Red album cover image with woven braid pattern and the album title "Red Braid"
LATEST RELEASE - Red Braid by Banks Sapnar, featuring the Temple University Jazz Band
Album cover featuring images of weathered, patterned ceramic tiles with musical instruments incorporated into the designs.
UPCOMING RELEASE, APRIL 12 - Divertimenti Nos. 2, 3 and 4 by Martin y Soler

BCM&D Records is the official record label of the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. Founded in 2009 by Dean Robert T. Stroker to highlight recordings by Boyer students and faculty, the label has since garnered five Grammy nominations: 

  • Best Instrumental Composition (2019) for Love, A Beautiful Force, the third movement of Vince Mendoza's Constant Renaissance, commissioned by the college and conducted by the composer;
  • Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella (2019) also for Love, A Beautiful Force, from Vince Mendoza's Constant Renaissance;
  • Best Instrumental Composition (2012) for Ansel Adams: America, by Dave and Chris Brubeck,  co-commissioned by the college;
  • Best Instrumental Composition (2012) for  Overture, Waltz and Rondo by Bill Cunliffe, commissioned by the college; and
  • Best Instrumental Composition (2010) for Fourth Stream... La Banda, a work for orchestra and jazz band commissioned by the college from Bill Cunliffe.

More than 45 releases on BCM&D Records, listed below, are available on Apple Music, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon and CD Baby, along with other digital distributors.

Selected Recordings

Selected Recordings

Year

Title

Composer(s)

Artist(s)/Ensemble

2024

Labyrinth

Billy Childs, Banks Sapnar, Bill Cunliffe

Temple University Studio Orchestra, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts

coming 4/26/2024

2024

Divertimenti Nos. 2, 3 and 4

Vicente Martín y Soler

Temple University Wind Symphony

coming 4/12/2024

2024

Red Braid (single)

Banks Sapnar

Temple Univerity Jazz Band

2023

You Gotta Have Game

various

Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon

2023

Before She Became Fire

Lori Laitman, Judith Cloud, Melissa Dunphy

Kathryn Leemhuis and Samuel Martin

2023

Rainforests

Bill Cunliffe

Temple University Studio Orchestra, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Tim Warfield, Bruce Barth, Mike Boone, Justin Faulkner

2023

Weather

Rollo Dilworth

Temple University Wind Symphony and Choirs

2023

Fly With the Wind

various

Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone, Justin Faulkner

2023

Yes I Can, No You Can't (single)

Lee Morgan, arr. Bruce Barth

Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone, Justin Faulkner

2023

World On A String

various

Larry McKenna and strings

2023

Danzas Para Dos Pianos

various

Charles Abramovic and Sara Davis Buechner

2022

Personalities

various

Chris Oatts Group featuring Terell Stafford

2022

Concerto Grosso for Saxophone Quartet and Band

William Bolcom

PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Temple University Wind Symphony

2021

Without You, No Me: Honoring the Legacy of Jimmy Heath

various

Temple University Jazz Band featuring Joey DeFrancesco and Christian McBride

2021

No Strings Attached

Marc Mellits

Philadelphia Percussion + Piano Project

2021

Sinfonia DeLuxe

Jay Krush

Temple University Wind Symphony

2021

Trumpet Concerto

Alexander Arutiunian

Anthony Prisk, Temple University Wind Symphony

2020

Covid Sessions: A Social Call

various

Temple University Jazz Band

2020

Radiant Outburst: (In)human Progress

Bernstein, Silverman, Antheil

Philadelphia Percussion + Piano Project

2020

Mythology

Maurice Wright

Laura Heimes, Charles Abramovic, Rie Suzuki, Timothy Schwarz, David Pasbrig

2019

Constant Renaissance

Vince Mendoza

Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Temple University Studio Orchestra

