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The newsletter of The School of Music
at The University of British Columbia
Winter
02 / 03
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UBC HIGH
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The newsletter of The School of Music
at The University of British Columbia
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
A warm and cordial welcome to
the fourth issue of High Notes,
the UBC School of Music’s
newsletter. I am happy to be
back after a year of study leave,
and return to find myself astonished
and gratified by the volume and quality
of work taking place at the School. As
usual, there is so much activity here at
the School of Music that it would be
impossible to describe it all, but inside
you’ll find a selection that reflects the
richness of activities and the joy of
music that the School represents.
The excellence of UBC’s students,
composers, theorists, field researchers,
and musicologists is reflected in an
expanded awards section of High Notes.
We also take pride in appreciating the
individuals and corporations whose
generosity has helped the School to
become one of the outstanding locations
for music study in North America. A
full list of these supporters is published
here, as well as information on how you
can join the ranks of friends of the UBC
School of Music.
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1 OPERA SPOTLIGHT
2 PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES
3 IN MEMORIAM
4 PERFORMANCES
6 COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
8 AWARDS, JURIES & APPOINTMENTS
9 CONFERENCES
10 RECORDINGS
11 COMPOSITIONS & COMPOSERS
12 MUSIC MISCELLANY
13 DONORS
We’ve made many friends in the community
as well. These links afford our
faculty and students performance
opportunities before wider audiences,
and allow an ever-larger segment of the
community to share in our growth and,
ultimately, the fruits of our labour:
concerts, symposia, books, recordings,
papers and lectures. These links are also
valuable to our young musicians in
developing their careers. You will discover
more in this issue as we update you on
the Borealis String Quartet and some of
our new off-campus partnerships.
I hope you enjoy High Notes. For
current information on upcoming concerts
or general information about the School
of Music, please visit our website at
www.music.ubc.ca. Don’t hesitate to write
to us with any questions or comments
about the material in our newsletter or
about the School in general.
Jesse Read,
Director
PHOTO: BRIAN HAWKES

PHOTOS: PETR BEROUNSKY
OPERA SPOTLIGHT UBC MUSIC
Opera Ensemble
The UBC Opera Ensemble under the
direction of Nancy Hermiston has
returned from another successful summer
in the Czech Republic. The Ensemble
worked with the opera house in Usti nad
Labem where they performed in a new
production of Massenet’s Manon in French
and a revival of Janacek’s The Cunning
Little Vixen in Czech. The young
Canadian cast was filmed in their
premiere performance of Manon for a
television program that aired nationally
in the Czech Republic this fall. The
students also performed a concert with
the Teplice Philharmonic, which met
with an enthusiastic response from the
large audience. To end the tour the
Ensemble traveled to Nürnberg where
they performed an evening Gala for the
Musikalischer Damen Club Nürnberg,
accompanied by Head Coach and Music
Director, Richard Epp. The thrilled
audience gave the performers a standing
ovation — a wonderful ending to a month
of intense learning and performing!
This season, Opera Teas will be
presented at UBC Robson Square. Two
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Alex Good (LEFT) and
Stephen Bell
UBC Opera Ensemble
members Rhoslyn Jones
and Justin Welch
fall concert performances of L’Italiana
in Algeri at the Chan Centre raised
$4,186.10 for the David Spencer
Encouragement Fund. December sees
a revival of their 2001 production
of Lehar’s The Merry Widow conducted
by Richard Epp. A new production of
Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, sung in
Czech, will be featured in the spring.
Conductor Norbert Baxa, General Music
Director of the Opera House in Usti nad
Labem, and Stage Director Josef Novak,
also from Usti nad Labem, will lead
the Ensemble in this production. The
Ensemble has worked with these professionals
for the past four years in Usti, and
now Vancouver audiences will be able to
see the fine performances this team and
the Ensemble are able to produce.
The Merry Widow runs December 12 –15,
2002 at the Chan Centre. The Bartered
Bride runs March 6 – 9, 2003 at the
Chan Centre.

