Conservatory of Music Faculty

Giulio Maria Ongaro, Dean, 2009, BM, University of Iowa, 1978; MA, Jeffrey Crawford, Lecturer in Music Theory and Technology, 2001. Audio University of North Carolina, 1981; PhD, University of North Carolina, production consultant who directs, records, masters, and produces custom 1986. music CDs; analyzes, enhances, and restores audio; composes and Jennie Blomster, Lecturer in Horn, BM, University of Denver; MA, produces music for theater, film and video; creates multimedia projects; CSU Fresno. Studied with Thomas Hiebert, Richard Seraphinoff, David photographs and produces cover-art, layout inserts and labels for projects; Krehbiel, David Kappy, John Keene, and David Kaslow. Member of the and engineers and produces programs for radio broadcast. Former Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet, Winds of the San Joaquin, and Fresno Engineer and Producer for Fingers Audio Productions and Engineer for Brass Quintet. Principal horn Gold Country Chamber Orchestra, Merced Tonos Electracoustic Music Studio. Symphony Orchestra, Moment Musical Chamber Ensemble. Frequently Thomas Derthick, Lecturer in Double Bass, BM, California State plays with Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra, Stockton Symphony Orchestra, University, Sacramento. Graduate study, California State University, Long Stockton Opera. Beach. Studied with Murray Grodner, Stuart Sankey and Abe Luboff. Ruth V. Brittin, Professor of Music Education, Chair, Department of Music Principal Bass with the Sacramento Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. Education, 1997, PhD, Florida State University, 1989; MME, Texas Tech Daniel Ebbers, Assistant Professor of Voice, 2004, BM, University of University, 1985; BME, Texas Tech University, 1983. Editor. Publishes Wisconsin-Stevens Point; MM, University of Southern California; artist and presents research for the International Society for Music Education, training at Universita per Stranieri, Italy, Utah Festival Opera Young Artist Music Educators National Conference, and state music education Program, Glimmerglass Opera Young American Artists Program, Britten- organizations. Active music education clinician, brass adjudicator, and Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies, resident artist, Los Angeles performer on French horn. Former Chair of Music Education at Syracuse Music Center Opera. University, 1989-1997. Nina Flyer, Lecturer in Cello, 1997, BM, University of Southern California, K. Allen Brown,* Visiting Lecturer of Percussion, 1981, BM, University 1973. Principal cellist, Women’s Philharmonic and Classical Philharmonic. of Oregon, 1969; MM, Western Michigan University, 1972; Doctoral Has performed with San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, study at the University of Illinois. Percussion student of David Shrader, Jerusalem Symphony, Iceland Symphony. Recordings: cello/piano and Robert Tilles and Thomas Siwe. Wide range of experience in all areas of cello/harp suites by Lou Harrison, to be released in 1998; Cello concerto percussion performance. Author of articles in professional journals and by Shulamit Ran with ECO, on KOCH International, 1995 (nominated for 2 composer of several published percussion works. Grammys). Edward Cetto, Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities, James Haffner, Associate Professor of Opera, 1999, BA degree in theatre 1994, MM, Boston Conservatory of Music, 1992; BMus Ed, Hart School of from Baldwin-Wallace College, an Artists’ Diploma in opera stage directing Music (U. of Hartford), 1981; Certificate, Kodaly Musical Training Institute and a Master of Fine Arts in directing from the University of Cincinnati (Hungary), 1980. College-Conservatory of Music. Member of the Lincoln Center Theatre David Chase, Assistant Dean, Instructor in Music Management, 2001, Directors’ Lab National Opera Association, and Opera America. He has BM, Trumpet Performance, University of the Pacific, 1994; MA, 2001. taught at Die Technische Universitat, Berlin, the University of Kentucky, Miami University of Ohio, Webster