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The overall size of the woodwind department and instrumental studios provides each student significant individual attention and performance opportunities. Whether you aspire to work as a professional performer, music educator, producer, manager, acoustic engineer, or other, we have a place for you in Hartt's woodwind department.
Please note: We have students who come to Hartt from across the United States and around the world. That is one of the things that makes a Hartt education so special. Some students are accepted and arrive having had extensive private study on their instruments. Others have had less experience (and perhaps less conventional training), but their natural abilities and great love of music allow them to make remarkable strides in a short period of time because of the expertise of our faculty.
Our requirements are sometimes quite specific to give applicants a sense of where they should be to enter a high-level conservatory environment. However, we encourage applicants to reach out to our faculty members to discuss audition repertoire. It may be that what you have prepared will suffice. Our primary goal is to identify potential, and if we feel that the potential is there, it is then our responsibility to provide each and every student with the tools to be successful.
MM and GPD saxophone applicants should prepare a program of a minimum of two major works. These should demonstrate musical and stylistic variety and should represent your highest level of musical and technical development.
DMA and AD saxophone applicants should prepare a program of a minimum of three major works. These should demonstrate musical and stylistic variety and should represent your highest level of musical and technical development.
Note: All DMA and AD candidates must audition with piano accompaniment where appropriate. If you require an accompanist for your audition, you may bring your own or request a Hartt accompanist. There is a $50 fee for a Hartt accompanist, which includes the audition and one 30-minute rehearsal (on the day of the audition). If you require an accompanist, you must notify Hartt Admissions at hart...@hartford.edu at least three (3) weeks prior to your audition. Be sure to include your name, contact information, degree program, instrument, warm-up and audition times, and repertoire that requires accompaniment.
Music Composition offers degree programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as a minor. The program provides students the guidance they need to express their individuality through their music.
Students will engage in a vigorous orchestral experience where they will expand their knowledge and enjoyment of advanced repertoire with like-minded musicians. CSO offers rich concert programming experiences through major works of the orchestral canon as well as groundbreaking works representing music of our time.
Director: Gabriela Gmez Estvez
Meets: Tuesday 4:45 - 6:25 pm, Thursday 4:45 - 6:45 pm
Visit the Orchestra website for more information.
This coached chamber music course focuses on the performance of standard and emerging saxophone quartet (SATB) and sextet (sopranino through bass) music. Instruction emphasizes rehearsal skills, leadership, and collaborative methods; familiarization with the repertory; musical analysis through performance; and the development of a historically informed, musically unified, interpretation. The course will conclude with a concert featuring music prepared throughout the semester in collaboration with the Ithaca College saxophone quartet.
CCO provides our musicians the opportunity to come together in an ensemble setting to rehearse and perform the highest quality literature from the chamber orchestra repertoire.
Director: Gabriela Gmez Estvez
Meets: Monday 4:45 - 6:25 pm, Wednesday 4:45 - 6:45 pm
Visit the Orchestra website for more information.
The Wind Symphony unites student musicians in an ensemble dedicated to the study and performance of emerging and traditional wind repertoire. Visit the Wind Symphony website for more information.
Director: James Spinazzola
Meets: Monday 4:45 - 6:45 pm, Wednesday 4:45 - 6:45 pm
Small ensembles meet weekly to explore diverse flute repertoire with a variety of instrumentation (piccolo, alto flute, bass flute). There will be a performance opportunity at the end of the semester.
Director: Juliana Pepinsky
Groups and times to be arranged
Performs the traditional repertoire of Central Javanese gamelan. Priority is given to those with prior experience, whether from having taken MUSIC 2341 Gamelan in Indonesian History and Cultures or otherwise, but newcomers with applicable musical ability are welcome. The ability to read staff notation is not required, but a good ear and sense of rhythm are helpful. Individual instruction is offered as necessary. Those wishing to learn more advanced instruments and techniques should also enroll in MUSIC 4641. Find out more about gamelan at Cornell or watch this trailer.
