Events

Joint Honours, Music and Fine Arts student, Caroline Bordignon will perform her final graduation recital for Music 428. She will be featuring the work of Beethoven, Ravel, Messiaen, and Bordignon. All welcome.

Reception to follow.

Joint Honours Music and Recreation and Leisure Studies student, Emily Spina (mezzo soprano), will perform her final grad recital for Music 428. Come hear her lovely singing from composers Mozart, Strauss, Schumann, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saens, Copland and others.

Reception to follow.

On the island of Bali, Indonesia the idea of community and the spirit of interaction are highly valued and extend to music-making. Being an aural/oral tradition, repertoire—from ritual pieces to modern compositions, instrumental or dance—is learned through imitation and repetition, by listening and watching (i.e., without the use of notation). Students experience this communal process of creating a unified sound on a gamelan semara dana (one of several types of gamelan found in Bali) consisting of gongs, metallophones, drums, and flutes. 

A Concert of the Global Mennonite Peacebuilding Conference and Festival, featuring choirs, gamelan, and an original composition titled “Earth Peace” by Carol Ann Weaver, Professor Emerita of Music.

If you are a Global Mennonite Peace Building Conference participant, your ticket to this event is included with your registration.

Music of Joy and Peace is a collaborative, interactive performance with Mini Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (the Good Hearted Women Singers).

Three amazing student musician Chamber groups perform a selection of classical music pieces.  Music will include the following:

Cello student Vince (Tianren) Gao will be playing works by Ligeti, Beethoven, and Lalo.  Free Admission, reception to follow.

The JUNO nominated Orchid Ensemble is Lan Tung on the erhu/Chinese violin, Xiao Mei Zhu on the zheng/Chinese zither, and Jonathan Bernard on percussion. The ensemble blends ancient musical instruments and traditions from China and beyond, creating a beautiful new sound. 

Jennifer Brimson Cooper and Mas Sugihara are an imaginative and intense duo that perform both original compositions for the sax and flute, as well as transcriptions of classical pieces. They have toured across the United States, and will be touring Canada this fall.  For for more information see their website:  The Awea Duo