seeking out non-traditional performances spaces and opportunities. In his free time, he enjoys running, composing, and managing his small farm. Following graduation from Western New England University School of Law in 2006, Mr. Button took a position with a law firm based out of Willimantic, Connecticut focusing his practice in workers' compensation, social security, civil litigation and governmental representation. Crane Audition Request (On Campus) - 02/18/2023. A main draw to this school is one of America's top ranked music schools, the Crane School of Music. Mr. Struzik is an All-State certified adjudicator, and is also an adjudicator for major organization festivals. Before joining USC, she taught music education at Queensborough Community College in New York City and popular songwriting and entrepreneurship at the Musrara College for New Music in Jerusalem, Israel. approaches to programming. Colleen won the Graduate Award for the best research paper from the International Symposium on Performance Science where she was a featured keynote speaker. Longy School of Music, both in Cambridge, MA; and as Director of Music at St. Stephen's United salathpf@potsdam.edu During his tenure as County Attorney, he has worked to establish a program to remediate potentially environmentally contaminated properties, in conjunction with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the New York State Comptroller's Oil Spill Fund and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. 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. Tim Savage is a native of Malone, N.Y. At Penn State he taught undergraduate music education courses while finishing coursework in music education with dual cognates in the sociology of schools and string pedagogy. Methodist Church in Norman, OK. Assessment of student learning provides information that allows us to improve teaching and learning in the classroom, as well as academic programs across our campus. Peruvian-American tenor Christopher Sierra is recognized for his artistic sensitivity and versatility in repertoire ranging from classical, musical theatre, to contemporary commercial music. Emma Trevena. She joined the faculty at Crane in 2017. chalkemc@potsdam.edu She is a member of the Potsdam Brass Quintet and Principal Trumpet of the Orchestra of Northern New York. She is currently Assistant Professor at the Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam. During his time with the CHSO he had the opportunity to accompanying Irish Tenor, Ronan Tynan in Warwick, RI; as well as perform at New York's Carnegie Hall. Scores can be submitted as Finale or Sibelius files, or in PDF format. The Crane School of Music is SUNY's only All-Steinway institution. Lastly, she is a proud alumna of SUNY Potsdam where she received a Bachelor's degree in Trumpet Performance and her love of brass chamber music was established in the Frackenpohl Honors Brass Quintet. In demand as both an instrumental and vocal collaborator, pianist Brock Tjosvold has performed throughout the United States with many up and coming musicians, as well as established ensembles. Much of her research is archival-based and has been supported by the American Musicological Society Jan LaRue Travel Fund and the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University. Hunter joined the faculty at SUNY Potsdam in 2012 after previously teaching at Boston College (2008-2012) and Bryant University (2010). Over the past four years she has not only continued to refine her abilities as a musician, but she learned valuable entrepreneurial and communication skills. Dr. Steven Groth, baritone, is a classical vocalist, teacher, and collaborative pianist who has relocated to upstate New York. Your potential as a singer and teacher will be nurtured and fostered by receiving and learning to give constructive feedback, performing experience within the studio and wherever opportunities present themselves that fit your individuality, and by attending live performances of faculty and fellow students as well as guests who are brought to campus for performances and master classes. He was a music educator for eight years in the Marion Center Area School District in western Pennsylvania. Lorraine Yaros Sullivan, mezzo-soprano, is an active and versatile performer, enjoying success in a variety of genres and styles including opera, oratorio, chamber music, and art song. wanamats@potsdam.edu He also holds master's and doctoral degrees in tuba performance from Temple University. Dr. Bishop previously served on the faculty of Lesley University and on the administration of the You can also make a request for an Crane alumni pianist, through our alumni association; if there is an alumni volunteer in your area, we will connect you to them. Michael's research interests include Schenkerian analysis, music cognition, music theory pedagogy, and the history of music theory. The Crane School of Music offers rigorous undergraduate and graduate programs with a strong emphasis on performance and practice, in a tightknit atmosphere. She received a Master of Music degree from Eastman in Horn Performance and Literature and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire. TEL: (315) 267-2447. View the full auditions day schedule