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New-York based, Award-winning concert pianist Benjamin Hochman will discuss issues relating to performance challenges and tools, technique, efficient practicing, interpreting contemporary music, and career decisions, while playing examples from his repertoire, including a pre-premiere performance of Prof. Gilad Cohen’s new piece Circles of Time, supported by Ramapo Faculty Development Fund.

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 to the Public.

Monday 9/24 3:45-5:15: Workshop “Recording Strings” with students of the courses Recording Arts I and Musicianship III: Composition; (Les Paul Studio).

 

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.

 

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, 7:30 –

OLD PARAMUS CHURCH, RIDGEWOOD

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.

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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.

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 his church and playing with his father and brother in a gospel trio, Eric moved into the professional music industry. Eric also plays original R&B music with his brother on guitar and other in the band Blynd.

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 material, produces his work and the work of others, handles his own promotion, etc. The students will have the opportunity to converse with someone who represents the DIY aesthetic that is increasingly common within today’s music industry.

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Susan Cheng, Wang Guowei, and a third member of their ensemble Music from China will present traditional and contemporary compositions of Chinese “silk and bamboo” music. Similar to the group’s workshop at Ramapo in Spring 2015, the workshop will focus on  he instruments, ensemble interaction, approaches to program music (instrumental music that portrays non-musical topics), contemporary and traditional compositions, and the significance of the music in contemporary Chinese culture. This time, however, student will be able to try some of the instruments and more time will be allocated to performance.