Dr. Timothy Bonenfant
| Dr. Timothy Bonenfant Assistant Professor of Music Single Reeds D.M.A., University of Nevada, Las Vegas M.F.A., California Insititute of the Arts M.M., B.M., University of Nevada, Las Vegas Office:CARR 217 Phone: (325) 942-2085, Ext. 231 E-Mail: tbonenfant@angelo.edu |
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Timothy Bonenfant is an Assistant Professor of Music at Angelo State University, where he teaches the single reed studio and directs the jazz ensemble. He comes to Angelo State University from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he earned his Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Nevada Las Vegas, the first woodwind performer from that institution to earn that degree. He received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Masters of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts. His primary instructors were Alberto Asercion, Felix Viscuglia, William Powell, Raphael Sanders, Marina Sturm, Michael Limoli and Michele Zukovsky.
During his years in Las Vegas, Dr. Bonenfant played with the famed UNLV Jazz Ensemble, directed by Frank Gagliardi. During his time with the jazz ensemble, the band played with Joe Williams, Don Menza, Louis Bellson, Chuck Findley, Marlena Shaw and Carl Fontana.
Dr. Bonenfant has worked with many of the major composers of our time, including John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Milton Babbitt, Luciano Berio, Walter Blanton, John Cage, Paul Dresher, Morton Feldman, Jorge Villavicencio Grossmann, Steven Horowitz, Libby Larsen, Stephen Mosko, Mel Powell, Steve Reich, and Frederic Rzewski, Dorrance Stalvey, Eric Whitacre and most significantly, Virko Baley, the subject of Bonenfant’s dissertation. He has premiered over thirty works, many written especially for him, including Virko Baley's Partita No. 4 for clarinets (bass, A, Eb and Bb contrabass) and piano, and Stephen Emmons’ Seaside.
Dr. Bonenfant was a longtime member of both the Las Vegas and the Nevada Symphony Orchestras and, from its inception in 1998, the Las Vegas Philharmonic. His professional experience also includes playing with such notable performers as Marvin Hamlisch, Tommy Tune, Luciano Pavorotti, Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Charlotte Church, Theodore Bikel, Rip Taylor, the Village People, the Moody Blues, Beatlemania, Dudley Moore, David Foster, Sandi Patty and John Duykers.
Dr. Bonenfant’s performances can be heard on three recordings. Two of these feature him playing works written especially for him, Those recordings include “San Francisco Chronicled: The Chamber Music of Steven Horowitz 1990-1996” (the composer of the soundtrack to “Super Size Me”), “The Body of a House: Music of Walter Blanton” and “Voyage From The Past,” a recording with Blanton’s small jazz group Dharma.
MUS 1310 History of Jazz Syllabus
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