Lorenzo Mazzamuto, BYR ’20, a string pedagogy alumnus, won the audition for the concertmaster position with the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Sicily in February 2023. Mazzamuto officially gave his first performance with the Teatro Massimo Bellini on Saturday, April 15, conducted by music director Fabrizio Maria Carminati.
Mazzamuto comes from a family of classical musicians, so it was of no surprise when he began his first violin lessons at the age of three. At the age of nine, he was accepted into the State Conservatory of Music Vincenzo Bellini and studied under Vito...
With the conclusion of the 22-23 academic year, Boyer College of Music and Dance bids a fond farewell to three of its distinguished full-time professors. Dr. David Cannata, Dr. Matthew Greenbaum and Prof. Jan Krzywicki, all of the Department of Music Studies, will retire from Temple University at the end of June.
Honoring their countless contributions to their fields and to Boyer College, highlights of their successes and publications have been outlined below.
Dr. David Cannata, associate professor of music history
Dr. David Cannata's musicological interests have been...
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Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance has a robust, award-winning music program. Their excellence was well in evidence at Rose Hall on Sunday night April 16th, in a Classical- Jazz concert that featured the University’s Symphony Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, and Jazz Band. In addition, Temple’s Faculty Jazz Sextet performed, celebrating their new CD Fly With the Wind.
In a flurry of energetic percussion, daring brass and beguiling strings, the various ensembles shone, performing in several styles, from a pure...
Annually, Temple recognizes its faculty members’ achievements in teaching, research, creativity and service with its prestigious faculty awards, the university’s greatest honors given to teachers and scholars. Current and former students and colleagues alike nominate the recipients. This year, Temple selected Sara Davis Buechner, professor of keyboard studies, for its Faculty Award for Creative Achievement.
View all of the 2023 awardees.
The stellar musicians that make up the jazz faculty of Temple University’s Boyer College of Music & Dance take their place in the jazz lineage seriously. While their day job entails shaping the next generation of innovators, they’re all renowned players, composers, and bandleaders in their own right. The membership of the Temple Jazz Sextet is such that this would be an all-star group without the renowned school’s imprimatur. The fact that trumpeter Terell Stafford, saxophonists Tim Warfield and Dick Oatts, pianist Bruce Barth, bassist Mike Boone and drummer Justin Faulkner...
Boyer College remembers two beloved former professors, Dr. Arthur Frank and George Gray.
Dr. Arthur Frank (1933-2023)
Born on February 22, 1933 in Brooklyn, NY, Dr. Arthur Frank studied at Trenton State College and The Juilliard School, after which he completed his master's degree in music composition at The College of New Jersey and his doctor of musical arts (DMA) at Temple University. He was the first recipient to receive the DMA degree from Temple.
Frank began his career as a music teacher and band director at Hamilton West High School. He was inducted into the U.S...
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Sara joined the faculty of Temple University's Boyer College of Music and Dance in 2016, after previously teaching at the Manhattan School of Music, New York University, and the University of British Columbia. Praised for her "intelligence, integrity and all-encompassing technical prowess" (New York Times), "thoughtful artistry in the full service of music" (Washington Post), and "astounding virtuosity" (Philippine Star), she was a Bronze Medalist of the 1986...
On Monday, March 20, senior harp performance major Medgina Maitre became the inaugural recipient of the Lyra Society's Ann Hobson Pilot Award. Pilot, who is now retired from the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops Orchestras, is an internationally celebrated harpist who broke race and gender barriers as an African American woman in classical music. She is a native of Philadelphia, having graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls, of which Maitre is also an alum.
The Ann Hobson Pilot Award is the first of its kind, awarding an aspiring...
Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance Presents a One-Night Only Classical-Jazz Concert April 16 at Jazz at Lincoln Center with Orchestral Premieres by Billy Childs and Bill Cunliffe
Featuring Performances by 100+ Student and Faculty Artists including Temple University’s Symphony Orchestra, Studio Orchestra, and Faculty Jazz Sextet: Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone, and Justin Faulkner
In Celebration of TU’s Faculty Jazz Sextet’s Album Release Fly With the Wind
New York, NY (For Release 2.28.23) — The award-...
Dr. Wendy Magee, along with several other scholars and researchers including world-class soprano Renée Fleming, has published a new article on interdisciplinary therapies for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).
Magee, whose research and teaching interests stem from a long career as a music therapy clinician in neuro-rehabilitation, highlights that certain areas of the brain can be activated through singing songs or even just thinking about various artistic forms. In a brief video interview, Magee and Megan Weigel (DNP and MS-certified nurse for First Coast...
Noriko Manabe’s article, which breaks down the ambiguities of the Grammy-winning track by rapper Kendrick Lamar, was recognized with an Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Music Theory last fall.
“We gon’ be alright,” sings Pharrell Williams in the chorus of Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy-winning hit “Alright.” The song is included on Lamar’s 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly, which was released amidst political unrest in the country and at a time when the Black Lives Matter movement was gaining momentum. As such, the song quickly became adopted as a protest anthem, and...
Boyer College of Music and Dance congratulates Laura H. Carnell Professor Terell Stafford on his appointment as Music Director for the 2023 Sarasota Jazz Festival, an annual tradition in Sarasota, FL that has endured for more than 40 years. This year's line-up features an exciting and diverse selection from today's jazz artists including: The Allen Carmen Project, Paquito D'Rivera, Kurt Elling, Diego Figueiredo, Charlie Hunter, Dick Hyman, Marcus Miller, Tony Monaco, Houston Person, Christian Sands and Lizz Wright.
On the festival and the broad range of artists for 2023...