SPA History
Which SPA Staff Member is a former student of the Academy?
Tess Reed
This violin virtuoso inspired countless legends about selling his soul to the devil.
Who is Niccolò Paganini?
This type of cadence ends on V and creates the feeling that the music should continue.
Sarai has a doctorate in what instrument?
What is Viola Performance
This is the only U.S. president to serve more than two elected terms.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
What program supports arts administrators through leadership training, mentorship, and professional development in the classical music field?
What is SPHINX Lead
This Brazilian composer blended European classical traditions with Brazilian folk music in his Bachianas Brasileiras.
Who is Heitor Villa-Lobos?
The interval from C up to A♭ is this interval.
What is a minor sixth?
For CU Boulder College of Music graduate admission, this December deadline applies to most fall applicants.
What is December 1
This U.S. state is home to the lowest point in North America, Death Valley.
What is California
Who is Alette Williams?
This composer wrote the Lyric for Strings, an arrangement of the slow movement from his String Quartet in A minor.
Who is George Walker?
In string playing, this marking instructs performers to play near the bridge, creating a thin, bright sound.
What is sul ponticello?
What is Portfolio Career
This astrophysical object has gravity so strong that not even light can escape.
What is a black hole?
Who is the Chief Programming Officer of Sphinx?
Andre Dowell
This French composer became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome in composition in 1913, just five years before her death at age 24.
Who is Lili Boulanger?
This marking, often seen in Romantic repertoire, means "not too much" and modifies another tempo indication
What is Ma non troppo?
Sphinx is about to celebrate which milestone?
30th Anniversary
This Shakespeare play features the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What is Hamlet
What is the mission of SPHINX?
Transforming Lives Through the Power of Diversity in the Arts.
This composer dedicated his Violin Concerto to Joseph Joachim, who refused to perform it until after the composer's death.
Who is Robert Schumann?
This Hungarian composer developed the pedagogical approach centered on movable-do solfège, rhythm syllables, and the belief that music education should begin in early childhood.
Who is Zoltán Kodály?
What is Njioma's connection to Sphinx?
She participated in the SPHINX Competition
This famous sequence begins 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and each number is the sum of the previous two.
What is the Fibonacci sequence?