Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts www.queensu.ca/music

SUMMER 2010, VOLUME 14
www.queensu.ca/music
Photo: Greg Black, Queen’s University photographer
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
An inspiring moment – Groundbreaking at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
For almost forty years, students, faculty and staff have hoped
for their own performance venue, but never dreamed of a
Performing Arts Centre to be located on the shore of Lake
Ontario on one of Kingston and Ontario’s oldest heritage sites.
Now we look forward to a centre where music students will
be able to perform ensemble concerts, juries and recital examinations in a dedicated space. In addition, there will be the
potential for music students to interact more closely with film,
art and drama students, as well as groups from the Kingston
community – all creating alongside each other!
The reality of such a wonderful addition to Queen’s
University came about initially on May 13, 2009 when federal
and provincial governments announced the matched commitment of $30M towards this $63M project. In addition to the
lead gift of $18M from Drs. Isabel and Alfred Bader, the
University would undertake the remaining fundraising.
On October 1, 2009, Queen’s benefactors Drs. Isabel and
Alfred Bader were honoured participants at the official ground
Name that tune...
breaking ceremony of the Isabel Bader Centre for the
Performing Arts. Chilly temperatures had no effect on the
over 250 people who attended the event, as hearts were
warmed by the fact that a Performing Arts Centre would
soon become a reality. The Isabel Bader Centre for the
Performing Arts will include:
• A 560-seat Concert Hall with a drop down screen for film
presentations
• Sound studio and recording facilities for local and national recording
• Large public lobby with café on the waterfront for students and the community
• Climate controlled public Art Gallery
• 100-seat studio theatre, offering maximum configuration
flexibility for student and community use
• 90-seat Film Screening room
• A multi-purpose Rehearsal Hall
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Name that Tune Winner: Andrea Lawn, BMus ’83
correctly recognized the Wedding March from
Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Don’t forget our new contest – entries are due:
Sept. 1/10. Please send entries to sr14@queensu.ca
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• Teaching and performance space for the School of Music
and the Departments of Drama, Film and Media, and Art as
well as operating space for the Queen’s Performing Arts
Office.
Queen’s University is greatly honoured to have been the
recipient of many generous gifts and donations from the
Bader family. Now thanks to Dr. Isabel Bader’s love of the
arts, this $63 million dollar project will soon be a reality.
With only a few hundred thousand to go in fundraising,
Queen’s is looking forward to preparing the site for start of
construction in 2011.
For further information on how you can help reach the
building goal, please contact Beth McCarthy 1-800-267-7837
or beth.mccarthy@queensu.ca and help us realize the dream.
Photo: Greg Black, Queen’s University photographer
Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts
Isabel and Alfred Bader with Michael Ceci, AMS President, in background
Left to right: Shirley Roth, Alistair McLean, Ireneus Zuk, Beth McCarthy
Queen’s continued the “Homecoming” tradition with Reunion
Weekend on May 28, 29, 30, 2010. The School of Music was
very proud to feature our three Juno Award Winners at a
display table where composer/performer CD’s were exhibited
also.
Also this year, BMus ’79 alumni Brad Mills, Bruce Cowell
and Andrew Olscher organized their 30-year reunion to
coincide with the Showcase Performance on October 16,
2009. To make the evening extra special, alumni were presented with complimentary tickets and preferred seating in
Grant Hall. The performance reminded them of years gone by
and it was quite an emotional evening. On Saturday morning,
Alumni attended a small reception in Harrison-LeCaine Hall
and had an opportunity to view concept drawings of the
planned Isabel Bader Performing Arts Centre. Later, some
faculty members and Shirley Roth joined alumni for dinner
at a local restaurant.
Kathryn (McDermott) Edmondson BMus ’80 has volunteered to organize the 30-year reunion the weekend of October
15, 2010. We look forward to a large turnout for this event.
Kathryn may be contacted at: Kedmondson@sympatico.ca
Would you like to organize an alumni get-together?
Since the Showcase performance features all of the
large ensembles performing on one evening, it is a
wonderful time to schedule an alumni get-together.
1. If you would like to organize a get-together with
members of your graduating class, you are more than
welcome to do the following: contact Shirley Roth at
sr14@queensu.ca to find out when we have scheduled
the Showcase performance for the next year, and
provide her with your graduating year. She will then
provide you with a contact name from the Queen’s
Alumni Office.
2. Queen’s Alumni Office would be happy to send out
a confidential letter from you (in fact we now have a
draft letter in our office) to everyone in your class.
