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...

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...

Highlights from Sale’s full-length interview courtesy of Piano Magazine. Subscribe to read the full feature. 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...

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-...

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...