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, , Seattle, Minneapolis, Kansas City, New Orleans, Houston, and numerous other cities across the . 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 , .

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 States. His Wind on the Island won both the 2009 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition and 2007 University of South Carolina Choral Composition Contest and was performed in June 2008 at the Cultural Prelude to the Olympics at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. Its predecessor In You The Earth, also a Pablo Neruda setting, won the 2006 Arant Choral Composition Prize (University of Georgia) and has received several performances in the United States and Italy. Mike has also received ASCAPLUS Awards for the past six years and has music published with Dorn Publications and Triplo Press.

Dempster, Thomas J. Thomas Dempster’s music has been praised for its rhythmic vitality, bold orchestration, and unique harmonic language. At home in both the acoustic and electronic realms, he has received, among other honors, a BMI Student Composer Award, and his work has been performed throughout the world. His music has been featured at numerous SEAMUS National Conferences, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Music Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, the University of Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, the University of Texas EARS Series, multiple conferences of the College Music Society, the University of Kentucky New Music Festival, the Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival, the University of Alabama in Huntsville New Music Festival, GEMDays (Huddersfield, UK), the Ninth International Congress on Art and Technology (Brasilia, Brazil), and many other venues. He has been commissioned by many soloists and chamber ensembles, including the Blue Mountain Ensemble and the Governor’s School of North Carolina Wind Ensemble. He has worked extensively with visual artists and choreographers and continues to cross disciplinary lines. Dempster currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music teaching in the areas of music industry, music technology, and music composition at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC. He holds degrees from University of North Carolina at Greensboro (BM) and the University of Texas at Austin (MM, DMA).

Dias, Evelyn Evelyn Dias started playing the piano at the age of six. A native of Bombay, she has performed in the U.S., France, the Czech Republic and in India at the National Center for the Performing Arts, British Council Division, Max Mueller Bhavan, Kala Academy, Alliance Française’s Theosophy Hall and on All India Radio.

After acquiring a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from Bombay University, Evelyn obtained a Masters degree in Piano Performance at The University of Iowa under the tutelage of Dr. Ksenia Nosikova. She is currently a Doctoral candidate in Piano Performance at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music with Dr. Sylvia Wang. She has performed in master classes with Vladimir Feltsman, Leon Fleisher and Richard Goode among others.

Evelyn has taught at the Bienen School as well as at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, MI. She is currently on the piano faculty at Chicago’s Merit School of Music and serves as accompanist to the Evanston Children’s choir.

DuHamel, Ann Praised for her “…profound and mystical” playing as well as her enthusiastic teaching, pianist Ann DuHamel serves as Head of Keyboard Studies at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she coordinates and teaches solo, collaborative, and group piano, as well as piano pedagogy. She is completing a DMA in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Iowa, under the tutelage of Dr. Ksenia Nosikova. Prior to her time at UI, she was Assistant Director of the Central MN Music School; Ann has also served on faculty at the College of St Benedict/St John’s University in Collegeville, MN; the Preucil School of Music in Iowa City; and the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania. Ann has been fortunate enough to coach with such esteemed pianists as Vladimir Feltsman, John Wustman and Frederic Chiu. Past performances include venues in Bulgaria and Italy as well as across the U.S., including appearances at Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in New York and the San Francisco Festival of Contemporary Music. A champion of new music, Ann is founding pianist of ensemble: Périphérie, which recently received an invitation to join the artist roster of Distinguished Concerts International New York. She is currently at work on her dissertation on the Nocturnes of American composer Lowell Liebermann, for which she received a fellowship from the University of Iowa; she has also been awarded a University of Minnesota Imagine Fund grant to record these pieces in 2013.

Field, Tana R. Tana Field Biography An active performer, mezzo-soprano Tana Field has appeared as a featured soloist with the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Baroque Ensemble, the Lebanon Symphony and Chorus, Musica Sacra of Cincinnati, the Northern Kentucky Community Chorus, the Wright State University Choruses, and the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca, Italy.

