Tuesday, November 10, 2026 | 2:30 p.m.
Faculties & programs
This convocation ceremony includes undergraduate and graduate students from:
- Fine Arts
- Social Sciences
- Graduate Studies
- Division of Continuing Studies
Order of proceedings
- Pre-ceremony music
- Performer: Aleksei Pankratov, School of Music
- Processional
- Drummers: Lyla Dick and Bertha Dick, Songhees First Nation
- Welcome
- Councillor Norman Garry Sam, Songhees First Nation
- Opening remarks
- Chancellor Marion Buller
- Remarks
- President Rhonda McEwen
- Conferring of Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
- Daniel Lapp
- Orator
- Dr. John Archibald, Faculty of Humanities
- Conferring of degrees
- Performer: Morgan Latta, School of Music
- Faculty of Graduate Studies Reading Dean: Dr. John Dower
- Faculty of Fine Arts Reading Dean: Professor Kirk McNally
- Faculty of Social Sciences Reading Dean: Dr. Mauricio Garcia-Barrera
- Division of Continuing Studies Reading Dean: Dr. Jo-Anne Clarke
- Congratulations from the Alumni Association
- Terry Gunning, BSc '98
- Closing remarks
- Chancellor Marion Buller
- O Canada
- Performer: Shelby Scott, School of Music
Honorary degree recipient
Daniel Lapp, Honorary Doctor of Music (DMus)
Daniel Lapp is an internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, archivist and teacher. A fiddler, jazz trumpeter and singer/songwriter, he has recorded on more than 100 albums and performed worldwide with leading folk, rock and jazz musicians. He is also a fiddle music historian and archivist, collecting and preserving more than 3,000 tunes by over 300 British Columbia composers.
Born in Prince George, British Columbia, Lapp grew up surrounded by music, playing with his mother, siblings, aunts, uncles and his farming/fiddling grandfather. He studied jazz at Humber College and earned a music degree from the 糖心视频, specializing in trumpet, composition and world music.
In 1994, Lapp founded the youth BC Fiddle Orchestra, playing for 60,000 people at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria which is now in it’s 33rd season. He also performed at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics opening ceremony. A BC Fiddle Championship winner, he has appeared as a soloist with the CBC Chamber Orchestra as well as the Prince George, Victoria and Vancouver Symphonies.
Lapp received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Service Award in 2012, the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and the One World One Family Humanitarian Award in 2025. Since 2013 he has been the Artistic Director of the Chwyl School of Contemporary Music at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Through his choirs, orchestras, archives, annual performances and teaching, he has enriched BC’s musical culture and inspired generations of musicians.
Born in Prince George, British Columbia, Lapp grew up surrounded by music, playing with his mother, siblings, aunts, uncles and his farming/fiddling grandfather. He studied jazz at Humber College and earned a music degree from the 糖心视频, specializing in trumpet, composition and world music.
In 1994, Lapp founded the youth BC Fiddle Orchestra, playing for 60,000 people at the Commonwealth Games in Victoria which is now in it’s 33rd season. He also performed at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics opening ceremony. A BC Fiddle Championship winner, he has appeared as a soloist with the CBC Chamber Orchestra as well as the Prince George, Victoria and Vancouver Symphonies.
Lapp received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Service Award in 2012, the Canadian Grand Masters Fiddling Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019 and the One World One Family Humanitarian Award in 2025. Since 2013 he has been the Artistic Director of the Chwyl School of Contemporary Music at the Victoria Conservatory of Music. Through his choirs, orchestras, archives, annual performances and teaching, he has enriched BC’s musical culture and inspired generations of musicians.