The News Magazine of the University of Illinois School of Music

sonorities2018 The News Magazine of the University of Illinois School of Music campus news Published for the alumni and friends of the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From the Director The School of Music is a unit of the College of Fine + Applied Arts and has been an accredited ake Music Matter. We feature this institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Music since 1933. simple phrase on our new School of Music website and t-shirts, and Peter Mortensen, Interim Dean of the College of now on the cover of Sonorities. For Fine + Applied Arts M me, the third word makes the difference. Jeffrey Magee, Director of the School of Music Making music has been at the center of Robert Grisbrook, Editor our School mission since its founding in Katherine Buzard, Copy Editor 1895, but the qualifier “matter” extends Aaron Godwin, Copy Editor that notion. It reminds us to bring music Jeffrey Magee, Director of the School of Music Design and layout by Studio 2D back into the world beyond the practice UI School of Music on the Internet: room, the teaching studio, the rehearsal hall, or the competition venue; to make it www.music.illinois.edu connect with diverse gatherings—not just connoisseurs and competition judges—in unusual venues, and in the spirit of social exchange and community-building. In this issue, you’ll find many ways that our faculty, students, and alumni carry out this vital task. A year ago, the School launched a newly renovated curriculum for all students in the Bachelor of Music Education degree, which now includes a Share your good news! Music Technology option. Our feature, “Out in the Schools,” aims to open up the Send photos and submissions to: new curriculum and lead you through it from the student perspective. More than [email protected] 40% of our undergraduate student body resides in that degree, so it has been a real game-changer for the School. This year we also celebrate the University of Illinois’ sesquicentennial, and School faculty and students are playing a key role in the festivities. Concerts in Chicago’s Symphony Center, New York’s Alice Tully Hall, and our own Krannert Center will Contents showcase the premiere of a new work, Gathering, commissioned for the sesquicen- CAMPUS NEWS...... 2 tennial and composed for the unusual combination of choir, wind symphony, and CELEBRATING GIVING ...... 6 vocal soloists. The text, compiled by a National Book Award winner with deep ties to the campus, comprises excerpts from speeches and writings from an intellectually OUTREACH ...... 8 and culturally diverse cohort of distinguished alumni. Learn the inside story in this OUT IN THE SCHOOLS ...... 12 issue—and join us for one or all of the concerts in Spring 2018! GATHERING...... 16 WORLDS END & WORLDS BEGIN. . . 19 FACULTY NEWS ...... 22 New degree bridges digital gap ALUMNI NEWS...... 29 STUDENT NEWS...... 40 The School of Music has announced a first institution in the Midwest to offer a IN MEMORIAM...... 43 new undergraduate degree program Bachelor of Science degree in Music and Computer Science, and it further reinforces GIVING...... 46 that will combine the study of music U of I’s position as the leader in blended and computer science in a Bachelor programs integrating computer science of Science in Music with other disciplines. The new “CS + Music” program is based Students in the CS + Music program on the “CS + X” meta-degree initiative that will have equal training as musicians was invented at the University of Illinois and as computer scientists, and several and Stanford University, a program which courses in the new curriculum have been is gaining momentum at colleges and specifically designed to integrate core universities across the country. principles from both disciplines. Gradu- The Illinois School of Music is the ates from the new degree program will be well positioned to pursue careers in sound on film. In a series of firsts in the music or computer research, or to enter 1950s, Professor Lejaren Hiller established the 16-billion-dollar global music industry, the Experimental Music Studio, the first of which is now almost exclusively digital its kind in the world. Hiller and Leonard in content and delivery. Isaacson used the first computer built The campus professors behind the and owned by a US university (ILLIAC 1) degree, Dr. Heinrich (Rick) Taube, School to compose one of the first substantial of Music, and Dr. Paris Smaragdis, Com- pieces of music to be written algorithmi- puter Science/Electrical Engineering, say: cally. Hiller also worked with Robert A. “The CS + Music degree fills an educational Baker to develop one of the first music void that many have struggled with in the composition computer languages. past. Until now, these two disciplines had Dr. Jeffrey Magee, director of the School to be studied separately. We are delighted of Music, adds: “The School of Music is (Left to right) Rick Taube, Professor of to see that students today will finally have Composition-Theory, and Paris Smaragdis, excited to launch this new program after the opportunity to study both of these Associate Professor of Computer Science years of development through close col- fields, and their fascinating interplay, on and ECE laboration among faculty in Computer the campus that has brought many historic Science and Music. The new degree innovations in computer music.” technology. As early as the 1920s, Professor program addresses an area of intense The University of Illinois has historically of Electrical Engineering Joseph Tykociner student demand and positions us well been a forerunner in music and audio was one of the first researchers to place to educate leaders in music technology.”

New masterclass series takes off

Violin star Rachel Barton Pine provided the inaugural Barton Pine served as a fantastic opportunity for our students to masterclass in the new Daniel J. Perrino masterclass receive input from a wonderful musician and violinist. I thought series on 21 October, 2017 Rachel was sensitive to each student’s individual needs and very generous with her advice. Her expertise and knowledge Pine provided a masterclass, a rock strings workshop, and of the repertoire was clear from start to finish.” String Academy chamber music coachings, offering unique The Daniel J. Perrino masterclass series is made possible by insight to music majors, local music educators and the public. a generous gift from Sheila Johnson (BS ’70) and will mainly Nelson Lee, Clinical Assistant Professor of Music at UI and focus on bringing exceptional violinists to the University to member of The Jupiter Quartet, says: “The class given by Rachel work with students.

Events calendar: The Daniel J. Perrino masterclass series ■■ Monday, December 4: Zach DePue, Concertmaster, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra ■■ Saturday, March 10: Timothy Lees, Concertmaster, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; Adjunct Professor, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music ■■ Saturday, April 14: Almita Vamos, Violin Faculty, Music Institute of Chicago

Rachel Barton Pine gives instruction during her rock strings workshop at the School of Music

2018 3 campus news

Star line-up for JEN 2018 performance

The University of Illinois will once again be represented at the Jazz Education Network (JEN), the major jazz education conference of the year, with a prestigious invitational performance The UI Concert Jazz Band submitted a recording of student compositions and arrangements in March 2017 and was sub- sequently selected to give a premiere performance of the works on the main stage in the primetime evening slot of 10–11pm on January 4, 2018. The band will be joined by incredible guest artists Doc Severinsen, former leader of the Tonight Show Band for over 30 years and, at 89, still leader of his own big band; Ernie Watts, former member of the Tonight Show Band for 30 years, a current member of Severinsen’s big band and a world-wide UI Concert Jazz Band performing at JEN 2014 performer with his own groups; and Jim Pugh, a current U of I jazz faculty member and a member of many internationally- Watts (saxophone) and Jim Pugh (trombone) on January 4, known jazz and popular groups such as Steely Dan, Chick 2018 in Dallas, TX. It’s sure to be one of the highlights of the Corea’s Return to Forever, and the Woody Herman Orchestra. Jazz Education Network’s main conference.” The performance will take the form of a marquee event and UI has a long history of being invited to perform in a variety should be one of the most well-attended concerts of the confer- of categories presented at the conference. Groups have taken ence, featuring works by current and former U of I students. part in at least seven different JEN and IAJE (JEN’s predeces- Director of the Concert Jazz Band and Jazz Studies Chair, sor) conferences since 2011, including the Concert Jazz Band Chip McNeill, says: “The Concert Jazz Band and I are looking (four times), the Latin Jazz Ensemble (once), the Jazz Trom- forward to a stellar performance with our featured guests and bone Ensemble (two times), and some of our small group jazz legendary jazz performers, Doc Severinsen (trumpet), Ernie combos (once).

Hail to the Orange!

Musicians pay tribute to UI’s rich musical heritage Jeffrey Magee, director of the School of Music, comments: “You will hear three distinctly different versions of the Illinois Illinois Songs, a new CD released by the School of Music, com- Alma Mater—one played by our university’s elite concert band, memorates the sesquicentennial anniversary of the University the Illinois Wind Symphony; one sung by an internationally with a homage to its musical traditions. celebrated operatic baritone; and one sung by our premier choir, Comprising repertoire performed by the Varsity Men’s Glee the Chamber Singers—and utterly transformed by a student Club, Alumni Chorus, Nathan and Julie Gunn, Illinois Wind arranger. Listen closely and you’ll hear two other Illinois songs Symphony, University of Illinois Black Chorus and the Univer- woven into the arrangement’s rich tapestry.” sity of Illinois Chamber singers, it documents the University’s Copies of the CD can be purchased by phone on 217-333- musical diversity while delivering stirring renditions of songs 2620 or online at music.illinois.edu/illinois-songs. including “Hail to the Orange (Alma Mater)” and the “Univer- sity of Illinois March.”

4 sonorities Building “Choral Bridges”

UI Chamber Singers tour Austria and St. Michael’s Church in Vienna. The sound Hungary with a constructive musical made me feel like I was finally living message everything I learned about in my music history classes – as though I was living The University Chamber Singers and their in the time that Haydn composed while director Andrew Megill, professor of con- singing in the church in which Mozart ducting and director of Choral Activities, premiered his requiem.” travelled through Austria and Hungary The Chamber Singers also performed between May 24 and June 4, 2017, to a number of independent concerts, deliv- perform with members of the Webern ering an American program entitled “I Kammerchor, the chamber choir of the Hear America Singing,” which featured Vienna School of Music, as well as other texts by the likes of Walt Whitman, Emily European collaborators. Dickinson and Langston Hughes, and Chamber Singers pose by a “Choral The Chamber Singers gave three joint traditional American music including Bridges” concert poster in Vienna performances of their “Choral Bridges” folksongs, spirituals, and American hymns. program with members of the Webern The tour included visits to Freistadt, Kammerchor, including at St. Michael’s Klosterneuburg, and Vienna in Austria, with people we love and who share the Church in Vienna, where Mozart premiered as well as to Budapest in Hungary. same passion. I wouldn’t trade the laugh- his requiem. Music included Franz Joseph Currie adds: “The most meaningful ter, schnitzel and wonderful music for Haydn’s Theresienmesse and Benjamin musical experience is when we perform anything.” Britten’s Cantata Misericordium. These performances came to be through the kind invitation of the Webern Kammerchor, who while on tour to the US in Spring 2016 collaborated with the Chamber Singers and invited them on a musical exchange in Vienna. Grace Currie, a chamber singer and undergraduate in choral music education, reminisces about the music-making on tour: “I basked in the great acoustics of St. Michael’s Church provides an ornate setting for the UI Chamber Singers and members of the Webern Kammerchor to perform works by Haydn and Britten

“You will hear three distinctly different versions of the Illinois Alma Mater . . . Listen closely and you’ll hear two other Illinois songs woven into the arrangement’s rich tapestry.”

2018 5 celebrating giving by David Allen, Associate Director of Development at the University of Illinois School of Music

A very special gift: the Corley family

Lynd Corley, alumna and ardent supporter of the School of Music, continues to share her generosity and kindness with her alma mater, helping us to celebrate our 150th year at the University of Illinois in a very special way. In loving memory of her late husband, Dr. W. Gene Corley, Lynd and her family have given a donation that makes it possible for us to take our musical celebration and performances of Dominick DiO- rio’s Gathering to Orchestra Hall at the Symphony Center in Chicago, as well as to Alice Tulley Hall at Lincoln Center in Lynd Corley (center), Scott Corley (BS New York City. Computer Science ’92), Anne Corley Both Lynd and Gene were members of School of Music Baum (BALAS Biology ’86), and Bob Dr. Corley (1935– 2013) was one choirs during their time at UIUC. Lynd was president of the Corley (BALAS Economics ’88) are all UI graduates of the world’s Women’s Glee Club and Gene was president of the Varsity Men’s foremost experts in Glee Club. Lynd earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in analyzing buildings music education, while Gene earned his bachelor’s, master’s, Chicago Symphony Chorus for 10 years, damaged by bombs, and doctorate degrees in civil engineering with an emphasis and still maintains a private music studio earthquakes, fires and tornadoes. He in structural engineering. in Glenview, Illinois. led the federal Lynd and Gene, who were married for Lynd’s dedication to the School of Music is evidenced by investigation of the her enduring support. She is currently a member of the School 53 years, shared a strong love for music at collapse of the World of Music National Advisory Council and previously served Illinois, and we are proud to honor them Trade Center’s twin on the School of Music Alumni Board. In addition to these for their many accomplishments, loyal towers on September roles, she served as director of bands for the Glenview Public support, and passion for music. We are 11, 2001 School District for over 20 years, sang professionally with the sincerely grateful to the Corley family!

Another big year of support Giving to School of Music 2014–2017 (FY = July 1–June 30) from you! 2,, 1,, Once again, we have surpassed our previous year’s level of donation. The following chart illustrates the different types of 1,, donations we received. Thank you for supporting Music at Illinois! 1,, 1,2, 1,, Unsolicited states , Matching Pledges , Deferred , utright 2, F21 F21 F21 F21

6 sonorities As we begin to celebrate our sesquicentennial anniversary, we recognize the impor- tant names represented through funds that support Music at Illinois every year in incalculable ways. As you browse the list below, you may see several familiar names and most likely many that you have never heard of, as our music family and legacy years of generosity is extensive and strong! If you would like to add your donation to one of these funds, reach out to us to start a conversation about your potential support and contribution. Your support of these funds is an integral part of the day-to-day operations as well as the long-term success of our students, ensembles, and areas of study.

A. A. Harding Awards Eric Dalheim Memorial Scholarship Marilyn Plederer Zimmerman Fellowship for Andrew George De Grado Piano Scholarship Franz Joseph Haydn Scholarship in Music Excellence in Music Education Ann and Ralph Mason Endowment in Music Performance Martha S. Beerman Endowment Barbara H. McMurtry-Noel Scholarship Frida Haller Jones Memorial Award Piano Mary C. Maslen Fund Bernard Goodman Orchestra Award G. Jean Sutter Music Education Mary E. Hoffman Music Endowment Bernice Adams Arment Memorial Scholarship Gene Corley Memorial Fund—Illinois Varsity McAllister Memorial Musicology Award in Piano Men’s Glee Club Miriam L. Ekbom Scholarship Beverly Myrow Memorial Harp Fund George M. Unger Endowment Nancy Wustman Memorial Award Bill A. Nugent Endowed Professorship in George W. Brownfield Fund Nicholas Temperley Endowment for the Study Music Performance Gerald and Linda Anderson Music Education of Musicology Bill A. Nugent Fellowship in Music Scholarship Paul Rolland Memorial String Award Bruce R. Foote Memorial Scholarship Gerald M. Crystal Music Organ Program Pauline V. and Ralph C Morgan Memorial Bruno and Wanda Nettl Lecture in Geraldine B. Cooke Endowed Scholarship and Music Award Ethnomusicology Fellowship Pauline V. Morgan Memorial Music Bruno Nettl Ethnomusicology Fund Geren Stith Memorial Award Scholarship Bruno Nettl World Cultures Performance Fund Gertrude Weber Gassmann Piano Award Peter A. Michalove Fund Carolyn Joyce Mitchell Davy Music Grace Elizabeth Wilson Memorial Award for Professor Frances Crawford Memorial Scholarship Excellence in Singing Scholarship Charles and Helen Loeb Scholarship Gregory S. Vasich Memorial Endowment Robert E. Gray Trombone Award Charles Leonhard Lectureship Guy M. Duker Awards Robert Earl Thomas Endowment Claire Richards Memorial Fund Harold Decker Choral Excellence Fund Robert H. and Dorothy R. Clements Clara Rolland Piano Award Harry Begian Bands Assistantship Scholarship Clyde William Young Music Scholarship Haskell O. Sexton Memorial Award—School Robert H. Green Memorial Scholarship Daniel J. Perrino School of Music Scholarship of Music Robert L. Zarbock Music Fund Diane Heckert Staub Choral Endowment Howard A. Stotler Endowment Roger R. Cunningham Fellowship Doris Vance Harmon Scholarship Jana M. Mason and Richard C. Anderson Roslyn Rensch Harp Collection Twenty-First Century Piano Endowment Dorothy A. and Claude R. Langford Endowed Salvatore Martirano Composer Award Chair in Music Jerry Hadley Memorial Scholarship Sheila C. Johnson Endowed Fund— Dorothy A. and Claude R. Langford Fellowship Jessica Brennan Clark Scholarship Susan Starrett String Scholarships Dorothy Bowen Scholarship Joe Bartkowiak Memorial Scholarship in Sheila C. Johnson Endowed Fund— Music Daniel J. Perrino Chair Dr. Michel E. Ewald Memorial Scholarship John & Elvia Suter and Karl M. Hakes Fund Smith Music Legacy Scholarship Project Dr. Charles Leonhard Endowment for (Thomas J. and Tina Weedon Smith) Excellence in Music Education John Brownfield Memorial Fund Swanson Family Endowment Duane A. and Imogene W. Branigan John Garvey Scholarship in Jazz Studies Endowment Joseph W. Schlanger Memorial Opera Thomas J. Harris Memorial Band Award Edgard Varese Percussion Award Scholarship Thomas Schleis Memorial Scholarship Edmund C. Williams Excellence Award Judy Riemenschneider Marderosian Memorial Warren H. Schuetz Memorial Award Music Scholarship Edmund Plaszczykowski Memorial William Allen and Lena M. Corder Fund Scholarship for Excellence in Music June and Charles Ross Piano Fellowship in the William Anderson Scholarship in Music Honor of Patti and Bernard Phillips Edward Krolick String Scholarship William F. Ludwig U of I Band Awards for Lex and Sheila Young Music Education Award Elizabeth Meier Frauenhoffer Memorial Award Percussionists in Music Louise Taylor Spence Scholarship William W. Olson Varsity Men’s Glee Club Elizabeth Meier Frauenhoffer Memorial Lucille and Charles Wert School of Music Travel Fund Scholarship in Music Fund William Warfield Vocal Study Fund Elsie E. Maylath Memorial Scholarship Marcella K. Brownson Memorial Scholar & Fellow

2018 7 outreach Summer Scrapbook 1 by Jancie Philippus, Public Engagement Coordinator at the University of Illinois School of Music 2017 was an exciting summer for Illinois Summer Youth Music!

ow in its 68th year, the camp expanded to four one-week sessions and celebrated its highest enroll- ment in five years. With 26 programs offered over Nthe summer, Illinois Summer Youth Music (ISYM) boasted a larger curricular offering than ever before, including the School of Music’s Pre-College Chamber 1 | Joe “absolute” Academy and Contemporary Music Week. Read about Khan works on his original lyrics with local 2 some of our new programs below. hip-hop artist DeAngelo “Blackmage” Brown ISYM Hip-Hop 2 | ISYM Hip-Hop Led by Dr. Adam Kruse, participants in ISYM Hip-Hop participants Tiana “Ti” worked with local hip-hop artists and educators to write Steele and Elaishe “Lai and perform original songs and explore Don” Stone perform on elements of hip-hop culture. stage at The Canopy Club The program, made possible by the 3 | Dr. Adam Kruse Listen to the ISYM generous support of the Urbana Arts works with Asata “Sata” Hip-Hop Mixtape: Council, celebrated the inherent col- Young to record her go.illinois.edu/ laborative nature of hip-hop, partnering song, Schoolbag isymhiphop17 ISYM, the University of Illinois School of Music, The Canopy Club, and local artists and teachers. Summer master of music education students worked with participants to record their songs, generating an ISYM 3 Hip-Hop Mixtape at the end of the week, while the cul- mination of the program was a student-performance of original music at The Canopy Club.

Pre-College Chamber Academy For 2017, all of the ever-popular Pre-College Instrumental Programs were moved to the same week, allowing ISYM to offer chamber music to all participants. Students worked with U of I applied faculty in masterclasses and workshops focused on fundamentals, repertoire, and solo performance. They also had the opportunity to

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participate in a wide variety of chamber ensembles ranging from wind and brass quintets to string quartets and large instrument choirs. ISYM also offered a new elective, entitled “Careers in the Arts,” where students could explore possible liveli- hoods as musicians and arts entrepreneurs. Since the Pre-College Academy immediately preceded the Senior High Ensemble week, many students opted to stay for two weeks and engage with the ISYM High School Band, Choir, and Orchestra programs.