University and Cal State Fullerton. Robert Coburn, Professor of Music Composition and Theory. Director, Conservatory Computer Studio for Music Composition; Artistic Eric Hammer, Professor of Music, Director of Band Activities, Professor of Director, SoundImageSound; Chair, Department of Music Studies, Music Education, 1993, BM, University of the Pacific, 1973; MM, University 1993, PhD, University of Victoria (Canada), 1995; MA, University of of Oregon, 1990; DMA, University of Oregon, 1994. California, Berkeley, 1974; BM, University of the Pacific, 1972. Selected Keith N. Hatschek, Associate Professor of Music Management; Program Commissions and Performances: San Francisco New Music Ensemble; Director, Music Management Program, 2001, BA, University of California Royal Conservatory of Music (Stockholm, Sweden); Victoria International Berkeley, 1973; Certificate in Marketing, University of California Berkeley, Festival (Victoria, B.C., Canada); Electronic Music Plus Festival ; 1993. Principal and founder of Keith Hatschek & Associates, consultant Roulette Festival of New Music (N.Y.); International Saxophone Festival to the recording technology and entertainment industries. Author, “How Palmela (Portugal). Permanent Sound Environment Installations: 39 Bells to Get a Job in the Music and Recording Industry” (2007) Berklee (Philadelphia), 1996; Bell Circles II (Oregon Convention Center, Oregon Press, “The Golden Moment: Recording Secrets of the Pros”(2005) Public Art Program), 1991. Selected compositions: TranquilTurmoil Backbeat Books, regular contributor to various print and online music Dreaming (2003) for computer and video; In Stillness (2005) for violin, industry journals. Voting member National Academy of Recording Arts computer, and video; Fragile Horizon (2007) for viola, speaking voice. and Sciences, Associate Member-Audio Engineering Society, Faculty computer and video; emptiness [reflection] (2010) for alto saxophone, advisor-NAMM-Affiliated Music Business Institutions member, Music and computer and video. Entertainment Industry Educators Association (MEIEA). Rex Cooper,* Professor of Piano, 1973, BM, Oberlin College David Henderson, Lecturer in Saxophone, 2007, BM, University of Conservatory of Music, 1969; MS, Juilliard School of Music, 1970; MusD, Michigan; MM, The Juilliard School. Awarded first prize in saxophone from Indiana University, 1987; Student of Adele Marcus, Konrad Wolff, Leon the Conservatoire de Bordeaux, where he studied on a Fulbright-ITT grant. Fleisher, Howard Aibel (Accademia Chigiana, Siena), Gyorgy Sebok Student of William Fread, Larry Teal, Donald Sinta, Joe Allard and Jean- and Vlado Perlemuter (Paris). Former member, American Symphony Marie Londeix. Performs with the San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Orchestra; concert tours, Japan; recordings CRI; London debut recital, Ballet orchestras; member of the San Francisco Saxophone Quartet. 1977; New Era International Artists Management. Feilin Hsiao, Assistant Professor of Music Therapy, 2006, PhD, University John Cozza, Visiting Lecturer, Applied Piano and Accompanying, 2004, of Iowa, 2006; MA, New York University, 1994; Certified Music Therapist, BM, MM, University of Southern California, diploma in piano performance 1994; BA, Chinese Cultural University (Taipei, Taiwan), 1986; Board and in chamber music from the Hochschule fur Musik in Vienna, Austria; Certified Music Therapist, 2001; Teaching Credential in Music Education DM in solo performance, chamber music and accompanying from (1996) and Special Education (1999). Lecturer at National Taipei Northwestern University. Studied with Daniel Pollack in Los Angeles, University of Education, Taipei Municipal University of Education, and David Kaiserman in Chicago, and Hans Graf and George Ebert in Vienna. Shih Chien University; Past-president of the Music Therapy Association Member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha, Amercan Liszt Society, and of Taiwan; Recipient of the T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation the Franz Schmidt Society in Austria. Research Fellowship.

