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Fall 2022 Courses for Your Consideration

Below is information about Department of Music courses we hope you will consider and enroll in this term. Have a great semester!

MUSC 1170 Classical Forms & Performance

Instructor: Saleem Ashkar
Meets on Wednesdays 3:00-5:30 in Orwig 315

This course aims to examine the relationship between different kinds of analysis and the performance of large classical forms. Through a combination of secondary reading, score analysis and performance workshops we will tackle questions regarding bar structure and phrasing, tonal-harmonic relations and the musical narrative, the connection between texture and character as well as dramatic contrast and the evolution of the motivic material in the sonata and variations forms. Developing a heightened awareness of the inner forces in music and arguing that a deep reading of a musical work, as individualistic that reading may be, has to be rooted in a full grammatical understanding of the score. Prerequisite: MUSC 0560 or permission of instructor.

Professor Saleem Ashkar is an internationally-renowned concert pianist, recitalist, chamber musician, and our new Assistant Professor of the Practice and Director of the Applied Music Keyboard Program. Professor Ashkar is a Decca recording artist and just completed recording the 32 Beethoven Sonatas. He is Artistic Director of the Galilee Chamber Orchestra, formed of students and young professionals to encourage collaboration between the Arab and Jewish communities in Israel. And he is the co-founder of the Al-Farabi Music Academy in Berlin which works with young people who don’t have access to a musical education. Learn more about Saleem at his website.

South Asian Music Lessons through AMP

Instructors: Nitin Mitta & Srinivas Reddy

Learn how to play Raga on tabla, sitar, or any instrument

The Department of Music offers Brown University students the opportunity to register in the Applied Music Program (AMP) and take individual lessons for academic credit from a range of thirty professional musicians from the greater Boston-Providence area. Among these musicians are Nitin Mitta, tabla, and Professor Srinivas Reddy, sitar. Students who wish to study tabla performance train with Nitin Mitta. Professor Reddy offers to teach students how to play Raga on sitar or any instrument. All lessons, regardless of instrument, are offered for a required 0.5 credit per semester, and for an additional $720 fee covering 12 weekly, one-hour lessons. Full info and guidelines of AMP.

If you’re interested and wish to learn more about South Asian, please contact either instructor listed above today or write to music@brown.edu.

Brown University Orchestra 2022 Concerto Competition

October 1, 2022 | Registration due September 26

The Brown University Orchestra sponsors its annual concerto competition to give its most highly talented members the opportunity to perform as soloists with the orchestra. This privilege is also extended to musicians at Brown whose specialties do not generally allow membership in an orchestra: pianists, vocalists, and players of guitar, saxophone, and other non-orchestral instruments.

The 2022 concerto competition will take place in Grant Recital Hall on Saturday, October 1, from 1pm until approximately 6pm. The first round of the competition will be closed; the final round will be open to the public.

The deadline to register for the competition is Monday, September 26 at 5pm. This deadline will be strictly enforced. If you miss the deadline, you will not be allowed to participate!

A visual non sequitur for your refreshment…