Announcements
New director for the School of Music has been announced.
In his seventh year as chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Dr. Michael A. Miles was named director of the School of Music. He will assume his position in July 2008.
Professor Spotlight
Dr. Maryann Kyle has sung leading roles with the Mississippi Opera, Chattanooga Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, the Southern Arts Festival Opera, the University of Illinois, East Tennessee Opera, LSU Opera, Gulf Coast Opera, and The Opera at USM. She has shared the stage with some of world’s greatest artists including performing the role of Micaela in Carmen,
opposite internationally known
mezzo-soprano, Denyce Graves, as a guest soloist with The Miami Festival, opposite famed bass-baritone William Warfield, and as soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Timothy Nobles and Marietta Simpson. In addition, she appeared as a soloist on the pop music stage with famed artists Patti Labelle, Patti Austin, Dionne Warwick, Ann Nesby and Vesta Williams.
Welcome to the Southern Miss School of Music!
The School of Music, a fully accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music, provides degree requirement in accordance with the published regulations of this association. The four undergraduate degrees available to students in the School of Music are the bachelor of arts, the bachelor of music, the bachelor of music education and the bachelor of science in Entertainment Industry.
Emphasis areas in music are jazz studies, music history and literature, performance (guitar, percussion, piano, strings, voice, and wind instruments) and composition. Music education emphasis areas are instrumental and choral (with plans for singers, keyboardists, guitarists, and elementary and secondary school teachers). Entertainment Industry offers emphases in management and production.
Additionally, the school offers four degrees at the graduate level: a master’s degree in music, a master’s in music education, a Ph.D. in music education and a doctorate in musical arts. Emphasis areas in the master of music degree are performance, conducting, music history and literature, theory and composition, and woodwind performance and pedagogy. Emphasis areas for the DMA include performance, conducting and composition.
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| Dr. Bruce Tychinski Faculty Recital (trombone) |
09/11/2008 at 7:30pm:
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| Lois Leventhal Piano/Trumpet Workshop |
09/13/2008 at 9:00pm: Recital Credit Available
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| School of Music String Faculty Recital, "Mississippi Chamber Circle" |
09/14/2008 at 4:00pm: Featuring music by Shostakovich and Brahms
Recital Credit Available
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| Symphony Orchestra presents Shangri-La Gala |
09/18/2008 at 6:30pm:
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| Dr. Heidi Lucas Faculty Recital (horn) |
09/19/2008 at 6:00pm: Recital Credit Available
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