PUBLICATIONS & LECTURES
WILLIAM BENJAMIN
Some New Ideas about Phrase-level
Analysis in Tonal Music, invited lecture,
Distinguished Lecturer Series, Santa Barbara,
CA, February 15, 2002.
Some Refinements of the Concepts of
Segmentation in Tonal Music, with
Applications to Late Schumann, delivered
at the West Coast Conference for Music
Theory and Analysis, Annual Meeting,
University of Victoria, April 27, 2002.
GREGORY BUTLER
The Origins of Bach’s Concertos: New
Approaches, delivered at the Pitt Musicology
Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh,
April 12, 2002.
Der ästetische und pädagogische Kontext
J.S. Bachs Italienischen Konzerts. Bachs
Musik für Tasteninstrumente, Dritte
Dortmünder delivered at the Bach-Symposium,
Dortmund, Germany February 1, 2002.
ALEXANDER FISHER
Song, Confession, and Criminality: Trial
Records as Sources for Popular Musical
Culture in Early Modern
Europe, published in the
Journal of Musicology,
fall 2001.
“Gottes Wort” or “Hall und
Schall”: Nationalist Historiography and
Catholic Music in Post-Reformation
Germany, presented at the annual meeting
of the American Musicological Society in
Columbus, Ohio, on November 3, 2002.
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DAVID METZER
Book in progress entitled Music within Music:
Quotation and Cultural Meaning in the
Twentieth Century: Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press
VERA MICZNIK
Vera Micznik will be working full
time during her study leave (Paris
July 2002 – June 2003) on a new book,
Music With/Out Words: A Foray into
Musical Discourse, about the mutual interrelationships
between music and words as
manifested in various aspects of musical discourse.
JOHN ROEDER
Overload: Competing Practical & Academic
Demands in Music at UBC, presented at
Round Table, “Balancing Professional Training
and the Liberal Arts in Canadian Music
Programs”, at the Canadian University Music
Society meeting in Toronto, May, 2002.
Second Thoughts: Repetition, Protention,
and Form in Faure’s Prelude Op. 103,
No. 9, presented at the 2002 Annual
Meeting of the Society for Music Theory,
November 3, 2002, Columbus, Ohio.
MICHAEL TENZER
Further Approaches to Musical Periodicity,
delivered to the Distinguished Lecture Series,
College Park, Maryland, March 15, 2002
and the New England Gamelan
Conference, Wesleyan
University, April 19, 2002.

IN MEMORIAM UBC MUSIC
Professor emeritus
Cortland Hultberg
Faculty, students, alumni and music
lovers will miss three illustrious associates
of the School of Music who passed
away last season: professors emeriti
Cortland Hultberg and Elliot Weisgarber
and promising alumnus Wallace Leung.
All three enriched the School of Music
during their time here and leave legacies
of musical and pedagogical achievement.
Weisgarber (Dec. 5, 1919–Dec. 31, 2001)
and Hultberg (Sept. 5, 1931–Jan. 3, 2002)
joined the School in 1959, just as UBC
began granting degrees in music. Leung
(Dec. 8, 1968–Jan. 18, 2002) graduated
with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1992.
Weisgarber was a clarinettist, composer
and ethnomusicologist. His study of
Japanese music, the shakuhachi bamboo
flute in particular, led UBC to offer
courses in ethnomusicology, a discipline
in which the School is now recognized
internationally. He was a friend and
mentor to many young composers and
musicians, including Wes Foster, VSO
principal clarinet and composers
Michael Conway Baker, Neil Currie
and Frederick Schipizky.
Hultberg taught theory and composition,
established the Electronic Music
Studio in 1965 and managed the recording
facilities for many years. He founded
the UBC Chamber Singers, directed the
internationally award-winning Phoenix
Chamber Choir, and was a beloved figure
at the School of Music. Hundreds of his
former students now teach in classrooms
and sing in choirs. Some, such as Barry
Truax, Alexina Louie, Lloyd Burritt, and
Robert Pritchard are prominent composers.
Others, like Morna Edmundson
and Ramona Luengen, lead choirs of
their own.
