Spotlight on the UBC Symphony’s Jonathan Girard

To judge from what’s become the new normal, 2018 should be quite the year for conductor Jonathan Girard and the UBC Symphony Orchestra. Girard, who has a doctorate from Rochester’s famed Eastman School of Music, came to UBC on July 1, 2012. Since then he has been building on the heritage of the UBCSO, but in his own affable way, stretching the ensemble and redefining it.
Actually, it’s all going according to plan. “One of the things I did when I applied for this job was t