This film has been broadcast internationally including PBS and CBC. Festival appearances include the Taos School of Music, the Spoleto Festival, and the National Repertory Orchestra. Desert Chorale, a professional vocal ensemble in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has coached with members of the Emerson, Guarneri, and American String Quartets and participated in numerous master classes. She has additional research interests in historical performance practice and the history of sampling in contemporary popular music. Really wide range of abilities in students. In a news release Saturday, SUNY Potsdam said it was "deeply saddened" to share that the victim of the shooting was a student at the school's Crane School of Music who was in the Class. Additionally, he has given sessions at leading universities such as the Eastman School, Ithaca College, James Madison University, UNCG, and many more. A refuge from the grief of COVID-19 became a way to connect with millions of viewers for alumnusDaniel Mertzlufft '15. TEL: (315) 267-2440. TEL: (315) 267-2010. She has presented her research at conferences on Saint-Sans (Centro Luigi Boccherini, Lucca), The Music of War (British Library, London), and Music and Antiquity (Massenet Festival, Saint-tienne), as well as national and regional meetings of the American Musicological Society and the North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music. Now in its third century, SUNY Potsdam is distinguished by a legacy of pioneering programs and educational excellence. His student research projects have been selected from over 3,500 applicants for three National Council of Undergraduate Research conferences. The Crane School of Music | Potsdam NY He frequently plays in the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa) and the 13 Strings Chamber Ensemble; Mr. Geggie has appeared on the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival. He conducted 9 commercial CD's with professional choirs and orchestras in New York City and Moscow and 2 with the Stony Brook Camerata Singers. TEL: (315) 267-2452, Assistant Professor: Music Theory, Composition. Theystarted by learning traditional Andean music at a cultural center in Calca, Peru, before setting out for a seven-day backpacking trip along the Salkantay and Inca Trails. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Irvine, and holds both Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in classical guitar performance from the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Spanish virtuoso Pepe Romero. Dr. Doyle is the New York State Chair for the International Clarinet Association also a member of the organizations College and Pre-Professional Engagement Committee. Douglas has been an audio engineer for the Cleveland Institute of Music and a staff engineer at Cleveland's Commercial Recording Studios Inc. His recording credits include compact discs for Telarc and McGill Records, radio production and demonstration recordings for the BBC, as well as many live radio broadcasts. She is the winner of the 2019 ISMTA Composer Commissioning program. As a doctoral candidate, Matthew performed Daniel Nelson's tuba concerto, Metallphnic Remix, with the Temple University Wind Symphony under the direction of Emily Threinen. Visits are regularly scheduled by appointment Monday through Friday. TEL: (315) 267-2103. seeking out non-traditional performances spaces and opportunities. He joined the faculty at the SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music as Visiting Assistant Professor of Trumpet in the Fall of 2022. TEL: (315) 267-2403. He was a music educator for eight years in the Marion Center Area School District in western Pennsylvania. Inspire. Crane students regularly premiere new works, study with guest conductors and visiting artists, and perform in nationally televised concerts. She taught instrumental music on the middle school level in the New York City public school system. Drew holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam, a Masters degree in Jazz Performance from Queens College of the City University of New York, and an M.B.A. from the Metropolitan College of New York. Donald George is a tenor, and has performed at La Scala, Milan; San Carlo, Naples; La Fenice, Venice; Teatro Reggio, Turin; Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa; the Paris Opra Bastille and Thtre du Chtelet, the Royal Opra of Brussels, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the State Operas of Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna and Copenhagen, the Teatro Coln in Buenos Aires, the New National Theatre of Tokyo, New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, the Salzburg Festival, BBC Proms, The Flanders Festival, the Perth Festival (Australia), the Blossom Festival (USA) among others. The collections cover the heritage of Western music, from the ancient Greeks to the newest music, from jazz . He was the recipient of Stony Brook University's Ackerman Prize, as well as the Ralph Vaughan Williams Research Fellowship sponsored by the Carthusian Trust. The ensemble has toured extensively, performing at schools and universities, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, George Eastman Museum, Avaloch Farm Music Institute, and indoors and outdoors at San Juan Island and Saint-Gaudens National Historical Parks and Olympic, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Shenandoah, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, and Hawai'i Volcanoes National Parks. She has received research funding from SUNY