Fall 2020 Info for Music & Dance Students
August 25, 2020
Information for music & dance students on classes, ensembles, and expectations of students for fall 2020. Music students, also see Building Protocols & Procedures page.
MSR Classics Releases First CD by Horn Professor Joshua Michal
August 24, 2020
Assistant Professor of Horn Joshua Michal has just released his first solo CD, titled Ekphrasis, on MSR Classics. The CD’s title is taken from a work of the same name composed by Music and Dance Department Chair Salvatore Macchia that is featured on the new release.
UMass Jazz Faculty Quartet - HGTS - Releases New CD
August 01, 2020
Instrumental jazz faculty members Jeff Holmes (piano/trumpet), Tom Giampietro (drums), Fumi Tomita (bass) and Felipe Salles (saxophones) have released a new CD of their original music on Summit Records. The group is called HGTS, an acronym of their last names, and the title is taken from one of the Holmes tunes, “..and then they played...”.
Music, Community Engagement & Social Action: Sebastian Ruth
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Open letter from Chair Macchia
to the UMass Music & Dance community
Herald Emeritus Fanfare video
Jazz Studies video (new!)
String Studies video
Legacy Concert honoring Frederick Tillis - highlights
Trombone Choir
Mini-concert by Gilles Vonsattel, piano
Listen to Studio Orchestra performing Oliver Nelson's There's A Yearnin'
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