Ms. Field’s operatic roles include: The Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw, Anna Maurrant in Street Scene, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Nancy in A Hand of Bridge, La Ciesca in Gianni Schicchi, La Badessa and Suor Zelatrice in Suor Angelica, and Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music. She also created the roles of Rosa Stein in Cathy Lesser-Mansfield’s The Sparks Fly Upward and Bluma Gebirtig in Joel Hoffman’s The Memory Game.

She has received many honors including the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation’s Brena Hazzard and Sarah Eikenberry Voice awards. She was a semi-finalist in the National Orpheus Vocal Competition and a two-time finalist in the Regional Artists Competition of the Milwaukee Bel Canto Chorus. In 2011, Ms. Field was one of 12 voice teachers chosen for the prestigious National Association of Teachers of Singing Intern Program.

Ms. Field earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in music summa cum laude from Luther College and a Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts in voice performance from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Voice at Murray State University.

Matthew Gianforte Biography Recognized for his sensitivity and panache, pianist Matthew Gianforte enjoys an active career as a soloist, collaborator, and teacher, having performed across the United States and abroad. Highlights of past seasons include successful debut appearances at Weill Recital Hall (New York), Sarada and Philia Halls in Japan, as well as appearances at several universities across the United States to honor the bicentennial birthdays of Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt. Recent world-premiere performances include composer Brian Ciach’s prize-winning Piano Sonata No. 2 at the American Liszt Society Bicentennial Festival, as well as a new Trio by David DeBoor Canfield, with saxophonist Thomas Liley and violinist Michèle Lekas. Dr. Gianforte is a graduate of the Catholic University of America and Indiana University, where he worked with Marilyn Neeley and Karen Shaw. A dedicated teacher of all ages and levels, Dr. Gianforte currently serves as the coordinator of the keyboard division at Murray State University in Kentucky. In addition to his collegiate teaching, Dr. Gianforte works each summer with talented pre-college pianists at the Indiana University Piano Academy, and he regularly presents master classes and serves as an adjudicator in competitions.

Goodman, Kimberlee From the West is comprised of Dr. Kimberlee Goodman, flute and Dr. Charles W. Lynch III, harp. The duo met while they were undergraduate music students at Arizona State University. From the West has performed at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio, Valparaiso University, in Valparaiso, Indiana, St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana and Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois. From the West was chosen to present a recital featuring 20th century music for flute and harp at the 2011 National Flute Association convention in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dr. Kimberlee Goodman holds degrees from Arizona State University (BM) and The Ohio State University (MM, DMA). She has been on the faculty at Otterbein University since 2005 where she has had the fortunate opportunity to teach all things flute and courses ranging from world music to music theory to music appreciation. Recent performances have taken Dr. Goodman to Seoul, Korea, Bangkok, Thailand, Morgantown, West Virginia, Anaheim, California, Charlotte, North Carolina, South Bend, Indiana, and Tempe, Arizona.

Dr. Charles W. Lynch, III holds degrees from Arizona State University (BME, BM) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (MM, DMA). He is on the faculty of Olivet Nazarene, St. Mary’s College and Valparaiso Universities. He is a founding member of the harp quartet HarpCore4 and the flute and harp duo From the West. Dr. Lynch currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.

Gross, Murray An award-winning composer and conductor, Murray Gross studied at Michigan State University, the New England Conservatory, Oberlin Conservatory, and the Hochschule für Musik in . Chosen by Antal Dorati to serve as Assistant Conductor of the Detroit Symphony, Gross was also Music Director of Michigan’s West Shore Symphony from 1982 through 2001. As a frequent guest conductor throughout Europe, South America, and the United States, he worked with soloists such as Jessye Norman, Joshua Bell, Paula Robison, Carter Brey, Misha Dichter and many others.

Compositions by Murray Gross have been heard in venues around the world played by numerous professional and collegiate ensembles including the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the New York New Music Ensemble, the Nobilis Trio, the Peninsula Festival Orchestra, and the Wisconsin Winds. His music has been broadcast over National Public Radio and received many honors including a Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) Award. Urban Myth, recorded by the North Texas Wind Symphony on the GIA Windworks series, is featured in volume 8 of “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.” Other cd releases include Irrational Exuberance for sax and piano, a 2012 recording of The Wild, Wild West by the h2 Sax Quartet, and a forthcoming release of chamber music on the Blue Griffin label. Currently Assistant Professor of Music at Alma College, Dr. Gross conducts the Alma Symphony and teaches composition, theory, and world music.

