Mount Allison Department of Music

06/02/2026

Members of Harmony, Inc. Area 1 will be on campus for their annual Area Convention & Contests, June 4-7, 2026

The public is invited to attend their Quartet and Chorus Contests in Convocation Hall on the afternoon and evening of Friday, June 5. Come out and enjoy the best of women’s a ca****la singing in the barbershop style!

05/26/2026

And the winners are in…

Congratulations to The Barra MacNeils – including MtA grads Sheumas '84, Kyle '85, Stewart '87, and Lucy '91 – who received the Dr. Helen Creighton Lifetime Achievement Award this past week at the 2026 East Coast Music Awards in Sydney, NS. This award recognizes their extraordinary four-decade career and their lasting contribution to Celtic music and the culture of Atlantic Canada.

We also congratulate several of our MtA Music faculty members, who were 2026 ECMA award recipients and nominees:

• Amy Brandon – winner of the award for Classical Composer of the Year, based on a collection of her works
• Adam Cicchillitti – Instrumental Release of the Year award winner, along with his guitar duo partner, Steve Cowan, for their album “Lyrique”
• Joel Miller – nominated in two categories, Instrumental Release of the Year and Jazz Release of the Year, for his album “What If?”

We are very fortunate to have these accomplished artist-educators as MtA Music faculty!

Photos via East Coast Music Association

05/25/2026

MtA Music on the Road...
BMus students at MusicFest and National Youth Choir 2026

Matthew Mulvihill and Gabrielle Pottie were in Niagara Falls earlier this month, participating in National Honour Ensembles at the 2026 MusicFest Canada, May 10-15. Matthew performed in the trumpet section of the Jack Long Honour Band; Gabrielle joined the alto section of the Ellison Canadian Honour Choir.

Soprano Hannah Stilwell was one of the New Brunswick representatives to the 2026 National Youth Choir of Canada. Participants met in British Columbia for a rehearsal residency at Simon Fraser University, May 3-8, followed by a tour of the province with stops in Burnaby, Abbotsford, Courtenay, Parksville, Duncan, and Victoria, from May 8-15.

Photo Credits:
1 – Jack Long Honour Band
2 – Ellison Canadian Honour Choir, via Ellison Travel and Tours
3 – National Youth Choir of Canada, via Choral Canada

05/22/2026

Best wishes to participants in the upcoming 2026 NB Provincial Music Festival Finals!

Classes will take place May 25–29 in the Marjorie Young Bell Conservatory of Music and the Motyer-Fancy Theatre (Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts), presented by the NB Federation of Music Festivals (NBFMF).

The public is invited to attend – visit nbfmf.org/provincial/ for the adjudicator biographies and performance schedule.

05/21/2026

It’s East Coast Music Awards week – May 20-24, 2026 in Sydney, NS – and MtA Music is well represented with three faculty nominees:

2026 JUNO Award winner Amy Brandon is nominated for ECMA Classical Composer of the Year – an award that recognizes excellence in classical composition/music creation, based on a collection of works.

Adam Cicchillitti and his guitar duo partner Steve Cowan – the CC Duo – are nominated for Instrumental Release of the Year, for Lyrique – an album of their original arrangements of 19th and 20th century piano repertoire.

Joel Miller is nominated in two categories – Instrumental Release of the Year and Jazz Release of the Year – for his album What if? This recording showcases original compositions and re-imagined classical works, and features pianist Silvio Pupo and Resonance New Music Ensemble.

Best wishes to all!

05/21/2026

05/14/2026

Looking for a course in Fall 2026?
Check out Music and Mathematics, MUSC 1021 – a new course taught by Dr. Alan Dodson of the Department of Music. See the details below.