Each year, as Canadians sit down to watch the Juno Awards – this year airing live on CBC and CBC Gem on March 29 – it’s worth thinking about how award shows are never just simple celebrations. National arts award ceremonies like the Junos are part …
Don Wright Faculty of Music
In photos: Around the world with Western
Student trips and field research took Western community members all over the globe this summer
Two recent Western grads make CBC Music’s ‘30 under 30’ list
Percussionist Andrew Busch, choral conductor and tenor Matthew Boutda recognized among ‘Canada’s hottest young classical musicians’
Toy Story: Western musicology researcher explores sounds of childhood in the 1950s
Playthings of the past help PhD candidate Ala Krivov provide cultural context to Cold War era
Music graduate overcomes rare disease and finds love in the process
Ryan Breen’s support system helped him persevere through his illness to graduation
This grad is on fire. John Yun on Alicia Keys’ Broadway musical team
Associate music director of Hell’s Kitchen calls Western ‘jump-off point’ of success
Western partners with Vancouver Recital Society, bringing renowned, rising artists to London
Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska and pianist Charles Richard-Hamelin perform April 14
Six new Canada Research Chairs named at Western
Research by new CRCs spans engineering, health sciences, music and science
Musical gallery weaves science and art in a symphony of tornadoes
Student composers create a world where tornadoes sing and science plays music
Western Award of Excellence winners help others succeed
Employees honoured for demonstrating integrity, respect and commitment to service
Western faculty, grads earn national, provincial and municipal honours
Order of Canada, Order of Ontario and Mayor’s honourees announced
Student film spotlights Ukrainian newcomers, impact of war
Producer/director Cole Rutman recruited 25 fellow students to help create ‘Voices Documentary’
Friday concert: Renowned seismologist Lucy Jones and music for climate action
Jones is a Western Academy for Advanced Research visiting fellow and member of its Climate Resilient Infrastructure Building team