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U of M music dean gets nod for East Coast Music Award

The University of Manitoba’s dean of music has been nominated for a 2013 East Coast Music Award.

Edmund Dawe, a Newfoundland-born pianist and head of the U of M’s faculty of music, got the nod in the category Best Classical Recording, along with his New Brunswick collaborator, multi-instrumentalist Lynn Johnson.

Dawe and Johnson are nominated for their CD, Dialogue, a compilation of two-piano works recorded at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio in Toronto in 2012. It features works by Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Dmitri Shostakovich, Haim Alexander and Clermont Pépin.

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