UBC music professor emeritus and violinist Andrew Dawes has received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Achievement for his music contributions. In 1965, Dawes helped found the Orford Quartet in which he played for 30 years. His recordings include Mozart and Beethoven cycles. For more information, click here.
UBC alumnus Eric Peterson received a Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Achievement for his theatre work. Peterson’s stage work took off in the 1970s at Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille. He gained recognition in Canada and abroad in the title role of John Gray’s play Billy Bishop Goes to War. He is also well-known for his work on the TV series Street Legal and Corner Gas. Next year, Peterson will star in the UBC Theatre’s production of Seeds, a dramatic re-enactment of the four-year legal battle between Saskatchewan farm Percy Schmeiser (Peterson) and one of the biggest biotech corporations, Monsanto Inc.