Once your classmates receive the letter – it will be up
to them to get back to you.
3. The School of Music will be happy to:
(a) arrange for complimentary seating in Grant Hall for
the Showcase performance,
(b) organize a small reception on the Saturday morning in Harrison-LeCaine Hall, and
(c) make reservations for dinner at a local restaurant.
Photo: Shirley Roth
Photo: Peggy Shanks
Homecoming and Alumni Get-Together
October get-together for BMus, class of ’79
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Financial Update
With rising operating expenses and diminishing federal and
provincial funding, many Canadian universities are struggling to maintain quality programs. Several units at Queen’s
including our School have benefited from generous donor
support from other sources. We feel particularly fortunate to
have received the following:
“A Night In Vienna”
In addition to profits from the show, we received donations
from faculty, alumni, staff, students and members of the community. All these have gone towards Operating Expenses to
help us continue offering a high quality program. It is remarkable and heartening for us that the current BMus student who
won the 50/50 draw held at this event donated his cash prize
in support of the music program.
Current Music Students
In April 2010, the DSC presented a cheque for the amount of
$1,000.00 to the School of Music in support of our program.
Faculty Artist Series
Mrs. Margaret Farr, a member of the Kingston community, has
donated generously to our Faculty Artist Series over the years.
We could not continue this series without her sponsorship.
Chamber Music
The coaching of chamber ensembles has been assured through
the support of a generous donor who prefers to remain anonymous.
Dr. Isabel Bader
Dr. Bader has provided a substantial sum to offset our budget
cut. As a result of her gracious gift, we have been able to avoid
cutting some courses in 2010/11.
Performance
In May 2010, at the home of Adam and Carolyn Barker-Mill in
London, England, there was a celebration of the electronic
music work Virtual Focus by David Tudor, in a version commissioned from Tudor in 1990 by the Barker-Mills. Faculty
member Matt Rogalsky performed using Tudor’s complex
table of electronic devices, in part creating sounds by bouncing radar and sonar waves off hanging metal sculptures by
Jacqueline Matisse Monnier. In lieu of a performer’s fee, the
Barker-Mill Charitable Trust made a substantial contribution
to the School of Music.
Instrument Donation
Mr. Gordon Hendren and family have donated a beautifully
restored six foot parlour grand piano to the School of Music.
The piano was manufactured by Heintzman & Sons in
Toronto in 1929. It is truly a treasure and we appreciate the
Hendrens’ decision to donate it to Queen’s School of Music,
allowing the next generation of talented musicians to practice
and perform on this beautiful instrument.
Advertising Partnerships
We are grateful for the ongoing support of The Kingston
Whig-Standard for sponsoring our Winter Concert Series
advertisement, as well as to the Four Seasons Sheraton Hotel
and the Belvedere Hotel for providing accommodation for
some of our artists.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Music has unique and expensive requirements, such as
individual lessons, instruments and electronic equipment
and their maintenance. The following are some areas you
may consider assisting:
Concert Support
An individual or corporate donor could fund a performance.
The amount would vary depending on which particular ensemble would perform. For example, the cost of moving instruments and equipment, tuning pianos and setting up choral
risers for the Showcase Performance in 2009 was about $1,600.
Choral and Orchestral Scores
The cost of an individual choral score ranges from $3 to $25.
Choral scores are kept in the Queen’s Music Library and are
available on loan to individuals and choirs all over Canada –
so a donation of choral scores benefits both the School of
Music and the Queen’s Music Library. The cost of orchestral
scores with parts (which are stored in the performance library)
can be much higher. Donations of orchestral scores would
allow ensembles to explore new repertoire.
Instrument Donations
The 180 course series (Techniques) has been revamped to
enable students to study more than one instrument, and the
course now includes some conducting instruction. Due to
higher demand, we may experience some instrument shortages
in woodwinds and brass. If you have an instrument that you
would like to donate to Queen’s, a tax receipt can be issued
when: (a) the instrument has been valued by a qualified
appraiser (at the donor’s expense), and (b) the instrument has
been received by the university. Due to budget restrictions,
we are unable to pay for the transportation of donated instruments.
Individual Applied Lessons
A donor may choose to fund applied instruction. Annual cost
for one student is approximately $1,500.
Courses
Other units at Queen’s University, e.g. the School of
Economics, have courses funded by parties outside the university. You may choose to fund a specific course. Annual cost
varies from $8,700 – $10,000.
