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Link to Retired Faculty List (bottom of this page)

Current Music Faculty

B
Eric Berlin, Trumpet, Conductor
   (Trumpet Studio website)
John Bottomley, Tuba/Euphonium
T. Dennis Brown, Music Education,   Graduate Program Director

C
Elizabeth Chang, Violin, Opus One   Coordinator (Violin Studio Website)
Timothy Chenette, Theory
Fredric T. Cohen, Oboe
Jeff Cox, Chair of the Department of  Music & Dance

E
Robert Eisenstein, Early Music,   Conductor

F
Robert Ferrier, Guitar

G
Thomas Giampietro, Jazz Studies, Drumset

H
Thomas Hannum, Conducting,   Percussion
Beverly G. Hill, Music Education
Willie L. Hill, Director of the Fine Arts   Center, Music Education
William Hite, Voice
Jeffrey W. Holmes, Director of Jazz   Studies, Conductor, Composition,   Trumpet, Piano
Jason Hooper, Music Theory

I
Infinity Brass Ensemble

J
John Jenkins, Associate Chair, Music   Education
Miriam Jenkins, General Education
Catherine Jensen-Hole, Vocal Jazz,   Undergraduate Composition/Arranging
Amy Johnson, Voice

L
Vince Lee, Orchestra Conductor 2011-12
Lisa Lehmberg, Music Education
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
   (Viola Studio website)

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Salvatore Macchia, Contrabass,   Composition
Lanfranco Marcelletti Jr., Director of  Orchestral Activities-On leave 11-12  
  (Orchestra website)
Ernest May, Music History, Organ
Marjorie Melnick, Voice
James Patrick Miller, Director of Wind   Studies (Wind Bands website)

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Stephen Paparo, Music Education/Choral   Specialist

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Felipe Salles, Jazz Studies, Saxophone
Rob Schultz, Music Theory
Astrid Schween, Cello
Nadine Shank, Piano, Coordinator of Piano   Dept.
Benedict Smar, Music Education,   Conducting, Trombone/Euphonium, Music   Ed Coordinator
Greg Spiridopoulos, Trombone
Nikki Stoia, Associate Dean of Advising,   Accompanist
Michael Sussman, Clarinet

T
Tony Thornton, Director of Choral   Activities  (Choral website)

V
Gilles Vonsattel, Piano

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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; Former Department Chair

Philip Bezanson (Deceased)
Composition; Former Department Chair

Horace Clarence Boyer (Deceased)
Vocal Jazz, Conductor, Theory; Emeritus

Walter Chesnut (Deceased)
Trumpet, Conductor; Emeritus

Joseph Contino (Deceased)
Band Director, Clarinet/Woodwinds

Nigel Coxe
Piano; Emeritus

Richard E. du Bois (Deceased)
Choral Conductor

William Hanley
Chief Undergraduate Adviser, Percussion

Charles Heffernan
Music Education; Emeritus

Albert Huetteman
Theory; Former Associate Chair

Jon Humphrey
Voice; Emeritus

Fernande Kaeser (Deceased)
Piano

John King (Deceased)
Organ, History, Theory

Yusef A. Lateef
Contemporary Theory & Autophysiopsychic Music

Estela Kersenbaum Olevsky
(www.estelaolevsky.com)
Piano; Emeritus

Bruce MacCombie
Composition; Emeritus

Julian Olevsky (Deceased)
Violin

Dorothy Ornest (Deceased)
Voice; Emeritus

George N. Parks (Deceased)
Director of the Minuteman Marching Band, Tuba

Roger Rideout
Music Education; Former Department Chair

Max Roach (Deceased)
Jazz Drums

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

Emanuel Rubin (Deceased)
Musicology; Former Department Chair

Paulina Stark
Voice; Emeritus

Ronald Steele
Conductor, Music Education

Robert Stern
Composition; Emeritus
(www.robertsterncomposer.com)

David Sporny
Trombone, Conductor, Jazz

Robert Sutton
Theory/Composition

Joanne Tanner
Flute

Peter Tanner
Percussion, Conductor

Karen Tarlow (ktarlow@music.umass.edu)
Theory, Composition

Billy Taylor (Deceased)
Jazz Piano; Wilmer D. Barrett Professor of Music

Leopold Teraspulsky (Deceased)
Cello; Emeritus

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

Charles Treger
Violin

Andrea Watkins
Dance, Former Dance Dept. Coordinator; Emeritus

Miriam Whaples
Musicology, History