Concerts, Guest Artists, Exhibitions, Talks and Recitals
Thank you to all who came to our last SoCA Event!
Upcoming exhibitions and performances:
Entrepreneurship for Musicians: How to Build Your Ideal Portfolio Career
You may be asking yourself: "What do you do after graduation?" In this presentation we will dive into some of the realities of a music career and explore options beyond just performance and teaching.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12-1 pm
Performance Hall
Open to all SoCA students
Presenter: Brianna DeSantis. Brianna is a singer, teacher and conductor here in Windsor and has been steadily building a career in music over the past few years. For more details on her professional life, check out her website: https://www.briannadesantis.com/
Temporal Waves
Monday, March 2, 2026, 7:00pm
Multimedia Studio, Wildeman Room 107
3650 Freedom Way
Free admission
Temporal Waves is the latest project from renowned Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky, transporting the tabla into a rich electronic sound world, with Shawn's tabla bathed in the neon glow of analog synthesizers. Temporal Waves is an excursion deep into aural science fiction. Montreal's Shawn Mativetsky has long been celebrated as one of Canada's leading ambassadors of the tabla, and next to his exceptional musicianship, it's his unquenchable curiosity that one most frequently hears praised. Mativetsky is an accomplished practitioner of Indian classical music, but is equally embedded in the contemporary music realm, where he has established himself as both a champion of living composers and a generous collaborator to the likes of Tim Brady, Nicole Lizée, and Dinuk Wijeratne. An avid improviser, he can also be found accompanying countless other artists across and beyond the spectrum between jazz, pop, and global traditions.
This may be his first foray into electronic music within recent memory, but anyone familiar with Mativetsky's output will tell you that he's no tourist anywhere he goes; his roots always run deep. Spending his youth steeped in the 8-bit timbres of the Atari 400, Nintendo Entertainment System, and early PCs, the 1990s saw him actively involved in the DIY electronic music scene that congregated around 'tracker' software, and was a key member of the online tracker collective NOiSE. In the early 2000s, he performed with Indo-electronic project, Ramasutra, and for the past several years, has been collaborating with live coder David Ogborn in their electronic music duo, very long cat.
Videos of Temporal Waves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_17e6PGJO4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GqGTYefOHw
Upcoming SoCA Events
Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 - SoCA Live - Exhibitions and Performances
Mar 21 - Niko Usru Student Recital
Mar 22 - Michael Gordon Student Recital
Mar 22 - Shuah Cho Student Recital
Mar 27 - Jazz Ensemble Concert
Mar 29 - Josh Dunkley Student Recital
Mar 29 - Saxophone recital
Apr 2 - VSAR 2030 Exhibition Reception
Apr 17 - 2026 Visual Arts Student Exhibition
University Jazz Ensemble and Honours High School Jazz Ensemble
Friday, March 27, 2026, 7:30pm
Capitol Theatre, 121 University Ave. W.
Join the University Jazz Ensemble and Honours High School Jazz Ensemble for a great performance of big-band style music, featuring vocals by Madeline Abanid and Gianluca Ieraci. Both ensembles directed by Robert Fazecash.
If you have any questions about SoCA Events, please contact Trevor Pittman at tpittman@uwindsor.ca or 519-253-3000 ext. 2799.