Hartley, Linda A. Linda A. Hartley is Professor of Music at the University of Dayton where she serves as Program Director for Undergraduate and Graduate Music Education. She teaches a variety of music education courses, supervises student teachers, and advises music education students. Dr. Hartley was the recipient of the University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award, and the University of Dayton Outstanding Teacher Award. Tau Beta Sigma, National Honorary Band Service Sorority, presented Dr. Hartley with the 2008 Outstanding Service to Music Award.

Receiving her music education degrees from Bowling Green State University and Kent State University, Dr. Hartley instructed grades 5-12 instrumental music in Ohio schools, and taught at Mount Union College and Virginia Tech. Dr. Hartley is the founder and director of the UD New Horizons Bands, where music education majors also serve as instructors. Her scholarly contributions have been published in Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Contributions to Music Education, Journal of Band Research, The Instrumentalist, and several state music education journals. Presentations have included MENC regional and national conferences, World Association of Symphonic Band Ensembles, International Society of Music Education, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Society of Music Teacher Educators, National Association of Schools of Music, Instrumental Music Teacher Educators, and state MEAs. Dr. Hartley also maintains an active clinician and adjudication schedule with a focus on instrumental music ensembles.

Huang, Mei-Hsuan Mei-Hsuan Huang is an Assistant Professor of Music at Iowa State University and a member of the Ames Piano Quartet. The Ames Piano Quartet is managed nationwide by Joanne Rile Artists Management. Dr. Huang received her masters degree at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Sergei Babayan, Margarita Shevchenko, and Paul Schenly. At the Cleveland Institute of Music she was awarded the Sadie Zellen Piano Prize, which recognizes outstanding musical development by a piano major.

Dr. Huang received her doctorate of musical arts degree at Ohio State University under Dr. Caroline Hong, where she was the only pianist to be awarded a fellowship. While at Ohio State University, she was also appointed Graduate Teaching and Accompanying Assistant. In 2010, Dr. Huang was awarded the Graduate Associate Teaching Award at Ohio State University, the University’s highest recognition of exceptional teaching. In 2008, she was also awarded first prize in the Ohio State University Concerto Competition where she performed the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Ohio State University Orchestra.

Dr. Huang regularly performs over forty solo and chamber recitals every year in the states, and Taiwan. She has been invited to numerous summer festivals including the 2006 Aspen Music Festival, the 2007 Pianofest in the East Hamptons, the 2008 Orford Music Festival, Quebec, the 2012 Banff Music Festival, Alberta, and the 2012 CICA Eureka Springs International Music Festival in Arkansas. Recently Dr. Huang gave a piano recital in Taiwan, as a result of being nominated for the prize of “Excellent Pianist” by the Forum Music Association.

Hund, Jennifer L. Jennifer L. Hund, Assistant Professor of Music at Purdue University, earned her BM in Piano Performance and Pedagogy at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, her MM in Musicology from Florida State University, and her PhD in Musicology at Indiana University- Bloomington, with her dissertation “The Proposta e Risposta Madrigal, Dialogue, Cultural Discourse, and the Issue of Imitatio” (2007). Jennifer has presented her research at conferences of the American Musicological Society, Renaissance Society of America, and the College Music Society, and she is actively creating educational materials for teaching music to the general student. Her most recent publications include Study and Listening Guide for A History of Western Music and Norton Anthology and Western Music (W. W. Norton, 2009), Study Guide for A Concise History of Western Music (W. W. Norton, 2010), and “Writing about Music in Large Music Appreciation Classrooms Using Active Learning, Discipline-Specific Skills, and Peer Review,” Journal of Music History Pedagogy 2, no. 2 (2012): 117–132.

Hunter-Holly, Daniel Dr. Daniel Hunter-Holly, baritone, serves as the Director of Vocal Studies at the University of Texas at Brownsville. An active recitalist, Dr. Hunter-Holly specializes in American art song and French mélodie. His research interests include the intersection of music theory and performance practice, and applying historical vocal pedagogy techniques in the modern day studio.

