The Conservatory of Music and Brooklyn College offer a wealth of resources for music students. In addition to the features listed here, Brooklyn College is a short trip via the New York City subway system to the unparalleled resources of the entire metropolitan New York region.
PERFORMANCE
CENTER FOR COMPUTER MUSIC
INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN AMERICAN MUSIC
RECORDING & TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM
WALTER W. GERBOTH MUSIC LIBRARY
CONCERT OFFICE
PREPARATORY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
The performance faculty is comprised of soloists as well as members of major ensembles in the New York area, encompassing virtually every aspect of music performance. The Conservatory's calendar of over 100 public concerts and recitals provides rich opportunities for students to perform repertoire from early music through contemporary works.
Performance is a fundamental part of the Conservatory's programs. All music majors, regardless of area of concentration, participate in a variety of ensembles. Qualified Conservatory students shold teaching internships and faculty positions in the Preparatory Center.
Ensembles:
Brass Ensemble: Douglas Hedwig
Chamber Chorus: Bruce MacIntyre
Chamber Music Ensembles: Douglas Hedwig
Brooklyn College Chorus: Bruce MacIntyre
conTEMPO: Tania León
Jazz Ensemble: Michael Salim Washington
Opera Theater and Opera Workshop: Richard Barrett
Orchestra: Richard Barrett, conductor
Percussion Ensemble: Morris Lang
Wind Ensemble: Paul Shelden
Center for Computer Music
George Brunner,
technical director
The Center for Computer Music is a state-of-the-art facility for the
production of multichannel recorded and live computer music. The Center
maintains broad contacts in the field of computer music and in the new
music community in general. The Composer-in-Residence Program allows musicians
from outside the City University to use the equipment in the Brooklyn College
studio. John Cage, Morton Subotnick, Larry Austin, and former director
of the Center, Charles Dodge, are among the composers who have created
works using the facility.Among the other composers who have visited the
campus under the sponsorship of the residency program and the Composers
Forum are :Charles Amirkhanian, Jon Appleton, William Buxton, Elliott Carter,
Joel Chadabe, John Corigliano, Morris Moshe Cotel, Earl Brown, George Crumb,
Jacob Druckman, Morton Feldman, Richard Feliciano, Philip Glass, Ezra Laderman,
Otto Luening, Steve Reich, Roger Reynolds, Michael Ridolfi, Elliott Schwartz,
David Stock, Joan Tower, and Vladimir Ussachevsky.
Institute for Studies in American Music
Ellie Hisama, director
The Institute is a research and information center established in 1971 to encourage, support, evaluate, and propagate research in all aspects of American music - past and present, cultivated and vernacular, classical and pop, white and black, inner-American and inter-American. The Institute publishes a newsletter, sponsors research, fellowships, concerts, and colloquia, and maintains a library of books, periodicals, scores, recordings, and microfilms.
Its most recent events include "Remaking American Opera,": a symposium with John Adams, Anthony Davis, Tania León, and Meredith Monk, and "Island Sounds in the Global City,": a conference on Caribbean popular music in New York. The Institute has also sponsored fellowships for distinguished scholars, composers, and critics who have taught courses in the Conservatory and presented public lectures. Fellowship positions have been held by: Gilbert Chase, Richard Crawford, Robert Kimball, Vivian Perlis, Eric Salzman, Robert Palmer, Robert Ashley, Dan Morgenstern, William Ivey, Neely Bruce, John Rockwell, Martin Williams, Edward Berlin, Morton Subotnick, Gillian Anderson, Roger Reynolds, James Collier, Doris Dyen, Charles Hamm, Pauline Oliveros, Thomas Riis, Don Gillespie, Kyle Gann, Ingram Marshall, Paul Sperry, Horace Boyer, Mark Tucker, and Ray Allen.
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Recording & Technology Program
George Brunner,
director
The Conservatory's Recording and Technology Program consists of concert
recording in classical recording style and studio multi-track recording
style.Formats used are ADAT, DAT, PCM, analog, open reel, and cassette.
150-200 concert recordings and 50-75 studio sessions occur each year. Additional
technologies include a state-of-the-art MacIntosh MIDI environment featuring
sound editing, sequencing, and notation software. Recording techniques
courses including independent study are offered in association with the
program.
Walter W. Gerboth Music Library
Honora Raphael-Weinstein, librarian
The Music Library houses a variety of music materials for study and
performance. Special strengths of the collection include American music,
musicological Festschriften, and a collection of unpublished musicological
translations from the American Musicological/Music Library Association
Translation Center. The Library's catalogue is linked with CUNY+, the university-wide
on-line catalogue.
Concert Office
Brian Willson,
director
Janice Gerboth & Josh Carr, assistants
This office manages, coordinates, and publicizes the Conservatory's
calendar of over 150 recitals, concerts, master classes, and other special
educational presentations each academic year. It also publishes Fermata,
the Conservatory's semiannual newsletter, through which alumni and friends
of the Conservatory receive information on activities of past and present
faculty and students, recent and upcoming events, job placement, and other
items of interest.
Preparatory Center for the Performing Arts
Nicholas Armstrong, director
The Prep Center is a tuition-based community program open to all who seek high quality training by professional artist/teachers, in all orchestral instruments, classical guitar, voice, music theory, composition, dance, and acting. College preparatory courses are offered as well as beginning level courses for adults and children. The Center's College preparatory courses and beginning level courses for adults and children are described in its catalog. For further information, call the Prep Center at (718) 951-4111.
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