Director: Christopher J. Miller
Meets: Monday 7:30 - 9:25 pm in Lincoln Hall B24
The Frost Saxophone Ensemble (FSE), under the direction of Professor of Saxophone Dale Underwood, is comprised of graduate and undergraduate students at the Frost School of Music. The mission of the ensemble is to perform a diverse range of entertaining and educational repertoire while simultaneously challenging its student musicians to grow in their art form. FSE places a strong focus on the premiering of works composed or arranged by students and faculty as well as collaborating with guest faculty artists. FSE is one of the few saxophone ensembles in the world to utilize a contrabass saxophone.
Shelly Berg, Dean of the Frost School of Music
Dr. Robert Carnochan, Music Director/Conductor of the Frost Wind Ensemble
Charles Castleman, Professor of Violin
Gary Green, Emeritus Professor of Music and Director of Bands
Dr. Stephen Guerra, Director of Studio Jazz Writing and Jazz Composition
Dr. Dorothy Hindman, Associate Professor of Composition
Trudy Kane, Emeritus Associate Professor of Flute
Santiago Rodriguez, Professor and Chair of Keyboard Performance
Richard Todd, Professor of Horn
Symphonic Winds meets Monday and Wednesday from 4:20-6 p.m. and on Thursday evening from 6:15-7:15 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center. This select group of 65 students rehearses the highest quality concert band literature in preparation for their formal concerts and tours. Each semester the Winds perform three to five times both on and off campus. Comprised of a large number of music majors, this ensemble also includes outstanding musicians who are not majoring or minoring in music. These students represent most of the academic programs available at the university.
Symphonic Band meets Tuesday and Thursday from 4:20-6 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center. This group of 85 students rehearses and performs outstanding band literature. Students in this band represent most of the major programs on the Bradley campus. Ensembles at Bradley are "free of charge" meaning a student can maintain their academic program without incurring any additional cost to participate in the band. Students earn credit and a grade. Some scholarships for the concert band program exist and are awarded each fall following auditions.
The Percussion Ensemble rehearses Tuesday evenings and performs one or two performances each semester. All Bradley students are welcome and most are performing in other large ensembles on campus. A typical concert fills the stage with equipment as Bradley provides outstanding percussion instruments for our students.
The Saxophone Quartets and Quintets perform each semester. The two saxophone quartets specialize in original quartet works for saxophone and also some transcriptions. The saxophone quintet, an ensemble unique in all the world to Bradley, is primarily playing transcriptions of works from a wide area of periods and composers. Bradley students benefit from the library of the Illinois Saxophone Quintet, a well-known ensemble formed in 1972 that performed world-wide.
Dr. Mark C. Ely is Professor of Music Education and Saxophone Performance at the University of Utah. Dr. Ely holds a Master of Music Degree in saxophone performance from Western Michigan University where he studied with Trent Kynaston, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from The Ohio State University where he studied with Dr. Burdette Green, Dr. Jere Forsythe, and Mr. James Hill.
Dr. Ely is an active performer, clinician, and adjudicator. He has performed with a variety of ensembles at state, regional, and national conferences including: National MENC Conference; College Band Director's National Association Conference; Music Educators National Conference; World Saxophone Congress; North American Saxophone Alliance; and the Utah Music Educators Association Professional Development Conference. He most recently performed A Sudden Change in the Consistency of Snow by Peter Swendsen at the 2008 Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Dr. Ely presents regularly at national and state conferences and has several publications to his credit. His book entitled Dictionary of Music Education: A Handbook of Terminology co-authored with Amy E. Rashkin, Esq. is now available through GIA Publications. Dr. Ely and Ms. Amy Van Deuren are currently working on a two-volume book set that focuses on wind instrument pedagogy entitled Wind Talk: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Teaching Woodwind and Brass Instruments. Wind Talk will be released in June, 2009. Dr. Ely has held offices at the state and national levels as well, including: the Utah Higher Education Research Chair, the Utah State CMENC Chair, and the Western Division Chair of CMENC. He received a Superior Achievement Award in Music Education from the Utah Music Educators Association in 2003-2004. Prior to university teaching, Dr. Ely was Director of Bands in the Ross County Public School System in Ohio where he taught elementary, junior high, and senior high instrumental music.
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