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Alumni magazine
Funding for Graduate Students
The Don Wright Faculty of Music offer generous funding for Graduate Students
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Graduate Programs and Admissions
Canadian Operatic Arts Academy
The Canadian Operatic Arts Academy is an elite international program that provides singers, pianists and directors with the skills to obtain, realize, and sustain a prolific and rewarding career in the operatic profession. (More...)
COAA final performance Concerts:
May 25 and 26, 7:30 pm Paul Davenport Theatre. Free Admission.
Dance and Music courses for Non-Music Students
Dance and Music Courses
for Non-Music Students 2012-13
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DWFOM Graduation 2012
Graduating students talk about their experience at Western (More...)
New Horizons Band
The New Horizons Band Summer 2012 Registration form is now available (more...)
Marc-Anthony DelBrocco
No, he’s not a problem child, but Marc-Anthony DelBrocco is excited about staging Problem Child by George F. Walker. The Canadian comedy runs at the McManus Theatre May 14-19 (more...)
Critical Perspectives in Canadian Music Education
Just released book edited by Carol Beynon and Kari Veblen: Inspiring and insightful perspectives on Canadian music education offer a rich collection of essays that look critically at global issues. (more...)
Summer Jazz Pedagogy Course
This course will provide participants with the methods and materials for teaching jazz to elementary through high school level students (more...)
UWO Wind Ensemble
Celebrating the Wind Ensemble's CD release:
Apparitions by the UWO Wind Ensemble
is on Albany Records
Available at Amazon.ca
See the Photo Slide show from the concert on
March 30
Alain Trudel
The Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario is pleased to announce that beginning July 2012, Maestro Alain Trudel will begin a two-year appointment as Director of the Orchestral Ensembles. (more...)
In the News
May 8 (LFP)-Western salutes Italian opera
May 3 (LFP) - For Trudel, jazz roots run deep
May 2 (LFP) - Mass choir will bring festival to crescendo
May 1 (LFP) - White wins Rose Bowl
April 27 (LFP)- Kiwanis Rose Bowl field set
April 26 - New duets dawn thanks to support
April 25 (LFP)-Soloists to shine at festival
April 24 (LFP)-Jazz intersects with classical
April 23 (Winnipeg Free Press) - Feel-good opera a crowd-pleaser All-Canadian cast has people on their feet
April 16 (LFP)- Jacks help Fagans to say splashy farewell
April 14 (LFP)- Raising voices in fight against cancer
April 14 (LFP)- After decade-long wait, local jazz singer ready to paint the Jacks ...
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See photos from our
Fall Preview Day
November 19, 2011
See photos from our
recent production of
Die Fledermaus
Profiles
Meet an Instructor
Kevin Watson has performed with Bo Diddley and Sandi Patti. He is a graduate of the Berklee College of Music and was a saxophone player on the Boston jazz scene... (more)
Meet an Alumna
Western music alumna Kerri Ough has one more reason to celebrate. Nominations for this year’s Juno Awards were just announced and Ough and her Good Lovelies mates are up for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year: Group. William Shatner will host the CTV broadcast of the Junos April 1 from ScotiaBank Place in Ottawa...(more)
Meet a Student
The guitar gleams. Cherry wood curves gracefully outlining its back. Lighter spruce contrasts with ebony frets on the front. The centre of attraction is an exquisitely carved three-layer rose that covers the sound hole. The instrument is a work of art.
It is also the work of a second-year student at the Don Wright Faculty of Music. Emily Shaw spent her summer creating this Baroque guitar to play in the Early Music Studio... (more)
