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"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
· Two musicology students win Graduate Research Fellowships
Congratulations to Christa Lorenz and Erica Ann Watson, both students in the MA Musicology program, for winning Graduate Research Fellowships in support of their thesis research for the 2009-10 year. Christa’s research will focus on original film scores by Hugo Friedhofer and Dimitri Tiomkin, among others, that are in the University Library Special Collections. Erica’s work will focus on World War II-era songs which shaped and secularized societal attitudes about the celebration of Christmas.
· Jazz Ensembles Take Top Honors at Monterey
Congratulations to both Concert Jazz Orchestra, Jeff Jarvis, director, and Pacific Standard Time, Christine Guter, director, for taking first place at the 52nd annual Monterey Jazz Festival Next Generation Festival. The Bob Cole Conservatory Jazz Program swept the Collegiate awards! Join Jazz at the Beach in Monterey this September!
· Record numbers audition for the Bob Cole Conservatory in Spring 2009
Over three hundred prospective students have registered to audition for the Bob Cole Conservatory's spring auditions. Instrumentalists and singers have flocked to Cal State Long Beach's newly created Conservatory, lured by top-quality performance and scholarly opportunities and significant scholarship. The final audition date is March 7; there are still limited openings for auditions. Interested students should register immediately by emailing Arnel Ignacio.
· CSULB alumnus Ryan Brown named composer fellow of Brooklyn Philharmonic
The Brooklyn Philharmonic has named CSULB alumnus Ryan Brown as one of its composer fellows for the 2008-2009 season. Fellows are given open access to all Brooklyn Philharmonic rehearsals and concerts, receive private instruction and feedback from Music Director Christie, and work closely with composer Randall Woolf to create chamber works to be premiered at the Brooklyn Philharmonic's "Music Off The Walls" series at the Brooklyn Museum.
· CSULB alumnus Hermes Camacho wins this year's Iron Composer Competition
Hermes Camacho, BM Composition 2005, has won the 2008 Iron Composer Competition. In this unique competition, modeled after television's Iron Chef, five composers chosen from a national field of contestants were given five hours to write a piece based on a secret musical ingredient for a specific ensemble. This year, the secret musical ingredient was a painting, Monet's 'Impression, Sunrise.' The winning composition, Impressions of Wallpaper, was performed by the Monument Piano Trio.
Hermes is currently a DMA student at the University of Texas, Austin.
See a performance of Mr. Camacho's winning composition here.
· 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.
· 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.
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