University of Richmond
The University of Richmond is a private, nonsectarian, liberal arts university located on the border of the city of Richmond and Henrico County, Virginia. The University of Richmond (UR or U of R) is a primarily undergraduate, residential university with approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students in five schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the E. Claiborne Robins School of Business, the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the University of Richmond School of Law and the School of Professional & Continuing Studies.
History
Founded by Virginia Baptists in 1830 as a seminary for men, with instruction begun by the Rev. Edward Baptist, an 1813 graduate of Hampden-Sydney College,[5] the school was incorporated ten years later as Richmond College. During the American Civil War, Richmond College was used as a hospital for Confederate troops and later as a Union barracks.
By the end of the war, the college was bankrupt and unable to continue
functioning. In 1866, James Thomas donated $5,000 to reopen the college.
The T.C. Williams School of Law opened in 1870.
In 1894, the college elected Dr. Frederic W. Boatwright
president. President Boatwright would serve for 51 years. He is most
remembered for his decision to move the college in 1914 from its
original location in what is now the Fan district to its current location in the Westhampton area of Richmond. The university's main library,is named in Boatwright's honor.
Boatwright Memorial Library,
During World War II, Richmond was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.[7]
In 1987, a donation of $20 million by Robert S. Jepson, Jr. facilitated the opening of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies.[8] The school, which opened in 1992, was the first of its kind in the U.S.
In 1990, the missions of Richmond and Westhampton Colleges were combined to form the School of Arts and Sciences.
On October 15, 1992, candidates George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot came to campus for the first-ever "town hall" televised presidential debate, viewed by 200 million people worldwide.[9] Addressing a crowd of nearly 9,000, President Obama visited the University of Richmond to present the American Jobs Act on September 11, 2011.[10]
Edward L. Ayers, former dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia, is the current president of the University of Richmond. Dr. Ayers was named the ninth president of the University of Richmond on November 10, 2006. He took office on July 1, 2007.
Ensemble-in-Residence: eighth blackbird
Dedicated to providing music students every opportunity to hear and work with professional, innovative musicians, the University of Richmond is fortunate to have an ongoing ensemble-in-residence program. Based out of Chicago, eighth blackbird has been at Richmond since 2004. In 2008, the group won a Grammy Award for its album, "Strange Imaginary Animals."
student life
Musical studies have an essential role in a liberal arts college education by integrating mind, body and spirit. Students who study music in college prepare themselves for a lifetime appreciation of the musical arts.
Musical studies are interdisciplinary, drawing upon the arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences. Musical studies teach transferable skills of value for careers in almost any profession.
The Department of Music offers courses in the disciplines of composition, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance and theory. Our curriculum is inclusive and diverse, including emphasis on the traditions of Western classical music, American music, world music, jazz and new music. We enthusiastically endorse individual study of instrumental and vocal performance and participation in performing ensembles, for which both major and non-major music students may earn academic credit.
After College
The music major at the University of Richmond provides a strong basic background in performance, theory of music, history of music, social/cultural musical context and musical composition. As a result, Richmond music graduates are well equipped to:- Go on to the best graduate programs in the country
- Enter the entertainment industry as performers, composers or producers
- Proceed into careers as secondary school teachers
- Develop careers in sales and marketing for the arts community
Scholarships and Awards
Music department scholarships listed below are available to majors as well as non-majors. Scholarship winners must agree to participate actively in the Music Department and maintain a B (3.0) average in their music courses.Endowed Music Department Scholarships
To be considered for an endowed music scholarship, an audition is required. How the auditions work:Auditions
Ensemble Auditions
Each ensemble schedules individually for auditions. If you are interested in auditioning for an ensemble, first check the webpage for the ensemble. Questions regarding ensemble auditions should be directed to the ensemble director.
Music Scholarship Auditions
Audition Dates
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Arrive at Booker Hall of Music by noon to check in and obtain your audition time. Approximately 10 minutes is allotted for each audition. All auditions will be completed by 2 p.m., at which time Richmond music students will offer a mini-concert for auditionees and their parents. Review a full list of the talent-based music scholarships offered by the department.
Accompanists
An accompanist can be provided, auditionees may bring their own accompanist or auditionees may perform unaccompanied.
For auditions to be accompanied by our department's faculty accompanist, please send a clear, legible photocopy of the music, (no faxes, please) to arrive at least one week in advance of the audition date, to:
Barbara Melton
Department of Music
Booker Hall of Music - Room 120
University of Richmond, VA 23173
To schedule an audition
Contact Barbara Melton in the Department of Music.
Submit a music scholarship audition form.