Leung founded, with other UBC
graduates, The Little Chamber Music
Series that Could, which has premiered
the works of many UBC alumni. He also
founded the Helikon Ensemble, and was
Music Director of the Delta Youth
Orchestra, Fraser Valley Symphony,
Gateway Theatre and Vancouver
Philharmonic Orchestra. He was Music
Director of the Prince George Symphony
at the time of his death in New York.
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PERFORMANCES UBC MUSIC
Performance is one of the central activities
of any music school. Access to artists of
national and international reputation, and
generous performance opportunities set
the School of Music apart from many
other musical training programs.
As part of a commitment to student
performance opportunities, the School
of Music presents more than 200 concerts
per season.
Regularly scheduled events include
the Wednesday Noon Hour concerts
series, the Pacific Spirit Concerts series
and Friday Noon Hour @ Main (Library),
and regularly scheduled performances
by the School’s many ensembles.
Phoenix Chamber Choir
A Tribute to Cortland Hultberg
Pacific Spirit Concerts
November 7, Recital Hall
The Phoenix Chamber Choir, led by
Ramona Luengen, a former student of
Hultberg (see page 3 for more information)
paid tribute to this beloved professor
emeritus of the School. This concert was
recorded by CBC Radio Two.
Brahms
November 30, The Chan Centre
This all Brahms programme features
A German Requiem performed by student
soloists, Krzysztof Biernacki, baritone,
and Jennifer Farrell, soprano, with the
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University Singers, UBC Choral Union
and UBC Symphony Orchestra directed
by guest conductor Leo Krämer. The
other works performed will be the
Academic Festival Overture and Song of
Destiny. To conduct, we bring German
maestro, Leo Krämer, Music Director of
the Cathedral of Speyer, a major musical
centre in Germany.
The Merry Widow
December 12 – 15, The Chan Centre
The UBC Opera Ensemble and the
Vancouver Philharmonic Orchestra
present Lehar’s comedic classic,
conducted by Richard Epp and directed
by Nancy Hermiston.
Robert Silverman
January 19, The Chan Centre
March 16, The Chan Centre
May 11, The Chan Centre
Eminent pianist Robert Silverman will
play the works of Beethoven, Schumann
and Liszt in January, the works of Bach,
Copland, Liszt and Beethoven in March,
and the works of Schubert, Brahms and
Scriabin in May. These concerts mark
Silverman’s final performances as a full-

PERFORMANCES
Robert Silverman
time UBC faculty member. Silverman
will miss teaching at the School, in fact,
“I’m crazy about it,” he says. “I have a
great class, with lots of talented, interesting
students, and I expect to continue
teaching a small number of them.
However, it’s really time for me to move
on. My performing schedule is expanding.
I’m doing another round of Beethoven
sonata cycles next season, including one
in Washington, D.C., and I have several
recording projects to complete. I'm feeling
young and energetic and I'm looking
forward to entering the next
phase of my life.”
Presented by the Chan Centre
for the Performing Arts.
James Tocco
January 29, Recital Hall
Italian-American virtuoso pianist James
Tocco is widely regarded as the foremost
interpreter of American masterworks,
including Bernstein’s Age of Anxiety and
Corigliano’s Piano Concerto. Corigliano
has acknowledged Tocco as the definitive
interpreter of this work. As a
recitalist Tocco has been widely praised
for his interpretations of Beethoven,
Chopin and Liszt and is among the few
pianists to regularly program the keyboard
works of Handel. He is Eminent
Scholar/Artist-in-Residence at the
University of Cincinnati College-
Conservatory of Music and Professor
of Piano at the Musikhochschule in
Lubeck, Germany. Mr. Tocco will also
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give two masterclasses open to the
public on January 30 and February 1.
Sponsored by the Dal Grauer
Memorial Lectures.
Alexander Korsantia
February 9, Chan Centre
The School has joined forces with the
VRS to present Alexander Korsantia,
UBC faculty member and exciting pianist.