“A Night In Vienna”
Any contribution to assist with Operating Expenses can be
made by donating to “A Night In Vienna”. We are equally grateful for small and large donations. You can either send a cheque
or donate on-line by following the instructions below.
DONATING CAN BE QUICK AND EASY VIA THE WEB
1 Go to the Queen’s School of Music website at:
www.queensmusic.ca/music
2 On the home page – click the button “Make Your Gift Now”
3 On the donation page – click “A Night In Vienna” and complete your information or you can send a cheque payable to
Queen’s University School of Music, Harrison-LeCaine Hall,
39 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6.
If you would like to speak with an individual at the School of
Music regarding a donation, please don’t hesitate to call (613)
533-2066 (ask for: Dr. Margaret Walker or Dr. Ireneus Zuk).
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Miss World Canada 2009
Lena Ma’s visiting card could now read as follows: Bachelor
of Life Sciences (Queen’s University), ARCT Voice
(Performance), Miss World Canada 2009. Last March, Lena
won the Miss World Canada title, and went on to the Miss
World competition held in Johannesburg, South Africa. A
vocal performance student of Dianne Baird, Lena was first
in the talent competition (singing O Mio Babbino Caro), and
5th overall among representatives from 112 countries. As the
talent competition winner she had the opportunity to sing to
a live audience of 3,800 people, plus over one billion TV
viewers worldwide. Here is a clip from her Miss World 2009
Winning Performance: http://picasaweb.google.com/
missworldcanada/2009MissWorldCompetition
School Visits to Queen’s Music
On June 11th we were pleased to welcome Sandra Davison,
BMus’85 and her KCVI music students to Harrison-LeCaine
Hall. The music building at Queen’s provided a different
venue for their recitals and a great opportunity to visit the
university.
In Fall 2010, we will be looking into how you can bring
students to the School of Music at Queen’s for workshops
and other activities – so stay tuned. Please note that Queen’s
Campus Tours can be arranged in advance by calling:
(613) 533-2217.
Supreme Court of Canada Justice, Thomas
Cromwell (music alumni may know him
as Tom Cromwell, BMus’73), received an
Honorary Laws Degree during Queen’s
Law Convocation on Friday, June 11, 2010.
His address to law school graduates
focused not only on law, but also how
classical music composer Johann Sebastian Bach’s passion and
resilience never wavered – no matter what the task. Bach,
arguably the greatest musical genius of his time, was dedicated
to improving his craft despite many set-backs.
Cromwell also talked about how Bach’s enormous talent did
not stop him from seeking out mentors, from voraciously studying the works of other composers and, perhaps most importantly, from continuous self-improvement and self-criticism.
Photo: Kim Ison
Photo: Greg Black, Queen’s
University photographer
Honorary Degree
Concerto Aria Competition
The 2010 Concerto Aria Competition winner was Molly
Luhta (middle), who will have an opportunity to perform
with the Kingston Symphony Orchestra later on this year.
The first runner-up was shared by Saki Uchida (left) and
Caitlin Barton (right).
One of the most prominent and influential musicians in
Kingston, F.R.C. Clarke passed away in November (2009).
Fred, as he was commonly known, was a brilliant organist,
composer and conductor. During his distinguished career he
served over 40 years as organist at Sydenham Street United
Church, and a further ten as organist emeritus. At Queen’s he
was Professor Emeritus following many years of teaching and
10 years as Head (Director) of the Department (School) of
Music. F.R.C. Clarke wrote a definitive biography of his
teacher, Healey Willan, and also completed and orchestrated
a number of works by this influential composer. Fred’s numerous compositions in the English traditions show a sound
grasp of harmony and form and are imbued with melody as
he preferred music “which has a tune.” He wrote mainly
choral music but also orchestral and keyboard works. He was
chair of the music subcommittee for The Hymn Book of the
Anglican and United Churches, to which he also contributed
a number of original tunes and many arrangements.
This fall, the School of Music will join Sydenham Street
United Church in a celebration of Fred’s life in music,
on Sunday, October 17 at 7:30 p.m. Since this is the
weekend when music grads are planning a reunion,
we hope to see many alumni who benefited from his
instruction at this special Memorial event.
