Woodwind majors are provided with a wide array of performance opportunities and courses taught by a faculty of dedicated teachers and performers. The programs of study for woodwind majors are designed to develop skilled performers who are familiar with the standard solo, ensemble, and orchestral literature for their instruments. Students will achieve a high degree of professional competence and learn appropriate stylistic approaches to the literature of various historical periods. In addition to studies with our expert faculty, students are provided additional opportunities to play for and observe world-renowned guest artists.

We are fortunate to have the wind quintet Windscape in residence at Manhattan School of Music. The ensemble–whose members are flutist Tara O’Connor, oboist Randall Ellis, clarinetist Alan R. Kay, hornist David Jolley, and bassoonist Frank Morelli–gives a series of concerts and supervises a group of student chamber ensembles.

Specific courses and degree sequence plans can be found in the 2012-2013 Course Catalog.

Admission

General admission information

Audition procedures and repertoire

Bassoon Audition
Clarinet Audition
Flute Audition
Oboe Audition
Saxophone Audition

Woodwind Faculty

Linda Chesis, Chair

Robert Botti (Oboe, Orchestral Oboe)
Paul Cohen (Saxophone, Woodwinds)
Alan Kay (Clarinet, Woodwinds)
David Krakauer (Clarinet, Woodwinds)
Robert Langevin (Flute, Orchestral Flute)
Marya Martin (Flute, Woodwinds)
Frank Morelli (Bassoon, Woodwinds, Orchestral Bassoon)
Charles Neidich (Clarinet)
Mark Nuccio (Clarinet, Orchestral Clarinet)
Roger Nye (Bassoon)
Michael Parloff (Flute)
Patricia Rogers (Bassoon, Orchestral Bassoon)
Charles Russo (Clarinet)
Thomas Stacy (Oboe/English Horn, Orchestral Oboe/English Horn, Woodwinds)
Stephen Taylor (Oboe, Woodwinds, Orchestral Oboe)
Liang Wang (Oboe, Orchestral Oboe)