SUNY Purchase/Jersey City University Undergrad/Grad Tuba

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SUNY Purchase/Jersey City University Undergrad/Grad Tuba

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Hello all,

I have openings for tuba at both New Jersey City University and SUNY Purchase for Fall 2016. More detailed information below, but in short: Both schools have scholarship money available (in addition to already relatively low tuition costs), a lot of performance opportunities, and faculty that is comprised of all working professional musicians. Also more info below about myself and my teaching philosophy.
Contact me personally (DanJPeck@gmail.com" target="_blank" target="_blank) for any questions or to inquire about a free prospective student lesson.


NJCU
http://www.njcu.edu/mdt/" target="_blank" target="_blank

New Jersey City University has a strong Music Education program, as well as a handful of Undergraduate and Graduate Performance Majors. Regardless of your major, you will play a lot at this school. In addition to chamber ensembles and orchestra, Patrick Burns, who directs the NJCU Symphony of Winds and Percussion is doing amazing work with the band which plays many concerts throughout the year. Each student is also assigned an accompanist each semester (for credit), so you will gain experience playing regularly with a pianist every week.

As with many schools, NJCU has some scholarship available for merit (students that exhibit great performance potential), but the big deal is the academic scholarship known as the Presidential Scholarship (link below). Basically, if you have a GPA around 3.7/3.8, and SAT scores over 1200, you go to school for FREE. Below that, there is a graduated scale based on those two criteria that will still get most of your tuition costs covered. After you get in, you need to stay above a 3.0 GPA to maintain the scholarship.

Tuition
http://www.njcu.edu/tuition_and_fees.aspx" target="_blank" target="_blank

Presidential Scholarship
https://www.njcu.edu/i2e/financial_aid/scholarships.asp" target="_blank" target="_blank

NJCU Symphony of Winds Brass and Percussion
http://www.facebook.com/NJCUSWP" target="_blank" target="_blank
Patrick Burns, director
email: njcuband@gmail.com" target="_blank" target="_blank


SUNY Purchase
http://www.purchase.edu/Departments/Aca ... rts/Music/" target="_blank" target="_blank

SUNY Purchase is a performance-only program, and has both Undergraduate and Graduate degrees. The music school is very small and selective. And while they have multiple large ensembles, the big emphasis at the school is on chamber music, so you would be playing a lot in small ensembles. There is also a weekly Brass Lab which deals with playing from memory and issues of brass performance practice. Most of the students are very serious about pursuing a professional career, so although only one recital is required, most students do at least one recital a year. The New York Chamber Brass, a working brass quintet, is comprised of the SUNY Purchase Brass Faculty members.

The school currently has no tuba students, so I've been given approval to award a full tuition merit-based scholarship for a full-time Graduate student. Undergraduate scholarship money is also available, but probably not a full ride. Again, tuition costs are some of the least expensive
in the NYC region.

Tuition
https://www.purchase.edu/Departments/En ... /fees.aspx" target="_blank" target="_blank

New York Chamber Brass
http://newyorkchamberbrass.com/" target="_blank" target="_blank

Biography (short)

I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and the Manhattan School of Music (Bachelor of Music Performance and Masters in Orchestral Performance, respectively).
My main teachers have included Scott Mendoker, Warren Deck, Steve Norrell and Toby Hanks. While my main background and training has been in classical and orchestral music, my post-school career has focused on avant-garde, jazz, and experimental music. I've premiered a handful of works with notable composers/ensembles (e.g. Helmut Lachenmann and Alvin Lucier, International Contemporary Ensemble and Signal Ensemble), and work regularly with composer/improviser Anthony Braxton (we recently played in a Double Harp Quintet in Wroclaw, Poland as part of the 2015 Jazztopad Festival). This is all alongside freelancing as a classical tubist, which included subbing with the New York Philharmonic and the MET Opera earlier this year.
All of the experimental groups I play in have self-released albums and self-organized our own tours (My long-standing trio, The Gate, recently completed our third European tour this past November). So in addition to talking about playing music, as an active practitioner of my own music/ensembles, I can competently talk and give advice about the business and entrepreneurial side of being a musician in the 21st century.

Teaching Philosophy

As someone who regularly performs a wide variety of music, I believe in cultivating good habits of musicianship along with being a good tuba player; the latter follows the former, not the other way around. Ear-training, singing, theory, and harmony are all a regular part of my teaching, as well as developing a fundamental sound concept on the horn that is based on an efficient and individualized physiological approach. Stylistic considerations such as dynamics, articulation, note shape, note endings, and releases will also be addressed.
My ultimate goal for any of my students, regardless of their major, is to leave my studio equipped with the ability to make well-informed and personalized decisions in as many different musical contexts as possible. Moreover, I believe that all artists have the potential to be representatives of the creative spirit and the positive effect that creativity can have on society. In a complex time period, it is imperative that as artists, we encourage intellectual and cultural curiosity and seek to constantly challenge our own limitations and broaden our horizons.
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