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Photo: Ireneus Zuk
In Memory of F.R.C. Clarke
Coffee Shop Compositions
Earlier this year, MUSC 255 students with sponsorship
from Coffeeco were able to present their recorded electroacoustic compositions to everyone who came in for a coffee. David Alberto, BMus ’12 remarked “It was a different
atmosphere than playing in Harrison-LeCaine Hall at a
MOSAIC concert, because Coffeeco is in a public setting
and not part of the university. Also, it made it an interesting experience to have people coming in at random and
hearing the pieces.” The works are still streamed at:
http://giss.tv:8000/ems.mp3
A Night in Vienna
On February 12th and 13th, 2010, students, faculty and alumni presented “A Night In Vienna” in Grant Hall. Produced by
Bruce Kelly with the Symphony Orchestra directed by
Gordon Craig and members of Choral Ensemble directed by
Karen Frederickson, this year’s performances offered something unique. In addition to our extremely talented student
performers, tenor Tim Stiff (BMus’85) and School of Music
instructors, Elizabeth McDonald (voice), Bruce Kelly (voice)
and Dina Namer (piano) performed both evenings.
Saturday
There was a real surprise when Bruce Kelly approached one
of the tables and celebrated baritone Matthew Zadow, another
Queen’s alumnus, jumped up and burst into song. Matthew
who was on tour at the time, was delighted to perform alongside Bruce Kelly, his mentor and former teacher.
For music students, this type of event is a tremendous performance opportunity, and it is only through participating
in large-scale performances like “A Night In Vienna” that one
acquires the experience in matters such as timing, logistics
and dealing with the unexpected, which are unique to any
production.
We are grateful to everyone who donated their talent,
their time and their hearts and also to The Kingston WhigStandard and Four Points by Sheraton for their support.
Photos: Greg Black, Queen’s University photographer
Friday
This was a first for technology, as Matt Rogalsky streamed
the Kingston performance for alumni to watch live on their
computers. While many watched in North America we had
reports that some viewed the performance also in Europe.
We were honoured to have Principal and Vice-Chancellor
Daniel Woolf and his wife Julie attend on that evening as
well as a number of senior university administrators, some
of whom had been preparing by taking Viennese Waltz
lessons through the fall.
String Area News
Congratulations to Emily Miller, violin, Tianping Chen, violin, Jandei Kim, viola, and Allegra Courtright, cello, coached
by String Coordinator Karma Tomm, who won the School
of Music Chamber Music Prize for their performance of the
gripping Shostakovich String Quartet No. 8. In the current
year, violin students had an opportunity to perform in a
master class given by Kingston native Emma Banfield, violinist in the San Augustin duo. It was a pleasure to welcome
Emma back to Kingston and hear her perform with the duo.
String faculty had a busy year of teaching, performing
and adjudicating across the country. String instructors,
Gisèle Dalbec-Szczesniak and Eileen Beaudette, were
soloists with the KSA in the premiere of a new work by
Greg Runions. Guitar instructor Jeff Hanlon will be adjudicating the guitar division at the National Kiwanis Music
Festival in the summer of 2010. Cellist Wolf Tormann continues to perform frequently with the National Arts Centre
Orchestra in Ottawa.
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TVO Best Lecturer Competition
We were excited to learn that Kip Pegley from the School
of Music was one of three professors from Queen’s nominated for Best Lecturer in TVO’s yearly competition. If you
would like to read more about Kip Pegley, or actually view
her lecture submission, don’t hesitate to google TVO Best
Lecturer. For an in-depth article regarding all nominations
from Queen’s University, you can go to the Queen’s web
site and view the Queen’s Journal article dated Friday,
January 29, 2010.
Photo: Simon Yam
Teaching Award
With enthusiastic input from BMus
students, the recipient of the 2010
School of Music Teaching Award
was Theory instructor Stephanie
Lind. Teaching a combination of
core and advanced elective theory
courses, she has interacted with
most students in the BMus program.
Lind commented: “I certainly ask a
lot of my students, and they repeatedly have lived up to my expectations. I love my job, in no
small part because our students make it enjoyable for me to
come in each day to teach.” Students noted that Lind’s
approach made them “love theory!”
History in Review
The large scale organization of the music history and literature curriculum ranges from introductory surveys to intensive studies in the historical periods of Western Art Music,
popular music, ethnomusicology, and world music. This
year, in addition to our intensive core courses, students at
the School of Music could take part in specialized upperlevel seminars in ethnomusicology research issues, the
history of the mass, popular music and gender, Beethoven,
and Machaut. Non-music students were also welcomed to
our large breadth courses including World Musics and The
Social History of Popular Music, courses that are in constant
high demand.
