The Bob Cole Conservatory Chamber Choir Has been invited to the National Collegiate Choral Organization’s conference in Charleston, SC next year. Selection was made by a blind review process. The program, “Music is Feeling, Then, Not Sound” features solely the music of Dominick Argento.

Raymond Torres-Santos will conduct the Puerto Rico Philharmonic on May 16.

Kristine Forney (Musicology) has a scholarly article entitled “Renaissance Piety and Ceremony: Antwerp’s Speellieden at Work” published in Instruments, Ensembles, and Repertory, 1300-1600: Essays in Honor of Keith Polk, edited by Timothy McGee and Stewart Carter (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013).

Dr. Forney also has recently published a new edition of her textbook; The Enjoyment of Music, 2nd Essential Listening Edition (W. W. Norton) appeared in March 2013.

Alumni Nic Chafee & Justin Padilla, and bassist Chelsea Stevens will be teaching a “Summer Session @ The Woodshed.” The camp gives middle school and high school students an opportunity to become a “studio musician” for a week.

This workshop focuses on the styles prevalent in the modern recording studio, including film music, pop/rock, contemporary jazz and world music. Emphasis is placed upon the particular demands of the recording studio, including sightreading, playing to click or picture, multitracking, overdubbing and idiomatic improvisation.

This year, they are adding a second week of curriculum that is focused on jazz and improvisation. For further info, follow this link.

Alumnus James Yoshizawa will be a guest artist at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. James will teach percussion classes, play for dance classes, and perform with outstanding players in concerts every night in beautiful Fairbanks, Alaska.

Alumnus Valerio Morucci (Musicology MA 2011) won the prestigious Ingolf Dahl competition for the outstanding paper by a graduate student at the joint meeting of the Pacific Southwest and Northern California American Musicological Society this weekend at UCLA.

Valerio’s paper entitled, “Secular Patronage at the Orsini Court: Music, Poetry, and the Rhetoric of Early Monody,” presented groundbreaking evidence that will change our understanding of the evolution of opera in the late 15th century. He is currently a PhD student at UC Davis.