RSS 1.0Instrumental Studies (UMKC)
The Instrumental Studies program provides a wide array of performing opportunities through its chamber music ensembles, orchestras, band and jazz ensembles. Additionally, students engage in studio classes, seminars, and mock auditions, through their work with our exceptional faculty. Each experience is designed to help students learn the skills, range, and versatility required in their chosen careers.
Kansas City is synonymous with jazz and the Conservatory embraces this tradition with world-renowned teaches and performance opportunities that are almost unparalleled. Jazz students perform in large ensembles and in combos; learn jazz theory and history; and are frequently award winners at the national level.
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The Brazilian Flute Topic
(2023)This dissertation studies the connection between the flute, in its materiality and function, and ideas on Brazilianness. A question permeates the narrative I propose: why has the flute become an instrument so representative ... -
La Generazione dell'Ottanta and the Italian Sound
(2021)La Generazione dell’Ottanta (The Generation of the Eighties) is a generation of Italian composers born in the 1880s, all of whom reached their artistic maturity between the two World Wars and who made it a point to part ... -
Becoming a Healthier Guitarist: Understanding and Addressing Injuries
(2016)The field of performance arts medicine is supplying musicians with alarming statistics regarding their health. Authors give statistics as high as 93% when discussing the injury rate among instrumentalists. As guitar ... -
Pedagogical literature for violists: selected studies from Lillian Fuchs's 16 Fantasy Études and corresponding orchestral excerpts
(2013)Few colleges and music festivals offer intensive orchestral studies programs as part of the string department curriculum, and those that do focus solely on excerpts and audition preparation. This dissertation proposes a ... -
Dark Elegies
(2012-05-08)The "story" in Dark Elegies is really a series of scenes in which we see the varied reactions of a small community when their children die without reason. The songs (in German) are "Kindertotenlieder" or songs on the death ... -
A study of orchestral audition repertoire for violin
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-09-26)Very few colleges have a career-intensive program of orchestral audition preparation in their applied violin curriculum. This dissertation attempts to satisfy the need for a curriculum of audition repertoire study in the ... -
Short Suite: Toccata [sound recording]
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Quintet for brass: rondo [sound recording]
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Quintet for brass: intermezzo [sound recording]
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Che gelida manina [sound recording]
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Steamboat stomp [sound recording]
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