Events and News from the Music Performance Program

The Music Performance Program of Columbia University (MPP), directed by Prof. Deborah Bradley-Kramer, seeks to enable students to develop as musicians within the academic setting of Columbia, by providing and facilitating opportunities for musical instruction, participation, and performance.  (Sign up for a weekly email listing all MPP-sponsored concerts and events, ticket discounts, and performance opportunities by sending an email to mpp@columbia.edu

The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program, directed by Professor Chris Washburne, offers both undergraduate and graduate students jazz performance experience and private lessons. To learn more about Jazz programs at Columbia University, please visit the Jazz at Columbia page.

The Columbia University Orchestra gives students the opportunity to perform in an ensemble of the most challenging nature possible. Performing several concerts per year, the CUO draws members from the entire Columbia community.

World Music Ensembles -- The MPP, the LAJP, the Center for Ethnomusicology, and the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies sponsor several world music ensembles.  For 2009-10, the offering includes the Lion in the Grass bluegrass ensemble, the Klezmer ensemble, the Japanese Gagaku, and a Latin music ensemble. For more information, please visit the website of the Center for Ethnomusicology.

The Music Performance Program staff:

Prof. Deborah Bradley-Kramer, Director

Eleanor Lipat-Chesler, Program Coordinator

Maryam Parhizkar, Student Liaison/Publicity Co-Coordinator

Heather O’Neil, Publicity Co-Coordinator

Office Hours: Monday – Thursday, 12-5PM in 618 Dodge
Email: mpp@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-1257
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/mpp/
Events Calendar: http://music.columbia.edu/event

Columbia Classical Performers
Works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Isang Yun, Piatti, and Vaughn Williams

Hilary Baboukis, soprano
Catherine Rice, oboe
Alex Fortes, Ken Hamao, and Alexandra Rice, violin
Eli Lara, Elizabeth Lyon, and Tavi Ungerledier, cello
Josh Arky, bass
Xiaoyin Chen, Mi-Eun Kim, Wei Sim, and Becky Lu, piano

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7:00PM
Miller Theatre • 116th St. and Broadway • For more information call 212-854-7799
This concert is free and open to the public.

Founded in 2001, Columbia Classical Performers (CCP) seeks to support the community of classical musicians on campus who wish to perform in an intimate, stress-free environment for their peers. CCP works to give musicians performance opportunities by providing venues all over campus, coordinating recital logistics, publicizing events, and planning post-concert receptions. CCP has a dual function: to allow musicians an outlet to share their music with the public and to provide the Columbia community with free, high-quality classical music. Performers include violinists and pianists to oboists and a mandolin player. The diverse programming over the years has included works by Beethoven and Mozart, and new music composed by students and leading contemporary composers like Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Miller Theatre’s Columbia Performers Partnership provides production and marketing support to Columbia University student performing arts groups. This partnership helps to cultivate the performing artists of tomorrow, to share Columbia University’s resources with a broader
audience, and to foster interdepartmental collaboration.

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The CU Music Performance Program presents:
The Daedalus Quartet: Night of the Living Daed

A Group-in-Residence of the CU Music Performance Program, the renowned Daedalus Quartet will perform Beethoven's Quartet Op. 131.  

Featuring:
Min-Young Kim, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Jessica Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Take a break from your studies and experience classical music in a whole new way. Enjoy a midnight snack, and bring a sleeping bag and pillow if you like!  This event is free and open to the public.

For more information please visit music.columbia.edu/mpp

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The Daedalus Quartet performs for CU Music Humanities classes
First set at 9:10am
Second set at 10:35am

A Group-in-Residence of the CU Music Performance Program, the renowned Daedalus Quartet will perform all five movements of Bela Bartok's Fourth Quartet, in two separate one-hour performances.  This event is free, and members of the public may also observe.

Featuring:
Min-Young Kim, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Jessica Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Music for shamisen, koto, and shakuhachi with Yoko Hiraoka and Ralph Sauelson.  A free one-hour lecture-demonstration that is open to the public.

For more information please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies at (212)854-7403 or medievaljapan@columbia.edu

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Come out for CCP's first showcase of the Fall Semester!
FREE and open to the public.  Reception to follow.