Audition requirements
Voice:
Prepare two memorized songs in contrasting styles. One piece should be performed in a language other than English. Selections from the art song, oratorio, and operatic repertoires should be emphasized, although one folk song arrangement or musical theatre piece may be included. Voice auditionees may be asked to participate in a short ear-training exercise during the audition.
Strings:
Prepare three octave scales (double bass, two octaves) with various bowings, and an etude that serves to demonstrate technical ability. Perform from memory two pieces in contrasting styles or a movement of a standard concerto, preferably with cadenza.
Organ:
Prepare a prelude and fugue or similar composition by J.S. Bach or a significant work by another representative Baroque composer along with a nineteenth or early twentieth century work, such as one of the works of Franck or a movement from a symphony of Widor or Vierne. Also be ready to perform a contemporary work of a representative work by a mid- twentieth-century composer such as Sowerby, or a movement from one of the Hindemith sonatas.
Consideration will be given to applicants with no previous organ experience who may wish to audition on the piano. They should be prepared to perform a prelude and fugue from The Well Tempered Clavier of Bach and representative works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to demonstrate keyboard ability and level of advancement.
Guitar:
Prepare two contrasting pieces.
Brass:
Prepare two selections in contrasting styles (lyrical and technical)
and be ready to play all major scales.
Percussion:
Prepare a selection on each of the following: marimba (plus all major scales), timpani, and snare drum.
Piano:
* Prepare one memorized piece from each of the following categories: (1) A Bach Invention or Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier; (2) A fast tempo movement from any Mozart, Haydn, Schubert or Beethoven sonata, excluding Beethoven's Opus 49; and (3) a Romantic piece of your choice.
* Major and melodic minor scales in four octaves.
Woodwinds:
Prepare an accompanied solo that demonstrates the applicant's level of technical and musical ability and a second solo or etude which contrasts in style from the accompanied solo. All major scales will be required as well as the chromatic scale over the full range of the instrument.
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Arrive at Booker Hall of Music by noon to check in and obtain your audition time. Approximately 10 minutes is allotted for each audition. All auditions will be completed by 2 p.m., at which time Richmond music students will offer a mini-concert for auditionees and their parents. Review a full list of the talent-based music scholarships offered by the department.
Accompanists
An accompanist can be provided, auditionees may bring their own accompanist or auditionees may perform unaccompanied.
For auditions to be accompanied by our department's faculty accompanist, please send a clear, legible photocopy of the music, (no faxes, please) to arrive at least one week in advance of the audition date, to:
Barbara Melton
Department of Music
Booker Hall of Music - Room 120
University of Richmond, VA 23173
To schedule an audition
Contact Barbara Melton in the Department of Music.
Submit a music scholarship audition form.
Audition requirements
Voice:
Prepare two memorized songs in contrasting styles. One piece should be performed in a language other than English. Selections from the art song, oratorio, and operatic repertoires should be emphasized, although one folk song arrangement or musical theatre piece may be included. Voice auditionees may be asked to participate in a short ear-training exercise during the audition.
Strings:
Prepare three octave scales (double bass, two octaves) with various bowings, and an etude that serves to demonstrate technical ability. Perform from memory two pieces in contrasting styles or a movement of a standard concerto, preferably with cadenza.
Organ:
Prepare a prelude and fugue or similar composition by J.S. Bach or a significant work by another representative Baroque composer along with a nineteenth or early twentieth century work, such as one of the works of Franck or a movement from a symphony of Widor or Vierne. Also be ready to perform a contemporary work of a representative work by a mid- twentieth-century composer such as Sowerby, or a movement from one of the Hindemith sonatas.
Consideration will be given to applicants with no previous organ experience who may wish to audition on the piano. They should be prepared to perform a prelude and fugue from The Well Tempered Clavier of Bach and representative works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to demonstrate keyboard ability and level of advancement.
Guitar:
Prepare two contrasting pieces.
Brass:
Prepare two selections in contrasting styles (lyrical and technical)
and be ready to play all major scales.
Percussion:
Prepare a selection on each of the following: marimba (plus all major scales), timpani, and snare drum.
Piano:
* Prepare one memorized piece from each of the following categories: (1) A Bach Invention or Fugue from the Well Tempered Clavier; (2) A fast tempo movement from any Mozart, Haydn, Schubert or Beethoven sonata, excluding Beethoven's Opus 49; and (3) a Romantic piece of your choice.
* Major and melodic minor scales in four octaves.
Woodwinds:
Prepare an accompanied solo that demonstrates the applicant's level of technical and musical ability and a second solo or etude which contrasts in style from the accompanied solo. All major scales will be required as well as the chromatic scale over the full range of the instrument.
