Department of Music

MUSIC FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
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MUSIC & DANCE DEPARTMENT FACULTY JOB OPENINGS 07-08:
Ballet (pdf file)
Director of Wind Ensemble (pdf file)
Lecturer in Voice (pdf file)
Lecturer in Percussion (pdf file)

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JEFF COX
jcox@music.umass.edu
Chair of the Department of Music and Dance

D.M.A., M.M.A., Yale School of Music; M.M., B.M. Eastman School of Music. Professor and Chair, Department of Music University of New Orleans, 1989-2006. Acting Chair, Department of Music Texas Christian University; Professor of Violin, Texas Christian University and Central Washington University. Active in Suzuki Association of the Americas, as Chair, President and member of its Board of Directors. Created first Washington State Suzuki Festival; taught Suzuki Workshops in several states and participated in numerous Teacher Development programs. Established Suzuki Training Programs at the Universities in which he taught; directed the Texas Christian University Suzuki Institute. Received Faculty Development grants from Central Washington University for Suzuki Teaching Observation in Japan; was first recipient of Outstanding Suzuki Association of the Americas Leadership Award. Performed in chamber ensembles and orchestras on- and off-campuses where he taught. As an administrator, attracted important and on-going funding, organized festivals and concert series, guided non-profits as they experienced major organizational changes, and moved struggling organizations to more secure ground. In 1991, as part of a national search, became a member of the Kellogg Leadership Program (provides diversity training, and training in advocacy, spirituality, media relations and conflict resolution) traveling to Israel, the Gaza Strip, India, Poland, Spain, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Egypt. Principal topic of study during Fellowship: the teaching of acceptance between peoples. (Appointed 2006)

BRENT AUERBACH
auerbach@music.umass.edu
Theory; Assistant Professor

B.A., Harvard University; M.M., Ph.D., Eastman School of Music. Research presented at the Music Theory Society of New York State's annual conference and appears in Methodology of Music Research 4. Ph.D. dissertation: The Analytical Grundgestalt: A New Model and Methodology Based on the Music of Johannes Brahms.” Recent research on pedagogical use of the video game "Dance Dance Revolution." (View website) Pianist, oboist. Recipient, American Brahms Society's Karl Geiringer Scholarship; Harvard's Hoopes Prize for an Outstanding Thesis. Member, Society for Music Theory, American Brahms Society, Music Theory Society of New York State, Texas Society for Music Theory. Former faculty, Eastman School of Music, North Harris College (Houston, TX) and Sam Houston State University (Huntsville, TX). (Appointed 2005)

JANNA BATY
jbaty@music.umass.edu
Voice; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., Oberlin Conservatory; M.M., Yale School of Music. Has appeared with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic (S. Korea), Hamburgische Staatsoper, L'Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tallahassee Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá (Colombia), Eugene Opera, Opera North, and Boston Lyric Opera. Conductors under whom she has worked: Seiji Ozawa, Michel Plasson, Carl Davis, Robert Spano, Steuart Bedford, Stephen Lord, Stefan Asbury and Christopher Lyndon Gee. Appeared at Aldeburgh and Britten Festivals in England, The Varna Festival in Bulgaria, Semanas Musicales de Frutillar Festival in Chile, and Tanglewood and Norfolk festivals in the U.S. Opera roles range from the Duchess (Powder Her Face), Alice Ford (Falstaff), and Anna and Elvira (Don Giovanni), to Dinah (Trouble in Tahiti) and the Mother (Amahl and the Night Visitors). Performs regularly with new music ensembles--Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Collage New Music, Auros Group for New Music and Da Capo Chamber Players. Worked with composers: Bernard Rands, Sydney Hodkinson, Peter Child, Reza Vali, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Fred Lerdahl, Yehudi Wyner and John Harbison on performances of their music. Recordings: Boston Modern Orchestra Project on Naxos: Vali: Flute Concerto/Deylaman/Folk Songs (Set No. 10) and Chandos: Lukas Foss' opera Grifflekin. (Appointed 2006)

ERIC BERLIN
berlin@music.umass.edu
Trumpet, Conductor; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music; Fellow, Tanglewood Music Center, Music Academy of the West. Studied with Charles Schleuter, Vince Penzerella, Thomas Rolfs, Robert Nagel and Frank Kaderabek. Principal Trumpet, Albany (NY) Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra & Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Associate Principal, Colorado Music Festival. Performances with Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, New York Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Dave Brubeck, Luciano Pavarotti, Yo-Yo Ma. Host of the 2007 International Trumpet Guild Conference at UMass Amherst. Founder/leader, Majestic Brass Quintet. Recordings with Albany Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and solo release "End of the Matter" on Chandos, Albany, AFKA, Ecstatic and New World Records. Former Faculty, Longy School of Music, Northeastern University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Appointed 2001)

T. DENNIS BROWN
tdbrown@music.umass.edu
Music Education; Associate Professor

B.M., Boston University; M.M., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Publications in Music Educators Journal, Annual Jazz Review, Percussive Notes, The Instrumentalist, National Association of Jazz Educators Research Papers. Articles written for the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. Former faculty, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Eastern Michigan University. (Appointed 1977, Interim Department Chair 2003-2006)

ELIZABETH CHANG
echang@music.umass.edu
Violin; Visiting Associate Professor
Artist website: www.elizabethchang.net