Our variety of courses reflects the active diversity of our
history and culture professors. The early music instrument
collection, under the care of Olga Malyshko, remains a
stunning addition to the School of Music and ranges from
recorders, cornetti, crumhorns and shawms to sackbuts,
viols and harpsichords. Clara Marvin has continued her
valuable work as Chair of Undergraduate Studies this past
year, while Associate Dean Gordon Smith’s latest book
(co-edited with Robin Elliot of University of Toronto)
Musical Traditions, Cultures and Contexts in honour of former
Queen’s musicology professor Beverly Diamond was
launched this year at CSTM in Regina. We are also still
glowing from the publication last year of Kip Pegley’s book
Coming to Wherever You Are. Exciting plans for next year’s
guest lectures and colloquium presentations are in progress.
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Letter from Ireneus Zuk
This is the last time I will be sending you greetings from
the director’s chair. It has been a great privilege to serve
the School of Music as Acting Director for the last two
years and to help navigate it through turbulent financial
waters. No doubt you have heard about the serious challenges faced by our educational institutions. Due to lack
of increases in funding and ever-growing expenditures by
the university, many units at Queen’s, including the
School of Music, have had their operating budgets
reduced substantially. This has made it very difficult to
maintain a high quality program for our students. I would
like to believe that we managed to preserve the essential
aspects of our degree, but I will not pretend that it has
been easy. Were it not for several generous donors and
fund-raising events, such as the popular “Night-inVienna,” we would be in an even more difficult position.
Elsewhere in this newsletter, you can find some suggestions about how you could become engaged in supporting the School from which you graduated. And, if you
feel moved to write a letter to us or to the Faculty office,
it would be greatly appreciated.
In spite of our financial difficulties, there were also
many positive aspects – matters about which we can feel
good: the on-going Faculty Artist Series, so generously
supported by Mrs. Margaret Farr, the sixth (2009) and
seventh (2010) edition of PianoFest which brought both
Canadian and international artists and scholars to perform recitals and give master classes for our students, the
Colloquium series with a variety of interesting events.
We are very proud of Marjan Mozetich’s Juno Award
(Best Classical Composition) – the second year in a row
that a Queen’s composer won this distinction. John Burge
won last year and you will remember that Istvan Anhalt
won the Juno in 2005 – certainly a remarkable record for
any school! And at Convocation time, we celebrated the
bestowing of an honorary degree on alumnus Tom
Cromwell, BMus’73, who was named to the Supreme
Court last year, but still fondly speaks of his days as a
music student at Queen’s.
In addition we look forward to a Performing Arts complex with performance, teaching and exhibition space for
the arts department (see Isabel Bader PAC on page 1).
This summer we welcome our new Director, Dr.
Margaret Walker, an ethnomusicologist specializing in
Indian dance and music. I will be returning to teaching,
but I will also continue as Associate Director.
Please feel free to write or call at any time and to
update us on your activities. I look forward to seeing
those of you who will be coming to the music gathering
in the fall (see details on page 2).
With my sincere greetings,
Ireneus Zuk
Acting Director
Composition and Theory
Faculty Artist Series
Photo: Charly Chairelli
A very exciting year for the Faculty Artist Series began in
November with Majestic Music for Brass and Piano featuring
Chantal Brunette (trombone), Neil Spaulding (French horn),
Dan Tremblay (trumpet) and Tom Davidson (piano).
In January we presented Bach and Beyond featuring
Donelda Gartshore (flute), Dina Namer (piano and harpsichord), and cellist Joan Harrison. The March performance,
Sensational Saxophones featured Peter Freeman (alto saxophone), Kim Dooley Freeman (Baritone saxophone) and Tom
Davidson (piano). The additional performance featured
Sinfonia Toronto under the direction of Nurhan Arman who
played compositions by Juno winners John Burge and Marjan
Mozetich.
Marjan Mozetich
2010 was an eventful year for the Composition and Theory
area. Marjan Mozetich, a composition instructor at Queen’s
since 1991, received the 2010 Juno Award for “Best Canadian
Classical Composition.” The award recognizes Mozetich’s
work, “Lament in the Trampled Garden” and released on a
Centrediscs label CD devoted entirely to some of Marjan’s
chamber music. More information on the Mozetich Juno
award is on the Juno site under Classical Composition of the
Year. http://junoawards.ca/nominees/
It is truly remarkable that THREE composers from
Queen’s University have been awarded Juno Awards for
“Best Classical Composition,”
Istvan Anhalt, The Tents of Abraham, 2005
John Burge, Flanders Fields Reflections, 2009
Marjan Mozetich, Lament in a Trampled Garden, 2010
This past fall, composer and writer, Alvin Lucier, from
Wesleyan University, visited Kingston. In addition to presenting lectures on his own music and philosophy, he
worked with many of our composition classes and students.
