CONSERVATORIES SCHOOLS OF MUSIC& Special Advertising Section School of Music

Admission Requirements Scholarship Information Contact Average GPA: 3.0 % Students Receiving Aid: 75% Jane Cho Scholastic Tests: Yes Program Specific Related Awards: Yes Director of Administration Average ACT: English 21, Math 22 Other Financial Aid: Special Awards, Macaulay Average SAT: 1020 minimum (Math: 520, Verbal: 500) Honors College Scholarship Interview Required: No address Placement Tests Required: Yes Ensembles 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Auditions Live: Yes Tape: OK–DVD required instrumental Orchestra, String Ensemble, Brass Flushing, NY 11367 Ensemble, Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, Application Deadline(s) Woodwind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, New phone Early Decision: Mid January 2011 Music Ensemble, Saxophone Ensemble 718-997-3800 choral Choral Society, Choir, Chorus, Vocal Instrumental Auditions Ensemble fax On-Campus: Yes, all instruments 718-997-3849 Off-Campus: Yes, some woodwinds Private Instruction Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 5-10%, varies with Private Instruction Required: Yes email instrument Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour or 30 minutes [email protected] Available for Non-Majors: No Vocal Auditions Cost Included in Tuition: Yes website On-Campus: Yes http://qcpages.qc.edu/music/ Off-Campus: No Representative Alumni Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 5-7% Marvin Hamlisch, Bright Sheng, Erika Sunnegårdh, Joann Falletta type Undergraduate Faculty Comprehensive instrumental Part Time: 50, Full Time: 10 Practice Facilities Music School Student/Teacher Ratio: 4:1 Number of Rooms: 60 vocal Part Time: 8, Full Time: 1 Number of Rooms with Piano: 50 setting Student/Teacher Ratio: 3:1 In Residence Hall: 2 Urban Degrees Housing size of school BA: Yes Available: Yes (Summit) 19,700 BM: Yes See http://www.thesummitatqc.com BME: Yes On Campus First Year Required: No Others: Certificate Programs in Performance Dorms Located Near Music Building: No size of music school 400 Graduation Requirements BA bm BME Total Course Hours: 120 credits Senior Recital: Yes Junior Recital: Optional Exit Exams: Yes

EXPENSES IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE

Application $65 $65

tuition $2,300 $415 per credit

room / board Please visit our website http://www.thesummitatqc.com Single $6,500/semester Double $4,600/semester books / supplies $650 $650 living expenses $1,500/semester $1,500/semester total $8,900 (in-state) to $23,460 (out-of-state living in the dorm) per semester

46 july/august 2010 Aaron Copland School of Music EDWARD SMALDONE, DIRECTOR

Queens College’s Aaron Copland School of Music offers

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES Bachelor of Arts in Music Bachelor of Music (Classical Performance) Bachelor of Arts in Bachelor of Music with Music Education (4½-year program)

GRADUATE DEGREES Master of Arts (Composition, Theory, History/Musicology, Classical Performance) Master of Arts (Jazz Performance, Jazz Composition) Master of Science (Music Education) Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts (Accelerated Program) Graduate Certi cate and Advanced Diploma (Classical Performance, Music Education)

Scholarships up to full tuition are available on a competitive basis. On-campus housing is available: visit http://www.thesummitatqc.com

Our 2009 production of Monteverdi’s L’O r feo was awarded rst prize in the 2008–2009 National Association Opera Production Competition.

For more information contact: Jane Cho, Director of Administration [email protected] 718-997-3800 www.qc.cuny.edu/music

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Admission Requirements Degrees Contact Interview Required: For Music Education, BA: Music, Arts Dr. Jeffrey Bush Music Therapy, Music Composition BM: Performance, Theory/Composition, Placement Tests Required: Yes Music Education, Music Therapy, Jazz Studies, address Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes Musical Theatre Collaborative Piano P.O. Box 870405 Application Deadline(s) Graduation Requirements Tempe, AZ 85202 Regular Decision: University, rolling deadline. BA Bm Preferential Deadline: February 1 Total Course Hours: 120 120-132 phone Audition Deadline: See website Course Hours in Major: 50 79-84 480-965-5069 Automatic Scholarship Consideration (University): Course Hours Outside Major: 70 42 December 1 Senior Recital: No Yes fax Junior Recital: No Yes* 480-727-6544 Instrumental Auditions *performance majors only On-Campus: Yes email Off-Campus: No Scholarship Information [email protected] Percentage Auditioning Accepted: variable by studio % Students Receiving Aid: 35% and year Program-Specific Related Awards: Several website Other Financial Aid: Work-study http://music.asu.edu Vocal Auditions On-Campus: Yes Ensembles Off-Campus: No instrumental: bands Sun Devil Marching setting Percentage Auditioning Accepted: variable Band, Basketball Band, Dixie Devils, Sparky’s Sliders, Urban Chamber Ensembles, Wind Ensemble, Concert Herberger Institute for Undergraduate Faculty Band, Wind Symphony orchestras Symphony, Design and the Arts instrumental Full Time: 30 Part Time: 10 Sinfonietta, Chamber Ensembles, Lynne Aspnes, harp; Elizabeth Buck, flute; Nancy Residency jazz Concert Jazz, Jazz Repertory, Latin size of school Buck, ; Andrew Campbell, collaborative piano; Jazz, Percussion Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos 68,064 Walter Cosand, piano; John Ericson, French horn; percussion Contemporary Percussion, Percussion Robert Hamilton, piano; David Hickman, trumpet; Ensemble ethnomusicology African Drum, Danwen Jiang, violin; Michael Kocour, jazz studies; Brazilian Bateria, Pan Devils Steel Band, Gamelan size of music school Frank Koonce, guitar; Thomas Landschoot, violoncello; Orchestra, Latin Marimba choral Chamber 880 Kimberly Marshall, organ; Timothy McAllister, saxophone; Singers, Symphonic Chorale, Choral Union, Men’s Katherine McLin, violin; Baruch Meir, piano; Albie Chorus, Women’s Chorus, Lyric Opera Theatre Micklich, bassoon; Robert Mills, vocal coaching; Caio Pagano, piano; Samuel Pilafian, tuba/euphonium; Private Instruction Catalin Rotaru, bass; Russell Ryan, collaborative piano; Private Instruction Required: Yes Ralph Sauer, trombone; Martin Schuring, oboe; Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour J. B. Smith, percussion; Robert Spring, clarinet; Available for Non-Majors: Occasionally Jana Starling, clarinet; Mark Sunkett, percussion; Cost Included in Tuition: Yes Jonathan Swartz, violin; Jan Thompson, piano Additional Private Instruction $150 per semester Accompanists Provided: Accompaniment pool available vocal Full Time: 5 Key Faculty: David Britton, Jerry Doan, Practice Facilities Carole Fitzpatrick, Ann Kopta, Judy May Number of Rooms: 85 Number of Rooms with Piano: 85 Number of Rooms Assigned: 15 Number of Room Unassigned: 70 In Residence Hall: 3

Housing See www.asu.edu/housing EXPENSES (UNDGD) IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE Available: Yes See http://students.asu.edu/cost-attendance On Campus First Year Required: No TOTAL Calculate estimated annual student expenses Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes at website listed above. Other: Convenient off-campus housing

48 july/august 2010

The Conservatory

Admission Requirements Scholarship Information CONTACT Average GPA: 3.2 % Students Receiving Aid: 55% – percentage of Sipra Agrawal Scholastic Tests: SAT or ACT students receiving Boston Conservatory scholarship. Interview Required: Composition, Collaborative Does not include students who are receiving federal ADDRESS Piano, Music Ed, Vocal Pedagogy applicants only aid of any kind 8 The Fenway, Placement Tests Required: For non-English speaking Program-Specific Related Awards: Yes students only Other Financial Aid: Federal Loans, Grants and Boston, MA 02215 Audition Required: Yes Work-Study Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes PHONE Other: Some instruments require a prescreening recording. Ensembles 617-912-9153 Masters in Opera, Artists Diploma, Collaborative Piano instrumental The Boston Conservatory Orchestra, and Vocal Pedagogy require a live audition Hemenway Strings; Wind Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, FAX Saxophone Ensemble; Percussion Ensemble; Opera and 617-247-3159 Application Deadline(s) Musical Theater Pit Orchestra; Dance Orchestra and Early Decision: No more... EMAIL Regular Decision: December 1, 2010 choral Women’s Chorus, Chorale, admissions@ Opera Workshop bostonconservatory.edu Instrumental Auditions On-Campus: Yes Private Instruction WEBSITE Off-Campus: Yes Private Instruction Required: Yes www.bostonconservatory.edu Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 47% Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Available for Non-Majors: No Vocal Auditions Cost Included in Tuition: Yes TYPE On-Campus: Yes Accompanists Provided: Yes Private Conservatory of Off-Campus: Yes music, dance and theater Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 44% Practice Facilities Yes, we do have practice facilities, the majority SETTING UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY with pianos Urban MUSIC: Part Time: 82, Full Time: 41 In Residence Hall: None Student-Teacher Ration: 201:123 or 1.5:1 SIZE OF SCHOOL fraternal & professional music DEGREES organizations 684 BM: Yes Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Alpha Iota, International Others: MM, MMED, GPD, AD, CDP Student Organization, Music Educators National SIZE OF MUSIC SCHOOL Conference (MENC), Umoja, and more... 382 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS BA mm Housing Total Course Hours: 121-132 30-45 Available: Yes, first year only guaranteed Course Hours Outside Major: 30 On Campus First Year Required: Yes Senior Recital: Yes Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes Junior Recital: Yes Exit Exams: Yes

EXPENSES UNDERGRADUATE $125 APPLICATION $110 (non-refundable) TUITION $33,800 ROOM /BOARD $16,200 BOOKS / SUPPLIES $2,500 LIVING EXPENSES varies total $52,000–$55,000

