Master of Music - Timpani & Percussion

Timpani & Percussion

Course Details

The core element of the 90 minute per week one to one lessons is delivered by many highly reputable and active professional performers and is further enhanced by regular repertoire classes, and specialised Latin American, Ethnic Percussion as well as Drum-Set Classes and Lessons. The Baroque Timpani discipline is addressed in regular Classes by a highly respected Expert. An extended Solo-Marimba provision also forms an integral part of the Department's overall strategy.

In recognition that the largest number of future employment opportunities for Timpanists and Percussionists are within Orchestras, tuition is mainly directed towards the orchestral literature. Five former Graduates from the RSAMD have been appointed to professional positions at home and abroad within the last three years.

There is however also a well established tradition of solo performance in extended recitals with its emphasis on polished professional presentations.

International Artists from around the world bring their experiences to our students in clinics, workshops and master classes. These have recently included Dame Evelyn Glennie, Colin Currie, Sam Walton, Birger Sulsbruck, Leigh Howard Stevens, Eric Sammut, Jasmin Kolberg, David Searcy, Simon Carrington, Keith Aleo & Neil Grover and Neil Percy amongst many others.

The Department wishes to acknowledge with gratitude the support of the AVIDAS ZILDJIAN (Cymbal) COMPANY.

Requirement

Entrance Auditions:

Applicants's to perform the following:

Timpani

• Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott)
• Bartok Violin Concerto (supplied by RSAMD)
• R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Big Waltz) (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott)
• Hindemith Sinfonische Metamorphosen (Turandot Scherzo) (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott).

Percussion : Xylophone

• Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (Available in the Goldenberg Book)
• Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott)
• Hindemith: Kammermusik, Movements 3 & 4 (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott)
• Bernstein: Cool, West Side Story (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott).

Snare Drum

• Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Movements 3 & 4 (Available in “Test Pieces for Orchestral Auditions”, Schott)
• Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnol Movements 3 & 4 (available in Hathaway Snare Drum Book)
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio Espagnol (available in the Goldenberg Book)
• Suppé: Pique Dame (Available in the Goldenberg Book).

Marimba

• Ney Rosauro: Concerto for Marimba movement 4 "Farewell".