{"id":11846,"date":"2024-01-23T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T14:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=11846"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T19:03:09","slug":"ben-heppner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/ben-heppner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Heppner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Ben Heppner\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"163\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ben-Heppner.png\" alt=\"Ben Heppner\" class=\"wp-image-11847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ben-Heppner.png 163w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Ben-Heppner-160x192.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Heppner was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, November 14, &#8220;in recognition of his contribution to the pure enjoyment and appreciation of classical music through his consummate artistry, creative genius, arts advocacy, and ability to communicate his impressive knowledge.&#8221;<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He gained an international reputation as a prominent contemporary dramatic tenor. His career has taken him to opera stages and concert halls around the globe. Associated particularly with the Wangerian repertoire, he has performed a wide range of operas from the German, French and Italian canons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Heppner, who announced his retirement from singing in April 2014, studied music at the University of British Columbia and first attracted national attention in 1979 as the winner of the CBC Talent Festival. He is a 1988 winner of the Metropolitan Opera auditions and received Grammy\u00ae Awards in 1998 for his recording of Die Meistersinger on London\/Decca records and in 2001 for his recording of Les Troyens with the London Symphony Orchestra on LSOLive. He is a Companion of the Order of Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ben Heppner has taken his voice to the airwaves of CBC Radio as the host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Backstage. He also hosts master classes, coaches singers for roles and appears on voice competition juries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has received several honorary doctorates in addition to many other awards for his singing talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=swq66XOfnOM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Ben Heppner<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Heppner was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, at the 2:00 p.m. ceremony on Saturday, November 14, &#8220;in recognition of his contribution to the pure enjoyment and appreciation of classical music through his consummate artistry, creative genius, arts advocacy, and ability to communicate his impressive knowledge.&#8221; He gained an international reputation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-11846","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11846"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13583,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11846\/revisions\/13583"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=11846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}