50 july/august 2010 MUSIC FACULTY Karl PaulnacK, Director, Music Division

BRASS STRINGS Lawrence Isaacson, Chair Andrew Mark, Chair TrumpeT: Steven Emery, Ben Wright violin: Lynn Chang, Judith Eissenberg, FrenCh horn: Eli Epstein, Kevin Owen Ronan Lefkowitz, Sharan Leventhal, Trombone: Norman Bolter, John Faieta, Joseph McGauley, Irina Muresanu, Rictor Noren, Lawrence Isaacson, Toby Oft Markus Placci, Magdalena Richter euphonium: James O’Dell viola: Cathy Basrak, Lila Brown, Edward Gazouleas, Tuba: James O’Dell, Ken Amis Leonard Matczynski, Patricia McCarty, Rictor Noren, Roger Tapping COMPOSITION, THEORY & MUSIC HISTORY Cello: Ronald Feldman, Andrew Mark, Andy Vores, Chair Rhonda Rider (Chair, ) Elizabeth Abbate, Richard Bunbury, Lisa Caliri, double bass: Benjamin Levy (CoordinaTor, double bass William Cutter, James Dalton, Marti Epstein, seminar) Joseph Holt, Dennis Roy, Lawrence Wolfe Miguel Felipe, Mike Frengel, Stephen Halloran, Curtis Hughes, Pierre Hurel, Rebecca Marchand, VOICE & OPERA Holly Mockovak, John Murphree, Teresa Neff, Patty Thom, Chair Rudolf Rojahn, Karen Ruymann, Elizabeth Seitz, Kirsten Z. Cairns, direCTor, opera sTudies Jan Swafford, Dalit Warshaw, Bert Yocom William Cutter, direCTor, Choral sTudies Michael McGaghie, ConduCTor, Women’s Chorus ENSEMBLES & Brian Moll, musiC direCTor orChesTral ConduCTing: Bruce Hangen, voiCe: Marilyn Bulli, William Cotten, Kerry Deal, direCTor, orChesTral aCTiviTies; ConduCTor, The bosTon Rebecca Folsom, Edward Gazouleas, ConservaTory orChesTra Sara Goldstein, Thomas Gregg, Eric Hewitt, ConduCTor, The bosTon ConservaTory Wind Robert Honeysucker, Victor Jannett, ensemble James Javore, Monique Phinney, James O’Dell, Yoichi Udagawa Mary Saunders, Merrill Shea, Choral ConduCTing: William Cutter Lisa Sheldon, Craig Wich, orChesTral reperToire: Andrew Mark, James Orent Kevin Wilson, Kathryn Wright opera & voCal sTudies: GUITAR Kirsten Z. Cairns, Pamela Dellal, William Buonocore, CoordinaTor Libor Dudas, Keely Eastley, Mike Frengel, Olav Chris Henriksen Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, Thomas Gregg, John Kuntz, HARP Brian Moll, Michael Strauss, Cynthia Price-Glynn, CoordinaTor Melinda Sullivan, Allison Voth Deborah Henson-Conant, Ursula Holliger, Nancy Hurrell, Felice Pomeranz WOODWINDS Eric Hewitt, Chair MUSIC EDUCATION FluTe: Ann Bobo, Sarah Brady, Rhoda Bernard, Chair Geralyn Coticone, Elizabeth Allison, Christine Borning, Doriot Anthony Dwyer, Thomas Borning, James Dalton, Sandra Doneski, Linda Toote Kathleen Howland, Anne Kelton, Stefani Langol, oboe: Laura Ahlbeck, Jeffrey Leonard, Brian O’Connell, Thomas Palance, Stuart Dunkel,Kyoko Hida, Walter Pavasaris, Pamela Yanco Peggy Pearson, Robert Sheena ClarineT: Jonathan Cohler, PERCUSSION/MARIMBA Michael Norsworthy Nancy Zeltsman, Chair (marimba) bassoon: Adrian Morejon, perCussion: Samuel Z. Solomon, Keith Aleo Suzanne Nelsen Timpani: David Herbert, John Grimes saxophone: Eric Hewitt, PIANO piCColo: Geralyn Coticone Jonathan Bass, Chair english horn: Robert Sheena Lisa Caliri (Pedagogy) ,Ya-Fei Chuang, Jung-Ja Kim, Max Levinson, Michael Lewin, Janice Weber, Bert Yocom

APPLICATION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1

8 the fenway, boston, ma 02215 | admissions.audition.info: (617) 912-9153 | www.bostonconservatory.edu School of Music

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS ENSEMBLES CONTACT Average GPA: A- INSTRUMENTAL Symphony Orchestra, Wind Shaun Ramsay, Scholastic Tests: SAT, ACT Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra, Director of Admissions Average ACT: 29 Average SAT: 1850-2080 Chamber Ensemble, Brass Ensemble (middle 50% range) CHORAL Symphonic Chorus, Chamber Choir Interview Required: No ADDRESS Placement Tests Required: No PRIVATE INSTRUCTION 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes Private Instruction Required: Yes Boston, MA 02215 Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour APPLICATION DEADLINE(S) Available for Non-Majors: Yes PHONE Early Decision: November 1 Cost Included in Tuition: Included for music majors 617-353-3341 Regular Decision: January 1 Additional Private Instruction Cost: For non-majors, 1/2 hr lessons $540 per semester; 1-hour lessons INSTRUMENTAL AUDITIONS $1,080 per semester FAX On-Campus: Yes 617-353-7455 Off-Campus: Yes PRACTICE FACILITIES Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 33% Number of Rooms: 120 EMAIL

[email protected] VOCAL AUDITIONS HOUSING On-Campus: Yes Available: Yes WEBSITE Off-Campus: Yes On Campus First Year Required: Yes www.bu.edu/cfa/music Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 29% Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes

TYPE UNDERGRADUATE FACULTY Private INSTRUMENTAL Part Time: 105, Full Time: 58

SETTING DEGREES Urban BA: Yes BM: Yes BME: (Major in music education – included in BM) SIZE OF SCHOOL 31,766 GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS BM Total Course Hours: 132 SIZE OF MUSIC SCHOOL Course Hours in Major: 100 450 Course Hours Outside Major: 32 Senior Recital: Yes Junior Recital: No Exit Exams: No

SCHOLARSHIP INFORMATION % Students Receiving Aid: 90%

NOTE: THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE, INCLUDING THE COST OF ATTENDANCE, WAS LAST UPDATED IN 2009. PLEASE CHECK WITH THE SCHOOL FOR THE MOST RECENT FIGURES.

EXPENSES IN-STATE + OUT-OF-STATE APPLICATION $75 TUITION $37,910 ROOM / BOARD Room $7,710; Board $4,138 TOTAL $49,833

52 july/august 2010 The Muir String Quartet Lucia Lin, Steven Ansell, Michael Reynolds, and Peter Zazofsky

In residence since 1983, the Muir String Quartet has long been acknowledged as one of the world’s most powerful and insightful ensembles, distinguishing itself among audiences and critics with its “exhilarating involvement” (Boston Globe), “impeccable voicing and intonation” (San Francisco Examiner), and “unbridled musicality” (American Record Guide).

STRING PERFORMANCE — BM, MM, DMA | PERFORMANCE DIPLOMA | ARTIST DIPLOMA

Violin Viola Cello Double Bass Lynn Chang Yuri Mazurkevich Steven Ansell* Jules Eskin* Edwin Barker* Bayla Keyes Ikuko Mizuno* Cathy Basrak* Marc Johnson Carolyn Davis-Fryer Lucia Lin* Roman Totenberg Edward Gazouleas* George Neikrug Benjamin Levy* Malcolm Lowe* Peter Zazofsky Michelle LaCourse▲ Leslie Parnas James Orleans* Dana Mazurkevich Michael Zaretsky* Michael Reynolds Todd Seeber* Rhonda Rider Lawrence Wolfe* * Boston Symphony Orchestra Member ▲ Chair, String Department

Boston University School of Music Shaun Ramsay, Director of Admissions 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 800-643-4796 617-353-3341 [email protected] www.bu.edu/cfa/music

An equal opportunity, affirmative action institution.

CFA_ChamberMusic_022389.indd 1 5/12/10 12:51 PM Carnegie Mellon School of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: 3.5 cumulative bA, BM, BME Michele McGregor Scholastic Tests: SAT or ACT required Total Course Hours: 372 units = 124 credits Average SAT: 1200/1800 Course Hours in Major: 336 units = 112 credits address Interview Required: No Course Hours Outside Major: 36 units = 12 credits College of Fine Arts 108, Other: Audition or portfolio review required Senior Recital: Full recital required Placement Tests Required: No Junior Recital: Half recital required 5000 Forbes Avenue Auditions Live: Preferred Tape: Accepted Exit Exams: None Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 Application Deadline(s) Scholarship Information phone Early Decision: November 1 % Students Receiving Aid: 63% 412-268-4118 Regular Decision: December 1 Program-Specific Related Awards: none Other Financial Aid: predominantly need-based Instrumental Auditions fax On-Campus: Weekends throughout January and Ensembles 412-268-1431 February (specific dates can be found on the School of instrumental Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic, Music website) Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble, Baroque Ensemble, email Off-Campus: Asia Audition Tour November. Various Contemporary Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Carnegie [email protected] regional venues in January and February (specific dates Mellon Chamber Orchestra can be found on the School of Music website) choral Carnegie Mellon Concert Choir, Carnegie website Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 57% Mellon Repertory Chorus, Jazz Vocal Ensemble www.music.cmu.edu Vocal Auditions Private Instruction type On-Campus: Weekends throughout January and Private Instruction Required: Yes, weekly lessons School of Music February (specific dates can be found on the School of Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Music website) Available for Non-Majors: Yes, fee assessed setting Off-Campus: Asia Audition Tour November. Various Cost Included in Tuition: Only for music majors Private University regional venues in January and February (specific dates Accompanists Provided: Yes can be found on the School of Music website) Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 33% Representative Alumni size of school Dale Clevenger, Sarah O’Boyle, Cristian Ganicenco, 11,443 Undergraduate Faculty Heidi Skok, Earl Wild, Christiane Noll, Gilbert Rose, instrumental Part Time: 13, Full Time: 28 Keith Lockart, Liam Bonner, Jeffrey Behrens, Graham size of music school Student/Teacher Ratio: 1:3 Fenton, Patricia Phillips 350 Key Faculty: Principal and co/assistant principal chairs of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 37 vocal Part Time: 1, Full Time: 3 Number of Rooms with Piano: 34 Student/Teacher Ratio: 1:10 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 37 Key Faculty: Doug Ahlstedt, Laura Knoop Very, Other: rehearsal halls and classrooms Richard Cowan, Mildred Miller In Residence Hall: Basement of freshman dorms

Degrees fraternal & Professional music BA, BM, BME organizations Others: MM, Various non-degree certificate programs Sigma Alpha Iota, Alpha Phi Mu

Housing EXPENSES IN-STATE + OUT-OF-STATE Available: For all undergraduates On Campus First Year Required: Yes Application $120 Dorms Located Near Music Buildings: Yes tuition $41,500 Other: Clean, safe, affordable housing in the community room / board $10,750 books / supplies $1,000 living expenses $1,400 total $55,286

54 july/august 2010 NOEL ZAHLER, Head

The Starling Honors String Quartet Four full tuition scholarships along with performance stipends and travel expenses will be awarded to one existing, exceptionally talented graduate string quartet. To apply and audition, visit music.cmu.edu. The Starling Honors Quartet is supported by the prestigious Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation. Inspiring Faculty Andrés Cárdenes, Dorothy Richard Starling and Anne Martindale Williams, cello Alexander Speyer Jr. University Professor of Violin David Premo, cello Cyrus Forough, Professor of Violin Jeffrey Turner, double bass Micah Howard, double bass Maureen Gallagher, viola Gretchen Van Hoesen, harp Degree and Certificate Programs Bachelor of Fine Arts Master of Music Performance Residency Program Artist Diploma

