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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.
Photo: Western News
The context
Where the work begins
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.
The takeaway
What follows
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.
Source reporting
Music's next chapter, with Sophie Roland
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