and facilities to serve the students in the marching band on a daily basis.
This new addition to the School of Music has been warmly welcomed by students and faculty alike as it is allowing the school to grow and spread out a bit more and affording greater opportunity to serve our comprehensive music program and growing student body.
Our faculty and students have remained consistently active over the summer and have very exciting plans for this coming academic year with performances and presentations throughout the United States and in many countries around the world. We are pleased to have welcomed new faculty members this year including Dr. Mary Lindsay Bailey as instructor of oboe, Dr. Julie Bannerman in music education, and Dr. Andrew Minear as our new Director of Choral Activities. They are making wonderful additions to an already “world-class” faculty.
If you have the opportunity, please visit us in Tuscaloosa to meet and hear our faculty and students, and tour the new addition to our music facility. Over the next two years, there are plans to bring the existing music building up to the same architectural codes and construction standards as seen in the new wing. It is an exciting time in Tuscaloosa!
Auburn University
Auburn University’s Department of Music opens the 2016-17 concert season with the Eighth Annual Faculty Showcase on September 15, 2016 featuring some of our finest faculty performers. One highlight this fall is the AU Opera Workshop production of the Alabama premiere of SPEED DATING TONIGHT! ,a one act comic opera created for opera apprentice programs; opera and musical theater programs at universities; choral groups; and fundraising events by Michael Ching. It portrays an imaginary speed dating night at a bar and will be presented on November 10 and 11, 2016 at 7:30 pm in Goodwin Recital Hall. Laurelie Gheesling and Anne Duraski lead our students in their preparation of this exciting premiere. A wide variety of other events can be found on our website: .
The 2017 audition dates for all students for admission into music curricula, our All-State Workshop for instrumental students, and our annual Honor Band Festivals are announced below.
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Thursday, February 9, 2017 for wind, brass, and percussion students participating in the 2017 Symphonic Honor Band
Saturday, February 11, 2017 for voice and piano students
Saturday, February 18, 2017 for wind, brass, percussion, string, and piano students
All music curricula require an audition for admission and/or placement into private lesson study. Check out our website for the application to the Department of Music and audition requirements: .
Don’t miss our All-StateWorkshop on Saturday, December 10, 2016 for students auditioning for 2017 all-state ensembles on wind, brass, or percussion instruments. The Auburn University All-State Workshop is designed to help students enhance their audition and performance skills. The workshop will include a variety of topics that target each element of the Alabama all-state audition: scales, technique, phrasing, and sight- reading. Students will be coached on specifics related to each required etude, and suggestions for improvement and sight-reading practice techniques will be provided. Faculty performers will discuss the audition process from both the performer and adjudicator perspectives. Registration information is available on our website.
The Auburn University Bands is will hold two annual symphonic band festivals, one for Junior High and Middle School students (February 2-4, 2017) and another for High School students (February 9-11, 2017). Both festivals include three separate honor bands, along with special guest conductors and clinicians, and end with a final performance by all bands for parents and the community. More information can be found on the Auburn University Band website: .
Contact the Department of Music at 334-844- 4165 or if you have questions about our degree programs or offerings.
War Eagle! Sara Lynn Baird Professor and Chair
Alabama State University
The Department of Music at Alabama State University is pleased to announce our newest community outreach initiative to launch this fall, the ASU Young Musicians Program. YMP will offer group lesson instruction led by ASU music faculty for vocal and instrumental students in grades 6-12. The group lessons will focus on
October/November 2016
proper playing/singing technique, note-reading, rhythm-reading, and other fundamental skills that will reinforce what students are learning in their local school music programs. The fall session will end with a chamber recital featuring program participants on November 29th
in
Tullibody Recital Hall on the campus of ASU. Additional information and registration instructions for the ASU Young Musicians Program can be found online at
www.alasu.edu/music
In addition to the Young Musicians Program, the Department of Music will also be sponsoring it’s hugely successful Piano for Children program which is available for children ages 6- 12. In the fifth year of operation, this program allows children from the Montgomery area community to learn fundamental piano skills and basic music theory musicianship. The program has expanded to offer two beginner level classes and an intermediate level class.
Classes are
taught by Dr. Adonis Gonzalez-Matos, Professor of Piano at Alabama State University, and Dr. Michael Zelenak, Coordinator of the music education program at ASU and who holds the distinction of being a nationally board certified teacher. Additional information on the Piano for Children Program and other community outreach programs sponsored by the Department of Music can be found online at
www.alasu.edu/music
In faculty news, we are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Cordelia Anderson as Assistant Professor of Voice.
She holds the
Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal Performance from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and will be teaching applied voice, diction classes, and collaborating on Opera Workshop projects.
addition to the voice area at Alabama State University.
Additional information about the Department of Music at ASU may be found online at
www.alasu.edu/music or by contacting the Music Office at (334) 229-4341.
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