Concert presentations of Lucier’s music were scheduled in
conjunction with the Tone-Deaf Festival – all organized by
Matt Rogalsky.
Over the past few years the School of Music has been
fortunate to have some talented music theorists on faculty.
One of these professors, Stephanie Lind, was awarded the
School of Music’s 2010 Excellence in Teaching Award (see
page 6). Michael Chikinda recently accepted a tenure-track
position at the University of Utah. We wish Michael much
success as he begins working in the United States.
Cantabile Choir wins National Award
The Cantabile Choirs and Artistic Director, Mark Sirett,
Queen’s BMus’76, were recognized by the Association of
Canadian Choral Communities. The opening concert of the
choir’s 2009-10 season, “Brown Eagle, Black Raven” was
named “Outstanding Choral Event.” Additional information
please go to: cantabile.kingston.net
Donelda Gartshore
Dina Namer
Tom Davidson
Dan Tremblay
Peter Freeman
Chantal Brunette
Joan Harrison
Kim Dooley Freeman
Neil Spaulding
Pianofest – Op.7
Now a treasured tradition, the 2010
edition of the Queen’s University piano
festival – PianoFest, opus 7 – presented
four outstanding pianists in recitals,
lectures and master classes.
One of the most established and
in-demand pianists both in Canada and
abroad, Jane Coop (pictured) opened the festival followed
soon after by one of Canada’s young rising stars, the
award-winning Angela Park.
International visitors in the current year were Roy
Howat from the UK, internationally renowned both as a
pianist and a scholar, and Diane Andersen, who belongs
to the great Austro-Hungarian piano school and has been
dubbed, “the Grand Dame of the Belgian Piano School.”
The School of Music is grateful for generous funding
from the George Taylor Richardson Fund, the
International Visitors Program (Principal’s Development
Fund) and the Visiting Scholar Program, Faculty of Arts
and Science as well as the Belvedere Hotel.
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Conservatory of Music
Queen’s Conservatory of Music Awards for Youth for Fall 2010.
This scholarship fund, established by a very generous donor
from the QCM community, will assist young students in furthering their music education. We look forward to expanding
this fund in the years to come.
More information about QCM activities is available at:
http://www.queensu.ca/qcm
If you are in Kingston, feel free to drop by to see what we
are all about.
Photo: Scott Adamson
The Queen’s Conservatory of Music is a thriving organization
for community music activity in Harrison-LeCaine Hall. Now in
its third year of operation, course offerings have expanded to
include a new 25-member Cello Orchestra, directed by Wolf
Tormann and assisted by volunteers from the Kingston Symphony cello section (photo below). The emergence of this large
ensemble has been exciting, and its first performance took
place in June.
The Conservatory is pleased to announce the launch of the
Music Education
QUSMEA (Queen’s University Student Music Educators
Association), lead by student co-chairs Dana Levette and
Elissa Kent, continued to provide music students with activities and workshops focusing on music education. Two major
activities this year:
Student Trip to OMEA Conference – (November, 2009)
Funding by the Limestone Learning Foundation made possible
the purchase of ukuleles and a trip to Toronto for a group of
Grade 6 students from First Avenue Public School in Kingston.
Queen’s students from MUSC 332 (Music in Early
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Music Program – Boys and Girls Club
The development of a music program for children ages 6-9 at
the Boys and Girls Club of Kingston provided musical activities to very eager young people, including learning songs and
exploring percussion instruments, recorders and ukuleles.
MUSC 336 (Music in Early Child and Primary Education)
students had a 6-week placement in 8 LDSB schools and 3
ALCDSB schools with a total of 18 classrooms. They were
also happy to have a short experience in the Queen’s Daycare
and hope to continue this association in an expanded way in
the future.
Our other partnership, the Symphony Education
Partnership, had the good fortune to experience the February
KSA concerts in the Grand Theatre, and hopes to continue to
use this venue next year.
Thanks to faculty members, as well as Sheri Wilson and
Kim Ison, for their help in making this Alumni Newsletter
possible.
Editor
Shirley C. Roth
Acting Director Dr. Ireneus Zuk
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Adolescence) were able to first teach these young students
how to play the instruments, then all travelled to and participated in the conference. This exciting partnership with First
Avenue School continued through action research projects
for MUSC 438 (Music Education Seminar) in the Winter
term.