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Minuteman Marching Band to perform at
2013 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade!
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WGBY's "TOGETHER IN SONG"
University Chorale is Finalist, voted best collegiate choir! DetailsWatch/listen online
NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS FOR FALL, 2012
PAUL ANTHONY DENNIS MODERN DANCE, Director of University Dancers
Paul Anthony Dennis, visiting artist/lecturer in the dance program since 2007, was appointed Assistant Professor. A former member and current guest artist with the Jose Limón Dance Company, he received his BFA in dance from the Juilliard School and an MFA including a certificate in Arts Management from Purchase College, State University of New York. He has performed with Works/Laura Glenn Dance and the Jacob's Pillow Men's Dancers: The Ted Shawn Legacy. He has been in residence with Dance International in Burgos, Spain, and an adjudicator for Certamen International de Choreografia, Burgos - New York.
Professor Dennis is Festival Director for the White Mountains Summer Dance Festival at Sarah Lawrence College and is on faculty at the Ted Hershey Dance and Music Marathon. He is guest artist/faculty at Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Springfield and Trinity Colleges; Central Connecticut State University and Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance, having restaged seminal masterpieces of Ted Shawn, José Limón and Doris Humphrey.
ERINN ELIZABETH KNYT MUSIC HISTORY
Erinn Knyt, appointed Assistant Professor in Music History, began her career at UMass in 2010 as a Lecturer. She holds a BA in Music History and Piano Performance with highest honors from the University of California, Davis, and an MM in Music and PhD in Music and Humanities from Stanford University. Knyt's dissertation is entitled Ferruccio Busoni and the Ontology of the Musical Work: Permutations and Possibilities. She received a Mellon Foundation Fellowship and is published in the Journal of Musicology. The papers she presented at conferences in California, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Michigan were on topics ranging from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century. Her article, Ferruccio Busoni and the Absolute in Music: Nature, Form, and ‘Idée', appeared in the Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Knyt won a professional presentation grant for her presentation at the 19th Congress of the International Musicological Society in Rome . She was a finalist for the Ingolf Dahl Prize of the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society and has appeared as a piano soloist in recital and with orchestra.
UMass Marimba Ensemble & Minuteman Marching Band Cymbal Section, Thomas Hannum, director Presenting two clinics at the New Hampshire Music Educators Association
All-State Conference,
Concord, New Hampshire
Friday, April 13, 2012
University Chorale, Stephen A. Paparo, director
Finalist in Public TV/WGBY's "Together in Song", a competition
celebrating choral traditions of western New England.
Recorded Rollo Dillworth's Take Me to the River in Springfield, MA on 2/8/12 at WGBY Studios;
Performance aired March 10, 8pm & April 7, 2pm.
The Chorale was selected as the best choir in the collegiate category, & performed in both the semifinal and final performances on April 21 & 22 at
The Paramount Theater, 1700 Main Street, Springfield.
Additional information at wgby.org/togetherinsong or View Online
Wind Ensemble, James Patrick Miller, director
Timothy Anderson, guest conductor
Laura Klock, horn & Lynn Klock, alto saxophone
February 29, 2012: The Forum, Harrisburg, PA
March 1: College Band Directors National Association Eastern Regional Conference,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Chamber Singers,
Tony Thornton, director
"Ensemble in Residence" for the Institute on Renaissance Music
American Choral Directors Associations Eastern Division Conference
Providence, Rhode Island
February 14, 2012
Marimba Ensembles, Thomas Hannum, director Friday, Feb. 3, 2012: Concert & Workshop at Syosset H.S., Long Island, NY
and Concert, Workshop & Masterclass at Manhasset H.S., NY
Saturday, Feb. 4: Clinic at Suffolk County Music Educators' Association
Day of Percussion, Sayville H.S., NY
UMass Studio Orchestra, Jeffrey W. Holmes, director
with special guest, jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan
Performance at the 3rd Annual Jazz Education Network Conference,
Galt Hotel, Louisville, Kentucky
The defining national/international annual Jazz Educator event
Friday, January 6, 2012, 11am
One of the best music schools/departments in Massachusetts and in New England, offering graduate and undergraduate Music Education, Jazz, Performance and Music Theory degrees and programs.