Founded in 2001, CCP is a student-run organization that works to give musicians performance outlets while presenting free high-quality classical music to the Columbia community.  For more information, contact cuclassicalperformers@gmail.com

COLUMBIA VOICE ENSEMBLE CONCERT
By students of Sarah Wolfson and Patrick Calleo

Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM
301 Philosophy Hall
FREE and open to the public

PROGRAM
Eloise Eonnet
O mio babino caro from Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
La Habanera from Carmen by Georges Bizet
 
August Du Pont
My Friends from Sweeny Todd by Steven Sondheim
River by Joni Mitchell
 
Emily Buttner
Far From the Home I Love from Fiddler on the Roof  by Jerry Bock
I Know Things Now from Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim
 
Sarah Terry
What Good Would the Moon Be from Street Scene by Kurt Weill
Back to Before from Ragtime by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
 
Elisabeth Fabila
Seeing You from Right This Way by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal

Christina Macchiarola
On My Own from Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schonberg
Never Never Land from Peter Pan by Jule Styne
 
Kurt Kanazawa
Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei... from I Puritani by Vicenzo Bellini
Se Vuol Ballare from Le Nozze di Figaro by W.A. Mozart


For more events and information please visit music.columbia.edu/mpp

Are you a musician?

Did you grow up learning an instrument? Did you take music lessons as a child? Did you ever have a teacher who inspired you and opened for you a new world of expression?

There are children who can't afford this opportunity, but you can make it possible.

The Columbia Musical Mentors program is seeking instrumental instructors for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year. We provide weekly, one-on-one lessons to elementary school students at P.S. 145 (105th Street and Amsterdam) who would not otherwise be able to afford lessons. No teaching experience is necessary, just a willingness to share your enthusiasm for music. All musicians, no matter what instrument they play, can participate.

It takes just one hour a week to give private music lessons and mentor a child. Can you help make a difference in a young life?

For more information, email Jonathan Maimon at jrm2144@columbia.edu before this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2ND.

Columbia University’s Music Practice Rooms
Important Facts and Policies for 2009-2010

If you live in a Columbia University dormitory, there are twelve 24-hour access practice rooms on campus – six in Schapiro Hall, three in Broadway dorm and three in the East Campus dorm.  If you don’t have a dorm card, you are eligible to use any one of the six rooms in Schapiro Hall, but you still need a COLUMBIA ID card, or one from a Columbia affiliate institution (Barnard, Union Theological College, Jewish Theological, Medical College and a few others).

SCHAPIRO HALL: OPEN ACCESS WITH ANY COLUMBIA ID CARD:

The rooms in SCHAPIRO HALL are open for everyone with any CU ID  without signing up for a key. Schapiro Hall/Dormitory is located on 115th Street between Broadway and Riverside. Access is open to all members of the CU community on an as-available basis.  Please limit your use of these rooms to ONE HOUR PER PRACTICE SESSION when other people are waiting for access. If these rooms are abused or monopolized, we will be forced to revert to a key-based checkout system for Schapiro. The Schapiro rooms are Rooms A, B, C, D, E, and F on the  Lower Level of Schapiro Hall/Dormitory.

EAST CAMPUS AND BROADWAY DORMS: KEY DEPOSIT REQUIRED

Key distribution for the rooms in Broadway and East Campus for the academic year will begin on Wednesday of the second week of classes (September 16).  A $30 CASH ONLY key deposit is required (no exceptions), which will be refunded upon return of the key at the end of the year (or earlier, if requested).  The SAME KEY will open the available rooms in Broadway and East Campus.  If one facility is full at a time when a student wants to practice, students have the option to go to the other facility. These rooms also have a ONE HOUR limit if others are waiting.
 
The rooms available WITH a key deposit are:

-- East Campus Practice rooms (requires dorm sticker on Student ID to use): EC 7th Floor, 9th floor and 11th floor

-- Broadway Dorm Practice rooms (requires dorm sticker on Student ID to use): Rooms 201, 202 and 203 Broadway

GRAND PIANOS are also available for public use and are located in Lerner Hall, John Jay Lounge,  the GSAS Student Lounge in 301 Philosophy Hall and a few others.  Inquire with the Music Department Office (621 Dodge) for more information.

PRACTICE ROOM POLICIES -- Violations of these policies may cost you your access!

-- Do not leave litter or belongings in any practice room when you leave.

-- Be alert to safety considerations.  If you suspect someone is up to no good, report it to the guard on duty or to CU Public Safety at once, and leave the area.  Be especially careful after hours.

-- Do not alter, abuse, or otherwise mark any piano. Grand pianos should not be moved any more than necessary, and covers should be left in the closed position when you leave.

-- When there is a wait for rooms, please limit your practice time to no more than one hour.

-- Please report all problems with any practice room to the Music Department Office (621 Dodge, or send email to amg59@columbia.edu and  report problems with pianos directly to pianotechnician@columbia.edu

Please click here to download the 2009-10 brochure explaining the resources and policies of the COlumbia University Music Performance Program.

