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WRTI's Hometown Heroes: Spotlight on Drummer Justin Faulkner

WRTI's Hometown Heroes: Spotlight on Drummer Justin Faulkner

Boyer College of Music and Dance

WRTI's Hometown Heroes: Spotlight on Drummer Justin Faulkner

February 03

Jazz and community. Jazz and activism. Jazz and family. These aren't just words for West Philadelphia drummer, composer, and educator Justin Faulkner. They're life lines, id...

Boyer's Conwell Dance Theater wins Best Dance Studio Of The Decade

Boyer's Conwell Dance Theater wins Best Dance Studio Of The Decade

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Boyer's Conwell Dance Theater wins Best Dance Studio Of The Decade

January 14

We are honored to have won Best Dance Studio Of The Decade in the 2020 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards! We are also pleased to announce that Temple Theaters won Production...

Just 3 Weeks To Vote For The 2020 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards!

Just 3 Weeks To Vote For The 2020 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards!

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Just 3 Weeks To Vote For The 2020 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards!

December 10

There's just three short weeks left to vote for the BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards - which are back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past deca...

Covid Sessions: A Social Call named WRTI's Jazz Album of the Week

Covid Sessions: A Social Call named WRTI's Jazz Album of the Week

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Covid Sessions: A Social Call named WRTI's Jazz Album of the Week

November 23

November 23, 2020. Imagine deconstructing an award-winning 21-piece band, scattering its members not just across the Delaware Valley but the country, having each instrumentali...

WRTI's Hometown Heroes: Spotlight on Trumpeter Terrell Stafford

WRTI's Hometown Heroes: Spotlight on Trumpeter Terrell Stafford

Boyer College of Music and Dance

WRTI's Hometown Heroes: Spotlight on Trumpeter Terrell Stafford

November 20

Trumpeter Terell Stafford has been hailed as "one of the great players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player" by the late piano legend McCoy Tyner. The acclaimed bandleader a...

Dr. Alison Reynolds and TU Alums publish "Music Play 2"

Dr. Alison Reynolds and TU Alums publish "Music Play 2"

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Dr. Alison Reynolds and TU Alums publish "Music Play 2"

November 12

Congratulations to Dr. Alison Reynolds, Chair of Music Education and Music Therapy Professor, on the long-awaited publication of Music Play 2. Dr. Reynolds is the lead co-edit...

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán wins the "Ricardo Miró National Literary Contest"

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán wins the "Ricardo Miró National Literary Contest"

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán wins the "Ricardo Miró National Literary Contest"

November 10

Congratulations to Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán, adjunct professor at Boyer College of Music and Dance, who has won the most prestigious prize in literature in his native Panam...

Professor of Dance, Kun-Yang Lin receives a Project Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Professor of Dance, Kun-Yang Lin receives a Project Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Professor of Dance, Kun-Yang Lin receives a Project Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

October 27

Congratulations to Boyer Dance professor Kun-Yang Lin for receiving a Project Grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for his dance company, Kun-Yang Lin/Dancers! ...

Jazz Educators Step Up to Face COVID-19’s Challenges

Jazz Educators Step Up to Face COVID-19’s Challenges

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Jazz Educators Step Up to Face COVID-19’s Challenges

October 19

In late August, members of the Temple University Jazz Band rehearsed on stage in Philadelphia for the first time since COVID-19 separated them in March. But they still weren'...

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán wins the "Roque Cordero Third National Composition Competition”

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán wins the "Roque Cordero Third National Composition Competition”

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán wins the "Roque Cordero Third National Composition Competition”

October 19

Dr. Emiliano Pardo-Tristán, adjunct professor at Boyer College of Music and Dance, has, for the second time, won the "Roque Cordero Musical Composition Competition." Pardo-Tr...

Noriko Manabe Appointed AMS Treasurer

Noriko Manabe Appointed AMS Treasurer

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Noriko Manabe Appointed AMS Treasurer

by Boyer College

October 05

The AMS Board of Directors is delighted to announce the appointment of Noriko Manabe to the role of AMS Treasurer. Noriko Manabe has an M.B.A. from Stanford, and is a Chart...

Implementing music therapy through telehealth: considerations for military populations

Implementing music therapy through telehealth: considerations for military populations

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Implementing music therapy through telehealth: considerations for military populations

by Boyer College

July 01

Telehealth provides psychotherapeutic interventions and psychoeducation for remote populations with limited access to in-person behavioural health and/or rehabilitation treatm...

A Note From Dean Stroker Regarding Anti-Racism and Social Justice

A Note From Dean Stroker Regarding Anti-Racism and Social Justice

Boyer College of Music and Dance

A Note From Dean Stroker Regarding Anti-Racism and Social Justice

by Robert Stroker

June 18

To the Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts Community: As our nation has been shaken by the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and Rayshard B...

Boyer College Mourns the Loss of Alan Abel, 1928 - 2020

Boyer College Mourns the Loss of Alan Abel, 1928 - 2020

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Boyer College Mourns the Loss of Alan Abel, 1928 - 2020

by Boyer College

April 27

Boyer College is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Alan Abel, a beloved and longtime member of Boyer's percussion faculty. Alan passed away on April 25, 2020 due to c...

Mourning the Loss of Joy Abbott, 1931 - 2020

Mourning the Loss of Joy Abbott, 1931 - 2020

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Mourning the Loss of Joy Abbott, 1931 - 2020

by Boyer College

February 11

It is with deep sadness we relate that one of our most luminous shining stars, Joy Valderrama Abbott (EDU '52), passed away this past weekend, Saturday, February 8th, 2020 at ...

Temple University Jazz Band Wins First-Place Prize at the Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship

Temple University Jazz Band Wins First-Place Prize at the Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Temple University Jazz Band Wins First-Place Prize at the Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship

by Boyer College

January 20

The Boyer College of Music and Dance's Temple University Jazz Band, directed by Terell Stafford, placed first at the Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship. Held on January 18...

BCM&D Records Receives 4th and 5th Grammy Nominations

BCM&D Records Receives 4th and 5th Grammy Nominations

Boyer College of Music and Dance

BCM&D Records Receives 4th and 5th Grammy Nominations

by Boyer College

November 11

The Boyer College of Music and Dance's record label, BCM&D Records, received its fourth and fifth Grammy nominations this morning for "Love, A Beautiful Force," one of thr...

Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission

Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission

by Boyer College

September 03

The Reflection:Response Commission invites choreographers to consider as a starting point how we 'reflect' and 'respond' through different kinds of embodiment: the experientia...

Dean Emerita Helen Laird 1926 - 2018

Dean Emerita Helen Laird 1926 - 2018

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Dean Emerita Helen Laird 1926 - 2018

by Robert Stroker

October 27

Message from Dr. Robert T. Stroker, Dean and Vice Provost for the Arts Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is with great sadness that I share the news of Dean Emerita Helen Laird'...

Summer/Fall 2018 Boyer Faculty News

Summer/Fall 2018 Boyer Faculty News

Boyer College of Music and Dance

Summer/Fall 2018 Boyer Faculty News

by Boyer College

August 01

LAMBERT ORKIS (Keyboard Studies) August - Recording released by Deutsche Grammophon: Hommage à Penderecki (2 discs). On this recording, Orkis performs with violinist An...

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