B.A., Harvard University. Violin studies with Louise Behrend, Joseph Fuchs, Roman Totenberg, Max Rostal. Chamber music studies with Leon Kirchner and Luise Vosgerchian. Solo and chamber music performances on four continents. Performances with Orchestra of St. Luke's, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Perspectives Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitir, others. Artistic Director and founding member, Lighthouse Chamber Players, summer chamber music festival on Cape Cod, MA. Performer in Caramoor and Bard College summer festivals; guest artist and master teacher at São Paulo International Chamber Music Festival, Brazil. Recipient, Presidential Scholar in the Arts Award. Recordings: Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch. Faculty, the Juilliard School (Pre-College Division), The School for Strings of New York. Former faculty, New York University, Rutgers University. (Appointed 2005)

FREDRIC T. COHEN
fcohen@music.umass.edu
Oboe; Professor
Artist website

B.M., B.M.E., Philadelphia Musical Academy. Studies with Stevens Hewitt, Jerry Sirucek, and John De Lancie. Principal, Springfield Symphony, Harvard Chamber Orchestra, Boston Composers Orchestra, Boston Baroque, Avanti Woodwind Quintet, Arcadia Players (period instruments) and Collage. Frequent soloist and guest artist with chamber ensembles and orchestras throughout the Northeast. Recordings: Gummar, Opus 1, BEEP. Former faculty, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Boston Conservatory of Music, Longy School of Music. (Appointed 1986)

ROBERT EISENSTEIN
reisenst@mtholyoke.edu
Director, Five College Early Music Program; Lecturer.

B.A., Antioch College; M.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Founding member and programming director, Folger Consort. Performances with Hesperus on viola da gamba, and with New York Consort of Viols, Washington Bach Consort, National Symphony, Cappella Nova, Western Wind and Paul Hillier. Member, Mount Holyoke/National Endowment for the Humanities Medieval Lyric Project. (Appointed 1984)

ROBERT GULLOTTI
Drumset; Adjunct Faculty

B.M., Berklee College of Music. Extensive performing at top Jazz festivals in the U.S. and abroad, including New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, New York's Kool Jazz Festival and international festivals in San Francisco, Syracuse, Boston, Holland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Israel, Colombia and Australia. Performances with J.J. Johnson, Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Shirley Scott, Chucho Valdez, George Mraz, Tom Harrell, Mike Mainieri, Eddie Gomez, John Patitucci, Joe Lovano, John Medeski, Steve Turre, Miroslav Vitrous. Appearances with Phish; member of The Fringe. Over 50 CD's on many labels including RCA, ECM, Warner Brothers and Soul Note. (Appointed 2001)

THOMAS HANNUM
hannum@music.umass.edu
Conducting, Percussion; Staff Assistant

B.S., West Chester University; M.M., University of Massachusetts. Clinic and adjudication appearances throughout the United States and Canada. Percussion Program Director, Star of Indiana Brass and Percussion Corp. Distinguished Service to the University Award. Author, Fundamental Techniques for Marching Percussion (Columbia Pictures Publications, 1988) and Championship Concepts for Marching Percussion (Hal Leonard Publishing Corp., 1986) Contributor, Percussive Notes. Associate Director, Minuteman Marching Band; Conductor, Hoop Band. (Appointed 1985)

BEVERLY G. HILL
beverlyh@acad.umass.edu
Music Education; Visiting Professor

B.S., Grambling State University; M.M., University of Northern Colorado; Post-graduate studies, University of Denver. Long time public school teacher and administrator in General/Vocal Music Education at the Junior High/Middle School levels. Served as a music adjudicator, presenter and member of various educational Tasks Forces. Co-author "Middle School Integrated Arts Curriculum Guide" and "Denver as an Art Form." Received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.; President of Phi Delta Kappa Professional Fraternity in Education; liaison and coordinator, the Berkshire Hills Music Academy in Hadley, MA; Arts Outreach Coordinator and Outreach Programs Manager at UMass-Amherst. (Appointed 1999)

WILLIE L. HILL, JR.
drwhill@aol.com
Director, University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center; Professor of Music Education

B.S., Grambling State University; M.M., Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder. President, International Association of Jazz Educators, President-Elect, Southwestern Division Music Educators National Conference, Past-President Colorado Music Educators Association and Pi Kappa Lambda. Member, writing team MENC's Vision 2020, National Board of Directors for Young Audiences. Guest soloist/performer with George Burns, Liza Minneli, Lena Horne, Lou Rawls, Ben Vareen, Lola Falana, Johnny Mathis, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dizzy Gillespie, James Moody, Jon Faddis. Woodwind specialist/faculty member Clark Terry Great Plains Jazz Camp; Founder/director Rich Matteson-Telluride Jazz Academy and Mile High Jazz Camp, Boulder, CO. National artist/clinician Yamaha Musical Instrument Company. Co-author Learning to Sight-Read Jazz, Rock, Latin, and Classical Styles (Ardley House Publication); author The Instrumental History of Jazz (N2K, Inc.), Approaching the Standards (Warner Brothers Publication, 1999). Former faculty member, University of Colorado-Boulder; Teacher & Music Supervisor, Denver Public Schools; Director of Education, Thelonious Monk Institute. (Appointed 1999)

WILLIAM HITE
williamhite@music.umass.edu
Voice; Visiting Associate Professor

B.A., University of Kansas; M.M., The Boston Conservatory. Studies with Grace Hunter, Sharon Daniels. Performances (tenor) with American Symphony Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, New York City Ballet, National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa), Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Tafelmusik and Philharmonia Baroque under conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Nicholas McGegan, Christopher Hogwood, Robert Spano, Leon Botstein, John Harbison, Craig Smith and Peter Schreier. Operatic roles with the Boston Early Music Festival, Long Beach Opera and Kentucky Opera. Music festivals at Tanglewood, Sante Fe, Monadnock, Banff and Vancouver. Recordings on Koch, Denon and Centaur labels. Former faculty, Boston University, Cornell University, Walnut Hill School, New England Conservatory Extension Division. (Appointed 2002)

