UBC School of Music

10/15/2025

Next Wednesday Noon Hours: The Looking Glass Ensemble ✨️⁠
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The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. ⁠
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In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, this program pairs newly imagined interdisciplinary creations, including Arvo Pärt’s exquisite Spiegel im Spiegel, with whimsical repertoire for the clarinet, cello, and piano trio combination by Ludwig von Beethoven and Vivian Fung.⁠
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📅 Oct 22, 2025 | 12PM-1PM⁠
📍Barnett Hall, UBC Music Building⁠
🎟️ Tickets: $8 for UBC Students⁠
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Details and tickets

The Looking Glass Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performance collective founded by clarinetist Christine Carter and dance artist Shannon Litzenberger. In collaboration with Canada’s trailblazing pianist Gregory Oh and award-winning cellist Vernon Regehr, this program pairs newly imagined interdi...

10/15/2025

Take a noon hour break with us today (Oct 15) at Barnett Hall!

Wednesday Noon Hours presents UBC faculty member and pianist Dr. Wayne Weng and Bob Baker, voice—a respected Elder of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation)—for a program juxtaposing Indigenous music with solo piano works from the Western canon. ⁠
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A residential school survivor, Mr. Baker will share traditional songs, interwoven with stories about the history and culture of the Coast Salish people.⁠
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Program includes The Gathering of Eagles (Eskekxw ta S’pakwus) by Bob Baker, Snowbird – A Protocol Song by Emily Douglas, music by Schubert, Schumann, and more. ⁠

Don't miss this special event! Tickets below or at the door.

In alignment with UBC’s Truth and Reconciliation initiatives, Dr. Wayne Weng, a member of the keyboard faculty, will join Bob Baker, a respected Elder of the Squamish Nation, to present a program juxtaposing Indigenous music with solo piano works from the Western canon. A residential school surviv...

10/10/2025

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 ✨

📸 UBC Music Alum Shayne Gray (BMus/MMus)

10/10/2025

Assistant Professor, Voice and Opera Krisztina Szabó will be on CBC's This is my Music (radio and streaming), this Saturday, Oct 11, 10am - 12pm ✨

Each week, This Is My Music is hosted by one of Canada's foremost international classical artists. The host selects a program of mainly classical music and presents it in a lively, engaging manner, enriched with personal anecdotes and insights.

10/09/2025

"There is something profoundly peaceful in being able to escape the outside noise and listen to beautiful, evocative music for an hour." ~ Zoé Stojanovic, The Ubyssey

A huge thank you to Zoé Stojanovic and Zoe Wagner for this lovely review!

To close the show, Fung joined Chan on stage for the final “Cello Sonata” by Claude Debussy, accompanying him on the piano. Zoe Wagner / The Ubyssey

10/08/2025

Next Wednesday Noon Hours: Bob Baker, voice and UBC Professor Wayne Weng, piano ✨️⁠
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In alignment with UBC’s Truth and Reconciliation initiatives, Dr. Wayne Weng, a member of our keyboard faculty, will join Bob Baker, a respected Elder of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation), to present a program juxtaposing Indigenous music with solo piano works from the Western canon.

Program includes The Gathering of Eagles (Eskekxw ta S’pakwus) by Bob Baker, Snowbird – A Protocol Song by Emily Douglas and music by Schubert, Schumann, and more.

A residential school survivor, Mr. Baker will share traditional songs, interwoven with stories about the history and culture of the Coast Salish people.
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📅 Oct 15, 2025 | 12PM-1PM⁠
📍Barnett Hall, UBC Music Building⁠
🎟️ Tickets: $8 for UBC Students⁠
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Details and tickets at

In alignment with UBC’s Truth and Reconciliation initiatives, Dr. Wayne Weng, a member of the keyboard faculty, will join Bob Baker, a respected Elder of the Squamish Nation, to present a program juxtaposing Indigenous music with solo piano works from the Western canon. A residential school surviv...

10/07/2025

“It's not that I only teach the student sitting in front of me, but I'm also teaching through the music — we are educating the audience that is sitting behind me.” Dr. Meijun Chen

Thank you to the Ubyssey for this great article on our fabulous Conductor of UBC Concert Winds! You can read more by going to https://music.ubc.ca/news/drmeijun-chen/ or 🔗 in bio.

Catch Dr. Chen conducting the UBC Concert Winds through this program on Saturday, October 18:

Julius Fučík: Florentiner March
Frank Ticheli: Joy Revisited
Robert Buckley: The Gathering of Eagles
Eric Whitacre: Noisy Wheels of Joy
Cait Nishimura: Chasing Sunlight
Ralph Vaughan Williams: English Folk Song Suite

UBC Concert Winds will be joined by the UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble conducted by Cheng Xin Ip at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts.
Get your tickets 🎟️ music.ubc.ca/events

10/07/2025

How UBC’s Old Auditorium survived to celebrate 100 years
Read more about how the Old Aud spared the wrecking ball, and how the home of UBC Opera is now saluting a century of culture and connection.

Thank you for this great article Craig Takeuchi and UBC Magazine!

Once nearly lost, this beloved concert hall lives on as a hub of community and culture.

10/06/2025

THIS WEEK! Wednesday Noon Hours presents A Luminous Brocade with alum Angelique Po (BMus '14), pipe organ & Joël Tibbits, composer.

📅 Wed October 8 at noon
🎟 music.ubc.ca/events or at the door
📍Barnett Hall, UBC Music Building, 6361 Memorial Road

This concert offers a rare chance to hear the School of Music's Casavant Frères Opus 3055 Pipe Organ (with over 3000 pipes!) and combines five miniatures written for pipe organ, first performed and recorded in Vancouver in 2004 by organist Angelique Po, along with three larger movements never before performed in Canada.

“A Luminous Brocade” is a new work for pipe organ composed by Vancouver-based multimedia artist Joël Tibbits, as part of his ‘The Books of Magra’ sonic ecosystem—a large-scale multimedia project of acoustic music, art, and literature, which draws from a number of influences ranging from classical music to rock, to minimalism, science and philosophy, architectural design and mysticism.

Listen to a preview below.

https://joeltibbits.bandcamp.com/album/a-luminous-brocade-5-pipe-organ-miniatures

5 track album

10/04/2025

An epic start to the season last night by the UBC Symphony Orchestra, flugelhornist Alan Matheson, and conductor Jonathan Girard✨⁠
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Lovely intro to the evening by UBC MUSA president Sayako Leznoff🔥⁠
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Join us Saturday, Nov. 8 when the Symphony Orchestra return with music by Carl Maria von Weber and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov—conducted by graduate assistant conductors Chengyu Zhang and Simón Ortíz Ramirez— and Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 3 in F Major conducted by Jonathan Girard. Tickets at music.ubc.ca/events/event/ubc-symphony-orchestra-nov8.
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Thank you for joining us at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in-person and online. ⁠We appreciate your support! ⁠
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Have a great weekend everyone🌞