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Faculty
The academic and performance faculty of the Music department

Program
Recommended course of study, major requirements, minor requirements, credit for performance, honors

Course Listings
An up to date listing of the Music Department's courses

Performing Groups
Some of the musical organizations at Boston College

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Contact Us
Questions? Call the Music Department at 617-552-8720

 


News & Noteworthy

Ralf Yusuf Gawlick has been awarded a 2009 Artist Fellowship in Music Composition from the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC).

Faculty Summer Plans
Here are some of the summer plans for our faculty.

Michael Noone

Professor Michael Noone will conduct a concert at the Escorial Palace in Madrid on July 4.  The concert is part of a series patronized by the King and Queen of Spain.  Michael will conduct three separate groups (the Ensemble Plus Ultra, His Majesties Cornetts and Sagbutts, and Schola Antiqua) in a program of music by the Spanish Renaissance master Tomas Luis de Victoria.  Following the concert, Michael will record three CDs for the DGG Archiv label.  The first CD will be recorded in Spain and the others will be recorded in London.

Thomas Lee

 Thomas Lee receives the Outstanding Alumni Award at the New England Conservatory of Music on May 17, 2009.  The premiere performance of Thomas Lee's concerto for harp and orchestra "...bisbigliando..." by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in Jordan Hall, May 22, 2009 with Ina Zdorovetchi, harp, and Gil Rose, conductor.  The premiere performance of Thomas Lee's "Emerald Necklace ... The Story of Frederick Law Olmsted" for narrator and chamber orchestra at the Taj Boston, June 12, 2009.  Additional performances of Emerald Necklace:  June 26 at Jamaica Pond, August 6 in Roxbury, August 7 in Dorchester and September 2 at the Hatch Shell on the Charles River in Boston.  Charles Ansbacher, conductor, and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra.

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It is Haydn year as Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) is commoremorated on the 200th anniversary of his death.  Jeremiah McGrann will be finishing an article on Joseph Haydn for The Choral Journal's commemorative issue for Joseph Haydn to appear in September.  In late May, Professor McGrann will present a paper on Beethoven's musical relationship to Haydn at the Haydn Society of North America 2009 Conference
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Ralf Gawlick

Ralf is composing a film score for a documentary on the Berlin Wall by Boston College fillmmaker John Michalzcyk.  This documentary commerorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall and is set to premiere in November 2009. He will travel to Bavaria in July.  
Sandra Hebert

Professor Hebert will be coaching chamber music for strings and piano, piano duo and teaching solo piano at Music on the Rhine, a summer chamber music program in Regensburg, Germany.


 



 

 

 

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Calendar

Past Event Listing
We are done for the summer and working on next year's schedule.  Click on the above link to see events of the past academic year. 

Wednesday - April 1
Gasson 100 - 8pm
The Hawthorne String Quartet

Boston College Artists-in-Residence perform Quartets by Carter, Novak-Zemek & Haas,


Friday - April 3
Gasson 100 - 8 pm
Boston College Symphony Orchestra--Spring Concert
Featuring Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and Mozart Piano Concerto No 21 in C major, K. 467 with Eric Kim, co-winner of the Boston College Concerto Competition,
John Finney conductor



Thursday - April 16
Gasson 100 - 4.15pm
Music in the Afternoon
Patrick Boyle, piano
Works by Haydn and Messiaen


Saturday - April 18
Trinity Chapel, Newton Campus - 8pm
The University Chorale of Boston College
John Finney, conductor
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass
Admission $10, $5 with BC ID