JEFFREY HOLMES
jwholmes@music.umass.edu
Director of African-American Music and Jazz Studies Program, Conductor, Composition; Professor

B.M., M.M., Eastman School of Music. Nationally published and commissioned composer/arranger, multiple recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Composition Grants; music written for Ernie Watts, Max Roach Yusef Lateef, Doc Severinsen, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, as well as numerous works for military, college, high school/middle school jazz concert and marching ensembles. Directs award-winning UMass Amherst Jazz Ensemble I and Studio Orchestra. Featured on the Jazz at Kennedy Center Series with the Billy Taylor Trio; subs regularly with the Paul Winter Consort; member of 11-piece classical ensemble Solid Brass and lead trumpet, New England Jazz Ensemble; leader Jeff Holmes Big Band; drums with Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Former panelist for National Endowment for the Arts and columnist for Jazzplayer Magazine. Reviewer for I.A.J.E. Journal; world tours, recordings, guest conductor/ clinician/adjudicator. Performances with Dizzy Gillespie, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Bellson, Vanguard Orchestra (Thad Jones/Mel Lewis), Sheila Jordan, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torme, David Goloschokin, Bob Mintzer, Slide Hampton and numerous NYC Broadway shows. Associate Director, Jazz In July Improvisation Workshops. (Appointed 1979)

JOHN JENKINS
jenkins@admin.umass.edu
Associate Chair for Academic Affairs, Department of Music & Dance; Professor, Music Education; Associate Director, Fine Arts Center

B.M., M.M., M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan. Chair, University Task Force on General Education and General Education Council. Foreign Professor in Residence, Hokkaido University, Japan; publications in Journal of Higher Education and Lifelong Learning, Center for Research and Development in Higher Education, Sapporo, Japan. Founded The Lively Arts course and artist residency program. Recipient, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) Study Visit Grant to Hofkapelle, Thurn und Taxis, Regensburg. (Appointed 1963)

MIRIAM JENKINS
mjenkins@music.umass.edu
General Education; Lecturer

B.A. Lawrence College; M.M. University of Massachusetts. Musicological research, Thurn and Taxisches Hofbibliothek, Regensburg, Germany. Studies with Michael Sussman, Joseph Contino, John Lynes, Dorothy Foose, Marian Verbruggen. Principal clarinet, Valley Light Opera Orchestra, Past President, VLO Board of Directors. (Appointed 1993)

CATHERINE JENSEN-HOLE
cathyhole@hotmail.com
Vocal Jazz, Undergraduate Composition and Arranging; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., Western Australian Conservatorium of Music; M.M., Ph.D., University of North Texas. Performed as vocal jazz artist in Australia, Great Britain, Indonesia and the U.S. Received two DOWNBEAT magazine awards. Nationally published vocal jazz composer/arranger. Performs and teaches at 'Jazz in July' Summer Workshop, team-teaching with jazz vocalist Sheila Jordan. Former Director of Vocal Jazz, Central Washington University. (Appointed 1999)

DEANNA JOSEPH
dljoseph@music.umass.edu
Interim Director of Choral Activities, Lecturer

B.S., Duquesne University; M.M., Eastman School of Music. Director, University Chamber Choir, Chorale, Women's Choir. Studied with William Weinert, Helmuth Rilling (Oregon Bach Festival), Neil Varon, Brad Lubman, Brady Allred, Kevin Noe. Artistic Director and Conductor of the South Hadley Chorale; Founder and Artistic Director of Hodie. Soprano soloist with Arcadia Players; member of the vocal sextet, Cantabile. Former faculty, Smith College. (Appointed 2007)

GARY S. KARPINSKI
garykarp@music.umass.edu
Music Theory; Professor

B.Mus., M.M., Temple University; Ph.D., City University of New York. Studies with Carl Schachter, Leo Treitler, George Perle, Joel Lester, Charles Burkhart. Author, Aural Skills Acquisition (Oxford University Press), Manual for Sight Singing and Ear Training, and Anthology for Sight Singing (W. W. Norton). Articles in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, Music Theory Online, International Journal of Musicology, The Computer and Music Educator. Editor, Festschrift for George Perle. Reviews Editor, Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy. Associate Editor, ex tempore. Past President, Association for Technology in Music Instruction. Former Board Member for Music Theory, College Music Society. Former President, New England Conference of Music Theorists. Co-Director, College Music Society Institute for Music Theory Pedagogy Studies. Reader, GRE Revised Music Test. Grants from Massachusetts Center for Teaching, Apple Computer, Inc., National Endowment for the Humanities. Former faculty, University of Oregon School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, Temple University. Director, Academic Computing. Coordinator, Music Theory. (Appointed 1993)