MOVE BEYOND YOUR MEASURE - MUSIC.CMU.EDU Cleveland Institute of Music

Admission Requirements Ensembles Contact Audition Required: Yes instrumental Orchestra, Chamber Music, William Fay Placement Tests Required: Music Theory New Music, Early Music, CWRU Jazz Ensembles and Ear Training choral Opera address Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes in some areas 11021 East Boulevard Private Instruction Application Deadline(s) Private Instruction Required: Yes Cleveland, OH 44106 December 1, 2010 Average Length of lesson: 1 hour Available for Non-Majors: Yes phone Instrumental Auditions Cost Included in Tuition: Yes 216-795-3107 On-Campus: Yes Accompanists Provided: Yes Off-Campus: No fax Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 30% Practice Facilities 216-795-3161 Number of Rooms: 94 vocal Auditions Number of Rooms with Piano: Most email On-Campus: Yes [email protected] Off-Campus: No Fraternal & Professional Music Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 30% Organizations website www.cim.edu Undergraduate Faculty instrumental Part Time: 43, Full Time: 21 Housing Available: Yes type vocal Part Time: 5, Full Time: 2 On Campus First Year Required: Yes 4-yr Private College Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes Degrees setting BM: Audio Recording, Bassoon, Trombone, clarinet, Urban Composition, Double Bass, Flute, Guitar, Horn, Harp, Oboe, Organ, Percussion, Piano, Tuba, size of music school Trumpet, Vocal, Viola, Cello, Violin, Harpsichord, 450 Eurhythmics

Graduation Requirements bm Total Course Hours: Varies Senior Recital: Required Junior Recital: Required

Scholarship Information % Students Receiving Aid: 99% Other Financial Aid: Grants, loans, work study

Expenses In-State + Out-of-state

Application $100

tuition $36,000

room / board $9,500

books / supplies / expenses $3,320

total $48,920

56 july/august 2010 CIM would like to congratulate the Linden String Quartet, winners of the 2009 Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings at the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition and Grand Prize winners at the 2009 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

String chamber music at CIM is directed by Peter Salaff and includes coaching by the Cavani String Quartet. In addition, the distinguished CIM faculty, many of whom are members of The , coach string, woodwind, brass and percussion ensembles.

Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Certificate, Artist Diploma and Professional Studies William Fay, Director of Admission, 11021 East Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-795-3107 cim.edu The Colburn School

Admission Requirements Scholarship Information Contact Interview Required: Yes % Students Receiving Aid: 100% Kathleen Tesar Placement Tests Required: Yes All students enrolled in the Conservatory receive full Auditions: First round DVD, then live audition by scholarships for tuition, room and board. address invitation 200 S. Grand Avenue, Ensembles Application Deadline(s) instrumental Orchestra, chamber ensembles , CA 90012 January 15, 2011 Private Instruction phone Instrumental Auditions Private Instruction Required: Yes 213-621-4534 On-Campus: Yes, by invitation after presecreening Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Off-Campus: No Cost Included in Tuition: Yes fax Percentage Auditioning Accepted: <10% Accompanists Provided: Yes 213-625-0371 Undergraduate Faculty Representative Alumni email instrumental Part Time: 12, Full Time: 6 Members of San Francisco, Cincinnati, Detroit, admissions@ Key Faculty: Richard Beene, bassoon; Paul Coletti, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Louisville Symphonies, viola; Yehuda Gilad, clarinet; David Krehbiel, horn; Buffalo Philharmonic colburnschool.edu Mark Lawrence, trombone; Ronald Leonard, violoncello; Robert Lipsett, violin; Peter Lloyd, double bass; Norman Practice Facilities website Pearson, tuba, with Fritz Kaenzig; John Perry, piano; Number of Rooms: 45 www.colburnschool.edu Ory Shihor, piano; Arnold Steinhardt, string and Number of Rooms with Piano: 40 chamber music coach; JoAnn Turovsky, harp; Jack Number of Rooms Assigned: 0 type Van Geem, percussion/timpani; Allan Vogel, oboe; Number of Rooms Unassigned: 45 Private Jim Walker, flute; James Wilt, trumpet In Residence Hall: Residents have 24-hour access to practice rooms setting Degrees Urban BM: Performance Housing Others: Performance Diploma, Artist Diploma, Available: Yes Professional Studies Certficate On Campus First Year Required: Yes size of school Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes 1,700 Graduation Requirements bm size of conservatory Total Course Hours: 120+ <120 Senior Recital: Required Junior Recital: Required Exit Exams: Juries

EXPENSES In-State + out of state Application $110 tuition $0 room / board $0 books / supplies $750 living expenses $4,750 (including health insurance) total $5,610

58 july/august 2010 Programs of Study Bachelor of Music in Performance Performance Diploma (post-secondary) Artist Diploma (post-baccalaureate) Professional Studies Certificate

Conservatory Faculty Flute: Jim Walker Oboe: Allan Vogel Clarinet: Yehuda Gilad Bassoon: Richard Beene Horn: A. David Krehbiel Trumpet: James Wilt Trombone: Mark Lawrence Tuba: Norman Pearson with Fritz Kaenzig Percussion/Timpani: Jack Van Geem Piano: John Perry, Ory Shihor Harp: JoAnn Turovsky Violin: Robert Lipsett Viola: Paul Coletti Violoncello: Ronald Leonard Double Bass: Peter Lloyd

The Colburn Orchestra Yehuda Gilad, Music Director

Career Development www.colburnschool.edu Edna Landau [email protected] 213.621.4534 Application Deadline January 15 Eastman School of Music

Admission Requirements Scholarship Information Contact Average GPA: 3.0 % Students Receiving Aid: 100% of those who apply Matthew Ardizzone Average ACT: 24 (not required) Associate Dean of Admissions Average SAT: 550 (not required) Ensembles Interview Required: Yes instrumental 2 orchestras, chamber orchestras, Placement Tests Required: No 2 wind ensembles, new music ensembles, early music address Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes, with restrictions ensembles, studio ensembles 26 Gibbs Street choral Chorus, Repertory Singers, Chorale, Rochester, NY 14604 Application Deadline Women’s Chorus December 1, 2010 phone Early Decision: No Private Instruction 585-274-1060 Private Instruction Required: Yes Instrumental Auditions Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour fax On-Campus: Yes Available for Non-Majors: Yes 585-232-8601 Off-Campus: Yes Cost Included in Tuition: Yes Percentage Auditioning Accepted: c. 27% email Representative Alumni [email protected] Vocal Auditions Opera: Renée Fleming, Alarm Will Sound, Ying Quartet, On-Campus: Yes Mitch Miller, William Warfield, Fred Sturm website Off-Campus: Yes www.esm.rochester.edu Percentage Auditioning Accepted: c. 20% Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 135 Undergraduate Faculty Number of Rooms with Piano: most type instrumental Full Time: 85 Part Time: 46 Number of Rooms Assigned: 0 University-based Music Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 135 School Key Faculty: see website Other: separate rooms for percussion, piano majors vocal Full Time: 11 In Residence Hall: No setting Student/Teacher Ratio: 10:1 Urban Key Faculty: see website fraternal & Professional music organizations size of school Degrees Mu Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Iota 9,300 (U-R) BA: No BM: Yes Housing BME: Yes Available: Yes size of music school Others: MM, MA, DMA, PhD On Campus First Year Required: Yes 900 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes Graduation Requirements bm BME Total Course Hours: 120 147 Course Hours in Major: 96 119 Course Hours Outside Major: 24 27 Senior Recital: Required: Yes No Junior Recital: No Exit Exams: No

EXPENSES IN-STATE + OUT-OF-STATE Application $100 tuition $39,480 room / board $11,830 books / supplies $650 living expenses $2,772 total $54,832

60 july/august 2010 THE EASTMAN ADVANTAGE Take cenT er sT age

application deadline December 1 www.esm.rochester.edu/chamber

10-11ESM_Chamber_Music_FINAL.indd 1 6/7/10 9:29 AM The Frost School of Music University of Miami

Admission Requirements Ensembles Contact Average GPA: N/A instrumental Karen Kerr Scholastic Tests: ACT or SAT Large Ensembles: Band of the Hour (Marching Band), Average ACT: 28 Average SAT: 1286 Greater Miami Symphonic Band, Frost Symphony address Interview Required: For Music Ed, Music Therapy Orchestra, University Band and Composition Brass: Brass Chamber Music, Trombone Choir, Tuba P.O. Box 248165 Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes Ensemble; Coral Gables, FL 33124 Jazz: Bebop Ensemble, Concert Jazz Band, Horace Application Deadline(s) Silver Ensemble, Jazz Band II, Jazz Guitar Ensemble, phone December 1, 2010 Jazz Saxophone Ensemble, Monk-Mingus Ensemble, 305-284-2241 Early Decision: N/A Small Jazz Ensembles, Studio Jazz Band; Percussion: Marimba Ensemble, Percussion Ensembles fax Instrumental Auditions Strings: String-Keyboard Chamber Music 305-284-6475 On-Campus: Yes Woodwinds: Flute Choir, Saxophone Ensemble, Off-Campus: Yes Symphonic Winds, Wind Ensemble, Woodwind email Percentage Auditioning Accepted: Approx. 30% Chamber Music [email protected] Mixed Ensembles: Brazilian Batteria, Composition Vocal Auditions Workshop, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Electronic On-Campus: Yes Music Ensemble, Funk/Fusion Ensemble, Salsa website Off-Campus: Yes Ensemble, The Other Music Ensemble www.music.miami.edu Percentage Auditioning Accepted: Approx. 30% choral Theatre/Choruses: Chamber Singers, Civic Chorale, , Frost Chorale, type Undergraduate Faculty Men’s Chorale, Musical Theater Workshop, University/School of Music Part Time: 56 Full Time: 58 Opera Theatre, Women’s Chorale; Jazz: Jazz Vocal Ensembles I, II, III setting Degrees Urban BA: Yes Private Instruction BM: Yes Private Instruction Required: Yes size of university Others: BS Average Length of Lesson: One hour 14,000 Available for Non-Majors: Yes Graduation Requirements Cost Included in Tuition: For Majors bA BM BS Additional Private Instruction Cost: If supplementary size of music school Total Course Hours: at least 120 or secondary lesson is taken 710 Senior Recital: Varies Junior Recital: Varies Representative Alumni Exit Exams: Varies Jon Secada BM ’83, MM ’86; Bruce Hornsby BM ’77; Carmen Lundy BM ’80 Scholarship Information Program-Specific Related Awards: Academic- and Fraternal & Professional Music NOTE: THE INFORMATION Merit-based Organizations ON THIS PAGE, INCLUDING THE COST OF ATTENDANCE, Other Financial Aid: Need-based aid Alpha Mu, Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Alpha Iota, Tau Beta WAS LAST UPDATED IN 2009. Sigma, MENC, American Musicology Society, Sociey PLEASE CHECK WITH THE of , Inc., Audio Engineering Society, SCHOOL FOR THE MOST ’Cane Records, CAT 5 Music Publishing, Music RECENT FIGURES. and Entertainment Industry Students Association, Frost School of Music Student Council Expenses In-State + Out-of-State Housing Application $50 Available: Yes (Dorm) tuition $36,188 On Campus First Year Required: Yes room / board $10,800 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes books / supplies $2,750 Living expenses $3,806 total $53,544