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Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies in collaboration with Harlem Stage presents
Uptown Nights 2012: The Hip Hop Experiment

A hot new series of high-powered performances and social-mixing  

Featuring live performance by Marc Cary
And his Black Instruments Band

With special guests Phonte (Little Brothers), Peven Everett, Jessica Care Moore, DJ Jazzy Jay, Chance a Million, Crystal Monee Hall, Len Tuac Xiang and many more.

Saturday September 26, 2009
6pm Conversation with Marc Cary & George E. Lewis (Columbia University)
8:30pm Main Event
11:30pm DJ set

Harlem Stage Gate House
150 Convent Ave. @ 135th Street
New York, NY 10031

$15 Cover Charge
Buy Tickets at HarlemStage.org or call 212-281-9240 ext. 19/20

Receive $1 off when you use code MCCOL

Co-Presented by Uptown Nights at Harlem Stage and the Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project, with support from the Office of the President, Columbia University

For more information on the center for Jazz Studies Activities please visit

www.jazz.columbia.edu or call 212-851-1633

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You are Invited:

MPP Welcome Party and Piano Recital by Michael Skelly
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Faculty House Garden Room 2, 400 W. 117th St. (East Campus)
Free and open to the public.

7-8pm Reception
8-9pm Piano recital by Michael Skelly with Julia Bruskin, cello

Deborah Bradley-Kramer and Eleanor Lipat-Chesler of the CU Music Performance Program invite all new and continuing Music Performance Program chamber and lesson students, Music Associates, Jazz, Bluegrass, Klezmer, Gagaku, Voice ensemble members, and Music Department faculty, students and staff for our Fall 2009 welcome party.  Enjoy meeting new faces, greeting old friends, and gearing up for a fun year of music-making together.  All are welcome!

The evening will feature a piano recital by CU Music faculty member Michael Skelly with Julia Bruskin, cello.

PROGRAM

Beethoven   Sonata in e minor, Op. 90

             Mit Lebhaftigkeit und durchaus mit Empfindung und Ausdruck
             Nicht zu geschwind und sehr singbar vorgetragen


Brahms      Ballades for Piano, Op. 10

             1.  Andante (after the Scottish ballad "Edward")
             2.  Andante
             3.  Intermezzo. Allegro
             4.  Andante con moto


Beethoven   Sonata for Piano and Violoncello in D, Op. 102 no. 2

             Allegro con brio
             Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto
             Allegro fugato

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Columbia University Music Practice Rooms  2009-2010

For students living in East Campus or Broadway Dormitory:
If you have a dorm sticker for EC or Broadway Dorm on your CUID, then you may sign out a key from the Music Department to access one of the practice rooms in your building.

Keys are limited and will be distributed by the Music Department on a first-come, first-served basis.  Key distribution will begin on Monday, September 21, 2009; please come between the hours of 1-4pm only.  A $30 cash-only deposit is required, which will be refunded when you return the key at the end of the school year.

          East Campus Practice rooms (requires dorm sticker and key to use)
          on the 7th Floor, 9th floor and 11th floor

          Broadway Dorm Practice rooms (requires dorm sticker and key to use) 201, 202 and 203 Broadway

For all other students and CU affiliates:
The lower level of Schapiro Hall/Dormitory has six music practice rooms with 24-hour walk-in access.  You must have a COLUMBIA ID card, or one from a Columbia affiliate institution (Barnard, Union Theological College, Jewish Theological, Medical College and a few others).

          Schapiro Hall is located on 115th St. between Broadway & Riverside.

          Lower Level of Schapiro Hall/Dormitory: (requires Columbia ID only, no key or dorm sticker is needed)
          Rooms A, B, C, D, E, F; (G & H by reservation only, see 621 Dodge.)

Grand pianos available for public use are located in Lerner Hall, Wein Hall, and the GSAS Student Lounge in 301 Philosophy Hall.  Grand pianos in John Jay, Wallach, and East Campus Lounges are accessible to CU students with dorm stickers.

Rules for Users of Columbia Music Practice Rooms:
Our practice room policy obligates all users to take care of the rooms and the pianos in them. 

•    Please do not eat or drink in the practice rooms. 

•    Do not leave behind any trash.

•    Report any suspicious persons or unusual damage/messes.

•    Exercise due caution if you are alone in the practice room area

•    If another student is waiting for your room and no other rooms are available, then please limit your practice time to one hour. 

•    In EC or Broadway, make sure the door is locked when you are leaving.

Causing damage to the rooms or the pianos, or leaving a mess, or monopolizing a room when there is high demand will lead to suspension of your key privileges for a semester or longer.

We need YOU to help us maintain the condition of music practice rooms for the CU community.  Thank you for your courtesy and cooperation.

