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Dr. James M. Day
Adjunct Instructor of Music (Guitar)
Director, Guitar Studies
Director, Guitar Ensemble
D.M.A., Performance and Literature, Eastman School of Music
M.M., Performance, Eastman School of Music
B.M., Performance, North Carolina School of the Arts
The College of New Jersey Director of Guitar Studies, Dr. James Day has been a member of the Music Department faculty since 1997. Dr. Day teaches
- MUS 228: Intermediate Class Guitar
- MUS 229-05: Guitar Ensemble
- MUS 321: Advanced Private Guitar Lessons
- MUS 352: Guitar History and Literature
- MUS 421: Advanced Private Guitar Lessons
Dr. Day’s brochure devoted to TCNJ’s Guitar Studies can be accessed at http://www.tcnj.edu/~day/Documents/guitar_studies.pdf. He received his Bachelor of Music degree at North Carolina School of the Arts under Aaron Shearer and Gerald Klickstein and his Masters of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music under Nicholas Goluses. In addition, he has pursued advanced studies with Oscar Ghiglia at both the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and at Incontri Chitarrstici in Gargnano, Italy. As a student, he performed in Master Classes of some of the world’s greatest virtuosi including Pepe Romero, David Russell, Paul O’Dette, and William Kannengiser. Most recently, Dr. Day held a three-month residency as guest artist teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, and Johan Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany. Besides his teaching responsibilities at TCNJ, Dr. Day is also Artist Teacher of Guitar at Westminster Conservatory of Rider University and at The Lawrenceville School.
Dr. Day is an active performer in Europe and the United States. His performances have included appearances at New York’s Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center, SolarFest Performing Arts Festival in Vermont, The International Guitar and Lute Exposition in Vicenza, Italy, and St. James Piccadilly in London. His concerts have been broadcast on public television and radio in several U.S. locations, and he has received numerous awards for his performances, including a top prize in the 1995 Rantucci International Guitar Competition in Buffalo. Recent seasons include engagements in the U.S. with Harrisburg Symphony, Eastern Wind Symphony, Boheme Opera Theater of New Jersey, Brooklyn College Contemporary Ensemble, Westminster Community Chamber Choir, Woodland Consort, Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society, Perkins Center for the Arts (Moorestown, NJ), Arts on the Mountain (Mt. Pocono, PA), TCNJ Collegium Musicum, Westminster Conservatory’s Music of Our Contemporaries series, City University of New York, Eastman School of Music, and Princeton University.
As a scholar, Dr. Day has given lectures on the guitar and the Early Nineteenth-Century Lied at Eastman, the Philadelphia Guitar Festival, College Music Society International Conference in Madrid, and the Staatlich Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr. Day is also an avid promoter of new music by emerging composers. World premiere performances include Donald J. Sparr’s Guitar Quartet (1996 BMI award), Michael Kinney’s Puppet Master (1999 ASCAP award), Robert McMahan’s innovative and striking Symbiosis (2000), and Songs My Mother Taught Me (2005) by award-winning composer Laurie Altman. Dr. Day has recorded two compact discs, Modernist Masterworks for Guitar (Minimal, 2002) and Night and Dreams: Schubert Lieder with Guitar with tenor Robert Swensen (Rochester, 2004).
Email: day@tcnj.edu
Webpage: http://www.tcnj.edu/~day
