2013 MID-ATLANTIC ELECTION (Terms Commencing Spring 2014)
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2013 MID-ATLANTIC ELECTION (Terms commencing Spring 2014) PRESIDENT ELECT Omri Shimron Omri Shimron is an associate professor of music at Elon University, teaching music theory, group and applied piano. Dr. Shimron received his B.A. in music from the University of Rochester (magna cum lauda, Phi Beta Kappa), an MM (piano) and M.A. in Music Theory Pedagogy from the Eastman School. He holds a D.M.A in piano performance, also from Eastman. Dr. Shimron first became active with CMS as a doctoral student when he won the Best Student Paper Award in 2004 for his presentation on Chen Yi’s Ba Ban. Since then he has given many lecture-recitals for CMS, focusing on works by Stravinsky, Crumb, Larsen and others, from the perspective of performance/analysis. In 2010 he chaired a panel on “Music and the Liberal Arts” at CMS National in Minneapolis. An active pianist and pedagogue, Shimron continually presents collaborative and solo recitals. An avid promoter of new music, he performed and recorded several works by living composers. His debut CD, featuring Rzewski’s 36 Variations on “The People United” will be released in 2014. As faculty member at Elon, Dr. Shimron is widely immersed in interdisciplinary initiatives and undergraduate research mentorship (one of his students presented at CMS Mid-Atlantic in 2012). In 2009-10, Shimron was selected to join the Elon Teaching-Learning Partnership , a collaboration between high-school and collegiate faculty on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). He has also served as a reader for the AP Music Theory exam and is currently investigating “inverted classroom” methodologies in the core theory curriculum. Christopher Swanson Dr. Christopher Swanson is associate professor music at Longwood University, where he has been on the faculty since 2003. He teaches applied voice, diction for singers and directs the opera workshop. As opera workshop director, he has lead recent productions of Dido and Aeneas, L’Orfeo and The Three Penny Opera. Dr. Swanson has been very active with The College Music Society during the last ten years. He has presented at several conferences and serves on the CMS student advisory committee. He received degrees in voice performance from Michigan State University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his doctorate from Florida State University. Dr. Swanson is the artistic director of the Summer Garden Opera, in his now hometown, Farmville VA. Christopher is a lyric tenor and performs frequently around the country. His performing repertoire is broad but he specializes in early music and the songs of Benjamin Britten. SECRETARY/TREASURER Brian Arreola Brian Arreola has been described as a “robust Italian tenor” by the Washington Post, and his singing was called “fiery” by the St. Paul Pioneer Press. In 2013 he created the role of Luis Rodrigo Griffith in Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s world-premiere of Terrance Blanchard’s Champion, receiving accolades from Opera Today, which praised his “well-schooled tenor and his impassioned way with several high-flying phrases,” Opera News, which said that, “as Luis, the older Griffith's adopted son and caretaker, Brian Arreola was tenderness personified,” the Chicago Tribune, and Dallas News. He has been featured with The Minnesota Opera, Opera Carolina, American Opera Theater, Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Ente Concerti (Sardinia, Italy), among others. He sang the title role in Songs of the Fisherman and Pinkerton in Butterfly on the 2013 Grachtenfestival (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Arreola is an Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera Workshop at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His voice students have been division winners in the NC-NATS auditions and Mid- Atlantic-NATS auditions, as well as semi-finalists and finalists in the Heafner-Williams vocal competition. Recent UNC Charlotte Opera Workshop/Chamber Orchestra productions conducted and directed by Dr. Arreola include Gianni Schicchi/Suor Angelica, The Pirates of Penzance, and The Magic Flute. Kim Wangler Kim L. Wangler, M.M, M.B.A joined the faculty of Appalachian State University in 2005 as the Director of the Music Industry Studies Program. Ms. Wangler teaches music management, marketing and entrepreneurship. She has served in the industry as President of the Board of Directors for the Orchestra of Northern New York, House Manager for the Community Performance Series (serving audiences of over 1,000 people) and as CEO of Bel Canto Reeds – a successful on-line venture. Ms. Wangler currently serves as an independent consultant for entrepreneurial musicians and serves as Vice President for the Cultural Resources Board for the town of Boone, NC and boards of the Harper School of the Performing Arts in Lenoir, North Carolina, CMS Mid-Atlantic Chapter and the Music and Entertainment Industry national board of directors. Ms. Wangler is published through Hal Leonard, Sage Publishing, and the MEIEA and NACWPI journals. Patti Edwards Dr. Patti Yvonne Edwards, associate professor of music at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, teaches