- Miller Puckette
Miller Puckette received his B.S. in mathematics from MIT in 1980. As an undergraduate he was the top scorer in the 1979-1980 William Lowell Putnam mathematics competition. He was awarded Putnam and NSF fellowships for graduate study at Harvard, where he finished his Ph.D. in 1986. From 1979 through 1986 Puckette also studied computer music at the MIT Media Lab, specializing in real-time techniques for live music performance.
- Akin Euba
Akin Euba (born Olatunji Akin Euba, Lagos, Nigeria, April 28, 1935) is a Nigerian composer, musicologist, and pianist. Euba studied composition with Arnold Cooke at the Trinity College of Music, London, obtaining the diplomas of Fellow of the Trinity College London (Composition) and Fellow of the Trinity College London (Piano). He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he studied with Mantle Hood, …
- Harvey Phillips
Harvey Phillips is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Department of Music, Indiana University, at Bloomington (appointed professor 1971 - retired May 1994). He has performed as tuba soloist throughout the world. He was a professional freelance musician from 1950 to 1971. His first professional musicianship was with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band as a teenager. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, …
- Anne Boyd
Anne Boyd (born April 18 1946) is an Australian composer and music educator.
- Susan Kempter
Susan Kempter is an American violin teacher and prominent Suzuki teacher trainer who specializes in applying interdisciplinary research to music pedagogy. She is an active promoter of teaching students to play musical instruments with both physical as well as musical demands in mind, so that they can play their instruments without the pain and repetitive stress injuries which are common in the profession. She was influenced by the teaching of Paul Rolland.
- Robert Orledge
Robert Orledge is a leading scholar of early twentieth century French music. He was born in Bath, Somerset on 5 January 1948 and educated at the City of Bath Boys' School (1958-65) and at Clare College, Cambridge (1965-71) where he gained a BA (Hons) Music degree in 1968 and an MA in 1972. He was awarded a Ph.D. for his thesis: A Study of the Composer Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) in May 1973.
- Suchitra Mitra
Suchitra Mitra is a well respected exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore. She studied at the Scottish Church College, the University of Calcutta and at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India.
- Kevin D. Gawley
Kevin Gawley Kevin has been an ensemble member of Lifeline Theatre since 2001. As a designer at Lifeline, Kevin won the Jeff Citation for his design of Jane Eyre and the After Dark Award for his design of Strong Poison . Other notable designs at Lifeline were the lighting designs of Queen Lucia , Around the World in 80 Days , and Click Clack Moo , and the scenic design of the 2005 production of The Talisman Ring .
- Joseph Huszti
- John Brownell
John has performed with the Toronto Symphony, the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and has been a soloist with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. He has performed and recorded with the contemporary electro-acoustic ensemble Sound Pressure and is a long-time member of the Toronto Percussion Ensemble. A deep interest in rhythmic improvisation has led him from the world of drumset and jazz to studies with world-renowned mrdangam virtuoso, Trichy Sankaran.
- James Balentine
James Balentine Professor, Theory & Composition
- Dr. Shelley Collins
Dr. Shelley Collins was appointed Assistant Professor of Flute at Delta State University in 2006, where she also teaches music history, music appreciation, the history of rock, and conducts the DSU Flute Ensemble. She was appointed Assistant Secretary of the National Flute Association in 2007 and is on the Mid South Flute Society Board of Directors. She served as President of the Seattle Flute Society from 2003 to 2006 and of the Colorado Flute Association from 2000-2001.
- Henry Panion
Henry Panion , III, Ph.D. Henry Panion , III, Ph.D., holds degrees in music education and music theory from Alabama A & M University and Ohio State University, respectively.
- Michael Frishkopf
Michael Frishkopf , PhD, is an ethnomusicologist specializing in musics of the Arab world and West Africa . His research interests also include social network theory and digital multimedia technology. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Music, Associate Director of the Canadian Centre for Ethnomusicology, and Associate Director for Multimedia at FolkwaysAlive!
- K. Newell Dayley
Dr. Dayley has a served in a number of administrative assignments at BYU, including Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications, Chair of the Department of Music, Associate Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications, and Associate Dean of General Education and Honors. He has received numerous awards and commendations for his work as a performer, composer, teacher, and arts administrator.
- Jeffrey Summit
- D. Kern Holoman
- David Rhind
David Rhind is General Counsel, North America, for Hudson Highland Group. Before joining Hudson Highland, David served for eight years as Associate General Counsel at Technology Solutions Company, a systems integration and technology consulting company. David spent the first five years of his legal career practicing corporate and securities law at Gardner, Carton & Douglas in Chicago.
- Paul Plew
Dr. Paul Plew Chairperson, Department of Music Professor of Music
- Debra-Nicole Huber
Debra-Nicole Huber , Associate Director of University Bands, is member of the performance area faculty at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Music, where she has taught Conducting, Instrumental music, Theory, and Music Technology.
- Shulamit Ran
Shulamit Ran Shulamit Ran , Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music, is a composer with special interest in the performance and study of contemporary music. She has served as Composer-in-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Ran's Symphony earned the 1991 Pulitzer Prize in Music and the 1992 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award.
- Michael Markus
Michael Markus graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Music degree in Percussion Performance. After graduation, he taught Afro-Cuban drumming while continuing his studies in Kung Fu, African dance, and African drumming at the Agape Institute for Movement Studies in Ithaca, New York with Maurice Haltom. He then moved to New York City where he studied with several masters from Guinea, West Africa including master drummer M'Bemba Bangoura and master dancer Yousouff Koumbassa.