Dr. Hunter-Holly has participated twice in Songfest, working with Martin Katz, Graham Johnson, Alan Smith, and composer John Harbison. Recently, he was part of the Advanced Artist Program at OperaWorks, a holistic, performance-training program that focuses on movement and improvisation.

Dr. Hunter-Holly currently teaches applied voice, vocal pedagogy, and vocal literature, and as a member of the graduate music faculty, he also teaches all graduate-level vocal studies and vocal literature courses at UTB. He holds a D.M.A. in Vocal Performance from The Ohio State University, an M.M. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a B.M. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Huron, David David Huron is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor in the School of Music at the Ohio State University.

Johnson, Randolph B. Randolph Johnson currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Low Brass at Oklahoma Baptist University. He holds an undergraduate degree in music performance from Indiana University and graduate degrees in music theory from Ohio State University, where he studied under David Huron. Dr. Johnson has used techniques from the fields of music cognition and music theory to study tempo in performance practice; mental practice techniques; nineteenth-century orchestration; facial expression and singing; and factors influencing the intelligibility of musical lyrics. He has presented previously at annual meetings of the Forum for Music and Christian Scholarship, the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Music Theory Midwest, and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition.

Kildegaard, Anika Anika Kildegaard is a senior at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She has served as assistant to the Music Discipline and Academic Partner to Ken Hodgeson, Professor of Choral Studies. Anika serves on the Choir Council for the UMM Concert Choir and has enacted the role of both Soprano Section Leader and Choir President. She has been selected as semi-finalist at the NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competition, and sang a duet with Garrison Keillor on Prairie Home Companion in the spring of 2011.

Lee, Gerald K. Gerald Lee is Associate Professor of Piano at West Liberty University, West Liberty, West Virginia. He earned three piano performance degrees: Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts from Illinois Wesleyan University, Indiana University, and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, respectively. He was a winner in the 2009 Pittsburgh (PA) Concert Society Major Auditions. In addition, he won 1st place in the 2002 National Society of Arts and Letters Piano Competition (Lansing, Michigan), 2nd place in the 2002 National Finals of the Music Teachers’ National Association Collegiate Artists’ Piano Competition (Cincinnati, Ohio), and 3rd place in the 2003 International Beethoven Piano Sonata Competition (Memphis, Tennessee).

Throughout the mid-Atlantic region, Dr. Lee maintains an extensive schedule of solo and chamber music recitals, the latter including performances with such artistic luminaries as Faith Esham, soprano, John Rommel, trumpet, and Jeremy Black, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra violinist. He is a frequent adjudicator for piano festivals and competitions and currently serves on the Board for the West Virginia Music Teachers’ Association. He has presented lecture- recitals on Alexander Scriabin’s piano sonatas at numerous, regional College Music Society conferences. He is forever grateful to the following artist-teachers for their unconditional support, artistic guidance, and great wisdom: Virginia Sandford, the late Lawrence Campbell, Andrew Cooperstock, Reiko Neriki, Logan Skelton, Arthur Greene, and the late Distinguished Professor György Sebök.

MacLachlan, Heather M. Heather MacLachlan (Ph.D. Cornell University, 2009) is an assistant professor of ethnomusicology at the University of Dayton. She is the author of a number of articles on topics including country music, music theory pedagogy, and music-making among refugees in the United States. Her book, Burma’s Pop Music Industry: Creators, Distributors, Censors (University of Rochester Press) was published in 2011. She is currently pursuing a new research project: the international gay and lesbian choral movement.

