Fifty high school students had the rare opportunity this summer of learning from Juno-winning artists at York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD), thanks to a $40,000 donation from the Nick Nurse Foundation (NNF).
A $100,000 donation from the Justice Fund will provide financial support for 14 Black and Indigenous students to attend York University's School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design
A 2023 study ranks York University #1 in Ontario for cultural diversity in its Music and Dance curricula, highlighting the school’s commitment to inclusivity in performing arts education.
Prospective students worldwide can now experience AMPD 24/7, 365. The School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) has unveiled a new virtual tour resource to showcase its 300,000-square-feet worth of facilities, share student stories and highlight experiential education opportunities. The AMPD Virtual Tour allows visitors to view state-of-the-art facilities associated with different departments […]
The Ontario Arts Council is delighted to announce that pianist Christina Petrowska Quilico is the recipient of the 2023 Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance.
The York University School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design (AMPD) welcomes eight new faculty members this fall.
After the 65th Grammy Awards, acclaimed musician and educator Terri Lyne Carrington will join York University as the Oscar Peterson Artist-in-Residence at AMPD, sharing her expertise and advocacy for racial and gender justice in the music industry.
Eric Armstrong - AMPD Senior Teaching Award Winner “The OER we are creating now will serve as models for others to get involved and to show that it can be done. People start to think differently about the nature of teaching, the nature of resources and the nature of our responsibility to create a different […]
Stephanie Martin’s new Composition WATER: An Environmental Oratorio imagines two different worlds. In a fantastical world, Water is personified, surrounded by singing spirits. In the everyday world, played out in a fictional Northern Ontario town, a beleaguered Mayor must decide whether to support a developer’s factory, or protect the purest water on the planet. “One […]
AMPD music alum Lenka Lichtenberg (MA '93) took home the 2023 Juno Awards for Global Music Album Of The Year with her latest album, Thieves of Dreams, at the ceremony in Edmonton, Alberta. Lichtenberg uses her late grandmother's, Anna Hana, recently discovered journals as inspiration for Thieves of Dreams: Songs of Theresienstadt’s Secret Poetess. Hana wrote […]