2019 Grammy nominations: Best Instrumental Composition and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

2018

Family Feeling

Bruce Barth

Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, David Wong, Byron Landham

2018

Majestic Classics: Live from Salzburg

various

iPalpiti Orchestra

2017

Luck Be a Lady: A Tribute to Frank with Terell Stafford and Dick Oatts

Arranger: Michael Abene; Composers: Ervin Drake, Ruth Lowe, Bart Hoard, Jimmy Van Heusen, Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne, Mack Gordon, Frank Sinatra, Frank Loesser

Temple University Studio Orchestra featuring Terell Stafford and Dick Oatts

2017

Music by Composers of African Descent

Harry Thacker Burleigh, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Clarence Cameron White, Joseph Chevalier Saint-Georges

Samuel Nebyu, Bethany Brooks

2017

Life Cycles Recorded Live at Walt Disney Hall

Tchaikovsky, Schubert

iPalpiti Orchestra

2017

Two for Six: Music by Maurice Wright and Richard Brodhead

Maurice Wright and Richard Brodhead

New Music Ensemble

2017

A Musical Feast: The Youth Chamber Music Orchestra in Concert

various

Temple Music Prep Youth Chamber Music Orchestra

2016

Sacred and Profane

various

iPalpiti Orchestra

2016

Wind Concerti featuring members of The Philadelphia Orchestra

Anthony Plog, Joel Puckett, Jay Krush, Jennifer Higdon, David Maslanka, Adam Silverman

David Bilger, David Cramer, Blair Bollinger, Jonathan Blumenfeld, Richardo Morales, Temple University Wind Symphony

2016

Strike Up the Band – Live

George Gerswhin

Temple University Jazz Band

2015

Dear Dizzy: A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie

Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Norman David, Gil Fuller, Michael Mossman

Temple University Jazz Band

2015

Dances and Romances

various

iPalpiti Orchestra

2015

Northern Lights

Eriks Ešenvalds

Temple University Concert Choir

2014

That Music Always Round Me - based on the poems by Walt Whitman

Dick Oatts and Garry Dial

Terell Stafford and the Vocal Jazz Collective with special guest artists

2014

Reflections on the Mississippi for Tuba and Orchestra

Michael Daugherty

Carol Jantsch, Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2013

Inverno Azul

Cynthia Folio

Cynthia Folio and various artists

2013

Music of the Harpsichord Miscellany

Alberti, Nardini and Pasquali

Joyce Lindorff

2013

Waken the Dawn: African American Words and Music

Anonymous Gospel songs

Temple University Concert Choir

2013

Big Swing Face – Live

Bill Potts

Temple University Jazz Band

2013

Cadence

Russell Hartenberger

Temple University Percussion Ensemble

2013

Mass

John Mackey

Phillip O’Banion, Temple University Percussion Ensemble

2013

Nostalgia in Corcovado

Bill Cunliffe

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2012

Music of Ansel Adams: America

Dave and Chris Brubeck

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2012 Grammy nomination: Best Instrumental Composition

2012

Overture, Waltz and Rondo

Bill Cunliffe

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2012 Grammy nomination: Best Instrumental Composition

2011

To Thad with Love

Yoichi Uzeki, John Clayton, Dennis Mackrel, Bill Cunliffe; Arrangements by Norman David, Bill Cunliffe

Temple University Jazz Band

2011

Live from iPalpiti Festival Recorded Live at Walt Disney Hall

Bohm, Britten, Dorman, Dvorak, Mahler, Roustom, Rachmaninoff, Schnittke

iPalpiti Orchestra

2011

Celebrations

Copland, Persichetti, Ives

Temple University Wind Symphony

2010

Fourth Stream....la banda

Bill Cunliffe

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2010 Grammy nomination: Best Instrumental Composition

2010

Temple University Symphony Orchestra Plays Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2010

Overture to Coriolanus

Ludwig van Beethoven

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2010

Live from iPalpiti Festival Recorded Live at Walt Disney Hall

various

iPalpiti Orchestra

2010

Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier

Richard Strauss

Temple University Symphony Orchestra

2009

Live from iPalpiti Festival Recorded Live at Walt Disney Hall

various

iPalpiti Orchestra

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