Maugans, Stacy Dr. Stacy Maugans, an assistant professor at Valparaiso University, teaches saxophone, music theory, musicianship, performance pedagogy and humanities. An active recitalist, adjudicator and lecturer on the history of saxophone in Russia and the former Soviet Union, Dr. Maugans has served as editor of The Saxophone Symposium and has been a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Mathematical Association of America and the North American Saxophone Alliance. Her administrative experience includes five years as Assistant Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Valparaiso University. In addition to performances and lectures in the United States, she has international experience in Russia, Germany, Slovenia, and Thailand. For four years, Dr. Maugans performed as a member of the Texas Wind Symphony. She has received grants from the United States Department of Education and Social Science Research Council for studies in Russian and won the Coleman Award as a member of a saxophone quartet. She earned the Doctor of Music in Saxophone Literature and Performance at Indiana University under the guidance of Dr. Eugene Rousseau and the Master of Music at Arizona State University with Dr. Joseph Wytko. Her undergraduate degrees of Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics are from Indiana University. Her hobbies include distance running and working with her Belgian Tervuren, with whom she volunteers at a retirement community, library, and hospice center as a registered Pet Partner Team.

Miller, Alexander Elliott Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer, guitarist and educator currently residing in California; he has received commissions and performances from ensembles including the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, Brave New Works, soprano Tony Arnold & the Definiens Project, the Quintet Attacca, the Spiral Bound Duo and the USC Symphony. His work has also been performed by the What’s Next? Ensemble, an LA-based new music ensemble with which he has been affiliated since 2009.

Performances of his compositions have taken place at venues including the New York City’s Steinway Hall, Aspen Music Festival, Bowdoin Music Festival, NEON Festival and the Chamber Music Conference & Composer’s Forum of the East; he has received awards and honors from the American Composers Forum and the MacDowell Colony.

A dedicated teacher, Miller is currently an Instructor of Music Theory & Composition at Chapman University. He previously served on the faculties of Illinois State University, the University of Southern California, West Chester University of Pennsylvania and California Lutheran University.

Miller holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Composition from the University of Southern California, a Master of Music in Composition from the Eastman School of Music, and Bachelor of Music degrees in Composition & Guitar Performance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

His works are published by HoneyRock Percussion Performance Literature (Pennsylvania) and VP Music Media (Italy). For more information, please visit www.alexanderemiller.com.

Munn, Christopher Dr. Christopher Munn is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Studies at the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg, where he teaches courses in music history, music literature, music research, music theory, conducting, choral arranging, supervises student teachers, and conducts the University Choir and Valley Symphony Chorale. He received the Bachelor of Music Education from the West Texas State University, the Master of Music, with distinction, from Indiana University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Oklahoma. He has presented papers and lecture-recitals at professional meetings in several states, and is very active in the events of the Texas University Interscholastic League and the Texas Music Educators Association. A master teacher, he is known for his ability to teach difficult literature. His specialty is historical performance practices, and his dissertation, “Medieval and Renaissance Prescriptions Regarding Text Underlay and their Application to Music of the Fifteenth Century,” was awarded the international Julius Herford Dissertation Award by the American Choral Directors Association for the best dissertation in the field of choral music for 1991.

Niedermaier, Edward G. Teddy Niedermaier, educator, composer and pianist, is Assistant Professor of Core Music Studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago. He previously taught music theory at the Oberlin Conservatory, and has served on the faculty at the European American Musical Alliance summer program since 2006.

Teddy completed a Doctor of Music degree in Music Composition in 2010 from Indiana University, where he studied with Claude Baker and David Dzubay. He earned two degrees in Music Composition (Master of Music and Bachelor of Music) from The Juilliard School as a student of John Corigliano, Samuel Adler, and Robert Beaser.

Teddy has received commissions from the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, Minnesota Youth Symphonies, Hidden Valley Music Seminars, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Minnesota Symphonic Winds, and the Philomusica Chamber Orchestra of Minneapolis. His compositions have been performed throughout the United States and in France, Kosovo, South Korea, Argentina, and Japan. Honors include the 2009 Dean’s Prize in Composition from Indiana University and two national awards from the National Federation of Music Clubs in 2007. In 2011 he was nominated for an annual award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

As composer and pianist, Teddy has collaborated with such established artists as Thomas Stacy (New York Philharmonic), Robert Walters (Cleveland Orchestra), Elaine Douvas (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), Linda Strommen (Indiana University), Roger Roe (Indianapolis Symphony), April Clayton (Brigham Young University), and Nicholas Stovall (National Symphony).

