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Morton Subotnick: Silver Apples of the Moon

NYU Skirball Center 566 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY, United States

This event is open to students enrolled in MUSI 366-Digital Music Performance ONLY. Pioneering American electronic music composer and NYU faculty member Morton Subotnick presents a rare concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of this groundbreaking record Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic album ever to be commissioned by a classical record label. Often […]

Erik “Pik Funk” Smith: Insights from a Professional R&B Artist

Friends Hall 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

This event is open to all Ramapo students. Visiting Ramapo for a demonstration and Q&A with music students will be Eric "Pik Funk" Smith, a professional bassist who has been accompanying top-tier R&B pop-music artists for the past decade. He is passing through New York while on tour with Janet Jackson. Having learning music in […]

Capstone Seminar Guest Alumni Speakers

BC 301

This is a closed event. Three alumni will visit to speak to students about their experiences since graduation. Two of these alumni are currently employed by major record labels, the third is a highly successful independent artist.

Ramix Recordings Release Party

Adler Theater

Join us for a concert event celebrating the launch of the Ramix Recordings, the new Ramapo College Music Program record label. The first recordings are being released on November 17, 2017.

MANY VOICES | ONE WORLD

Old Paramus Church 660 E. Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ, United States

Music celebrating our shared humanity in song Highlighting China, Korea, Guam, the Middle East, Norway and upcoming U.S. composers with holiday favorites by candlelight. A preview of the music of Eric Whitacre in advance of CantaNOVA's Lincoln Center concert with Whitacre conducting an auditioned choir of singers from around the world. - Sat, Dec 2, […]

MUSI 263 Business of Music: Guest Speaker Cesar Comanche

BC 301

This event is open to students registered in MUSI 236 ONLY. Professor Chris Reali has invited Cesar Comanche to Skype with his Business of Music course. Cesar is an example of an independent artist in the true sense of the phrase; he own the rights to his music, books his own shows, writes his own […]

Workshops with Aizuri Quartet

The residency will host the Aizuri Quartet, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed string quartet from New York. This year, the Quartet won the prestigious M-Prize Award, a $100,000 award from the University of Michigan. Monday 9/24 2:00-3:30: Workshop "Writing for Strings" with students of the course Musicianship III: Composition alongside other music students; (BC 308) Open […]

Iara Negrete & Bob Reich

BC 301

This is an open event. Professor Sorce has invited Ms. Iara Negrete, a celebrated Brazilian/American Singer,and Mr. Rob Reich, a full time recording and performing guitarist, to speak to the students in his musicianship courses.  

Master Class: Billy Martin

Les Paul Studio

This event is open to students enrolled in MUSI 363-01 only. Master percussionist, composer and education, Billy Martin (of Medeski, Martin, and Wood; the Lounge Lizards) will conduct a rare master class for students of recording arts 2. He will demonstrate techniques for recording percussion, discuss African and Afro-Brazilian rhythmic theory, improvisation and music production […]