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Music Faculty - Alphabetic
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New Tenure-track Faculty Searches 09-10 (pdf files):
Choral Director
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Link to Retired Faculty List
Current Music Faculty
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Brent Auerbach, Theory
Avanti Wind Quintet
B
Eric Berlin, Trumpet, Conductor
Norman Bolter, Trombone
John Bottomley, Tuba/Euphonium
T. Dennis Brown, Music Education, Graduate Program Director
C
Elizabeth Chang, Violin, Opus One Coordinator
Fredric T. Cohen, Oboe
Jeff Cox, Chair of the Department of Music & Dance
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Robert Eisenstein, Early Music, Conductor
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Robert Ferrier, Guitar
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Robert Gullotti, Drumset
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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 Program, Conductor, Composition
Jason Hooper, Music Theory
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Infinity Brass Ensemble
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John Jenkins, Associate Chair, Music Education
Miriam Jenkins, General Education
Catherine Jensen-Hole, Vocal Jazz, Undergraduate Composition/Arranging
Amy Johnson, Voice
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Gary S. Karpinski, Music Theory (Coordinator)
Ayano Kataoka, Percussion
Laura Klock, Horn (Studio website)
Lynn Klock, Saxophone (Studio website)
Ludmila V. Krasin, Piano
Christopher Krueger, Flute
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Lisa Lehmberg, Music Education
Paul Lieberman, Jazz, Flute, Saxophone
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
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Salvatore Macchia, Contrabass, Composition
Bruce MacCombie, Composition
Lanfranco Marcelletti, Jr., Director of Orchestral Activities (Orchestra website)
Ernest May, Musicology, Organ
Marjorie Melnick, Voice
James Patrick Miller, Director of Wind Studies
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Estela Kersenbaum Olevsky, Piano
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George Parks, Minuteman Marching Band Conductor, Tuba
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Rob Schultz, Music Theory
Astrid Schween, Cello
Nadine Shank, Piano, Coordinator of Piano Dept.
Lawrence Shuster, Music Theory
Benedict Smar, Music Education, Conducting, Trombone/Euphonium, Music Ed Coordinator
Steven Sonntag, Jazz Trumpet
Nikki Stoia, Associate Dean of Advising, Accompanist
Michael Sussman, Clarinet
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Tony Thornton, Director of Choral Activities (Choral website)
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Stephen Walt, Bassoon
Miriam Whaples, History/Musicology, Keyboard Continuo |
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In Memoriam
We are very sad to report that Professor Emeritus Horace Clarence Boyer passed away on July 21, 2009. There will be a memorial service on Saturday, October 10 at 1pm at Grace Episcopal Church in Amherst, followed by a reception at 3pm at the UMass Student Union Ballroom. Obituary (pdf)
Click to make a Memorial Donation to the Boyer Gospel Music Fund
Professor Emeritus Richard E. du Bois, who conducted the University Chorale from 1965-1998 and led it on 15 international tours, died on August 6, 2009. He was known affectionately to generations of students as "Dr. d." Obituary (pdf)
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Retired/Deceased Music & Dance Faculty
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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 (1950's)
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 (1950's & 60's)
Yusef A. Lateef
Contemporary Theory & Autophysiopsychic Music
*Estela Kersenbaum Olevsky
Piano; Emeritus
Julian Olevsky (Deceased)
Violin
Dorothy Ornest (Deceased)
Voice; Emeritus |
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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
Ronald Steele
Conductor, Music Education
Robert Stern
Composition; Emeritus
David Sporny
Trombone, Conductor, Jazz
Robert Sutton
Theory/Composition
Joanne Tanner
Flute
Peter Tanner
Percussion, Conductor
Karen Tarlow
Theory, Composition
Billy Taylor
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
* Currently teaching part-time in the UMass Department of Music & Dance; biographical material available by clicking on the name above in main Faculty section.
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