Nisula, Kirsten Kirsten Nisula is a graduate student in music theory and a member of the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory at the Ohio State University.

Odello, Denise Dr. Denise Odello is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota, Morris, where she teaches a wide variety of courses in Western, non-Western, and popular music topics. Prior to her position at Morris, Dr. Odello held appointments at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California and in the Writing Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She also taught in the Music Department at Santa Barbara during her graduate work. Dr. Odello holds a Doctorate and Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as a performance degree from the University of California at Irvine.

Dr. Odello’s research focuses on the wind band in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly in the United States and Britain. She completed her doctoral work on the brass bands of Victorian Britain, and an essay on the American wind band and musicology was recently published in Alta Musica. She has been awarded a University of Minnesota Imagine Fund grant to pursue research on American youth drum corps. Dr. Odello has presented her work in a number of venues at the regional, national, and international level, including the American Musicological Society, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the College Music Society, and the International Society for the Study and Promotion of Wind Band Music.

Ogrizovic, Mirna Mirna Ogrizovic, is orchestra director and violin/ viola instructor at Berry College, and music director of Philharmonic Orchestra. Mirna was born in Croatia, but grew up in , , where she received her violin performance degree from the School of Music, Belgrade University of Arts. She also received a Master of Music degree in orchestral conducting from Georgia State University in Atlanta, and earned her doctorate degree in conducting from the University of Georgia.

Before she moved to the United States (in 2001), she was Associate Concertmaster of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Serbian Radio Television in Belgrade and the Associate Artistic Director of the Ensemble of the Studio for Early Music. While at UGA, she conducted the ARCO chamber orchestra in a Carnegie Hall performance, and recorded a CD with the same orchestra and violinist Levon Ambartsumian as soloist in music by renowned Russian composer Mikhail Bronner.

Mirna has received numerous awards in national and international competitions, including the silver medal at the International Violin Competition in Stresa, Italy. She recorded several CDs in both Serbia and USA.

Mirna is a member of the Balkan Quartet with which she frequently tours Eastern United States. With Balkan Quartet she recently performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, SC, and represented Serbian Embassy at the cultural event “Passport to DC” in Washington, DC.

Oravitz, Michael Michael Oravitz is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Ball State University. He received his M.M. and Ph. D. in Music Theory at Indiana University, Bloomington.

His areas of interest include the music of Claude Debussy, rhythm & meter studies, musical form, music theory pedagogy and aural skills strategies. Michael has forthcoming publications on Debussy in the Society of Composers, Inc. journal iSCI and on pedagogy in the Fall, 2012 Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. Michael has presented internationally, nationally and regionally on the music of Debussy—as guest speaker at Butler University’s 2012 Debussy Celebration (in conjunction with the 2012 American Musicological Society Midwest Chapter meeting), the 2012 International Multidisciplinary Colloquium on Music at the University of Quebec, Montreal, the 2012 College Music Society’s South Central Conference, the 2008 American Musicological Society/Society for Music Theory Joint Conference in Nashville, the 2007 European Music Analysis in Freiburg and the 2010 and 2006 Music Theory Midwest Conferences. He has also served on program committees for Music Theory Midwest (2011) and College Music Society Great Lakes (as chair, 2012).

Michael is the Aural Skills Area Coordinator for the School of Music and designer of its curriculum. He has presented on facets of that curriculum design at the 2008 Music Theory Midwest Conference. During the 2006-07 academic year, he was awarded one of Ball State’s campus-wide, student-nominated and faculty-refereed Excellence in Teaching Awards.

Ortega, Juan Carlos Juan Carlos Ortega holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Violin Performance from the University of Louisville, and a DMA degree from The Ohio State University. He also holds a music degree from the National Conservatory of Music of his native city Quito in Ecuador. He has received several awards of academic achievement from these institutions, including the Outstanding Graduating Senior and the Presser Scholar Awards (UofL), as well as the University Fellowship, Outstanding Graduate Associate, and Graduate Achievement Awards (OSU). He has performed as a soloist with several orchestras and has served as concertmaster of the OSU, the National Conservatory of Music, and the Quito Philharmonic Symphony Orchestras. Honors from competitions include awards from the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador Young Soloist Competition (1996 and 1998), and the first prize in the Macauley Chamber Music Competition College Division (2006). Juan Carlos served as the violin GTA of Prof. Kia-Hui Tan at the OSU Music School for three years. Currently, he teaches for the Jefferson Academy of Music at OSU and maintains a studio that includes college students and string school teachers. His teachers include Kia-Hui Tan, Patrick Rafferty, Peter McHugh, Gustavo Guiñez and Tadashi Maeda.

