The Real World awaits YOU...
"The world of music is a vast and ever-changing field that is influenced by culture, politics, economics, and ultimately through the performance of the individual artist. Artistry is realized through dynamic learning experiences that lead to personal accomplishment. The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach is proud to offer these experiences. You are about to enter the real world of music that awaits you at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music." —John Carnahan, Chair
...Welcome to our world.
Current News
· The Cole Conservatory welcomes Dr. Alan Shockley to Comp/Theory
The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music is pleased to announce that Dr. Alan Shockley will be joining the Composition / Theory faculty in Fall 2008. Dr. Shockley received the M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Composition from Princeton University and has also studied at Ohio State University and the University of Georgia. Dr. Shockley has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Centro Studi Ligure, and the Virginia Center for the Arts, and has received grants from the American Music Center, and the Mellon and Heinz Foundations.
Recent commissions include Nothing hidden that will not be revealed for pianist Vicki Ray, pipers' noise for snare drum(s) and tape for the 10th anniversary of the UGA Performing Arts Center, and a work for four electric guitars for a University of Virginia ensemble.
Currently his compositional preoccupations include the ineradicable memory of early music, frustrated grooves, and experiments with form.
· CSULB Chamber and University choirs tour Europe June 21-July 4, 2008
The CSULB Chamber Choir and members of the University Choir just returned from a triumphant tour to Italy where they sang Carmina Burana on the Amalfi Coast and in Rome, and the Chamber Choir sang Mass in St. Peters and had a private recital in the Sistine Chapel. Members of the CSULB Choirs have sung in China, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Italy and Slovenia over the last 8 years. To see a clip of the choir performing in Rome, please go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcknI5C22QA
· Cole Conservatory Alumnus wins ASCAP award
The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music is proud to announce that Ryan Brown (B.M. Composition, 2000) has been awarded the 2008 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award. He will begin is Ph.D. studies at Princeton in the fall. Congratulations Ryan!
You can read a nice article about it at the ASCAP foundation here.
News Archive
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