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This Month at Setnor
The students and faculty are now spread across the country in a variety of summer pursuits. You might find faculty teaching summer classes, performing in festivals, premiering compositions, making recordings, writing articles, or conducting ensembles. Our students are busy practicing, taking summer classes, doing internships, attending summer workshops and working summer jobs. On campus, we will welcome the Greater Syracuse Honors Middle School Concert Band for the eighth year to perform on June 23 and will cheer for the New York Mets on June 29 as Anthony Acocella B.M. '13 sings the national anthem for SU Day at Citi Field.
Looking forward to July, we will offer our first music leadership camp for girls from July 8-12. This unique offering will help high school girls develop leadership skills to use in their school ensembles and throughout life. Please direct any interested girls here for more information.
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 Alumni News
Andrea Rommel B.M. '08, M.M. '10 is an elementary school band teacher in West Orange, NY. She also directs the high school pit orchestra and assists with the marching band. She made excellent use of her time at Setnor by earning baccalaureate and master's degrees in music education and a master's degree in conducting. She was a graduate assistant with the University Bands and participated in the Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, Sour Sitrus Society, Main Squeeze, and other ensembles. Andrea appreciated the tight-knit community in the Setnor School of Music as well as the large-school environment, diversity, and athletics of SU, and the intrigue of the City of Syracuse. Andrea's aspirations for the immediate future include expanding her professional network in the NYC metropolitan area, discovering new ways to positively influence her students, continually growing as a musician through performance and teaching.
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 Faculty Feature
Nicolas Scherzinger, Associate Professor in the Department of Music Composition, Theory and History, had a busy year with performances of his works in New York, Vermont, and England. His Calico Dances for viola and electronic sounds was performed by Arvilla Rovit with choreography by Stephanie Dattellas at multiple venues as part of the Society for New Music's Vision of Sound Series. A new work for guitar and string quartet will be premiered this July by Kenneth Meyer and faculty at the Kinhaven Music School in Vermont, where Scherzinger will be composer-in-residence for the eighth summer. Upcoming commissions include a new work for violin and piano for New York based violinist Lisa Tipton and for bass clarinet, cello and harp for Accroche Note of France. He will be assistant director of the Sealbay Festival with Daniel S. Godfrey and Steven Stucky in June and Janet Brown and Kenneth Meyer will record Till I Become Accustomed to the Dark for soprano and guitar this summer.
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 Student Spotlight
Vocal Performance major, Jaclyn Clark B.M. '15, is grateful for the sense of community and the many opportunities she is afforded in the Setnor School of Music. One such opportunity is her membership in the Sigma Iota chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota, a women's fraternity whose mission it is to encourage, nurture, and support the art of music. Jaclyn is Co-Chair of Service and Fundraising for the chapter of and is newly elected Vice President of Membership for 2013-2014. The Setnor School of Music is unique to Jaclyn, as it allows her to enjoy a small community with opportunities to build strong connections with professors and classmates while also being part of all that is Syracuse University. Among her accomplishments, Jaclyn is a resident advisor and recently performed the role of "Just Janette" in the opera Too Many Sopranos. She will be participating in the "Opera Viva!" program in Italy as well and interning at The Center for Exceptional Children in North Carolina this summer.
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Calendar of Events
Greater Syracuse Honors Middle School Concert Band
Sunday, June 23, 2013
2:00 PM
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Free and open to the public
SU Day at Citi Field features Setnor School of Music graduate Anthony Acocella '13 singing the National Anthem!
Saturday, June 29, 2013
1:00 PM
Citi Field, NY
Tickets $25, $45, $110 - For more information, email sumets@syr.edu or call 212-826-0320
Watch live streaming of these performances here
Click here for our full calendar of events!
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