LAURA KLOCK
laklock@music.umass.edu
Horn; Professor
Horn Studio website

B.M., M.M., University of Michigan. Studies with Louis Stout, Thomas Murray, Harry Berv. Principal horn, Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Guest principal horn with orchestras throughout New England and across the U.S.; recent residency as guest principal hornist and clinician with the Bogota (Colombia) Philharmonic Orchestra. Member, UMass faculty ensembles: Avanti Woodwind Quintet and Infinity Brass Quintet. As chamber musician has performed with the Mohawk Trail Concerts, Chamber Music Plus (Hartford), North Country Chamber Players and at the New England Bach (Marlboro, VT), Musicorda and Monadnock Music Festivals. As member of the Brass Ring Quintet, was a featured artist at the 8th International Brass Festival in Verona, Italy. Has been a guest artist in Taiwan and in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Top prize winner, Valve Horn Division, Heldenleben International Horn Competition. Recordings on Open Loop, Crystal, and Gasparo labels. Former faculty, Olivet College. (Appointed 1974)

LYNN KLOCK
lklock@music.umass.edu
Saxophone; Professor
Saxophone studio website

B.M., M.M., University of Michigan. Studies with Lawrence Teal, Donald Sinta, Jack Kripl. Frequent soloist and recitalist throughout the United States; Music from Marlboro 1991 East Coast tour; recent tours of Poland, American and British Virgin Islands. First saxophonist to appear in Warsaw Philharmonic Recital Series. Guest soloist with Springfield Symphony and New Hampshire Symphony, West Coast Chamber Orchestra, Wantastiquet Chamber Players, and many of the nation's university bands. Performed on the Marlboro, Mohawk Trail, Monadnock, and North Country Chamber Music series. Premiered new works for saxophone written by Pulitzer Prize composers Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, Lew Spratlan, and by composers Hsueh-Yung Shen, Salvatore Macchia, Catherine McMichael. Member, Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Recordings: CRI, Orion, Mark, Open Loop. Former faculty, University of Toledo, Olivet College, Hartt School of Music. (Appointed 1980)

LUDMILA V. KRASIN
lkrasin@music.umass.edu
Piano; Adjunct faculty

Diploma Summa Cum Laude, Rimski-Korsakov Music School of Leningrad Conservatory; Diploma Summa Cum Laude, Leningrad State Culture and Art Academy. Former faculty, State Teachers' College of Leningrad. Accompanist: State Theatre of Komissarjevskaya, State St. Petersburg Academy of Culture and with violinist Anatoly Babitsky of St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Solo Pianist and Lecturer in State Youth Philharmonic of St. Petersburg; Live Radio Broadcast Recording with St. Petersburg Orchestra of Folk Instruments. With Andrei Tolshin of Pushkin Theatre created original musical and dramatic composition, The Return, broadcast on St. Petersburg television and performed in major concert halls in St. Petersburg, Kiev, Riga, and Murmansk. Moved to U.S. in 1996. Conductor/Pianist for local theatre productions. Music Director, Northfield Unitarian Society. Accompanist, Smith College Choirs. Faculty member, Northfield Mt. Hermon School. (Appointed 2004)

CHRISTOPHER KRUEGER
krueger@music.umass.edu
Flute; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., New England Conservatory of Music. Studied with James Pappoutsakis, Raul Renzi, Walter Mayhall. Performed as principal flutist with Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Opera Company of Boston, Boston Ballet, Boston Musica Viva. Baroque flute soloist on Great Performers Series and Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and the Philadelphia Bach, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Berlin Bach and City of London Festivals. Former faculty Wellesley College, Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory, Boston University, Boston Conservatory. Recordings: Decca, EMI, Nonesuch, Pro Arte, CRI, Telarc, Koch, Centaur. (Appointed 1999)

LARK QUARTET in residence 2005-06, 2006-07 & 2007-08
Deborah Buck & Lisa Lee, violin; Kathryn Lockwood, viola & Astrid Schween, cello

Nearing the end of its second decade as an internationally celebrated string quartet. Winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and Gold Medal at Russia's Shostakovich Competition. Performances throughout the United States and abroad in England, Scotland, France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxemboug, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Turkey, New Zealand, Australia, China, Canada and Mexico. Previous ensemble-in-residence at Columbia University's Miller Theatre, Dartmouth College, Florida State and Ohio Universities. Has commissioned and premiered works by Jennifer Higdon, Peter Schickele, Julia Wolfe, Giovanni Sollima and Aaron Jay Kernis, whose String Quartet No. 2 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Recent New York appearances include the complete Beethoven Cycle for the Beethoven Society and a performance at Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society at the Look and Listen Festival. Currently commissioning a series of new works by Daniel Bernard Roumain, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec and others, and collaborating with The Ethos Percussion Group. More than one dozen CD recordings on the Arabesque, Decca/Argo, Point, New World, CRI and Agora labels. Represented by Vantage Artists LTD.

KATHRYN LOCKWOOD
kathlock@aol.com
Viola; Visiting Assistant Professor
Artist website

M.M., University of Southern California. B.M., Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Studied with Donald McInnes and Elizabeth Morgan. Member of Lark String Quartet (Larkquartet.com). Has performed with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Concertante, Cho-Liang Lin, Branford Marsalis, St. Lawrence Quartet, Bill T Jones Dance Company and Michael Tree. As a founding member of the Pacifica Quartet, won 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, 1996 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, 1997 Concert Artists Guild Award. Performed at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Bennett Gordon Hall at Ravinia, Mandel Hall (University of Chicago), Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. Former faculty, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Interlochen Academy for the Arts, University of Southern California. (Appointed 2001)

SALVATORE MACCHIA
smacchia@music.umass.edu
Contrabass, Composition; Professor
Professor Macchia's website

