#desautelsfacultyofmusic News Archive
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Winnipeg Free Press: Music and memories
October 18, 2025 —
Carolyn Basha, a behind-the-scenes superstar of the Manitoba arts world, will be celebrated by her family and friends at a memorial concert on Friday at the Desautels Concert Hall — a University of Manitoba venue Basha helped will into existence.
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Winnipeg’s Classic 107: U of M jazz faculty are ‘Beyond Ideas’ for Desautels Concert Series
October 16, 2025 —
The second concert in the newly-minted Desautels Concert Series is set to feature a rare gathering of the entire jazz faculty at the University of Manitoba. To hear trumpet instructor Jonathan Challoner say that the gathering is an inspiring one for the players would be an understatement
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Successful Strategic Initiatives Support Fund Grant Facilitates Expansion of Fiddling at DFOM
July 29, 2025 —
We are pleased to announce that the Desautels Faculty of Music has received a Strategic Initiatives Support Fund (SISF) Grant of $52,532 to build on the fiddling program that DFOM spearheaded in 2024-25.
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CBC Music: Ari Hooker named one of 30 hot Canadian classical musicians under 30
July 29, 2025 —
It's a summer tradition at CBC Music: the annual classical "30 under 30" list, celebrating the achievements of Canada's emerging classical musicians - and the Desautels Faculty of Music's Ari Hooker has made it onto the list.
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DFOM Music Theorist Dr. Rebecca Simpson-Litke: Guest Lecture at RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion at the University of Oslo
March 10, 2025 —
Associate Professor of Music Theory and Head of Music Research in the Desautels Faculty of Music, Rebecca Simpson-Litke, will speak at RITMO's Seminar Series at the University of Oslo on Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
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DFOM Student Feylin James Studies City Pop with the Undergraduate Research Award
February 12, 2025 —
Last summer, Desautels Faculty of Music student Feylin James received an Undergraduate Research Award grant to study the Japanese genre, City Pop, under the direction of musicologist Dr. Colette Simonot-Maiello. The University of Manitoba’s Undergraduate Research Award (URA) is open to undergraduate students in all fields and ranges of research, scholarly works, or creative activities.
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Music by DFOM Faculty Member Melody McKiver Featured in Film by Tasha Hubbard, Singing Back the Buffalo
February 12, 2025 —
This Wednesday, February 12, 2025, Anishinaabe composer Melody McKiver, from the UofM Desautels Faculty of Music, will join award-winning Cree filmmaker and University of Alberta faculty member Tasha Hubbard (nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up, Birth of a Family) at 11:30am in 307 Tier Building in a conversation about their film Singing Back the Buffalo.