The winner of First Prize at the Palm
Beach International Invitational Piano
Competition and, in 1995, the First Prize
at the Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master
Competition, he made his Carnegie Hall
debut in 2001. His dynamite program
includes Stravinsky’s The Firebird,
Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat major, D.960,
and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
A co-presentation of the UBC School of
Music & Vancouver Recital Society.
The Bartered Bride
March 6 – 9, The Chan Centre
UBC Opera Ensemble and the UBC
Symphony Orchestra under Norbert
Baxa present Smetana’s opera in Czech,
directed by Josef Novak.
Alexander Korsantia
PHOTO: BRIAN HAWKES

PERFORMANCES UBC MUSIC
BOREALIS STRING QUARTET
UPDATE
The School of Music’s string quartet-inresidence
has generated lots of excitement
since they formed in 2000. It’s now an
official “not for profit” society, with a
board of directors and the ability to
accept donations and offer tax receipts.
The quartet played a series of concerts
as part of the Vancouver Chamber Music
Festival, produced by the Vancouver
Recital Society, and has been invited
back for the next three years. As well,
the quartet has scheduled concerts at
UBC’s Recital Hall this season, which
include: September 25, October 24 (with
In addition to the concerts outlined on
previous pages, the School takes pride in
working with professional music organizations
throughout the community to
present and produce some of the finest
international talent available. Our partnerships
encompass many musical styles,
but all provide the opportunity for
School of Music students and faculty,
as well as the general public, to hear
wonderful music and to participate in
higher profile public events. Some of our
community partners include:
The Vancouver Recital Society
Please see above for information on our
co-presentation of School of Music faculty
member Alexander Korsantia.
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Borealis String Quartet
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
David Harding, viola) and February 15
(with James Campbell, clarinet). The
Borealis String Quartet is Patricia Shih and
Yuel Yawney (violins), Nikita Pogrebnoy
(viola), and Joel Stobbe (cello).
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Many School of Music instructors are
VSO regulars and guest artists. As well,
the Jean Coulthard Readings, named in
honour of one of BC’s most celebrated
composers, give emerging young composers
an opportunity to have their
compositions read by the Vancouver
Symphony, conducted by Bramwell Tovey.
These young composers submit their
work to a jury at the Symphony that
selects six compositions to be read by
the Orchestra. At last year’s Readings,
Christopher Nickel (B.Mus. 2001),
Derek Olive (M.Mus.), Lisa Miller
(current DMA student), Jason Nett
(former student), Anna Hostman (former
student) and Chris Ludwig (M.Mus. 2002)

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
each had compositions performed in May.
Nett and Miller were also successful
applicants the previous October.
Vancouver Opera Association
In addition to co-producing the Ben Heppner
Gala in 2000, proceeds of which helped
establish a fund for UBC students on
their way to a professional singing career,
Opera Division Head Nancy Hermiston
regularly performs in and directs productions
for the company. Associate Professor
Gary Relyea is often featured in Vancouver
Opera productions. Students have also
sung in the chorus, most recently for the
October production of Aïda. As well, Jesse
Read recently served on the committee
to select a new Principal Conductor.
Vancouver New Music
Vancouver New Music’s Artistic Director
Giorgio Magnanensi teaches composition
and improvisation at the School, and
VNM co-produced the October concert
by the Verdehr Trio. An acknowledged
leader in the field of new music, the
Verdehr Trio has created a large repertoire
by commissioning more than 140 new
works from some of the world’s most
prominent and exciting composers,
including UBC’s Stephen Chatman,
whose work, along with that of Sculthorpe
and Sheng, was featured at this concert.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura Vancouver
The cultural arm of the Italian government
regularly helps co-produce concerts
like October’s appearance by pianist
Antoni Sardi de Letto and the UBC Opera
Ensemble’s production of L’Italiana in Algeri.
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Early Music Vancouver and Pacific
Baroque Orchestra
Each year, Early Music Vancouver holds
concerts and the Early Music Festival
on campus at UBC. As well as playing
in concerts with Early Music Vancouver,
violin sessional Marc Destrubé leads the
Pacific Baroque Orchestra, “ensemble
in residence” at the School of Music.
