The founding Chairman of the Department of Music, Dr. Gerald Henrie, a noted British organist and musicologist, was appointed in 1966.
Associate Professor; Chair of the Division of Music 1966-69
Director of Instrumental Ensembles; Music Instructor, Violin
Associate Professor, Education
Music courses were previously offered through the Department of Arts and Humanities since 1964. In 1967 the Division of Music, as part of the Faculty of Fine Arts, was established.
The first 6 candidates for the Bachelor of Music degree, mainly transfers from other institutions, were accepted to work under 4 full-time faculty and several part-time instructors.
Assistant Professor, Musicology, Organ
Conductor of the University Choir
Assistant Professor
While graduate degrees were authorized in 1969, it was a few years before the department accepted graduate students.
Chair 1969-1977; Professor, Musicology, Music instrument history; Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor, Conducting; Orchestra and Chorus Director; Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Trumpet, Brass chamber music
In January 1971, the Department hosted the 20th anniversary meeting of the Canadian League of Composers, a major coup that drew attention to the department. A few months later, Rudolf Komorous — one of the most distinguished contemporary music composers — was appointed head of the Composition section.
Associate Professor, Early Music
Major in Performance was approved and implemented in 1971.
Professor Emeritus, Piano
Jesse Read was the first student to graduate with an MMus at UVic.
Director of the School of Music 1977-1980; Associate Professor, Composition
Associate Professor, Horn and Brass Ensembles
UVic President, Hugh Farquhar, gave the go-ahead for preliminary planning of a music building, that would include a performance space, studios, rehearsal rooms, and practice rooms.
Professor, Director of Chamber Singers
Assistant Professor, Theory
Lanny Pollet (flutist) plays in the Palm Court Orchestra, performs world music with Denis Donnelly (Celtic harpist), is involved in chamber music and assists his wife, Frances Pollet, at First Metropolitan United Church as chorister and conductor.
Bruce hails from England where he fell in love with music at an early age - starting piano lessons when he was 6 and eventually qualifying as a teacher.
Associate Professor, Flute, Orchestration, Sight-Singing; Professor Emeritus
Associate Professor, Violin, Viola, String Chamber Music. Active in building the string ensembles (chamber orchestra) which he also took on tours in the Pacific Northwest.
Associate Professor, Composition, Theory, World Music. First head of the electronic studio.
Professor, Music History, Musicology (Mediaeval, Renaissance, and Baroque), Harpsichord, Organ; Professor Emeritus
Visiting Associate Professor, Musicology
Associate Professor, Bassoon, Chamber music, Conducting, Theory; Director of Wind Symphony
Director of the School of Music 1987-1992; Professor, Musicology; Professor Emeritus
Professor, Violin; Director (1980-87)
Acknowledged as a champion of Canadian composers. An advocate for the arts, he led the campaign attempting to save the CBC Radio Orchestra in 2008.
Michael trained as a teacher at Chester College in England from 1959 to 1960 and taught in the County of Surrey for nine years. In 1969 he emigrated to Victoria and began to teach in the Greater Victoria District. He worked towards a degree at the University of Victoria each summer. Completing his B.Ed in 1976, he later returned to UVic to complete his M.Ed in 1994. He has been retired since 2004 but still resides in Victoria.
Professor Emeritus, Music Theory; Director (1992-1998 and 1999-2004)
BMus 1965 (UBC); Professional Year (Faculty of Education, UBC); MA in Musicology 1976 (UVic)
Professor, Composition, Computer Music, Music Theory
Chair of Music Education Department
Sheri was born and raised in Victoria and supported in musical endeavors by a very musical family. After graduation from Reynolds Secondary in 1974, she attended UVic, studying music education in her first year, switching to the Department of Music in years 2-4. She completed her BMus in 1978. Sheri moved to Kamloops to join the Kamloops Symphony as principal flutist. In her second year there, she was asked to teach elementary music, K-7 on a letter of permission. Discovering that she loved teaching, she completed a PDP in teaching from Simon Fraser University. Returning to Victoria, she was employed first in Sooke, then Cowichan District and finally Saanich District. She met her husband, also a teacher, the same year she started in Saanich and they have now been together in Victoria for 30 years. She retired in 2012 to enjoy music-making, traveling, and caring for her family. Her new granddaughter is her newest joy.
Professor, Head of Voice and Opera
Tuba/Low Brass, Brass Ensembles, Aural Skills, Music Theory, Professor Emeritus
The Department of Music moves into its new building, the MacLaurin B-Wing.
Sandy became a high school band director and has recently retired from teaching. She is now back to playing clarinet in various groups such as the Sooke Philharmonic and Windrift Woodwind Quintet. In fact, this quintet just finished two concerts with a harpist, while four of their members are UVic music graduates of 1978! Sheri Robertson on flute, Sheila Longton on Oboe, Sandy on clarinet, and Annabelle Stanley on harp.
Music Instructor, Oboe
During Rudolf Komorous' stewardship as Chair, the University assented to the Department's request to become the School of Music with its head to be Director.
Music Instructor, Clarinet
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