Music

Charting Hip Hop’s Course

Professor Mark V. Campbell grew up during the early years of rap music. Now, he is helping preserve Canadian hip-hop culture for future generations

What Is Music When Almost Everything Can Be Music?

Prof. Eliot Britton tests the limits of what it means to be a composer in the 21st century

Alexa, Compose Me a Song

So far, machines are not very good at creating original art, such as pop tunes and short stories. Could it be they’re missing something uniquely human?

In Playing Music, A Cure for the Blues

During one of life’s darker moments, I found purpose in learning something new

Music of the Heart

The Syed siblings use their voices to build a stronger Canada

The Singer of “Senthoora”

This U of T music grad achieved YouTube fame by giving Indian classical songs a Western twist. Next up: a world tour

Sebastian Brown’s Sidewalk Saloon

U of T alum pushes his piano two kilometres to play ragtime on Toronto’s streets

Views from UTSC

Does Drake go to U of T Scarborough? This Instagrammer imagines that he does

Flamenco Dancer

At a crossroads between academia and the life of a dancer, Evelyne Benaïs-Lemelin chose her passion

36 Amazing Facts about U of T

A celebration of unique, extraordinary and record-breaking feats and factoids from the university’s 187-year history

Singing It for Themselves

Erin Bardua and Maureen Batt founded an opera company that’s not highbrow or high-cost, but simply fun

Into the Wilderness

Animals in Canada – and how they live, mate and die – inspire an indie concept album by a U of T biologist and friends

Onoscatopoeia

Hart House’s choir members only use one instrument: their voices

Song and Dance

At Derrick Fung’s site, fans buy more than music – they buy musical experiences

Perfect Harmony

For Brian Finley and Donna Bennett, it was a match made in music.

Towers of Song

A U of T music grad runs an innovative program to bring affordable music lessons to Regent Park youth

K-Pop

Will "Gangnam Style" open the doors for other South Korean artists?

Can Radiohead Be Jazz?

Toronto Jazz Festival’s Josh Grossman wants audiences to open their ears to something new

Grace Under Pressure

A U of T grad student and alumnus created music for the launch of the Boundless campaign in just three weeks

Rob Ford, the Opera

In which God may or may not be Margaret Atwood

Ode to Joy

Master’s student Eric Wan helped develop software that allows anyone, including people with severe physical disabilities, to make music

Green Keys

Frank Horvat plays piano in the dark to raise awareness of environmental issues

Angela Cox-Daly and Ross Daly

Performing duo met as teens at the Royal Conservatory

Melanie Moore and Brad Tapson

"Sometimes Brad plays his guitar, I play the piano and we sing together. I swear, we’ll wind up being the von Trapp family someday."

Battle on Vimy Ridge and Other Stories

What a bullet-scarred book and eight other intriguing objects tell us about U of T

Headz over Heels for Hip Hop

Student club Hip Hop Headz is devoted to all aspects of hip hop culture

A Grand Gesture

New scholarship will support students of classical piano

School of Jazz

For U of T Music students, it's all about the passion and the desire to play

Stranger Music

Two alumni push musical boundaries

The Beat Goes On

A West African drumming class inspired Kathy Armstrong to make a career out of it

Music Mavens

Measha Brueggergosman, Russell Braun, Amber Meredith, James Rolfe, Patricia O'Callaghan and Adam Goddard

Musical Chairs

Event raises funds for the purchase of 30 to 35 ergonomic chairs

Remembering Lois Marshall

Chair in voice studies established in Marshall's memory