Fall 2015 UWSP OBOE BULLETIN TEACHING ARTISTS, TRANSFORMING LIVES. UWSP Wind Ensemble oboists after their terrific concert The oboe studio is part of the outstanding Department of Music at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Oboists can pursue degrees in music, music performance and music education. Many music students are even double majors outside of music! A new opportunity is an Instrumental Performance Certificate for intensive music performance studies as a non-major. If you are considering UWSP, come for a day on campus and attend classes and rehearsals, get a lesson with Prof. Berk and meet students already in the program. This is the best way to see if UWSP is the right place for you. Now that school is in session, many high school oboists are involved in bands and wind ensembles, but not everyone has the option of playing their oboes at school if the school has marching band in place of concert band. While I appreciate marching bands and the lessons and friendships they promote (I was in the percussion line in high school and drum major in my college band), marching band doesn’t help double reed players develop on their instruments. If you find yourself in this situation, or are even just too busy with other obligations, there are still ways to combat your oboes skills from slipping. Obviously the best way would be to take private lessons and to work with an oboe teacher outside of school. Oboe in Football Season Opportunities Summer Music Camp Free Lesson UWSP Camp COFAC – an oboe camp and band camp combined - will be June 19-25, 2016. We’ll make reeds, play oboe ensembles and more! For more information, visit http://www.uwsp.edu/cofac/FineArtsCamp Come check out UW-Stevens Point and get a free oboe lesson! You’re welcome to spend an hour or a day, visiting the school and Music Department. Put February 13, 2016 on your calendars for UWSP Oboe Day/Woodwind Workshops Day. It’s like a mini-camp, as we’ll have master classes, work on reeds and play ensembles. Visit uwsp.edu/music for more information. Auditions are required for all incoming music majors and minors prior to admission to the Department of Music. Dates for admission and scholarship consideration for Fall 2016 are: February 27, 2016 March 12, 2016 Everything Oboe Day Auditions (Continued on p.2) Solo & Ensemble Prep Day April 23 rd , 2016 is a chance to come in for a free lesson prior to State Solo & Ensemble .
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Fall 2015
UWSP OBOE BULLETIN TEACHING ARTISTS, TRANSFORMING LIVES.
UWSP Wind Ensemble oboists after their terrific concert
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The oboe studio is part of the outstanding Department of Music at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point. Oboists can pursue degrees in music, music performance and music education. Many music students are even double majors outside of music! A new opportunity is an Instrumental Performance Certificate for intensive music performance studies as a non-major.
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If you are considering UWSP, come for a day on campus and attend classes and rehearsals, get a lesson with Prof. Berk and meet students already in the program. This is the best way to see if UWSP is the right place for you.
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Now that school is in session, many high school oboists are involved in bands and wind ensembles, but not everyone has the option of playing their oboes at school if the school has marching band in place of concert band. While I appreciate marching bands and the lessons and friendships they promote (I was in the percussion line in high school and drum major in my
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college band), marching band doesn’t help double reed players develop on their instruments. If you find yourself in this situation, or are even just too busy with other obligations, there are still ways to combat your oboes skills from slipping. Obviously the best way would be to take private lessons and to work with an oboe teacher outside of school.
Oboe in Football Season
Opportunities
Summer Music Camp
Free Lesson
UWSP Camp COFAC – an oboe camp and band camp combined - will be June 19-25, 2016. We’ll make reeds, play oboe ensembles and more! For more information, visit http://www.uwsp.edu/cofac/FineArtsCamp
Come check out UW-Stevens Point and get a free oboe lesson! You’re welcome to spend an hour or a day, visiting the school and Music Department.
Put February 13, 2016 on your calendars for UWSP Oboe Day/Woodwind Workshops Day. It’s like a mini-camp, as we’ll have master classes, work on reeds and play ensembles. Visit uwsp.edu/music for more information.
Auditions are required for all incoming music majors and minors prior to admission to the Department of Music. Dates for admission and scholarship consideration for Fall 2016 are:
February 27, 2016 March 12, 2016
Everything Oboe Day
Auditions
(Continued on p.2)
Solo & Ensemble Prep Day April 23rd, 2016 is a chance to come in for a free lesson prior to State Solo & Ensemble .
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If private lessons are not an option, then search for great oboe recordings and add them to your playlists. There are many options today for downloading excellent recordings. Listen to amazing performers and ingrain their tone into your ideal of what an oboe should sound like. Some suggested oboists are: Diana Doherty, Allan Vogel, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Eugene Izotov, Alex Klein and François Leleux. Students who have a clear concept of what professional oboists sound like are more likely to adapt their embouchures and the shape of their mouths to try to recreate that sound. Without that sense of quality tone, students sometimes just play the reed and allow it to be as bright and “reedy” as it wants to be.
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Secondly, you’ll need to find some time with the oboe and get your “chops” (both embouchure and fingers) in shape. Find some music and sight read pieces. Pick one to work on, and enjoy the process of making it better every time you practice. One book I particularly like is Oboe Solos, edited by Jay Arnold (available on Amazon) as it has a variety of great pieces to study.
Oboe in Football Season (continued)
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Stacey Berk Professor of Oboe [email protected] 715-256-1526 UW-Stevens Point Department of Music Noel Fine Arts Center 1800 Portage Street Stevens Point, WI 54481 www.uwsp.edu/music
Why study music at UWSP?
A UWSP oboist making reeds during studio class. All oboe students at UWSP learn reed
making and reed fixing as part of their studies.
22:1 student to faculty ratio
100% graduates hired or enrolled in graduate school within one year of graduating
Multiple large ensemble and chamber music opportunities for students
Personal attention in a supportive environment with high expectations
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So if you’re in marching band, enjoy the experience and all that it offers! In the meantime, though, keep developing your skills on the oboe so you can be prepared for your concert ensemble rehearsals with strong embouchures, good air support and a solid sense of tone.
Aaron Rodgers doesn’t play the oboe, but imagine how much he would practice if he did! Excellence takes time and effort but is worth it.
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