B.M., Hartt School of Music; M.M.A., D.M.A., Yale University. Studied bass with Bertram Turetzky, Joseph Iadone, Gary Karr, William Rhein. Composition studies with Yehudi Wyner and Hal Overton. Performances in European and jazz traditions throughout America and Europe. Contrabass soloist with Berkshire Choral Festival Orchestra, Dinosaur Annex under Gunther Schuller, Springfield Symphony Orchestra (also serves as principal bass), Jazz Composer's Orchestra and at the Boston Festival of Quarter Tone Music. Premiered nearly 100 new compositions featuring the doublebass. Appears with Duo Cambiata, Iadone Consort (as violonist), Ritornello (as gambist). Former member Musica Oggi and Chamber Music Plus, founding member Ancora Chamber Ensemble. Compositions performed throughout America, in Europe, former Soviet Union and Japan, including performances at Warsaw Autumn Festival in Poland, American Academy in Rome, The Computer Arts Festival in Padua, Italy, and Aspen and Monadnock Festivals in the US. Recent commissions: Interensemble (Padua, Italy), The New England Chamber Music and Composers Forum, Harvard Summer Dance Theater, Pioneer Valley Symphony; multiple commissions from Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Mohawk Trail Concert Series, UMass Opera Workshop, Dorn Press and Gasparo records. Published by Rinaldo and Dorn Presses. Recordings: Gasparo, Open Loop, CRI, Spectrum. Visiting professor Amherst and Bennington Colleges. Former faculty, University of Evansville, Southern Illinois University, University of the Pacific. (Appointed 1978)

BRUCE MACCOMBIE
maccombie@hfa.umass.edu
Composition; Professor

B.A., M.M., University of Massachusetts Amherst; Ph.D., University of Iowa; Post-Doctoral studies, Freiburg Conservatory. Studied with Philip Bezanson, Wolfgang Fortner. Works published by European American Music. Commissions from the Jerome Foundation, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Da Capo Chamber Players, Seattle Symphony, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Bath International Guitar Festival. Awards include the Sutherland Dows Fellowship, a DAAD Grant to the Freiburg Conservatory, Yale University Creative Research Grant, a Martha Baird Rockefeller travel grant to the Warsaw Autumn Festival, the first Goddard Lieberson Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1979, and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, 1986. Charles Ives Society Board of Directors, 1984-95, Composers Forum, Inc. Vice President, 1982-84, Piano Magazine Artist Advisory Board since 1987, Massachusetts Music Educators National Conference - Keynote Speaker, 1996, Arts Consultant to the College Board for the U.S. Information Agency, 1997. Former faculty, Yale University School of Music; former Vice President and Director of Publications, G. Schirmer and Associated Music Publishers; former Dean and Provost, The Juilliard School; former Dean, Boston University College of Fine Arts; former Executive Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center; former Associate Dean, University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts. (Appointed 2002)

LANFRANCO MARCELLETTI, JR
lmarcelletti@music.umass.edu
Director of Orchestral Activities; Visiting Associate Professor

Artist Diploma, M.M., Yale School of Music. Studied with Eleazar de Carvalho. Assistant conductor, Glimmerglass Opera Festival; Principal conductor, Franciscan Chamber Orchestra. As first prize winner of 1998 II Conducting Competition of Latin-American Conductors, invited to conduct orchestras in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Guest conductor, Chilean National Orchestra; Principal conductor and Assistant Director, Eleazar de Carvalho Arts Festival in Brazil. Former conductor, Norwalk and Yale Symphonies. Former faculty, Amherst College. (Appointed 2001)

ERNEST MAY
emay@music.umass.edu
Musicology, Organ; Professor

B.A., Harvard University; M.F.A., Ph.D., Princeton University. Studied with Nadia Boulanger and Andre Marchal in Paris. Director of Music, South Congregational Church, Springfield, MA. Member, Commission on Accreditation, National Association of Schools of Music. Recital appearances in New York City, New England, and Germany. President, New England Chapter, American Musicological Society (1988-1990). Research grants from Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities. Editor, New Bach Edition; articles and papers on Bach organ music. Co-editor, J.S. Bach as Organist (Indiana University Press, 1986). Contributor, New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Recordings: AFKA. Former faculty, Amherst College. Former Department Chair, 1988-2000 (Appointed 1976)

ANDREW MCINTYRE
amcintyr@music.umass.edu
Music Theory; Lecturer

B.A., Emory University; M.M., University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Masters thesis: Are Antoine Reicha's 36 Fugues of 1805, Op. 36 Consistent with Traditional Fugal Forms? Member, Society for Music Theory. (Appointed 2007)

MARJORIE MELNICK
melnick@music.umass.edu
Voice; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., Wesleyan University; M.M. Juilliard School. Participant in the Zürich Opera Studio. Teachers have included Jan de Gaetani, Nicholas di Virgilio, Jean Cox, Anna Reynolds and Norma Newton. Performed (mezzo-soprano) many supporting roles in the Zürich Opera under Nello Santi and others. Numerous leading roles with Saarbrücken Staatsoper, including Rosina in Barber of Seville, the title role in La Cenerentola, Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel, and Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, as well as many supporting roles. Guest appearances with the opera companies of Mannheim, Kaiserslautern, Passau and Stralsund. Recital and oratorio work in Germany and on tour in Italy and Belgium with the Sinfonietta of Saarbrücken. Performed the mezzo roles in L'Enfant et les Sortilèges under Hugh Wolff in Scranton, PA. (Appointed 2001)

SCOTT MENDOKER
scottmendoker@mac.com
Tuba and Euphonium; Visiting Assistant Professor

