"Voices in Motion" is an intergenerational community choir for persons with dementia, their family caregivers and high school students. It's also a UVic research study looking into how participation in an intergenerational choir might foster social engagement and caregiver well-being, improve quality of life for persons with dementia, and reduce some of the stigma surrounding memory loss.
UVic music professor and researcher D谩niel P茅ter Bir贸 is featured in the new Universities Canada publication "Canadian Excellence, Global Recognition: Canada's 2017 Winners of Major International Research Awards."
On Jan. 16, the Rick Mercer Report launched its final season on CBC. The first episode features the comedian and satirist's visit to UVic campus last fall in which Mercer gets a brainwave assessment in Olav Krigolson's neuroeconomics lab, test-drives a 3D-printed prosthetic at the Victoria Hand Project lab and attempts to sing opera with music prof. Benjamin Butterfield.
When maestro Timothy Vernon raises his baton at the School of Music's gala 50th anniversary concert on Dec. 2, it won鈥檛 simply be in recognition of the honorary Doctorate of Music he received at spring Convocation.
Fibre-optic cables, power lines and ecological impact are key factors in how music is produced and consumed. On Sept. 8, anthropologist Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier with colleagues Joseph Salem and Jentery Sayers will join researchers from Europe, Asia and the Americas for the sound of music.
Students from the humanities, social sciences, fine arts and law鈥攏ow back in Victoria after a transformative trip overseas and also in Winnipeg鈥攃ame together for a powerful and challenging field school that brought them to historic sites in Europe and taught them valuable lessons about Canada.
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UVic students are currently visiting historic sites in Europe in a field school examining migration, the refugee crisis and memorialization of the Holocaust. And the learning doesn't stop in Europe: they'll be at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in mid August, then home to UVic for a symposium.
Internationally recognized composer and UVic music professor D谩niel P茅ter Bir贸 can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours鈥攖he Guggenheim Fellowship. He'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
鈥婽wo UVic professors whose efforts to infuse their teaching and research with lessons from the Holocaust are among 10 faculty members and three graduate students receiving top awards at the university鈥檚 inaugural REACH Awards.
This May, an inaugural event鈥攖he REACH Awards鈥攚ill combine the Teaching Excellence Awards with the Craigdarroch Research Awards into a single event that celebrates the extraordinary teachers and researchers who lead the way in dynamic learning and make a vital impact at UVic, in the classroom and beyond.
Internationally recognized composer and 番茄社区 music professor D谩niel P茅ter Bir贸 can now add one of North America's most prestigious awards to his list of honours鈥攖he Guggenheim Fellowship. And he'll be using the one-year award worth $50,000 US to reflect on one of the most important issues of today: global migration.
From one generation to the next, teachers pass along the skills and techniques instilled in them by their mentors. Now, the School of Music鈥檚 internationally acclaimed Lafayette String Quartet will honour their own mentor with a rare performance cycle of all 15 string quartets by 20th century Soviet composer, Dmitri Shostakovich.
One of Canada's best known music theorists and an internationally acclaimed expert on constitutional law are the 番茄社区's two newest Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC). Election to the academies of the RSC is Canada's highest academic honour and signals that the scholar, scientist or artist has made remarkable lifelong contributions to their field and to public life.
Most students wait until after graduation to start making their mark on the world, but Jasleen Powar already has something to sing about. Soon to graduate with a BFA in theatre, 24-year-old Powar has been making waves as Vancouver rapper Horsepowar, thanks to a trio of independent album releases, gigs at high-profile music festivals, and the kind of media attention most emerging artists only dream about.
Love sports? Play an instrument? With the brand-new Vikes Band course, you can now combine both鈥攆or credit! A new initiative between the School of Music and Vikes Athletics, Vikes Band (MUS 189) is a new for-credit course that will rehearse and perform at Vikes Varsity events and special events on campus. If you played in your high school band or just play for fun, you can still put those skills to use to play game-day music鈥攅ven if you aren鈥檛 a music major.
