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 50 releases on BCM&D Records, listed below, are available for streaming and download on Amazon, Apple Music, Pandora, and Spotify, along with other digital distributors. Select albums are available for purchase on Bandcamp.
Selected Recordings
Year | Title | Composer(s) | Artist(s)/Ensemble | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2024 | Evan Kappelman | Temple University Jazz Band | Coming 12/27/2024 | |
2024 | various | Dick Oatts | ||
2024 | Thad Jones | Vanguard Jazz Orchestra | ||
2024 | Billy Childs, Banks Sapnar, Bill Cunliffe | Temple University Studio Orchestra, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts | ||
2024 | Vicente Martín y Soler | Temple University Wind Symphony | ||
2024 | Banks Sapnar | Temple Univerity Jazz Band | ||
2023 | various | Kimmika L.H. Williams-Witherspoon | ||
2023 | Lori Laitman, Judith Cloud, Melissa Dunphy | Kathryn Leemhuis and Samuel Martin | ||
2023 | Bill Cunliffe | Temple University Studio Orchestra, Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Tim Warfield, Bruce Barth, Mike Boone, Justin Faulkner | ||
2023 | Rollo Dilworth | Temple University Wind Symphony and Choirs | ||
2023 | various | Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone, Justin Faulkner | ||
2023 | Lee Morgan, arr. Bruce Barth | Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, Mike Boone, Justin Faulkner | ||
2023 | various | Larry McKenna and strings | ||
2023 | various | Charles Abramovic and Sara Davis Buechner | ||
2022 | various | Chris Oatts Group featuring Terell Stafford | ||
2022 | William Bolcom | PRISM Saxophone Quartet, Temple University Wind Symphony | ||
2021 | various | Temple University Jazz Band featuring Joey DeFrancesco and Christian McBride | ||
2021 | Marc Mellits | Philadelphia Percussion + Piano Project | ||
2021 | Jay Krush | Temple University Wind Symphony | ||
2021 | Alexander Arutiunian | Anthony Prisk, Temple University Wind Symphony | ||
2020 | various | Temple University Jazz Band | ||
2020 | Bernstein, Silverman, Antheil | Philadelphia Percussion + Piano Project | ||
2020 | Maurice Wright | Laura Heimes, Charles Abramovic, Rie Suzuki, Timothy Schwarz, David Pasbrig | ||
2019 | Vince Mendoza | Terell Stafford, Dick Oatts, Temple University Studio Orchestra | 2019 Grammy nominations: Best Instrumental Composition and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella | |
2018 | 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 |
