UNB Centre for Musical Arts – Memorial Hall

Learn skills to instantly compose melodies on your instrument, while spontaneously reacting to the other musicians around you. This course is suited to intermediate players looking to explore new avenues of creativity. All instruments are welcome! Cost: $75+HST Instructor: Jason Flores For more information contact the UNB Conservatory: conserv@unb.ca (506) 458-7259 go.unb.ca/music-courses

Learn skills to instantly compose melodies on your instrument, while spontaneously reacting to the other musicians around you. This course is suited to intermediate players looking to explore new avenues of creativity. All instruments are welcome! Cost: $75+HST Instructor: Jason Flores For more information contact the UNB Conservatory: conserv@unb.ca (506) 458-7259 go.unb.ca/music-courses

Welcome spring with us! Tickets are available at the door. Adults - $5 Seniors - $3 Students - FREE

The Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble is a worldwide collective of experimental composers interested in new music with a slow, sparse and spare aesthetic. Wandelweiser members André Cormier (Moncton) and Michael Pisaro (Los Angeles) are featured in this project. Nadia Francavilla premieres a new 60-minute multimedia piece from Cormier, then is joined by several guest musicians from […]

The landmark ‘Goldberg Variations’ by Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most well-known keyboard pieces of all time. It has achieved iconic status that on one level is simply a beautiful keyboard work and on another, it’s a Rubik’s cube of invention and musical architecture. Peter Allen, performs this important work, in its entirety, […]

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 […]

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.

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.

Theatre UNB presents starting Wednesday January 31st as part of Frostival, Bone Cage. Winner of the 2008 Governor-General’s Award for Drama, Bone Cage is a stark, poetic, and emotionally searing play about a group of young adults growing up in a small town in rural Nova Scotia. Jamie and Kevin work in forestry, clear-cutting ever-dwindling […]

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 […]