Plazak, Joseph S. Joseph Plazak is currently an Assistant Professor at Illinois Wesleyan University where he teaches courses in music theory and analysis. He holds an Associate of Fine Arts degree from Harper College, a Bachelor of Arts degree in both music and psychology from Elmhurst College, a Master’s Degree in Music Theory from the Ohio State University, and a PhD in Music Theory and Cognition, also from Ohio State. There he wrote his dissertation on “Instrumental irony and the perception of musical sarcasm” under the guidance of David Huron. His main research areas of interest include similarities between music and speech processing, models of popular music, musical preference acquisition, and strong emotional experiences in response to music. His publications can be found in ESCOM’s Musicae Scientae, Empirical Musicology Review, and the Ohio State OSOM journal.

Robertson, Elizabeth A. Dr. Elizabeth Robertson currently serves as Consortium Instructor of Oboe at the University of Evansville and as Principal Oboe of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance and a Bachelor of Arts in Applied Mathematics, both with High Honors, from Michigan State University. She also holds a Master of Music in Oboe and a Doctor of Music in Oboe Literature and Performance from Indiana University. Her primary teachers were Richard Killmer, Daniel Stolper, Marc Lifschey, and Theodore Baskin. Dr. Robertson has performed also as Principal Oboe of the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra (MI), and has substituted with the Louisville Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony. In March 2010 she released her first solo album titled Oboe Serenade. Dr. Robertson is an active member of the International Double Reed Society and has published several articles in the IDRS Double Reed journal. She is also a member of the College Music Society and the CMS Representative for the University of Evansville. Dr. Robertson recently received the 2012 Artist of the Year award from the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana.

Ross, Nicholas Piers Nick Ross is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at Otterbein University. Prior to his arrival at Otterbein, Ross was a professor at Sweet Briar College in Virginia where he was the music department chair from 2005 until 2012.

Ross performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Europe in such venues as St. Martin’s-in-the-Field and St. John’s Smith Square, London, the Field Room in Dublin, and the Engelse Kerk in Amsterdam. Recently Ross has presented a series of lecture recitals about the golden section in the music of Mozart, Chopin and Claude Debussy at conferences and colleges in Poland, England, and the United States and has written several papers on the subject.

Ross is also an active recording artist. His recordings include John Powell: Early Piano Music (Centaur, 2006) and Kent Holliday: A Musical Odyssey (Centaur, 2010) with pianist Emily Yap Chua, featuring works of Virginia Tech professor Kent Holliday. Ross’ most recent recordings are A Golden Proportion Recital (Centaur, 2011) and Arthur Honegger: melodies et chansons (Centaur, 2012) with singers Claudia Patacca and Sinan Vural.

Ross earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and also holds degrees in piano performance from ArtEz in the Netherlands and Trinity College of Music in London, as well as a Masters degree in Applied Mathematics from Twente University. His primary piano professors were John Perry, John Bingham, and Benno Pierweijer.

Sennet, Rochelle Dr. Rochelle Sennet, Assistant Professor of Piano at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is rapidly establishing herself as a well-known performer, teacher, and scholar. She received the Bachelor of Music degree from San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Master of Music degree from University of Michigan, an Artist Diploma from Texas Christian University, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from University of Illinois, all in piano performance. Her recital programs showcase her versatility at the keyboard, with frequent performances of works by Bach, Beethoven, and African American composers such as H. Leslie Adams, Adolphus Hailstork, and Pulitzer-Prize winning composer George Walker. Recent appearances include recitals and the conducting of masterclasses at the Flint Institute of Music in Michigan and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. She has served on the piano faculty at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp since 2006. She has recorded George Walker’s Piano Concerto on the Albany Records label. She has also recently recorded Leopold Kozeluch’s second piano concerto, which will be released in 2013.

