Lectures

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Larysa Kuzmenko: Composer and Pianist

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 1:00-2:20pm (online)

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

David Occhipinti: Composer and Guitarist

Thursday, March 3, 2022 - 10:00-11:20am (online)

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Corey Rempel: NACO Assistant Librarian

Thursday, February 10, 2022 — 10:00-11:20am (online)

ONLINE LECTURE

Prof. Michael H. Thaut

"Advances in the Basic and Clinical Neuroscience of Music: Extending Foundations of Brain Mechanisms for Music in Neurorehabilitation"

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 - 11:00 am

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Alison Yun-Fei Jiang: Composing Landscapes, Narratives, and Experiences

Thursday, November 11, 2021 — 9:00-10:20

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Keiko Devaux: Musical Abstractions: Composing Experience Through Auditory Memories

Thursday, October 21, 2021 — 10:00-11:20

Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Iman Habibi: Music Making and Arts Citizenship

Thursday, September 30, 2021 — 10:00-11:20

The GMSA Internal Conference 2021 aims to bring together theorists, musicologists, performers, librarians, and digital scholars to discuss their research

Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
2:30 - 4:10 pm

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Ana Sokolovic

Wednesday, April 7, 2021— 1:00 pm

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

J. Alex Young

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 — 1:00 pm

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Dorothy Chang

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 — 1:00 pm

Thursday, January 21, 2021
Masterclass: 5-7 pm
Lecture: 7-8 pm

Downloadable Program

"Digital tools for your research needs"

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 — 11:30 am - 1 pm

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Samy Moussa

Wednesday, November 25, 2020 — 1:00 pm

ONLINE LECTURE

Dr. Jada Watson

"What Big Data Tells Us About Inequity in Country Music Culture"

ONLINE LECTURE

Dr. Remi Chiu

“Functions of Music in Times of Plague and COVID-19”

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 — 10:30-11:30 am

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Laura Karpman

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 — 1:00 PM

Free Admission

The Graduate Music Student Association (GMSA) presents:

An Overview of Online Research Tools with Roxanne Lafleur

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 — 11:30 AM-1:00 PM

ONLINE COLLOQUIUM

Lori Burns
Julie Pedneault-Deslauriers

Tuesday, October 13, 2020 — 10:30 AM

Free Admission

COMPOSER TALKS ONLINE | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Dinuk Wijeratne: “Reconciling Influences: The Music of Dinuk Wijeratne”

Wednesday, September 30, 2020 — 1:00 PM

Free Admission

Emilie LeBel: “Composing Imagined Landscapes”

Free Admission

Thursday, October 10, 2019 — 2 PM
Freiman Hall, Pérez Building

WORKSHOP: Winston Choi on Performance Anxiety

Stephen Gryc: "The Band is an Orchestra: Rethinking Orchestration for Wind Ensembles"

Free Admission

Friday, October 4 – Saturday, October 5 2019
Perez Hall, CreatorSpace (3^rd floor)

On October 4-5, we celebrate the bicentenary of Clara Schumann’s birth with two study days devoted to this 19^th-century virtuoso pianist and composer. 

Free admission – Please register on Eventbrite

Friday, September 27, 2019 – 8:45 am to 4:15 pm
Perez Hall, CreatorSpace (3^rd floor)
 

Bramwell Tovey: "Sounding Authentic"

Thursday, March 21, 10:00-11:30am

Room 113, Pérez Building

Free Admission

Alexander Shelley, Music Director NAC Orchestra

                 "Life as a Conductor’’

Friday, March 15 at 12:00 (NOON) - 1:00 PM

Freiman Hall, Pérez Building

Free Admission

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Jocelyn Morlock "Music of the Romantic Era’’

Thursday, March 7 at 11:30-1:00pm

Room 307, Pérez Building

Free Admission

Jeff Ryan: "Getting Here From There"

Tuesday, January 29, 1:00-2:30pm

Creator Space - Room 302, Pérez Building

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Marjan Mozetich: “A process of composing a cello concerto”

Thursday, November 15th 1:00 - 2:30 PM

Room 307, Pérez Building

Free Admission

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Ian Cusson: "Writing in the In-between"

Friday, November 9th, 2:30-4 pm

Room 307, Pérez Building

Free Admission

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Harry Stafylakis: "Orchestrating Friction"

Friday, November 2nd, 1-2:30 pm

Room 307, Pérez Building

Free Admission

Friday, October 5, 2018
Pérez Hall, 50 University Street

Drawing on historical, aesthetic, theoretical and sociocultural perspectives, this study day seeks to reconsider the place of machines in the musical imagination during the first half of the twentieth century.

"Women and the Sheet Music Industry in 19th-Century France."

Monday, March 26, 11:30 a.m.

Room 302, Pérez Building

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Vivian Fung : Works and Creative Process

Wednesday, March 21, 1:30 pm

Room 307, Pérez Building

610 Cumberland St

Free Admission

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Ēriks Ešenvalds

Wednesday, February 28, 2018 at 2:30 pm

Room 307, Pérez Hall

(610 Cumberland Street)

Free Admission

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

COMPOSITION WORKSHOP & CONCERT

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Huguette Labelle Hall, Tabaret Hall

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

"Landscape Architecture"

Tuesday, October 10, 1 pm

Room 307, Pérez Building

COMPOSER TALKS | Beaudry Somcynsky Visiting Composer Lecture Series

Monday, October 2, 2:30 pm

Room 307, Pérez Building