University of the Pacific - DRAFT COPY 1 Mathew T. Krejci, Lecturer in Flute, 1989, MM, Indiana University, Currently a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic. Clinician, Selmer 1978; BMEd, Indiana University, 1973. Principal Flutist in the Festival Corporation. Orchestra, 1978-83. Presently performs as a member of the Sacramento Margaret Perry, Lecturer in Class Piano and Piano Pedagogy, 2004, BM, Philharmonic. Performed with Music Now, President of the Board of the MM, Brigham Young University; DMA, University of Arizona. Ensemble Chamber Music Society of Sacramento. Principal Flute of the Bear Valley Artist Pianist with the Utah Symphony and Opera. Member, Music Music Festival, recordings with the VUTAE, Albion, and Klavier labels. Teachers National Association, College Music Society, and Phi Kappa Phi. Nicolasa Kuster, Assistant Professor of Bassoon, 2008, BM and BA, Burr Cochran Phillips, Assistant Professor of Voice, 2007, BM, Oberlin College and Conservatory, 1993. Former Principal Bassoonist University of North Texas 1982; MM, Texas Christian University, Fort of the Wichita Symphony Orchestra and bassoonist with the Lieurance Worth, TX, 1994. Performances with opera companies include Dallas Woodwind Quintet. Positions in the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra, Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Chautauqua Opera, Tulsa the Rhode Island Philharmonic, the Virginia Symphony, and the Civic Opera, Fort Worth Opera and San Antonio Opera Theater. Orchestral Orchestra of Chicago, and has performed as a soloist in the U.S., performances include Dallas Symphony, Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra, Panama, Italy, and Kazakhstan. Guest artist at the Anchorage Music Tulsa Philharmonic, Chautauqua Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, Festival, Ameropa Chamber Music Festival and Solo Course in Prague, Phoenix Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, Ars Nova Orchestra of Buffalo, Czech Republic; recordings on the Chandos label with the Spoleto Festival Carmel Bach Festival, Oklahoma Philharmonic, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra. and Corpus Christi Symphony. Previous faculty positions include The Patrick Langham, Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington TX, Southern Methodist 2003. Holds both the Bachelor of Music with a concentration in jazz University, Dallas TX and Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ. studies and the Master of Music with a concentration in jazz studies from Member of The National Association of Teachers of Singing and Phi Mu the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has taught at the University Alpha Sinfonia. of South Carolina – Spartanburg and Tusculum College in Knoxville. François Rose, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory, 1997, As a saxophonist and director Professor Langham has performed with BM, McGill University, 1986; MM, 1991; Certificate from the Institut de distinguished jazz artists and on numerous jazz festivals throughout the Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique et Musique (IRCAM), 1991; southern United States. He has developed and taught courses in jazz PhD, University of California San Diego, 1997. Award winner in the 5th history, theory, improvisation, and performance, and has created and Edvard Grieg International Competition for Composers in Norway, 2001; operated a highly successful jazz camp at USC Spartanburg. in the 3rd International Composers’ Competition “Kazimieri Serocki” in Brook Moes, Lecturer in Music Education, 2005, BM, University of the Poland, 1990; and in the SDE/PRO Canada Composers’ Competition in Pacific; MM, University of Maryland; MBA, Herriot-Watt University in 1986, 1987 and 1988. Selected Commissions and Performances: San Scotland. Student of James Stern, Ronda Cole, Arnold Steinhardt, John Francisco NME (San Francisco, Windsor) 2006; Sax quartet Quasar Dalley, and William Preucil; pedagogy studies with Ronda Cole and John (Montréal) 2005; Trio Strata (Interlochen) 2004. Selected presentations: Kendall, chamber music studies with the Guarneri Quartet. Recitals in “Computerized Orchestration Tool:LabOrch” (Paris, Warsaw, Krakow, San Scandinavia, Romania, and the U. S. Sebastian, Santa Cruz) 2007. Sonia Leong, Lecturer in Piano, 2001, BM, University of British Patricia Shands,*1995, Professor of Clarinet, Director of Chamber Music, Columbia, 1992; MM, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1994; Concert 1995, DMA, Rice University, 2001; MM, University of Southern California, Recital Diploma, Guildhall School of Music, 1995; DMus, University of 1985; BM Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1981. Student of David Montreal, 1998. Member of New Pacific Trio. Concerto performances Shifrin, Mitchel Lurie, and David Peck. Prizewinner in the International with Filarmonica de Stat Dinu Lipatti (Romania) and Banff Festival Concert Artist Guild competition. Featured at music festivals of Spoleto, Chamber Orchestra (Canada). Performances in Canada, the US, England, Chautauqua, Round Top, Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival and Romania, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Former faculty member of the frequent