The scholarship was established in 1998 by friends of Suzanne Bunting, who served as University organist, faculty member and long-time department chair from 1961 until her retirement in 1999.
Hannah Coker Music Scholarship
Established 1978 by a gift from Hannah L. Coker, a graduate of Westhampton College in 1923. Over her 25-year career at the University of Richmond, she taught music appreciation, music history and piano, founded the music library and was the music librarian.
Quincy Cole Memorial Scholarship
Established in 1969 through the bequest of Quincy Cole in the Windsor Foundation, which Mr. Cole began through his will and named for his home in Windsor Farms in Richmond. Mr. Cole attended Richmond College in the Class of 1912 and was one of the founders of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra.
Margaret Downer Music Scholarship
Established in 2000 by Margaret Taylor Gallaway in honor of her mother, the scholarship gives precedence to an outstanding voice or piano student.
F. Flaxington Harker Scholarship
Established in 1953 by the bequest of Edith Clark Harker, W’33, in memory of her husband, F. Flaxington Harker, who had been organist and choirmaster at St. Paul's Episcopal Church from 1914–1932. Mrs. Harker had been a professor of voice at Westhampton College. The scholarship is for a Westhampton College student in the Department of Music with preference to piano and organ students.
Margaret E. James Scholarship
Established 1964 by the bequest of Minnie K. James (Mrs. William Carey James) in memory of her daughter, Margaret, who was a member of the Westhampton College Class of 1916 and a music teacher. The scholarship is for Westhampton College students of piano.
Frederick Neumann Scholarship
Frederick “Fritz” Neumann (1907–1994), a native of Bielitz, Austro-Hungary, taught at the University of Richmond from 1955–1978. A violinist, he founded the University Symphony and served as the first concertmaster of the Richmond Symphony Orchestra. He was also a renowned scholar of performance practice in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The scholarship was established in 1987 by friends in honor of Dr. Neumann’s 80th birthday.
Puckett Family Scholarship
The scholarship was created in 1994 from a gift from Virginia McIntosh Puckett, W’34, and Charles W. Puckett, R’32, in appreciation of the educational opportunities given to them and their daughter Mary Elizabeth Puckett Maddox, W’66, during their student days at the University of Richmond.
Hilton Rufty Memorial Scholarship
Established in 1974 as a memorial fund at the death of Hilton Rufty, who had been associate professor of music at University of Richmond since 1946. He had also been organist at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and St. Giles’ Presbyterian Church in Richmond. The scholarship is for a student in the music department.
Hazel I. M. Sternheimer Scholarship
The scholarship was established in 1991 by Mark and Anne Sternheimer and family in honor of Mark’s mother, Associate Professor of Harp at the University of Richmond from 1939–1942.
Frank I. Stockstill Scholarship
The scholarship was established in 1983 by Susan Stockstill in memory of her husband, who enjoyed playing oboe in the University of Richmond Symphony.
Endowed Arts Scholarship
Dunkum AwardA partial scholarship, approximately $25,000 per year, is competitively awarded to a full-time female undergraduate Virginia resident who majors or minors in performing arts (theatre, music or dance). This scholarship may be renewed as long as the student continues as a full-time undergraduate student, maintains satisfactory academic progress and continues to participate in the performing arts.
Endowed Residency
The F. Ralph Swanson, R’26, and Mary A. Swanson Artist-in-Residence FundThe fund was established in 1987 by an estate gift from Mary A. Swanson. This fund brings musicians to the campus every year for several days. In addition to performances, the musicians work with students in classrooms and rehearsals.
Music Awards and Prizes for Current Richmond Students
Bobby Chandler AwardThe award was established in 1989 by Mr. Homer H. “Kip” Kephart in memory of Mr. Bobby Chandler and is given annually to an outstanding music major.
Hesch Award
The award was established in 1995 by the family of Dr. C. J. Hesch and is given annually to an outstanding student who has made significant contributions to the music department through participation in ensembles, applied lessons and/or classes.
Roy Jesson Music Prize
The prize was established in 1974 by friends of Jesson, University of Richmond piano instructor from 1955–1961, after his untimely death in 1972. It is awarded to a music student or graduate who excels in performing, conducting or composing.
Phi Kappa Mu Music Honorary Society
Students are eligible to join Phi Kappa Mu after achieving second-semester sophomore status and a minimum 3.5 GPA in at least 15 hours of music courses, of which no more than six are ensemble participation. The Richmond Phi Kappa Mu chapter staffs the spring music major auditions and sponsors the annual music banquet.
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