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Music's next chapter, with Sophie Roland

A scholar, mezzo-soprano and educator takes the Don Wright Faculty of Music into a new five-year term.

Sophie Roland named Faculty of Music dean. Official Western News image.
Campus & cultureSophie Roland named Faculty of Music dean. Official Western News image.Photo: Western News / official source page

Sophie Roland arrives at the dean's office with a life that crosses performance, scholarship and teaching. That mix gives the Faculty of Music a leader who can speak to both the stage and the institution around it.

For alumni, the appointment is less a change of title than an invitation to watch how a creative discipline makes room for its next chapter.

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  1. Original reporting · news.westernu.ca
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