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Tadeu Coelho, John Ellis, Igor Begelman, Mark Popkin, Taimur Sullivan
Comprehensive performance experience
Intensive personalized instruction - Preparation for career success
The woodwind graduate program at the North Carolina School of the Arts offers the highest level of instruction by an internationally acclaimed faculty, tailored to the student’s needs and professional goals. Classes are small and students receive personalized attention. Every student is given a significant number of performance opportunities in both large ensembles and chamber music groups. The graduate program enables students to refine their technical skills and develop advanced interpretative techniques through the study and performance of significant works from the woodwind literature (see sample program repertoire below for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and saxophone.)
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
As a conservatory, the School’s focus is on preparing students to begin their careers as performing artists; yet at the same time, 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
FLUTE, OBOE, CLARINET, BASSOON, SAXOPHONE
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 613 Recital Presentation
MUS 661, 662, 663 Research Topics in Analysis
or
MUS 681, 682, 683 Research Topics in Musicology
MUS 599 Intensive Arts Workshops
Flute
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a flute student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Classical Era Repertoire
Method and articles of François Devienne; Compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, François Devienne, Johann Baptiste Wendling, etc.
Romantic Era Repertoire
Methods of Jean Louis Toulou, Henri Altes, Theobald Böhm, Joachim Andersen; Compositions by Franz Schubert, Theobald Böhm, Giulio Briccialdi, Friedrich Kuhlau, Gabriel Fauré, Jean Louis Toulou, etc.
20th Century Repertoire Methods and Études by Sigfried Karg-Elert, Paul Jean-Jean, Robert Dick; Compositions by Paul Hindemith, Brohuslav Martinu, Jacques Ibert, Darius Milhaud, Aaron Copland, Edgard Varèse, Robert Dick, Wallingford Riegger, etc.
18th Century Repertoire
Treatises and Studies of Johann Georg Tromlitz and Johann Joachim Quantz. Compositions by the Bach family, Johann Gottlieb and Karl Graun, George Frideric Handel, Johann Joachim Quantz, Georg Phillipp Telemann, etc.
Oboe
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Master of Music in Oboe 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 an oboe student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Jean Françaix: L'horloge de Flore, Eugene Goossens: Oboe Concerto, Wolfgang Amedeus Mozart: Oboe Concerto, Jacques Ibert: Symphonie concertante, Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto in C Minor for Oboe and Violin, Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto, Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto, Bohuslav Martinu: Oboe Concerto
Sonatas Antonio Vivaldi: Sonate in E-flat, Robert Schumann: Three Romances, Paul Hindemith: Oboe Sonata, Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina
Unaccompanied Oboe
Benjamin Britten: Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Charles Boone: Vermilion, Daniel Bernstein: Four Silhouettes, Antal Dorati: Cinq Pieces, Vincent Persichetti: Parable for Solo Oboe
Clarinet
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Master of Music in Clarinet will be required to prepare two major concerti or equivalent works. One of the concerti will be from the Classical or Romantic periods; the other, from the 20th century. Students will also study orchestral repertoire from current audition lists.
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a clarinet student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Works by Mozart, Spohr, Nielsen, Finzi, Hindemith
Sonatas
Works by Brahms, Reger, Schumann, Muczynski, Stravinsky, Bartok and Milhaud
Chamber Music
Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Spohr, Brahms, Bruch, Hindemith, Barber, Khatchaturian, Bartók, Milhaud, Messiaen, Bergsma, Berger, Françaix, etc.
Bassoon
In addition to the guidelines above, students working toward the Master of Music in Bassoon will undertake a comprehensive development of technique utilizing published and unpublished material; study reed-making, bassoon maintenance and repair; and complete a survey of the important orchestra and chamber music works and the contrabassoon and its important orchestral excerpts. Recitals will include works for solo bassoon from the Baroque, Classic, Romantic and Contemporary periods in consultation with the bassoon instructor.
Saxophone
In addition to the above, all graduate saxophonists will participate in an overview of saxophone history, literature and pedagogical approaches, through papers and lecture-performances. Students will teach as an applied component to the course, and will also explore concert & repertoire planning, career-building, and self-promotion.
The repertoire listed below is an indication of the range and difficulty of works typically studied by a saxophone student in the graduate program. It does not necessarily indicate required repertoire.
Concerti
Karel Husa: Concerto; Lars-Erik Larsson: Concerto; Ingolf Dahl: Concerto; William Bolcom: Concert Suite; Luciano Berio: Chemin IVb
Works for Saxophone and Piano
William Albright: Sonata; Fernande Decruck: Sonate; William Bolcom: Lilith; Alfred Desenclos: Prelude, Cadence et Finale; John Anthony Lennon: Distances Within Me; Jason Eckardt: Tangled Loops; Bruno Mantovani: L'Incandescence de la Bruine
Works for Unaccompanied Saxophone
Luciano Berio: Sequenza VIIb, Sequenza IXb; Ryo Noda: Mai; Karlheinz Stockhausen: In Freundschaft; Fuminori Tanada: Mysterious Morning III |
