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Department of Instrumental StudiesThe Department of Instrumental Studies provides the potential professional performer and/or teacher with the finest instrumental training within the context of a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum. Individual study with excellent art-teachers enables each student to achieve a high level of proficiency on the major instrument (strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, classical guitar), and a high level of participation in ensembles provides performance experience and a broad knowledge of the literature. Specialized coursework develops the expertise in reading, writing, analysis, musical styles, and performance practices that mark the professional performer. In addition, those students in the Bachelor of Music program acquire an understanding of history and culture through non-music academic coursework in a wide range of disciplines. Degrees Offered
Contact Information Professor Jeffrey Solow, Department Chair jeffrey.solow@temple.edu Students in the Department of Instrumental Studies have the opportunity to perform in the following ensembles: New School Institute Woodwind and Brass Quintets String,
woodwind and brass chamber ensembles SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The Temple University Symphony Orchestra rehearses twice a week and is conducted by Professor Luis Biava. Comprised of undergraduate and graduate students, the Symphony Orchestra's performances in recent years have featured a large representation of orchestral repertoire, as well as faculty and student soloists. In addition to annual performances with the combined choirs at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, in 2007, the Orchestra performed at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote of “robust middle-voice strings.” The review also noted “. . . the concentration of energy represented gives the students a taste for how excellence feels firsthand…conductor Luis Biava delivered long, clearly delineated arcs.” In 2008, the Orchestra will perform at Carnegie Hall, continuing a future tradition of annual performances at major New York venues. The Symphony Orchestra has also performed for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, for the North Penn and Upper Darby Community Concert Series, and in Harrisburg, PA at the Forum in the State Capitol. The Symphony Orchestra's repertoire from the last several seasons has included: Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Barber); Fantasy for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80 (Beethoven); "Le Corsaire" Overture, Overture to Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz); Chichester Psalms, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Bernstein); Nänie , Op. 82, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor (Brahms); Te Deum (Bruckner); Canticle of Freedom, Lincoln Portrait (Copland); Prélude à “L’Après-midi d’un faune” (Debussy); Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 " New World," Te Deum (Dvórâk); Suite from El amor brujo (de Falla); Enigma Variations, Op. 26 (Elgar); Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (Grondahl); Symphony No. 103. In E-flat Major "Drumroll" (Haydn); The Planets (Holst); Symphony No. 2, Symphony No. 5 (Mahler); Overture to The Magic Flute , K. 62, Symphony No. 35 (Haffner) (Mozart); Pictures at an Exhibition (Moussorgsky/Ravel); Gloria (Poulenc); Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev); Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Rachmaninoff); Alborada del gracioso, Rapsodie espagnole, Suite No. 2 from Daphnes et Chloé (Ravel); Pines of Rome (Respighi); Russian Easter Overture (Rimsky-Korsakov); Overture to An Italian in Algiers (Rossini); New England Triptych (Schuman); Symphony No. 5 in D Minor (Shostakovich); Valse Triste (Sibelius); Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Strauss); The Firebird Suite (1919), Symphony of Psalms (Stravinsky), Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36 (Tchiakovsky); Rapsodia sinfónica, Op. 66 (Turina); "Overture" to La forza del destino, "Overture" to I Vespri Siciliani (Verdi);and "Prelude" and "Liebestod" from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner).
The Chamber Orchesta provides an opportunity to perform larger chamber works in a true chamber music environment. This intimate performance setting is led from the concertmaster's chair by Helen Kwalwasser, Professor of Violin and Artistic Advisor for Strings in the Boyer College , and formerly concertmaster of the New York Chamber Soloists for over thirty years. The Chamber Orchestra generally performs one concert per semester and on occasion has joined with the Temple University Concert Choir, under the direction of Professor Alan Harler, in the performance of cantatas and oratorios.
