Vocalist Leah Harris will front a 20-piece big band during the University Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Friday, December 2, at Banwell Community Church.
Director Bob Fazecash will lead the ensemble through a selection of charts that spans the gamut of the genre.
Harris is in her fourth year of music studies at the University of Windsor. In addition to performing with the Detroit band Foundation of Funk, she plays in Windsor with a jazz trio and as a solo act.
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to the University Wind Ensemble’s fall concert, Friday, November 25, at 7:30 p.m., in Assumption University Chapel.
Admission is $15, with a student rate of $5. Order tickets by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212, or purchase online at www.uwindsor.ca/music. Tickets also available at the door. Find more information on the music Web site.
Flutist Jonathan Bayley will take centre stage for Stephen Bulla’s Rhapsody for Flute during the University Wind Ensemble’s fall concert, Friday, November 25.
Dr. Bayley is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education and a former director of the School of Music. He taught flute at Alberta College Conservatory of Music for 15 years.
The ensemble, directed by Ric Moor, will perform a program that ranges from spirituals to military music, from pop to classical works. It includes a composition by UWindsor alumna Shelley Marwood titled “On a Whim.”
Senate approved the merger of the schools of music and visual arts into a single administrative academic unit at its November 11 meeting.
The merged unit – yet to be named – includes a permanent faculty component of 19. It will deliver the existing programs in the two disciplines and will introduce new programs in film production, sound, interdisciplinary arts, and an option for students to design their own interdisciplinary degrees.
Music student Melanie Wright – a clarinettist herself – won Thursday’s DailyNews trivia quiz and the prize of two tickets to the Faculty Trio Recital, Sunday in Assumption University Chapel.
A recital by a trio of faculty members in the School of Music will feature the world premiere of a sonata that draws on the composer’s time in Canada’s cottage country.
Clarinetist Trevor Pittman, pianist Gregory Butler and violinist Lillian Scheirich will perform in recital Sunday, November 13, at 2:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel. The program includes sonatas by Johannes Brahms and César Franck and the Trio for violin, clarinet and piano by Aram Khachaturian, as well as a new work by former UWindsor instructor Robert Rival.
The School of Music’s Take 4 series of student recitals will showcase performances by six students in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, Monday, November 7, at 4 p.m.
The program features:
The School of Music’s Take 4 series of student recitals will showcase performances by six students in the Music Building’s Recital Hall, Wednesday at 4 p.m.
The program features:
Chantal Vallée, head coach of the national champion Lancers women’s basketball team, will discuss how she built a winning program and developed the character of her players in a presentation entitled “Lead to Succeed On and Off the Court” today during the 12th annual Athena Scholarship Luncheon.
The event, sponsored by the Windsor-Essex Regional Chamber of Commerce, will honour the three 2011 recipients of the Athena Scholarship:
The School of Music is offering DailyNews readers a chance to win two free tickets to its recital featuring pianist Philip Adamson and cellist Ben Gitter this Sunday, October 30, at 2:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel.
Admission to this performance of 20th century Russian music is $15, $5 for students. Tickets are available online at www.uwindsor.ca/music; by phone at 519-253-3000, ext. 4212; or at the door.
