School of Music

NICOLE BROCKMANN	SCHOOL OF MUSIC FACULTY
Assistant Professor of Music

 

Nicole M. Brockmann, viola, enjoys a multifaceted career of performance, teaching, and scholarship. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her MM, AD, and DMA from Yale University. Her viola teachers include Jesse Levine, Paul Silver, and Isaias Zelkowicz. Dr. Brockmann is a 4-time winner of the Yale Chamber Music Competition and has studied chamber music with members of the Tokyo, Vermeer, and Orion String Quartets and with Joan Panetti, Erick Friedman, Syoko Aki, Ransom Wilson, Ronald Roseman, Boris Berman, Gordon Gottlieb, and Nancy Allen.

She has been a member of professional chamber ensembles including the Brooklyn Chamber Players, the Lumina String Quartet, and the West Virginia Piano Quartet, and has performed at venues across the country and abroad, including Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie Hall in NYC, SUNY Stony Brook, Brooklyn College, Ohio University, Emory & Henry College, Montana State University, and the Penn Alps (MD) Summer Festival. She has taught and performed professionally at summer festivals including the Blue Mountain Festival (NJ), Point Counterpoint Chamber Music Camp (VT), and the Lumina String Quartet Summer Festival (CT), and is an alumna of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, The Quartet Program, and Encore School for Strings. Her orchestral experience includes three years as Principal Viola of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra (CT) under Gustav Meier, as well as extensive and varied work in the NYC metro orchestral and studio recording scene.

In addition to her studio work, Dr. Brockmann is heavily involved in the field of Dalcroze Eurhythmics. Her specialties in this area are improvisation for chamber ensembles and using Eurhythmics to heighten musicianship in instrumental and vocal master classes. She has led workshops and classes on these and other Dalcroze topics at Yale University, Carnegie Mellon University, West Virginia University, Western Connecticut State University, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Point Counterpoint, the Blue Mountain Festival, and at national and international Dalcroze conferences and summer festivals as well as the 2004 College Music Society National Conference. Dr. Brockmann holds the Dalcroze Certificate from Carnegie Mellon University and is pursuing the License. She is the Immediate Past President of the Dalcroze Society of America and a frequent contributor to the American Dalcroze Journal.

Prior to coming to DePauw, Dr. Brockmann served on the faculties of Yale University and West Virginia University.

 

Email : nicolebrockmann@depauw.edu
Office : Green Center for the Performing Arts 0117
Phone : (765) 658 - 6351