Calendar of events in Music

Faculty Gala Concert: We launch the 2024-25 season with a concert featuring performances by faculty members of the Department of Music.  Brunton, 7:30 p.m. 
 

Colloquium Musicum: "All the Feelings: The Embodiment of Passion in the String Quartet." Join the Eybler Quartet for a lively investigation of their creative process, which draws not only upon the music of the 18th century, but also uses the aesthetic, interpretive tools of the period. Using musical examples from Mozart’s “Dissonance” quartet to animate the discussion, the Eyblers will explore the emotional content of the music and its physical embodiment. Brunton, 4:00 p.m. 
 

Concert: The internationally renowned Eybler Quartet will perform early string quartets by W. A. Mozart, J. Haydn, and black composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint George. Patricia Ahern and Julia Wedman (violins), Patrick Jordan (viola), Margaret Gay (cello). For details and tickets, visit http://www.sackvilleearlymusic.com or call (506) 878-3786. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

Concert:  A collaboration of local early European music specialists Alexander Dobson (baritone), Jimin Shin Dobson (violin), and Christina Haldane (soprano) with Juno award-winning guest artists from Québec Mélisande Corriveau (gamba) and Eric Milnes (organ/harpsichord), featuring a representative and engaging sampling of German sacred works by Weckmann, Handel, Bach, and more. [Artist website: https://www.facebook.com/dobshinarts/.] For details and tickets, visit http://www.sackvilleearlymusic.com or call (506) 878-3786. Brunton, 7:30 p.m. 
 

Concert: “Private Musick – English Chamber Music under the Stuarts.” Quebec ensemble Les Boréades will offer a delightful program of early English music by Locke, Purcell, and others. Francis Colpron (flûtes à bec et traversière), Julie Rivest (violon), Mélisande Corriveau (cello and gamba), Dorothéa Ventura (organ/harpsichord). For details and tickets, visit http://www.sackvilleearlymusic.com or call (506) 878-3786. Brunton, 3:00 p.m.
 

Colloquium Musicum: “Beyond Maestro: The Real Lenny and His Five Careers.” Paul Laird provides a view of Leonard Bernstein's life divided into his work as a pianist, conductor, composer of concert music, composer of dramatic music, and video activities. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Symposium on Film: “Classical Music on Film: Leonard Bernstein.” Elizabeth Wells and Paul Laird will lead this symposium on the Bradley Cooper film Maestro and the many groundbreaking classical music films that featured Bernstein over the years. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

Colloquium Musicum: Marcel Camprubi, “Unwriting Music History.” Musical notation has long been privileged as the point of departure for the historical study of music. This talk will focus on the Arabic context of tenth-century Baghdad, where notation was available to performers and music theorists yet remained largely unpursued, a circumstance that defies technologically deterministic narratives of music history. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Colloquium Musicum: Ross Osmun. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Voice and piano master class: Tracy Dahl, Monica Huisman, and Laura Loewen work with students from the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 5:15 p.m.
 

Guest Recital: Two sopranos, a cellist, and a pianist roll up their sleeves and deliver a robust program of “Grit + Grace.” Featuring Tracy Dahl, Monica Huisman, Minna Chung, and Laura Loewen, this recital will make you cry, evoke laughter, empower, and transform you. Brunton, 8:00 p.m.
 

Honour Band Concert: Students from across the Maritimes present the results of their one-day intensive band workshop. Directed by Prof. James Kalyn. Convocation Hall, 5:00 p.m.
 

Pops Concert: Performance by members of the Mount Allison Symphonic Band, featuring students, guests, faculty, and community members. Convocation Hall, 7:30 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

“Reflections on Music, Testimony, and War in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.” City University of New York’s Dr. Abby Anderton delivers a talk for the Music and War Symposium. Brunton 4:30 p.m.
 

Guest Recital: World renowned Tesla String Quartet perform a recital for the Music and War Symposium including Steve Reich’s “Different Trains” and George Crumb’s “Black Angels.” Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

“Britten’s Noye’s Fludde: Reflections on Children, War, and Memory.” University of Minnesota’s Dr. John Watkins delivers a talk for the Music and War Symposium. Brunton, 1:30 p.m.
 

“Resonances of War and Peace in the Age of Schütz.” University of British Columbia’s Dr. Alexander Fisher delivers a talk for the Music and War Symposium. Brunton, 4:30 p.m.
 

Faculty and Guest Recital: “Music in tempore belli: musical selections from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century.” Mount Allison Music Faculty and guests perform a recital for the Music and War Symposium. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

“Tracing Colville: A Musical Exploration of the War Art of Alex Colville.” Queen’s University’s Dr. Dean Burry delivers a talk for the Music and War Symposium followed by a short concert of student compositions inspired by the war art of Alex Colville. Brunton, 1:00 p.m.
 

Film Screening: Excerpts from “Canada at War: Turn of the Tide” (1962), with music by Canadian composer Robert Fleming. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

Mount Allison Choral Society: Performances by the Mount Allison Choral Society, featuring students, faculty, guests, and community members. Brunton, 8:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Mount Allison Elliott Chorale: “The Dark: A Procession of Music and Light.” Illuminated by lanterns and featuring an original choral composition, this open-air staging of a local poem takes us out into the night of the salt marshes to meditate on our emplacement and mortality. Sackville Waterfowl Park, 7:30 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Celebrating Canada Music Week with a focus on music by Canadian composers in performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Entre Amis: featuring student performers from Mount Allison University and l’Université de Moncton. Salle Neil-Michaud, U de Moncton, 7:00 p.m.
 