Applied Voice, Vocal Literature, and Diction. Dr. Edwards holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Mars Hill College, Masters degree in Vocal Performance and a Graduate Diploma in Vocal Chamber Music from Saint Louis Conservatory, and the DMA from the University of North Texas. As an apprentice with Opera/Omaha she sang numerous opera and musical theater performances throughout the Midwest. She has concertized across the United States and has been invited to the Czech Republic on four separate occasions to perform recitals of American music and teach master classes at the Janacek Conservatory. She spent two years with the new music ensemble, Synchronia and has appeared on the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Series, the Concordia Arts Series, and the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. She has appeared with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony, the Long Bay Symphony, the Brevard and Transylvania Symphonies. Dr. Edwards has performed roles with the Charleston Opera Company, Opera Theater St. Louis, Opera Unlimited, Opera/Omaha, The Texas Gilbert and Sullivan Company and at the Brevard and Batiquitos Festivals. Before joining the music faculty at Coastal Carolina University, Dr. Edwards taught at Bemidji State University, Charleston Southern University, the College of Charleston, Ouachita Baptist University, and was a doctoral teaching fellow at the University of North Texas. COMPOSITION CHAIR Thomas Dempster Thomas Dempster is a composer of chamber music, electroacoustic, and intermedia works, as well as an educator. His music has been performed at various new music festivals (UNCG, University of Nebraska at Kearney, University of Alabama in Huntsville, University of Kentucky, Indiana State University, GEMDays [UK], #9 Art [Brazil], Electric LaTex, University of Texas-EARS Series, Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic JukeJoint and Barn Dance, NYCEMF, Studio 300) and conferences (ICMC, SEAMUS, SCI, CMS). He is a recipient of honors and citations from BMI, ASCAP, Sigma Alpha Iota, Ithaca College, and the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art. He has received commissions from the Greenbrook Ensemble, the Blue Mountain Ensemble, the Governor’s School of North Carolina, and others. He has given lectures on musical aesthetics, intellectual property issues, and musical analysis at CMS, NYCEMF, and SCMEA conferences. He is currently a staff writer for Jasper Magazine (Columbia, SC), and a CD reviewer for the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States. Several of his works are available from Potenza Music Publishing. He studied at the University of Texas (MM, DMA) with Kevin Puts, Dan Welcher, and Russell Pinkston, and at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BM) with Eddie Bass and Craig Walsh. He is Assistant Professor of Music at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC, where he teaches music technology, composition, and business courses. He directs the BulldogBytes Concert Series at SC State, a series of four concerts of experimental and digital music each year. [www.thomasdempster.com] John Leupold John Leupold received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the University of Maryland, College Park. He holds two Master of Music degrees from Appalachian State University in Music Theory/Composition and Percussion Performance. As a composer, his music explores a blend of modern “classical” music, popular music, and world music with rhythm at its core. His compositions have been performed at various venues and conferences throughout the U.S. As an educator, Leupold has taught music theory and composition at various institutions throughout the mid-Atlantic region. These include St. Mary’s College of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park, Towson University, and Anne Arundel Community College. He currently teaches music theory, composition, and directs the steel band (Steel Revolution) at Washington College in Chestertown, MD. Leupold’s most recent publication is as a partner in Exposition Music, an online music theory assessment tool used in Music Fundamentals textbooks by Pearson Publishing. Leupold is also an avid performer. As a percussionist, he has performed throughout the U.S. as a soloist and as an ensemble member. He currently performs with the Londontowne Symphony Orchestra and the Anne Arundel Community College Orchestra. He has studied steel pan performance in Trinidad and Tobago and tabla performance with Pandit Sharda Sahai in London, England. MUSIC THEORY REPRESENTATIVE Tomoko Deguchi Tomoko Deguchi, a native of Kobe, Japan, is an associate professor of music theory at Winthrop University. She holds a Ph.D. in music theory from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her research interests include the music of Toru Takemitsu and other Japanese composers, musical narrative, film music, musical form in the 20th-century music, and intersections between music theory and culture and aesthetics. Her articles appear in the Journal of Film Music and Indiana Theory Review, and she has contributed two chapters in a Japanese publication on the current trends in music theory in the U.S.