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Manhattan School of Music GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE

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Manhattan School of Music

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE Margaret Kampmeier, Chair and Artistic Director

Manhattan School of Music offers a unique Master’s degree program devoted to the performance of contemporary classical music. Students engage the music of our time through expert instruction in contemporary performance technique and training in improvisation and composition and put all their energies into mastering the skills necessary for a career in new music performance. The Contemporary Performance Program’s faculty is drawn from New York City’s leading new music interpreters, who share their insight into the great works and composers of our time and the joys of bringing new music into the world.

Faculty

Robert Black, Double Bass Anthony de Mare, Piano John Ferrari, Percussion Margaret Kampmeier, Piano Jonathan Klibonoff, Chamber Music

David Krakauer, Clarinet Curtis Macomber, Violin Jeffrey Milarsky, Percussion and Conducting Tara O’Connor, Flute Christopher Oldfather, Piano/Harpsichord

Todd Reynolds, Electronic Performance Lucy Shelton, Vocals and Composer/ Performer Project Fred Sherry, Cello James Austin Smith, Oboe

Degrees MASTER OF MUSIC (MM) DUAL DEGREE PROGRAM IN MUSIC EDUCATION

Contemporary Ensemble

The Contemporary Performance Program, through its ensemble Tactus, is dedicated to giving advanced student performers the opportunity to study with expert faculty and to work directly with living composers.

The CPP concert series presents knowledgeable performances of 20th and 21st-century masterpieces. Tactus performs regularly at MSM and has also presented concerts in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and at club venues in New York.

Past concerts have featured both 20th-century repertoire by composers such as Webern, Schoenberg, Ives, Varese, Cage, and Ligeti, and recent music played with the composer present, including Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Tania León, Charles Wuorinen, Jerome Kitzke, and Julia Wolfe.

The group presents music by MSM faculty composers as well as improvisational works and pieces written by CPP students. In addition, the Contemporary Performance Program works with the Composition department to read and perform student compositions.

College Tuition and Fees 2015–16 Tuition: $42,000 Room and Board: $14,225 Fees: $600

All applications are due December 1st.

For program-specific requirements please refer to our website.

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