanksgiving weekend.
UBC and CBC: Long-time Collaborators
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s many of you know, in late March
CBC management announced that
they were eliminating the 70-year-old CBC
Radio Orchestra. As a show of solidarity, the
students in the UBC Symphony Orchestra
decided to dedicate their April 11th concert
to the CBCRO in an effort to help save it.
Many faculty and students also attended
rallies during April and May to vocalize their
support.
Alain Trudel, Stephen Chatman, and Sid Katz
UBC and the CBC Radio Orchestra have
worked together for years. Through CBC, the
UBC Music faculty has reached a worldwide
audience, enhancing UBC’s reputation
as a great university. Together they have
contributed to arts and culture across Canada
and the world. The CBC and the CBC Radio
Orchestra was a bridge from UBC to the world
stage for graduates such as Judith Forst, Jon
Kimura Parker, and the heldentenor
Ben Heppner. UBC music students have won
the CBC Young Performers Competition and
the Young Composers Competition. Faculty
pianists Jane Coop and Robert Silverman,
bassoonist Jesse Read, and composers Stephen
Chatman and Fred Stride, and all UBC
faculty who are members of the orchestra are
proudly featured on the CBC record label. The
UBC School of Music celebrates the 70 years of
musical performances, broadcasts, recordings,
and creation of new works the CBC Radio
Orchestra has contributed to Canada’s cultural
heritage and legacy. We mourn the loss of this
national cultural icon.
November 16th was the CBC Radio
Orchestra’s last concert. It has been announced
that conductor Alain Trudel and the
musicians will reform as a new entity, separate
from the CBC, called the National Broadcast
Orchestra. Partners of this new orchestra
include businessman Philippe Labelle, The
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and
UBC. The pan-Canadian ensemble will be
based in Vancouver and will have a national
mandate and mission similar to the now
defunct CBC Radio Orchestra.
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In Memoriam
Significant Donor passes away at age 100
P
o Ting Ip, long-time supporter and friend of the UBC School of Music passed away on
January 25, 2008. He is survived by his daughter Jean.
Mr. Ip graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1934 and married
Miss Wai Tsuen Lee that same year in Guangzhou, China. He practised civil engineering and
taught the same at Lingnan University in Guangzhou. After World War II, he moved to Hong
Kong and became a merchant, dealing in wood furniture and real estate. In 1983, he and his wife
immigrated to Vancouver to join their daughter.
Mr. Ip was a very generous man, donating funds to establish scholarships at UBC and UVic.
He contributed annually to VGH and the Canadian Cancer Society, and played a crucial role
in establishing an IMBA program in Guangzhou, China, through collaboration between the
University of Lingnan and MIT.
In the mid-1980s, Mr. Ip and his wife established the Golden Leaf Scholarship, one of UBC’s
most prestigious awards, to commemorate the couple’s 50th wedding anniversary and to support
talented young musicians. And from 1998 until his death, Mr. Ip and his daughter Jean, both
opera fans, attended every production of the UBC Opera Ensemble.
Mr. Ip will be sadly missed.
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combined forces with Vancouver actor Joy Coghill to present alumnus David Gordon Duke’s
Come Thursday for Tea, featuring the premiere of the newly transposed high voice cycle Spring
Rhapsody by Jean Coulthard.
H
eather Thomson Price’s Singers’ Retreat in Sylvan Beach, NY was so successful that over
the summer she did two sessions rather than one. Masterclasses were given by guest artists
such as John Darrenkamp of the Metropolitan Opera and Maria Russo, international artist
and teacher. Acting classes were added, and next summer there will be basic dance and stage
movement as well.
E
ugene Skovorodnikov spent the summer playing concerts and teaching masterclasses in
Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain, Croatia and Montenegro. In the fall, he performed and
taught in the Ukraine, Belgium, and Holland, and juried the Luciano Gante Piano International
Competition in Italy.
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T
onja Boon has begun a tenure track position in the Women’s Studies Department at
Memorial University of Newfoundland.
he Kandler Scholarship is a new $2,500 scholarship awarded to a third or fourth year
student, or a graduate of the School of Music, to assist with the cost of pursuing music
training or research outside of Canada through a program of study approved by the School.
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Severnian Scholarship Celebrates 10 Years
P
aul Moritz’s copy of the School of Music’s 08/09 Concert
Calendar is marked up showing a busy attendance schedule.
Of the concert program, Mr. Moritz particularly looks forward to
performances by the year’s winner of the Severnian Scholarship in
Music—an award he established a decade ago for a student of the
oboe, French horn, or cello, his favourite orchestral instruments.
Named for the River Severn in the English countryside where he grew
up, the Severnian Scholarship is informed by his life-long friendship
with his gifted and deeply committed piano teacher.
As an alumnus of UBC’s School of Community and Regional
Planning (MA’76), Mr. Moritz worked as a regional planner with the District of Matsqui. It
wasn’t until he founded a concert presentation series that brought musicians to the valley that
he became familiar with UBC’s Music School and its distinguished professors and players. Paul
travelled regularly to UBC and downtown Vancouver to attend concerts. Shortly after retiring,
he moved to UBC to take advantage of the academic and musical life on campus. The School of
Music and Chan Centre are both short walks from his apartment.
Mr. Moritz began supporting UBC financially during its World of Opportunity campaign
in the 1980s, and continued to do so after its completion. Wishing to designate his giving, he
established the Severnian Scholarship and has funded the $1,000 award annually. He has also
made provisions in his will to ensure its legacy through his estate.
Update on the Old Auditorium Renewal Project
W
e are pleased to report that construction is well underway at the Old Auditorium. The
renewal of this cherished UBC landmark aims to rekindle the building’s vibrant past by
bringing it into the 21st century for students, alumni, and community members alike.
On track to reopen in 2010, the revitalized Old Auditorium will include an orchestra pit
with lift, new rehearsal and practice facilities, and state-of-the-art lighting and audio/visual
equipment. It will again become a focal point for the University’s arts and culture scene and a
favourite performing venue in the city. The Old Auditorium will also retake its role as a central
part of campus life and will lead the way for the next generation of students at the School of
Music and UBC.
Keep an eye out in the New Year, at School of Music events and in the lobby of the Music
Building, for Old Auditorium floor plans, colour schemes, and renderings.
For more information on the Old Auditorium Renewal Project, or if you would like to make
music a part of your life and legacy, please contact:
Christopher Whitney, Major Gifts Officer
UBC Faculty of Arts
T: 604-822-4790 | E: [email protected]
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Thank you for Supporting
The UBC School of Music values the generous spirit of giving from our supporters. Your
donations have an important impact by enriching the experiences we offer the community,
alumni, faculty, and our exceptional students—the next generation of musicians.
Thank you for your support.
UBC Music Donors
October 1, 2007 – September 30, 2008
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Susan Le Page
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Marlis MacAulay
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Betsabeh Madani
Betty Mah-Poy
James Malmberg
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Irene McEwen
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Every effort has been made to
prepare an accurate listing
from October 1, 2007 to
September 30, 2008.
UBC High Notes
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UBC High Notes
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