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Kevin Lawrence, Joseph Genualdi, Sarah Johnson, Sheila Browne, Brooks Whitehouse, Lynn Peters
Comprehensive performance experience
Intensive personalized instruction - Preparation for career success
As a conservatory, the School’s focus is on preparing students to begin their careers as performing artists. The string department offers graduate students an extraordinary degree of personal attention and mentoring from a faculty with active professional careers. The graduate string program at the North Carolina School of the Arts enables students to refine technical skills and develop advanced interpretive techniques through the study and performance of significant works from the string literature (see sample program repertoire below for violin, viola, cello and double bass.)
Other Program Features:
- Opportunities to perform outside the school
- Special teaching and performance assignments
- Two degree recitals
- Participation in Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble and Contemporary Ensemble.
Balancing the focus on developing and refining student’s technique and artistry, the School actively involves the student with the practical aspects of earning a living as a musician. A combination of professional opportunities outside the School, along with this specially designed curriculum, widens the scope of the student’s career perspectives and constitutes a contemporary, market-sensitive approach to educating musicians.
New Curriculum
VIOLIN, VIOLA, VIOLONCELLO AND DOUBLE BASS
Year One Course Credits
MUS 600 Lessons
MUS 601 Masterclass
MUS 610 Recital
MUS 611 Large Ensemble
or
MUS 612 Chamber Ensemble
MUS 645 Career Strategies: Portfolio
MUS 646, 647, 648, 649 Career Strategies
(a minimum of two courses are required):
Outreach, Entrepreneurship, Auditions and Recording
MUS 691, 692 Library and Internet Research Lab
MUS 599 Intensive Arts Workshops
Year Two
MUS 600 Lessons
MUS 601 Masterclass
MUS 610 Recital
MUS 611 Large Ensemble
or
MUS 612 Chamber Ensemble
MUS 628 Symphonic Repertoire
MUS 661, 662, 663 Research Topics in Analysis
or
MUS 681, 682, 683 Research Topics in Musicology
MUS 599 Intensive Arts Workshops
Violin
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Master of Music in Violin will be required to include at least one major concerto or one Bach solo sonata or partita on one of their recital programs. Any piece normally performed in public without music must be memorized. Students are strongly encouraged to seek additional solo and chamber music performance experience outside the School. Graduate students in the second year of the master’s program may be assigned a high school or first-year college student to whom supplemental lessons will be given under the supervision of the studio teacher.
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a violin student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Barber, Bartók No. 2, Brahms, Dvorák, Prokofieff, Saint-Saëns No. 3, Sibelius, Vieuxtemps No. 5, Tchaikovsky
Sonatas
Bach Sonatas and Partitas (solo), Brahms, Copland, Grieg No. 3, Prokofieff, Schubert, Schumann, Ysayë Sonatas (solo)
Etudes
Depending on the student’s playing, etudes by Rode, Dont (Opus 35), Gavinies, Wieniawski, and/or Paganini will be studied.
Viola
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a viola student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Bartok, Hindemith, Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, Penderecki, Walton, other 20th Century concerti
Bach
Brandenburg No. 6, Chromatic Fantasy, Cello Suites, Gamba Sonatas, Violin Sonatas and Partitas
Sonatas and other works
Berio, Brahms, Britten, Carter, Clarke, Kurtag, Schumann, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Vieuxtemps
Cello
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Master of Music in Cello will be required to include at least one concerto on each of their recital programs.
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a cello student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Antonín Dvorák: Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104; Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococco Theme, Op. 33; Franz Joseph Haydn: Concerto No. 1 in D Major; Dimitri Shostakovich: Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 107
Sonatas
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99; Franz Schubert: Sonata in A Minor for Arpeggione, D. 821; Elliot Carter: Sonata for ’Cello (1948)
Works for Unaccompanied ’Cello
Johann Sebastian Bach: Suites IV, V, and VI; Paul Hindemith: Sonata, Op. 25, No. 3 (1922); George Crumb: Sonata (1955); Gaspar Cassado: Suite
Double Bass
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Master of Music in Double Bass will be required to include at least one concerto on each of their recital programs.
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a double bass student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Jean Françaix: Concerto, Vittorio Giannini: Psalm 130, G. Bottesini: Concerto, Serge Koussevitzky: Concerto
Sonatas
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38; Franz Schubert: Sonata in A Minor for Arpeggione, D. 821; Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Double Bass and Piano
Orchestral Repertoire
Symphonies of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Mahler, Strauss |