Student of Arnold Jacobs and Warren Deck. Member of brass quintet, Philadelphia Brass. Performances with New York Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Montreal Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Boston Pops, New York Pops and the Broadway musical Ragtime. Has performed and recorded with the Chicago Symphony and Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Performance faculty (tuba/euphonium) and director of the Rutgers Tuba Ensemble, Mason Gross Department of Music, Rutgers University. Director, Brass Institute at Drew University (NJ) Summer Music. Member, New York Chamber Soloists, Westfield (NJ) Symphony, New Jersey Chamber Music Society and Goldman Memorial Band. Solo recordings with Rutgers University Wind Ensemble and members of the Czech Philharmonic on Summit and Mark Records. (Appointed 2007)

ARTURO O'FARRILL
Jazz Studies; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, M.A., Queens College, Aaron Copland School of Music. Since 2002, Music Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Performances at Lincoln Center's Rose Hall, Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall; Birdland, Apollo Theater and the Blue Note in New York City; Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; Chicago's Symphony Hall; and at Aspen, Monterey-Toulca (Mexico), Marciac (France), and Heineken (Puerto Rico) Jazz Festivals. Four-time Grammy nominee. Clinician and workshop leader in Japan, Spain, Finland and throughout the U.S. Panelist, National Endowment for the Arts. Former faculty member The Juilliard School, New York University and City College of New York. (Appointed 2007)

ESTELA KERSENBAUM OLEVSKY
eko@music.umass.edu
Piano; Professor Emeritus

Diploma Artistico de Piano, National Conservatory, Buenos Aires. Composition studies with Alberto Ginastera. Piano studies with Maria Angelica Roldan and Eugenio Bures (Argentina); coaching with Bruno Seidlhofer (Switzerland) and Richard Goode (USA). Solo, chamber music, radio and television appearances throughout South America, Far East, New Zealand, Europe and United States. Performed at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the 92nd Street "Y" and Weill Hall in New York City, Boston's Jordan Hall, Vienna's Konzertverein and Amsterdam's Concertgebouw. Soloist, Mozart Orchestra (New York), Bach Festival Orchestra (Buenos Aires), Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Buenos Aires, Janacek Philharmonic (Czechoslovakia) and Schumann Philharmonie (Germany). Active chamber music player; recent collaborations with the Berlin Philharmonic Festival Soloists and with jazz pianist Billy Taylor at the Kennedy Center in a program entitled "It's All Music."
Recordings: Complete works for piano and violin by Mozart with Julian Olevsky (Doremi label), complete Brahms Piano Trios and Arensky and Tschaikowsky Piano Trios with the Olewsky Trio (Amatius Classics). Orchestral recordings include Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with the Bratislava Radio Orchestra (Opus) and Richard Strauss' Burleske with the Janacek Philharmonic (Stradivari Classics). Solo releases include Chopin in Majorca (Amatius Classics) and Piano Solos of Latin America (Centaur). Frequently gives master classes and serves as an adjudicator in national and international competitions. (Appointed 1968)

GEORGE PARKS
gnp@music.umass.edu
Conductor; Professor

B.S., West Chester University; M.M., Northwestern University. Director of Minuteman Marching Band, which has performed in two Presidential Inaugural Ceremonies, and at N.Y. Giants and New England Patriots Football Games. Clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator for regional and national events, including half-time productions at Hall of Fame Bowl, Gator Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Blockbuster Bowl. Former instructor and Drum Major, DCA World Champion Reading Buccaneers Drum and Bugle Corps. Founder, George N. Parks Drum Major Academy; Co-founder, Band Leadership Training seminars. Author of articles, films, and books on Drum Majoring, including The Dynamic Drum Major. Studied tuba with Arnold Jacobs, tuba soloist with high school and university bands throughout the northeast. Outstanding Drum Major at eight DCA World Championships. University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teaching Award, 1989; Massachusetts Instrumental Conductors Association Conductor of the Year Award, 1991. (Appointed 1977)

RICHARD RANDALL
randall@music.umass.edu
Theory; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M. (with Distinction in Performance), New England Conservatory of Music; M.A., Queens College of the City University of New York; Ph.D., Eastman School of Music. Studies with Robert Morris, Joseph Straus, Carl Schachter, David Gagne, and Leo Treitler. Guitar studies with Frank Rumoro, Rick Whitehead, Robert Paul Sullivan and Walter Johns. Papers presented at conferences for the Society for Music Theory, the Music Theory Society of New York State, American Mathematical Society, International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, and the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Former faculty, Northeastern Illinois University, Roosevelt University. (Appointed 2003)

LAURA REXROTH
lrexroth@music.umass.edu
(413)545-6056
Wind Conductor; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A.,St. Olaf College; M.M., Northwestern University; D.M., Indiana University at Bloomington. Studied conducting with Ray Cramer, John Paynter, Paul Vermel (Aspen School of Music). Masterclasses/workshops with Michael Charry, Frederick Fennell, Lukas Foss, Donald Hunsberger, H. Robert Reynolds. Guest conductor, U.S. Army Band (Pershing's Own), Langley Air Force Band. Clinician/adjudicator for numerous high school, district and regional bands; Ovation and All American festivals in Iowa, Illinois, New York, Virginia, Washington, D.C. Conductors' Guild Thelma Robinson award 1994. Former Director of Bands: College of William and Mary (VA), Central College (IA). (Appointed 2003)

ROGER RIDEOUT
rideout@music.umass.edu
Graduate Program Director; Music Education; Professor

