Huge congratulations to our faculty and alumni! 🎉 Two ensembles with deep UBC ties—Standing Wave and Trio Garibaldi—have been nominated for Classical Artist or Ensemble of the Year at the 2026 BreakOut West Awards! 🎻🎹 🏆 Read more: music.ubc.ca/news/ubc-sch... 📷: BreakOutWest

New biography alert 📖 "Marvellous!": The Life and Music of Elliot Weisgarber is out now. Written by his daughter and UBC Music alumna ('77) Karen Suzanne Smithson, it's two decades of research distilled into one remarkable story. #CanadianMusic #UBCMusic #ElliotWeisgarber

Prof. David Metzer has published Prison Song: Music and Incarceration in the United States. Check out the announcement below 👇 music.ubc.ca/news/prof-david-metzer-authors-new-book-on-musicians-confronting-the-us-prison-system/ #UBCMusic #Musicology #PrisonSong

UBC Music alum alert! 🎶 2007 BMus grad Cris Derksen is set to debut a major new commission with the @tso.ca on April 30 & May 1, as part of the Art of Healing program. Check out the world première details: tinyurl.com/5mvdmyys #UBC #ClassicalMusic #Cello #MentalHealth #IndigenousArt

Dr. Taylor Brook is joining the School of Music as Asst. Professor of Composition. His research into video game music, AI improvisation, and microtonal systems is a massive addition to our community. Welcome to the School, Dr. Brook! 🎼🤖 #NewFaculty #MusicTechnology #AI #UBCMusic

Join us for UBC Giving Day tomorrow, April 8! Invest in the next generation of students at #UBC by removing financial barriers and putting the tools, training and cross-disciplinary collaboration in students’ hands.⁠ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

Watch #UBC Bands season finale live! Starts in 4 min ⏰ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

#UBC Adjunct Professor Vern Griffiths and fellow musicians perform Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians at Music on Main. www.createastir.ca/articles/ver...

This Friday! #UBC School of Music piano students perform virtuosic music by Beethoven & Mozart to compete for a spot in the finals with the ⁠UBC Chamber Orchestra. FREE 💫⁠ 📅 Mar 20 | 6pm⁠-9:30pm⁠ 📍 Barnett Hall, UBC Music Building⁠ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

Next week! An evening of Mozart & Beethoven with the #UBC Symphony Orchestra⁠ at Fri, Mar 6 at 7:30pm⁠ at Chan Centre for the Performing Arts ✨️⁠ ⁠ #UBC Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s Overture from The Magic Flute and Beethoven’s Leonore Overture & Eroica. ⁠🎟️ music.ubc.ca/news-events/

✨️⁠ Enjoy this preview of #UBC University Singers performing “The Prow” by Matthew Lyon Hazzard. Don't miss this live, alongside music by Andrew Balfour, Sydney Guillaume, Hussein Janmohamed, and more on Friday, Feb 6 at the Chan Centre! music.ubc.ca/events youtu.be/UQOY504c3sE

This Wednesday ✨ Countertenor Daniel Moody with #UBC School of Music Faculty & Student Chamber Ensemble perform the music of UBC Alum Alfredo Santa Ana.⁠ 📅 Jan 28, 2026 at noon 📍 Barnett Hall, UBC Music Building⁠ 🎟️ Tickets available below or at door. music.ubc.ca/events/event...

This Wednesday: Jeung Beum Sohn, piano✨️⁠ An unforgettable exploration of passion, color, and expressive power.⁠ Music by Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven and more! ⁠ 📅 Jan 21, 2026 | 12PM-1PM⁠ 📍 Barnett Hall, UBC Music Building⁠ 🎟️ Tickets at⁠ music.ubc.ca/events www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1gr...

Tomorrow at noon. Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks performs music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, more. Wednesday Noon Hours: Inna Faliks, piano 📅 Nov 26 at 12pm 📍 Barnett Hall, #UBC Music Building 🎟️ Tickets at the door (card only) or music.ubc.ca/events #UBCMusic youtu.be/saU7w_80ccY?...

@createastir.ca #UBC Opera's presentation of Mozart's The Magic Flute starts next week! 💫 Tickets at www.ubcoperatickets.com www.createastir.ca/articles/ubc...

This Wednesday! UBC Bands honours #UBC Climate Emergency Week with a powerful program exploring themes of nature, resilience, and environmental urgency through bold, contemporary wind band repertoire. 🍃🎶 ➡️ Wed, Nov 21 7:30pm 📍Chan Centre 🎟️ music.ubc.ca/events ($10 UBC Students & Under 30yrs)

Didn't get tickets? Join us 7:30pm tonight! We're livestreaming #UBC Symphony Orchestra: von Weber, Rimsky-Korsakov & Brahms live from the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts! music.ubc.ca/events/event...

