From May 8th to 20th, the Queen's County Music Festival has been taking place on campus. The Festival is a wonderful opportunity to showcase our campus to prospective students, their extended families and their teachers.

Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing: AIRS

Singing, like speaking, is a natural human expressive ability. Yet, in comparison to speaking, less scholarly inquiry has been directed to it. Linked to social, cultural, and biological development, singing draws on many disciplines and submits to many forms of analysis and specific explorations. Recognizing a need for a comprehensive framework for such investigations, an international collaboration of over 70 scholars in the humanities and social sciences is motivated to Advance Interdisciplinary Research in Singing, its origins and implications. Together, the AIRS collaborators are integrating new multidisciplinary knowledge about singing from the perspectives of psychology, music, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, and education, assisted by computer science and audio engineering.

The UPEI Wind Symphony is a major ambassador for UPEI through its concerts. It consists of music majors, other UPEI students, and members of the community. In recent years, under the direction of Dr. Karem Simon, the symphony has performed in venues throughout the Maritimes.

Performance locations include Souris, Summerside, Elmsdale, and Montague, PEI; Middleton, Greenwich, Halifax, Dartmouth, Pictou, New Glasgow, Antigonish, and Sydney, NS; and Fredericton, Saint John, and Moncton, NB.

For more information: www.upei.ca/music/upei-music-department-concert-series