31st Annual CMS Great Lakes Regional Conference Friday, March 22nd- Saturday, March 23rd, 2013 PRESENTER AND COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES Arthur, Claire Claire Arthur is a PhD student in music theory/cognition and works in the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at the Ohio State University. Bomgardner, Stephen D. Stephen Bomgardner is Associate Professor of Music at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri. His musical career combines full-time teaching with an active performing career as a tenor soloist in recitals, opera and oratorio. He has performed over 120 solo and chamber music recitals in Boston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Kansas City, New Orleans, Houston, and numerous other cities across the United States. Additionally, he has been invited to give 22 lecture recitals on various topics at the Texas Music Educators Association, Kansas Music Educators Association, and College Music Society regional and national conferences. His professional operatic repertoire includes 27 character tenor roles and recent performances include Spoletta (Tosca), Goro (Madama Butterfly), King Kaspar (Amahl and the Night Visitors), and the Counselor (Trial by Jury) with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and the Springfield Opera. At Drury University, he teaches voice lessons, voice-related courses, and music history. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts from Boston University’s School of Music, the Master of Music from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and the Bachelor of Music from Fort Hays State University. Boyd, Kathleen E. Dr. Kate Boyd has performed as a soloist on many concert series, as a concerto soloist, and as a guest artist with established chamber music ensembles throughout the United States and beyond. Kate Boyd is a 2009 recipient of the Arts Council of Indianapolis’ Creative Arts Renewal Fellowship, an award from the Lilly Foundation for artists of all disciplines. Her solo CD, Music for the End of Winter, was released on the Ravello label in 2010. Previous awards incude a Fulbright scholarship to Cologne, Germany. Kate Boyd holds degrees from Stony Brook University, Oberlin Conservatory, and the Hannover (Germany) Academy of Music. Her major teachers were Gilbert Kalish, Arbo Valdma, and Arie Vardi. In the summers she is on the faculty of Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan. Dr. Boyd currently serves as Associate Professor of Piano and Piano Area Coordinator at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. Brown, Eliza Composer Eliza Brown (b. 1985) writes music that explores the interaction between natural acoustic properties of sound, the physical construction of instruments, and culturally defined elements of musical meaning and syntax. Eliza’s music, described as “delicate, haunting, [and] introspective” by Symphony Magazine, has been performed and/or commissioned by Ensemble Dal Niente, Network for New Music, Spektral Quartet, Wet Ink Ensemble, members of the PRISM and Anubis saxophone quartets, and others. Eliza’s recent projects include Barely III, a solo piano piece written for Mabel Kwan, and Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (after Mahler) for soprano, cello and fixed media, which was commissioned by Network for New Music and awarded a Metlife Creative Connections grant from New Music USA. Upcoming collaborations include a solo guitar work for Jesse Langen and a chamber opera scene for the clarinet and soprano duo Noise-Bridge. As a winner of Center City Opera Theater’s 2012 Art Song Competition, Eliza will collaborate with the opera company as part of their creative development program. A native of Philadelphia, Eliza is currently a doctoral student at Northwestern University. She received her bachelor’s degree in composition summa cum laude from the University of Michigan, where she also studied cello and viola da gamba performance. Committed to teaching at both the university and pre-college levels, Eliza is a lecturer at Northwestern and has served on the faculty of the Walden School Young Musicians Program. Burt, Patricia A. Patricia Burt is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University where she teaches music theory and piano. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University, a B.M. and M.M. in Piano Performance from Towson University, and a Ph.D. in Music Theory from University of Maryland. Under the direction of the composer and theorist Dr. Thomas DeLio, she completed her dissertation entitled, “Registral Space as a Compositional Element: A New Analytic Method Applied to the Works of Ligeti, Josquin, and Beethoven.” In it, she outlines a new method that she has developed for the analysis of register and employs this method in a detailed examination of stylistically diverse compositions. She has presented her research on registral space at a meeting of the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic and has guest lectured at colleges and universities along the east coast. Chen, Wen-Mi Dr. Wen-Mi Chen is currently pursuing Music Theory Ph.D. at the College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), University of Cincinnati, where she teaches music theory and musicianship classes; and serves as a member of program committee and paper reader in CCM Music Theory & Musicology Society. She recently completed her DMA in Clarinet Performance from CCM, and received her B.M. and M.M. degrees in Clarinet Performance and Music Theory Pedagogy from the Peabody Conservatory of Music of The Johns Hopkins University, where she also taught Undergraduate Music Theory. In addition, Dr. Chen studies music history with the emphasis on Renaissance period as her secondary area. Furthermore, Dr. Chen has several years of teaching experiences in private environment. Dr. Chen has won several national competitions and attended domestic/international conferences. She has performed clarinet with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and Landon Symphonette, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Chen also featured in Challenging Performance of Cincinnati Concert Series. This summer Dr. Chen presented her research An Innovative Approach to the Sonata Form in Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concertos in the International Clarinet Association conference Research Competition final round at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Coberly, Rebecca Rebecca Coberly is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at the University of Texas – Pan American. She has performed recently with the Valley Symphony Orchestra as soprano soloist in Carmina Burana and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Other solo engagements include Rutter’s Requiem, Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace, Mozart’s Requiem, J. S. Bach’s Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen, and Saint-Saëns’ Oratorio de Noël and a performance with the Texas Tech Chamber Orchestra as winner of the Orchestra Soloist Competition. Recent stage performances include Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Baby Doe in The Ballad of Baby Doe, Mrs. Darling in Peter Pan (Bernstein), Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, and Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi. A versatile performer of concert and operatic repertoire, she has performed as a recitalist in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, and internationally as a participant in the Barcelona Festival of Song and with the Texas Tech Performance Practicum in Vocal Music in Germany. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Vocal Performance from Texas Tech University, and also holds a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University and a Master of Music from Rice University. Condit-Schultz, Nathaniel Nathaniel Condit-Schultz is a PHD candidate in the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Lab at the Ohio State University. He recieved his M.A. in music composition from the University of California at Santa Cruz. Cryderman-Weber, Molly Molly Cryderman-Weber teaches music history, world music, and percussion classes at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in music from Central Michigan University and her Master of Arts degree in musicology from Michigan State University, and is currently working on her dissertation for a Doctorate of Philosophy degree in musicology from the University of Illinois. Molly is a percussionist and enjoys performing with a variety of ensembles in the Mid-Michigan area and composing and arranging works for the steel drum ensemble at Lansing Community College. Molly’s research interests include percussion ensemble literature, pedagogy of musicology, and amateur music-making in the United States. D’Ambrosio, Michael Dr. Mike D’Ambrosio has been Assistant Professor of Theory and Composition at Murray State University in Kentucky since fall 2008. He has held previous teaching positions at Jacksonville State University (AL), Oklahoma State University, University of Dayton, and Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He received his D.M.A. and M.M. degrees in music composition from CCM where he studied with Joel Hoffman and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (now at Eastman). Originally from Long Island, New York, Mike did his undergraduate work at Lehigh University where he double-majored in music and accounting. Mike’s music has been performed by the Philadelphia Brass, Monarch Brass, Shepherd School Brass Choir (Rice University), Cincinnati Camerata, Indiana University Brass Choir, Oklahoma State University Concert Chorale, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) Symphony Band, CCM Brass Choir, University of South Carolina Concert Choir, Louisiana State University Schola Cantorum, and by soloists and chamber musicians throughout the United