62 july/august 2010 Aspire. Accomplish. Achieve. The Frost School of Music will elevate your artistry String Faculty and prepare you for today’s professional world of music with Glenn Basham, violin Nurturing and Brilliant Faculty Scott Flavin, violin Groundbreaking Frost Experiential Music Curriculum Mark O’Connor, artist in residence Exciting Orchestras and Chamber Ensembles Pamela McConnell, viola Ross Harbaugh, cello Extraordinary Master Classes and Guest Artists Kevin Mauldin, double bass Wonderful Collaborative Opportunities Thomas Sleeper, director of orchestral studies Outstanding String Scholarships Available. Inquire Today. Email: [email protected] n Application deadline: December 1 www.music.miami.edu

The University of Miami Frost School of Music has been an institutional member of the63 National Association of Schools of Music since 1939 Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Admission Requirements Ensembles Contact Average GPA: 3.5 instrumental 7 orchestras, 4 bands, 4 jazz bands, Office of Music Admissions Average ACT: 26 Average SAT: 1170 multiple chamber ensembles, New Music Ensemble, Interview Required: Yes Latin American Ensemble and 3 ballets address Placement Tests Required: Yes choral 13 choral ensembles and 8 fully staged Indiana University Auditions Live: Yes Jacobs School of Music Application Deadline(s) Private Instruction Merrill Hall 101 December 1, 2010 Private Instruction Required: Yes 1201 East Third Street Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Bloomington, IN 47405 instrumental & vocal Auditions Available for Non-Majors: Yes On-Campus: January 15-16, February 5-6 phone & March 5-6, 2011 Representative Alumni 812-855-7998 Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 35% Jamie Barton, voice; , violin; Chris Botti, trumpet; Angela Brown, voice; Lawrence Brownlee, fax Undergraduate Faculty voice; Jeremy Denk, piano; Yura Lee, violin; DaXun 812-856-6086 instrumental Part Time: 23, Full Time: 170 Zhang, double bass Student/Teacher Ratio: 18:1 email vocal Part Time: 23, Full Time: 170 Fraternal & Professional Music [email protected] Student/Teacher Ratio: 18:1 Organizations Please visit http://www.music.indiana.edu/ Degrees iumusicstudentlife/studentorgs.shtml website BA: No www.music.indiana.edu BM: Performance (all instruments & voice), Practice Facilities Composition and Jazz Number of Rooms: 200 size of school BME: Choral, General, Band and Orchestral Number of Rooms with Piano: 200 38,000 Others: BS and BSOF Number of Rooms Assigned: 200 In Residence Hall: Yes size of music school Graduation Requirements 1,626 bm BME Housing Total Course Hours: 120-136 Available: Yes Course Hours in Major: 96 On Campus First Year Required: Yes Course Hours Outside Major: 24-36 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Read, Forest and Ashton Senior Recital: Required Junior Recital: Required

Scholarship Information % Students Receiving Aid: 65% Program Specific Related Awards: N/A Other Financial Aid: N/A

Expenses In-State and Out-of-State See www.music.indiana.edu for information

64 july/august 2010 Living Music

o. The Sta m, cell rling Chamb and Eric Ki er Players rehearse, led by Alexander Kerr, violin,

More than 170 artist-teachers and PIANO FACULTY (cont’d) STRING FACULTY (cont’d) scholars comprise a peerless faculty André Watts The Orion Quartet (in residence) at a world-class conservatory with the Yael Weiss, Chamber Music (adjunct) Stanley Ritchie, Violin academic resources of a major research Sharon Robinson, Violoncello university, all within one of the most STRING FACULTY Janos Starker, Violoncello beautiful university campus settings. Federico Agostini, Violin Kyung-A Yoo, Strings Collaborative Atar Arad, Viola Piano (visiting) PIANO FACULTY Ik–Hwan Bae, Chamber Music, Violin Mimi Zweig, Violin and Viola Edward Auer Joshua Bell, Violin (adjunct) Edmund Battersby Bruce Bransby, Double Bass Evelyne Brancart (chair) Emilio Colon, Violoncello 2011 AUDITION DATES David Cartledge, Secondary Piano Alan De Veritch, Viola Jan. 14, 15 | Feb. 4, 5 | March 4, 5 Chih-Yi Chen, Accompanying Jorja Fleezanis, Violin, Orchestral Studies Arnaldo Cohen Mauricio Fuks, Violin Luba Edlina-Dubinsky Lawrence Hurst, Double Bass (chair) Jean-Louis Haguenauer Mark Kaplan, Violin Emile Naoumoff Alexander Kerr, Violin Reiko Neriki Eric Kim, Violoncello Shigeo Neriki Henryk Kowalski, Violin Menahem Pressler , Violin Karen Shaw Peter Lloyd, Double Bass (adjunct) For a complete list of Jacobs School Karen Taylor Kevork Mardirossian, Violin faculty, please go to music.indiana.edu. of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Interview Required: Musical skills interview bm Lee Cioppa Other: Letter of recommendation Total Course Hours: varies by major Admissions Placement Tests Required: TOEFL for international Course Hours in Major: varies by major students; other tests after acceptance Course Hours Outside Major: varies by major Auditions Live: Yes (required) Senior Recital: Required address Tape: Required of singers and some Junior Recital: Not Required 60 Plaza instrumentalists for pre-screening Exit Exams: Graduation Jury Required New York, NY 10023 Application Deadline(s) Scholarship Information phone December 1 % Students Receiving Aid: 90% 212-799-5000, x223 Program Specific Related Awards: Yes Instrumental Auditions Other Financial Aid: Yes—all students are eligible for fax On-Campus: Yes work-study jobs on campus 212-769-6420 Off-Campus: No Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 11.1% undergrad; Ensembles email 15.9% overall (classical only) instrumental Juilliard Orchestra; New Juilliard [email protected] Ensemble, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra and Ensembles, Vocal Auditions AXIOM: Afiara String Quartet (Juilliard’s Graduate website On-Campus: Yes Resident String Quartet); 100+ student chamber www.juilliard.edu Off-Campus: No ensembles Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 3.4% undergrad; choral opera chorus 4.7% overall type Private Instruction Conservatory Undergraduate Faculty Private Instruction Required: Yes Full Time: 128 Part Time: 169 Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour/week setting Please see: www.juilliard.edu/target/faculty.html Cost Included in Tuition: Yes Lincoln Center, NYC Student:faculty ratio is approximately 2:1 Additional Private Instruction Cost: No Accompanists Provided: For some lessons size of school Degrees 793 BA: No BM: Yes BME: No Representative Alumni Others: Undergraduate and graduate diplomas, , Robert Mann, ; M.M., A.D., D.M.A. Fred Sherry, Paula Robison, Members of the Juilliard, size of music school American, Brentano and Emerson string quartets, and 629 the American Brass Quintet, New York Woodwind Quartet, Beaux Arts Trio, Eroica Trio and others.

Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 74 Number of Rooms with Piano: 60 Number of Rooms Assigned: 10 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 64 In Residence Hall: 22 more rooms

Housing Expenses In-State + Out-of-state Available: Yes On Campus First Year Required: Yes Application $100 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes tuition $32,180

room / board $12,280 (double room) $15,330 (single room)

books / supplies / expenses $4,210

total $48,770–$51,820

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Juilliard Chamber Music Faculty Darrett Adkins Misha Amory Chamber Music Studies at Toby Appel Baruch Arnon Audrey Axinn Edward Bilous Martin Canin Earl Carlyss Stephen Clapp Whitney Crockett Rohan De Silva Karen Dreyfus Juilliard Daniel Druckman Timothy Eddy More than a century of excellence in performing arts education André Emelianoff and an unlimited commitment to the future. Jonathan Feldman Margo Garrett Bonnie Hampton Sharon Isbin Joseph Kalichstein Edwin S. and Nancy A. Marks Chair in Chamber Music Lewis Kaplan Yoheved Kaplinsky Alan Kay Julie Landsman Lara Lev Seymour Lipkin Jerome Lowenthal Curtis Macomber Nicholas Mann Robert Mann Julian Martin Robert McDonald Robert Mealy Kenneth Merrill Ricardo Morales Frank Morelli Lionel Party Itzhak Perlman Diane Richardson Sylvia Rosenberg Joel Sachs Fred Sherry Michael Tree Gary Thor Wedow Vivian Weilerstein Brian Zeger

Composer Coaches Robert Beaser World-famous viola master Jordi Savall coaches a chamber ensemble Photo: Michael DiVito Christopher Rouse during his second annual workshop residency at Juilliard.

Juilliard String Quartet Nick Eanet Ronald Copes Samuel Rhodes Studio Teaching, Ensemble Coaching, Master Classes and Concerts with Today’s Leading Teachers and Pedagogues American Brass Quintet Raymond Mase Be Part of Juilliard’s Unparalleled Legacy Kevin Cobb David Wakefield Application Deadline: December 1 Michael Powell John D. Rojak for entrance to Juilliard the following September Auditions at Juilliard: February – March New York Woodwind Quintet Carol Wincenc Contact: Office of Admissions, The Juilliard School Stephen Taylor 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-6590 • (212) 799-5000 Marc Goldberg Learn more at: www.juilliard.edu/admissions William Purvis Apply online beginning September 1 Performance Ensembles Daniel Druckman, Percussion Monica Huggett, Historical Performance Jeffrey Milarsky, AXIOM Ted Nash, Jazz Joel Sachs, New Juilliard Ensemble, FOCUS! Joseph W. Polisi, President School of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: 3.0 or higher bm Amy A. Anderson Scholastic Tests: recommended, not required Total Course Hours: 120 minimum Interview Required: No Course Hours in Major: 105 address Placement Tests Required: TOEFL for applicants Course Hours Outside Major: 15 120 Claremont Avenue whose first language is not English Senior Recital: Yes Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes, if eligible Junior Recital: Voice Only New York, NY 10027-4689 Exit Exams: Yes, plus graduation jury Application Deadline(s) phone December 1 212-749-2802 x 2 Early Decision: No Scholarship Information % Students Receiving Institutional Aid: 55% fax Instrumental Auditions 212-749-3025 On-Campus: Yes Ensembles Off-Campus: No instrumental Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia email Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 40% Orchestra, Chamber Sinfonia, Claremont Ensemble, [email protected] Chamber Music Guitar Ensemble, Contemporary Vocal Auditions Ensemble:TACTUS, Percussion Ensemble, website On-Campus: Yes Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble, Concert Jazz Band, www.msmnyc.edu Off-Campus: No Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Combos Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 35% choral Opera Studio, Opera Workshop, Choir, Undergraduate Opera Theatre, Chamber Music, type Undergraduate Faculty Baroque Aria Ensemble, American Musical Theatre Private instrumental Part Time: 164, Full Time: 0 Ensemble Student/Teacher Ratio: 4:1 setting vocal Part Time: 32, Full Time: 0 Private Instruction Urban Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Private Instruction Required: Yes Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour size of school Degrees Available for Non-Majors: No 875 BA: No Cost Included in Tuition: Yes BM: Yes Additional Private Instruction Cost: N/A BME: No Accompanists Provided: Yes Others: MM, DMA, Professional Studies Certificate, Artist Diploma, Dual Degree program with Teacher’s Representative Alumni College (MM from MSM and MA in Education with Donald Byrd, Ron Carter, Lauren Flanigan, Ezio New York State Music Teacher Certification from Flagello, Susan Graham, Dave Grusin, Stefon Harris, Teacher’s College, ) Yusef Lateef, John Lewis, Catherine Malfitano, Herbie Mann, Robert “Mr. Bob” McGrath, Johanna Meier, NOTE: THE INFORMATION Jane Monheit, Jason Moran, Elmar Oliveira, Max ON THIS PAGE, INCLUDING Roach, Larry Rosen, Sanford Sylvan, Steve Turre, THE COST OF ATTENDANCE, , Joe Wilder, Carol Wincenc, Phil WAS LAST UPDATED IN 2009. Woods, and Dolora Zajick PLEASE CHECK WITH THE SCHOOL FOR THE MOST RECENT FIGURES. Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 27 Number of Rooms with Piano: 25 Expenses In-State + Out-of-State Number of Rooms Assigned: 27 Application $100 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 0 Other: 15 Classrooms for practice use when not being tuition $31,400 used for classes fees $475 In Residence Hall: 50 room / board $13,550 books / supplies $1,000 Housing Available: Yes living expenses $4,600 On Campus First Year Required: Yes total $51,125 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes

68 july/august 2010 Robert Sirota, Manhattan School of Music President

American String Quartet, MSM Artists in Residence, at Merkin Concert Hall

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David Geber, brass Lucie Robert Dean of Faculty for Per Brevig Sylvia Rosenberg Instrumental Performance David Finlayson André-Michel Schub mark Mark Gould Marc Silverman Lynne Normandia, Daniel Grabois Laurie Smukler Manager of Chamber Music Thomas Smith Peter Winograd and Ensembles David Taylor Vocal artists in Residence Guitar Mignon Dunn Mark Delpriora Cynthia Hoffmann american String Quartet Catherine Malfitano Peter Winograd, Violin Oren Fader Laurie Carney, Violin David Leisner Carolyn Marlow Daniel Avshalomov, Viola Maitland Peters harp Wolfram Koessel, Cello Gait Sirguey Susan Jolles accompanying / Vocal Meridian arts ensemble Piano and Strings Jon Nelson, Trumpet Raymond Beegle Daniel Avshalomov Brian McWhorter, Trumpet Laurie Carney Daniel Grabois, Horn Woodwinds Jeffrey Cohen Linda Chesis Benjamin Herrington, Karen Dreyfus Trombone Paul Cohen Lawrence Dutton INFormaTIoN Raymond Stewart, Tuba Alan R. Kay David Geber John Ferrari, Percussion David Krakauer Office of Admission Jon Klibonoff Kim Laskowski and Financial Aid Wolfram Koessel Windscape Marya Martin Manhattan School of Music Curtis Macomber Tara Helen O’Connor, Flute Frank Morelli 120 Claremont Avenue Nicholas Mann Randall Ellis, Oboe Thomas Stacy New York, New York 10027 Robert Mann Alan R. Kay, Clarinet Stephen Taylor 212 749 2802 ext 2 David Jolley, Horn Linda McKnight [email protected] Frank Morelli, Bassoon Heasook Rhee Jazz chamber ensemble Gerald Robbins Justin DiCioccio www.msmNyc.edu © 2010 MSM. Photo by Brian Hatton. Mannes College The New School for Music

Admission Requirements Scholarship Information Contact Interview Required: No % Students Receiving Aid: 75% Georgia Schmitt Placement Tests Required: TOEFL Program Specific Related Awards: Mannes Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Pre-screening Institutional Scholarships address Other Financial Aid: FAFSA, federal funding and loans 150 W. 85th Street Application Deadline(s) November 15 Ensembles New York, NY 10024 Early Decision: No instrumental Chamber Music, Performance Classes—Orchestra Instruments, Percussion Ensemble, phone Instrumental Auditions Guitar Ensemble, Baroque Chamber Players, 212-580-0210 On-Campus: Yes Contemporary Music Ensemble, Piano Ensemble Off-Campus: No choral The Mannes Chorus, The Mannes Opera, fax Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 26% Baroque Chamber Players 212-580-1738 Vocal Auditions Private Instruction email On-Campus: Yes Private Instruction Required: Yes mannesadmissions@ Off-Campus: No Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour per week newschool.edu Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 18% Available for Non-Majors: No Cost Included in Tuition: Yes website Undergraduate Faculty Accompanists Provided: Sometimes www.mannes.newschool.edu instrumental Part Time: 249, Full Time: 5 Student/Teacher Ratio: 2:1 REPRESENTATIVE ALUMNI Key Faculty: Vladimir Feltsman, Timothy Eddy, Frederica von Stade, Richard Goode, , type Glen Velez, Michael Newman, Carl Schacter, Wen Qian, Yonghoon Lee, Stephen Dunkel, Dan Zhu Private Conservatory of Todd Phillips, Pavlina Dokovska Music Practice Facilities VOCal Number of Rooms: 63 setting Student/Teacher Ratio: 2:1 Number of Rooms with Piano: All Urban Key Faculty: Ruth Falcon, Renata Scotto, Regina Resnik Number of Rooms Assigned: All In Residence Hall: 20th Street Residence size of school Degrees Housing 321 BM: Yes Others: MM, PDPL Available: Yes On Campus First Year Required: No Graduation Requirements Dorms Located Near Music Building: No bm Total Course Hours: 120-150 Course Hours in Major: All Senior Recital: Yes Junior Recital: No Exit Exams: Yes

EXPENSES In-State + Out-of-State

Application $100 tuition $34,340 room / board $16,000 books / supplies $2,054 living expenses $3,402 total $55,896

70 july/august 2010 New York is THE NEW SCHOOL is New York Mannes artistry and community

As part of The New School, Mannes offers the resources of a major university and an intimate, supportive environment where students become first-rate musicians.

• World-renowned faculty of active professionals from all areas of music

• 2-to-1 student-faculty ratio

• Bachelor of music, bachelor of science, and master of music degree programs as well as undergraduate and professional studies diploma programs

• Hundreds of student performances annually at Mannes and leading venues throughout to learn more about mannes programs, contact admissions at 212.580.0210 x4862 or [email protected]

www.newschool.edu/mannes30

The New School is a leading university in New York City offering some of the nation’s most distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and policy, and the performing arts. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution Affirmative An New England Conservatory of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: 2.75 bm Christina Daly Scholastic Tests: Not required Total Course Hours: 120 credits Interview Required: No Course Hours in Major: 73-98 credits address Placement Tests Required: No Course Hours Outside Major: 22-47 credits Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes (some restrictions apply) Senior Recital: Yes 290 Huntington Avenue Junior Recital: No Boston, MA 02115 Application Deadline(s) Exit Exams: No Early Decision: No phone Regular Decision: December 1, 2010 Scholarship Information 617 585-1101 % Students Receiving Aid: 90% Instrumental Auditions Program Specific Related Awards: Merit Award; On-Campus: Yes need-based scholarship fax Off-Campus: No Other Financial Aid: Federal Stafford and Perkins 617 585-1115 Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 30% Loans; SEOG; Pell Grant; Work-Study, state aid from VT, MA, RI, PA & NH email Vocal Auditions [email protected] On-Campus: Yes Ensembles Off-Campus: No instrumental Professional String Quartet & website Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 30% Piano Trio Training Programs (graduate level only); www.necmusic.edu string, woodwind, brass & mixed chamber ensembles; Undergraduate Faculty full orchestras & Chamber Orchestra; Wind Ensemble type instrumental Part Time: 62, Full Time: 40 & Jordan Winds; jazz orchestras, small jazz ensembles; Private music school Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 contemporary improvisation ensembles; Contemporary Key Faculty: Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Ensemble; Bach Ensemble; Historical Performance setting Lucy Chapman, Kim Kashkashian, Roger Tapping, Ensemble; Percussion Ensemble; Guitar Ensemble; Urban Martha Katz, Paul Katz, Laurence Lesser, Vivian Honors Ensembles Weilerstein, Hung-Kuan Chen, Wha-Kyung Byun, choral Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, Bruce Brubaker, Paula Robison, John Ferrillo, Undergraduate Opera Studio, Graduate Opera Studies size of school James Somerville, Norman Bolter, Hugh Wolff, 750 Borromeo Quartet & Weilerstein Trio Private Instruction vocal Part Time: 4, Full Time: 6 Private Instruction Required: Yes Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Key Faculty: Luretta Bybee, William Cotton, Available for Non-Majors: Yes, for some majors D’Anna Fortunato, Carole Haber, Karen Holvik, Cost Included in Tuition: Yes Michael Meraw, Patricia Misslian, Lorraine Nubar, Additional Private Instruction Cost: N/A Lisa Saffer, Mark St. Laurent, Stephen Lord (Opera) Accompanists Provided: 30 minutes for each voice lesson; limited time for string lessons Degrees BA: No Representative Alumni BM: Yes The Kuss, Biava, Jupiter, Parker and Ariel quartets; BME: No N-E-W Trio, Moët Trio, and Trio Cavatina; Lara St. Others: Undergraduate Diploma, Master of Music, John, violin; Yura Lee, violin; Stefan Jackiw, violin; Graduate Diploma, Doctor of Musical Arts, Roberto Diaz, viola; Denyce Graves, voice; Christopher Artist Diploma O’Riley, piano; Luciana Souza, jazz voice; Cecil Taylor, jazz piano; Regina Carter, violin.