Black Chorus at ISYM 6 Founded by Dr. Ollie Watts Davis, the inaugural Black Chorus at ISYM focused on strengthening musicianship and acquiring individual artistry, exploring the unique treatment of the elements of vocal music by Black Ameri- | 4 ISYM Double Reed program cans in a choral setting. participants enjoy a group lesson with Professor Timothy McGovern Students were exposed to a wide range of repertoire, including spiritu- 5 | A euphonium trio performs as als, hymns, anthems, gospel, jazz, pop, part of the ISYM Euphonium and Tuba 7 hip-hop, soul and R&B, and developed program concert led by Professor Mark Moore in the Foellinger Great skills for the practice and performance Hall of the vocal music of Black Americans. Classes included full ensemble and 6 | Professor Elliot Chasanov sectional rehearsals, masterclasses, leads ISYM Pre-College Trombone participants in a concert in the group voice lessons, conducting/ Foellinger Great Hall directing, and musicianship. Students also joined the University of Illinois Black Chorus in a collaborative and uplifting performance in the Foel- 8 linger Great Hall at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

7 | Dr. Ollie Watts Davis leads The Black Chorus at ISYM in her original song, Feel the Warmth

8 | Logan Parks performs with the Black Chorus at ISYM

2018 9 outreach Making Music Matter by Stephen Burian, Public Engagement Assistant Director at the University of Illinois School of Music ISYM is but one program among Programs such as the Banks Bridgewater Lewis Fine Arts Academy Summer Camp, Make More Music! and many that bring over 14,000 the Piano Laboratory Program offer affordable music instruction to the community while providing additional young people to campus to teaching experience for our students. interact with the School of Music The summer of 2017 was especially busy for the School of Music. In addition to regular programs such as ISYM, and our faculty Summer Harp Class and Summer Piano Institute, several new programs blossomed. he twenty public engagement programs of the School 2017 also marked a homecoming for the seminal teach- of Music make the critical connection between the ing of Paul Rolland (Violin Professor, 1945–78), with Tuniversity and the larger community of musicians The Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Workshop returning outside the School. to Illinois after an absence of decades. String teachers The Illinois String Academy (ISA) began with a modest from across the country joined an impressive faculty that 30 violin and viola students in the fall of 2015. Under included four ASTA (American String Teachers Associa- the diligent leadership of Aaron Jacobs (DMA ’16) the tion) presidents, The Jupiter Quartet and several students program now enrolls three times as many students and of Paul Rolland. Plans are already underway for the has hired several additional instructors. Aaron’s doctoral Workshop to return in July 2018. The final performance research focused on five leading string programs for of the Paul Rolland String Camp for young violinists, led youth, and ISA puts this research directly into practice by Nancy Kredel (MM and MS in Music Education, ’68) in a way that enhances the musical community for all. and Aaron Jacobs, was tied into the workshop. This year ISA also expanded to add cello instruction Famed violin soloist Rachel Barton Pine also came to with the hiring of Leah Sweeney (BM ’16). give a series of master­classes and performances as part of a two-day residency that benefited both the Rolland Workshop and ISYM. Her evening recital featured only works for unaccompanied violin and left the audience in awe. In June, 140 students from four different youth orchestras came to Krannert Center for a weekend of music making as the Heart of Illinois Youth Orchestra Festival. Represent- ing the Champaign-Urbana, Decatur, Peoria and Quincy communities, stu- dents rehearsed and performed in the Foellinger Great Hall under the baton of Chicago Youth Symphony Young musicians demonstrate proper violin technique for an audience of string teachers Orchestra Director Allen Tinkham. at the Paul Rolland String Pedagogy Workshop

10 sonorities On top of all this, Director of Choral Activities Andrew Megill introduced a Choral Conducting Symposium in 2016 and registration was filled in under 24 hours! For 2017, the Choral Conducting Symposium was joined by the Illinois Bach Academy (IBA). For the inaugural IBA, singers and instrumentalists from across the country came to study, rehearse and perform J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion with an orchestra performing in period style in the Great Hall. Youth orchestra musicians from Quincy, Decatur, Peoria and C-U join forces in the Heart of Illinois Youth Orchestra Festival

2018 11 Out in the Schools

Glimpses of the newly renovated Music Education Program at Illinois

by Janet Revell Barrett, Professor of Music Education

n a bright, Tuesday morning in the fall, music education students start the day by walking through the doors of Edison Middle School and heading straight to the music room. For the next three hours, thirty OU of I students interact with their peers, seventh grade students, the music teacher at the school, Mr. Jeff Dare, and their instructor, Dr. Bridget Sweet, as part of the newly revised course, Music in Adolescence. I am observing, eager to see how the class has taken shape after a year of preparation. I notice how a purposeful energy in the room rises as Dr. Sweet and the university students review plans for the day, assign responsibilities for small group work, practice leading songs with ukulele accompaniment, and discuss adjustments to accommodate the ever-shifting circumstances of life in schools before the seventh graders tumble in the door. The U of I students lead activities, facilitate music- making, and learn firsthand about the myriad interests and characteristics of the middle school students throughout “I leave for the day, the morning. They ask questions, offer assistance, and impressed by the array facilitate the seventh graders’ decision-making as they of persons, musics, ideas, create soundtracks of their lives. In turn, the middle school students open up as they reveal their musical and interactions I have preferences and interests, tell stories about friends and witnessed.” family, and discover common bonds with their newly- assigned university partners. Musical connections crop up as I listen to the lively conversations and snippets of songs bouncing around the room. After two sets of general music classes rotate in and out, the university students walk across the street to the community room of the Champaign Public Library where Dr. Sweet engages them with reflection on the morn- ing’s accomplishments and thoughtful discussion of the day’s assigned read- ings. I leave for the day, impressed by the array of persons, musics, ideas, and interactions I have witnessed. On Wednesday morning, a different class spreads out across the elementary and middle schools of Champaign and Urbana. These university students

12 sonorities are enrolled in Elementary/Middle “It’s hard to tell in the School Instrumental Methods, charged moment who is more with teaching exultant when the first small groups of sound happens—the first and second year wind, percus- preservice teacher or the sion, and string fifth grader.” students. In col- laboration with eight local school band and orchestra teaching col- leagues, Dr. Jeananne Nichols organized this mobilization A music technology project takes shape of preservice teachers so the university students would have an opportunity to use what they are learning in sound very different from my own teacher preparation class in support of the teachers and students in their program decades ago. own communities. Four university students arrive at Dr. Williams Elemen- Fresh renovation tary School to join up with Stacey Peterik, the school’s These morning vignettes of music education students band director. The budding instrumentalists at Dr. Wil- out in the schools illustrate several recent changes in liams have only just received their instruments, new even the Bachelor of Music Education program, what we to the process of putting them together. Each university have called a renovation of the curriculum. The word student sits down with one or two beginners. It’s hard to “renovation”—just as you might imagine from watching tell in the moment who is more exultant when the first home improvement programs—suggests the preserva- sound happens—the preservice teacher or the fifth grader. tion of distinctive features of a structure, as well as the On Thursday, I arrive at Edison with the university modernization of other features to meet the demands of students, but this time to sit in on yet another site-based contemporary living. This potent metaphorical concept class. The cast of characters resembles Tuesday except for guided decision-making as we considered how the cur- one, as Dr. Adam Kruse facilitates the course Introduction riculum might uphold valued traditions of the university to Music Education Technology. A primary aim of this class and public school music programs while enabling pos- is to put technology to work in the service of learning. sibilities for innovative thinking and addressing areas Again, the preservice teachers work alongside and on in need of revision. If you were to follow UI students as behalf of the seventh graders in a collaborative creation they transition from Edison Middle School to the Music project using samples and digital audio workstations [above Building, Smith Hall, and the Harding Band Building, right]. Mixed pairs and trios of university students and for instance, you would quickly recognize distinctive and middle school students are stationed around the room, perhaps more familiar components such as ensemble intently listening through headphones to one another’s rehearsals, applied study in instruments or voice, and ideas; conversations about the tools, creative process, music history and theory classes. A day in the life of a and progress checks toward final versions punctuate the music education major involves moving in and out of scene. I sit behind a duo speaking French—a seventh the rich offerings of the School of Music in tandem with grade student recently arrived in Champaign from the placement in field-based courses, making the most of Congo paired strategically with a U of I student who the program’s close integration with local area schools. happens to minor in French. “Comment ça sonne?” [How Planning for the new BME began in earnest in 2011, does that sound?], I overhear as they tweak the sample as music education faculty began discussing possible cur- on the Chromebook sitting between them. I stop to think ricular changes with colleagues in the School of Music how these experiences at Edison Middle School look and and in the surrounding Urbana-Champaign area. After

2018 13 a deliberative and consultative process that took several Another new course, which will be offered for the years, we were pleased to learn in 2015 that the revised first time in Fall 2018, acknowledges music teachers’ BME curriculum had been approved by the Board of flexibility by developing skills teaching bands, choirs, Regents. The music education division is now in the and orchestras. Music Teaching in Ensemble Settings aims second year of a four-year sequential implementation of to give preservice music teachers a strong foundation this initiative, which includes a series of required courses in the curricular and programmatic aspects of leading common to all music education majors, balanced with ensembles, after which students can pursue advanced opportunities for students to choose a specialized area courses in their chosen concentrations of instrumental of focus, or concentration, in instrumental music, choral music, choral music, general music, or technology. music, general music, or technology. The first music Core courses also include Differentiating Music Instruc- education majors to complete their studies in full under tion, which focuses on creative adaptation of music this plan will graduate in 2020. classes to meet the needs of students with disabilities. The revised curriculum is designed to speak to the Donna Gallo and Adam Kruse have been collaborating intensification of music teachers’ responsibilities in the with advanced technology students to create sound field and the fact that music teachers’ roles are more boards that are accessible and interactive for students varied than ever before—a theme we recognize in the job with severe and profound disabilities to use during the descriptions of our recent graduates as well as alumni. course. Other students travel to the Crisis Nursery on It actively encourages students to gain experience with a weekly basis to provide musical engagements for the students in varied settings and specializations early on in young children there. Assessment and Evaluation of Music the program. For example, just as Music in Adolescence is Learning, another core course, addresses the complex required, so is Music in Childhood. This course, formerly demands of accountability in the current educational offered for students in the general music specialization climate as preservice teachers explore strategies for only, is now a core course for BME students across the documenting student growth in performing, creating, program. Through the semester, preservice teachers work and responding to music. with Dr. Donna Gallo to build a robust understanding of In addition to these core requirements, BME students the diverse musical worlds of children while also assisting can select electives from a variety of additional music area music teachers in schools that serve students who education courses as well as diverse offerings across the identify as White, African/American, Hispanic/Latino, School of Music. Elective courses include Popular Music as well as Asian/Pacific Islander, Indian, Congolese, Pedagogy, Healthy Music Practices, Music in the Interdisciplin- and Mayan. ary Curriculum, Teaching Young Singers, Service Learning in Music Education, and others. These diverse curricular offerings often draw upon the research interests and expertise of faculty members in areas such as culturally responsive pedagogy, adolescent vocal development, hip-hop studies, music for incarcerated students, music for LGBTQ students, and interdisciplinary approaches in education. Many of these courses take our students “out into the schools” as well, even in unexpected ways. For example, this fall the Advanced Technology class

“These initiatives highlight the portability, flexibility, and accessibility of technological tools and understandings useful in facilitating creative musicianship.” ISYM Hip-Hop campers worked with MME students on original songs

14 sonorities Finally, the MOSAIC Consortium of doctoral students and faculty (below) continues into its third year, sponsor- ing conferences, guest lectures, and collegial exchange of research projects and topics. Last year, the MOSAIC Consortium organized a series of lectures on culturally responsive pedagogy featuring Dr. Constance McKoy of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The lecture series prompted discussions at the undergradu- ate and graduate level about students’ musical identities and music teachers’ knowledge of racial, ethnic, and linguistic diversity. The newly renovated music education curriculum at Illinois draws upon the assets and resources of the sur- rounding community, and takes advantage of collegial partnerships with area teachers to complement university MME students pair traditional playing with new recording and coursework with field-based experiences. As undergradu- editing technologies ate students work closely with elementary and secondary students, they acquire, practice, and adapt strategies and is using videoconferencing software built into online approaches that build on traditional strengths of the digital audio workstations to assist high school students field while exploring new avenues for musical growth. enrolled in a new music technology class taught by one In the graduate program, Master of Music Education of our Master of Music Education students. Through this students narrow the gap between theory and practice mix of experience and expertise, the BME curriculum through the newly-instituted capstone projects, which aims to provide U of I graduates with comprehensive provide opportunities to integrate principles of curricu- breadth and depth as they pursue a fulfilling life in lum design and scholarly inquiry into their work in local music teaching. schools and communities. Music education at Illinois Graduate music education programs at Illinois are celebrates these school and university alignments as we thriving and developing as well. For example, students in move out into the schools. last summer’s vibrant Master of Music Education cohort took part in a hip-hop course that was integrated with a hip-hop camp for ISYM students. MME students worked with ISYM Hip-Hop campers on original song creations that included a digital instrumental background track and original recorded lyrics (previous page). MME students also explored recording and editing technologies along with their traditional performance skills on wind and string instruments (above). These initiatives highlight the portability, flexibility, and accessibility of technological tools and understandings useful in facilitating creative musicianship. The summer of 2017 also welcomed the inaugural Capstone Exhibition for MME students, who showcased curriculum projects they specifically designed for their school sites as well as inquiry projects that demonstrated their application of research techniques and processes. Eleven graduates of the MME program participated in MOSAIC Consortium members (Front to Back) Channing Paluck, this event, highlighting the integration of theory and Bridget Sweet, Donna Gallo, Janet Barrett, Jennifer Thomas, Jeananne Nichols, Jonathan Schaller, Adam Kruse, and Matthew practice in the curriculum of their school communities. Fiorentino

2018 15 GATHERING A SESQUICENTENNIAL MUSICAL CELEBRATION

The University of Illinois Activities Dr. Andrew Megill, will be joined by soloists Nathan Gunn, Todd Payne, and Yvonne Redman for the celebrates its sesquicentennial debut of a newly commissioned work titled Gathering. Megill explains: “This an exciting event because it calls anniversary in 2017, and the up the legacies of two significant parts of the University of Illinois School of Music history. Historically, the band School of Music is playing and choir programs have been important nationally, an integral part of campus and it’s a way for us to celebrate that beautiful tradition and legacy.” festivities throughout a Gathering is the collaborative creation of composer Dominick DiOrio, Indiana University Jacobs School of 15-month celebration Music, and National Book Award-winning writer and Professor Emeritus Richard Powers. Powers has assembled by Jancie Philippus, Public Engagement Coordinator at the University of Illinois School of Music a text that blends speeches and writings by a diverse trio of University of Illinois alumni, including Pulitzer estivities commenced in style with a Campus Sesqui- Prize-winning poet Mark Van Doren (BA 1914), Nobel centennial Kick-Off concert at the Krannert Center laureate in Physiology/Medicine Rosalyn Yalow (PhD on February 28, 2017; Dr. Stephen Taylor’s Archaea 1945), and pioneering architect and engineer Fazlur Ffor the Altgeld Chimes and McFarland Carillon, as Khan (PhD 1955). DiOrio was selected from many out- well as numerous faculty and students, featured in the standing composers as a rising star in the music world performance. Further highlights include the release of and for his experience writing for voices and instruments. a new CD by the School of Music, Illinois Songs, featuring Peterson remarks: “While bands and choirs are funda- faculty and students performing songs near and dear to mental to any music program, they rarely get a chance devoted Illini; the Marching Illini’s schedule of several to perform together because there isn’t much repertoire sesquicentennial-themed shows in their Fall 2017 season for this pairing. We’re hoping to add a very significant (all leading up to Illinois Bands’ own 150th birthday piece to the repertoire that will not just be relevant here bash the following year); and the Campus Wide Con- at Illinois but will get legs of its own and live far into the vocation at Memorial Stadium on May 12, 2018, which future.” will conclude the celebration exactly 150 years after the first Illini graduated from the university. A fitting end to Journey to Gathering a momentous occasion. However, one of the most widely anticipated projects Long before the curtains rise this spring, the journey of the year’s celebration remains unmentioned: a special of this historical tour started with the creation of the sesquicentennial concert tour that will visit Chicago, New original work. In May 2017, the creative team, includ- York, and Champaign-Urbana in the spring of 2018. ing the directors and performers, gathered to discuss These concerts will be performed by two of the school’s the libretto and composition, as well as the process flagship ensembles and will showcase Illinois excel- and thought needed to bring the work to life. With the lence, instill pride, and deepen engagement through a composer’s score sketches pinned to the walls of a Music once-in-a-lifetime experience. The University of Illinois Building classroom, Powers described the energy within Wind Symphony and Chamber Singers, led by Director the words of the reference material and gave insight into of Bands Dr. Stephen Peterson and Director of Choral the choices made with the lyrics while DiOrio described

16 sonorities Join us in Celebration!

Gathering Sesquicentennial Performance Schedule: ■■ Sunday, February 11, 2018 | Chicago, 3:00 pm Chicago Symphony Center | Featured soloists: Nathan Gunn and Yvonne Redman ■■ Saturday, April 14, 2018 | New York City, 7:30 pm Alice Tully Hall | Featured soloists: Yvonne Redman and Todd Payne ■■ Saturday, April 21, 2018 | Urbana Campus, 7:30 pm Krannert Center for the Performing Arts | Featured soloists: Yvonne Redman and Todd Payne For tour updates and to purchase tickets, visit www.music.illinois.edu/gathering

the feel, emotion, and flow of the musical score. The lively discussion focused on how the text and the music weave together to paint a portrait of Illinois’ long history and the vibrant future ahead. To quote a selection of text Professors Nathan Gunn and Yvonne Redman share a laugh at the from Fazlur Khan: “The technical man must not be lost May 2017 Gathering creative team meeting in his own technology. He must be able to appreciate life, and life is art, drama, music…” The Chicago and New York performances have been The involvement of soloists Gunn, Payne, and Redman made possible by the generous support of the Corley strengthens the sense of community being celebrated family in memory of Dr. W. Gene Corley, a Civil Engineer- through these performances. The three are long-time ing alumnus and former president of the Varsity Men’s friends and share a history of musical collaboration. Todd Glee Club. Read more about the Corley family on page 6. Payne, an alumnus of the School of Music and current Professor of Voice at Missouri State University, consid- ers Gunn to be family thanks to their long acquaintance About the composition since his time as a student. During the creative team Gathering, an original choral symphony for wind ensemble, meeting in May, Payne said: “This project gives me the chorus, baritone, and soprano, weaves together texts from opportunity to come back home to the University of University of Illinois alumni Mark Van Doren, Rosalyn Illinois where I received my graduate degrees and met Yalow, and Fazlur Khan, three revered scholars with so many wonderful people...to this day Nathan and Julie meaningful ties to the University of Illinois. Professor Gunn and I are more than friends, we’re family. These Emeritus Richard Powers, a MacArthur Fellow, selected concerts give me the opportunity to give to this wonder- the authors’ texts that comprise the libretto. Composed ful institution what it gave to me.” by Dominick DiOrio, Gathering not only celebrates the Gunn and Redman also share a history as long-time university’s 150th anniversary but also the importance of colleagues, friends, and faculty at the University of Illinois. public education in America. Established in 1867 as one Having known Gunn since her earliest professional years, of the country’s first public land grant institutions, the Redman remarked “It’s an honor to have the opportunity University of Illinois has long been an innovative leader to perform with someone I’ve known for a very long time in education, enriching the lives of many. Consequently, and to be able to bring that special energy to the piece,” there is much to be celebrated within the pages of its and she is looking forward to bringing DiOrio’s music history, and Gathering serves as a sonic jubilation of these to life alongside her esteemed colleagues. achievements.

2018 17 From Left to Right: Dominick DiOrio, Todd Payne, Nathan Gunn, and Yvonne Redman in front of DiOrio’s Gathering sketches

Drawing upon his own deep connection to his alma because of the universal nature of the text, invites all mater, Powers’ powerful libretto celebrates 150 years of into a community of reconciliation—a gathering that tradition and innovation in leadership, creativity, the leads to communal healing. sciences, and the humanities. Through the works of Van Gathering brings together many voices from the past and Doren, Yalow, and Khan, Powers expresses the important present in musical celebration of the community, tradition, impact these scholars and many others at our university innovation, excellence, and leadership throughout the have made on public education and society. Yalow’s text University of Illinois’ 150-year history. It is about coming represents the university’s contributions to the sciences together and questioning why education and knowledge as well as her own work as a champion for women’s access are important. Fittingly, this musical celebration will be to public education. Khan, one of the greatest structural brought to life by our students—the future generations engineers of the twentieth century, represents Illinois’ of Illinois alumni leaders, pioneers and innovators. In place as a leader in all engineering fields. Finally, Van the composer’s own words, “music is a vast, complex, and Doren’s text, a hymn to wisdom, connects the arts, sci- precarious gathering, but it is the pinnacle and lifeblood ences, and humanities in a musical gathering of some of human experience. Its vitality is ours to nurture, and of Illinois’ greatest visionaries. its future lies in the hands and minds of the students Gathering presents composer Dominick DiOrio’s own who grace our halls.” celebration of a society where education is available to all who seek it, as well as the important contributions of the above-mentioned scholars. He draws upon his own experiences in a variety of schools, both as student and teacher, in contextualizing this piece as a celebration of public education. DiOrio observes that schools are the place where society’s values are expressed most clearly and fervently. A commitment to public education, civic engagement, shared responsibility and governance are some of our greatest values and are manifested in music and musical gatherings such as this commission. DiOrio has chosen Johannes Brahms as a “spiritual counterpart,” quoting Ein Deutsches Requiem (premiered 150 years ago) and Brahms’ First Symphony in his own work. The Composer Dominick DiOrio explaining elements of Gathering to German Requiem, often called a “human” requiem the creative team on May 17

18 sonorities Worlds End & Worlds Begin

Dr. Mark Rabideau, director of the 21st-Century Musician Initiative at DePauw University School of Music (BM ‘88, DMA ‘98), adapts his May 2017 convocation speech in an open letter to new U of I graduates Dear Recent Music Graduate,

When you applied to school, you were probably told that you should only go into music if you couldn’t imagine doing anything else. That was good advice. You have spent the past few years, as my friend and bass trombonist David Taylor puts it, “embracing the joy of the struggle.” You did not wait for inspiration, but pursued it on your own: striving for mastery where perfection does not exist; learning to play something difficult so well as to make it sound easy; teaching “You need to be not just so tirelessly that your students no longer need you—all signs of your an artist-to-a-panel, but an grit and tenacity. artist-to-the-world.” And with degree in hand, you are now equipped to enter an increasingly connected world. A world where music is embraced throughout every culture, where communities gather around music to mourn collective hardships and cel- ebrate shared moments. It’s a world where many parents already understand that music enhances their child’s chances to succeed. Yet it has never been more of a struggle to make a living as a musician—at least when following traditional paths. So what comes next? You needed these past few years to focus and to hone your skills. But now that you’re graduating, I want to tell you the second part of that good advice about going Dr. Mark Rabideau delivers his into music, the part we thought best to save until this convocation address to graduands in moment. Smith Memorial Hall You need to be more than someone who plays the cello really well, or who has mastered the trumpet excerpts most likely to appear on orchestral auditions. You need to be bigger than the number of jazz standards you can play in any key or the treatises you can cite. You need to be not just an artist-to-a-panel, but also an artist-to-the-world. I want to offer a different view of these past few years in school, one in which your music education has not been about learning how to do things, but rather about developing yourself into someone who can make the world a better place. What if you were to think of your life as your art?

