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RAMAPOP: Master Class with Ramapo Music Faculty

BC 216

Ramapo's student bands will perform and receive feedback from Music Faculty. All musicians are welcome to participate*, and everyone is welcome to attend. The master-class will be followed by performances from the Advanced Music Performance class, a jam session with students, and a 30-minute closing set from one of the student bands from 7:00-8:30 PM. […]

Lysander Piano Trio

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

The spectacular Lysander Trio will come to Ramapo to play a short Common-Hour concert prior to their performance at Carnegie Hall on March 14th.  The program will feature piano trios by Schubert and Grandos as well as a new trio by Assistant Professor of Music Gilad Cohen.  The concert will take place on March 6th […]

Aeolus Quartet

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Aeolus Quartet Performs Ramapo Students’ Works Thursday, April 20th 2017 at 2:00pm, York Room, Birch Mansion, free admission and open to the public Inspired by classical and contemporary composers, students of Prof. Gilad Cohen’s course Musicianship III: Composition have been challenged to compose string quartets of their own.  The New-York-based award-winning Aeolus Quartet will be […]

Workshop with Composer/Violinist Jonathan Keren

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

Switzerland-based composer/violinist Jonathan Keren will run a workshop alongside Prof. Gilad Cohen. Praised by the New York Times for shifting between "tastes of sublime mysticism and catastrophic wildness," Mr. Keren […]

Workshops with Aizuri Quartet

The residency will host the Aizuri Quartet, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed string quartet from New York. This year, the Quartet won the prestigious M-Prize Award, a $100,000 award from the […]

Benjamin Hochman: Pianist and Lecturer

York Room 505 Ramapo Valley Road, Mahwah, NJ, United States

This is a closed event. New-York based, Award-winning concert pianist Benjamin Hochman will discuss issues relating to performance challenges and tools, technique, efficient practicing, interpreting contemporary music, and career decisions, […]

Workshops with Aizuri Quartet

Sharp Theater 505 Ramapo Valley Road: Berrie Center, Mahwah, United States

The residency will host the Aizuri Quartet, an award-winning and critically-acclaimed string quartet from New York. This year, the Quartet won the prestigious M-Prize Award, a $100,000 award from the University of Michigan. Monday 11/26 9:30-1:00: Aizuri Quartet will rehearse student pieces at Ramapo with Musicianship III Students, discuss them and revise them together. Also […]

Music Marathon

Adler Theater

Featuring Ramapop, final concert of the Advanced Music Performance class, and a short original musical-theater performance of Brady Bock's independent study.

Advanced Music Performance- Final Concert

BC 216

Students of Prof. Gilad Cohen's course Advanced Music Performance will perform a showcase of original arrangements of pop, rock, folk and musical theater songs. Admission is free.