Dr. Sennet’s previous teachers include Ian Hobson, Tamás Ungár, Logan Skelton, Mack McCray, Dr. John Paul, Hugh E. Thompson, Sr., and Hazel Ruben. She is a member of Music Teachers National Association, College Music Society, the Center for Black Music Research, Society for American Music, and Phi Kappa Phi honor society. She is currently serving as Co- President of Champaign-Urbana Music Teachers Association, and East District Chair of Illinois State Music Teachers Association.

Shafer, Jennifer Jennifer Shafer is a first year Ph.D. music theory student at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY. She earned her bachelor’s degree in piano performance from East Texas Baptist University in 2010 and her M.A. in music theory from the University of Kentucky in 2012. Jennifer is still active as a pianist and her main research area of interest is intersections between mathematics and music.

Sommerfeldt, Jerod A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the Peck School of the Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, Jerod Sommerfeldt’s music focuses on the creation of algorithmic and stochastic processes, utilizing the results for both fixed and real-time composition and improvisation. His sound world explores digital audio artifacts and the destruction of technology, resulting in work that questions the dichotomy between the intended and unintentional. An active performer as both soloist and collaborator of interactive digital music and live video, Jerod is currently teaching coursework in computer music at the University of Dayton and music theory and counterpoint at Miami University.

Tan, Kia-Hui Kia-Hui Tan has performed as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in 25 US states and 20 countries on 5 continents, including at London’s Barbican Hall and New York’s Carnegie Weill Recital Hall. Described in The Strad as a “violinist whose virtuosity was astonishing,” she has won numerous awards including the Bronze Medal at the 1st NTDTV Chinese International Violin Competition at Town Hall in 2008. Included in her repertoire of over 300 solo or chamber works are premiere performances with more than 50 living composers. She has been a member of various new music ensembles and is frequently invited to perform at contemporary music festivals and conferences, often presenting themed lecture-recitals on the vastly unexplored repertory for unaccompanied solo violin. Also an experienced orchestral violinist, she had served as concertmaster under Sir Colin Dais and Mstislav Rostropovitch among many other notable conductors. Born in Singapore, Tan studied piano, violin, music theory and composition in her native country before receiving scholarships to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, UK) and The Cleveland Institute of Music where she was conferred the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 2001. Currently Associate Professor of Violin at The Ohio State University, Tan is in demand as a master class presenter, adjudicator, strings coach and guest conductor in high schools, colleges and youth orchestras, and her outreach activities have extended as far as China and Colombia. She is the recipient of the 2008-9 School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award.

Wohlwend, Karl Karl Wohlwend, guitarist, has performed throughout North America. He has been acclaimed as a guitarist with “command of technique, beautiful tone, and sensitive musicianship,” by the Washington (D.C.) Guitar Society, and the Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts (Kitty Hawk, NC) praised his “extraordinary talent.” Recently he completed a week-long residency as guitarist for the avant-garde ensemble Alarm Will Sound, played with clarinetist Richard Stolzman and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra onstage as well as on a recording of the works of William Bolcom. He tours with Grammy-winning countertenor, Ian Howell, including an appearance on the Ravinia Festival’s “Rising Stars” series. Wohlwend has served on the faculties of The Ohio State University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Otterbein College, and the Capital University Conservatory of Music. He also teaches at the Classical Guitar Summer Workshop at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Wohlwend holds degrees in performance from The University of South Carolina and The Cleveland Institute of Music. His principal teachers include Christopher Berg, John Holmquist, and Julian Gray. Wohlwend has been performing and recording on a replica 1690 French 5-course baroque guitar since 2010, and has taken masterclasses with Scott Pauley (Chatham Baroque) and Hopkinson Smith. His discography includes Out of Italy (2011), featuring the world-premiere recording of the Op. 11 Caprices by M.A. Zani de Ferranti, and is recording of the entire 24 passacaglias (1640) of Angelo Bartolotti is the first ever recording of this landmark work for baroque guitar.