EXPENSES In-State + out of state Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 152 Application $105 Number of Rooms with Piano: 152 tuition $34,500 Number of Rooms Assigned: 30 room / board $12,100 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 122 books / supplies $700 In Residence Hall: 6 living expenses $2,620 Housing total $50,025 Available: Yes On Campus First Year Required: Yes 72 july/august 2010 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes

Oberlin Conservatory of Music at

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Conservatory: Performance audition is the most bA bm Office of Conservatory important factor in admissions. Total Course Hours: 112 124 Admissions Auditions: On campus, regional, or recorded Course Hours in Major: 30-50 76 College of Arts & Sciences: Average GPA: 3.6 Course Hours Outside Major: varies 48 Average ACT: 28 Average SAT: V660-750; M630-720 Senior Recital: Yes address Interview Required: Suggested Junior Recital: Yes Conservatory Annex Placement Tests Required: No Exit Exams: No 39 West College Street Oberlin, OH 44074 Application Deadline(s) Scholarship Information December 1, 2010 (Nov.1 early review) Percentage of Students Receiving Aid: 90% phone Auditions: December 4, 2010; Feb. 12, 19 & 26, 2011; Program-Specific Related Awards: Conservatory 440-775-8413 March 5, 2011; Regional Auditions Jan. & Feb. 2011 Dean’s Talent Award, performance-audition based throughout the United States. Other Financial Aid: Through Oberlin College Office fax October Auditions in Asia. of Financial Aid, Contact Admissions for further 440-775-6972 information. Instrumental Auditions email On-Campus: Contact Conservatory Admissions Ensembles Conservatory.Admissions@ Off-Campus: Contact Conservatory Admissions instrumental Oberlin Orchestra, Chamber oberlin.edu Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 28% Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Oberlin Jazz Ensemble, College- Vocal Auditions Community String Ensemble, College-Community website On-Campus: Contact Conservatory Admissions Wind Ensemble, Javanese Gamelan, trombone choir, www.oberlin.edu/con Off-Campus: Contact Conservatory Admissions trumpet choir, Brass Guild of Oberlin, Oberlin Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 23% Percussion Ensemble type choral Oberlin College Choir, Musical Union, Conservatory of Music Undergraduate Faculty opera chorus, chamber chorus, Collegium Musicum, Full Time: 72, Part Time: 21, Total: 93 Oberlin Women’s Chorale setting Student/Teacher Ratio: 8:1 Rural Private Instruction Degrees Private Instruction Required: Yes for BM BA: Offered in College of Arts & Sciences through Average Length of Lesson: One hour size of school Oberlin’s signature double-degree program Available for Non-Majors: Yes 2,820 BM: Performance, composition, music history, Cost Included in Tuition: Yes music theory, Technology in Music and Related Arts Additional Private Instruction Cost: No size of music school (TIMARA), jazz studies Accompanists Provided: Yes 585 Others: Integrated five-year BM and MM in conducting (choral or instrumental) or opera theater; Representative Alumni 14-month MMT; 2-year MM in historical eighth blackbird; International Contemporary performance, Artist Diploma Ensemble; the Prima Trio; members of the Jasper, Juilliard, Miró, Pacifica, and Fry Street string quartets and the Imani Winds; conductors Michael Christie, Robert Spano, and David Zinman

Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 158 Expenses In-State + Out-of-State Number of Rooms with Piano: 118 Application $100 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 158 tuition and activity fees $41,577 Fraternal & Professional Music room / board $11,010 Organizations student health insurance $805 (est.) No fraternities or sororities on Oberlin’s campus. books and personal costs $1,808 (est.) Accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music; member, Great Lakes College Association total $55,300 Housing Available: Yes, first year on campus required 74 july/august 2010 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes Other: 12 residence halls and 4 co-op houses The Oberlin Conservatory of Music

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Off ice of Admissions 39 West College Street Oberlin, OH 44074 [P] 440-775-8413 [W] www.oberlin.edu/con Peabody Conservatory of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: 3.0 BM BME David Lane, Scholastic Tests: SAT Total Course Hours: Varies by program Director of Admissions Interview Required: For Composition and Conducting BM Performance (134-151); Composition (152-161) Placement Tests Required: For Theory and Average: 147 Ear Training Music Education (161-188); Recording Arts (185-205) address Auditions Live: Yes Tape: International Only. Average: 183 1 East Mt. Vernon Place No piano tapes. Course Hours in Major: 109-130 (Varies by program) Baltimore, MD 21202 Average: 114 Application Deadline(s) Course Hours Outside Major: 28 (31 Music Ed) phone December 1, April 15 Senior Recital: Yes 410-659-8110 Early Decision: No Junior Recital: Required for guitar, viola, violin 800-368-2521 Exit Exams: No Instrumental Auditions fax On-Campus: Yes Scholarship Information 410-659-8102 Off-Campus: Undergrad and International Only % Students Receiving Aid: 71% Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 50% (Graduate) Program Specific Related Awards: 183 email Other Financial Aid: Fed Title IV Aid (grants, loans [email protected] Vocal Auditions and work study), institutional loans, private loans, On-Campus: Yes private scholarships and grants, and institutional website Off-Campus: Undergrad and International Only work study www.peabody.jhu.edu Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 43% Ensembles Undergraduate Faculty instrumental Peabody Symphony Orchestra, type instrumental Part Time: 38 Full Time: 32 Peabody Concert Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Conservatory of Music Student/Teacher Ratio: 7 to 1 (includes piano, organ, Jazz Orchestra, Latin Ensemble, Ensemble, guitar, jazz, early music and orchestral instruments) Baroque Band, Camerata, Opera Theatre, setting Key Faculty: Michael Kannen, Director of Chamber Chamber Opera choral Peabody Hopkins Chorus, Urban Music; studio faculty too numerous to list Peabody Singers, Opera Chorus vocal Part Time: 1 Full Time: 8 size of music school Student/Teacher Ratio: 15 to 1 Private Instruction 650 Key Faculty: Phyllis Bryn-Julson, John Shirley-Quirk, Private Instruction Required: Yes Stanley Cornett, William Sharp, Steven Rainbolt, Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour/week Marianna Busching, Ah Hong Available for Non-Majors: Yes Cost Included in Tuition: Yes, for majors. There is Degrees additional cost for supplemental study BM: Performance, Composition, Recording Arts, Accompanists: provided for lessons and Jazz Performance, Computer Music repertoire classes BME: Yes Others: Performer’s Certificate (undergrad), MM, Representative Alumni DMA, Graduate Performance Diploma, Artist Dominick Argento, Manuel Barrueco, Carter Brey, Diploma, MA in Audio Sciences Michael Hersh, James Morris, Awadagin Pratt, Andre Watts

Practice Facilities Number of Rooms: 60 dedicated rooms Number of Rooms with Piano: 42 EXPENSES In-State + Out-of-State Number of Rooms Assigned: 18 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 42 Application $100 Other: teaching studios and classrooms available tuition $35,600 In Residence Hall: None room / board $11,700 books / supplies $750 Fraternal & Professional Music Organizations living expenses $1,400 Mu Phi Epsilon total $49,550 housing 76 july/august 2010 Available: Yes, on campus first year required Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes THE OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

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THE PEABODY PREPARATORY OF THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

The Peabody Trio

VioLiN FLuTe TrumPeT PiaNo earLy musiC Chamber musiC Victor Danchenko Marina Piccinini Joe Burgstaller Stephen Bard Katherine Jacobson, Piano Pamela Frank Emily Skala Edward Hoffman Brian Ganz Risa Browder Michael Kannen, Cello, Director Herbert Greenberg Laurie Sokoloff horN Marian Hahn Mark Cudek Maria Lambros, Viola Violaine Melançon PiCCoLo Philip Munds Seth Knopp Colin St. Martin Courtney Orlando, Violin Keng-Yuen Tseng Laurie Sokoloff Denise Tryon Ellen Mack John Moran Jeffrey Sharkey, Piano VioLa CLariNeT TromboNe Yong Hi Moon Adam Pearl Larry Williams, Horn Victoria Chiang Steven Barta Randall Campora Benjamin Pasternack Gwyn Roberts Richard Field Anthony McGill David Fetter Alexander Shtarkman Richard Stone The Peabody Trio Stephen Wyrczynski saxoPhoNe James Olin Boris Slutsky Ensemble in Residence VioLoNCeLLo Gary Louie Tuba Violaine Melançon, Violin David Hardy oboe David Fedderly GuiTar Natasha Brofsky, Cello Amit Peled Jane Marvine euPhoNium Manuel Barrueco Seth Knopp, Piano Alan Stepansky Katherine Needleman Steven Kellner Ray Chester Alison Wells bassooN Julian Gray 2010-2011 saNdra hiTTmaN doubLe bass Phillip Kolker VisiTiNG Chamber eNsembLes Ira Gold Paul Johnson Harold Robinson * Jeffrey Weisner * Faculty Artist in Residence Compose your future… whatever your passion. www.peabody.jhu.edu For information, contact the Office of Admissions Toll Free 800-368-2521, in Maryland 410-234-4848 1 East Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD 21202 San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Admission Requirements chamber music Graduation Contact Audition Required: Yes Requirements Melissa Cocco-Mitten, Placement Tests Required: After acceptance mm AC Director of Admission Applications at www.unifiedapps.org Total Course Hours: 53 44 Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes, in select areas Scholarship Information address application deadline % Students Receiving Aid: 95% 50 Oak Street, December 1, 2010 Program Specific Related Awards: Yes San Francisco, CA 94102 Application at www.unifiedapps.org Other Financial Aid: Graduate Assistantships, Early Decision: N/A Federal Work Study phone 800-899-7326 chamber music Auditions Ensembles Pre-screen DVD due: December 1, 2010 instrumental Conservatory Orchestra, fax On-Campus Audition: February 2011 Conservatory Baroque Ensemble, New Music 415-503-6299 Ensemble, Opera Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble, Instrumental Auditions Guitar Ensemble, 25+ Chamber Groups a semester email On-Campus: January-February 2011 vocal Conservatory Chamber Choir, Conservatory [email protected] Off-Campus: at six regional sites Chorus, Opera Workshop, Conservatory Opera Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 39% Theatre, Musical Theatre Workshop website www.sfcm.edu Vocal Auditions Private Instruction Pre-Screen Recording Due: December 1, 2010 Private Instruction Required: Yes On-Campus: January-February 2011 Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour type Off-Campus: No Available for Non-Majors: Yes Conservatory of Music Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 39% Cost Included in Tuition: Yes Additional Private Instruction Cost: N/A setting Undergraduate Faculty Accompanists Provided: Yes Urban Part Time: 75, Full Time: 25 Student/Teacher Ratio: 4:1 Representative Alumni size of school Key Faculty, Chamber Music: Jennifer Culp, violoncello; The Peabody Trio; Violinists Isaac Stern, Yehudi 395 Jean-Michel Fonteneau, violoncello/chair; Paul Hersh, Menuhin, Wei He*; Cellists Jennifer Culp*, Hai-Ye viola and piano; Jodi Levitz, viola; Yoshikazu Nagai, Ni; Pianist/Conductor Jeffrey Kahane; Pianist Robin piano; Mark Sokol, chamber coach; Axel Strauss, violin; Sutherland; Guitarist David Tanenbaum*; Vocalists size of chamber music Ian Swensen, violin Elza Van den Heever, Wendy Hillhouse*, Keith Olsen; program Composers Aaron Jay Kernis, Joel Rosenbaum 10 Degrees *Current SFCM Faculty BM: Yes (many possibilities to be involved in Chamber Music Program) Practice Facilities Others: MM, Professional Studies Diploma: Number of Rooms: 55 Instrumental; Postgraduate Diploma: Vocal Number of Rooms with Piano: 45 Graduate Chamber Music Degrees: Master of Music in Number of Rooms Assigned: None Chamber Music, Artist Certificate in Chamber Music Other: Faculty studios also available for practice In Residence Hall: One room

EXPENSES In-State + Out-of-State Housing Application $100 Available: Yes tuition $34,900 On Campus First Year Required: No Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes room / board $5,500–$8,500 (Conservatory partnership with private dorm) books / supplies $620 Other: Yahoo Housing Group for off-campus housing living expenses $4,000–$5,000

total $45,120–$49,120

78 july/august 2010 Celebrating CHAMBER MUSIC FACULTY Violin Viola Violoncello 25 years of Axel Strauss Jodi Levitz Jennifer Culp America’s first Ian Swensen Paul Hersh Jean-Michel Fonteneau, chair Piano Chamber Coach Chamber Music Paul Hersh Mark Sokol Yoshikazu Nagai degree program PROGRAMS OF STUDY Master of Music in Chamber Music 1985-2010 Artist Certificate in Chamber Music 79 Office of Admission 800.899.SFCM [email protected] www.sfcm.edu

