UNB Centre for Musical Arts – Memorial Hall

Children ages 2-4 join Instructor Heather Brannon for an exciting and innovative pre-school music and movement program. Includes stories, songs, and games to introduce the basic concepts of rhythm and ear training. $150 for 10 weekly sessions

Join music writer/broadcaster Bob Mersereau for an eight-week look at Canada's remarkable music history, and get ready for lots of surprises. Way before Drake and Bieber, Canadians have ruled the airwaves and created many of the world's most popular hits, but much of it is rarely acknowledged. With lots of audio and video to enjoy, […]

Welcome the Christmas Season at Memorial Hall! UNB Concert Band & Chorale invite you to celebrate the Christmas Season with beautifully presented holiday music. Tickets are available at the door - Adults: $5 Seniors: $3 Students: FREE For more information, contact the Centre for Musical Arts at musicart@unb.ca or 453-4697

A fabulous trio of New Brunswick artists, this concert features our Musician in Residence Nadia Francavilla, cellist Paul Pulford and pianist Richard Boulanger. They perform a classical program centered on a little known work of Schumann ’6 Études en forme de canon’ arranged by Theodor Kirchner. Rounding off the program, are trios by Haydn and […]

Jean-Guy Boisvert and Philippe Prud’homme pay homage to Canadian Composer José Evangelista with «36 Miniatures » featuring his 18 Monodías Españolas in an exciting new version for clarinet and piano.

Following on from the success of our one off workshop, Jon Bailey is back with a four-week special on the rich world of Afro-Cuban Percussion. Jon has dedicated much of his adult life to pursuing his passion for the music of Cuba through travel, research, and study. Get to know many of the percussion instruments […]

Musician in Residence Nadia Francavilla and improviser extraordinaire Joel LeBlanc present a program of improvised music for amplified violin and electric guitar alongside a performance of Louis Andriessen’s landmark ’Workers Union’. This 1975 piece is best known for the composer’s instruction that ’it be performed by a loud-sounding group of instruments’. Francavilla and LeBlanc will […]

Music of immigrants from different countries has enriched the cultural palette of Canada. Whether coming to Canada to avoid strife or seek a better life for themselves and family, newcomers have contributed their own voices to the Canadian experience. Including the music of Evangelista, Crawley, Fiala, and others.

Baroque treasures for two guitars performed by Steven Peacock and Gerry Van Wart in the French, Italian and German traditions. Enjoy music variously energetic, whimsical, contemplative, lyrical, and insightful by Rameau, Couperin, Daquin, Tartini and Bach.

For the first time in North America a rediscovered work by romantic composer Antoine Reicha (1770-1836) intended to be performed by two brothers on the recently invented 13 keyed clarinets in Bb and A in 1810. A feat for the time, and until now a unique work. A young composer from Montreal, Alexandre David accepted […]