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PST Best in Nation Three-peat

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The BCCM Jazz Program has been awarded three prestigious Downbeat Magazine Awards.

Pacific Standard Time took Large Vocal Jazz Ensemble for the third year in a row.

Miko Shudo was awarded Outstanding Performance for Undergraduate Vocal Jazz Soloist. Brendan Doshi was awarded Outstanding Graduate Original Composition – Lead Sheet for his piece, “Vulture.”

Congratulations to Jeff Jarvis, Christine Guter, Miko, Brendan, and the entire Jazz Program. These are the most significant awards in collegiate jazz. It is a huge honor and a reflection of the depth of our jazz area that we have won three this year.

Beach Cafe!

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An amazing array of talent from Bob Cole Conservatory students will receive its semi-annual showcase in Beach Cafe on Friday, February 15 and Saturday February 16. Both shows are at 8:00p in Daniel Recital Hall.

This long-running event is all student run; they audition, rehearse, and perform under the guidance of officers from the CSULB Chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. It is always loaded with fun, surprises, laughs, and great music making.

 

As the Daily 49er has said, “If you were’t there, what a shame! The show was filled with good entertainment from beginning to end. It didn’t matter what your definition of good entertainment was, The Beach Cafe had something for everyone.”

Admission is $10 for the general public and $7 for students. Coffee and homemade desserts are included.

 

Jason Smyth-Tomkins, Visiting Jazz Expert

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BCCM welcomes a visiting jazz educator from “down under” January 25-31. Jason Smyth-Tomkins is a lecturer in the Bachelor of Music program at the Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music in Rockhampton, Australia, where he runs the jazz and popular music program. On this tour, he performed in New Orleans, Atlanta (at the Jazz Education Network Conference) and was artist-in-residence in Dallas. While at BCCM,  Smyth-Tomkins will observe jazz classes and rehearsals in preparation for a curriculum revision at Central Queensland Conservatorium.

Britten Centennial Collaboration

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A first-time ever collaboration between BCCM, the Thornton School of Music, the Colburn Orchestra, the LA Children’s Choirs, and CSUF will be conducted by maestro James Conlon at Disney Hall in November 2013. The combined ensembles will perform Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem in honor of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Mr. Conlon is currently engaged in a three-year project to mark the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten culminating in 2013. A long-time devotee of Britten’s music, the project includes six different Britten operas, as well as symphonic and choral works performed in the U.S. and Europe.  Mr. Conlon is music director of Los Angeles Opera (since 2006), the Ravinia Festival, summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (since 2005).

He has conducted more than 260 performances at the Metropolitan Opera since his debut in 1976. He has also appeared at Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera at Covent Garden in London, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Teatro del Opera di Roma. In the course of his career, he has conducted more than ninety operas and several hundred symphonic and choral works.

Grand Opening Celebration

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On Saturday, October 6, 2012, the Bob Cole Conservatory hosted Regena Cole, university dignitaries, faculty, staff, and students, and guests for the grand opening of the Bob Cole Plaza and Pavilion. Mrs. Cole cut the ribbon, officially opening the pavilion where her late husband Bob Cole’s beloved Steinway will reside. Seen in the picture above is Regena Cole cutting the ribbon and John Carnahan, Director of the Bob Cole Conservatory.

One of the features of the renovation is an outdoor amphitheater, pictured here with the overflow crowd for the opening. The Award winning Pacific Standard Time performed at the amphitheater. As guests arrived, they were greeted by the soothing sounds of the Bob Cole Pan Band and brass ensembles, as well as a performance on the Bob Cole Steinway.

At the conclusion of the outdoor festivities, guests were treated to a gala performance of most of the Bob Cole Conservatory ensembles in the Karen and Richard Carpenter Performing Arts Center.

Graduate Musicology Association Conference

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Temporality: Issues of Change and Stasis in Music
April 21, 2012, Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, UMC C-100
Conference Organizer: Sean Dunnahoe
Conference Committee: Robert Wahl, Matthew Blackmar, Rebecca Holman
10am Registration and coffee
11am Session I. “Analytical and Historiographic Constructions of Time”
1pm Lunch
2pm Keynote address, Dr. Gascia Ouzounian (Queens University Belfast). ”Critical Space and a Critical Time: Spatio-Temporal Practices in Experimental Music and Sound Art after 1950″
3pm Session II. “Composing Time in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries”

Coleachella

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Alumni, students, faculty, and staff are invited to “Coleachella,” an extravaganza featuring alumni and current students’ rock/jazz/alt bands on Friday, August 31, 2012 in Daniel Recital Hall. The concert is free; student organizations will sell food and drinks in the lobby with all proceeds going directly to those organizations (SAI, Phi Mu Alpha, ACDA, Comp Guild, etc).

If you’re a current student or an alum in a band who’d like to perform, please let me know by email carolyn.bremer@csulb.edu. I’d like to hear from you by May 1st, if possible. I already have seven groups lined up (and a special treat which I’ll just say is a band called “Lead Sister” and they might play some tunes familiar to us all). It could be a bit of a marathon; my best guess is that I can slot 30 or 45-minute sets. The start time will depend on how many sets we have.

If you’re in the area, please try to come for all or part of Coleachella. Meet our current students, introduce yourself to the new Freshmen, see old friends, and hear some great music. Wander between the hall muisc and the lobby for food and drink (or, if you’re in the mood for something alcoholic, you can step back in time at Pizza Mania). The construction will be very close to completion so you’ll get a sneak peak through the fences at the fabulous new entrance, amphitheater and pavilion.

PST wins Downbeat Best Vocal Jazz Ensemble – again!

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Pacific Standard Time

Congratulations to PST, Pacific Standard Time, and its director Christine Guter. PST has been named the top vocal jazz group in the US. We are now able to announce that PST won the DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards Collegiate Graduate Vocal Jazz Category for the SECOND YEAR in a ROW.

Olga Kulchytska won in the vocal category for Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist, Undergraduate College Outstanding Performance.

We are so proud of PST and Olga, and their accomplishments! If you’d like to hear them live, please come to the Vocal Jazz concert on Saturday, APRIL 28 at 8:00 PM in the University Theatre. Tickets: $10 / $7. Cheer PST on!

You can also see some of their amazing performance closing the ADCA Regional Festival in Reno from February on our CSULBmusic youtube channel. The PST playlist is here.