This Saturday (Nov 8)! #UBC Symphony Orchestra⁠ at 7:30pm⁠ at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts ✨️⁠ ⁠ Music by Carl Maria von Weber, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major conducted by Jonathan Girard. Tickets at music.ubc.ca/news-events/ ⁠

This Wednesday - noon at #UBC Barnett Hall! Eckhardt-Gramatté National Competition 2025 Winner’s Tour: Linda Ruan, piano✨ Music by Rita Ueda, Elisenda Fabregas, Alice Ping Yee Ho, Ann Southam, György Ligeti, and Vincent Ho. Tickets and details ⬇️ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

UBC Contemporary Players + Monsters & other(ed) bodies 📍Hatch Art Gallery, AMS Nest 2nd Floor 📅Oct 24, 2 – 3pm, Free #UBC Music student composers Kelk Jeffrey & Rebecca Adams present musical responses to artworks in the exhibit Monsters & other(ed) bodies. Directed by Professor Paolo Bortolussi.

Wednesday at noon! Looking Glass Ensemble ✨ Take a break in Barnett Hall at #UBC with a refreshing presentation of Beethoven, Arvo Pärt & Vivian Fung. 🎟️ music.ubc.ca/events Below of the Looking Glass Ensemble performing Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel. #WednesdayNoonHours youtu.be/F4_FuvjbCgo

We're live! Watch the #UBC Bands kick off their season with a special performance by Elder of Squamish Nation Mr. Bob Baker of The Gathering of Eagles, music by Frank Ticheli, Eric Whitacre, Cait Nishimura, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Julie Giroux, and more!⁠ Head to music.ubc.ca/events to watch now.

Concert night x2. We are back at the Chan Centre and livestreaming tonight's UBC Bands concert. Starts in 1 hour at 7:30pm! Head to music.ubc.ca/events to watch live 👀

Didn't get tickets to tonight's UBC Choirs concert at the Chan Centre? We're livestreaming in 1 hour! Head to music.ubc.ca/events to watch live 👀

UBC Choirs kick off their season tomorrow night (Oct 15) with music by Felix Mendelssohn and a Special Grand Finale with Choral Union, University Singers and 5 local high-school guest choirs ✨ Tickets going fast 🔥 🎟️ Tickets and full program below ⬇️ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

Today at noon in Barnett Hall✨ Pianist Wayne Weng and Elder of the Squamish Nation Bob Baker, a performance of The Gathering of Eagles (Eskekxw ta S’pakwus) by Bob Baker, Snowbird – A Protocol Song by Emily Douglas, and music by Schubert, Schumann, more. Tickets at the door or music.ubc.ca/events

#UBC Assistant Professor, Voice and Opera Krisztina Szabó will be on CBC's This is my Music (radio and streaming). Tune in this Saturday, Oct 11, 10am - 12pm PST ✨ www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

UBC Opera celebrates the Old Auditorium’s first 100 years on October 14! 🎟️ music.ubc.ca/events The 'Old Aud' has played host to notable names including Eleanor Roosevelt and Dylan Thomas. Thank you for this lovely article @createastir.ca! www.createastir.ca/articles/ubc...

"There is something profoundly peaceful in being able to escape the outside noise and listen to beautiful, evocative music for an hour." ~ Zoé Stojanovic, @ubyssey.ca Thank you to Zoé Stojanovic and Zoe Wagner for the lovely article! Listings at music.ubc.ca/events ✨ ubyssey.ca/culture/wedn...

Next Wednesday! Bob Baker, voice and UBC Professor Wayne Weng, piano ✨️⁠ ⁠ Program juxtaposing Indigenous music with solo piano works from the Western canon and includes music by Bob Baker, Emily Douglas, Schubert, Schumann, and more. Tickets & details music.ubc.ca/events

Learn how the #UBC Old Auditorium spared the wrecking ball, and how the home of UBC Opera is saluting a century of culture and connection. Join us on October 14 & 15 for 2 special events! www.ubcoperatickets.com Thank you for chatting with us UBC Magazine! magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/arts-ca...

Tomorrow at noon! A Luminous Brocade with Angelique Po (BMus '14), pipe organ & Joël Tibbits, composer Don't miss this rare chance to hear our Casavant Frères Opus 3055 Pipe Organ (with over 3000 pipes!). Tickets & details: music.ubc.ca/events or at the door.

