Fifty-Seventh National Conference October 30–November 1, 2014 Ritz Carlton St. Louis St. Louis, Missouri PRESENTER & COMPOSER BIOS updated October 25, 2014 Abeles, Harold F. Dr. Harold Abeles is a Professor of Music and Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Center for Arts Education Research. He has contributed numerous articles, chapters and books to the field of music education. He is the co-author of the Foundations of Music Education and the co-editor, with Professor Lori Custodero, of Critical Issues in Music Education: Contemporary Theory and Practice. Recent chapters by him have appeared in the Handbook of Music Psychology and the New Handbook of Research on Music Teaching and Learning. He was the founding editor of The Music Researchers Exchange, an international music research newsletter begun in 1974. He served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Research in Music Education and has served on the editorial boards of several journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychomusicology, Dialogue in Instrumental Music Education, Update, and Arts Education Policy Review. His research has focused on a variety of topics including, the evaluation of community-based arts organizations, the assessment of instrumental instruction, the sex- stereotyping of music instruments, the evaluation of applied music instructors, the evaluation of ensemble directors, technology-based music instruction, and verbal communication in studio instruction. Adler, Ayden With a background as a performer, writer, teacher, and administrator, Ayden Adler serves as Senior Vice President and Dean at the New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy. At New World, Dr. Adler has expanded the Fellowship Program to include major focuses on audience engagement and leadership development, in addition to orchestral training and musicianship. She also is leading the development of NWS’ digital arm, MUSAIC, which features a “virtual” library with content provided by NWS and premier educational partners, including the Cleveland Institute of Music, Eastman School of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Manhattan School of Music, Royal Danish Academy of Music, and USC’s Thornton School of Music, among others. Launching in fall 2014, MUSAIC will be shared with and made accessible to music students of all ages and their teachers worldwide. Previously, Dr. Adler served as Executive Director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as Director of Education and Community Partnerships for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Director for Learning Development. As an artist, Dr. Adler performed as a tenured member of the horn section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra for ten years and taught horn, natural horn, and music history at the Eastman School of Music. She has recorded for the Harmonia Mundi label. Her academic research has focused on the history of orchestral institutions. She regularly gives presentations at national and international conferences that address issues of civic and economic relevance, diversity, and cultural values in the context of historic and current business practices at arts institutions. Dr. Adler holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), The Juilliard School (M.M.), and the Eastman School of Music (M.A., D.M.A., Ph.D.). Aipperspach, Ian B. Ian Aipperspach, Instructor of Music at South Plains College, Levelland, TX is a scholar of 19th Century Moravian Music, Aipperspach recently completed an edition of Moravian anthems as part of his dissertation in Choral Studies and Musicology at Texas Tech University. Professional engagements have included Conductor of the Midland-Odessa Symphony Chorale and adjudicator for the El Paso Independent School District Choral Festival. Additionally, he serves on the staff of Lubbock Moonlight Musicals as the Operations Manager and as Music Director where he most recently directed Peter Pan, a successful run of Madrigal Dinners, and served as the assistant music director for a joint Moonlight Musicals and Lubbock Symphony Orchestra production of Les Miserables. Andreini, Matthew Matthew Andreini currently teaches Applied Percussion and Percussion Ensembles at the University of Northern Iowa. As a performer, Andreini performs regularly with a variety of ensembles throughout Iowa and has performed with well known groups such as the Boston Brass and the Enso String Quartet. A proponent of new music, Matthew is a founding member of the "Iowa/Hungary Project" which showcases new music of Iowan and Hungarian composers and has performed in multiple international tours throughout Europe, Central and South America. Ardovino, Lori Fay see Lebaron Trio, The Arnone, Francesca Francesca Arnone is an active flute and piccolo soloist, chamber musician, and clinician. An avid traveler, she enjoys pursuing this passion through music and has performed in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, in such venues as St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Royal Northern College of Music, the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, the Split Academy of Music (Croatia), and the Chicago Public Library. Currently flute professor at Baylor University, she is a member of the Baylor Faculty Players, Baylor Wind Quintet, and the Waco Symphony. A veteran of regional and opera orchestras in the US and Mexico, she has also been a concerto soloist on flute, alto flute, and piccolo, playing repertoire ranging from Bach to Chen Yi. Arnone teaches at and directs the Baylor Flute Seminars in the summer, and previously taught at West Virginia University, Boise State University, and Idaho State University. She earned flute performance degrees from Oberlin, San Francisco Conservatory, and the University of Miami, where she studied with Robert Willoughby, Julia Bogorad-Kogan, Tim Day, and Christine Nield. [www.francescaarnone.com] Bailey, John see Moran Woodwind Quintet Banks, Christy A. Christy Banks is Associate Professor of Music (Clarinet and Saxophone) at Millersville University of Pennsylvania where she also serves as Assistant Chair of the Music Department. Prior to her appointment to the Millersville University Music Faculty in 2005, Dr. Banks previously taught clarinet, saxophone, and related music courses at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Concordia University of Nebraska, Doane College, Union College, and Peru State College. She has been a member of the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, the Nebraska Symphony Chamber Orchestra, and the Nebraska Chamber Players. Interested in newly composed music, Dr. Banks is a founding member of Lincoln’s New Music Agency and performs with the Lancaster-based Naked Eye Ensemble. Internationally, she has performed at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFests® in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 and as a soloist in Italy, Germany, Austria, and China. In Pennsylvania, Banks has performed with the Harrisburg Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, the Reading Symphony, the Pennsylvania Sinfonia, Allegro Chamber Players, and Opera Lancaster. Banks received her DMA and BM in clarinet from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MM in clarinet from Florida State University. Her primary clarinet teachers are Diane Cawein Barger, Frank Kowalsky, Eric Ginsberg, and Wesley Reist. Dr. Banks is the Pennsylvania State Chair of the International Clarinet Association and the founder of the Millersville University Single Reed Symposium. Barger, Diane see Moran Woodwind Quintet Barry, Nancy Nancy H. Barry is Professor of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University. She earned the Master’s degree and Ph.D. in music education, and certificates in Electronic Music and Computers in Music from Florida State University. Barry is an international scholar in music education with numerous publications in such journals as Arts and Learning, Psychology of Music, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Contributions to Music Education, UPDATE, and Bulletin of Research in Music Education, among others. She served as editor of the Journal of Technology in Music Learning, and is a reviewer for Psychology of Music. Professor Barry is a frequent presenter at national and international professional conferences. She was on the faculty of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn from 1990 – 2000. Barry served as Professor, Graduate Coordinator and Chair of Music Education at the University of Oklahoma from 2000 – 2007 where she received the Henry Daniel Rinsland Memorial Award for Excellence in Educational Research in 2006 and was awarded a Presidential Professorship in 2007. She returned to Auburn in Fall of 2007. Recent international activities include being selected by the Confucious Institute to visit China as a member of a delegation of educators, and establishing a community-based partnership which has provided opportunities for AU students and faculty to work in Malawi, Africa. Barry is a long-time member of the College Music Society. She has served CMS in numerous capacities including Southern Chapter President and Mentoring Committee Chair. Basile, Joseph Joe Basile is a graduate student attending Western Carolina University. He has been composing music since he was a young child. His instruments of expertise include saxophone, guitar, piano, and voice. After earning a B.M. in Commercial and Electronic Music from Western Carolina University, he began interning and freelancing at Antfood Music and Sound Design, a Brooklyn based music house, working under Wilson Brown and