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Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: 3.0 bA bm Geoffrey Scott Scholastic Tests: SAT I r ACT, three SAT II Total Course Hours: 120 120 Interview Required: No Course Hours in Major: 50 84 address Other: Transcript(s), two recommendations Course Hours Outside Major: 27 27 Rice University – MS532 Placement Tests Required: For transfer and graduate Senior Recital: No Yes applicants only Junior Recital: No Yes Shepherd School of Music Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes Exit Exams: No No P.O. Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251-1892 Application Deadline(s) Scholarship Information Undergraduate applicants: January 2, 2011 % Students Receiving Aid: 80% phone Transfer applicants: March 15, 2011 Program-Specific Awards: Merit awards are 713-348-4854 Graduate applicants: December 1, 2010 available to music majors. Early Decision: No Other Financial Aid: Rice University meets 100% of fax demonstrated financial need. 713-348-5317 Instrumental Auditions On-Campus: Yes Ensembles email Off-Campus: No instrumental Brass Choir, Campanile Orchestra, [email protected] Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 20% Chamber Music, Collegium Musicum, Electronic Music Studio, Percussion Ensemble, String Quartet Residence, website Vocal Auditions Symphony & Chamber Orchestra www.rice.edu/music On-Campus: Yes choral Rice Chorale Off-Campus: No Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 28.5% Private Instruction type Private Instruction Required: Yes University-based school Undergraduate Faculty Average Length of Lesson: One Hour of music instrumental Part Time: 10, Full Time: 25 Available for Non-Majors: Yes Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Cost Included in Tuition: Yes, for music majors setting Key Faculty: Please see advertisement, opposite page Additional Private Instruction Cost: For secondary Urban vocal Part Time: 3, Full Time: 7 instrument Student/Teacher Ratio: 4:1 Accompanists Provided: Yes Key Faculty: Please see advertisement, opposite page size of school Practice Facilities 3,270 undergraduates; Degrees Number of Rooms: 55 2,277 graduates BA: Yes Number of Rooms with Piano: 44 BM: Yes Number of Rooms Assigned: 2 organ, 3 percussion, size of music school BME: No 2 double bass, 1 harp 119 undergraduates, Others: Five-year honors BM/MM; MM; DMA Number of Rooms Unassigned: 47 160 graduates In Residence Hall: No

Housing Available: Yes On Campus First Year Required: No Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes

EXPENSES In-State + Out-of-State Application $65

tuition $33,120

room / board $11,750

Books / supplies $800

living expenses $1,550 total $47,285

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Rice University The Shepherd School of Music

offers pre-professional training for musicians, combining the intensity of a conservatory experience with the educational excellence of a renowned private university. Our illustrious faculty of artist-teachers dedicate themselves to cultivating the special talents and skills of each individual student.

VIOLIN PIANO Kenneth Goldsmith Brian Connelly Cho-Liang Lin Jeanne Kierman Fischer Sergiu Luca Sohyoung Park Kathleen Winkler Jon Kimura Parker Robert Roux VIOLA C. Dean Shank, Jr. James Dunham Ivo-Jan van der Werff VOICE Kathleen Kaun CELLO Stephen King Norman Fischer Susanne Mentzer Desmond Hoebig Brinton Averil Smith OPERA STUDIES Richard Bado DOUBLE BASS Debra Dickinson Paul Ellison Susan Lorette Dunn Timothy Pitts VOCAL COACHING FLUTE Janet De Chambrier Leone Buyse Grant Loehnig

OBOE CONDUCTING Robert Atherholt Hans Graf Thomas Jaber CLARINET Larry Rachleff Michael Webster COMPOSITION BASSOON & THEORY Benjamin Kamins Karim Al-Zand TRUMPET Anthony Brandt Marie Speziale Shih-Hui Chen Arthur Gottschalk HORN Pierre Jalbert William VerMeulen Richard Lavenda Kurt Stallmann TROMBONE David Waters MUSICOLOGY Walter Bailey TUBA Gregory Barnett David Kirk Marcia Citron David Ferris Rice University PERCUSSION The Shepherd School of Music Peter Loewen Richard Brown Director of Music Admissions P.O. Box 1892 HARP Houston, Texas 77251 Paula Page 713.348.4854 http://music.rice.edu

Rice University is committed to affirmative action and equal opportunity in education and employment. Rice does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, age, disability or veteran status. University of Illinois School of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: N/A bA BM BME Music Admissions Scholastic Tests: SAT/ACT Total Course Hours: 130 Average ACT: 28 Course Hours in Major: ~80 address Interview Required: All areas except performance Course Hours Outside Major: ~50 1114 W. Nevada Street Placement Tests Required: Yes Senior Recital: Performance Majors Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes (except for percussion) Junior Recital: Performance Majors Urbana, IL 61801 Application Deadline(s) Scholarship Information phone Early Decision: No % Students Receiving Aid: 40% 217-244-7899 Regular Decision: December 1 (grad); Program Specific Related Awards: Yes January 2 (undergrad) Other Financial Aid: Yes fax 217-244-4585 Instrumental Auditions Ensembles On-Campus: Yes instrumental 3 Orchestras, 6 Concert Bands, email Off-Campus: Yes Numerous Chamber Music Ensembles musicadmissions@ Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 50% choral 9 Choral Ensembles illinois.edu World Music Ensembles Vocal Auditions website On-Campus: Yes Private Instruction www.music.illinois.edu Off-Campus: Yes Private Instruction Required: Yes Average Length of Lesson: 30-60 minutes Undergraduate Faculty Available for Non-Majors: Yes type instrumental Full Time: 80 Cost Included in Tuition: Yes Public Student/Teacher Ratio: 10:1 Accompanists Provided: Within each studio Key Faculty: Pacifica String Quartet, Dmitry Kouzov, setting Stefan Milenkovich, Ronald Romm, Ian Hobson, Representative Alumni Urban William Heiles, Bernhard Scully, Louis Bergonzi George Crumb, Erie Mills, Nathan Gunn, Jerry Hadley, Michael Colgrass size of school vocal Full Time: 7 40,000 Student/Teacher Ratio: 10:1 Practice Facilities Key Faculty: Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Julie Gunn, Number of Rooms: 100 Nathan Gunn, Dennis Helmrich, Cynthia Haymon- Number of Rooms with Piano: 90 size of music school Coleman, Ricardo Herrera, Yvonne Redman In Residence Hall: 1-2 Practice Rooms 750 Fraternal & Professional Music Degrees Organizations BA: Yes American Choral Directors’ Association, American BM: Yes String Teachers’ Association, Phi Mu Alpha, MENC, BME: Yes National Band Association, Mu Phi Epsilon, Others: MM, MME, DMA, PhD, EdD Pi Kappa Lambda

Housing Available: Yes EXPENSES In-State Out-of-State On Campus First Year Required: Yes Application $40 $40 Dorms Located Near Music Building: Yes tuition $11,754 $25,896 fees $3,272 $3,272 room / board $9,714 $9,714 books / supplies $1,200 $1,200 living expenses $2,510 $2,510 total $28,490 $42,632

82 july/august 2010 • Consistently Ranked as one of the best American Music Schools

Karl Kramer, Director • Internationally renowned faculty • Numerous financial awards • Thousands of successful alumni • Excellent facilities • Now offering a 2 year Artist Diploma Wind Illinois Woodwind Quartet String Pacifica Quartet Brass

Michael Cameron bass

Rudolf Haken viola Illinois Brass Quintet

Dmitry Kouzov Timothy Ehlen cello piano The School of Music is pleased Sherban Lupu William Heiles to announce the appointment of it’s violin piano, Chair newest faculty member: Bernhard Sculley, Professor of Horn. Stefan Milenkovich Dennis Helmrich violin accompanying

Ann Yeung Ian Hobson harp, Chair piano

Music Admissions Office Julie Gunn School of Music accompanying 1114 West Nevada Street Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 244-7899 email: [email protected]

www.music.uiuc.edu

Accredited institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music since Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance

Admission Requirements Ensembles Contact Average GPA: 3.38 instrumental Brass Ensembles, Chamber Kristi Morgridge Scholastic Tests: ACT, SAT Orchestra, Collegiate Band, Contemporary Music Average ACT: 24 Average SAT: 1100 Ensemble, Diamond Marching Band, New School address Interview Required: No Brass Quintet, New School Woodwind Quintet, 2001 N. 13th Street, Placement Tests Required: Undergraduate, theory testing Opera Orchestra, Percussion Ensemble, Saxophone Auditions Live: Yes Ensemble, String Ensembles, University Symphony Philadelphia, PA 19122 Tape: Yes, depending on circumstances Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, Woodwind Ensembles JAZZ Fusion Ensemble, Jazz phone Application Deadline(s) Brass Band, Jazz Guitar Ensemble, Jazz Lab Band, Jazz 215-204-6810 Undergraduate: rolling admissions with March 1, 2011 Percussion Ensemble, Jazz Vocal Ensemble, New deadline for Fall Music Ensemble by Temple Jazz Composers, Temple fax Graduate: Various depending on program Jazz Ensemble, Temple University Big Band, Various 215-204-4957 Small Jazz Ensembles Instrumental Auditions email On-Campus: Dates are listed at www.temple.edu/boyer choral Concert Choir, Chamber Choir, Graduate [email protected] Off-Campus: N/A Conductor’s Chorus, Recital Chorus, University Chorale, University Singers, Women’s Choir, Opera Theater website Vocal Auditions www.temple.edu/boyer On-Campus: Dates are listed at www.temple.edu/boyer other Early Music Ensemble, World Music Off-Campus: N/A Ensemble, New Music by Temple Composers, Piano and Keyboard Ensembles type Degrees Professional training within BA: No Private Instruction the context of a moder BM: Jazz Arranging/Composition, Jazz Performance Private Instruction Required: Yes research university (Instrumental, Keyboard or Vocal), Music Composition, Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Music Education, Music Education with Jazz Studies Cost Included in Tuition: Yes setting Component, Music History, Music Theory, Music Urban Therapy, Music Therapy with Jazz Studies Component, fraternal & professional music Performance (Instrumental, Keyboard or Vocal), organizations size of school Piano Pedagogy CMENC, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha, Music Bachelor of Science in Music (non-performance degree) 35,000 + Therapy Club MM: Choral Conducting, Composition, Music Education, Music History and Literature, Music Theory, Opera, Housing size of music school Performance (Instrumental, Keyboard, Voice), Piano Available: Yes 750 Accompanying and Chamber Music, Piano Accompanying On Campus First Year Required: No and Opera Coaching, Piano Pedagogy, String Pedagogy Dorms Located Near Music Building: yes Master of Music Therapy Other: Music and Dance Living and Learning Doctoral Degrees: DMA in Composition, DMA in Community Performance (Instrumental, Keyboard, Voice), Ph.D. in Music Education, Ph.D. in Music Therapy

UNDERGRADUATE EXPENSES IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE APPLICATION $50 $50 TUITION $11,942 $21,972 ROOM / BOARD $6,000–$10,000 $6,000–$10,000 BOOKS / SUPPLIES / EXPENSES varies varies TOTAL $17,992–$21,992 $28,022–$32,022