Chamber Orchestra repertoire from the last several seasons has included: Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky (Arensky); Sinfonia No. 1 in D Major (J. C. Bach); St. John Passion, Concerto for Two Violins in B Minor (J. S. Bach); Adagio for Strings, Op. 11 (Barber); Concerto Grosso No. 1 for Strings and Piano Obbligato (Bloch); Simple Symphony (Britten); Concerto Grosso, Op. 6 No. 8 (Christmas) (Corelli); Serenade for Strings (Dvorak); Suite No. 1 from The Water Music (Handel); Sinfonia No. 9 in C (Mendelssohn); Concerto for Clarinet in A Major, K. 622, Concerto for Flute in G Major, K. 313, Symphony No. 33 in B-flat Major , K. 319 (Mozart); and Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky). The Opera Orchestra is conducted by Professor John Douglas and accompanies the Opera Theater productions each semester in a fully staged production. Temple Opera Theater's repertoire from the past several has included: Candide (Bernstein); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten); La Calisto(Cavalli); The Elixir of Love (Donizetti); The Most Happy Fella (Loesser); L'Amico Fritz (Mascagni); Don Giovanni, Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart);Merry Wives of Windsor (Nicolai); and The Crucible (Ward).
The Wind Symphony is the premiere wind band of the Boyer College . Conducted by Professor Arthur Chodoroff, the Wind Symphony is active during the Spring semester. In addition to performances both on and off-campus, the Wind Symphony has performed by invitation for the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, the Eastern Division of the Music Educators National Association, and the Eastern Division of the College Band Directors National Association. Soloists who have most recently performed with the Wind Symphony include Philadelphia Orchestra and Boyer College faculty members Blair Bollinger (bass trombone), Nitzan Haroz (trombone), and Ricardo Morales (clarinet). The Wind Symphony may be heard on compact discs released on the Toshiba-EMI and Albany labels.
Wind Symphony repertoire from the last several seasons has included: Commando March (Barber); Symphonic Jazz Suite (Bencriscutto); The Leaves are Falling (Benson); An Outdoor Overture, Emblems (Copland); The Lord of the Rings (de Meij);Concerto for Bass Trombone and Wind Ensemble (Ewazen); Yiddish Dances (Gorb); Molly On The Shore (Grainger); "March" from Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes byCarl Maria von Weber (Hindemith); First Suite in E-flat, Op. 28a, "Jupiter" from The Planets (Holst); Country Band March (Ives); Prelude, Fugue and Chorale (Krzywicki); Overture for Band (Mendelssohn); Yankee Doodle - Fantasie Humoresque (Reeves); Dance of the Tumblers (Rimsky-Korsakov); ...and the mountains rising nowhere (Schwantner); Variations on a Hymn by Louis Bourgeois (Smith); Blue Shades (Ticheli); and Fanfare and Allegro (Vaughan Williams). The Wind Ensemble is a select group of woodwind, brass, and percussion instrumentalists and is conducted by Professors Arthur Chodoroff and Timothy Oliver. This group generally performs one concert each semester and features repertoire that ranges from larger wind chamber works to traditional and contemporary wind ensemble pieces. During recent semesters, literature that has been performed by the Wind Ensemble has included: Nonet (Bird); Old Wine in New Bottles (Jacob); Third Suite (Jager); Sonata for Marimba (Tanner); Symphony for Band (Washburn); and Chorale and Shaker Dance (Zdechlik).
COLLEGIATE BAND You will find information on this ensemble at www.temple.edu/diamondbands/ensembles/index.html.
DIAMOND MARCHING BAND You will find information on this ensemble at www.temple.edu/diamondbands/ensembles/index.html. The Contemporary Ensemble is under the primary direction of Jay Krush and focuses on important music of the 20th and 21st centuries for various instrumentations. The ensemble generally performs one concert per semester. In recent years, repertoire performed by the Contemporary Ensemble has included the following: Chamber Symphony (John Adams); Workers Union (Louis Andriessen); 3 Monochromatic Dances (Michael Fiday ); Scherzo Over the Pavements (Charles Ives); Shoulder to Shoulder (Steve Martland); Music of Amber (Joseph Schwantner); Rust (Michael Torke); In C (Terry Riley); Concerto for Trumpet and Five Players (Ellen Taaffe Zwilich). The
Percussion Ensemble provides an opportunity to perform a wide variety
of literature for all instrumentations available to the genre. The
ensemble is conducted by Glenn
Steele, Professor of Percussion in the Boyer College , and generally
performs one concert per semester.
Each semester many chamber groups of all varieties are formed. They rehearse twice a week, once coached and once uncoached, thus offering students a chance to work on all the skills necessary for rehearsing, and performing chamber music. In addition to the numerous woodwind, brass, string, and mixed chamber ensembles in which students perform each year, the select New School Woodwind and Brass Quintets are also created, and provide a more in-depth performance opportunity for their members. All ensembles perform on a recital at a conclusion of each semester.
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