Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1960–2000 by Laurel Parsons and Dean Brenda Ravenscroft has won the 2017 Pauline Alderman Award for Outstanding Scholarship on Women in Music in the book category! An adjudicator of the award praised the book for its incredible and necessary research and was specifically impressed with the original and rigorous analysis of music by women composers.
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Published on: 30 Jun 2020
This year’s Virtual Convocations took place June 17-18. As is customary in McGill’s traditional graduation ceremonies, these virtual convocations featured short musical performances including a recording of McGill’s Hail, Alma Mater, a song that has been sung by the late Prof. Winston Purdy, Prof. Tracy Smith Bessette, and now, the Schulich Singers with soloist Jenny Ivanovna and Artistic Director Jean-Sébastien Vallée.
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Published on: 18 Jun 2020
Congratulations to Claire McLeish, winner of Schulich’s 2019-20 Teaching Award in the graduate instructor award!
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Published on: 17 Jun 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Hannah Darroch, winner of Schulich’s 2019-20 Teaching Award in the graduate instructor category!
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Published on: 17 Jun 2020
Congratulations to Dr. Jerry M. Cain, winner of Schulich’s 2019-20 Teaching Award in the part-time category!
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Published on: 16 Jun 2020
Congratulations to Professor Patrick Hansen, winner of Schulich’s 2019-20 Teaching Award in the full-time category!
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Published on: 15 Jun 2020
Congratulations to Professor Nicole Biamonte, winner of Schulich’s 2019-20 Teaching Award in the full-time category!
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Published on: 15 Jun 2020
Over the past few weeks, several of our students have received awards for their exciting research projects. Follow the links to read more about each winner's exciting projects.
International Grant Writing Competition at the doctoral level
James Donaldson: Topics and Formal Process in Post-Tonal Music
Shulamit Sarid: Welcome to the Jungle – 2Cellos and the Genre-Audience Relationship
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Published on: 14 May 2020
Congratulations to Omer Barash, winner of the 2019-20 Andrew Svoboda Memorial Prize for Orchestral Composition. Omer’s orchestral piece will be premiered by the McGill Symphony Orchestra in the 2021-2022 season.
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Published on: 14 May 2020
A huge congratulations are in order for Cathy Martin, Coordinator and Liaison Librarian at the Marvin Duchow Music Library, on being awarded McGill’s 2020 Librarian Excellence Award! This annual award recognizes outstanding contributions to the Library, its users, and its mandate.
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Published on: 27 Apr 2020
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Kenneth Gilbert on April 16, 2020.
A world-famous harpsichordist and scholar – and the founder of the Early Music Program at McGill – Prof. Gilbert maintained a long and distinguished association with our faculty as a professor from 1964 to 1972 and then again as an Adjunct Professor from 1999 to 2015; he was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill in 1981.
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Published on: 27 Apr 2020
The Schulich School of Music is pleased to announce that this year’s Eleanor Stubley Recording Prize will go to Martin Daigle (MMus '20) and Omar Miranda (M.Mus. '21) for their project “Mossy Cobblestone”.
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Published on: 22 Apr 2020
On the occasion of World Hearing Day, the Schulich School of Music of McGill University and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT) are pleased to announce the launch of their Hearing Care Platform (HCP). Conceived in partnership with the NSERC-EERS Industrial Research Chair in In-Ear Technologies (CRITIAS) at the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), this project is designed to assess the noise exposure experienced by McGill music students.
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Published on: 3 Mar 2020
This Sunday, February 9, three Schulich vocalists gave outstanding performances to a packed house for the final round of the Wirth Vocal Prize in Pollack Hall. Deliberations took place immediately afterwards, and at the end of the afternoon, judges announced Jenny Ivanovna as the competition winner. Accompanied by collaborative pianist Jennifer Szeto presented a captivating program featuring works by Ruperto Chapi, Xavier Montsalvatge, Manuel de Falla, Felix Mendelssohn, Léo Delibes, Francis Poulenc, and Gioachino Rossini.
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Published on: 9 Feb 2020
In anticipation of the fifth edition of the Wirth Vocal Prize, we caught up with previous winners. In this article, we speak with Marcel d'Entremont, winner of the 2018-2019 edition of the Wirth Vocal Prize, to hear about what life has been like since winning the Prize.
Where are you currently based?
I am currently still based in Montreal!
How has the Wirth Vocal Prize influenced your career and your development as an artist?
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Published on: 7 Feb 2020
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