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MPP Director Deborah Bradley-Kramer invites all new and continuing Music Performance Program chamber and lesson students, Music Associates, Jazz, Bluegrass, Klezmer, Gagaku, Voice ensemble members, and Music Department faculty and staff for our Fall 2009 welcome party.  Enjoy meeting new faces, greeting old friends, and gearing up for a fun year of music-making together.  The evening will feature a piano recital by Columbia Music Faculty member Michael Skelly with Julia Bruskin, cello.

Conducted by Gail Archer, the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Choir includes members of the entire university community - undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and alumni - and annually presents the traditional Columbia Candlelight Concert in St. Paul’s Chapel in December and a spring concert in April. The choir has joined forces with orchestras to perform masterworks by composers from Monteverdi to Stravinsky. All voice parts are welcome after an informal audition. The Chorus rehearses twice a week in 405 Milbank (Barnard campus), with additional rehearsals before each concert.  Their first rehearsal of Fall 2009 will be on September 15, 2009 at 6PM in 405 Milbank Hall on the Barnard campus.  All voices are welcome. For more information, please email Gail Archer at garcher@barnard.edu.  Class registration is through Music @ Barnard.

The Columbia Klezmer Band, advised by renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band member Jeff Warschauer, is recruiting new musicians. Auditions will take place on Wednesday, September 16 from 8-10 PM in Dodge Hall, room 405. If you are interested in learning Eastern European folk tunes and you want to have lots of fun experiencing a unique musical style, contact Hannah Yudkin at hy2216@barnard.edu for more information.

The Japanese Gagaku Ensemble will hold auditions on the first day of class on Thursday, 9/10 at 5pm in 112 Dodge (enter the building from College Walk).  Opportunities to study this ancient court music of Japan are extremely rare in the United States.  Students will be supplied with excellent instruments, including the hichiriki, ryuteki, sho, biwa, and koto(gaku-so). Some musical background (wind instruments, especially) and/or prior knowledge of Japanese culture are helpful, but not prerequisites. Ensemble meets once a week for 2-3 hours and will perform at least twice publicly. The instructor is Louise Sasaki.  For more information contact Patricia Slattery at pas2141@columbia.edu.  For more information visit the CU Music Performance Program website:  music.columbia.edu/mpp.

Auditions for classical instrumental lessons and chamber ensembles, Fall 2009
For more details, please visit the Music Performance Program website at http://music.columbia.edu/mpp/

You must sign up for an audition slot ahead of time.  Sign up sheets are posted on the door of 618 Dodge beginning in late August. Auditions are held ONLY in fall and pertain to both semesters. Do not register for lessons until you have received confirmation of placement.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 9

BRASS 10am – 12pm in Room 112 Dodge

FLUTE 12 – 5pm in Room 618 Dodge        

Auditions for classical instrumental lessons and chamber ensembles, Fall 2009
For more details, please visit the Music Performance Program website at http://music.columbia.edu/mpp/

You must sign up for an audition slot ahead of time.  Sign up sheets are posted on the door of 618 Dodge beginning in late August. Auditions are held ONLY in fall and pertain to both semesters. Do not register for lessons until you have received confirmation of placement.

TUESDAY, SEPT 8

VIOLIN AND VIOLA 11am – 4pm in Room 618 Dodge

CLARINET, OBOE, BASSOON AND SAXOPHONE 9:30am – 1pm in Room 112 Dodge

CELLO AND BASS 1 – 4pm in Room 112 Dodge

VOCAL OPPORTUNITIES are offered both at Barnard and Columbia to all undergraduate students.

Private Voice Lessons and Vocal Repertory Classes @ Barnard College:  Auditions will be held on September 9 & 10 at 6:00pm in 405 Milbank Hall. You MUST fill out an audition form beforehand and submit it to 319 Milbank before 3:00 PM that day.  For more information, please email Gail Archer at garcher@barnard.edu

CU Vocal Ensemble Class (listed in CU directory of classes as Chamber Ensemble – Vocal)
Team-taught by Sarah Wolfson and Patrick Calleo, students will be coached on diction, musicality, interpretation, and presentation in the musical genres of their choice. (classical, jazz, musical theater, and folk).  Students should have singing experience and are expected to be able to read music.  Auditions are on Wednesday, September 9 from 6-10 PM in 620 Dodge Hall.  Please sign up beforehand on the door of 618 Dodge.  For more information please contact Sarah Wolfson at sew2137@columbia.edu and Patrick Calleo at patrick@ccalleo.com.

For more information, please visit the Music Performance Program website at http://music.columbia.edu/mpp