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Université de Sherbrooke School of Music
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Université de Sherbrooke School of Music has three new scholarships for 2025 fall admission, thanks to a generous donation from the Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation. These scholarships, worth $10,000 each, will help high-achieving music students with the cost of tuition.
Université de Sherbrooke continues to prioritize students with scholarship opportunities such as these as well as its flexible admission process, which allows students to apply any time throughout the year and complete the admission process remotely. Their new scholarships will be awarded based on the quality of admission files and results in admission exams (auditions, interviews). www.usherbrooke.ca
Western University – Don Wright Faculty of Music
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London Symphonia and the Don Wright Faculty of Music recently announced five students appointed to the London Symphonia Fellowship with Western University for the orchestra’s 2024-25 artistic season. This year, there are three returning fellows: violinists Chen Chia-Hsuan (originally appointed in 2023-24) and Yanet Campbell-Secades (originally appointed in 2022-23), and violist Tasman Tantasawat (originally appointed in 2022-23). The final two, cellist Sarah Cupit and bassist Iris Leck, are newly appointed fellows. The fellowship program was established in 2022, and offers full-time Western string students an opportunity to gain relevant experience to pursue careers as professional orchestral musicians. www.music.uwo.ca
Manhattan School of Music
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This fall, Manhattan School of Music welcomed 20 new artist-teachers to instruct in their Strings, Jazz Arts, Vocal Arts, Musical Theatre, Contemporary Performance, Piano, and Woodwinds programs. Among these new teachers are several musicians who have contributed to the Canadian classical music scene: violist Cong Wu, who was a guest faculty member of the National Arts Centre Summer Music Institute; mezzo-soprano Susan Quittmeyer, who performed with Opéra de Montréal and the Canadian Opera Company; and pianist JinHee Park, who was an official pianist at the 2023 Concours international musical de Montréal and continues to perform in Canada. These artist-teachers offer a new perspective on the established programs at the Manhattan School of Music. www.msmnyc.edu
Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec
Marie-Claire Lavigueur
In October, Marie-Claire Lavigueur was appointed executive director of the Conservatory Foundation, an organization that supports student excellence and the integration of Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique du Québec graduates into the professional world. Lavigueur was previously the general director of Montreal’s Arion Orchestre Baroque and has master’s degrees in both Business Administration and Music Interpretation. Her relevant experience in the field makes her an excellent candidate for the role, as does her enthusiasm to support students’ futures and work closely with Quebec’s conservatories. The Foundation has big plans for the upcoming year as it aims to create nine new scholarships for students from all conservatories in the region. www.conservatoire.gouv.qc.ca
Université de Montréal Faculty of Music
Françoise Armand, Denis Gougeon, Anne-Marie Mes-Masson, René Doyon,Sylvie Belleville, and Frantz Saintellemy Photo : UdeM
The Quebec government recently announced the winners of the 2024 Prix du Québec, a series of awards that recognizes the influential work of those in the fields of science and culture. Six professors and three graduates from the Université de Montréal were recognized on this list for significant accomplishments in their fields. Among these winners is Denis Gougeon, professor emeritus of the Faculty of Music, who was awarded the Prix Denise-Filiatrault 2024 for his contribution to the performing arts. Gougeon has composed more than 120 works for chamber music, orchestra, theatre, opera, solo instruments, ballet, and children. His works have been performed by prominent orchestras, including those in Shanghai, Berlin, Munich, Oslo, and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. He adds this recent achievement to approximately 20 other awards and scholarships. www.musique.umontreal.ca
McGill Schulich School of Music
At the fall convocation on Dec. 2, philanthropist Joan Ivory will receive an honorary doctorate from McGill to celebrate her tireless work in the arts, education, and health. She will become Doctor of Music, honoris causa. Ivory has contributed to the university since she graduated with a bachelor of arts in Economics and Sociology in 1954. From 1998 onward, she has been an active member of the Schulich School of Music Faculty Advisory Board and supported student travel, offered counsel to the deans, contributed to projects and additions to the school such as the Marvin Duchow Music Library, and has spearheaded initiatives like the New Instruments Fund to ensure students have the instruments they need. This honorary doctorate recognizes Ivory’s impressive aid toward the Schulich School of Music and its betterment for future generations. www.mcgill.ca/music
Curtis Institute of Music
CURTIS ALUMNA JENNIFER STUMM Photo : Angela Murray
Curtis alumna Jennifer Stumm was recently awarded the 2024 Pablo Casals Award—For a Better World for her work with Ilumina, the São Paulo-based artist collective and social equity initiative she founded in 2015. Ilumina helps young artists from marginalized communities to access and finance top-level music education, develop professional opportunities, and build entrepreneurial skills and projects. The violist has won €10,000 for her work to achieve a more unified and accepting world through her artist collective. Stumm is currently a professor of viola at the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna and gives master classes around the world. www.curtis.edu
DePauw University
DePauw University (Creative School Launch) Photo : DePauw University
This fall, DePauw University launched the Creative School, an initiative that seeks to centre collaboration and multidisciplinary exploration. This initiative combines various artistic disciplines, including art history, design studies, English writing, film and media arts, music, studio art and theatre. The goal of the Creative School is to encourage students to develop a range of creative skills, training them to be adaptable, open to collaboration, and versed in multiple disciplines. The founders of the Creative School emphasize that the school does not just teach students about specific subjects but also educates them on how to think and see the world in new ways, giving them creative skills that they can apply to their lives and careers moving forward. www.depauw.edu
University of British Columbia School of Music
PRIZE-WINNER HAMILTON LAU Photo : UBC
Master of Music student Hamilton Lau won first prize at UBC’s Robert and Ellen Silverman Piano Concerto Competition Gala Performance with his performance of Beethoven’s Concerto No.5 in E-flat major, Op.73. Lau also won first prize and the Adjudicator’s Special Prize at the BCRMTA Provincial Competition in Abbotsford, B.C., shortly before this competition. The competition was established to bring together School of Music students and give them an opportunity to perform with the UBC Chamber Orchestra in a high-profile public concert. www.music.ubc.ca
The Juilliard School
Juilliard Convocation 2024 Photo : Erin Baiano
The Arnhold Foundation has gifted The Juilliard School $20 million. A $5 million endowment was made to Juilliard Jazz for scholarships and to support the department’s ongoing performance activity, renowned faculty, and robust curricular offerings. This gift is the largest ever received by Juilliard for the jazz program, and it celebrates the leadership of the program’s director, Wynton Marsalis. The remaining $15 million was given to Juilliard’s Creative Enterprise programming. The Arnholds’ contributions over the years have supported activities for Juilliard students, faculty, and an expanding roster of resident artists, renaming the Creative Associates to Arnhold Creative Associates. www.juilliard.edu
DePaul University School of Music
University of Waterloo
Prize-Winner Ellen Siebel-Achenbach
University of Waterloo alumna Ellen Marguerite Siebel-Achenbach received The Sandra Burt Prize in Gender and Social Justice for her project on “Sisters of Wisdom: Female Hymnists of the Middle Ages” this fall. Siebel-Achenbach completed this project for her Women and Music course, producing several hand-drawn exhibition rooms that highlighted the original context—key architectural and devotional features—in which the hymns of four female hymnists (Kassia, Heloise of Paris, Hildegard von Bingen, and Elisabeth Cruciger) would be performed. Siebel-Achenbach’s exhibition highlights the interconnected nature of sound and architecture in the medieval and Renaissance periods, which she hopes to see reactivated in modern restoration projects. www.uwaterloo.ca
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