Potsdam, the West African Research Association, Brown University, and the U.S. Department of Education. The College currently enrolls approximately 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students. He has collaborated with numerous artists on orchestrations that have been performed by the Charlotte Symphony (including Donny McCaslin's "BLACKSTAR Symphony" project featuring the music of David Bowie), Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, New Canon Chamber Collective, and Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, with more premieres scheduled soon. Upcoming commissions include a piece for Peabody Laptop Ensemble and a new work for cellist Iva Casin-Lako. Dr. Martin-Atwood has been invited to perform as a soloist at events and conferences such as the XXI International Organ Festival of Guanajuato, Mexico (2018), the Inauguration of the 16th President of the State University of New York, Aspects of American Organ Building in the Twentieth-Century (EROI), the American Guild of Organists Young Artists Recital, and a memorial concert in Gteborg, Sweden, for the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. At Crane, students can choose from a wide variety of programs and majors. In the summer of 2013, in order to settle close to her daughter and family, Margaret Chalker moved to Massena, NY from Zrich, Switzerland where she was a soprano soloist with the world renowned Opernhaus Zrich for 25 years, singing roles ranging from Pamina to Donna Elvira to Sophie to Agatha, Gilda to Elizabetta, including operas of the 20th century (Henze's "der Prinz Von Homburg",(Prinzessin Natalie) with Thomas Hampson as well as Frank Martin's "le vin herb" as Iseut to Piotr Beczala's Tristan in the marvelous Marco Marelli production and the world premiere of "Harley" by Edward Rushton as well as Ligetti's "Le Grande Macabre". Dr. Massell has been on the faculty of Crane since 2000. Dr. Shelly Tramposh has enjoyed a varied career as a chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher. Her work has been presented in both national and international conferences, including the International Brahms Conference in Irvine, CA (2019), Currently, Ivette is an Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, NY. in ethnomusicology from Brown University, and B.M. Miller holds degrees in piano performance from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois. He was selected by the American Choral He has served as Associate Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, as teaching fellow for the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and on the faculty of the Conductors Retreat at Medomak. Dr. Hernacki's most recent solo performance was with the Crane Wind Ensemble in 2022 performing Anthony Barfield's Red Sky. Recent performances include a recital of Nineteenth Century vocal music at the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California in Mexicali, Mexico. The world premiere performance took place in December 2015 at the Musikhochschule Mnchen with soprano Christiane Iwen and mezzo Rachel Wilson. SUNY Potsdam is a small college located in the seemingly middle-of-nowhere town of Potsdam, NY. Risa Okina is a theorist and collaborative pianist who has performed throughout the United States and Japan. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and served there as an instructor as well. In addition, she has served as a judge for multiple organ and chamber ensemble competitions. TEL: (315) 267-2424, Visiting Assistant Professor: Music Theory & Composition. Prof. Slywotzky is a sought-after educator. Her current book project, Playful Enemies: French Song, Satire, and Spectacle in Early Eighteenth-Century England, examines the Anglo-French political and socio-economic landscape of the 1710s-1740s through the lens of the French musical and theatrical invasion of the London stage. Hunter's dissertation research explored the rise of women's drumming in West Africa through the lens of Ewe female drummers, singers, composers, and dancers and their unique expressions of gender, and musical innovations, in Ewe associations known as habobo. Her primary argument is that the musical uncanny acts as a hermeneutic window to reach a deeper musical meaning, which can open us up to unique interpretations. Borden is honored to be an S.E. Heuser's music has won various awards, including the Columbia Orchestra American Composer Competition, the Fauxharmonic Orchestra Composition Contest, and the New England String Quartet's International Composition Competition. The abridged version: over 40 years as a successful professional Opera Singer and the same amount of time spent teaching: mostly privately and since 2017, here at Crane. In addition to his business accomplishments, Via is a sought after speaker at conventions, conferences, and universities in the United States and abroad. Prior to joining the Crane School faculty in 2016, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Colburn School (Los Angeles), and UCLA. Methodist Church in Norman, OK. Vocalists, for example,should be visible from head-to-toe. Dr. Sullivan completed the Doctor of Musical Arts in voice performance at the University of Michigan, where she studied with Freda Herseth and coached frequently with renowned collaborative pianist Martin Katz. She co-organized an African Music Festival at Brown University with Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, and edited an extensive digital collection of African field recordings by James Koetting which highlights Kasena music and culture of Northern Ghana in collaboration with the Brown University Library. Dr. McKinnie holds a Ph.D. from the University of Surrey (U.K.), where his BBC-funded research focused on the influence of spatial envelopment and localization accuracy on the perceived sound quality of surround-sound playback systems. Praised by Fanfare Magazine for his "great artistry" and "exemplary breath control" and hailed as "a true expert in phrasing" by the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal, Spence's debut solo album 20th Century Art Songs has gained critical acclaim in both instrumental and vocal communities. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. Associate Professor: Music Theory, Composition, Electronic Music/Co-Chair of Music Theory, History & Composition Dept. On the concert stage, Dr. Sierra has performed works such as Bernstein's Songfest, Schumann's Spanisches Liederspiel, Britten's Les Illuminations, Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium, Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Brahms's Liebeslieder Walzer, Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music, and Schubert's Mass in G. Most recently, he was invited to sing the tenor solo in Beethoven's Symphony No.9 with the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and was a featured soloist in Peter Bjerring's Song of the Salish Chief at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. As founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary chamber music collective Verisimo, During her tenure as a classroom teacher, Riki Braunstein served as associate conductor of the Brooklyn Borough-wide Orchestra and created several inter-visitation programs to introduce the musical ensemble experience to young school musicians. The Crane School of Music provides a video audition option for students who cannot otherwise attend a live audition at one of our audition sites. Over the summer, Dr. Jeffrey Francom and 17 students embarked on an amazing 500-mile trek along the Camino de Santiago in Spain! Dr. Doyle has performed and presented at numerous conferences including the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest and Clareidoscope Conferences, International Double Reed Society Conference, New York State School Music Association Conference, New York State Band Directors Association, Amiticitia Duo Extravaganza, Mid-America Center for Contemporary Music, the Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium and has given master classes for Juilliard Summer Winds, Southeast Asian Youth Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, Aria Summer Music Academy, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, University of Florida, University of Central Oklahoma, University of Michigan, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Louisiana State University, University of Arkansas-Ft. Smith, Bowling Green State University, Oakland University, and Nazareth College. guest conductor and clinician, he has conducted honor choirs, festivals, and workshops throughout TEL: (315) 267-3147, Visiting Assistant Professor: Director of Orchestras. The music of Phil Salathe ranges widely in scale and scope, from multi-movement orchestral pieces to hand-programmed "chiptunes" for independent video game publishers. creator Andre Pappathomas and his ensemble Mruta Mertsi in various performance installations TEL: (315) 267-2435. | SUNY Potsdam Feb 06, 2023 HELP [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Music Business, B.M. TEL: (315) 267-2447. Steven's research and passion revolves around the development of young university singers; using bel canto pedagogical principles to guide repertoire choice. (Morrison) Since joining the Rawlins Piano Trio in 2007, Dr. Gagnon has toured in Taiwan, South Korea and Panama. Matthew received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam and his Masters of Science in Music Education from Western Connecticut State University. He is a past-president of the Putnam Chorale. In addition to supervising library services and providing research assistance to students and faculty, he also teaches music research methods, and he gives lectures about American music including blues and jazz. Over the past 34 years, Tim has conducted a number of All-District, All-County, and Area All-State Bands and Orchestras. He lives in Poughkeepsie, NY with his wife Janet and three daughters, Karina, Kimberly and Alexis. He also studied violin with Ann-Marie Schwartz. Penn State Erie; and Music Director of the Erie Philharmonic Chorus. sullivly@potsdam.edu gagnonmc@potsdam.edu Piano students can only audition in New York City (on February 24) or on campus. In February 2019, Ravello Records released his Imaginary Birds: Music for Oboe and English Horn, a CD recording project with longtime collaborators Oboe Duo Agosto. Dr. Sherman earned a DMA in piano performance with an emphasis in piano pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma, where she was awarded a prestigious campus-wide Graduate Teaching Award through the Office of the Provost. For more than a decadeShannon Boyle 20 & 22has been mastering the harp at Crane, first in middle school and high school through the National String Project, then as an undergraduate student, and now while pursuing her masters degree in music performance. legacy," and "Emigration, Integration and Creative Productivity: Alfred In 2003 she completed a nationally acclaimed voice teaching internship sponsored by the National Association of Teachers of Singing. 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