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Hope College Music Department
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Welcome
The Hope College Music Department provides intensive training for students who have chosen music as their vocation. Because music enriches all of life, the department also seeks to provide for the student whose major field of study is one other than music an elective musical background, which will enhance the student's knowledge and understanding of music.
There are five programs of study leading to the Bachelor of Music or Bachelor of Arts degree: a Bachelor of Arts with a major in music; and a Bachelor of Music program in vocal music education, instrumental music education, performance, or jazz studies.
Each year a number of awards are made to entering first-year students in the applied music fields of piano, voice, string and wind instruments, organ, and jazz.
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The department has a full-time faculty of 13, plus 29 part-time instructors. Performing groups for vocalists include the Chapel Choir, Collegium Musicum, Women’s Chamber Choir and College Chorus. Instrumentalists participate in Orchestra, Symphonette, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Arts Collective, and various chamber ensembles.
Robert Hodson, Department Chair
(616) 395-7647, hodson@hope.edu
Kathy Waterstone, Department Assistant
(616) 395-7650, waterstone@hope.edu |
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Upcoming Concerts & Events
Great Performance Series | Hope College Arts | Jazz Series
Young Artists Piano Competition | Music Education Workshop | Chapel Choir Tour
2012-2013 Music Department Events Calendar (pdf)
2013-2014 Music Department Events Calendar (pdf) - New
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Music Department News
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The television production of the 2011 Hope College Christmas Vespers service has received recognition in the 18th Annual Communicator Awards program of the International Academy of the Visual Arts and has also been nominated for two Michigan Emmy Awards.| read more
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Hope College seniors Brent Smith of Owosso and Caitlin McDougall of Flint won first and second respectively in the 2012 Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Competition, held on Sunday, April 22, at the Betty Van Andel Opera Center in Grand Rapids.
They were among nine finalists—four of whom were from Hope—from Grand Rapids-area colleges and universities competing in the event after having been chosen from among 15 select contestants during an initial round in February. | read more |
Hope College junior Katie Callam, a music major from Holland, is one of only 74 undergraduates nationwide chosen based on original research they have conducted to participate in the annual “Posters on the Hill” reception organized by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) on Tuesday, April 24.
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The new compact disc featuring the Hope College Chapel Choir celebrates the long-standing relationship between the college and St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church of Holland.
Titled “Live at St. Francis,” the CD includes 16 tracks recorded in 2010 and 2011 during the choir’s annual post-tour “Home” concert, which the group has presented at the church each March for the past decade. The choir presents the concert the Monday following its spring-break performance tour, a tradition that through the years has taken the vocal ensemble to both coasts, south and in between, as well as abroad. | continue
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A total of four Hope College students were named finalists in the Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Competition held on Friday, Feb. 24, at the Betty Van Andel Opera Center in Grand Rapids.
Senior Jenna Buck of Elburn, Ill., junior Haley Hodges of Hart, senior Caitlin McDougall of Flint and senior Brent Smith of Owosso are among nine finalists chosen from a total of 15 select contestants from Hope, Aquinas College, Calvin College, Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids Community College and Grand Valley State University. They and the other finalists will compete in the final round scheduled for Sunday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at Aquinas College’s Kretschmer Auditorium. | continue
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Three Hope College students are among the cast of Opera Grand Rapids’ forthcoming production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
Freshman Katrina Baker, senior Heather Benson and senior Jenna Buck all have roles in the production, which is taking place on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 3 and 4, at 7:30 p.m. at DeVos Performance Hall in Grand Rapids. | continue
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Prof Honored as Outstanding Jazz Musician
Music professor Edye Evans Hyde has been named the 2011 Musician of the Year by the West Michigan Jazz Society. The recognition celebrates her as "leading lady of theatre and song." Professor Evans Hyde has been teaching and performing jazz, blues and pop music for more 30 years in West Michigan, Los Angeles and Asia. | continue
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Bravo for Hope Alumna
A New York Times review of the Santa Fe, New Mexico Opera presentation of Vivaldi’s “Griselda" includes positive comments of the performance of alumna Meredith Arwady. read the review
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NPR Program to Feature Performance
by Hope Organist Huw Lewis
A performance by organist Dr. Huw Lewis will be featured beginning the week of Monday, Aug. 22, on “Pipedreams,” American Public Radio’s syndicated weekly program of organ music. The broadcast will be of Lewis’s premiere performance of “Invocation and Dance,” a composition for organ and orchestra by Hope alumnus Alfred V. Fedak. The concert, which took place at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Albany, N.Y., featured Lewis and the Franciscan Chamber Orchestra. continue / Pipedreams website
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Concert to Feature Premiere of New Work Written at Hope
The last concert of the 2010-2011 school year at Hope College will offer a variety of firsts, including the world premiere of a work composed by two members of the faculty.
The concert, which will be held on Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel, will feature the premiere of "Babel," co-written by faculty members Dr. Brian Coyle and Dr. Brad Richmond. Coyle is director of jazz studies and Richmond is director of choral activities at the college, and the event will also feature the first pairing of the college's Jazz Arts Collective with Hope's choirs. read more
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Senior Sarah Ashcroft Wins Opera
Grand Rapids Competition
Grand Rapids Press Coverage plus video
Senior Sarah Ashcroft has won the 2011 Opera Grand Rapids Collegiate Competition, held on Sunday at the Betty Van Andel Opera Center in Grand Rapids. Ashcroft was one of seven finalists - three of whom were from Hope - from Grand Rapids-area colleges and universities competing in the event after having been chosen from |
among 10 select contestants during an initial round in February. Ashcroft is majoring in vocal music performance and vocal music education. The first-place recognition is one of multiple major singing honors that she has won this year - and across her undergraduate career. continue
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Music and Theatre Collaborate to Stage the Full Opera, "Street Scene" by Kurt Weill
Every year, the Hope College Music Department offers an Opera Workshop class that concludes
with a concert of selected opera scenes featuring the very best singers of the music program. Hope College Theatre has also presented many types of productions through the decades - Classical plays, |
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Shakespearean comedies and tragedies, intimate contemporary character studies, an elaborately staged retelling of the holiday favorite "The Nutcracker," the Kennedy Festival-honored "Rose and the Rime," musicals, the list goes on.
This year, for the first time, the two programs have joined forces to stage a full opera, run of Kurt Weill's "Street Scene," a 1947 play that is being presented as a major collaboration of the departments of theatre and music, and with support through a grant from the Kurt Weill Foundation. read more | view photos |
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