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Portrait of Tobias Monte

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Tobias Monte

Part Time Lecturer

Music

Wind Ensemble, Jazz Orchestra

Contact

508-999-8548

College of Visual & Performing Arts 204

Education

2005Bridgewater State UniversityC.A.G.S.
1988Rhode Island CollegeM.A.
1979University of Lowell (now UMass Lowell)B.M.

Teaching

  • Wind Ensemble
  • Jazz Orchestra
  • Conducting
  • Performance Workshop
  • Performance Studies Coordinator

Programs

Courses

This course provides an opportunity for qualified students to perform major standards and contemporary band literature.

Study and performance of traditional large jazz ensemble repertoire focusing on big band tradition. Musical styles to be studied include swing, Latin, bebop, funk, and rock, among others.

Increases the performance abilities and awareness of all music majors. It will include attendance at recitals, performance classes and workshops and will deal with traditional music as well as music from diverse cultures. It will give students the opportunity to perform or have their own compositions performed, including vocal, instrumental and electronic media. It will also deal with stage deportment, structuring of recital programs, and other matters relating to musical performance.

Advanced conducting and music education theory and practice necessary to teach performance-based elements of music programs. This course consists of the continued exploration and development of conducting techniques, history and performance practice, score preparation, individual and ensemble assessment, and current best-practice in music education.

This course provides an opportunity for qualified students to perform major standards and contemporary band literature.

Study and performance of traditional large jazz ensemble repertoire focusing on big band tradition. Musical styles to be studied include swing, Latin, bebop, funk, and rock, among others.

Select publications

  • Ronald Sherwin & Tobias Monte (2016).
    MCAS, PARCC, and the relationship between music instruction and state-mandated comprehensive assessments.
    Connecting practice, measurement, and evaluation, GIA, 163-176.

Biography

Tobias Monte maintains an active career as a performer, conductor and educator. As a performer, he holds positions in the trumpet sections of the Cape Symphony Orchestra and the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Rhode Island Civic Chorale Orchestra, the Simon Sinfonietta, the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, the Tri-County Symphonic Band, the American Band of Providence, RI, and the Southcoast Jazz Orchestra. He has performed in concert with Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma and John Pizzarelli.

As a conductor, Mr. Monte has been the director of the Marion Concert Band (Marion, MA) since 1985. He was the musical director for New Bedford Festival Theatre from 1996 to 2003, overseeing the music for 15 NBFT productions. He co-directed the Acushnet Classic Ensemble from 1993 to 1997 and was organist and choir director at St. John of God Church in Somerset, MA from 1977 to 2023. As a festival conductor, Mr. Monte conducted the 1993 Rhode Island Junior High School All-State Band, the 2008 Senior SEMSBA Festival Orchestra, and the 2011 & 2018 Northeastern Massachusetts Junior District Festival Orchestras. In 2010, he was named artistic director and senior orchestra conductor for the New Bedford Symphony Youth Orchestra organization, which is now known as the Southeastern Massachusetts Youth Orchestra organization.

Mr. Monte has been on the UMass Dartmouth Music Department faculty since 2000. He is performance studies coordinator and directs the Wind Ensemble and Jazz Orchestra. Mr. Monte teaches conducting in addition to coordinating the Performance Workshop class for music majors. He was also the musical director for the UMass Dartmouth Theatre Company from 2005 to 2010.

In 2017, Mr. Monte completed a public school teaching career as a music specialist that spanned 34 years and included teaching general music in grades K-8, instrumental music in grades 4-12, and musical direction for a middle school theater arts program.