The International Community
The UBC School of Music welcomes
many international students and faculty
members, but is particularly proud of
the international component of the UBC
Summer Music Institute, coordinated by
Martin Berinbaum. Under the leadership
of Mr. Ringo Chan from Hong Kong, 76
students took part, ranging in age from
10 to 17, from 18 different private
schools in Hong Kong. One of the highlights
of their time at UBC was an
opportunity for a string quartet from
Hong Kong to work with Joel Stobbe
(cellist of the Borealis String Quartet).
The students played in the various
groups and had two hours each day of
intensive English training. In all, 250
students attended the Summer Music
Institute in 2002. In 2003, the goal is to
bring about 125 students from a larger
cross section of Hong Kong schools and
expand the camp to three weeks.
UBC Jazz Ensemble
PHOTO: BRIAN HAWKES

AWARDS, JURIES & APPOINTMENTS
AWARDS
Andrew Dawes won the 2001 Dorothy
Somerset Award for Excellence In
Performance and Development in the
Visual and Performing Arts. These awards
were inaugurated in 1999 to recognize
outstanding faculty.
Tenor Philippe Castagner won the top
prize at the Metropolitan Opera National
Council Auditions in New York in April.
Lambroula Pappas, another UBC grad,
reached the regional finals.
Cherry Li, piano, Lucas Wong, piano
and Bruce Henczel, marimba were the
winners of the 2002 UBC Concerto
Competition.
The Governor General’s Gold Medal,
given to the head of a graduating class in
the faculty of Graduate Studies doctoral
program was awarded in May to DMA
graduate Janina Kuzmas, for piano
performance.
Students Justin Welsh (vocal performance)
and Christopher Nickel (musical
composition) won $1,000 scholarships
from the Golden Key International
Honour Society, an honour organization
that recognizes the top 15% of students
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Laurel Parsons (FAR LEFT)
with UBC President
Martha Piper;
Andrew Dawes, RIGHT
and also has chapters in the US,
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
and England.
Laurel Parsons, a Ph.D. student in
Music Theory, won a UBC Graduate
Teaching Award, one of only three
granted annually in the Faculty of Arts.
Student Catherine Lan won 2nd prize
at the Shean Piano Competition for
young musicians held in Edmonton.
Sessional instructor Christopher
Millard won a West Coast Music Award
for his performance as a soloist with the
CBC Radio Orchestra on their recording:
Concerti Italiani.
JURIES
Kum Sing Lee sits on the juries of the 3rd
China International Piano Competition
and the Queen Elizabeth International
Music Competition in Brussels in the
spring of 2003.
Eugene Skovorodnikov sat on the
jury of the 13th International Piano
Competition “Roma 2002” for Young
Pianists in Rome this October.

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Sal Ferreras was a juror for CBC TV’s
Spotlight Series National Talent Competition
and was recently appointed to the
BC Arts Council. He also acted as a
consultant to the Canada Council for
the Arts from July – September.
Terence Dawson is chair of the Music
Division of the Vancouver Foundation
Awards Committee.
APPOINTMENTS
Keith Hamel of the composition faculty
was recently appointed to the executive
board of the International Society for
Contemporary Music and is the first
CONFERENCES
This year, the UBC School of Music played
host to the Pacific Northwest Music
Graduate Students’ Conference in October.
All sessions were held at Gessler Hall
over two days, and Dr. Richard Kurth
gave the keynote address, entitled
“Forbidden Images”, an examination of
the theological problem of representing
the divine and its relation to the music
of Arnold Schoenberg.
As well, in September music students
were enthusiastic participants in the
first Multidisciplinary Undergraduate
Research Conference held at UBC. This
conference demonstrated how researchbased
learning could be integrated into the
undergraduate curriculum, a key strategy
in the University’s vision statement.
Music students talked about the research
North American to be so honoured.
The ISCM has been in existence for
80 years and includes more than 40
national sections.
