Students in Sigi Torinus’ Digital Media and Interactivity class and Brent Lee’s Diverse Music and Practices class are the featured performers for LEAP, a collaborative effort that will combine acoustic and electronic instruments with live audio processing and video mixing. Part of the in/fuse series of free public multimedia performances, it is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 9, in Lambton Tower’s basement Studio A.
The Windsor Canadian Music Festival will bring music students downtown for the Phog Phunk Phest, a jam session at Phog Lounge on Wednesday, February 8 at 10 p.m.
The Take 4 series will take the form of a composers’ roundtable featuring David Eagle, Keith Hamel, James Harley, Christien Ledroit and Brent Lee discussing their work and inspiration Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Recital Hall, Music Building.
UWindsor music professor Brent Lee is one of the featured composers at the 16th annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival who will join in a roundtable discussion of their work on Wednesday, February 8.
Besides Lee, the discussion will include David Eagle, Keith Hamel , James Harley and Christien Ledroit. It begins at 4 p.m. in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, room 139. It is free and open to the public.
A number of UWindsor students and faculty will be among the featured performers during Flute-Palooza, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 7, at Assumption University Chapel.
One of Canada’s leading musical talents, Robert Aitken, will perform solo, join professors Jaime Wagner and Jonathan Bayley in a flute trio, and conduct a massed choir of 50 flutes composed of elementary, high school and university students.
The 16th annual Windsor Canadian Music Festival, a collaboration between the University of Windsor School of Music and Windsor Symphony Orchestra, starts today, as artistic advisor Brent Lee provides an overview at 4 p.m. in the Music Building’s Recital Hall.
Imagine you’re an aspiring flutist in the Windsor-Essex area, playing in your school band. One day your teacher offers you the opportunity to participate in a large flute choir with flutists from other schools and the University of Windsor.
Best of all, you are going to have the opportunity not only to attend masterclasses with world-renowned Canadian flutist, composer and conductor Robert Aitken, but to perform in a concert with him.
Four music students will perform as soloists with the Windsor Community Orchestra at the Concerto Showcase, in Assumption University Chapel on Sunday, February 5, at 2:30 p.m.
The four are were ranked at the top of last semester’s performance competition in the School of Music:
Robert Benton, an instructor of tuba and euphonium at the School of Music, will perform concertos by Antonio Vivaldi and Wolfgang Mozart before concluding with Gilbert Vinter’s The Playful Pachyderm, in recital today.
Benton is currently pursuing a Doctor of Music degree at the University of Michigan. He won several concerto competitions as a student at Oakland and Michigan State universities and most recently travelled to South Korea for the Jeju International Wind Ensemble Festival Brass Competition, where he was a finalist.
The clarinet studio of music instructor Trevor Pittman will boast some very special guests over the next week – two masters of the instrument will conduct master classes and hold recitals at the School of Music. In addition to university-level students, the events are open to high school woodwind students and members of the campus community.
The School of Music's Take 4 series presents Steafan Hannigan in recital Wednesday, January 25, in the Music Building’s Recital Hall.
Hannigan is a Belfast-born award-winning musician, storyteller, sound engineer and charismatic educator.
He plays winds from pipes to whistles, strings from mandolin to bouzouki, and percussion from bodhran to congas. His varied music career has seen him work with performers from the Chieftains to Bjork to Depeche Mode to Loreena McKennett.