2018 19 Think of it the way a composer might think of a new composition. Maybe she imagines the scope of the work first. Maybe she has an idea of the instrumentation, the moments of arrival and the transitions that lead us through a story. But they’re all just ideas at first, and as she writes, they will change along the way. Your life will unfold similarly, but try to imagine it now: What do the big moments look like? How do the transitions unfold? Who will be in your ensemble, your audience? As you think about the composition of your unknown future, consider some of the strengths you have as an “Worlds end. Worlds begin. artist and musician: And your ability to imagine ■■ You are curious. the future you want for ■■ You are creative. yourself is what will get you ■■ You are collaborative. through.” Nobody has ever become an artist without a deep sense of curiosity. Curiosity about what they could do on their instrument; about making sense of the world around them; about helping others to see with a unique perspective. Art, after all, is about challenging perceptions we may take for granted. Licensed in creativity, we are inventors of the future. As artist-entrepreneurs, we are poised to see needs and gaps as opportunities that may bring about meaningful change, both around the world and down the street. And who are better at collaborating than the members of a string quartet, a jazz trio or an opera company? Armed with your curiosity, creativity and ability to collaborate, how, then, can your artistry make a difference? In her book, The Third Chapter, Harvard professor and author Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot speaks to the role that the arts play even in life’s most challenging moments. She writes: “It is fascinating that the first responses to violence, fear and despair are often not words, arguments or analysis. When we feel desperate, Faculty assemble words will not do. They do not seem cathartic or productive; they will not for the Class of carry our complex emotions. The New York City public school teachers 2017 from District One who could see the fiery destruction of 9/11 from their classroom windows knew this intuitively. While looking for a way to help their young students rage and grieve, they turned away from the formal curriculum not to words, but to art. They asked their students to draw their fears, paint their pain, dance their anguish, and rap their rage. The raw emotions were channeled into art when words would not do.” When life gets confusing and painful, we turn to art to learn not what to do, but how to be. Don’t ever underestimate the good that art can do in the world.

20 sonorities I didn’t know it at the time, but as a welfare kid struggling to get through school at the hands of an undiagnosed reading disorder, it was music that would scoop me up and give me focus. And it was my music teachers who not only found ways for me to thrive artistically, but to succeed as just the person I am. They showed me that it was my talents that would define me, not the poverty that I came from or the learning disadvantages that shamed me. When I close my eyes, I remember exactly how I felt when I graduated from music school: full of hope; full of promise; ready to take on the world. And when I open my eyes and think of you, Dear Recent Music Graduate, I want to tell you that your future is promising. That does not mean that it won’t unfold unexpectedly along the way; it will. You will suffer maybe more than a few bumps in the road. I did. When you do, please remember this: Worlds end. Worlds begin. And your ability Students face to imagine the future you want for yourself is what will get you through. their next steps as graduates Remember that there is little else more intimate than making music with other people. Every glance, nod and breath synchronizes our shared com- mitment. Draw on those who have gone through this experience with you. You are inextricably linked by the music you have made together. Remember that tenacity and grit are your greatest assets as you grapple with the complexity of the world you will soon inherit. Remember to be authentic, and to be grateful. Be true to your own unique voice. Music school has “Remember to be authentic, not likely prepared you in this way. We prepare you to and to be grateful.” be thorough, but a byproduct is that we become alike— learning from the same excerpts, études and ensembles. Now it is time to discover what you can offer the world. Be grateful to your art. It has prepared you to play in the messy, fertile spaces of complexity and ambiguity. Be grateful to the artists you learn from and collaborate with. They, too, have walked this path. And be grateful to your audiences, because your art is incomplete without them. Now that you have graduated, it’s time to tell, and to live, your story. And I can’t wait to hear about all you will accomplish.

Stay close, Mark Rabideau

2018 21 faculty news new faculty & staff

Ivette Herryman Rodríguez* will teach musicianship and Rebecca Spennetta serves the School of Music as Under- theory courses. A native of Cuba, she holds a BM in Music graduate Academic Advisor. As a former student, educator Composition from the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana, an and advisor, as well as United States Marine, she draws on MM in Music Composition from Baylor University, and an a wealth of experience to guide students as they plan their MM in Music Theory and DMA in Music Composition from studies. Part of her approach entails developing what she calls Michigan State University. Since receiving her doctorate, she “Life’s Toolbox”—helping students to learn new skills and to has taught music theory and composition at the Higher Institute appreciate life situations that can shape the way they react to of Arts and the Opera of El Salvador. Her music is recorded the world around them. Rebecca advocates for students by on Colibrí productions and is part of the Naxos Music Library. voicing their concerns, but also works alongside faculty to For more on Dr. Herryman Rodríguez’s widely disseminated ensure students meet their required degree criteria and grasp compositions, see her website: www.ivetteherryman.com. the true value of their education. Guido Sanchez Portuguez* will teach individual and group Paul Transue* has been a coach/accompanist with Seattle guitar lessons. He completed his Doctor of Music in Guitar Opera, Cleveland Opera, Toledo Opera, Ohio Light Opera, with minors in Music Theory and Composition at the Jacobs Brevard Music Center, and the Chautauqua Vocal Program. He School of Music at Indiana University. He has been invited has performed in masterclasses and lessons for Warren Jones, to numerous festivals around the world. In addition, he is a Frederica von Stade, Gerard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin, and prizewinner in several competitions including the Joann Falletta many others. Past academic positions include serving as the International Guitar Concerto Competition and the Festival Coach/Accompanist for the Opera Program at the Cleveland International de Guitarra de Costa Rica. His recordings include Institute of Music and as the Teacher of Collaborative Piano, a CD he directed and produced with Grammy-winning soprano Vocal and Opera Coach at Southern Illinois University. He Sylvia McNair. Explore his site and check out his artistry at his received his DMA from the Eastman School of Music, won website: www.GuidoGuitar.com. the MTNA Collegiate Chamber Music Competition, and was twice a semi-finalist at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Sean Smith*, Assistant Director of Athletic Bands, received a Competition. Master of Music degree from the University of Illinois in Wind Conducting and a Bachelor of Music Education from Baldwin Priscilla Tse* holds a PhD in musicology from the University Wallace University. Between degrees, he served as Director of Illinois and an MA in ethnomusicology from the University of Bands in the Conneaut Area City Schools in Conneaut, of Hawaii. Her dissertation entitled “Queering the Body: Cross- OH. His conducting experience includes concert and athletic dressing Performance and Identity Politics in Cantonese Opera bands at the University of Illinois, various orchestra and wind of Post-1950s Hong Kong” was funded by the University of ensembles at Baldwin Wallace, and being Music Director of the Illinois Graduate College, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, and Euclid Civic Orchestra. In August of 2015, The Instrumentalist Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. Her research Magazine published his article “The Ideal Marching Schedule,” interests include Chinese opera, Chinese instrumental music, and he has presented at the Ohio Music Education Association performance and gender, identity politics, and fandom. At State Conference. Illinois, she founded and directed a Chinese silk-and-bamboo ensemble. She has also taught as a part-time lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

*Faculty joining the School of Music on one year contracts

22 sonorities Milestones faculty updates & Awards

I Ketut Gede Asnawa (Musicology) Brooks and Gayle Magee, and alums Promotions received the Dharma Kusuma Art Award Laurie Matheson and Justin Vickers, on Donna Buchanan to Professor and Gold Medal from the province of music and the Anglo-American alliance Gayle Magee to Professor Bali on August 14, 2017 in recognition of during World War I; these culminated Linda Moorhouse to Associate Direc- his lifelong dedication and contribution in the American Musicological Society’s tor, School of Music to Balinese art culture, most notably in public lecture at the Library of Congress Jeananne Nichols to Associate Pro- gamelan music. The Governor of Bali, in May 2017. She was also appointed to fessor with indefinite tenure I Made Mangku Pastika, bestowed this the advisory boards of the Transforming prestigious award as part of the 59th Nineteenth-Century Historically Informed Departures and Retirements Anniversary of the Balinese Government. Practice project (University of Oxford) and Louis Bergonzi the Musical Festivals Database (Oberlin Erin Gee Janet Revell Barrett (Music College). Dennis Helmrich Education) was invited as Campus and College Awards a University of Iowa Guest James Beauchamp (Emeritus) contributed Donna Buchanan, Campus Distin- Scholar to give a series of a chapter in the book Studies in Musical guished Promotion Award keynote talks in March Acoustics and Psychoacoustics (Albrecht Jonathan Keeble, FAA Faculty Award 2017 on curriculum, Schneider, editor; Springer, publisher) for Excellence in Teaching research, and social justice in music edu- entitled “Comparison of Vocal and Violin Lori Melchi, Chancellor’s Distin- cation, as well as an invited address, Vibrato with Relationship to the Source/ guished Staff Award “Planting Ourselves at the Gates of Hope,” Filter Model” in January 2017. In May Jenny Phillips, FAA Distinguished at the Mountain Lake Colloquium. She 2017 Beauchamp coauthored a paper Staff Award also presented a session on Georgia in the Journal of the Audio Engineering O’Keeffe’s relationship to music at the Society entitled “A Matlab-Based Signal College Music Society in Santa FE, NM, Processing Toolbox for the Characterization and collaborated with colleagues Jeananne and Analysis of Musical Vibrato.” In June ereto, Italy. Additional lectures included Nichols and Adam Kruse on a talk focused 2017, Beauchamp and three University Ball State University, Butler University, on curricular renovation in music teacher of Illinois undergraduate students gave University of Indianapolis, and UIC. Addi- education at the New Directions for Per- presentations at a special workshop called tional premieres of his compositions formance and Music Teacher Education Midwest Music and Audio Day workshop included Double Star Destiny commis- Symposium in Xiamen, China in October (http://music.cs.northwestern.edu/mmad/), sioned by Violet (premiered at Ball State 2016. hosted by Northwestern University. In Fall University), Hammer Vision commissioned 2015, an electronic music synthesizer, the by Bent Frequency Duo Project (premiered Christina Bashford (Musicology) contin- Harmonic Tone Generator, invented by on their Midwest Tour), and Fate and ued to serve the School of Music as Asso- Beauchamp in the 1960s (late Professor Fusion, commissioned by a consortium ciate Director for Graduate Studies. She Lejaren Hiller Jr., supervisor), was installed of percussionists including UI faculty gave two keynote conference addresses along with its modern digital recreation member William Moersch and Benjamin abroad, one for the British Association of in the University of Illinois’ The Sousa Charles (MM 2011) (premiered at Olivet Victorian Studies at Cardiff University (at Archives and Center For American Music. Nazarene University). Sol Moon Rocker which she spoke about the violin in the was selected out of 425 scores for per- late Victorian imagination), and one for Zack Browning (Com- formance in the BoldCity Contemporary the Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain position-Theory) Ensemble 2017 Call for Scores and his conference at the University of Birming- attended premiere per- music was also performed in Argentina, ham (at which she spoke about concert formances of Soul Doc- Germany, Italy, Korea, the United Kingdom, and opera culture in Victorian London). trine by Sonata Islands Russia and the USA. Browning continues The year was also marked by a series Trio in Italy; he also lectured at the Museum to direct the Salvatore Martirano Memo- of public presentations, with William of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rov- rial Composition Award, now in its 21st year.

2018 23 faculty news

Donna A. Buchanan Kurt Elling, John Prine, and Lupe Fiasco. and in three of her compositions for the (Musicology) presented He performed at the 39th Chicago Jazz Illinois Songs CD. Additionally, Davis papers at the Joint Confer- Festival at Millennium Park with an all- directed the inaugural pre-college Black ence of Bulgarian and star big band led by trumpeter Jon Faddis Chorus ISYM camp, and was inducted North American Scholars celebrating the 100th birthday of jazz into the University of Illinois Alumni Hall (Sofia, Bulgaria), the Inter- great Dizzy Gillespie in fall 2017. of Fame inaugural class of 150 in celebra- national Council for Traditional Music tion of the University of Illinois World Conference (Limerick, Ireland; Elliot Chasanov (Brass) Sesquicentennial. supported by a Faculty Conference Travel travelled to Great Britain Grant from the Illinois European Union to visit the Michael Rath Jason Finkelman (Improvisation/Compo- Center), the Interdisciplinary Bell Studies Trombone shop where he sition), program coordinator of the Robert Symposium “Resonance and Remem- was appointed a Rath Per- E. Brown Center for World Music, was in brance” (University of Michigan, Ann forming Artist by owner residence at the Maggie Allesee National Arbor), the international symposium Mick Rath. In addition to numerous clinics Center for Choreography at Florida State “Central and Eastern Europe in the Global throughout Illinois, he presented a brass University in May 2017 and Vermont Middle Ages” (Illinois), and the annual clinic at Midwest Young Artists and for Performance Lab in Guilford, VT in July meetings of the Society for Ethnomusicol- the Chicago Youth Symphony. 2017, composing music for the Cynthia ogy (Washington, DC) and National Asso- Oliver Company Dance Theatre. The new ciation of Schools of Music (NASM; Richard Colwell (Emeritus, Music Edu- full evening work titled Virago-Man Dem Dallas). She conducted spring field cation) and Patrick Schmidt of the Uni- explores black masculinities and premiered research in Bulgaria under the auspices versity of Western Ontario teamed up to at Brooklyn Academy of Music, October of an IIP International Research Travel edit Policy and the Political Life of Music 25–28, 2017. Grant, presented a colloquium lecture Education, published by Oxford University for the ethnomusicology program at Brown Press in 2017. Policies of eight countries Donna Gallo (Music Edu- University, and published articles in Bal- besides the US are represented. Ithaca cation) recently co-pre- kanistica, the NASM conference Proceed- College Professor emeritus Mark Fonder sented research, “Inservice ings, and the SEM Newsletter. The recipient (1983) is a new author for the 5th edition and preservice music edu- of a 2017 Campus Distinguished Promo- of the Colwell-Mike Hewitt (U of Md) cators’ changes to beliefs, tion Award, she has been appointed as a Teaching of Instrumental Music published planning, and instruction faculty associate at the Center for Advanced by Taylor and Frances on October 1, 2017. through learning about culturally respon- Study for 2017–2018. sive teaching,” at the Symposium on Music Ollie Watts Davis (Voice) Teacher Education (Minneapolis, MN); Tito Carrillo (Jazz) featured appeared with the Jupiter gave an invitation lecture, “Teaching choral on Grammy-award winning String Quartet for the music to young singers through movement jazz vocalist Kurt Elling’s kickoff of the Illinois Ses- and ‘rote to note’ learning” (University album The Beautiful Day: quicentennial Celebration of Hawaii, M¯anoa); co-presented a plenary Kurt Elling Sings Christmas and with Sinfonia da session, “Developing preservice teachers’ in 2016. He was also fea- Camera in Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of orientations toward culturally responsive tured with the Chicago- based Peruvian 1915. She presented lectures at Trinity teaching through service learning” at the jazz group Chinchano in concerts in International University in Deerfield, IL, Mountain Lake Symposium for General Poznan, Poland and Lima, Peru. In early Vander Cook College (Chicago), and at Music (Pembroke, VA); and presented 2017, Carrillo served as visiting professor the historic Progressive Baptist Church research, “A preservice music teacher’s of jazz studies at La Pontificia Universidad of Chicago. She directed the 13th Biennial orientations toward culturally responsive Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia for one Black Sacred Music Symposium at Illinois, teaching through service learning” at the month working with large and small jazz and led the Black Chorus in a performance Research in Music Education conference ensembles. He was also an orchestra at the 32nd Chicago Gospel Music Festival. (Bath, England). In addition to this, she member and featured soloist on Chicago She led the Black Chorus in signature presented “Taking liberties: Creative and Voices, a PBS broadcast gala concert performances on campus, including the expressive movement to enhance musi- event led by Reneé Fleming and featuring Foundation’s Celebration of Philanthropy cianship in elementary contexts,” at the event welcoming Chancellor Robert Jones, Organization of American Kodály Educa-

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tors national conference (Philadelphia, with the Shakujii International Orchestra recital in Vienna, a lecture recital at the PA). She is president-elect of the Central of Tokyo. During the 2016–2017 academic International Beethoven Piano Competi- Illinois Kodály Educators. year, Haken gave numerous masterclasses tion, and a seminar on the creative process and recitals throughout the US, including in music at the Budapest Academy of Julie Jordan Gunn appearances at Rice University in Houston Music. He was twice invited to China, (Lyric Theatre/Accom- and the Kaufman Music Center in New where his book Beethoven was a focus panying) played two York City. Recently, he was the featured at the National Arts Center in Beijing. recitals for the Cliburn artist at the University of Florida Viola After a Beethoven lecture recital in Beijing Foundation in Fort Day, and delivered presentations at the in June, he signed 300 copies of this book Worth, reuniting with Mandy Patinkin, Chicago Viola Festival at Ravinia. in the Chinese edition. Kinderman is co- and inaugurated the Krannert Broadcast curator of the new Beethoven Museum series with the Jupiter Quartet. Recent Jonathan Keeble (Wood- in Vienna/Heiligenstadt and will return conducting engagements include: Dean winds) performed the world for its opening in November 2017. He Burry’s The Brothers Grimm & The Bremen premiere of distinguished has edited a book and made recordings Town Musicians at Ontario’s Highlands composer-conductor that form a permanent part of the museum. Opera, a world premiere of an Iain Bell Richard Prior’s Concerto composition, Tom O’Bedlam at the Uni- for Flute and Orchestra with Adam Kruse (Music Edu- versity of Notre Dame, and Adam Guettel’s the LaGrange Symphony. He performed cation) published a research The Light in the Piazza for Lyric Theatre on three separate concerts at the National article in the Bulletin of the @ Illinois. Her work as a producer for Flute Association’s National Convention, Council for Research in Lyric Theatre has strengthened her con- including its “Star Power” program, and Music Education exploring nection with diverse artistic groups: design- as a key-note speaker. He was invited as intersections of race, ers, composers, dancers, actors, a featured alumni soloist at the Eastman gender, and sexuality for a queer rapper choreographers and directors. Accordingly, School of Music’s Meliora Weekend this of color and this musician’s experiences she has been asked to create a “Perform- past October as students gathered to honor with hip-hop as a resilient space. A previ- ing Arts Laboratory,” a group to advise flutist Bonita Boyd for 40 years of service ously accepted article also came out in on the collaboration of the different per- to the institution. Continuing multi-faceted print in Music Education Research. Kruse forming arts disciplines and new work. residences were enjoyed with the Prairie won a Technology Initiative Award from She is honored to be the co-chair of the Winds at Madeline Island Chamber Music, the College Music Society for a project Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at Aria International, and as a featured that involved engaging U of I music edu- National Council, which is celebrating artist at the Pacific Northwest Flute and cation students in numerous school and the Krannert Center’s 50th anniversary Piccolo Forum alongside master performer community settings with a variety of music with a major capital campaign. pedagogue Walfrid Kujala. His article, recording and production technologies. “Linda Mintener: Rebel With Cause(s),” As part of an active schedule as a speaker Rudolf Haken (Strings) is appeared in the Flutist Quarterly. Keeble and clinician working with many topics founder and director of the was recognized with the 2017 College related to hip-hop and music education, new University of Illinois of Fine and Applied Arts Excellence in Kruse held engagements at the inaugural Hip Hop Collective, focus- Teaching Award at Illinois. HipHopEd Conference, the New Direc- ing on performances, video tions in Music Education Conference, the productions, and educa- William Kinderman (Musi- Big Ten Academic Alliance Music Educa- tional programs. Haken spent the summer cology) spent a sabbatical tion Conference, the Illinois Music Educa- teaching and performing in the US, Japan, year (until Summer 2017) tion Conference, and a symposium on and Brazil, culminating in two perfor- in Vienna, as Director’s university music education in China. mances of his Concerto for Five-String Fellow of the International Viola with orchestras in Maringá, Brazil. Research Center for the Charlotte Mattax Moersch Upcoming concerto performances include Humanities and Visiting Research Profes- (Organ/Harpsichord) was Oren Boneh’s Winter Walks that Gravel sor at the Music and Art University. He a featured harpsichord my Voice with the Illinois Modern Ensem- presented keynote addresses, lecture soloist for the Houston Bach ble and the Mozart Clarinet Concerto recitals and residencies in many European Society in a program enti- (transcribed by Haken for five-string viola) countries, including a Beethoven piano tled “Improvisation,” with