- Joel Schreuder
- Robert Conger
Robert Conger Robert Conger is the associate director of bands and associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau , Mo. His responsibilities include directing the Southeast Jazz Program , conducting the Concert Band , teaching applied low brass, conducting and instrumental music education classes.
- Elliot Magaziner
- Royce Lumpkin
Royce Lumpkin Past President (1990-1992) Royce Lumpkin , a native of Kilgore, Texas, has been the chair of the music department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte since 1998. He holds degrees in music education from the University of North Texas and a DMA degree in trombone performance from the University of Oklahoma. Teaching experience prior to joining the faculty at UNC Charlotte includes 27 years at the University of North Texas.
- Amy Vaubel
Amy Vaubel has been the Director of Music at Kirkmont since February, 1992. She directs handbell and vocal choirs, leads the Praise Team, and shares accompanying duties on the organ and piano with Debbie Yanney . She earned her Bachelor of Music degree at Wright State University in 1998 with concentrations in voice and choral conducting.
- Moya Henderson
Moya Henderson 's work as a composer has also led her into the field of instrument design. While in Germany in the mid-seventies she received a commission from the sculptor Helfried Hagenberg to compose music to be played on a sculpture he had created from twenty-seven triangles. The sound she discovered during the course of completing this commission led her to research and eventually develop the alemba, a keyboard percussion instrument.
- Erich Stem
- Linda Barwick
Linda Barwick , BA PhD Flin Associate Professor Linda Barwick is a musicologist and an expert in musical analysis, digital archiving and the traditional music of Indigenous Australia, Italy and the Philippines. Barwick is the foundation director of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures , a state-of-the-art digitisation and archiving facility established by a multi-university consortium at the University of Sydney in 2003.
- Linda B. Duckett
Linda B. Duckett Linda Duckett , Professor of Music, is currently serving as Interim Director of the Office of Affirmative Action at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where she also serves as Co-Chair of the Diversity Commission.
- Craig Purdy
Mr. Purdy has performed as soloist and chamber musician across the U.S. and abroad. His performances include participation in numerous national and international festivals such as Heidelberg Festival (Heidelberg, Germany), the Evian Festival (Evian, France), and Music from Bear Valley(Bear Valley, CA). He is former concertmaster of the Corning Philharmonic, the Winona Symphony, and the Eastman Philharmonia .
- Dustin D. Seifert
Dustin Seifert Dustin D. Seifert, a native of Lancaster, Ohio, is Chair of the Department of Music, Director of Bands and Coordinator of the Division of Wind and Percussion Studies at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU). Mr. Seifert received the BME, summa cum laude, from The University of Akron and the MME with an emphasis in instrumental conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was the recipient of the Guy M. Duker Award.
- Walter Gerboth
Walter Gerboth Award Walter Gerboth Freeman The Gerboth Award was founded in 1984 in honor of Walter Gerboth , librarian, teacher and mentor, a leader in the Music Library Association, and a pathmaker in music librarianship. Walter Gerboth (1925-1984) was Head of the Music Library and Professor in the Department of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
- Richard J. Rulli
Dr. Rulli's dissertation explored the little known world of Hollywood trumpet playing through interviews with eight of the top trumpeters in the business. He is an active recitalist and chamber musician, and in demand for performances and master classes regionally and nationally. Dr. Rulli has studied trumpet with John Aley, Malcolm McNab, Donald Green, Anthony Plog, Kim Dunnick, Frank Campos, William Pfund, and Daniel Kuehn. Questions and comments to music@uark.edu
- Gordon Burnett
Gordon Burnett is in his sixth year as conductor of the University of Waterloo Choir. He maintains a busy musical life. A former member of the Elmer Iseler Singers, Elora Festival Singers and Tefelmusik Chamber Choir, he presently sings with Tactus Vocal Ensemble, a professional octet specializing in Renaissance music. Advanced conducting studies have included work with Elmer Iseler, Jon Washburn, Peter Phillips, and Don Neuen.
- Bruce Streibel
Bruce Streibel Craftsman Bruce Streibel Bruce Streibel came to the University of Lethbridge in August 2006 after leading the service department at a Steinway piano dealership. With piano servicing experience at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal College, Bruce is no stranger to the demanding high-use environment of institutional tuning, regulating, voicing and maintenance.
- Patrick Fortney
Patrick Fortney is director bands at Peru State College, conducting both the Concert and Jazz Bands. Other teaching responsibilities include conducting, applied lessons, instrumental music methods, music appreciation, and world music. In addition to his duties at PSC, Fortney is musical director and conductor of the Lincoln Community Concert Band in residence at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- Robert Bean
Robert Bean is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at IPFW, a position he assumed in July, 2002. He holds the Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music Education degrees from Mississippi State University and Doctor of Arts in Piano Pedagogy from the University of Mississippi where he was a Carnegie Foundation Fellow. Dr. Bean has held positions at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and at the University of Central Arkansas.
- Ronald F. Cole
Ronald F. Cole , Professor Emeritus Dr. Cole has been a member of the Music Faculty at the University of Southern Maine and its predecessor institutions since 1963. He served as Chair of the Department of Music from 1977-1983, 1988-1994, 1996-2001, and as Acting Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1990. Since his retirement as a full-time faculty member in 2001, he has taught several courses on a part-time basis.