Diane Schuur is one of my favourite jazz vocalists, and she is coming to Brandon in March, spending a week as an artist-in-residence at the Brandon University School of Music and as the headline artist for the Brandon Jazz Festival. Michael Cain, professor of Jazz Piano at BU, is excited about the opportunities for his […]

The summer after grade 8, I went to music camp. The first week I was there, I met a tuba player who was a year younger than me and ten times a better player. There was a bassoonist who spent his spare time conducting (with a real baton) as he listened to Beethoven on his […]