B.M.E., Southeast Missouri State College; M.M. Hartt College of Music; Ed.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Served on executive board Oklahoma Music Educator's Association. Contributor of over 26 publications to fields of research in music education, including The Sociology of Music Education, Innovations in Music Teacher Education, The Handbook for Research in Music Teaching and Learning, and is editing the third volume of essays of the Proceedings of the Oklahoma Symposium on Music Education. Former faculty member, Music Education and Graduate Music Coordinator, University of Oklahoma. (Appointed 1999)

EMANUEL RUBIN
erubin@music.umass.edu
Musicology; Professor

B.F.A., B.MusEd., Carnegie-Mellon University; M.F.A., Brandeis University; Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh. Studied musicology with Wilfred Mellers and viola da gamba with John Hsu. Numerous publications and academic presentations. Former director, School of Music, Ball State University, and department chair, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and University of Haifa; former faculty, Israel Institute of Technology; Bowling Green State University. (Appointed 1986; Department Head 1986-87)

ASTRID SCHWEEN
aschween@music.umass.edu
Cello; Visiting Assistant Professor
Artist website

M.M., B.M. Juilliard School; additional studies: Rutgers University, Marlboro Music Festival. Studied with Bernard Greenhouse, Leonard Rose, Channing Robbins, Harvey Shapiro and Jacqueline du Pre; winner of the Juilliard Cello Prize and NY Philharmonic Young People's Competition with Zubin Mehta conducting. As member of Lark Quartet since 1989, won the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and the Gold Medal at the Shostakovich Competition in Russia, and performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Schleswig-Holstein Festival and Lockenhaus, and other venues around the world. Makes frequent appearances as concerto soloist, in recital with the Schween-Hammond Duo (schweenhammond.com), and with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Recordings: Arabesque, Point, Decca/Argo, CRI and New World labels. Faculty member: Sewanee Summer Music Festival and School for Strings in New York City. (Appointed 2004).

NADINE SHANK
nadshank@yahoo.com
Piano; Professor

B.M., Oberlin Conservatory, M.M., Indiana University. Studies with Menahem Pressler, Sanford Margolis, John Wustman. Solo and chamber appearances in festivals in the U.S., England, Germany, Holland, and the Virgin Islands. In a duo with violinist Charles Treger, performed extensively and toured in the U.S. and Poland. Has performed at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; Jordan Hall and the Tsang Performance Center, Boston; Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Winner, Rudolph Serkin Prize and Pi Kappa Lambda Piano Prize at Oberlin Conservatory, Van Cliburn Award at Interlochen, concerto competition at Indiana University, and MTNA, Mason & Hamlin and National Federation of Music Clubs competitions. Soloist with World Youth Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Orchestral Pianist, Springfield Symphony Orchestra. Performances and recordings with the West Point Academy Military Band including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. Recordings: CRI, New World, Spectrum and Gasparo as well as Nadine Shank Performs Sonata No. 2 by Yusef Lateef for YAL, American Jewish Art Songs with soprano Paulina Stark for Centaur, 3 CD's with saxophonist Lynn Klock and a series of "Play-Along" CD's of clarinet and saxophone literature for Open Loop. (Appointed 1980)

BENEDICT J. SMAR
bsmar@acad.umass.edu
Music Education, Conducting, Trombone/Euphonium; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., Susquehanna University; M.M., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Toledo. Martha Holden Jennings Scholar, Ohio Department of Education Teacher-Scholar, Northwest Ohio Arts Education Association Distinguished Educator in the Arts Award, Bowsher High School Outstanding Teacher Award; recognized by John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for contributions to arts education. Consultant, New England Presenters, Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Alliance for the Arts, Ohio Department of Education. Author, successful grants from National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, Phi Delta Kappa, Envirosafe Industries. Performs regularly on trombone and euphonium with orchestras and ensembles throughout New England including the Massachusetts Wind Orchestra. Former trombonist, Tower Brass Quintet, University of Toledo Faculty Brass Quintet, Toledo Concert Band. Performances at/on Annapolis Brass Quintet Artists Series, International Brass Quintet Festival, Toledo Museum of Art, Baltimore Choral Arts Society, USDAN Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Recording: Tower Brass. Former faculty, Toledo Public Schools, University of Toledo. Director of Student Teachers. (Appointed 1998)

DAVID SPORNY
ddsporny@music.umass.edu
Trombone, Conductor; Professor

B.S., M.S., University of Illinois. Performances in jazz and European traditions throughout the United States with Chicago Little Symphony, American Wind Symphony, Les and Larry Elgart Orchestra, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. State Department tours of Europe and South America. Principal, Northwood Orchestra, Corporate Brass, and Ancora. Initiated jazz programs, Interlochen Arts Academy, National Music Camp; founded Dave Sporny Big Band. Recordings: RCA, Monument, Jazz Masters, Original Cast. Member, National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. Director, Chapel Jazz Ensemble. Former faculty, Interlochen Center for the Arts. (Appointed 1982)

NIKKI STOIA
nrs@cas.umass.edu
Chief Undergraduate Advisor; Associate Dean of Advising, College of Humanities & Fine Arts; Accompanist; Senior Lecturer

