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EMBA Alumni ReceptioN April 6 On April 6, more than 35 of the School’s EMBA alumni and current EMBA students gathered at Alumni House on campus for their first ever exclusive alumni event. Participants had a chance to extend their personal networks by meeting many of the executives who have previously participated in the program. Stay tuned for similar networking opportunities in the future!
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1. Mouna Hamdon, ’11 EMBA; Carlos Pardo, ’11 EMBA; and Sebastian Panciuk, ’11 EMBA 2. 2012 EMBA students Douglas Brooks, Chris Dickson, Neil Levine, Clive Oshry, Tony Kateryniuk, and Aziz Bootwala
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Making a Musical Mark The past few months have been particularly exciting for Guillaume Tardif, ’10 EMBA. On March 25, he took the stage of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall to perform the complete 24 Caprices for violin by Paganini, accompanied by pianist Roger Admiral (the duet introduced a rare accompanied version of the work, by Raymond Gallois-Montbrun). The musicians were thrilled to find a full and enthusiastic audience and are now preparing the release of a CD recording of the work.
“Musicians are entrepreneurs in their own way, with a responsibility of bringing great music to life,” he shares. Perhaps the business principals of synergy and collaboration also translate to innovation in music. At home, Guillaume was also recently recognized for his leading role with the Enterprise Quartet project. Over the last two years, the university-based string quartet has presented an innovative series of free masterwork concerts at Enterprise Square, downtown campus. The project, sponsored by the Killam and Skarin foundations, treated fullcapacity audiences to performances of complex cycles of works introduced by faculty hosts from various research disciplines. “Our motto for this project is ‘Dare to Discover - Music’,” says Guillaume. “We are so pleased with how everyone shared our enthusiasm, and how our audience grew in such a short time. We look forward to more.” Recently, the Enterprise Quartet was involved in the creation of new pieces by graduate composers, and took on a mentoring role as part of a new string quartet training program in collaboration with the Edmonton Youth Orchestra and the Musicians-in-the Making local young talent showcase program at the Winspear Centre. For these initiatives, Guillaume was nominated for the Telus Courage to Innovate Award at the Mayor’s Celebration for the Arts, held in April.