Thierry Tidrow, BMus 09 awarded Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music

Published: 12 February 2015

The Composition Area of the Schulich School of Music is pleased to announce that one of its former students, Thierry Tidrow (BMus, Honours Composition and Major Music Theory, 2009) is the recipient...

New Horizons Band Students Join Education Class

Published: 4 February 2015

Description: EDEA 472 students in their final semester of their Music Education degree are combining with volunteer members from the New Horizons Montreal Band, a intergenerational concert band now...

Philippe Leroux wins French Académie des beaux-arts composition prize

Published: 22 April 2015

Professor Philippe Leroux has been awarded the 2015 Prix de composition musicale de la Fondation Simone et Cino Del Duca, for the composition of an original short work for orchestra.  The work will...

"De souffles et de machines" finalist for Grand Prix

Published: 20 January 2015

The live@CIRMMT concert, "De souffles et de machines" performed by the Quasar saxophone quartet, has been selected as a finalist for a 30th Grand Prix du Counseil des arts de Montréal. 

Winners of the Dean's Essay Prize Announced

Published: 16 March 2015

Generously funded by the Dean, this competition celebrates excellence in the art of writing about music in the different genres in which it unfolds.  Papers in each genre are judged on the basis of...

Schulich Professor Jon Wild uses auto-tune to make a Renaissance theorists dream come true.

Published: 15 June 2015

One music theorist greatly invested in the topic was Nicola Vicentino (1511–c.1575) who, inspired by the writings of the ancient Greeks, wrote a treatise proposing a 31-tone division of the octave....

Prof. Dominique Labelle featured in the New York Times

Published: 13 January 2015

Prof. Dominique Labelle's performance in the Philharmonia Baroque’s concert performance of Handel’s “Teseo” at Alice Tully Hall was featured in the New York Times as one of the funniest classical...

Renowned violist Steven Dann appointed to Schulich String Faculty

Published: 13 February 2015

The Schulich School of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of internationally-renowned violist Steven Dann as Catherine Thornhill Steele Chair in Viola starting September 2015, for a...

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