From the Gordon Vogt Tribute
Please click on the links below to learn more about the Gordon Vogt Film Screening, and to enjoy a gallery of photos from the event.
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Tribute Event Honours Alumnus
Bruce Vogt felt the best way to honour his late brother, Gordon Vogt, Arts’70, MA’73, was by combining two things he loved — film and music.
A special naming ceremony for the new Gordon Vogt Film Screening Room took place on Oct. 2 at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts. Those in attendance heard many memories about Gordon, who died of cancer at the age of 38.
PORTRAIT OF FRANZ LISZT: BRUCE VOGT, PIANO
Classical Music: UVic's Vogt shares devotion to Liszt
As both performer and scholar, Vogt has had a special interest in Liszt since 1980, the year he began teaching in the University of Victoria’s School of Music. (He is currently a professor, and has been head of the piano department since 1991.) Liszt’s music, he has said, liberated him as a pianist, and Liszt remains the composer with whom he is most closely associated.
The Art of the Piano: Bruce Vogt
Bruce Vogt returns to play the piano he helped purchase
It was 1981, and after performing on a derelict piano at Merritt Secondary School, Bruce Vogt decided the Nicola Valley was in need of something a little more “grand.”
In donating the proceeds of his show that year to the Nicola Valley Arts Council, Vogt kickstarted a fund that would eventually blossom into the C7F Grand Piano which now occupies the Merritt Civic Centre.