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pieces by d’Anglebert, Couperin, and Vedder. Lastly, he performed as principal sical Review described his performance Bach. Other highlights included concerts bassoon at the Chicago Symphony Center with Illinois Philharmonic as “Command- for the 110th Bethlehem Bach Festival in with the Distant Worlds Symphony ing technique... poignant... searing.” performances featuring cantatas, the Mass, Orchestra. Milenkovich also performed as part of and chamber pieces with viola d’amore the campaign for Novi Sad (Serbia) to and the Mock Turtle Marionette Theatre. Charles “Chip” McNeill become European Capital of Culture, At Illinois, she directed her period instru- (Jazz) toured with the Doc candidacy they have now won for 2021. ment group Concerto Urbano in Baroque Severensen big band Milenkovich now performs exclusively chamber recitals. Ongoing projects include including performances in on an important Italian violin made by a recording of J.C.F. Bach’s keyboard Washington, DC and Bal- Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, Turin, 1783. sonatas for Centaur funded by the Research timore, MD. He also toured Board; an invited article for the mono- with the Jim Widner big band and was a William Moersch (Percus- graph, Musical Improvisation in the faculty member at two of his summer sion) was a featured soloist Baroque Era, to be published by Brepols jazz camps at the University of Missouri–St. at the Percussive Arts (Turnhout, Belgium); and, “Sundays with Louis and the University of Nebraska, Society International Con- Sebastian,” an initiative of the organ/ Omaha, in addition to being the coordi- vention for “Then and Now: harpsichord division to offer monthly nator of the U of I ISYM summer jazz 30th Anniversary of the concerts of Bach’s complete keyboard camp. The U of I Concert Jazz Band also NEA Concert” and a concerto soloist with works, beginning with Mattax’s perfor- presented a well-received and critically- both Sinfonia da Camera and the Cham- mance of the Goldberg Variations featuring acclaimed concert of original Brazilian paign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra last a series of paintings inspired by the varia- music featuring Brazilian vocalist Livia season. In the summer, he returned to tions by award-winning artist John Boorsch. Nevstrovsky in April at the KCPA. The Argentina and performed recitals at the Concert Jazz Band was also invited to a 15th International Patagonia Percussion Timothy McGovern premiere evening concert performance Festival (a festival that he helped create (Woodwinds) worked with at the Jazz Education Network conference in 2003) and at the Conservatorio Superior the Elgin Youth Symphony in Dallas, TX, in January 2018 featuring de Musica “Felix T. Garzon” in Córdoba, Orchestra in Elgin. He con- guest artists Ernie Watts (acclaimed jazz including the South American premiere ducted rehearsals for saxophonist) and U of I Jazz Faculty of Zack Browning’s Fate and Fusion. Midwest Young Artists stu- member Jim Pugh (acclaimed dents at the Ravinia Festival grounds. trombonist). Linda R. Moorhouse’s (Administration) McGovern also hosted Chicago Symphony highlights from the past year include guest Orchestra principal bassoonist, Keith Stefan Milenkovich’s conducting engagements with regional Bunche for a masterclass. The oboe and (Strings) performance honor bands, university, and semi-pro- bassoon studios presented a performance in June 2017 at the fessional ensembles in Florida (twice), at the All-State Conference in Peoria. This Jupiter Symphony Tennessee (twice), Idaho, and Iowa. She performance included faculty and student Chamber Music Festi- also served as an adjudicator for Sin- conductors, original student compositions, val in New York City was hailed by The gapore’s National Youth Music Festival chamber ensembles and our large double New York Times as “This Week’s Best in April, and served on two jury panels reed band. Professor McGovern begins Classical Moments,” and as “ Strong... for the World Music Contest (WMC) in his 25th year as Principal Bassoon of the delightful reading... with special relish.” Kerkrade, Netherlands, in July. The WMC Illinois Symphony Orchestra. The Prairie In July, Milenkovich was also awarded has been held every four years since Winds Woodwind Quintet performed at the prestigious “Judita” award for “Best 1951 and this year included ensembles the Morton Arboretum Concert Series in classical music performance” at the Split from 32 countries. This past March, Dr. Lisle, IL, and taught and performed at the Summer festival in Split, Croatia. In the Moorhouse was elected Vice President Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival US, Milenkovich made his debut as a of the prestigious American Bandmas- in La Pointe, WI. In September, he per- soloist with Oklahoma Symphony Orches- ters Association, and in 2019 will be formed two concerts of “Classic Quadro- tra, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, and the second woman to hold the office of phenia” at the Rosemont Theatre with returned to perform with Lake Forest ABA President since the organization’s Pete Townshend, Billy Idol and Eddie Symphony Orchestra (IL). Chicago Clas- founding in 1928.

26 sonorities Bruno Nettl (Emeritus, Edward Rath (Emeritus, Administra- to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Musicology) published tion) performed at an alumni concert at University of Illinois in New York, Chicago, several essays over the past Lawrence University in June 2016 and and Champaign. year: “Landmarks in the played a house concert in Natchitoches Study of Improvisation” in LA the following October. A few weeks Sarah Wigley (Lyric George E. Lewis and Ben- later, he joined Director/Professor Emeritus Theatre), along with jamin Piekut, ed. The Oxford Handbook Don V. Moses in a presentation on the UI Yvonne Gonzales of Critical Improvisation Studies, Vol. 2 campus devoted to performance practice Redman (Voice) and (Oxford University Press, 2016); “On in Haydn’s choral music. In January 2017, doctoral student in jazz Bridges and Island in the History of Eth- Rath adjudicated the Krannert Center voice Lara Semetko Brooks recently pre- nomusicology: Some Personal Reflections” Debut Artist competition and in March he sented “Crossing Over: A Classical Singers in Zuzana Jurková and David Verbuc, ed. adjudicated the UI Brass Division’s con- Guide to Jazz” in Stockholm, Sweden, at Crossing Bridges, (Prague: Charles Uni- certo competition prelims. Later in March, the International Congress of Voice Teach- versity, 2016); “Have You Changed Your he joined Professor Emeritus Ronald ers conference. ICVT is held every four Mind? Reflections on Sixty Years of Eth- Hedlund in performing an all-Sinatra years, and this is the first time that the nomusicology” Acta Musicologica 2017; program at two fund-raising dinners for the University of Illinois has been represented. “Paul Nettl, Bohemian Musicologist: benefit of the CU Symphony Orchestra. Collaborative teaching, use of improvisa- Emigration and Virtual Return” in Walde- In April 2017, Rath attended the annual tion within the voice studio, and the mar Zacharasiewicz, ed., Exiles and conference/festival of The American Liszt importance of healthy, versatile vocal Returnees (Vienna: Vienna Academy of Society held at Northwestern University. techniques were at the helm of this well- Sciences); “Ethnomusicology” in Oxford He is a member of the Society’s board of received session in the Grand Hall of the Bibliographies in Music (New York: Oxford directors and its executive committee and newly renovated Royal College of Music University Press 2017); and “Adler in also serves as the organization’s webmaster on August 4th, 2017. Sarah also recently America, a Conversation” by Philip V. and editor of its newsletter. directed a production of [title of show] at Bohlman and Bruno Nettl, in Markus the 2017 Allerton Barn Music Festival Stumpf et al., Guido Adlers Erbe: Restitu- Yvonne Gonzales Redman and will direct the Lyric Theatre @ Illinois tion und Erinnerung (Vienna: Vienna (Voice) was invited to co- mainstage production of She Loves Me University Press, 2017). present the August 2017 in April 2018. International Congress of Susan Parisi (Research Voice Teachers, held at the Debra Richtmeyer (Wood- Scholar in Musicology) newly renovated Royal winds) gave a masterclass published the article “Cer- College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. and recital for the “Midwest emonies and Displays in With colleague Sarah Wigley and doctoral Reed Day” at the University 1618: Mantua ‘Under the student in jazz voice Lara Semetko, she of North Iowa in April and Protection of Beato Luigi presented “Crossing the Genres: A Clas- at the University of Idaho Gonzaga’,” in Maestranze, artisti e appa- sical Singer’s Guide to Jazz.” In the in May 2017 and was Guest Judge for the ratori per la scena dei Gonzaga (1480– 2016–17 academic year, she was a soprano “MusicFest Northwest” Solo Woodwinds 1630), edited by Simona Brunetti (Bari: soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Sin- Competition held in Spokane, WA, in Edizioni di Pagina, 2016), pp. 422–451. fonia da Camera conducted by Ian Hobson. May 2017. The article expands her contribution to She collaborated with Julia Fedoseeva at the international symposium on Gonzaga the DoCha Chamber Festival, performing Bernhard Scully patronage of the theatrical arts, held in art songs by Tchaikovsky. Her perfor- (Brass) performed Mantua in 2015. In June 2017, Parisi mances from the Metropolitan Opera of extensively throughout traveled to Lille, France, to continue Rigoletto, Jenufa, Die Ägyptische Helena, Europe, Asia, and research in the Archives départementales and The Gambler were broadcast over North America as the du Nord on Gonzaga state voyages in the Sirius XM Radio. In 2018, she looks horn player of Canadian Brass. Canadian late renaissance. forward to premiering Dominick DiOrio’s Brass soloed with the National Arts Centre composition, Gathering, commissioned Orchestra, Grant Park Symphony, Charles-

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ton Symphony, the Staff Band of New she enjoyed being in Munich and Salz- notation software, Dorico. His arrange- York City, New York City Interschool burg, where she gave a masterclass at the ments for Pink Martini appear on their Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Ohio Austrian American Mozart Academy in album Je Dis Oui, released in Fall 2016; University Symphonic Wind Ensemble late July and attended a performance at and the Chicago Symphony played many at Carnegie Hall, and in front of the March- the Festspiele of Mozart’s La Clemenza of these in concert in June 2017. He also ing Illini. Canadian Brass was featured at di Tito. presented new sonification research at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic the International Community for Audio and many other prestigious educational Bridget Sweet (Music Display at Penn State in Summer 2017, events. Scully performed as principal Education) published her and travelled to Berlin in September 2017 horn with the Cleveland Orchestra, and article, “Keeping the glass to present additional work; these can be as principal horn with the Brevard Music half full: Teaching adoles- seen and heard at stephenandrewtaylor. Festival Orchestra. The Jupiter String cents with a holistic per- net/genetics.html. Quartet joined Scully on his latest CD, spective,” in Choral Journal Windows In Time. He was appointed as (October 2016). She presented, “The Sever Tipei (Composition-Theory) pre- the new Artistic Director of the Kendall adolescent female changing voice: Sup- sented his project “Composition as an Betts Horn Camp. He also performed as porting singers for a life of song,” at the Evolving Entity,” at the International Com- a soloist and chamber musician throughout American Choral Director Association puter Music Conference held in Utrecht, the United States, including the world National Conference (Minneapolis, MN) Netherlands. His piece Big Gizmo, pro- premiere of the new trio, For Steven Stucky, and was a headline presenter at the 12th duced with DISSCO software for Com- by Stephen Taylor with the Bakken Trio. Annual Michigan Music Conference position and Sound Design (developed (Grand Rapids, MI) and Minnesota Music at the UIUC Computer Music Project and Jerold Siena (Voice) was Educator Association Midwinter Clinic Argonne National Laboratory), was per- tenor soloist in Stephen (Minneapolis, MN). She was an invited formed at the Firenze Multimedia Festival Taylor’s Transformation with presenter (“Embracing wonderfulness, and, along with two other DISSCO works the University of Illinois warts, and all: Teaching music in middle (Quilt and Trans), at the 12th edition of the Symphony, and recorded school and beyond”) and middle school Meridian Festival in Bucharest, Romania. a narration for George choral clinician for the Ohio Collegiate figer, created with the same software, was Walker’s Fifth Symphony for the soon to Music Education Association Chapter at awarded a place on ABLAZE Records Elec- be released recording with Ian Hobson Baldwin Wallace University (Berea, OH). tronic Masters Vol. 6, and was performed at and the Sinfonia Varsovia. In July, he was She also co-presented “Re-placing music the New Music Day @ sonicscape, Yongin, able to tag along with his wife, Stasia, teacher education: Collaboration in a South Korea. Sponsored by the National who taught Alexander Technique at the school university partnership” with Adam Center for Supercomputing Applications Kendall Betts Horn Camp in New Hamp- Kruse and Jeff Dare at the Illinois Music SPIN (Students Pushing Innovation) and shire, and indulged his secret passion by Education Association All-State Confer- by UIUC Research Initiative programs. conducting the Wagner Rheingold-Fantasie ence (Peoria, IL). Additionally, she con- Tipei mentored six undergraduate stu- by Klier with Bernhard Scully, director ducted the Georgia Music Education dents who worked during the year in of the camp, and seven other members Association District XII Middle School the Computer Music Project adding new of the horn faculty. Honors Chorus (Kennesaw, GA) and the features to DISSCO. 2017 ISYM Junior Chorus. Sylvia Stone (Voice) con- Priscilla Tse (Musicology) completed tinued her work with the Stephen Taylor (Composition-Theory) her PhD in ethnomusicology in Summer summer training program continued his work as composer, arranger, 2017. During the 2016–17 academic year, she founded and directs and, increasingly, with data sonification. she gave a guest lecture at the University for young opera singers in His horn trio for Steven Stucky was pre- of California, San Diego, and presented Sant’Angelo in Vado, Italy. miered by the Bakken Trio with Profes- various papers at the ICTM Study Group This year marked its 14th anniversary and sor Bernhard Scully in Minneapolis in on Musics of East Asia 5th Symposium was highlighted by two performances in October 2016; his solo piano piece Green (Taipei), Society for Ethnomusicology 61st Teatro Zuccari of scenes from great operas Trees Are Bending has been included as Annual Conference (Washington, DC), by beloved Italian composers. Afterwards, a demo score in Steinberg’s new music Social Science History Association 41st

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Annual Meeting (Chicago), and Chinese archiving audio files of his music com- 1950–1959 Oral and Performing Literature Confer- positions that will be housed in the Uni- Martha (Parker) Brons ence (Toronto). She will serve as a visiting versity of Illinois Center for American (BM ’55), a Bronze Tablet lecturer in musicology at the University of Music. He plans to continue this work Scholar, continues to enjoy Illinois at Urbana-Champaign throughout archiving his scores. Professor Wyatt cello and contributes to the the 2017–18 academic year. received performances of his composi- string music education tions at Ball State University, Brigham community worldwide. In Christos Tsitsaros (Piano Young University, Lewis University, Uni- 2008 Brons invented the CelloPhant® Pedagogy) was commis- versity of Chicago, University of Illinois, brand bow accessory to assure relaxed sioned as composer for the and the University of West Virginia. Music Teachers National and flexible bow holds for beginning Association 2017 National Ann Yeung (Harp) per- players. The accessory, manufactured by Conference in Baltimore. formed at the Hong Kong Things 4 Strings LLC, is now distributed His Fantasy trio for piano, clarinet, and World Harp Congress as worldwide and is protected by US Patents oboe was premiered within the “From the Aletheia Duo with flutist 8,273,973 and D650,830, Australia Patent the Pen to then Premiere” chamber music Jonathan Keeble, presenting AU2009241598, Mexico Patente No. event and was published by the Hal distinguished composer- 313970, and European Union Design Leonard Corporation. He also gave work- conductor Richard Prior’s Call of the Sirens. Registration No. 001156830-0003. shops and performed for the Piano Teach- She was a featured presenter and round- ers’ Round Table in St. Louis (Steinway table moderator at the American Harp Piano Gallery), and the Gateway Arch Society National Summer Institute, serving 1960–1969 Music Teachers Association at Southern on a teaching panel with alumnus Charles Michael J. Bates (MM ’68), Professor Illinois University. W. Lynch III who now heads the largest of Music and Director of Choral Activi- public schools harp program in the US. ties at the University of Arkansas at Pine Paul Vermel (Emeritus, She also conducted the premiere of Julia Bluff, led 45 members of the University’s Conducting) presented Kay Jamieson’s Locomotive, commissioned Vesper Choir and four staff persons on several masterclasses in for the 15th Illinois Summer Harp Class. a performance and educational tour to conducting and led a Her article, “An Edit and an Epiphany: Spain, March 20–26, 2017. The choir reading of Stravinsky’s Fire- Jacques Ibert’s Entracte,” was published performed for enthusiastic audiences at bird at the State University in the World Harp Congress Review. Other the Iglesia de S. Manuel Y S. Benito in of New York at Fredonia in October 2017. activities included adjudicating the 2017 Madrid, at the Royal Palace and Monas- He continues to teach at the Conductor’s AHS National Solo Competition, giving tery at El Escorial and at Iglesia de Los Workshop at the University of South Caro- a masterclass at Indiana University’s Jacobs Jesuitas (San Ildefonso), Toledo. The choir lina each summer. School of Music, artistic directing the performed a varied repertoire of choral concert experience, “Into the Labyrinth: literature from the Baroque to the 21st Steven Wilson’s (Visiting Faculty) article Ariadne & Theseus,” with theatre professor century. Recently, the choir received a “Diamanda Galás: Écriture Féminine, Tom Mitchell, and hosting two on-campus gift of over $334,000 from UAPB/AM&N Abjection, and Feminine Jouissance” was interactive Aletheia Duo Entrepreneurship and choir alumnus Mr. John E. Smith to published in the journal Perspectives of Series residencies for students. New Music, vol. 54, no. 2. establish a Vesper Choir Endowment. Bates recently retired as Chair of the Scott A. Wyatt (Emeritus, Music Department and is completing his Composition-Theory) 40th year as a member of the University retired from the UI School of Arkansas at Pine Bluff faculty. of Music at the end of May Michael Fanelli (BM ’68, EdD ’01) 2016, and remains a con- authored a biographical article on the sultant to the Experimental teaching career and pedagogy of U of I Music Studios. Over the past academic professor Paul Rolland for the European year, he spent more than 1,000 hours

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String Teachers Association December November 2017, The American Trombone 2016 journal and their January 2017 1970–1979 Quartet will premiere his Trombone Graf- conference in Sweden. He was a faculty fiti at the Midwest Trombone Symposium member of the U of I 2017 Paul Rolland Richard Ashley (MM ’79, DMA ’82) at Eastern Illinois University. His composi- String Workshop. He also gave a Zoom recently published the Routledge Com- tions have been recorded on the Albany, lecture/presentation to the Rolland Work- panion to Music Cognition, which he Bottega Discantica (Italy), Crystal, Cap- shop at Arizona State University in June co-edited with Renee Timmers (University stone, DUX (Poland), Equilibrium, Hon- 2017. of Sheffield). With 43 chapters by musi- eyRock, IBS Classical (Spain), PL cians, psychologists, and neuroscientists, Productions, Ravello, C. Alan Publications, Bruce Scafe (BME ’64) the Companion addresses fundamental and Urania (Italy) labels. He is the founder plays trumpet profes- questions about the nature of music from and editor of Brixton Publications (ASCAP) sionally, residing in a psychological perspective. The five sec- and Howard J. Buss Publications (BMI), Belton, TX. He helped tions of the book—“Music from the Air which publish music by American com- launch the careers of to the Brain,” “Hearing and Listening posers. He and his wife Judy Buss (MM Billy Joel, Head East, and REO Speed- to Music,” “Making and Using Music,” ’76) reside in Lakeland, FL. wagon. Combining his music and TV “Developing Musicality,” and “Musical background, Scafe created PBS’ live TV Thornton Douglas Cline Meanings—investigate the psychological, show The Session, at WSIU. The Session (MS ’77) recently inked a physiological, and physical processes was Scafe’s “workshop,” which informed contract with major literary that allow music to take place, seeking his future co-creation of PBS’ Austin City agent and icon, Paul Shep- to explain how and why music has such Limits (ACL). ACL vastly changed music’s herd. Shepherd, president powerful and mysterious effects on us. portrayal on television, converting previ- and CEO of Shepherd Liter- Ashley has recently completed his 32nd ous skeptics like Willie Nelson. While at ary Services represents authors on Simon year on the faculty at Northwestern, where ACL, Scafe’s show garnered Chicago and Schuster, Abingdon Press, Thomas he holds appointments in music, cogni- International Film Festival and Emmy Nelson (Harper Collins), AMG Publishing tive science, and cognitive neuroscience. nominations. Though he remained there and other major book publishers. Cline for just a few years, ACL is an enduring Tom Bertucci (BME ‘76, MME ‘81) was won the Maxy Literary Award for “Chil- music institution (now in its 43rd season) appointed the conductor/director of McNa- dren’s Book of the Year for 2017” for his that continues to inspire generations of mara’s Band in Keokuk, IA, after retiring. book, Perfectly Precious. Several of his musicians. Scafe has recently been rec- He is only the third director since the children’s books have soared to number ognized in the Distinguished Alumnus band’s conception in 1953. In Spring 2017, one on the Amazon book charts. Cline Hall of Honor, West Aurora H.S. (2014); Bertucci was the featured speaker at the is the author of 17 published books. Austin City Limits Hall of Fame (2015); Festa Di Fine Anno in Frassinoro, Italy. Pat Daugherty’s (BM and A Song for You: The Austin City Limits He spoke on the importance of support ’79) ensemble New Story, an award-winning documentary for community music programs at the York Electric Piano directed by Keith Maitland (2016). concert held in the Teatro “Buccardi” di plans to release their Frassinoro. Jon Washburn (BME 9th CD, State of the ’65), longtime conduc- Howard J. Buss (DMA Art, in February 2018. The group’s previ- tor and artistic director ’77) has written and pub- ous CD, Black Hole in One, was adopted of the Vancouver lished more than 170 com- by the All Black Rugby team from New Chamber Choir—Can- positions. His Diver­tisse­- Zealand on their way to the World Cup ada’s outstanding professional choir—has ments for clarinet and per- and was featured at a climate change announced that he will be transitioning cussion and Spectrum for conference at Penn State University. In to Conductor Emeritus at the end of the bass clarinet and percussion ensemble 2011, NYEP’s Keys to the City spent a 2018–19 season, his 48th at its helm. were premiered at ClarinetFest 2017. month in the top ten of the CMJ Jazz Other recent premieres include Serendip- chart. Daugherty has received commis- ity Suite for trumpet, trombone and piano sions from the Martha Graham Dance at the 2017 International Trombone Fes- Company (whom he toured with as a tival, and Sylvan Magic for clarinet and pianist for 10 years), the Merce Cunning- vibraphone at Newberry College. In ham Company, the Blue Man Group, and

