Music Outreach - Volunteers needed!
Share your love of Music with elementary and high school students. For more information go to Music Outreach and for more questions about this program please contact Prof. Barbara Gawlick; email: barbara.gawlick@bc.edu
Faculty Projects and Student Accomplishments
Read about the works of the Music department's faculty members and Students
Our WorkSpring 2025 Private Lessons Registration
The Spring 2025 registration for Private Lessons is open from December 2nd, 2024 through January 22nd, 2025. To register, please complete the Private Lessons registration via the registration button "Register for Spring 2025 Individual Instrument & Voice Lessons” on the Music department's website.
Note: Departmental permission is not needed to submit the registration form.
Attention to all off-campus students: You must set up Eagle VPN and BC2-Step Verification prior to registration in order to register off campus.
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Cappella Pratensis at Boston College
Members of the vocal ensemble Cappella Pratensis spent the last weekend in October recording sacred works from the Burns Library collections of rare Medieval and Renaissance music sources. The Netherlands-based ensemble will present a workshop/masterclass in Gasson 100 on Tuesday October 29 at noon and a concert featuring Dufay's Ecce Ancilla Domini mass in St Mary's Chapel at 7:30 pm on Tuesday October 29. All welcome!
Farewell to Richard Shaughesssy
Thank you Richard for 23 Years at Boston College.
Bridges ESOL Chorus is directed by Prof. Riikka Pietiläinen Caffrey
ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Chorus students are directed by Prof. Pietiläinen Caffrey who is featured in the "Collaboration Spotlight" article. Prof. Pietiläinen Caffrey is the community coordinator and Bridges ESOL Chorus director for this program. Read the full article published in the Chorus Journal, October 2024 issue.
Congratulations to Anna Wittstruck on her new published article
Prof. Anna Wittstruck’s article, "Embodying Eroica: Pregnancy and Performativity on the Podium," has been published by Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, as part of the 2024 volume. You can read the full published article here.
European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma 2024 - Concert Listing
This year’s 80th anniversary conference-concert-commemorations will take place between July 31st - August 2nd, 2024.
Prof. Ralf Gawlick’s oratorio on the Sinti and Roma, O Lunge Drom (The Long Road), will be performed on August 1st, 2024 in the Krakow Philharmonic: https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu
Then, on August 2nd, international delegations and representatives will assemble in Auschwitz I (Stammlager) for a Commemorative Act of Parliamentary Representatives & Political Leaders organized in cooperation with the International Organizations and with the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. It will be a closed event with high media coverage in the “Theater Building’” in Auschwitz I, used after 1942 to store the Zyklon B gas. For this commemoration, Florian Berner (cellist from the Alban Berg Ensemble Wien) has been invited to perform a Tombeau (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DeTDdIYeRc) which I composed for solo cello along with the Sarabande from Bach’s 5th Cello Suite.
Fall 2024 Auditions for Boston College Symphony Orchestra and Instrumental Chamber Music Program.
Audition for the Boston College Symphony Orchestra and Instrumental Chamber Music Program!
For placement into the Boston College Symphony Orchestra and/or an instrumental chamber music group, all students (new and returning) should play one 10-min audition in the first week of the semester. Your audition will serve as BOTH your orchestra audition and your chamber music audition; students may indicate which musical ensembles they are interested in on the audition survey (see below).
Auditions for BCSO (or BCSO + Chamber Music) will be held in Lyons Hall Room 427 at the following times:
• Sunday, August 25, 6-10 pm (directly following the Music Department Performing Ensembles Welcome Reception in Lyons 423 from 4:30-5:30 pm - all are welcome to attend!)
• Monday, August 26, 10 am-12:30 pm; 1:30 pm-2:30 pm; 5:30-10 pm
• Tuesday, August 27, 9:30 am-12:30 pm; 1:30 pm-2 pm; 8 pm-10 pm
• Wednesday, August 28, 9:30 am-1:30 pm (BCSO Open Rehearsal in Conte Forum Band Room at 7:15 pm - all are welcome to show up and play!)
• Make-up times (please use as last resort): Thursday, August 29, 11 am-12 pm; 1-2 pm and Tuesday, September 3, 10 am-12 pm
Additional audition times for students interested in chamber music ONLY will be offered on Wednesday, September 4, 10 am-12 pm and 1-2 pm, location Lyons Hall Room 406.
To audition for BCSO and/or Chamber Music, please follow the instructions below:
1. Please sign up for an audition time using this sign-up sheet.
2. Before your audition time, please have filled out this survey.
3. Please prepare the following:
• String players: 3-5 min of solo playing of your choosing.
• Wind players: 2 short contrasting pieces (one lyrical, one technical), and a chromatic scale.
• Percussion: your audition time will just be a one-on-one conversation, with a chance to play on instruments at our first rehearsal.
• Pianists: 3-5 min of solo playing of your choosing. Please be prepared to sight-read.
The Boston College Symphony Orchestra meets on Mondays (strings only and/or sectionals) from 7:30-9 pm in Lyons 423, and on Wednesdays (full orchestra) from 7:10-9:40 pm in Conte Forum. The first BCSO rehearsal, which will take place on Wednesday, August 28, at 7:15 pm in Conte Forum, is open to any interested students who would like to play; the final roster will be determined and announced at the end of the week and seating/part assignments by the second rehearsal.
Small instrumental chamber groups (2-6 people) rehearse on their own and receive weekly coachings from a faculty member, scheduled at the discretion of the group and coach.