Michael Rosen, Director Woodwinds: Kathleen Chastain, flute & wind chamber music Paul Cohen, saxophone Michel Debost, flute Richard Hawkins, clarinet Alex Klein, oboe George Sakakeeny, bassoon Robert Walters, oboe Brass: Roland Pandolfi, horn James DeSano, trombone Ron Bishop, tuba Roy Poper, trumpet Percussion: Michael Rosen • Audition Requirements • Percussion home page -Prima Trio Wins Coveted Grand Prize (the Gold Medal, too) at 2007 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition -Oberlin's CD of the Week Features Graduate Alex Klein -Flutist Timothy Munro to Perform at NYC’s Elliott Carter Festival -Live from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music on WCLV: Oberlin Wind Ensemble April 12		CURRICULA The woodwinds, brass, and percussion curricula are both intense and stimulating. The full-time resident faculty includes nationally recognized teacher-performers committed to providing careful, rigorous instruction. Highly selective admission standards limit the number of students, ensuring that all receive individualized instruction. Curricular offerings include: reed-making classes orchestral repertoire classes for both brass and woodwinds marimba and timpani mallet construction tucking and mounting calf-skin drum heads chamber music classes for small ensembles Both private study and solo and ensemble performance are emphasized. PERFORMANCE OPPORTUNITIES Students have extensive performance opportunities. Numerous ensembles form as part of chamber music classes each semester. Among the student ensembles of interest to woodwind, brass, and percussion students are: Oberlin Orchestra Oberlin Chamber Orchestra Oberlin Wind Ensemble Brass Guild of Oberlin Oberlin Trombone Choir Contemporary Music Ensemble College Community Winds Oberlin Saxophone Choir Oberlin Jazz Ensemble Oberlin Percussion Group GUEST PERFORMERS Listening to others perform is also part of the curriculum. The annual Artist Recital Series brings nationally renowned artists to campus, including such recent guests as flutist Paula Robison, the London Brass, and Jeffrey Khaner, principal flute with the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition, the schedule includes frequent recitals by students and faculty soloists and ensembles, as well as concerts and master classes by visiting artists and clinicians. Recent woodwind guest performers have included bassoonists Sol Schoenbach, Richard Svoboda, Nancy Goeres, and K. David Van Hoesen; clarinetists Mitchell Lurie, Larry Combs, Dennis Smylie, and Steven Cohen; and oboists Lyla Storch, Cynthia Koledo-DiAlmieda, and John Delancie; and saxophonist Ronald Caravan. Brass players who have been guests recently include trumpeters Vincent Cichowicz (Northwestern University), Armando Ghitalla, Michael Mossman, Jon Faddis, and Michael Saks; hornists Michael Thompson, David Wakefield, Peter Kurau, David Kappy, and Jean Rife; trombonists Joseph Alessi (New York Philharmonic), Ronald Barron (Boston Symphony), David Finlayson (New York Philharmonic), Thomas Klaber (Cleveland Orchestra), John Kitzman (Dallas Symphony Orchestra), Mark Lawrence (San Francisco Symphony), Jeannie Little (Interlochen and James Madison University), and Steve Turée (jazz artist). Senior percussion major Greg Agaki Percussionists and timpanists who have presented recent clinics include Keiko Abe, Bob Becker, Michael Bookspan (Philadelphia Orchestra), John Beck (Rochester Philharmonic), Cloyd Duff, François Dupin (Orchestre de Paris), Frank Epstein (Boston Symphony), Siegfried Fink, Saul Goodman, Fred Hinger, Doug Howard, Roland Kohloff, Arnie Lang, Charles Owen, Jan Pustjens (Concertgebouw Orchester), Sal Rabbio (Detroit Symphony), Steve Schick, Bob Van Sice, Richard Weiner, Paul Yancich, Nancy Zeltsman, and Nebosja Zivkovic, as well as the Malmö Percussion Ensemble, the New Würzberg Percussion Ensemble, and the Percussion Group/Cincinnati. ALUMNI Woodwind, brass, and percussion alumni have created successful and diverse careers throughout the music industry, including positions with: orchestras, chamber groups, and symphony orchestras, as well as in major colleges and universities throughout the world. music studios in major metropolitan centers, including New York, Hollywood, Chicago, Washington, D.C., and Nashville. percussion ensembles throughout the world, including the Atlanta Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Colorado Springs Symphony, the Florida Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, the New World Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the Percussion Group/Cincinnati, the Phoenix Symphony, the Royal Liverpool (England) Philharmonic, the San Antonio Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, the Swedish National Opera Orchestra, and Woodstock Percussion. major universities, including the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the University of Southern California, and the Brussels Conservatoire.

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