30 sonorities is the only independent publisher of music choreography commissions from NYU, and to works that would typically be too in Israel, specializing in contemporary Marymount Manhattan College, and challenging for younger players. They are and classical music in print media. It Franklin and Marshall. He currently serves available online on Score Exchange and publishes books on music in Hebrew and as a company pianist for the Alvin Ailey SheetMusicPLus where the pieces can be English. The company’s latest publication, Dance Company. viewed, listened to, and bought in digital Klezmer Dance Suite (for clarinet, strings, formats. Jon B. Gilliland (MME ’77, EdD ’90) percussion and tuba) by Lev Kogan, arr. marked his 45th year in education in the Mark Mosley (BME Alan Kaufman, was recently premiered fall of 2017 despite officially “retiring” in ’78, MME ’80) and by Gene Kavadlo at the ClarinetFest 2017 2007 as a band and choir instructor and Sarah Good Mosley held in Orlando, FL. fine arts administrator in Illinois, Indiana, (BME ’80) are music and Wisconsin. He continues to teach as directors for Windy adjunct professor of music education at City Winds, a community concert band 1980–1989 the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of and serves as a school music program Chicago. Their 3/10/2017 concert featured Daniel Adams (DMA ’85) consultant. He is currently president of Thomas Madeja (BM ’04) as soloist in received the world pre- the Wisconsin School Music Association the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto, arranged miere of his composition Board of Directors, performs with area by the late professor Guy Duker. In the Transitory Liaisons for four vocal and instrumental ensembles, and past season, the band performed several bass clarinets and percus- directs the Senior Choir at Salem United transcriptions by the late director of bands sion quintet on July 28 in Methodist Church in Fond du Lac, WI. emeritus Mark Hindsley. Orlando, FL, as part of Clarinet Fest 2017— the annual conference of the International Perry Goldstein (BA’75, Dan Turner (MS ’79, EDD Clarinet Association. Transitory Liaisons MM’76) has finished a ’88), professor and Director was composed for the Four New Brothers quarter-of-a-century as a of Bands at Bob Jones Uni- Bass Clarinet Quartet and members of member of the Stony Brook versity, was inducted into the University of Central Florida Percus- University Department of the American Bandmasters sion Ensemble. The piece was commis- Music faculty, where he Association at the annual sioned by Richard Nunemaker, Selmer serves as chair. In 2017, he was inducted convention in Lexington, Kentucky, March Paris, Buffet Crampon, and D’Addario into the State University of New York 8–11, 2017. Membership is by invitation Woodwinds. Adams’s Congruent Verses, Distinguished Academy at the rank of only and nominees undergo a rigorous for English Horn solo was performed at “Distinguished Service Professor.” In addi- review of their live concerts, as well as the College Music Society International tion, he completed his Quintet for Cello a ballot vote by the association’s member- Conference held at the Conservatorium and String Quartet, performed by Stony ship. Turner is one of nine band directors of Music in Sydney, Australia on July 11, Brook faculty cellist Colin Carr at Stony from South Carolina to be inducted into 2017. Congruent Verses was performed Brook, and by ex-Tokyo String Quartet the ABA since the association’s by oboist Andrew Nogal. Adams is the cellist Clive Greensmith and the Omer founding. author of “Chaos, Ritual, and Proportion String Quartet at the Great Lakes Music David Wilson’s (DMA ’73) in Rolf Wallin’s Stonewave for Percussion Festival in Michigan. He also published book, The Dresden Manu- Ensemble,” an article published in the the sixth edition of W.W. Norton’s A New scripts: Unearthing an 18th Spring 2017 issue of the Journal of the Approach to Sight Singing, a collaboration Century Musical Genius, National Association of College Wind with Edward Smaldone of Queens College. has been published by New and Percussion Instructors. John Kula (MME ’71) Education Press, chronicing Thomas Caneva (BME has arranged over 40 his thirty-year journey to uncover, edit ’81), Director of Bands at chamber music pieces, and conduct the music of Johann Adolf Ball State University, con- taken from orchestral Hasse. A major component of the book ducted the BSU Wind sources, IMSLP and is the work he carried out under the direc- Ensemble in a performance even some anonymous chamber works tion of Harold Decker and Charles Hamm. at the College Band Direc- specifically for young musicians in an Jeffrey (Yosef) Zucker’s (BM ’78) tors National Association (CBDNA) effort to bring them to chamber music company, OR-TAV Music Publications, National Conference in Kansas City, MO.

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The concert took place at the Kauffman Church, Grand Prairie, TX, and contrib- for the 3rd time. In addition, the band Center for the Performing Arts in March utes reviews of new organ music for the was chosen as the only high school band 2017 and marked the second CBDNA publication, The Diapason. to perform at the upcoming College Band National Conference performance by the Directors National Association Regional Mary Shore (BME ‘84) was the 2017 BSU Wind Ensemble in the past six years. Convention at Western Michigan Univer- recipient of the Outstanding Music Edu- Earlier in the semester the BSU Wind sity in February 2018. Two years ago, the cator award given by the Rockford Sym- Ensemble appeared at the Indiana Music Hersey band performed a featured concert phony Orchestra. Mary teaches general Educators Association Professional Con- at Carnegie Hall with guest conductor, and choral music at Maud E. Johnson ference and at The Palladium in Carmel, Steve Peterson and guest vocalist Ollie Elementary School in Rockford, IL. IN. In addition, Caneva was awarded the Watts Davis. In addition to his duties at 2017–18 College of Fine Arts Dean’s Linda Stones (DMA ’85) John Hersey High School, Casagrande Creative Endeavor Award in Music at Ball is now fully retired and currently serves as President of the State University. He served as the Associ- living in Mission Viejo, CA. National Band Association and is an Edu- ate Director of Bands and Director of the cational Consultant for Music for All, Marching Illini from 1998–2006. coordinating the National Concert Band Festival and Regional Concert Band Fes- Stephen Cary (DMA ’88) retired in 2013 tivals around the US. after 25 years as Professor of Music at the University of Alabama. While at Illinois, Rick Dammers (MME ’97, Cary was a student of Frances Crawford. 1990–1999 PhD ’06) was named the He has been featured as the tenor soloist Stacy Baker (DMA ’99), Dean of the College of Per- with orchestras and choral groups across Professor of Music at More- forming Arts at Rowan Uni- the US and in England and Germany in head State University, and versity in July. Prior to many works including Beethoven’s Ninth euphoniumist Gail Robert- becoming Dean, Dammers Symphony, Dvorak’s Requiem, Liszt’s son appeared as the invited served as a Professor of Music Education Psalm 13, Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Guest Tuba and Euphonium and Chairperson of the Music Department Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, Lloyd Artists for the prestigious 32nd Leonard at Rowan. He lives in Glassboro, NJ, with Webber’s Requiem, and many others. Falcone International Euphonium and his wife Becky Dammers (MME‘05) and His operatic roles have included Rodolfo Tuba Festival, August 11–14, 2017 at Blue twin daughters Abby and Emily. (La Bohéme), Alfredo (La Traviata), Albert Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, MI. Michael Edward Edgerton (DMA ’94) Herring (Albert Herring), Jean (Herodiade), The pair, known as SymbiosisDuo, pre- has had a busy year, with new composi- Alfred (Die Fledermaus), and many others. sented clinics/masterclasses, performed tions including ASEAN Voices; Beauty He was also a three-time Regional Final- a solo/duo recital, quartet performance, and Disappearance of an Unstable Orbit; ist for the Metropolitan Opera National and premiered American composer Eric Intitulata Fontegara; Imitating the Vivacity Council auditions. Knetchges’ double concerto, Twin Lake of the Human Voice; Hawking Radiation; Renée N. Hale (BM ’82, Reflections with the Blue Lake Festival and Sirene Segmenti. In the last year he’s MM ’84) has been with Band under the direction of Joseph Man- had performances by Landesjugendchor Stringsong, a violin/piano fredo. Baker is Morehead State University’s Saar (Behnke), AuditivVokal Dresden duo with Cheryl Kapteyn, 2016–2017 Distinguished Creative Pro- (Katzer), The Six Tones, Angela Radem- since 2012. Stringsong has ductions Award recipient and the 2014– acher-Wingerath, Hu Liu, C Asean Con- released two full length 2015 Distinguished Teacher. She has served sonant Ensemble, Evergreen Experimental albums, King of Love and King of Joy, and on the faculty at MSU since 1996. Music Ensemble (Chandra), Berliner Cap- is set to have its first California west coast Scott Casagrande (MME pella (Behnke), Via Nova Choir (Behnke), tour in 2018. ’93) directed the John and Moritz Ernst in Donaueschingen, Dortmund, Lübeck, Munich, Dresden, Jeffrey Schleff (PhD ’89) accepted the Hersey High School Sym- Meißen, Saarland, Düsseldorf (Germany), position of Director of Bands for the phonic Band at the Illinois as well as in Hanoi (Vietnam), Beijing, Sulphur Public Schools, Sulphur, Okla- Superstate Concert Band Nanning (China), Malmö (Sweden), Basel homa, beginning July 2017. He continues Festival in May 2017, where (Schweiz), Olympia, Parkland, Portland, to serve as Organist for First Presbyterian it was named Honor Band in Class 3A

32 sonorities Tacoma, and Bellingham (USA). Festivals goals and achieved a balanced budget Thomas Lloyd’s (DMA include: Meißen klingt...nach Demokra- for 10 straight years. He was named the ’94) full-length choral- tie; Festival UPGRADE; Musicacoustica 2017 Champion of the Year by the Black theater work Bonhoeffer Festival; Chor.com Festival. In addition, a Owned Media Alliance. Goldberg has was performed by The collaboration with The Six Tones featured in led a team that has received 49 ADDY Crossing choir under the a television broadcast on VTV4 (Vietnam), Awards, 10 AVA Digital Awards, 26 Hermes direction of Donald Nally and AbaGa baRatur was published in the Creative Awards, and five Summit Awards. and subsequently received a 2017 Grammy Neue Dresdner Vokalschule by SLUB He recently completed two years as the nomination in the Best Choral Performance and included in a video: AUDITIVVO- Chair for the National Performing Arts category. Lloyd has also published recent KAL DRESDEN—ZEITGENÜSSLICHE Center Consortium for Marketing Direc- articles in the Choral Journal (“Edward VOKALMUSIK. tors. He is a member of the first class to Elgar’s The Apostles—A major oratorio receive a Diploma in Fundraising Man- standing outside tradition”) and Interna- Steve Flowers (BME ’93) agement from AFP (2017). Goldberg tional Choral Bulletin (“Singen, nicht is in his 25th year of teach- Let’s sing, not—ءانغلا، ال هركأ—created “MiamiArtsJobs.com,” a free com- hassen ing music at River Trails munity resource; and “ArtsLaunch,” an hate—Berlin’s “Begegnungschor”); the Middle School in Mt. Pros- annual free community open house, col- latter is an account of a collaborative pect, IL. Over the past 10 laborating with more than 100 local arts performance with a choir made up of years, Steve has written two organizations. Previous companies: Lyric Germans and Middle Eastern refugees in musicals, Brats in Space and A Meteor, Opera of Chicago, Ravinia Festival, Florida Berlin. Lloyd is a Professor of Music at Right?, both of which have been published Grand Opera. Haverford College, Director of Music at and performed around the country. He the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, also composed a jazz band chart entitled Joyce Griggs (BME ’99, DMA ’12) was and Artistic Director of the Bucks County Trick Shot that was published by Barnhouse named Interim Chief Academic Officer, Choral Society in suburban Publishing and performed at the ILMEA Dean of the Conservatory, Cleveland Philadelphia. District 7 Jazz Festival. Institute of Music. Christopher Marks (MM Daniel Fry (BME ’95, MME ’03) is in Victoria Lindsay Levine (PhD ’90) has ’95) is Associate Dean of his fifth year as music director of St. Paul been named the NEH Distinguished Pro- the Hixson-Lied College of UCC, Belleville, IL, where he directs fessor at Colorado College. This endowed Fine and Performing Arts three choirs and a handbell choir, and chair, supported in part by a grant from at the University of serves as organist. He also serves as choral the NEH, recognizes Levine’s scholar- Nebraska–Lincoln. He accompanist and piano instructor at The ship, teaching, program-building, and recently completed a third volume of Principia in Town and Country, MO, and interdisciplinary connections within the recordings of the organ works of Seth as accompanist and applied music instruc- fine arts and humanities divisions of the Bingham, whose music he has performed tor at St. Louis College of Pharmacy. He college. Levine’s research focuses primar- frequently throughout the US. additionally serves as an accompanist ily on Native American musical cultures; and sings tenor in the American Chamber she is the author, co-author, or editor of Robert Reinhart (BM ’98) Chorale, based in Ladue, MO. With his numerous publications and has received attended the world pre- colleague Tristan Frampton, he recently major grants from the ACLS, the NEH, miere of his work Fit for led a chamber choir on a tour of Germany the Society for Ethnomusicology, and the alto flute and harp in and the Czech Republic, including a per- Associated Colleges of the Midwest. She October 2016 at the Center formance at the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. has taught ethnomusicology and South- for New Music in San Fran- western Studies at Colorado College since cisco as well as the Midwest premiere in Andrew Goldberg (BA 1988, where she has served as the John Chicago, both featuring flutist Emma ’97) completed his 10th D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor, Hospelhorn and harpist Ben Melsky of year as VP of Marketing for the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of the Ensemble Dal Niente. Reinhart performed the Adrienne Arsht Center Hulbert Center for Southwestern Studies, for Chicago’s Ear Taxi Festival as bassoonist for the Performing Arts in and the Christine S. Johnson Professor in the world premiere of NOX by Drew Miami, FL, on August 6, of Music. Baker, as well as for the a.pe.ri.od.ic 2017. The Center has surpassed sales

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Methodist Church in Norman since 2009; ensemble. He recorded on a.pe.ri.od.ic’s headed the performing arts unit since and founder and music director of the upcoming album and performed in Tim 2004 and, with her colleagues, has worked professional vocal ensemble, the Richard Parkinson’s opera Time With People with steadily towards establishing the new Zielinski Singers, since 2005. the ensemble in February and September school. The OU Board of Trustees approved 2017. He continues to serve as Coordina- the establishment of the school in August tor of Sophomore Music Theory and Aural 2017. Wiggins also serves on the music Skills at Northwestern University. faculty as Distinguished Professor of Music 2000–2009 Education and was the inaugural recipient Kyle Schumacher (BME ’90) is currently Keturah Bixby (BM ’08) received a PhD of the University’s Outstanding Graduate serving as Superintendent of La Grange in August 2017 from the University of Mentor Award in 2014. School District 102 in La Grange, IL. His Rochester in Brain and Cognitive Science. district’s music team is filled with UIUC Mark Zanter (MM ‘93, Her dissertation investigated how produc- alumni, including: Debbie (Johnson) DMA ’01), Brigid Burke, ing sound changes auditory perception LeGare (BME ’90), Ogden Elementary and Steve Hall, issued Total in both language and music. She is cur- School General Music/Choir Director; Harmonic Distortion on rently working as a Senior Data Scientist Kelly (Comiskey) Paetsch (BME ’91), the innova imprint in May at Measures for Justice in Rochester, NY. Park Junior High General Music/Choir 2016. Zanter’s music Kristina Boerger (DMA Director); Carolyn (Riedell) May (BME recently featured in the Society of Electro- ’00) has been appointed ’74), District Band Director; and Nancy Acoustic Music National Conference Professor of Music and (Yonco) Flanagan (BME ’88), District (2017), New York City Electro-Acoustic Director of Choral Activities Band Director. Connie (Jun) Lyda (BME Music Festival (2017), The International at the DePauw School of ’81, MM ’82) also works in the area as Clarinet Association ClarinetFest (2016), Music. She toured in Spain Lyons Township Choral Director. The National Flute Association Conven- and France as a soprano with The Rose tion (2017), the First International Festival Daniel Teadt (BM ’98, MM ’00) recorded Ensemble in Summer 2017, presenting of Contemporary Music, Goiania Brazil two world premiere song cycles for the two programs: one of ancient Italian laude (2017), and the Australian Computer Music Naxos Label: Daron Hagen’s Songs of and motets to Saint Francis, and another Association festival in Adelaide, Australia Experience and Kile Smith’s In This Blue of various US traditions from Shape-note (2017). Room. He also received a Berkman Faculty hymnody to Hawai’ian choral song. At Grant from Carnegie Mellon University Richard Zielinski (DMA Barcelona’s Palau de la Música Catalana to record a world premiere song cycle by ’91) recently celebrated his she conducted the world premiere of Benjamin Boyle entitled Spirits In Bondage. 10th year as artistic director Audito è un canto for ten solo voices, and principal conductor of commissioned for The Rose Ensemble by David Thurmaier (BM ’96) has been the Classical Music Festival the World Symposium on Choral Music awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to spend Eisenstadt Summer and composed by Xavier Pagès-Corella. the Spring 2018 semester at Masaryk Academy, a world-renowned gathering University in Brno, Czech Republic. He Kyong Mee Choi’s (DMA of musicians that takes place annually in will teach courses on music theory peda- ’05) Tender Spirit I for flute, the Austrian city of Eisenstadt, at the Ester- gogy, American music, and the Beatles, clarinet, violin, cello, hazy Palace—home of Joseph Haydn. He and will research undergraduate music piano, percussion, and was recently awarded the Gold Medal of theory curricula in the Czech Republic electronics will be pub- Achievement by the city of Eisenstadt for as well as the music of Leoš Janácˇek. He lished by the Ablaze his artistic achievements and musical is associate professor of Music Theory at Records for their Pierrot Ensemble Series contributions, and this year was presented the University of Missouri–Kansas City CD release in Spring 2018. Her what with the Business Person in the Arts Award Conservatory of Music and Dance. prevails for clarinet, violin, and piano by the Norman Arts Council. He has been was the winning piece of the Incontri Jackie Wiggins (PhD ’92) a professor and director of choral activi- musicali al C.A.T. Ensemble Composition is the Founding Director of ties at the University of Oklahoma in Competition 2017. The piece will be the new School of Music, Norman, OK, since 2009; music and performed at the 5th Festival “Incontri Theatre and Dance at artistic director of the Norman Philhar- musicali al C.A.T.” in Siena, Italy. Her Oakland University in monic since 2012; director of music rare yet soft, which was dedicated to her Michigan. Wiggins has ministries at McFarlin Memorial United

34 sonorities beloved father, had several performances: in Seattle on her composition Sea. Her Charles W. Lynch III (MM ’02, DMA ’09) Electronic Music Midwest in Kansas City composition Locomotive was premiered begins his third year as Harp Specialist with on September 23, 2017; the 16th Brazil- at the Illinois Summer Harp Class. Jamie- the Mesa Public Schools Harp Program ian Symposium on Computer Music in son gave a talk on composing/arranging in Arizona. The MPS Harp Program is São Paulo, Brazil on September 3–6, for participants. At the Canadian Interna- the largest public-school harp program 2017; the 2017 New York City Electro- tional Summer Harp Institute, where in the country with over 200 students acoustic Music Festival in New York on Jamieson is faculty, several of her com- enrolled across 16 different schools. In May June 20, 2017; and the 6Degree Compos- positions and arrangements were per- 2017, he coordinated and directed the first ers Concert in Chicago on June 9, 2017. formed. She serves on the Board of annual MPS Harp Festival Concert, which Directors for the American Harp Society featured 130 harp students performing on Chris Combest (DMA ’09) where she is chair of the Music Education 40 harps. The Concert included all MPS has been appointed Assis- Auditions and Evaluations Committee harp students in various harp ensembles tant Professor of tuba at and chair of the Young Composers Project, and featured premieres of arrangements Middle Tennessee State a new AHS program encouraging young by Lynch and current Illinois harp under- University beginning Fall harpists to write for their instrument. graduate Mana Azimi. In October 2016, 2017. He will teach applied Charles was featured in a recital with tuba, music theory, coach brass chamber Becker KB (BM ’04), flutist Kimberlee Goodman as the flute/ music, and perform with the MTSU Faculty formerly known as Kris harp duo From the West at the College Brass Quintet. Combest is active in the Becker, received the Music Society’s 59th National Conference Nashville area music scene and is Prin- IBLA European Grand in Sante Fe. In June 2017, he presented cipal Tuba with the Wintergreen Music Prize for Composers a session on the MPS Harp Program at Festival in the Blue Ridge Mountains of for his Piano Sonata 1 and has been further the AHS 12th Summer Institute at Saint Virginia. honored in the Music Teachers National Olaf College, MN. Association Distinguished Composer of Asami Hagiwara (BM ’09, the Year Award. In recent seasons, Becker (BM ’08), a former MM ’11) recently accepted Rebecca Matayoshi has performed his original music at Carn- student of Rudolf Haken, has joined the a piano faculty position at egie Hall, the PARMA Music Festival, and Hawaii Symphony viola section begin- the University of New York’s Composer’s Voice and Spec- ning Fall 2017. Wisconsin–Platteville. trum series. KB’s nu-classical, a fusion of Matt Olson (DMA ’04) classical structure with non-classical was promoted to the rank Robin Thomas Heltsley (BM ’08) was impulses, is the topic of a McGill Uni- of Professor of Saxophone hired as a Music Teacher at St. Joesph- versity doctoral candidate’s dissertation and Jazz Studies at Furman Ogden High School in St. Joseph, IL. His on the intersection of classical music and University. His collabora- teaching duties include band, marching progressive rock. Equal part composer tive jazz group Unhinged band, chorus, guitar, dual-credit music and performer, Becker KB contributes his Sextet released its second album, Don’t appreciation, and music production. He improvisational skills as a pianist and Blink, on OA2 Records in August 2017. was nominated for the 2017 ILMEA Emerg- keyboardist to recordings and perfor- Matt is joined in Unhinged by fellow ing Leaders Conference. mances of rock and world music. His UIUC alumni Mike Kocour (BS ’85), commentary for the debut biography of Julia Kay Jamieson Will Campbell (DMA ’05), and Vern David Bowie’s pianist Mike Garson, a (MM ’02) was guest Sielert (DMA ’05). fellow composer-pianist, will appear in artist, composer, and the upcoming Bowie’s Piano Man, pub- (MM clinician for the 2017 Ricardo Sepúlveda lished by Backbeat Books/Hal Leonard. ’08) performed Zuniga Harp Day in Eugene, (Carmen) with Muddy River OR. She gave classes on improvisation Peter Kenagy (DMA ’09) Opera Company (June and performed her own arrangements begins his fourth year as 2017) and was appointed and compositions. The premiere of her Associate Professor at Assistant Professor of Music piece Sunshine on Spencer Butte was Berklee College of Music and Opera at Western Illinois University performed by local harpists. She gave a in Boston. He plans to (Fall 2017) after teaching at Millikin Uni- masterclass for harp students at the Uni- release a new recording of versity for seven years. versity of Oregon. Jamieson coached the original jazz quintet music in January University of Puget Sound Harp Ensemble 2018 called Standard Model. 2018 35 alumni news