B.A., Smith College; M.M., University of Massachusetts Amherst. Music Director & Conductor, Springfield Symphony Chorus. Pianist with Bob Becker Percussion Ensemble and Massachusetts Wind Orchestra. Featured accompanist at Percussive Arts Society, International Tuba and Euphonium Conference and International Trumpet Guild performances. Concert appearances in Boston, New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Norfolk, Greensboro, Fort Worth, San Francisco, Honolulu, Toronto, Montreal, Regina, London, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Geneva, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm. Recordings: Harrison , Spectrum, Alabaster. Outstanding Academic Advisor Award recipient, 2005-06; four-time Distinguished Teacher Award nominee. Former staff, Smith College. (Appointed 1991)

MICHAEL SUSSMAN
msussma@music.umass.edu
Clarinet; Professor

B.M., M.M., Manhattan School of Music. Principal, Springfield, New Hampshire Symphony, Monadnock Music Festival. Former principal, West Australia Symphony Orchestra (Perth), Australian Ballet, Australian Opera, Boston Handel & Haydn Society, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Bolshoi, Stuttgart and Royal Ballets, D'Oyly Carte Opera, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Teton Festival Orchestra, Radio City Music Hall Orchestra, Goldman Band. Guest soloist, St. Petersburg, Ciompi, Lydian, Lark, New Zealand, Australian String Quartets; Springfield Symphony and New Hampshire Symphonies; Monadnock Festival Orchestra. Chamber performances, Casals Festival, Speculum Musicae, Ethos, Avanti Woodwind Quintet, Music in Avila (Curacao). Performances, television, and radio broadcasts throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia. Recordings: RCA, Columbia, Pro-Arte, Deutsche Grammophon, Nonesuch, CRI, Desto, Opus One, Serenus, Titanic, Gasparo, Musical Heritage Society, Vanguard, L'Oiseau Lyre, Koch. Former faculty, University of Connecticut, Smith College, University of Western Australia. (Appointed 1984)

ALEKSANDRA VOJCIC
vojcic@music.umass.edu
Music Theory; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.M., M.M., The Juilliard School; Ph.D. The Graduate Center, CUNY. Doctoral dissertation Rhythm as Form: Rhythmic Hierarchy in Later Twentieth-Century Piano Repertoire. Piano soloist with Belgrade Philharmonic, National Repertory Orchestra, New Juilliard Ensemble, Colby Symphony Orchestra, Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, Josip Slavenski String Orchestra. New York venues include Steinway Hall, Kosciuszko Foundation, Alice Tully Hall, MoMa Summergarden. Lectures and papers presented in UK, Lithuania, and United States; session chair, Music Theory Society of New York State (2005). Albums include D'Divaz and Heavenly Lullabies. Featured in an award-winning Swiss documentary “Yugodivas.” Broadcasts on WNYC, KAJX, PGP RTB. Former faculty, The Juilliard School.

STEPHEN WALT
swalt@music.umass.edu
Bassoon; Visiting Assistant Professor

B.A., University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.A., Kent State University. Studied with Sherman Walt, Arthur Weisberg. Principal bassoonist, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Berkshire Bach Ensemble and Atlantic Chamber Orchestra. Member Avanti Winds. Free-lance musician with orchestras, chamber ensembles and opera companies throughout the northeast. Recent performances with Leontovych, Muir and Shanghai String Quartets, and at Monadnock (NH), Musicorda, Hampton-Sydney (VA) and Music from Greer (AZ) Festivals. Founder/co-director, Williamstown (MA) Chamber Concerts. Recordings: CRI, Decca, Gasparo, Nonesuch, Albany Records. Teacher of Bassoon and Director of Woodwind Chamber Music, Williams College.
(Appointed 1999)

MIRIAM WHAPLES
whaples@music.umass.edu
History/Musicology, Keyboard Continuo; Professor

B.A., M.M., Ph.D., Indiana University. Author, Bach Aria Index; editions of medieval music; articles on Bach, Schubert, Mahler, Ockeghem, and musical exoticism. Appearances as ensemble harpsichordist in New England, New York, and Great Britain. (Appointed 1966)

RETIRED MUSIC & DANCE FACULTY

E. Wayne Abercrombie
Director of Choral Activities

Doric Alviani (Deceased)
Choral Director and first Department Chair

Charles Bestor
bestor@music.umass.edu
Electronic Music, Composition; Emeritus

Horace Clarence Boyer
Vocal Jazz, Conductor, Theory; Emeritus

Walter Chesnut (Deceased)
Trumpet, Conductor; Emeritus

Joseph Contino (Deceased)
Band Director, Woodwind Teacher (1950's)

Nigel Coxe
Piano; Emeritus

Richard duBois
Choral Conductor

William Hanley
Chief Undergraduate Adviser, Percussion

Charles Heffernan
Music Education; Emeritus

Albert Huetteman
Theory

Jon Humphrey
Voice; Emeritus

John King (Deceased)
Organ, History, Theory (1950's & 60's)

Yusef A. Lateef
Contemporary Theory & Autophysiopsychic Music

*Estela Kersenbaum Olevsky
Piano; Emeritus

Dorothy Ornest (Deceased)
Voice; Emeritus

Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr.
Director of Bands, Conductor, Music Education; Emeritus

Paulina Stark
Voice

Ronald Steele
Conductor, Music Education

Robert Stern
Composition; Emeritus

Joanne Tanner
Flute

Peter Tanner
Percussion, Conductor

Karen Tarlow
Theory, Composition

Frederick Tillis
Composition, African-American Music & Jazz, Former Director of Fine Arts Center

Charles Treger
Violin

Andrea Watkins
Dance, Former Dance Dept. Coordinator; Emeritus

* Currently teaching part-time in the UMass Department of Music & Dance; biographical material available above in main Faculty section.

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