live performances nationally on NPR “Performance Today”. University of Puget Sound. Recordings featured on “Art of the States” are broadcast internationally. Ann Miller, Assistant Professor of Violin, 2008, BM summa cum laude, Solo and chamber music recordings on Centaur, Onossa, Albany and Rice University, 2003; MM, The Juilliard School, 2005; DMA, The Julliard Plum labels. Current member of the Ariel Ensemble, Stockton Symphony, School, 2010.. Student of Ronald Copes and Kathleen Winkler. Chamber Sacramento Philharmonic, and the Pacific Arts Woodwind Quintet. appearances in Ukraine, Mongolia, and throughout the U.S. Member of the Matthew J. Tropman, Lecturer of Tuba/Euphonium, 2010, DMA, New Pacific Trio. University of Michigan, 2009; MM, Arizona State University, 2007; BM, Thomas F. Nugent, Lecturer in Oboe, 1990, BM, San Francisco University of Michigan, 1995. Conservatory of Music, 1984. Student of Marc Lifschey. Attended Igor Veligan, Lecturer of Violin/Viola and Chamber Music, 2006, MA, Tanglewood, Spoleto and Colorado Philharmonic Music Festivals. Has Odessa State Conservatory. Student of Zoja Istomina and Galina performed with San Francisco Symphony, Opera and Ballet Orchestras. Gritzenko, chamber music studies with Oleg Shkarpitnuy and Natalya Also performs with the Sacramento Philharmonic, Stockton Symphony, Buzanova; master classes with Zakhar Bron, Liana Isakadze, and Igor California Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Sierra Frolov. Performances with the L’Estro Armonico String Quartet, the Arlekin Chamber Society and Sonus Imaginorem. Member, Pacific Arts Woodwind String Quartet, Argenta Trio, Chamber Music Society of Sacramento; Quintet. concertmaster of the San Francisco Choral Society Orchestra, principal Leonard Ott, Lecturer in Trumpet, 1998, BA in Music, California State viola of the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, principal violist of the Lake University, Hayward, 1987. Member of Oakland East Bay Symphony, Tahoe Summer Festival, member of the Monterey Symphony. Modesto Symphony Orchestra, and Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra. Nicholas Waldvogel, Associate Professor of Orchestra; Director - Also freelances regularly with Santa Rosa Symphony, Napa Symphony, University Symphony Orchestra, BA in Music, Harvard, 1989; MA, in Stockton Symphony, Sacramento Symphony, and many other Bay Area Music, Harvard, 1989; MM, in Conducting, Peabody Conservatory of groups. Music, 1993; Graduate Performance Diploma in Conducting, Peabody Stephen Perdicaris, Lecturer in Trombone,Director, Pacific Music Camp, Conservatory, 1994; PhD, in Music History, Yale University, 1992. Director, Brubeck Institute Jazz Camp, Operations Manager, Conservatory Formerly with the Orchestre de la Suisse-Romande (Switzerland), and the of Music, 1993, BM, University of North Texas, 1981; Associate with State Philharmonic “Dinu Lipatti” (Romania). Honors, Royal College of Music, London, 1990. Numerous recordings with Sarah Clemmens Waltz, Assistant Professor of Music History; Program Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony (England) on EMI. Director of Music History and the BA in Music, PhD, in Music History, MPhil, Yale University, 2007; BM in Music History with High Honors,

2 Conservatory of Music Faculty Oberlin Conservatory, 2000; BA in Physics, Oberlin College, 2000. Recent works: PhD, diss., The Highland Muse in Romantic German Music, 2007; “In Defense of Moonlight,” Beethoven Forum (Spring 2007). Presentations at national and international conferences. Member: American Musicological Society, American Beethoven Society, North American British Music Studies Association, Society for Eighteenth-Centry Music. Frank H. Wiens,* Professor of Piano, 1976, BM, University of Michigan, 1970; MM, 1970; Student of Benning Dexter, Gyorgy Sandor, Harald Logan and John Perry. New York recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1984 and 1991; London recital at Purcell Room, 1986; soloist with Atlanta, Denver and Detroit Symphonies and Yaroslavl Philharmonic in Soviet Union; concert tours in Asia and Europe, and annually in the United States; compact disc recording of Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto with Slovakia National Orchestra released in 1995 on Fanfare-Intersound label. Eberhardt Teacher-Scholar Award, Faculty Research-Lecturer Award, Distinguished Faculty Award. Lynelle Frankforter Wiens, Professor of Voice, 1978, BM, University of Nebraska, 1975 (Phi Beta Kappa); MM, with Distinction, Indiana University, 1978; MusD with High Distinction, Indiana University, 1988. Student of Eileen Farrell, Margaret Harshaw, Lynn Wickham. MTNA National Winner, 1971; Van Lawrence Fellow (awarded by National NATS and the Voice Foundation), 1993. Served as a faculty member at the Symposium on the Care of the Professional Voice (Philadelphia) and the Pacific Voice Conference (San Francisco.) Eric Wood, Lecturer in Music Composition and Theory, 1998, DMA, Boston University, 1994; MM, University of Oregon, 1986; BM, 1984. Numerous commissions and performances, several published articles and lectures. Studied with Lukas Foss, Monte Tubb, Charles Fussell and Derek Healey. *Members of Resident Artist Series

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