Faculty Recital: Jimin Shin Dobson (violin) and Gayle Martin (organ) perform “Bach and his Contemporaries: Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard.” A recital of Baroque sonatas for violin and organ or harpsichord. Music by JS Bach and some of his contemporaries. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

MtA Concerto Competition. Brunton, 9:00 a.m.
 

Faculty and Guest Recital: “Echoes.” Contemporary works by women composers on isolation, displacement, loss, transformation, community and hope for the future. Performers include Christina Haldane (soprano), Nadia Francavilla and Danielle Sametz (violins), Mark Kleyn (viola), Norman Adams (cello), Karin Aurell (flute), Richard Hornsby (clarinet), and Carl Philippe Gionet (piano/organ). Brunton, 8:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Colloquium Musicum: “New Songs for Soprano and Jazz Trio.” Dr. Christina R. Haldane discusses the creative process behind an exploratory project that fuses Western art music and jazz aesthetics. The project, funded by an internal SSHRC Explore grant, features new arrangements by Ross MacIntyre of “Tu la mia stella” from Giulio Cesare by G. F. Handel, “An die Musik” by F. Schubert, and a new commission by Cecilia Livingston, all set for soprano and jazz trio. Brunton, 4:00p.m.
 

Faculty and Guest Recital: “Rhythms of Renewal,” performed by Joël Cormier (percussion) and Carl Phillipe Gionet (piano). An evening of piano and percussion duets featuring an arrangement of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" reimagined for piano and marimba. Also featuring works by Alejandro Vinao and John Luther Adams. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

Colloquium Musicum: “Introducing the SUMR Time Lab.” Alan Dodson presents a paper authored by himself and students Anna Gagné, Anna Gordon, and Kiran Steele. How can we represent the rhythm in a recording that lacks a clear and regular meter? We worked on this problem collaboratively in the summer of 2023 through a series of case studies on solo recordings from around the world: a “farewell song” from Korea, an adhan (10 Islamic call to prayer) from Tanzania, two African American field hollers from the Deep South, and a “love song for flute” from the Meskwaki Nation in Tama, Iowa. In this presentation, we demonstrate a new approach to visual representation that combines staff notation, analytical animations, and audio. This colloquium is an expanded version of a presentation we gave at the Eighth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music in June 2024. Brunton, 4:00p.m. 
 

Faculty Recital: “In my Love, In my Song!” Christina Haldane (soprano) and Stephen Runge (piano) present a rich program of German Lieder by composers living and working in Vienna during the late 1800s and early 1900s, a vibrant time known for the creative evolution of art, music, architecture, and ideas. Music includes Franz Schubert's passionate Suleika Lieder, Gustav Mahler's meaningful Rückert Lieder, Richard Strauss' ethereal Mädchenblumen, and a selection Hugo Wolf's whimsical and dramatic works. Brunton, 7:30 p.m. 

Mount Allison Choral Society and Elliott Chorale present “Landscapes and Heritages,” exploring our connections to the land, our histories, and one another in this concert featuring music by Marie-Claire Saindon, Trent Worthington, and others. Brunton, 8:00 p.m.  

Collegium Musicum: A focus on music by BIPOC composers with performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Faculty and Guest Recital: Brahms' beloved Trio anchors a program that includes three contemporary works for clarinet, cello and piano by Robert Muczynski, Jorg Widmann, and Karim Al-Zand, featuring James Kalyn (clarinet), Paul Pulford (cello), and Stephen Runge (piano). Brunton, 7:30 p.m. 
 

Collegium Musicum: A focus on music by women composers with performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m. 
 

Teiya Kasahara Workshop: Nekkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara joins voice students for two interactive workshops open to the public, that will explore and guide the creative process from a joy-centered approach. Brunton, 5:15 p.m.
 

Teiya Kasahara Workshop: Nekkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara joins voice students for two interactive workshops open to the public, that will explore and guide the creative process from a joy-centered approach. Brunton, 6:00 p.m.
 

Guest Recital: Teiya Kasahara: Nekkei Canadian settler Teiya Kasahara (they them) is a queer/ trans non-binary opera singer and theatre creator based in Tkarón:to (Toronto, Canada). Kasahara, heralded as a "force of nature" is joined by collaborative pianist Jennie Del Motte for a special performance especially curated for the MtA community, that draws upon the joy-centered approach explored in the workshop sessions. Brunton, 7:30 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m. 
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m. 
 

Groovin’ at Gracie’s: The Mount Allison Jazz Ensemble takes another tour of the styles that built the jazz tradition over a period of 125 years, directed by jazz saxophonist and composer Joel Miller. Gracie’s Café, McCain Student Centre, 9:00 p.m.
 

Collegium Musicum: Performances by students in the Bachelor of Music program. Brunton, 4:00 p.m.
 

Convocation Weekend Recital: Performances by students of the Department of Music. Brunton, TIME TBD