Sidney Shuler (MM ’05, J.R. Trimpe’s (MME ’02) DMA ’12) began serving second work for concert 2010–2017 as Assistant Professor of band The Morning Rush Trumpet and Assistant was premiered at the Kran- Jonah Angulo-Hurtig (BME ’17) is enjoy- Director of Bands at Eastern nert Center for the Perform- ing his first job as Assistant High School New Mexico University in ing Arts on April 20, 2017 Band Director/Director of Percussion at the fall of 2017. Shuler joins fellow U of I by Barry L. Houser and the University of Groveport Madison High School, just alumnus, ENMU director of bands, Dustin Illinois Hindsley Symphonic Band. outside Columbus, OH, where he’s spread- Seifert (MME ’98), in Portales. ing the love for UIUC. Tammie Walker (DMA Steve Sieck (MM ’03, DMA ’06) has ’01) assumed the role of Chanah Ambuter (MM published a book on inclusive pedagogy Director of the School of ’15) has continued to gig for choral directors called Teaching with Music at Western Illinois and teach frequently in Respect: Inclusive Pedagogy for Choral University in July 2016. Michigan. Her studio cur- Directors. The book suggests an ethical rently spans ages 4 to 69! approach to teaching choral music that 2017 featured perfor- J. Michael Weiss-Holmes is centered on respecting the singers and mances at the Detroit Zoo (for their famous (formerly Holmes) (MM is aimed at choral directors who find “Wild Beasts, Wild Wine” gala), Historical ’06, DMA ’12) was named themselves in conversations they might Venues and Landmark Homes in Detroit, Interim Assistant Dean of not feel ready to have. It looks closely at and with ensembles including the Metro- Roosevelt University teaching strategies and questions how Detroit Chorale. She has received several Chicago College of Per- repertoire and instruction intersect with awards from event organizations, including forming Arts where he is also Head of singers’ identities, specifically their learn- GigMasters’ “Best of the Year” for the third Woodwinds and Artist-Teacher of Saxo- ing abilities, gender, sexuality, religion, consecutive year and WeddingWire’s phone. In January of 2017, Weiss-Holmes ethnicity, and race. “Couples’ Choice Awards of 2017.” In was part of a three-week European Tour her spare time, she continues to explore (DMA ’05) was named with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Vanessa Sielert merging modern technology and music, Interim Director of the Lionel Hampton performing as their principal saxophonist allowing greater ease of performance School of Music. under the direction of Maestro Riccardo logistics, heightening the appeal of live Muti. This tour included sold-out perfor- Colleen Potter Thor- music to her audience, and becoming mances at the Philharmonie de Paris, the burn (BM ’06) and more effective in the business of music. Teatro alla Scala (Milan), the Elbphilhar- bass-baritone Benja- She is teaching herself SEO/website build- monie (Hamburg), and the Musikverein min Thorburn pre- ing and maintenance, sound and video (Vienna). He also had recent performances sented a recital of editing, and creates arrangements of as the principal saxophonist of the Cleve- works for voice and harp at the American popular music. She frequently uploads land Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Harp Society’s National Summer Institute the finished products on her YouTube the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the St. at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, in channel “CEAHarps”. Louis Symphony. Weiss-Holmes recently June 2017. Her duo Apple Orange Pair married Bradley Weiss-Holmes and they Stephanie Gustafson Amfahr (BM ’11) with Emily Boyer, horn, has also recently split time between their homes in Chicago, was selected to be a 2016–2017 Young completed new music performance resi- IL and San Francisco, CA. Artist for the Da Camera of Houston. She dencies at Central Connecticut State Uni- continues to serve as Principal Harp for versity in New Britain, CT, and at (MM ’09, DMA ’14) was Collin Wilson the Baton Rouge Symphony in Louisiana Connecticut Summerfest at the Hartt hired as Assistant Professor of Saxophone and teaches at the Blue Lake Fine Arts School in Hartford, CT. Between these at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, WA. Camp in Michigan. two residencies, they have premiered eight new works for horn and harp in James Blachly (MM ’13) was thrilled to 2017. be working with UI alumna Jacqueline Piccolino (BM ’13), performing Bar- ber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra in October 2017.

36 sonorities Erin Brooker-Miller (BM Festival in Staffordshire, England. She also new position and attributes her success to ’14) was promoted to the completed an artist residency at the ICST the valuable time she spent in the U of I title of Executive Director Immersive Lab in Zürich, Switzerland, School of Music. She is extremely grateful of the USA International for the creation of an interactive audio- for the excellent career preparation and Harp Competition in Febru- visual touchscreen installation. Melody rigorous and relevant coursework she ary 2017. Following a suc- was also selected to perform and give a received at U of I. cessful audition, she was appointed presentation of the Chaosflöte at the Digital Christopher Holman (BM Principal Harpist of the Des Moines Sym- Festival in Zürich in September 2017. ’14) received a major grant phony in May 2017 and joined the orches- Diane Couzens (BM ‘12) was appointed from the Frank Huntington tra for their 80th season in September Development Manager at Turtle Bay Music Beebe Fund, which funds 2017. Erin also graduated with a Master School, a community music school in Man- one year of research and of Music from the Indiana University hattan, where she oversees the School’s study at the Schola Canto- Jacobs School of Music in May 2017. fundraising and marketing. She maintains rum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland. He Diego Celi (DMA ’16) a private flute studio on the side. will be performing on historic organs completed his doctor- throughout Europe and researching early Katherine Denler (BM ’10) began a full- ate in the spring of Swiss Renaissance organ tabulatures by time position as Harp Sales Manager with 2016 and was Hans Kotter and Fridolin Sicher. Lyon & Healy Harps of Chicago in Fall appointed Dean of the 2016. This followed upon the completion Chen-Yu Huang (DMA/AD ’14) became College of Music at the Universidad San of Denler’s community engagement project President of the West Michigan Chapter Francisco de Quito in September 2016. “Harp in Hand” in East Lansing, MI. In of American Harp Society, Inc. in 2016. In May 2017, he presented a paper entitled light of her relocation to Chicago, Denler She facilitated HARP IN HAND project “Polymodality and Its Influence on the donated the harps resulting from “Harp in and collaborated with Kalamazoo Sym- Music of George Russell and Dave Hand” to the Michigan State University phony Orchestra educational program in Brubeck” at the International Jazz Com- (MSU) Harp Department. Assistant Profes- November 2016. In December 2016, she poser’s Symposium. He has been accepted sor Chen-Yu Huang will oversee usage performed as one of the soloists in Hin- to present a paper entitled “In Search of of these harps in future harp department demith’s Concerto for Woodwinds, Harp, a Definitive Jazz Chord-Scale Nomen- community engagement projects. Kather- and Orchestra with the Illinois Symphony clature” at the 2018 Jazz Educators ine continues as a doctoral candidate at Orchestra. In Spring 2017, she was invited Network conference. MSU and expects to complete her degree to be an adjudicator at the Michigan Young Melody Chua (BM ’16) in Spring 2018. Artist Festival Concerto Soloist Audition co-founded Null-state, a and started a harp ensemble at Community Hannah Dole (BME ’13) new music organization Music School in East Lansing. This past recently accepted a position and electronics perfor- summer, she was seated as one of the as Event Coordinator at mance ensemble special- new Director-at-Large in AHS, Inc., and Allerton Park and Retreat izing in the development premiered two pieces Furious Spring for Center in Monticello, IL. of the sensor-augmented Chaosflöte and flute, harp and zheng by Jing Zhou, and In this newly created posi- providing workshops on electroacoustic How perfume was transmitted through tion, she will focus on overseeing existing music (learn more at www.nullstate.org). feathery telegraph for flute, viola, and public events, as well as implementing Null-state was recently awarded a New harp, by Chun-Ting Pang at the World new, engaging events and programs for Music USA grant and will be holding a Harp Congress in Hong Kong. the community. She previously served as series of concerts, workshops, and mas- Operations Manager and Librarian for Rebecca Johnson (DMA terclasses in Orlando, FL, as part of the the Champaign-Urbana Symphony ’10) played a concerto with Timucua Accidental Music Festival in Orchestra. the National Symphony of September. Chua performed the radio- Ecuador in conjunction broadcasted European debut of the Katie Henry (BME ’10) is the new General with the Convención Inter- Chaosflöte at the E-Werk “Art’s Birthday” Music Teacher for Geneva Middle School nacional de Flautists in event in Freiburg, Germany. Her composi- South, in Geneva, IL. She was hired in June Quito, Ecuador in June of 2017, and has tion Chaos Ver. 2b for the Chaosflöte was of 2017. Henry looks forward to using her been appointed as Program Chair for the selected for performance at the Noisefloor seven years of teaching experience in this

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National Flute Association’s 2019 working towards a Doctorate of Music Nicki Roman (MM ’15) is convention. degree from the Indiana University Jacobs a DMA candidate at the School of Music. Eastman School of Music, Aaron Kaplan (BME ’11, as well as the newly MM ’13) conducted the Elisa Moles (DMA ’17) appointed Assistant Direc- 2017 Illinois High School won 2nd place in both the tor of the Eastman Saxo- Theater Festival’s All-State Atlanta Flute Club and phone Project; the first conductor-less production of Sweeney Upper Midwest Young Artist saxophone ensemble that performs entirely Todd at the Krannert Center Competitions in Spring from memory. She was a recent prize in January. This October, he music directs 2017. She also started a winner at the William C. Byrd International The Pajama Game with three-time Jeff new position teaching flute at California Concerto Competition. She is the soprano Award-winning director Dominic Missimi. State University in Summer 2017. saxophonist with the Fuego Quartet, which Kaplan also conducted the Music Institute Yoo Sun Na (DMA ’12) recently won the Gold Medal at the 44th of Chicago Cello Choir in a holiday has been appointed to the annual Fischoff Chamber Music Competi- program that was broadcast on “Introduc- voice faculty at Northeast- tion. The group also won first prize in the tions” on WFMT 98.7FM last winter. ern University from Fall Plowman Chamber Music Competition Aaron is in his fifth year as orchestra 2017. and second prize at the MTNA National director at Glenbrook North and Glen- Young Artist Competition. brook South High Schools. Scott Ninmer (BM ‘11), John Mula Rose Schmidt Riley (MME ’15) is a Matthew Leese (DMA (BM ‘86), Julia Piorkowski (BM ‘00), middle school band director at Goddard ’12) was honored for his Jennifer Paul (BM ‘00), and Deborah Scholars Academy in the Worcester Public work in the performing arts Hanson-Gerber (MM ‘89, DMA ‘99) School system, MA. She married at the 2017 Ewing Arts Steven performed in the 58th Inauguration of (BME ’08) in Iowa City, IA, on July Awards in Keene, NH. The Riley the President of the United States on 15, 2017. Steven Riley is the Director of awards, in their third year January 20, 2017, as members of “The Bands at College of the Holy Cross in of support from the Keene Sentinel, rec- President’s Own” United States Marine Worcester, MA. ognize outstanding artists in the Monad- Band. It marked the Marine Band’s 55th nock Region, especially those who make (DMA ‘14) joined the Music inaugural appearance. Ashley Shank exceptional contributions to community Department at Susquehanna University engagement and accessibility. David Phy (DMA ’12) plays in November 2016 as the director of the and teaches in the birth- Music Preparatory Program and adjunct Nick Loafman (BME ’10, place of jazz, New Orleans. professor of music education. She is also MME ’15) has been He currently teaches studio in her fourth year of teaching flute at appointed Director of Trombone and Notation Lycoming College. She was appointed Bands at Wilton High classes at the University of co-principal flute of the International School and K–12 Instruc- New Orleans, plus Ear Training, Music Fellowship of Conductors, Composers, tional Leader of Fine & Appreciation and Commercial/Jazz Ensem- and Collaborators (IFC3) in 2016 and is Performing Arts for Wilton Public Schools ble at Dillard University. Since 2014 he active as a freelance flutist in north-central in Wilton, CT. has released two albums under his own Pennsylvania. She is a board member and Andy Miller (MM ’11) was appointed name; Me, Myself and Phy and Pronounced grants and finance chair of the Flute New Music Director in the Department of Dance Phy. He was a member of the Dukes of Music Consortium. at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dixieland from 2015–2017, performing (MME ’14) is now working Peck School of the Arts, beginning in nightly aboard the steamboat Natchez. Eric Spiegel for MidAmerica Productions in New York, September 2017. He is also directing the In August of 2017 he was a featured soloist/ NY, producing choral and instrumental percussion studio at Lawrence University conductor with the New Orleans Trom- concerts in Carnegie Hall, as well as Conservatory of Music as an Instructor bone Choir as part of the Trinity Artist other venues in Europe. Spiegel is also of Music for the 2017 Fall semester as a Series. He is also working on a Trombone in his second year as conductor for the sabbatical replacement. He is currently articulation book.

38 sonorities Brooklyn chapter of HaZamir: The Inter- summer of 2017 in residency in Aldeburgh (ULL). A student of Elliot Chasanov, Yates national Jewish High School Choir. He conducting archival research for his forth- went on to complete his DMA at the prepared the choir for performances at coming history of the Aldeburgh Festival University of Iowa. Prior to his position the Metropolitan Opera House and Jazz of Music and the Arts during the Britten at ULL, he taught in an adjunct position at Lincoln Center in 2017. years (1948–1976). Vickers has multiple at Luther College and several other col- chapters forthcoming, including Kate leges in the upper Midwest. Natalie Teodori (MM ’17) has been Kennedy’s Literary Britten (Boydell Press), appointed part-time Assistant Professor Ka-Wai Yu (DMA ’11) has and on topics related to the reemergence of Applied Harp at Southwestern Uni- been Assistant Professor of of the postwar British opera house and versity in Georgetown, TX, beginning Music at Dixie State Uni- British operatic identity after World War II. in Fall 2017. In June of 2017, Natalie versity since 2015. In gave the premiere of a composition for Jake Walburn (DMA ’11) March 2017, Yu presented harp and electronics by Kyle Shaw, and has been appointed Assis- at the American String in December 2016 gave the premiere of tant Professor of Trumpet Teachers Association National Conference Zack Stanton’s Unbroken Strands for harp at Stephen F. Austin State in Pittsburgh, PA, on the topic “From and vibraphone. Teodori completed her University in Nacogdoches, Finger Numbers to Artistry: A Discussion Master’s degree in Harp performance and TX, beginning September on Effective Cello Fingering.” Besides his literature in May 2017 with Ann Yeung. 2017. Prior to his appointment at SFA, active performance schedule as Principal Jake was an assistant professor of trumpet Cellist of the Southwest Symphony Orches- Justin Vickers (DMA ’11, BM ’96) recently at The University of Texas-Rio Grande tra and member of the Zion Trio, he is earned tenure and was promoted to Valley in Edinburg, TX. Jake performs director of the second annual Dixie State Associate Professor of Music and Artist frequently as a soloist and clinician in University Cello Festival in September Teacher of Voice at Illinois State Uni- south and east Texas, and has been invited 2017—an event he founded. The festival versity. Vickers edited and contributed to perform at the 2018 International gathers 70–80 cellists from Utah and to Benjamin Britten Studies: Essays on An Trumpet Guild Conference in San Antonio, Nevada for two days of cello ensemble Inexplicit Art (Boydell Press, 2017) with TX. sessions, masterclasses, workshops and Vicki P. Stroeher; reviewed My Beloved concerts. Man: The Letters of Benjamin Britten Andrew Weisheit and Peter Pears (Boydell Press, 2016) (MM ’11) is the owner- Jiaqi (Kevin) Zhao (MM ’17), a recent for Notes: The Quarterly Journal of the operator of Andrew graduate in Saxophone Performance, Music Library Association (June 2017) Weisheit Music Studio was Honorary Prize Winner (4th Place) and Beyond Britten: The Composer and in Chicago (Park at the Jean-Marie Londeix International the Community (Boydell Press, 2015) Ridge), IL. He teaches piano and voice, Saxophone Competition held in Bangkok, for Music & Letters. Vickers was commis- coaches and accompanies singers and Thailand in July 2017. sioned to contribute to the Britten-Pears instrumentalists, and provides audio/video Aaron Ziegel (PhD ’11) Foundation’s (BPF) 2017 exhibition booklet recording services for musicians and is assistant professor of on the fiftieth anniversary of the partial actors. music history at Towson decriminalization of homosexuality in Nicholas Yamamoto’s University (MD). His most Great Britain, writing “The Indecency (BM ’17) piece, on view of recent article, exploring of the Closet” for Queer Talk: Homo- clouds, was selected as a issues of film music peda- sexuality in Britten’s Britain. The BPF finalist for the Morton gogy and Chris Bacon’s score for the film presented the tenor in recital in Britten’s Gould Young Composer Source Code, appears in the Journal of Music Room at The Red House for which Awards. He is undertaking Music History Pedagogy. Vickers performed Britten’s Seven Sonnets an MM in Composition at Rice University of Michelangelo alongside the song cycles from Fall 2017. of gay American composers John David Earnest (Songs of Hadrian) and Zachary Benjamin Yates (MM ’14) has been Wadsworth (the world premiere of Secret appointed Assistant Professor of Trombone Songs). Vickers spent the balance of the at the University of Louisiana–Lafayette

2018 39 student news 2017 Competition Winners Joseph Alvarez, a DMA candidate, has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Tuba & Euphonium 21st Century Commission Competition Award at the University of South Florida in Tampa begin- M.O. Abbott (composer) ning Fall of 2017 after filling in as a sabbatical Whitney Ashe (piano) replacement. His duties include teaching weekly lessons, leading studio masterclasses, and con- Clara Rolland Piano Competition ducting the tuba-euphonium ensemble. Grace Fink Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship Joseph Baldwin, a DMA candidate, was appointed William Pearson as the second Music Director of the Baroque Lishan Xue Artists of Champaign Urbana (BACH), after the retirement of emeritus and founding director Paul Rolland Memorial String Award Chester L. Alwes. Joseph is currently working Graduate division: Min Jung Kim full-time in the Music Admissions & Public Engage- Undergraduate division: Alyssa Tong ment Office and completing a DMA in Choral Music. Krannert Debut Artist Yunji Shim (soprano) Jingyu Cai, a graduate student in harp, was invited to perform with the orchestra of the University of Shanghai in several Theodore Presser Award different locations during Summer 2017. She also joined the Graduate division: Ralph Lewis World Harp Congress in Hong Kong. Undergraduate division: Abigail Kott Thomas J. Smith Scholarship Sydney Campen, an undergraduate harpist, Emily Bloom recently performed with the University of Illinois Anna Burton Symphony Orchestra, Danville Symphony Orches- Skylar Lipman tra, and Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra. Elizabeth O’Brien She was also invited to play for Ohio Light Opera, Caitlin Richardson America’s premier lyric theatre festival based in Kayla Schoeny Wooster, Ohio last summer. She won the 2017 UI Symphony Concerto Competition and will be featured as a soloist in the UISO Concerto Competition: 2017–18 season. To compliment her passion for music, Sydney Sydney Campen (harp), Ginastera: Harp Concerto serves as secretary-treasurer for the Roslyn Rensch Central Ruth Kenney (soprano), Barber: Knoxville, Summer Illinois Chapter of the American Harp Society; advertising of 1915 manager for the World Harp Congress Review; and as a house Kevin Jiaqi Zhao (saxophone), Tomasi: Concerto manager for the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. for Alto Saxophone

Moye Chen, a DMA candidate studying with William Heiles and an international award- winning pianist, has been signed to Universal under Sir Andrew Davis, a solo recital in Sydney Opera House, Music and Decca Classics. His first album for and solo recitals and masterclasses in the US, China, Switzer- Universal on the Decca Classics label will be land, France, Belgium, Spain, and Thailand. released in 2018 and will feature piano music by Percy Grainger and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Recently, he was Evan Clark and Gabriel Piqué, DMA candidates, were semi- awarded the Center for Musical Excellence (CME) International finalists in the Jean-Marie Londeix International Saxophone Performing Arts Grant and named a CME Young Artist. In the Competition held in Bangkok, Thailand in July 2017. past season (2017), Moye collaborated with the Mariinsky Mary Duplantier, an undergraduate harpist, competed in the Orchestra under Valery Gergiev and Lorenz Nasturica-Hersch- 2017 Lyon and Healy Awards Harp Competition in Northfield, cowici and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Benjamin Minnesota. In July, she was also invited to play with the National Northey and Nicholas Milton. In the next season, Moye’s Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute at the Kennedy engagements include tours with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