Alexander Fisher was appointed to
the UBC faculty in 2002 as Assistant
Professor of Renaissance and Baroque
Studies. He is the director of Collegium
Musicum, specializing in vocal and
instrumental ensemble repertoire drawn
primarily from the Middle Ages, Renaissance
and the Baroque. He has presented
and published many works in his main
fields of study.
they undertook to portray characters in
Massenet’s Manon and presented song
excerpts from that opera.
Finally, UBC School of Music is proud
to host the western Canadian regional
conference of the North American
Saxophone Alliance from Feb 6 – 9, 2003.
Guest artists Claude Delangle (Paris) and
Jack Stafford (Vancouver) will perform
and present masterclasses. Over 100
saxophone enthusiasts, professionals and
students from across western Canada
will be involved in this event. Band
concerts, solo, and chamber music will
be performed and new music for saxophone
will be presented as part of this
conference. For more information
please contact: Julia Nolan via email
at nasa9@telus.net.
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RECORDINGS UBC MUSIC
A selection of new and upcoming compact discs
from the UBC School of Music Faculty.
SOMERS STRINGS
HARRY SOMERS
Centredisc
Featuring Andrew Dawes,
violin & Kenneth Broadway,
piano.
THE ADASKIN
COLLECTION VOL. 2
Independent
Featuring violin solo by
Andrew Dawes.
BACH CIRCLE
The Burney Ensemble
Independent
Featuring baroque flute
by Sonja Boon.
IN THE TWILIGHT
Boston Records
Romantic music for soprano,
horn and piano with pianist
Rena Sharon.
HAYDN CONCERTOS
Pacific Baroque Orchestra
ATMA Classique
Haydn’s violin concertos
with cadenzas by PBO leader/
conductor Marc Destrubé.
ALIGHT
SAFA
Songlines
Three-piece ensemble with
percussion by Sal Ferreras.
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THERE IS A SWEET
MUSIC
Chanson
Chanson Recordings
Male vocal ensemble performs
Stephen Chatman’s Reconciliation.
SALON PARISIEN
CBC Records
French violin and piano music
with Rena Sharon.
BRAHMS • JENNER
TRIOS
CBC Records
Quartet recording featuring
pianist Jane Coop.
BRITTEN, RAWSTHORNE,
IRELAND & FINZI
CBC Records
CBC Radio Orchestra conducted
by Mario Bernardi, with
piano soloist Jane Coop.
ELGAR: THE DREAM
OF GERONTIUS
Orpheum Masters
Recorded live at the Chan
Centre, with the UBC Choral
Union, University Singers, UBC Symphony
Orchestra conducted by Bruce Pullan,
featuring student vocal soloists Philippe
Castagner, Sandra Stringer and Justin
Welsh.

COMPOSITION AND COMPOSERS
Graduate students of composition Colin
Bradley Pridy and Geoffrey Wooden
were named winners in the 50th annual
BMI Student Composer Awards at a
reception in New York City in the
summer. The award is open to composition
students age 14 – 26 and the two
were the only students chosen from
Canadian universities.
Keith Hamel, professor and director
of the electronic music studio, had his
work Kolokolchiki for 2 pianists and 2
percussionists published by the Canadian
Music Centre in 2002. His Faded Memories,
Faded Jeans, published by EME in Paris,
was extensively revised for a performance
in Vancouver, January 26, 2002.
David Mansell composed a concerto
for string ensemble and tap dancers as
part of his graduation requirements,
which was performed at the Recital Hall
and profiled in The Vancouver Sun.
Recent DMA grad Jocelyn Morlock’s
Lacrymosa placed in the top ten at the
International Rostrum of Composers in
Paris. Her work will now be heard all
over the world.
Robert Pritchard’s Escape (My Soul):
for Bass flute and interactive computer
music system or CD was performed at
a Musik Aus Kanada concert in Zürich,
Switzerland, Feb 11, 2002 at the
Schweizerischen Zentrum für Computermusik.
The concert was broadcast by
Radiostudio DRS (Switzerland). The
same piece was presented at Dialog
Kanada — Liechtenstein in Triesenberg,
Liechtenstein, Feb 17, 2002.
