Winter 2021
Week One: Audition Strategies
Friday – January 8, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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It’s audition season! Join our performance area faculty panel as they discuss methods and strategies to manage your stress and anxiety and how to perform your best during your upcoming auditions for graduate school, orchestras, bands, choirs, competitions, and festivals.
This week’s faculty panel:
Dr. Alexandre Dossin
Dr. Karen Esquivel
Dr. Arnaud Ghillebaert
Week Two: How to Avoid Burnout
Friday – January 15, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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Have you experienced burnout? Are you currently feeling close to burnout? Join UO’s Instructor of Harp, Dr. Rosanna Moore, as she discusses strategies to overcome and manage your all-too-normal feelings of burnout.
This week’s faculty presenter:
Dr. Rosanna Moore
Week Three: Equity and Inclusion in Classical Music
Friday – January 22, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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As of late, Equity and Inclusion have become topics of major importance in the field of classical music and our society as a whole. Join us this week as we welcome guests Daniel Bernard Roumain and Melissa Ngan in a discussion about equity and inclusion in our field.
This week’s guest speakers:
Dr. Daniel Bernard Roumain
Melissa Ngan
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) is a prolific and endlessly collaborative composer, performer, educator, and social entrepreneur. “About as omnivorous as a contemporary artist gets” (New York Times), DBR has worked with artists from Philip Glass to Bill T. Jones to Lady Gaga; appeared on NPR, American Idol, and ESPN; and has collaborated with the Sydney Opera House and the City of Burlington, Vermont. Acclaimed as a violinist and activist, DBR’s career spans more than two decades, earning commissions by venerable artists and institutions worldwide.
As Fifth House Ensemble’s Founder and Executive Director, Melissa Ngan drives the organization’s creative and training partnerships. Praised by the New York Times for its “conviction, authority, and finesse,” Fifth House Ensemble harnesses the collaborative spirit of chamber music to reach beyond the traditionally-perceived limits of classical music.
Week Four: Academic Jobs Workshop, Part 1 – Inside Perspectives on the Hiring Process
Friday – January 29, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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What does the hiring process look like for academic jobs in artistic disciplines? What do search committees look for throughout the hiring process? What makes a candidate stand out among a vast pool of applicants? This week we will gain inside perspectives on the hiring process from faculty members who serve on search committees frequently and who have recently been successful through the hiring process!
This week’s faculty panel:
Dr. Steve Vacchi
Dr. Craig Phillips
Dr. Camille Ortiz
Week Five: Academic Jobs Workshop – Part 2: CVs and Cover Letters
Friday – February 5, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
Zoom Link
A major component of the academic job search process is standing out in the initial stages of the application review. The CV and Cover Letter are fundamental elements to making it through this stage of the application process. What makes a CV and Cover Letter stand out? How can you improve your job application materials? Join our guest, SOMD alumnus Mark Stevens as he discusses these questions and more. Interested in having Dr. Stevens workshop your CV or Cover Letter? Send it to gradmus@uoregon.edu for consideration!
This week’s guest presenter:
Dr. Mark Stevens
Week Six: Academic Jobs Workshop, Part 3 – The Interview
Friday – February 12, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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Once making it through the initial review process, you will be invited to an interview. This week, our faculty panel will discuss the interview process, potential interview questions, and how to prepare for an interview.
This week’s faculty-panel:
Dr. Steve Vacchi
Melissa Peña
Dr. Sharon Paul
Week Seven: How to build a successful studio in Eugene
Friday – February 19, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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Have you ever wondered how to build a successful studio in Eugene? Are you near the end of your time at UO but don’t want to leave Eugene? Building a strong private studio may be the answer for you! Join us this week as we discuss strategies for doing so with our guest, SOMD alumnus Matthew Pavilanis.
This week’s presenter:
Matthew Pavilanis
Week Eight: How to collaborate between composers and performers
Friday – February 26, 2021
Time TBA
How do composers and performers collaborate on creative projects? Come watch an open rehearsal coached by composer and Trotter Visiting Professor Meredith Monk. Ms. Monk and the faculty performers will host a Q&A on the collaboration process afterwards.
This week’s presenters:
Meredith Monk
Dr. Jacqueline Cordova-Arrington
Brian McWhorter
Celebrated internationally, Meredith Monk’s work has been presented at major venues throughout the world. Over the last six decades, she has been hailed as “a magician of the voice” and “one of America’s coolest composers.” Recently Monk received three of the highest honors bestowed to a living artist in the United States: induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2019), the 2017 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and a 2015 National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
Week Nine: How to create your own CD project
Friday – March 5, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
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Are you interested in recording a CD? What does the process look like as you move from square one to a final product? What is the cost? How do you find funding? We will discuss these questions and more with current UO DMA students Anthony Aguayo and Justin Stanley. They will discuss how they went about creating their CD’s and answer any unanswered questions you may have about the process.
This week’s presenters:
Anthony Aguayo
Justin Stanley
Week Ten: Somatics for Performers
Friday – March 12, 2021
2:00-3:00 PM
Zoom Link
As performing artists, it is important to practice mindfulness and body awareness. Our faculty panel will share best practices and specific strategies, including the Grossman Method, the Feldenkrais Method, and yoga.
This week’s faculty panel:
Hal Grossman
Dr. Arnaud Ghillebaert
Lydia Van Dreel