40 sonorities Reid Lasley, a graduate student in bass trombone, Annie Lyle Mason, a graduate student in bassoon, was was invited by Maestro Scott Yoo to perform with appointed bassoon instructor at Eastern Illinois University in principal players of the San Francisco and San Spring 2017. Francisco Ballet orchestras at the 2017 Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, CA. The offer was Ian Middleton, a graduate student in musicology, was awarded made during Reid’s performances at the 2017 a Graduate Student Professional Development Fellowship in Summer Music Festival at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. Spring 2017. This allowed him to travel to England where he presented at three conferences: British Forum for Ethnomusi- YooBin Lee, a doctoral candidate studying viola with Rudolf cology at Sheffield University, SIMMposium (Social Impact of Haken, has been appointed to the faculty of Millikin University. Music Making) at Guildhall School of Music, and the “Music, Lee is a member of the KORO Quartet, grand prize winners Education and Social Inclusion” conference at SOAS. He of the New York Artists International Competition 2017. They spoke on material from his dissertation on music and trust in performed at Carnegie Hall on July 7, 2017. northern Colombia, as well as his applied fieldwork with the social inclusion project “Tambores de Siloé” in Cali. Ralph Lewis, a graduate student in composition, received the University of Illinois’s 2017 Theodore Thornton Miller, a graduate student in musicol- Presser Graduate Music Award, which will fund ogy, saw his article “Striking a Compromise: All Score Illinois, a state-wide music composition Britten, British Publishers, Soviet Theatres, and outreach program, and an upcoming collabora- the Premieres of Peter Grimes and The Prince of tion “American Dawn” with New York-based the Pagodas” published in the collection Benjamin dance company The Moving Architects. The award also sup- Britten Studies: Essays on An Inexplicit Art. He ported his attendance of Summer 2017’s New Music on the also presented his paper “In Lieu of Payment: Alternative Forms Point, where Amaranth Quartet premiered Losing Constellations, of Compensation for the Soviet Publication of Benjamin Brit- and Etchings Festival’s first collaborative music/dance program, ten’s Music” at the Royal Musical Association Conference at where actor/dancer Colin Gee and ECCE Ensemble premiered the University of Liverpool, and will present his paper “Pulling Taleas. Lewis’s paper “Pauline Oliveros: Epitaphs of Technologi- off the Shroud: Benjamin Britten’s Posthumous Biographers cal and Embodied Liberations” was selected for the Pacific and the Dissolution of Privacy” at the “Music And.... Death” Northwest Music Graduate Student Conference and Midwest Progressive Connections Conference in Vienna. He received Graduate Music Conference. “Fearless Reception,” a concert/ the Title VIII, FLAS, and the Critical Language Enhancement radio collaboration with the Florence Project and Rogue Trio Awards to continue Russian language study at the Derzhavin advocating for the respect and dignity of immigrants premiered Institute; received the Dissertation Travel Grant; the Nelle M. in Chicago and at Arizona State University, and was recently Signor Scholarship to carry out research in the United Kingdom; broadcast on WEFT 90.1-FM and WGXC 90.7-FM. Additional and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to continue his dis- performances include a Boston Microtonal Society presentation sertation research in Russia. of Gabriela Diaz and Wendy Richman premiering Unwinding with Penelope; SEAMUS selecting Drive to the Edge; Champaign- Joia Nicholson, an undergraduate student in cello, is a member Urbana and Chicago performances of I Was On the Side of the of Skyline Semblance in which she plays the cello, violin, Highway by bassoonist Annie Lyle Mason; and briefly being and harp. This winter the band recorded their second album, featured on Document 14’s Radiaphiles program. Spectrum, which was released on several media platforms, including iTunes, SoundCloud and Spotify. In Summer 2016, Jessica Mandel, an undergraduate oboist, was the band was a finalist in Chicago Suburbans Got Talent and selected to study and perform at the Seminar for performed at the Taste of Arlington. Advanced Wind Chamber Music at the Madeline Island Chamber Music festival during Summer Molly O’Roark, a DMA candidate, was hired as a full-time 2017. She also interned with Bocal Majority harp instructor with the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble in Atlanta, Double Reed Camp in Chicago, IL. GA. This nonprofit organization offers free harp instruction to over 100 students (grades 6–12) in the Atlanta Public School

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system. In October 2017, O’Roark featured as a composer and new faculty appointments with the University of Notre Dame workshop presenter for Michigan Harp Day at Michigan State and Saint Mary’s College in Indiana in Fall 2017. She has been University where her new harp ensemble work, Apollo at the invited as a masterclass performer for the 2018 Summer Lyon Temple of Delphi, was premiered. & Healy Hall Concert Series.

Zack Osinski, a graduate flute student, was the Deborah Waters, an undergraduate student studying viola winner of the third annual Tallon Perkes Scholar- with Rudolf Haken, will be serving as Director of Youth Music ship Competition at the Eastman School of Music for the Church of the Living God in Champaign. for his performance of Joseph Scwantner’s Black Anemones (1980) for flute and piano in May Jennifer E. Wiggins, a graduate student in voice (mezzo- 2017. soprano), is an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera for Fall 2017. Victor Pons, a graduate student in percussion, was appointed Instructor of Percussion and Computer Applica- Lishan Xue, a second year DMA student in piano, won the tions at Georgia State University and Instructor of Percussion Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship 2017–2018. She also at both Talladega College and Atlanta International School. won first prize in the Franz Liszt Los Angeles International Piano Competition 2016 and the 5th New York Artists International Chris Raymond, a graduate student in bassoon, was appointed Competition 2017, and performed at the Weill Recital Hall, bassoon instructor at the University of Illinois, Springfield in Carnegie Hall in New York City on July 6, 2017. In August 2017, Summer 2017. she was invited to give lectures and masterclasses in Qingdao, China. While there, Qingdao Evening News and the Qingdao Noël Wan, a DMA candidate in harp, was a featured guest TV Station interviewed her about her opinions on improving artist at the Ad Astra Music Festival in July 2017. She began and raising the pianistic level of local students in China.

Lishan Xue (DMA Piano Performance) delivers an invited The KORO Quartet perform at Carnegie Hall after winning their performance after winning first prize in a category at the New category in the New York Artists International Competition 2017 York Artists International Competition, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City, July 2017

42 sonorities in memoriam

of himself through his music. His family Thomas Fredrickson compositions include an anniversary piece Thomas Fredrickson, of Savoy, IL, passed away at for his wife, Betty; a piece for his daughter home surrounded by family on Sunday, July 30, 2017. Gail’s wedding; his grandsons’ Jamie, Ryan, He was 88 years old. Thomas will be remembered and Eric’s High School Wind Symphony; for his dedication to his family, his lively humor and and his grandson Drew’s High School Jazz ability to make people of all ages laugh, and his Band. In addition, after the birth of each professional contributions to the world of music. of his eight grandchildren, he composed Fredrickson is survived by his wife of 67 years, a lullaby especially for that grandchild, Betty; his children, Lawrence (Joni) of Savoy, Linda which he ultimately compiled into one of Manhattan, KS, and Gail (Michael) of Littleton, composition entitled Grandbaby Suite. CO; eight grandchildren, Drew, Sara, Lonni, James, Throughout his lifetime, Fredrickson was Ryan, Eric, Mickey, and Christine; and two great- an active performer on the double bass, grandchildren, Thomas and Jake. performing with symphonic, chamber and Born on September 5, 1928, in Kane, PA, Thomas spent his jazz ensembles, as well as local musical ensembles. Co-founder of the University childhood there before attending Ohio Wesleyan University, “At the where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music. In 1950, he of Illinois Contemporary Chamber Players, married Betty and together they moved to Champaign-Urbana, heart of he traveled with the group in 1963 to where he obtained his Master of Music and his Doctor of numerous countries within Europe where Musical Arts from the University of Illinois. Fredrickson was a Fredrickson’s they performed in multiple venues. He composer and a Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois. professional was also a member of the Champaign- At the time of his retirement, he had served as a Professor of Urbana Symphony Orchestra for many Composition and Theory with the University’s School of Music career was years and The Johnny Bruce Band in his from 1952–1993 and was Director of the School of Music his love of early career, for which he arranged many from 1970–1974. of the band’s charts. Fredrickson was an innovative composer whose published teaching.” Fredrickson was a member of the works encompassed a wide range of styles, including sym- American Society of Composers, Authors phonic, chamber, choral, and jazz. His work reached a vast and Publishers (ASCAP), from whom he and diverse spectrum of local, national, and international audi- received several awards. His biography is included in Who’s ences through a mixture of acoustic media, including Mark Who in America, Who’s Who in American Music, The Interna- Foster Music, Kendor, Inc., Music for Percussion, Interlochen tional Who’s Who in Music, Who’s Who in American Educa- Press, M.M. Cole Co., European-American Music, Belwin tion, Who’s Who in Entertainment, The ASCAP Biographical Mills, Media Press, Theodore Presser, Composers Recordings Dictionary, and Contemporary American Composers. (CRI), New World Records, and an entire CD entitled Canto. At the heart of Fredrickson’s professional career was his Featured on the CD, Music for Double Bass Alone is a significant love of teaching, and his reputation for excellence as a profes- contribution to bass literature. His music has been performed sor continues to receive accolades from former students and in the United States, England, France, Spain, Germany, Latin advisees. In addition, many colleagues and past students have America, Finland, Eastern Europe, and Canada, as well as repeated the story of how he was known around the School broadcast on West German Radio and the BBC. His Illinois of Music as “The Whistler” because his whistling was second Variations, commissioned by the Champaign-Urbana Symphony nature for him. Both in his professional life and in his personal Orchestra for the State’s sesquicentennial, was also performed life, Fredrickson touched and affected countless people. Former by the St. Louis Symphony. In addition, Saralon Blues, named colleagues wrote: for two granddaughters, was commissioned by the Jazz Divi- sion of the Illinois Music Educators Association for the 2005 Tom Fredrickson was a very important part of my All-State Jazz Ensemble. life, both professionally and personally. He was Fredrickson used his love and talent for music and compo- sition not just in his professional life but in his personal life an outstanding teacher, a talented bass player, as well. In essence, he gave each member of his family a part a gifted composer, a supportive colleague, an

2018 43 in memoriam excellent administrator and a man with a droll Harvey A. sense of humor that I enjoyed for years, both Hermann during my student days and later as a co-faculty member. When Tom assumed the music school’s Harvey A. Hermann, long- time employee and generous directorship, I felt I had a friend in that office supporter of The University of who I could trust, one who I respected for both Illinois School of Music and his leadership and his humanity. I feel fortunate Illinois Bands, passed away just three weeks before his to have had him as part of my life. 83rd birthday. —Thomas Siwe After receiving his BS (1963) and MS (1968) degrees Tom Fredrickson, a very talented composer and in music education from the University of Illinois, Hermann performer, was one of my very favorite teachers served as woodwind assis- and colleagues. I learned a great deal from tant to the director of bands “Visitors to the him beyond composition and orchestration during the tenure of three U of Harding Band I directors of bands (Hindsley, techniques, as he taught me the importance of Begian, and Keene). Building can patience, dedication, a sense of humor, and to He was a well-known clari- net pedagogue, and notably see the longevity look beyond the stress. He was a mentor to me started the University of Illi- of Hermann’s when I was a much younger faculty member, often nois Clarinet Choir in May of involvement [with saying “thou shalt not take part in bad scenes” 1965. Hermann led the group on tours, both domestic and the School of encouraging me to focus on positives and desired international, including an goals rather than the moment of conflict. I am appearance at the Midwest Music].” Band and Orchestra Clinic in very privileged to have studied and worked with 1983. Beyond his teaching, him, and I am thankful for his vision and the he arranged over 400 works for clarinet choir, which have memories that I will treasure always. received many performances around the world. In 1994, after 32 years of working with Illinois Bands, he —Scott Wyatt retired but maintained a connection to his alma mater through work with the Illinois Summer Youth Music Camp (ISYM). For his family, he will be forever remembered as the epitome Hermann continued to support the School of Music and band of grace, chivalry, and unconditional love. program in his retirement, and was a fixture at many concerts —Larry Fredrickson on behalf of the Fredrickson Family and rehearsals. Visitors to the Harding Band Building can see the longevity of Hermann’s involvement from his inclusion as one of the A.A. Harding Award honorees in 1962, to the plaque recognizing his commitment as a staff member from 1962 to 1994. —The School of Music

44 sonorities Sherban Lupu, Peter Schaffer, and Laurian Laufman, along with Guillermo Perich pianist Ian Hobson. Emeritus Professor Guillermo Perich (1924–2016) passed His intent after retirement was to “keep performing,” and away on November 3, in Durham, NC. Perich taught viola at that he did. —The School of Music the University of Illinois from 1971 to 1990, serving as string division chair 1974–85. Born in Havana, Cuba, on October 22, 1924, Perich went on to receive degrees from the Havana Professional Commercial School (Business Administration, 1943) and Municipal Con- Evelyn servatory of Music (Violin, 1948). He also undertook advanced chamber music studies at the Tanglewood Festival (1950) and Reynolds viola studies at Boston University (1956–57). He was a violinist with the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra Evelyn Reynolds, one of the (1943–50) and later a principal violist for the orchestra (1956–59), University of Illinois’ distin- and also taught at the Havana Conservatory from 1949–59. guished and loved voice teach- Returning to the US to settle permanently in the wake of ers, died on 27 September, the Cuban Revolution, he served as the Principal Violist of the 2017 at the wonderful age Baltimore Symphony (1960–68) and of the St. Louis Symphony of 100. (1968–71). He performed under conductors including Herbert Reynolds was born in von Karajan, Erich Leinsdorf, Antal Dorati, Igor Stravinsky, Birmingham, AL, while her Bruno Walter, Thomas Beecham, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold major training was received Stokowski, Leonard Slatkin and many others. Faculty positions in Chicago, IL. Her teachers and quartet memberships matched his orchestral appoint- included Hollis Arment, a ments, including appointments at Peabody Conservatory and fine Italian-trained tenor, Lola the Baltimore Symphony Quartet, and Washington University Fletcher, student of Herbert “She was an and the St. Louis String Quartet. Witherspoon, Ralph Erolle, outstanding teacher Throughout his career, he regularly appeared at prestigious teacher of Arleen Auger, and festivals such as the Marlboro and Aspen Music Festivals, and William Vennard, teacher of who never tired concertized in Washington, DC, New York, Boston, Chicago, Marilyn Horne. of showing her and Miami, among other places. In response to his 1971 per- She gave extensive perfor- formance of Harold in Italy with the St. Louis Symphony, the mances in oratorio, opera, love of music to and concerts, singing with St. Louis Globe-Democrat wrote: “Perich draws a big resonant her students and sound from the instrument with little apparent effort, and he major orchestras in the US, can melt the listener with exquisitely shaded tones of piercing Italy, Norway and Sweden, inspired them to sweetness.” including at The Chicago Lyric That year, he joined the Illinois faculty, on which he served as Opera and Maggio Musciale sing with that love.” first Principal Violist with the Sinfonia da Camera, as a member in Florence, Italy. She was on of the Walden String Quartet, and as a regular instructor for the faculty of the University ISYM. Known for cultivating new work, he continued to give of Illinois for many years as an associate professor of music, premieres of works written expressly for him, including Fran- retiring in 1972. cisco Fleta Polo’s Viola Sonata, which he recorded at Krannert John Wustman, Professor Emeritus of Music at UIUC, writes: Center with Eric Dalheim. “Evelyn had a very beautiful mezzo-soprano voice and we In 1990, the then Director of the School of Music, Don V. had many opportunities to hear it during her years with our Moses, wrote of Perich as “one of our most successful and voice department. She was an outstanding teacher who never revered faculty members.” A farewell concert in Smith Hall to tired of showing her love of music to her students and inspired mark Perich’s retirement featured performances from Perich them to sing with that love. Evelyn sang a Verdi Requiem at and his string colleagues Michael Cameron, Virginia Farmer, age 74 and I am sure she showed her wonderful voice and her love of music.” —Robert Grisbrook, editor

2018 45 Giving Gifts in support of the School of Music (July 1, 2016–June 30, 2017)

The overall success of the School of Music depends greatly recognition program for those who give at the highest on the generosity of our alumni, friends of the School levels, is reserved for contributors whose outright or of Music, foundations and corporations. We gratefully cumulative gifts total $25,000 or more, as well as those acknowledge the generous support of the following who have made deferred gifts of $50,000 or more. individuals, corporations and foundations, who made The School of Music welcomes new contributors to gifts in support of the School of Music between July 1, the 2017–2018 honor roll. For more information about 2016, and June 30, 2017. making a gift to the School of Music, please contact Please note that members of the President’s Council David Allen in the Development office, at 217-333-6453 are designated with an asterisk (*). The President’s or [email protected]. Council, the University of Illinois Foundation’s donor

$500,000+ Paul Herman Elaine & Nicholas Brown Sandra Leonard Erin & James Lowe* Sarah & Chip Buerger* Howard Loveless Robert Zarbock* (DEC) Peter & Elizabeth March* Cindy Capek & Edward Harvey* Carl & Laura Luckadoo Donald Maylath* Nicholas & Mary Carrera Kenneth & Diane Matsuura $100,000–$499,999 Timothy McGregor Louise & Philip Cary Virginia & John Mead Chester & Nadine Houston* Andrew Megill Joseph Ceo Trudy & Charles Medhurst* (DEC) Frances Schlanger* Marsha Clinard & Charles Boast* George Meyer David & Nancy Schwartz* Eleanor & William Crum* J. Michael Moore & Barbara Jane $50,000–$99,999 Ginny & Paul Uhlenhop* Shirley & Roger Cunningham* Moore* Lynne & Paul Denig Ruth Moore Phyllis Cline (DEC) $2,500–$4,999 Maureen & Christopher Durack* Lois & Joseph Morrow Lynd Corley* Lauren & James Emme Thomas & Nancy Keegan Mitch Blecha Michael & Carla Fanelli Angelia Mugavero $25,000–$49,999 Deb & Bill Harrison Linda & Roger Fornell* Eric Nelson Richard & Jenny Harvey James Frame* & Candace Penn Bruno & Wanda Nettl* Alan & Joyce Baltz* Eve Harwood & Mark Netter* Frame Rebecca & Jeffrey Olson* Bernice From John Johnson & Patricia Charles Gardner & Patti Eylar Dean Pollack & Lizabeth Wilson Margaret Rice (DEC) Coyne-Johnson* Andrew & Barbara Goldberg Elizabeth Raiman Ronald Johnson* Elizabeth Goldwasser* & Edwin Merrilee & Richard Remond $10,000–$24,999 Carol Livingstone & Daniel Goldwasser (DEC) James Robbins & Mary Grayson* Chuck & Norma Gordon Savoie-Robbins Michael & Stephanie Chu Tracy McCabe & Fabien Wecker* Donald Graham Diane & Tom Scharfenberg* Andrea Durison-Clark & Richard Stephen & Anne McClary* Chris & Nancy Hammitt Richard & Janet Schroeder* Clark* Lynda Marchiori McKibben & Sheryl & Donald Harkins Phyllis Shafron Thomas Jewett Claude McKibben* Kathleen Harvey Gary & Beverly Smith Stanley & Marjorie Steinkamp David & Sharron Mies Lori & Reiner Hinner Rebecca & Mark Smith (DEC) Craig & Margaret Milkint* John Wustman* James & Deloris Holiman Lawrence Smith Jr. & Donna Thomas Nixon & Daniel Sherbo Donald & Marilyn Holt* Smith* Suzanne & George Pagels* Dennis Holtschneider Linda Snyder & Linda Hartley $5,000–$9,999 Marjorie Perrino* William & Vicki Hood Jennifer Sochacki & James Bryan & Valerie Bagg* Raymond & Lori Janevicius* Ponder* Carol Berthold* $1,000–$2,499 Bruce Johnson* Marjorie Sodemann* Walter Spotte Mary & David Dungan Katherine & Bruce Ballard Nancy Johnson Case & Elaine Sprenkle* Daniel Feldt Stephen Blum* David & Jennifer Knickel Martha & James Stiehl Michael & Susan Haney* David & Kathryn Bowers Nancy Knight & David Young* David & Linda Kranz James & Patricia Swan Jane Kuntz & Richard Powers* Iris & Burton Swanson* *Members of the President’s Council

