A minor in Visual Arts enhances your skills in design and drawing with your chosen medium of either ceramics, sculpture (jewelry and small metal), painting, or photography.
Specific majors that could benefit from this minor include:
Department Chair, Professor, Music (Saxophone/Jazz);
Music Building (MB), Room 203
575.562.2471
Title: Department Chair, Professor, Music (Saxophone/Jazz);
Office Location: Music Building (MB), Room 203
Phone: 575.562.2471
ENMU Email: [email protected]
D.M.A., Music Performance, Boston University (2010)
M.M., Music Performance, University of Michigan (1997)
B.M., Music Education, Temple University (1994)
Grammy considered saxophonist Dr. Richard A. Schwartz has commissioned and or premiered nearly thirty new works for saxophone, performed for regional, national and international events in North and South America and Europe and is the grand prize winner of the 1997 International Henri Mancini Institute Concerto Competition and recipient of the 2010 Southeastern Louisiana University Presidents Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity. After performing the Boston premiere of Jan Curtis Transformations for voice, piano, and alto saxophone in Jordan Hall, The Boston Globe declared, Richard Schwartz displayed extraordinary talent on the saxophone, sympathetically mirroring the voice and contributing his own improvisatory imagination.
Awarded three United States patents, Schwartz founded the music publication company SilverKeyMusic.com authoring the internationally recognized intonation tool The Tuning C.D. and many instructional guides in music education.
Faculty research interests include saxophone performance and pedagogy, jazz ensemble pedagogy, jazz history, jazz improvisation, jazz composition, musical intonation, advanced woodwind techniques including multi-phonics, circular breathing, double-tonguing, the altissimo register, and more, entrepreneurialism in music, sight-reading techniques, recruitment techniques and more.
