The second album by the chamber music consort from the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University draws from a pool of talent across the Philadelphia region.
New York, NY – August 10, 2021 – On August 20, BCM+D records will release No Strings Attached: Percussion Music by Marc Mellits from the Philadelphia Percussion + Piano Project, recorded at the Boyer College of Music and Dance at Temple University. Anchored by the Boyer College’s Artistic Director of Percussion Phillip O’Banion, the rotating chamber ensemble seeks to underscore the variety and...
The GRAMMY Museum today announced $20,000 in funding for a Music Therapy research project conducted by Professor Wendy Magee. Selected along with 11 other recipients, this project will test a new music-based measure for children with disorders of consciousness following brain injury. The study will test the reliability, validity and diagnostic capability of the Music therapy Sensory Instrument for Cognition, Consciousness and Awareness (MuSICCA), pediatric version of the Music therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders Of Consciousness (MATADOC). This first...
Nicole Jordan, BYR ’10, speaks three languages and is picking up two more. She knows the range of multiple musical instruments, what they can play and what they can’t. She can add bowing directions to sheet music for string players and fix awkward page turns. And she can analyze the structure and form of a piece of music, placing it in its historical and cultural context.
She is the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal librarian and its first female Black member.
Jordan stepped into the world of librarianship almost by chance. In her final year studying...
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, ideas on which to act, interact and intercede, to work toward, play with, and pray for.Ask him for a motto to which he lives, and Faulkner quotes Psalm 1:3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,which yields its fruit in seasonand whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.Not yet 30, this West Philly native—a drummer who could rage and thunder, who could tickle and...
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 Of A Play Of The Decade for their 2019 production of Men On Boats.Winners have been announced for the 2020 BroadwayWorld Philadelphia Awards - which were back bigger than ever, celebrating the best in local theatre of the past decade! The public submitted the nominees and voted for their favorites. Check out the results below! The 2020 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards are presented by TodayTix. Community...
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 decade! Check out the local nominees, cast your vote, and support live theatre entertainment in Philadelphia!The 2020 BroadwayWorld Regional Awards are presented by TodayTix.Community theatre productions, student productions, and college productions are all included! (Please check respective category rules.) Eligibility is for productions which opened between 2011 and September 30th, 2020.Voting will run...
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 instrumentalist record his/her parts individually, and then taking each of those individually recorded parts and surgically stitching it all back together to make it sound like the entire band was recorded in the same place, at the same time.That's what John Harris and David Pasbrig, faculty in Temple's music technology program, were tasked with doing in order to make the latest from the Temple University Jazz Band,...
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 and recording artist has appeared on dozens of albums, including five of his own, and is a soloist with the Grammy-winning Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.Born in Miami and raised in both Chicago and Silver Spring, Maryland, Stafford recalled being transfixed when at age nine he happened upon a trumpet while visiting his grandparents' sharecropper's farm."To just hold this instrument in my hand because I...
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-editor and co-author, along with two TU Temple alumni (Cynthia Crump Taggart--PhD Music Ed and Wendy Hicks Valerio--MM...
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 Panama, the Ricardo Miró National Literary Contest. The novel, "Lo blanco y lo negro", was chosen unanimously among 48 novels, by a distinguished jury. Sergio Ramírez, the 2017 winner of the prestigious Cervantes Prize in Spanish Literature, read the jury criterion: "... the novel is a brilliant exploration of the Caribbean world, seen through popular music, its warmth, color and rhythms, [...] With excellent...
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't quite together. A series of giant plexiglass screens on rollers, spaced six feet apart, isolated the 21 musicians from each other and their leader, trumpeter Terell Stafford. Even before the music started, there were more reminders of the risks of playing in a group. Stafford, face mask firmly in place, checked with the horn section to ensure they had the proper bell coverings and filters needed to keep...
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-Tristán won in the solo music category, with the guitar piece "Sonata en Azul," in three movements: I. Índigo; II. Lapizlázuli; and III. Zarco. Dr. Pardo-Tristán also got an Honorable Mention in the Symphonic Band category, for his work "1989 (Memories of the Invasion)."
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 Chartered Financial Analyst with 18 years' experience in the investment industry, including stints as a ranked analyst in Institutional Investor while at JP Morgan, a top-ranked institutional salesperson in the Greenwich survey while at Morgan Stanley, and in portfolio management. During this time, she also held management positions in which she was responsible for the strategy and budgeting of units. Prior to...
Telehealth provides psychotherapeutic interventions and psychoeducation for remote populations with limited access to in-person behavioural health and/or rehabilitation treatment. The United States Department of Défense and the Veterans Health Administration use telehealth to deliver primary care, medication management, and services including physical, occupational, and speech-language therapies for service members, veterans, and eligible dependents. While creative arts therapies are included in telehealth programming, the existing evidence base focuses on art therapy and dance...
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 Brooks, we are awakened to and yet again reminded of the history of racial discrimination against Black Americans and other persons of color in this country. The CPCA believes that Black lives matter, and stands firmly against racism and all forms of hate speech, harassment, and discrimination. As part of the Center's core mission, we strive to provide an inclusive educational community that honors the...
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 complications from the coronavirus. He was a member of The Philadelphia Orchestra for nearly 40 years, from 1959-1998, and was formerly on the faculties of University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City University, Catholic University of America, Glassboro State College, The New School of Music, and Settlement Music School.
Though this is a tremendous loss, our students, faculty and staff are grateful to have had...
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 the age of 88.
Joy was truly a legend of musical theater, an ebullient presence with a zeal for life and passion for the arts. Her caring and enthusiasm was beyond measure, living a vital life full of kindness and an honest appreciation for the needs of others. In addition, she was known for fostering and curating of the legacy of her late husband, musical theater innovator, George Abbott. She will be...
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 18-19 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City, the Jazz Band was selected to participate as one of the top ten jazz programs in the country. In addition to the Jazz Band's first-place award, the ensemble received accolades for Outstanding Rhythm Section, Outstanding Trombone Section and Outstanding Trumpet Section, with Dylan Band earning Outstanding Tenor Saxophone, and Fareed Simpson-Hankins earning...
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 three movements from "Constant Renaissance" by six-time Grammy winning composer/arranger, Vince Mendoza. The Temple University Studio Orchestra recorded the work which also features Terell Stafford (trumpet) and Dick Oatts (alto saxophone).
"Receiving our fourth and fifth Grammy nominations is a tremendous testament to the talent and quality of our students," said Dr. Robert T. Stroker, dean and vice...