46 sonorities Anne & G. G. Taubeneck* Lloyd Palmiter John Haberlen Sue & Randy Taylor* William Pananos* Margita Haberlen Nicholas & Mary Temperley* Joseph Rank & Pamela McCulley Rank* Michelle & John Hackett Jon Toman Shelley & Phillip Ruch Mary & Richard Haines David Wagstaff Debra Sarvela Robert & Julie Healy* John Walter & Joy Crane Thornton-Walter* James Scharfenberg Philip Highfill Howell Williams Sarah Scharfenberg Alice & Jesse Hopkins L. A. & Melanie Williams Edwin & Carol Scharlau* Robert & Cynthia Hormell* James & Cheryl Wormley* Paul & Susan Schlesinger* Donovan Hough Christie Schuetz J. B. & Mary Howell $500–$999 Julie & Glendon Schuster* Sandra Huston Patricia & Dennis Schwarzentraub* Jodie & Benjamin Jackels Chester Alwes & Marlys Scarbrough Janice & Jeffrey Sibley Barbara Jackson Kenneth & Mary Andersen* Anne & Charles Slichter* Kathryn & Alan Janicek Linda Allen Anderson* Wynn Smiley Julie & William Jastrow Carolyn & Richard Anderson Michelle & William Stanley Alice & Rick Joellenbeck Sharon & Theodore Barczak Marie Swenson Cynthia Jose & Henry Magnuski* Lisa & Robert Barnes Eric Tamura & Amy Li Robert & Cynthia Kennedy* Mildred Barnett* James & Pamela Thomas Marilyn Kohl Robert Bass & Melinda Baldwin Kathe & John Thompson Gerald & Ellen Kuroghlian Iva Bayley Nancy & Peter Van Den Honert Stig & Deirdre Lanesskog Myles Berman Michael & Pamela VanBlaricum* David & Rise Lange* Patrick Bitterman* Kimberly & Jeffrey Wahl Shung-Wu Lee* & Emmie Lee Fisher Maria & Alan Blair John & Ruth Weaver* Brenda Callahan Lynge & Morgan Lynge* Craig & Nancy Branigan Sheldon & Gloria Welstein Ricky & Deborah Mason Carol & Glen Cartwright John & Nancy Whitecar Yvonne Simpson-Matz & Charles Matz Scott & Janice Casagrande Nicole Williams Myrna & Edward Mazur Linda & Amos Chenoweth* Chad & Amy Williams William & Brenda McNeiland Monica & Craig Collins Mark & Susan Wisthuff Patrick Meehan & Julie O’Connor John Davidson & Shirley Schaeffer* Kurtis Melin Kim & Allan File $250–$499 John Meyer Joseph Flummerfelt Brian & Florence Miller Jennifer & James Gettel Raymond Abbott William & Martha Miller* Judith & Nicholas Good Ian Anderson LeRae Jon Mitchell Joe & Rebecca Grant Keith Anderson & Desiree Helgren Ted & Cathy Mitchell Eric Hammelman Claretha Anthony Jeffrey & Barbara Modlin Kenneth Harang Jan Aramini & Michael Pettersen Mark Mosley & Sarah Good Mary Hart Erwin & Linda Arends* Richard Murphy Henry Helenek Helen & Michael Arkes Suzanne & Frank Mynard* Zachary Hench & Sarah Beauchamp Anton Armstrong Estelle & Nicholas Nicholson Harvey Hermann (DEC) & Sandra Hermann Elizabeth Ash Marion O’Leary & Elizabeth Kean Lisa Horn Scott & Shannon Banjavcic Susan & K. D. O’Leary James Horn Jeanne Bauer Douglas & Rebecca Pinney Charlotte & Albert Hughes Richard & Susan Biagi Edward Rath & Lois Beck Rath* Jane & Donald Hunt* Jonathan & Sarah Black Bruce Reznick & Robin Sahner* Lizbeth & John Katsinas* Brenda Brak & Dale Hallerberg Verlin & Rebecca Richardson John Koenig Anna & Joseph Catalano Joann & Luzern Richter Edward Laird Eileen Chiou Patricia Robb & William Alberth Dian Lawler-Johnson Karen Clausius & Douglas Fitzgerald Kenneth Rubin Jupian Leung Michelle Corlew Rebecca & David Rubin Marshall & Nancy Mabie Douglas & Laura Coster Robert & Elda Ruckrigel Edgar Madsen & Melva Gage* Peter Daley Stephen Spontak Jeffrey & Gayle Magee Kersy & Delna Dastur Gail & Joseph Spytek Kristy Mardis & Joseph Hanley Niki & John Devereux Dora & Herbert Tsang William Mirola & Delbert Disselhorst Nancy & Steven Turner William & Charlotte Moersch John & Terri Dodson* Cheryl & Russell Weber* Jena Naponelli & Jacob Seiler Mark Elledge Duane Werner & Bonnie Johansen-Werner Clifford & Linda Nelson Rodney & Aldena Everhart Phillip Whipple Daniel & Arundhati Neuman* Steven Everitt & Sandra Ettema Nancy Whitaker & James Hile Steven Ng Marita & Cleve Fenley Sue & Rod Williams David O’Connor & Caroline West James & Deborah Franczek Susan Williams Steven & Laurie Oreskovich Dorothy Gemberling* Richard Ziegler* Howard & Jean Osborn* Graham Grady Kathy & Bruce Greenwood

2018 47 $100–$249 Stanley Cain Loretta Caldwell planned giving Mari (Brown) Chandor* Kara Cannelongo Marsha & Larry Ackerman Tony & Lisa Caramia Olga & Daniel Adams Allan Carpenter & Eudell Jones Creating a Legacy William & Donna Alberth Sandra Carr James Alexander & Vicki Marshall Janet & Jeffrey Carter of Excellence Barbara Allen Sean Cartner Donetta & Eddie Allen Joseph & Sandra Casserly* Donors who remember the School Sharon Alter Susan & Charles Chamberlin of Music in their estate plans provide Glenn & Joan Anderson Jack & Joy Charney Jennifer & Timothy Anderson critical funding to establish schol- Hwei & Jo Cheng arships, awards, fellowships, and Sharon & David Anderson Thomas Cherry Evonne Anderson Judith Cherry other student and faculty support. Jill & Robert Lofgren Robin Christian The School of Music would like to Richard & Applegate Robert & Deanna Christie recognize the following alumni and Pamela Arbogast & Linn Arbogast Joseph & Joann Chvatal Lori Archer & Kevin Sutherland Mary Claeys & Marvin Lamb friends who have chosen to remember Pamela Van Arsdale Amy & Thomas Clark the School through a bequest, chari- Larry Ashley Susan & Gregory Clemons table trust, pledge, or other planned David & Martha Atwater Gordon Cochrane Susanne Aultz Larry Cohen gift vehicle: Thomas Baker Kenda & Gerard Corcoran Ronald Baker Philip & Louise Corlew Linda Allen Anderson* Kevin & Sally Baltz Gary Cortright & Marlene Koncel Anonymous (x2) Debra & David Barford Paul Creighton Alan & Joyce Baltz* Gordon Baym & Cathrine Blom* Theresa Creighton Norman & Mary Jane Beasley* Stephanie & Mark Becher Maureen & Jim Cribbs Richard Benson Kenneth & Nancy Beckmann Richard Cridlebaugh & H. D. Patrick Bitterman* Michelle Beggs Alde-Cridlebaugh Stephen Blum* Suzanne & Robert Behle David Curtis David Bruns* Susan & Wayne Bekiares Jill & Glenn Cutler Michael & Stephanie Chu Judith & Michael Bennett Martin Dagenais Richard Clark & Andrea Durison-Clark* Marilyn Berdick Neffisatu Dambo Lynd Corley* Arthur & Barbara Berman Warren & Marsha Darcy Stanford Collins Patricia & Charles Bernardini Lynda Dautenhahn & Lee Nickelson Roger & Shirley Cunningham* Joyce & Michael Billing Kenneth Davis Edna Filson Alesia Bock Richard DeLong* James Frame & Candace Penn Frame* Deborah & Paul Boehm Diane Denault Preston & Cathy Gale Mary Boggs John & Susan DeWolf John Heath* Christine & Philip Bohlman Marie-Elise Diamond Paul Herman Jane Bonaldi* Bruce & Barbara Dickerson Joseph & Jill Bonucci Donald Houpt & JoAnn Unsell Houpt* Irene & Russell Dieterich Larry Houtz* Samuel Bostaph Angie & John Dimit Raymond & Lori Janevicius* Samuel & Margaret Bradshaw Cathy & Gerald Ditto Bruce Johnson* Robert & Lynn Bradtke M. D. & Charles Dixon Allen Kleinbeck* George & Kathleen Bragle Robert Doak Dean Langford* Donna & Jerome Brand Robert Doepp Randall Lindstrom* & Justin Emery Cynthia & Clark Breeze Margaret & John Donohue Michael & Barbara McDonnell* Karen Bretz Jill & Jeffrey Dorries Andrew Megill Jeffrey Brinkmann C. W. & Kay Douglass Sharon Michalove* Thomas & Kareen Britt Adele & Fred Drummond Tamara Mitchell* Cheryl Brodsky Scott Duff David Brown Marilyn Duginger Daniel & Arundhati Neuman* Wayne Brown & Brenda Kee Suzanne Duker Ralph & Kathy Pounds* Dan & Carol Browne Theodora & Wayne Dvorak William Scott Jeffrey & Stephanie Bryk Doris Dyen & Deane Root Willodean Simon* Margaret & Kenneth Buel* Ronald & Darlene Dymerski Marc Sims Kathryn Bumpass Harold Eager & Ellen Eager Albert Staub* Sandra & Stephen Burgener James & Brenda Edgar* Craig Sutter* Jennifer & Andrew Burkemper William & Kathlene Edwards David & Deborah Trotter* William Busen Ann Einhorn* Sharon West* Kimberly & Kevin Butler Cheryl & Kristopher Einsweiler Marjorie & Ralph Butler David Eiseman Names marked with an (*) indicate members of the President’s Council. 48 sonorities Holly & Robert Elmore Kendra & David Iffland Larry & Ellen Mettler Robert & Lois M Richter Ruth & Richard Erdmann Janice Impey Dale & Rita Millis Britt Ringel Perry Ergang & Anne Pachciarek Bruce & Barbara Ingersoll Constance & Alan Mitchell* Ronald & Linda Roaks Robert & Mary Espeseth* John Jackanicz Amy Mitsuda Faith & Bruce Roberts Robert & Katherine Evans Laurine Jannusch Gregory & Ruth Mock Diana & Robert Rogier Frederick & Constance Fairchild Janell & Gordon Johns* Gerald Monroe Michelle Melin-Rogovin & Mark Dawn Fairchild Carlyle & Judith Johnson Deborah Montgomery Rogovin Honglin Fan Matthew Johnson Alyssa & Michael Moody Carol Roper Susan & Allen Feige Bette & James Johnson Joetta Morgan Sylvia Ross Judith Feutz Terri & Richard Jonas Don & Anne Moses* James Rouintree Anne & Timothy Fiedler Stephen Jones & Kimberly Linda Moses Kathryn Rouker Barbara & Robert Fisher Slomka-Jones Melvyn Muchnik John Rowe Robert Fleisher Clarence & Carol Josefson Marian & Steve Mueller David Ryan Sarah & David Fodor Jean Joslyn Herman & Phyllis Munczek Steven Sabourin Eric & Jennifer Foss Mayank Kabra Ann Murray & Michael Hurtubise Jon Salvani John & Roxanne Frey* Christopher Kade & JoAnn Jill & Tom Muth Jose & Arlene Sanchez Stanley Friedman (DEC) McNaughton-Kade* James Nelson & Diane Foust George Sanders Beverly & Michael Friese* Fritz & Monica Kaenzig Deborah Nemko Lisa & Joseph Sanstrom Geraldine & William Gainer John & Phyllis Kalivoda* Diane & Thomas Newkirk Nicole & Jeffrey Sapyta Abel Garibaldi Frank Kelley Patricia Newman Terra & Robert Schaller Kent & Leslie Geibel Herbert Kellman & Susan Parisi William Nicholls Margaret Scharfenberg Barbara Geis Christopher & Katie Kelly Cheryl Nimz Martha & Craig Schiele Margaret & Edward Germain William & Carol Kem Gerald & Mary Norton Arthur & Christine Schildbach Susan & Clifford Geschke Howard Kennedy Alison Hong-Novotney & Eugene Ralph Schlesinger Margaret Ghering* Linda Kenney Novotney Herbert Schneiderman John & Pamela Gibbons Shain & Terrie Khoshbin Mitchell & Elizabeth Nuss Karl Schoeps Fredrick Gibson Richard & Barbara Kiefer Robert Van Nuys Ramonde & Steven Schopp James & Cheryl Gibson Glen & Susan Kitson* Valerie & Thomas Oakley Jeffrey & Linda Schroeder Carolyn & William Glass Christa Knust Marjorie Olson Tobie Schroeder Joseph Dale Goble* Lance Kohan Mark & Cornelia Otnes Wallace & Patricia Schroth Patricia & Reginald Goeke Michael Konrad Paulette & Robert Pahlke Anna Schuh Marjorie & Thomas Goettsche Michael Kostal Elizabeth & Palmer Nancy Schwegler Joel Gritters Bradley Krumpolz Albert Panozzo & Roberta Thomas & Cynthia Seputis Jane Groft Andrew & Susan Kunz Panozzo Billie & Daniel Severns David Gross Kupper Peter & Margene Pappas Louis Sguros & Kim Nickelson Michael & Margaret Grossman* Virginia Price-Kvistad & Richard Catherine Parish Amanda & Benjamin Shanbaum Linda & Charles Gullakson Kvistad Joan Parker* Donald & R. J. Sherbert Stephanie & James Hancock Laura & Thomas Lair Karen Parrack Teresa Shine Jenell Hardy Joan & Ronald Larner Margaret & Robert Pattison Patricia & Robert Shufeldt Pamela & Albert Harrison Jean Launspach & Dominic Alma & David Patton Ned Siegel* Karen & Joseph Hartman Plucinski Frank Paul Arthur Sievers* Gretchen & Timothy Haskett Nedra & Terry Lepper Craig & Gail Peine Marc & Ellen Singer Susan & James Hatfield* Audrey & Mark Levin Karin & Frank Pendle Thomas Siwe & Joan Melanie Hauck & James Hertel Laura & Blake Linders Arnold & Barbara Perey Fortschneider Melinda & Scott Hawbaker Grant Linsky Lisa Perkins Janet & John Skadden Marilyn Haynie Gail & John Little Linda Perry Anne & Gregory Skuta Peter Heaney & Kim Cook Linda Lojewski Amy & Robert Phelps Terry & Katharine Slocum Mark & Jamie Heisler Philip Lopez Joyce & Robert Placek Mary & Kenneth Slonneger Sally & Bill Hermann Brandi & Jason Lowe Bonnie & Kenneth Pletcher Sharon & William Smiley Laura Brady Herrero Gail & Bruce Mack Michael & Sally Pope* Gregory & Vicky Smith Harold & Liz Hindsley* Janet & Stephen Madden Stephen & Esther Portnoy* Marilyn & Philip Smith Robert & Jane Hindsley Linda & Richard Marsho Lyle & Karyn Quandt Suzanne Smith Gaye Hofer & Gregory Julia & Michael Maschek Barbara & James Ragusa Glen Sons Cunningham Bernard & Barbara Mateer Peggy Raines Donna Sons Mary Hoffman Elise Matusek Lois Ramon Kenneth & Elizabeth Spolarich Karen & Gerald Hoffschmidt Candice McCafferty Doreen Rao Wendy & Brian Stabler Nancy Hornak Larry McClellan Dawn & Andrew Ratts* Elizabeth Starkey Carolyn Horne & James Roberts Gary & Haven McClung* Mohamed & Janice Razaq Janet Steffy Larry Houtz* Barbara & Michael McDonnell* Diana & Timothy Reincke David & Karen Stein Ming-Huei Huang & Ingyu Chiou Marlah & Erik McDuffie Sue & Lou Reinisch Robert & Barbara Stiehl Barbara Haggh-Huglo Mary McElroy & Daniel Joseph Rezits Virginia Stitt Elizabeth Hunke & Stephen Ross Windham John Richard Angela Stramaglia & Wesley Barbara Hutchinson & Michael Mari McKeeth Fred Richards & Annette Matheny Burghardt Davis Myron & Nancy McLain Selma Richardson* George Strombeck

winter 2018 49 Stephen Stroud Raymond Baker A. C. & Daniel Dauner Teresa Hargrove Patti & J. D. Sulser Michael Barasch James & Ann Davidson Matti & Mary Harm John Sumrall Meghan & Gary Barrow Nancy Davis Janet & Thomas Hawkins Laurence & Marlene Svab Elaine & Neale Bartee Joan & David Deitemyer Amy & Jason Healey Phyllis Swickard Barbara Barth Robert & Ingrid Dekoj Margaret & Robert Hearson Bette Sydelko Raymond Baum Laurie & William DeMont W. R. & Joan Hedgcock Karen Takeuchi Theodore & Ardith Bayler Scott & Annette Detwiler Barbara & Ronald Hedlund Kimberly & Mark Tallungan Christina & Scott Beatty Richard Dixon & Felicia Judy Harris Helm & Richard Helm Mark Taylor Timothy Bell Spinelli-Dixon Annette & Joe Hendricks Regina Taylor Stevee Bellas Kelly Donahue Mary Hendry & George Hendry Frederick & Susan Thorne Sara Bidner Anne & David Dorn Robert Herman Jacqueline Tilles Audrey Bishop Frances & Scott Drone-Silvers Dennis Herzo Bruce Tomkins* Sharla & Bruce Bleichfeld John Duker Steven Hesla Robert & Mary Towner Geoffrey & Jacqueline Block Carl Dumoulin Nancy & A. B. Hoffman Martha & Dale Traxler* Peter Blum Matthew & Pamela Dunn Sharon & Roger Holmes Olivia & Michael Tremblay Laurie Bonner John & Edith Dwinnells Samantha Holt Ruth & Jeffrey Trimble Julia Borowiec Terri & Barry Ellis Sheldon Holzman David & Deborah Trotter* Donna Boxx Jack & Carol Ergo Amy & Joshua Hopkins James Tyrrell Susan Bramstedt Jeffrey Erickson Doris Houcek & Donald Judith & E. P. Unger Harold & Barbara Breece Bruce & Joanne Erwin Rockholm Gary Unruh Donald & Mae Brewer Mary Fay Sharon Huff Zalman & Karen Usiskin Jerome & Bonnie Brillhart Sara & William Feutz William Hughes John Austin Van Hook Edward & Helen Brooks* Evelyn & William Fickel Gary Hutter & Roselynn Don Diane & Michael Venn Ian & Rebecca Brooks Neil Finbloom Cheryl Hutter Richard Venneri Willard & Anne Broom Ron & Linda Fink Joseph & Lenore Imondi Brigitte Vincent Eleanor & Frank Brown Elyse & Brian Fischmar Jamila Jabulani Robert & Diane Walkup Lois Brown John & Janice Fisher* Renee & David Jacobsen Mary Weber & Dale Weber Bruce & Daryl Browne David & Suzanne Fleer Martha Jantho Andrew Wegner Verna Brummett Allen & Margaret Florence Glen Jaross Mary Weichbrodt Donna & Gerald Buckler Michael Fogarty Patricia Jarot Lisa Weinstein John Butler & Julie Butler Linda Forman Rachel Jensen Elizabeth Weiss Suzanne Cafouros Christ Forte* Carl & Marilyn Johnson Holly Welstein & Stuart Helen & William Call Chris Forthmann & Sara Ward Helen & Parker Johnstone Rojstaczer Nancy & Fernando Campos Joan Frank Karen Julien & Myron Julien Sharon Marie West* Kenneth Carlborg Kathleen & Kenneth Freer Derek Justmann Paul Weston Cynthia Rotruck Carter George & Suzanne Freese Baruch & Donna Kaelter Jacqueline & Robert Wiggins Ellen & Harry Carter Faith & James Fromme Stephen Kammerer Hiroko & Robert Williams Michael Casey Judith Fulton Elizabeth Kamps Camilla & David Wilson George Caton Stephen & Stephanie Gage Kristi Kaplan Mary & Allan Winter Sue Caton Michael Gagnon Carl & Deanna Karoub Robert & Susan Wislow* Anne Cave & John Cave Alicia Gardner Steven Katz & Michelle Miller Sallie Wolf Phyroath Chan Mary Gassmann Howard & Pamela Kaufman Alan Wong Nicholas Chapleau Thomas & Annemarie Gauger Robert & Kathleen Keelan A. S. Wood Stephen & Judith Chapleau Wilma Geil Ana & James Kelly Bonita Woods Kathy & Carl Chapman Kristin & Jeffrey Geis Amalie & Jeremy Kempton Yuan Wu Anthony & Gertrude Chelmecki Joli Ginsberg Jenina Kenessey Scott & Marian Wyatt Matthew Chesner Karen & Charles Given Nina Key Joyanna & Ervin Wyne Charles & Diane Christoe Craig & Cristel Gjerde Karen Kimball James & Marilyn Yerkey William & Jean Clarke Marjorie & Donald Glossop Steven Kimball Betty Zimmerman James Cobb Beverly Goldberg Cindy & Martin King Jill Zwick Lori & Darin Cochran Loren & Patricia Golden Kendall Kirkpatrick Lucinda & Dale Cockrell Karen & Robert Gordon Kay Kleeman-Tennill $1–$99 Garrett Cofield Kathleen Grecco Travis & Noel Kleinschmidt Eileen Combs Jean Gregory Cory Kniepp Oluwaseyi Adeolu Shirl Conyard Sonya Griffin Jon & Korina Knudson Thomas Aichele David Craker Gregory & Lynn Gros Diane & David Knutson Lori Allensworth Jenna Cramer Hans & Margaret Gunderson Megan & Thomas Kostal Virginia & Fletcher Anderson Catherine Crowley Marlene & Charles Gustafson Katharine & Edward Kral* Margaret Faletti Anderson* Summer Curry Marilyn Hall Nancy Kredel Angie Anderson-Althaus & David Laura Czys Barbara & Richard Hanson Susan & David Kuehn Althaus Mary Dahlquist-Downs & Donald Judith Hanson Sara & George Kuhns Heather Anichini Downs Rosemary Haraldsson Karen & John Kula Gail & Monte Atkinson Barbara & Timothy Daughters Sharon & Larry Hardesty Eun-Joo Kwak & James Crowley David & Linda Bailey

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