We're live! Watch the #UBC Symphony Orchestra kick off their season. Music by the late Maestro Bramwell Tovey, Pixinguinha (Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho), Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major. ⁠ music.ubc.ca/events/event/ubc-symphony-orchestra-oct3/

Today at noon! Pianist Helena Aung performs Thai literary masterpieces, mythical mermaids, enchanted forests, and sweeping romances—told in music that shimmers with both tradition and contemporary flair. ✨ Noon, Barnett Hall | UBC Music Building Tickets & program ⬇️⬇️⬇️ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

Today at noon! Wednesday Noon Hours: Nathan Chan, cello & David Fung, piano ✨️ ⁠ Cellist Nathan Chan and pianist David Fung perform a charming selection music including the Bach’s Prelude from Cello Suite No. 3, Sollima’s Alone, and Debussy’s Cello Sonata.⁠ music.ubc.ca/events/event...

This Wednesday (Sep 17) at Barnett Hall!⁠ ✨️⁠ ⁠ #UBC alumnus and Lecturer in piano, Lucas Wong shares his “brilliant and sensitive” playing (Fanfare) with a program of Wilhelm Taubert’s Sonatas No. 1 in A major and No. 2 in C minor.⁠ Tickets on sale now! music.ubc.ca/events/event...

#UBC Symphony Orchestra conductor Jonathan Girard makes his debut in Brazil with the Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre! Featuring music by Haydn—performed by brilliant trumpeter Katherine Evans—and UBC Professor Emeritus Steven Chatman, Mendelssohn, Bizet. www.youtube.com/live/XsG7gng...

#UBC Associate Professor & acclaimed pianist David Fung joins the Vancouver Metropolitan Orchestra to kick off their 23rd season on September 6! Fung will perform Beethoven’s Triple Concerto alongside violinist Christel Lee and cellist Jonathan Roozeman. pancouver.ca/vancouver-me...

How do you talk about music that isn’t heard, but felt?⁠ ⁠ #UBC Assistant Professor @amaler.bsky.social speaks to Lydia Bangura about how her work on Deaf music-making and Dip Hop is reshaping how we think about music, sound, and accessibility.⁠ podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

Is Recession Pop making a comeback? #UBC Musicology Professor David Metzer talks to CBC (1:42) about how music from past recessions are gaining popularity on streaming platforms. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

TONIGHT! Silk Strings presented by Early Music Vancouver. Director, UBC Early Music Ensembles Christina Hutten brings Baroque music into conversation with Chinese traditions, exploring the imagined sound world of 18th-century missionary-composer Teodorico Pedrini. www.createastir.ca/articles/chr...

A huge congratulations to #UBC Music student and saxophonist, Sunny Wu (BMus'27) for being named one of CBC Music’s Classical '30 Under 30' 🎊 Sunny is studying with Dr. Julia Nolan at UBC.⁠ ⁠ Congratulations Sunny 🎷✨️⁠ Read more at cbc.ca/30under30⁠

"I feel incredibly fortunate to have turned my passion into a career," director of #UBC Concert Winds ensemble, Dr. Meijun Chen named one of CBC Music’s Classical “30 Under 30” 🎉 cbc.ca/30under30 #CBC30under30 #UBC #UBCMusic #MusicEducation

(Paywalled) “I asked the CBC if O Canada was too nerdy a choice." Alexander Weimann, sessional lecturer at @ubcmusic.bsky.social discusses creating a piano-based tour of Western music using one song played in the style of nine different composers with @theglobeandmail.com

UBC Alumnus Jaelem Bhate (BMus’17, MMus’19) receives Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting. While at UBC, Jaelem studied with Dr. Jonathan Girard. Congratulations Jaelem 🎉 #UBC #UBCMusic #MusicEducation canadacouncil.ca/funding/priz...

UBC Assistant Professor and mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó shares how mindfullness has enriched her musical and personal growth on "When Music Meets Mindfulness," a collaboration with Vania Chan and The Whole Note Magazine. #UBC #UBCMusic #MusicEducation youtu.be/C-C9qvcjR7I?...

Delighted to see books by #UBC Music Faculty Dr. Anabel Maler and Dr. Claudio Vellutini, and a recording by UBC Chair of the Keyboard Division Mark Anderson on the list! Read more about their publications below. www.arts.ubc.ca/news/new-boo...

The Vancouver Brass Collective is made up of brass and percussion professionals with a shared vision grounded in entrepreneurship and community. ✨  We caught up with UBC alum Dasa Silhova and Jaelem Bhate to explore their vision and new album Acoustic Alloy. music.ubc.ca/news/high-no...

Work with us! Sessional opportunities for the #UBC School of Music 2025W Terms 1 & 2 are now open. ➡️ List of positions and how to apply at music.ubc.ca/job.../2025w... 📅 Deadline Monday, June 30, 2025.⁠ #UBCMusic #MusicEducation

Pulitzer Prize-winning, Diné composer Raven Chacon reflected on the enforced concession of identity that is often intertwined with Indigenous experiences during his Phil Lind Initiative talk, presented with UBC School of Music. See full video here: https://f.mtr.cool/jfbdtntcpg