Van Penick
MA Candidate
Why Dal?
I have a BA in Music from Princeton University and after a short detour through a career in law (I taught oil and gas law at Â鶹´«Ã½ Law School for 25 years), I've enrolled at Dal for the Masters in Musicology program.
What inspires me
At Princeton I studied with Lewis Lockwood, J.K. Randall and Kenneth Levy, and gained an enormous appreciation of the tonal system. I satisfied the performance requirement by playing the triangle to mild acclaim in Louis Spohr’s Notturno for Winds and Turkish Band.Ìý
Awards, honours and experience
- Director of the Symphony Nova Scotia Foundation.Ìý
- President of Symphony Nova Scotia (1993-95)
- Past President of the Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra.
- Was a Canadian Orchestra peer review panel member for the Canada Council
- Member of the steering committee to establish the Nova Scotia Arts Council
- Honourary life member of the Board of Governors of NSCAD University and chaired its board in 2005-2006.
- Took sight-singing and piano at the Manhattan School of Music in the summer of 1966.
- Studied Indian music and the sitar with Nikhil Banerjee near the University of California at Berkeley in the summer of 1967.