The prolific Stephen Chatman was
once again extremely busy this past season.
Premieres of newly commissioned works
include Trio, commissioned for the
Verdehr Trio at Michigan State University,
Proud Music of the Storm, commissioned
by CBC and the BC Arts Council for the
Orpheum Theatre’s 75th anniversary
celebration, Per Aspera ad Astra commissioned
by CBC for their September 11th
coverage “Loss and Legacy” and broadcast
live from the Glenn Gould Studio in
Toronto. Recently published compositions
include Come Unto Me, Song and Music,
Remember, ...into a mist with bells, and
Preludes for Piano, Books I and II.
Michael Tenzer’s recently completed
Piano Trio, commissioned by the Canada
Council, will receive its premiere at the
Up to Our Ears Festival in the spring.
Sessional instructor Rodney Sharman
had a new work for pianist/singer/actor
entitled The Garden premiere at the
Western Front. DMA student Rachel
Iwaasa performed the new piece, which
featured text by Peter Eliot Weiss.
School of Music alumnae Melissa Hui
and Grace Lee have had compositions
chosen to represent Canada at the international
The World Women in Music
Today 2003 festival. Chosen works
will be presented in Seoul, South Korea
in April.
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MUSICAL MISCELLANY
Nancy Hermiston will visit Beijing in
December where she will give masterclasses
at the Central Conservatory of
Music. In February she will direct
Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the
Regina Opera. March and April sees her
in Toronto to perform her one-woman
show, Naughty Ladies of the Night.
Jane Coop, piano and Andrew Dawes,
violin were nominated for a 2002 Juno
for their recording Beethoven: Complete
Sonatas for Piano and Violin. They also
performed a multi-concert series at the
Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Chan
Centre for the Performing Arts and the
Coast Recital Society Series (Sechelt, BC).
Rena Sharon, piano professor, was
nominated for the Canadian Independent
Music Awards in the Best Classical
Album category for her CD with violinist
Scott St. John, Salon Parisien.
Terence Dawson, coordinator of the
keyboard division, was once again a faculty
member for the Keys and Strings Summer
School, a program for young pianists and
string players in Southern Alberta. He
also conducted a lecture and masterclasses
for students and teachers for the Kamloops
Interior Summer School and presented a
recital for their Summer Festival.
Alexander Korsantia performed as
piano soloist in Grieg’s Piano Concerto
with the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra
in March 2002 and gave a piano masterclass
at the University of California, Fresno.
Sessional Instructor Marc Destrubé
was recently appointed to the Axelrod
String Quartet, quartet-in-residence at
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D.C. The quartet plays instruments
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from the Smithsonian collection of rare
instruments.
The live recording of last season’s
School presentation of Elgar: Dream of
Gerontius received 4 out of 5 stars when
reviewed by Rick Phillips on Sound
Advice, CBC Radio’s weekly recording
review guide. Phillips said: “It’s hard to
believe that this recent, live, all Canadian
recording just heard was made with
students...but what comes across here is
an event. There’s a young, fresh, exciting
tension and electricity to this recording
that others lack. Bruce Pullan holds all
the forces together very well and it’s
obvious that weeks of hard rehearsal
went into this performance. The recording
is clean, clear and very full. It gets
a very strong 4 out of 5 stars.” (See
Recordings, page 10, for production details)
Ken Friedman, senior lecturer double
bass, gave masterclasses at Juilliard and
at the New England Conservatory of
Music last spring. He also serves as
principal bass with the VSO.
Senior guitar lecturer Michael Strutt
was recently appointed (2001) to the
review team overseeing the preparation
of the new Royal Conservatory (Toronto)
Guitar Series.
Denis Bédard, who teaches the organ
for the keyboard division, was recently
appointed music director and organist at
Holy Rosary Cathedral, and is featured
in a series of concerts designed to show
off their newly refurbished organ.
UBC affiliated participants in this past
summer’s Festival Vancouver include
Jane Coop, David Harding, Robert
Silverman, Colin Balzer, and Tyler Duncan.

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