here. An active soloist and chamber musician, she is a member of the Aria Reed Trio and Principal Clarinet with the Orchestra of Northern New York and Northern Symphonic Winds. He is currently collaborating with English author Ian Priston on a book about the early recordings of Pink Floyd. TEL: (315) 267-2403. Other chamber music affiliations include The Perron Trio, the Potsdam Piano Quartet, and the Ariel Chamber Players. Mrs. Kathleen Washburn McCarty (originally from Gansevoort, NY and a graduate of the South Glens Falls School District), holds a Bachelor's of Music Degree in Education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, NY with a concentration in voice and a Master's Degree from SUNY Plattsburgh. She teaches collegiate class piano and piano pedagogy; she also performs as recitalist and accompanist in Bach and 20th-century music. member of the Editorial Review Board of NoteNova Publishing and has served the American Now in its third century, SUNY Potsdam is distinguished by a legacy of pioneering programs and educational excellence. Hunter has been fortunate to study from expert artists in West Africa and the United States including Kwaku Kwaakye Obeng, Manavi Deku, Kwabena Boateng, Daniel Atiso, Stephen Atiso, and Kwasi Dunyo with a focus on Ewe, Akan, and Ga music traditions from southern Ghana. Michael has studied theory with several outstanding scholars including Lee Rothfarb, Pieter van den Toorn, Gary Karpinski, Brent Auerbach, and Aleksandra Vojcic. 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. Pianist Dr. Keilor Kastella was born in Stony Brook, NY, and raised in southeast Michigan. With more than a decade of professional experience as a musician, he has played at venues like NYC's Birdland Jazz Club and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola with groups such as the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Christian McBride Big Band, and the South Florida Jazz Orchestra. (Morrison) Since joining the Rawlins Piano Trio in 2007, Dr. Gagnon has toured in Taiwan, South Korea and Panama. shermakd@potsdam.edu During that time BSW commissioned several new works for chamber winds including compositions by composers Robert Spittal (Winsome Variations - 2020) and Jake Gunnar-Walsh (Tower of the Winds - 2018). His most characteristic works are rhythmically active, strongly melodic, and often deal with extremes of tempo, dynamics and register. ", kirkj@potsdam.edu mixed choirs, with selections published by Colla Voce Music and Hal Leonard Corporation. Program: Music Business, B.M. TEL: (315) 267-2421, Bachelors of Music, Music Performance, SUNY Potsdam: Crane School of Music, 2010 [www.youngahtak.com], taky@potsdam.edu He is a past-president of the Putnam Chorale. He has performed at The National Flute Association Annual Convention in Chicago, San Diego, Orlando and Salt Lake City, and has also presented at the Florida Flute Convention and Mid-South Flute Festival. Erin has taught courses on a wide variety of topics, including music history surveys, music appreciation, and musics of the world, as well as seminars on opera, music and games, and music and gender. Dr. Docker earned a Ph.D. from Penn State University where he held a University Fellowship. Tim guest conducted many choirs and for over 10 years was conductor of the professional chorus and orchestra at the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. 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. Michael can be heard as a lead trumpet player on multiple GRAMMY-winning recordings by the John Daversa Big Band and Brian Lynch Big Band in addition to his self-produced single ("Another Star") featuring vocalist Makayla Forgione and saxophonist Melvin Butler, having recorded with numerous groups while completing his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. TEL: (315) 267-2436, Music Education Field Experience Coordinator, Adjunct Instructor / Off-Campus Teaching Supervisor / Director Crane Youth Music. TEL: (315) 267-2775 During his time at Crane, Matthew was a member of the Frackenpohl Honors Brass Quintet and a winner of the 2009 Crane Concerto Competition. legacy," and "Emigration, Integration and Creative Productivity: Alfred Other selected performances include Virtu from Monteverdi's L'Incoranatione di Poppea, Madame Silberklang from Mozart's Der Shauspieldirektor, and Musetta from Puccini's La Boheme. bordenbl@potsdam.edu SUNY Potsdam Alumna, Rene Fleming, to Perform at Super Bowl XLVIII The honor of singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl is one that would be coveted by any musician. He has performed with opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States, some of which include Opera Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Opera New Jersey, Spoleto Festival USA, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Princeton Festival Opera, Long Island Opera, and the United Nations Symphony Orchestra. He has a special interest in this music of Bach and Chopin, as well as in new works and those by historically underrepresented minority composers. 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. 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. 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