New College Hosts Duke TIP Field Study Program “Melody of the Mind: An Analytical Approach to Music”
New College of Florida will host the Duke University Talent Identification Program (Duke TIP) Summer Field Study Program entitled Melody of the Mind: An Analytical Approach to Music from June 10-24. The program will bring top students from around the country in grades 9-12 to Sarasota for two weeks of in-depth music study.
Taught by noted composer Carl Schimmel and music historian Samuel Breene, Melody of the Mind will introduce students to music theory and composition. At the same time, students will explore music’s deep-seated connection with cultural history, philosophy and aesthetics. Students will delve into cutting-edge research in the fields of cognition and neuroscience to understand why humans are so compelled to make music.
Held in conjunction with the world-renowned Sarasota Music Festival, Melody of the Mind will offer students the opportunity to interact with professional musicians, witness the rehearsal process and hear the final results at live concerts. Robert Levin, artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival, will give a guest lecture to the TIP students, as will New College Professor of Music Steve Miles and New College Professor of Psychology Gordon Bauer, who alse serves as chair of the Division of Social Sciences. The students will attend several concerts, master classes and rehearsals at the festival, as well as interact with the festival faculty, professional performers and other music festival students.
This is the second Duke TIP Summer Field Study that New College of Florida has hosted. The first was Beneath the Surface: Marine Biology and Neuroscience in 2006.
Melody of the Mind Duke TIP Instructor Bios
Dr. Samuel Breene received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2007, where he wrote a dissertation on Mozart’s violin sonatas. A specialist of baroque and classical music, he has presented papers at conferences in the United States and England and was awarded a Mellon Fellowship to undertake archival research in Vienna, Austria. He has taught at Duke University, New York University and the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent courses include “Making Music in the Age of Mozart” and “Music and Medicine: Historical and Cultural Perspectives,” which demonstrate the interdisciplinary interests he brings to his teaching, linking the study of music history with performance, cultural studies, and the history of science. Besides his scholarly activities, Dr. Breene remains active as a violinist. He holds a performance degree from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin, and has studied at the Johannes Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. He has performed in solo recitals and chamber concerts across the United States as well as in Germany, Canada, Israel and Haiti.
Dr. Carl Schimmel holds a Ph.D. in music composition from Duke University, where he studied with Sydney Hodkinson, Stephen Jaffe, Anthony Kelley and Scott Lindroth. He also earned a master’s degree in composition from the Yale School of Music, where his teachers included Ezra Laderman, Martin Bresnick, Evan Ziporyn and Ned Rorem. He has studied at the Aspen Music Festival (master class with Christopher Rouse and Poul Ruders, private lessons with George Tsontakis) and at the Cleveland Institute of Music with Jennifer Conner, while attending Case Western Reserve University (B.A. mathematics and music). He has taught at the Yale School of Music, Duke University, Northern Illinois University and Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, where he currently resides. Winner of Columbia University’s Joseph Bearns Prize and a five-time finalist in the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, Schimmel has received honors and awards from many organizations.
For more information on Duke TIP summer programs, visit www.tip.duke.edu/summer_programs or contact
Aimee Chouinard, New College media relations coordinator, at (941) 487-4152 or [email protected].