GRADUATE EXPENSES IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE APPLICATION $60 $60 TUITION $590/credit $861/credit ROOM / BOARD / EXPENSES varies varies

84 july/august 2010 InSTruMEnTal FaCulTy Flute Horn Percussion Cello David Cramer+ Michael Johns Alan Abel+ John Koen+ Loren Lind+ Jeffry Kirschen+ William Kerrigan Kathryn Picht-Read+ Kazuo Tokito+ Jeffrey Lang+ Phil O’Banion Jeffrey Solow* Adeline Tomasone Jennifer Montone+ Glenn Steele Shelley Showers+ Robert Stroker Double Bass Oboe Daniel Williams+ Angela Zator-Nelson+ John Hood+ Jonathan Blumenfeld+ Robert Kesselman+ Peter Smith+ Trumpet Harp Anne Peterson Richard Woodhams+# David Bilger+# Sophia Bruno Jeffrey Curnow+ Elizabeth Hainen+ Classical Guitar Clarinet Robert Earley+ Kimberly Rowe Allen Krantz Samuel Caviezel+ Rodney Mack Arthur Chodoroff Eric Schweingruber Violin Chamber Music Paul Demers Mei Chen Barnes Sidney Curtiss+ Ricardo Morales+# Trombone Jonathan Beiler+ Deborah Reeder Lawrence Wagner Blair Bollinger+# Davyd Booth+ Ana Tsinadze Paul Bryan William dePasquale+ Jesus Morales Saxophone Nitzan Haroz+# Kimberly Fisher+ Marshall Taylor Philip McClelland Helen Kwalwasser Bands Matthew Vaughn+ Dmitri Levin+ Arthur Chodoroff Bassoon Diane Monroe Matthew Brunner Angela Anderson+ Tuba/Euphonium Hirono Oka+ Jacob Smith Jay Krush Charles Parker Orchestra Daniel Matsukawa+ Booker Rowe+ Luis Biava, Artistic Director Eduard Schmieder Yumi Ninomiya Scott+ + Current or former member Barbara Sonies of The Cellist Rajli Bicolli performs with the Temple University # By special arrangement Symphony Orchestra at the Annual Kimmel Center Viola * Department chair for the Performing Arts Concert. Che-Hung Chen+ Brett Deubner Evelyn Jacobs Luise Photo by Jessica Griffin Xiao-Fu Zhou

For more information, please contact: 215-204-6810 or [email protected] www.temple.edu/boyer Philadelphia, PA University of Texas at Austin Butler School of Music

Admission Requirements Scholarship Information Contact Average GPA: 3.5 % Students Receiving Aid: 30% Sarah Borshard Scholastic Tests: ACT/SAT Program Specific Related Awards: Yes Average ACT: 26 Average SAT: 1850 Other Financial Aid: Yes address Interview Required: No Undergraduate Office Placement Tests Required: CB SAT Subject Test in Ensembles Mathematics Level 1, Piano Placement instrumental Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, University of Texas at Austin Auditions Live: Yes Tape: Yes Symphony Band, Chamber Winds, Symphony Orchestra, 1 University Station E3100 University Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Ensemble, Austin, TX 78712 Application Deadline(s) Jazz Combos, Alternative Improvisation Music Ensemble Early Decision: No (jazz), Percussion Ensemble, Percussion Group, Middle phone Eastern Ensemble, Mariachi Ensemble, South American 512-471-0504 Instrumental Auditions Music Ensemble, Caribbean Ensemble, Early Music On-Campus: Yes Ensemble, New Music Ensemble fax Off-Campus: Yes 512-475-6788 Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 40% choral Chamber Singers, Concert Chorale, Choral Arts Society, University Chorus, Men’s Chorus, Women’s email Vocal Auditions Chorus, Longhorn Singers, Butler Opera Center, [email protected] On-Campus: Yes Undergraduate Opera Ensemble Off-Campus: Yes website Percentage Auditioning Accepted: No Private Instruction www.music.utexas.edu Private Instruction Required: Yes Undergraduate Faculty Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour instrumental Part Time: 6, Full Time: 37 Available for Non-Majors: Yes type Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Cost Included in Tuition: Yes School of Music In rest of instrumental programs: 6:1 Additional Private Instruction Cost: No Accompanists Provided: Yes setting vocal Part Time: 1, Full Time: 12 University Student/Teacher Ratio: 7:1 Representative Alumni Barbara Conrad, Billy Hunter, Louis Lane, Hunter size of school Degrees Perrin, Lucy Schafer, Carl St. Clair 50,000 BA: Yes BM: Performance, Composition, Jazz, Music Business, Practice Facilities Recording Technology Number of Rooms: 130 size of music school BME: BM Music Studies Instrumental or Choral Number of Rooms with Piano: 120 750 Number of Rooms Assigned: 0 Graduation Requirements Number of Rooms Unassigned: 130 bA BM / BME In Residence Hall: No Total Course Hours: 120 120 Course Hrs in Major: 60 85 FRATERNAL & PROFESSIONAL MUSIC Course Hrs (Non-Major): 60 35 ORGANIZATIONS Senior Recital: Yes Phi Mu Alpha, Sigma Iota Alpha, Mu Phi Epsilon, Junior Recital: Yes UT Student Music Educators Association (TMEA), Exit Exams: Yes Collegiate Texas Music Educators (TMEC, MENC)

Housing EXPENSES IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE Available: Yes Application $60 $60–$90 First Year On Campus Required: No Dorms Located Near Music Building: Simkins, San tuition $4,812 $15,415 Jacinto, Moore-Hill, Brackenridge, Roberts, Prather, room / board $4,810 $4,990 Jester books / supplies $430 $430 living expenses $1,741 $1,741 total $11,853 $12,636–$22,666

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University of Nebraska Lincoln School of Music

Admission Requirements Graduation Requirements Contact Average GPA: 3.5 BA bm BME Susan Tribby Average ACT: 27 Total Course Hours: 125 125 125 Interview Required: For DMA/PhD Course Hours in Major: 47 75 97 address Auditions Live: Yes Tape: for out-of-state Course Hours Outside Major: 78 50 28 113 Westbrook Music Senior Recital: Yes Application Deadline(s) Building, Undergrad for fall: May 1, 2011 Scholarship Information Lincoln, NE 68588-0100 Grad for fall: March 1, 2011 % Students Receiving Aid: 60% Early Decision: By appointment phone Ensembles 402-472-6845 Instrumental Auditions instrumental Symphony, Opera + Chamber January and February 2011 Orchestras, Wind Ensemble, Symphonic, Campus & fax On-Campus: Annual Marching Bands, Jazz Ensembles, Pep Band 402-472-8962 Off-Campus: Occasional choral University Singers, Chamber Singers, Percentage Auditioning Accepted: varies with instrument Big Red Singers, University Chorale, Varsity Men’s email Chorus, City Campus Choir, East Campus Choir [email protected] Vocal Auditions On-Campus: Annual Private Instruction website Off-Campus: None Private Instruction Required: 2-3 credit hours per www.unl.edu/music Percentage Auditioning Accepted: 30-40% semester available Average Length of Lesson: 1 hour Undergraduate Faculty Available for Non-Majors: Yes, as available $80 fee type instrumental Part Time: 100, Full Time: 58 Cost Included in Tuition: Yes, for music students School of Music Student/Teacher Ratio: varies Additional Private Instruction Cost: None Key Faculty: Diane Barger, Scott Anderson, Accompanists Provided: Upon request setting Clark Potter, Susan Levine University vocal Part Time: 20, Full Time: 9 Representative Alumni Student/Teacher Ratio: varies Currently hold positions in major professional symphony size of school Key Faculty: William Shomos orchestras, lead choirs, and music departments in high 22,000 schools, major universities, and Schools of Music across Degrees the country. BA: All areas size of music school BM: Voice, instrumental, jazz, composition Practice Facilities 350 BME: All areas except dance Number of Rooms: 40 Others: MM, DMA, PhD Number of Rooms with Piano: 40 Number of Rooms Assigned: 10 Number of Rooms Unassigned: 30 Other: 6 pianos feature Disklavier™ In Residence Hall: 3 practice rooms with 5 pianos

FRATERNAL & PROFESSIONAL MUSIC ORGANIZATIONS Kappa Kappa Psi, Mu Phi Epsilon, Pi Kappa Lambda, EXPENSES IN-STATE OUT-OF-STATE Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Sigma Alpha Iota, ACDA, tuition / fees $6,948 $17,988 ASTA, MENC, NAJE, NMEA, NSBA room / board $7,768 $7,768 Housing books / supplies $1,010 $1,010 Available: Each semester living expenses varies varies Dorms Located Near Music Building: Selleck total $15,725 $26,766 Quadrangle Other: Music learning community available

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Chamber music is more than a course of study....

January 21,January 2011 21, 2011 We are passionate about chamber music. AdmissionAdmission & Scholarship & Scholarship Since their arrival at the School of Music Brass,Brass, Composition,Composition, Percussion,Percussion, the members of the Chiara String Voice & WindsVoice & Winds Quartet, Gregory Beaver, Rebecca Fischer, Jonah Sirota, and Julie Yoon have brought January 22,January 2011 22, 2011 a singular focus to the chamber music AdmissionAdmission & Scholarship & Scholarship program. Their dedication is second-to- Dance,Dance, Keyboard, Keyboard, Strings Strings & & Voice Voice none and their global reputation for FebruaryFebruary 19, 2011 19, 2011 excellence continues to grow. Chiara String Quartet GraduateGraduate Auditions Auditions The Moran Woodwind Quintet has FebruaryFebruary 25, 2011 25, 2011 been a driving creative musical force at AdmissionAdmission & Scholarship & Scholarship the School of Music since its formation Dance,Dance, Keyboard, Keyboard, Strings Strings & & Voice Voice in 1986. The members of the Moran FebruaryFebruary 26, 2011 26, 2011 Woodwind Quintet bring a degree of AdmissionAdmission & Scholarship & Scholarship excellence to chamber music which has Brass, Composition, Percussion, made them one of the most active and Voice & WindsVoice & Winds Moran Woodwind Quintet visible quintets in the Midwest. ForFor details, details, go togo ourto our web web site: site: The brass faculty of UNL make up the www.unl.edu/musicwww.unl.edu/music University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. A fine chamber brass ensemble, the members of the Quintet have dedicated themselves to the performance of original works for brass quintet with a touring schedule that takes them across the state of Nebraska as well as mid America.

University of Nebraska The Chamber Music Institute gives superb college students from across Brass Quintet the U.S. and Canada the opportunity to explore careers in chamber music with faculty and professional chamber musicians. This week-long program of study focuses on performance, composition, and entrepreneurship.

To schedule an audition please go to www.unl.edu/music. Questions can be emailed to [email protected].

Chamber Music Institute

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www.unl.edu/music SCHOOL OF MUSIC

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln does not discriminate based on gender, age, disability, race, ® color, religion, marital status, veteran's status, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.