A highly selective program allowing woodwind students extensive experience working with MSM ensembles.
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.
Procedures By Degree Level
Woodwind Department Handbook
Plan of Study: Woodwinds MSM Academic Catalog
William Short wshort@msmnyc.edu
Watch and learn how nearly two dozen students in the MSM Woodwind program in 2020-2021 explored compelling ways of engaging with virtual audiences while at MSM.
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.
Emma Gerstein (BM ’09), Flute: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Yoobin Son (PS ’10, AD ’11), Flute: New York Philharmonic
Grace Johnson-Shryock (MM ’08), Oboe: New York Philharmonic
Elise Shope-Henry (MM ’11), Flute: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Dean LeBlanc (MM ’96), Clarinet: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Koren McCaffrey (MM ’03), Flute: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Igor Leschishin (MM ’96), Oboe: Principal, Washington National Opera Orchestra
Christopher Jewell (’00), Bassoon: Assistant Principal, Washington National Opera Orchestra
Lewis Kirk (BM ’77), Bassoon: Assistant Principal, Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra
Keisuke Wakao (PD ’88), Oboe: Assistant Principal, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Elizabeth Burkhardt (MM ’88), Bassoon: Associate Principal, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Erin Svoboda (PS ’08), Clarinet: Associate Principal, Utah Symphony
Alexander Davis (PS ’16), Bassoon: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Amanda Blaikie (PS ’09), Flute: Acting Assistant Principal, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Paul Rafanelli (MM ’88), Bassoon: Seattle Symphony
Jennifer Dashnaw (MM ’94), Clarinet: United States Air Force
Kevin Simpson (MM ’08), Clarinet: United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own”
Samuel Sparrow (BM ’17), Clarinet: Charlotte Symphony Orchestra
Jeani Foster (MM ’81), Flute: Assistant Principal Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Peter Ader (BM ’77), Flute: Sante Fe Opera Orchestra
Ingrid Hagan (BM ’07), Bassoon: Principal Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra
Myung Ahn (MM ’93), Flute: Principal, KBS Symphony Orchestra
Christopher James (BM ’13): Assistant Principal Flute/Piccolo, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
Youn Joo Lee (MM ’05, PS ’06), Oboe: Associate Principal, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra
Tatjana Ruhland (MM ’98), Flute: Principal, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren (MM ’93), Flute: Associate Principal, Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kathryn Brooks (PD ’11), Bassoon: Acting Principal, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
Laura Vincent (MM ’06), Bassoon: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Anna Dina Schick Bjørn-Larsen (PD ’97), Flute: Royal Danish Orchestra
Mina Seidman-Haas (MM ’71), Oboe: Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra
“By the time I graduate in May of 2018, I know that MSM will have prepared me for the future of the music industry.” Michael Brinzer Saxophone (BM '18)
“By the time I graduate in May of 2018, I know that MSM will have prepared me for the future of the music industry.”
Michael Brinzer
Saxophone (BM '18)
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