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Matthew Cairns (photo courtesy of Cairns)

Tenor Matthew Cairns, a UUֱ�� alumnus and member of the Canadian Opera Company’s Ensemble Studio, is a winner of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

Formerly known as the National Council Auditions, the competition crowned six winners who performed live and on-stage at the Met on May 1.

"Matthew Cairns' formidable success is a tribute to his single-minded engagement to accomplish his goals,” Associate Professor Darryl Edwards of the Faculty of Music said. “Equally extraordinary is Matt's ongoing mentorship [of UUֱ�� students]. He is an exemplary artist-citizen who knows what it takes to grow singing skills and performing integrity in a supportive environment.

“He has always had the instrument and the ability and now has an incredible command of the performing moment.”

Cairns, who recently signed with IMG Artists and is currently appearing in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of The Magic Flute, follows in the footsteps of alumna Emily D’Angelo, who won in 2016.

Rea Beaumont receives 2021 SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research

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Rea Beaumont receives 2021 SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research

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SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music

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Rea Beaumont has received the 2021 SOCAN Foundation/MusCan Award of Excellence for the Advancement of Research in Canadian Music from the Canadian University Music Society and the SOCAN Foundation.

The award recognizes research and scholarship in Canadian music and composers that leads to greater understanding of Canadian music among scholars, musicians, performers and audiences.

In a statement, the organizations praised the work of Beaumont, an adjunct professor at the UUֱ��’s Faculty of Music, saying: “Her academic and artistic research outcomes are exemplified by her book on Barbara Pentland, her podcasts, websites, blogs, teaching and course design, articles, interviews, composer collaborations, over 60 world premieres of Canadian works, as well as papers, reviews, and her mentorships and adjudications.”

Beaumont says she is deeply honoured to have her expertise in Canadian music and culture recognized by the organizations.

“Since the beginning of my career I have shared Canadian music internationally through my solo piano concerts, many publications, and my own compositions,” Beaumont says. “As a proud Canadian I am committed to introducing audiences around the world to the music of this country and highlighting our cultural diversity."

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Connaught New Researcher Awards recognize 53 faculty members across UUֱ��

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Connaught New Researcher Awards recognize 53 faculty members across UUֱ��

Connaught New Researcher Awards

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Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

Faculty of Arts & Science

Rotman School of Management

IBME

OISE

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

UUֱ�� Mississauga

UUֱ�� Scarborough

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The UUֱ�� has recognized 53 faculty members across the three campuses with the Connaught New Researcher Award.

“I am elated to receive this award and recognition for my work,” said Kyle Ganson of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, who is investigating the phenomenon known as bio-hacking. “My hope is that these findings will help promote the health and well-being of young people by ensuring that assessment and treatment protocols are informed and resources are allocated appropriately.”

Designed to help winners establish a strong research program and increase their competitiveness for external funding, the award is supported by the Connaught Fund and is part of UUֱ��’s commitment to fostering excellence in research and innovation by supporting faculty members who are in the early stages of their academic careers.

“These researchers are doing important and innovative work across the humanities, life sciences, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences,” said Professor Leah Cowen, UUֱ��’s associate vice-president, research. “Kaja Jasinska’s research will help us understand the impact of interrupted schooling on the development neural systems for reading of resettled refugee children. Kevin White’s work on decolonizing Haudenosaunee oral history will develop collaborative research methods with Six Nations of the Grand River – and Yun William Yu will develop new mathematical algorithms and computer software for analyzing genome sequences.

“They – along with 50 other faculty members across the university – will create knowledge that has a significant impact on people’s lives, thanks to the support of the Connaught Fund.”

Read about award-winner John Calarco

Read about award-winner Rafael Montenegro-Burke

Read about award winners at UUֱ�� Engineering

Read about award winners at the Faculty of Arts & Science

Read about award winners at Temerty Faculty of Medicine

Read about award winners at UUֱ�� Scarborough

See the complete list of Connaught New Researchers

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Farzaneh Hemmasi receives award from Connaught Community Research Partnerships Program

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Farzaneh Hemmasi receives award from Connaught Community Research Partnerships Program

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Connaught Community Research Partnerships Program

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Associate Professor Farzaneh Hemmasi of the Faculty of Music has received an award from the Connaught Community Research Partnerships Program for her project, Keeping Kensington “Kensington”: Value and Affordability in Toronto’s Kensington Market.

The project will build on relationships initiated through the UUֱ�� Ethnography Lab’s Kensington Market Research Project and Hemmasi’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council-funded research on music, sound, and noise in Kensington Market.

“Everyone knows that Toronto is increasingly unaffordable. It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of the rising residential and commercial real estate prices that not only make it difficult for many people to live or operate a business downtown but simultaneously threaten the social and cultural diversity Torontonians are so proud of,” Hemmasi said. “Residents and business owners in Toronto’s Kensington Market neighbourhood experience these pressures every day, and have come up with many creative ways to address the forces that endanger their neighbourhood’s distinctiveness.

“I’m thrilled that the Connaught Community Research Partnership Program has funded this project, a collaboration between resident-led activist organization Friends of Kensington Market (FOKM), the Kensington Market Business Improvement Area (KMBIA), and UUֱ�� ethnomusicologists and anthropologists, to better understand the interplay of value, (un)affordability, and culture in Kensington Market,” Hemmasi said. “I also want to thank and acknowledge the many contributions of Assistant Professor and Ethnography Lab Senior Researcher Andrew Gilbert of UUֱ�� Mississauga to the proposal and project as it is unfolding.

“It's a great collaboration all around.”

An ethnomusicologist, Hemmasi is the author of the recently released Tehrangeles Dreaming, Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California's Iranian Pop Music.

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Five researchers win awards from Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program

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Five researchers win awards from Connaught Community Partnerships Research Program

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