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Music Faculty - Alphabetic
Click on any linked name for a biography, contact information and photograph
Click for DANCE FACULTY
FACULTY OPENINGS: (pdf files)
Music Theory Orchestra Director Music History Jazz Dance Guest Artist
Link to New Faculty Appointments, Fall 2012 (on this page)
Link to Retired Faculty List (bottom of this page)
Current Music Faculty
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Timothy T. Anderson, Director, Minuteman Marching Band
(MMB website)
Brent Auerbach, Theory
Avanti Wind Quintet
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Eric Berlin, Trumpet, Conductor
(Trumpet Studio website)
John Bottomley, Tuba/Euphonium
T. Dennis Brown, Music Education
C
Elizabeth Chang, Violin, Opus One Coordinator (Violin Studio Website)
Timothy Chenette, Theory
Teresa Cheung, Orchestra Director
Fredric T. Cohen, Oboe
Michael Compitello, Percussion (Fall 2012)
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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Thomas Giampietro, Jazz Studies, Drumset
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Thomas Hannum, Conducting, Percussion
Beverly G. Hill, Music Education
Willie Hill, Director, Fine Arts Center
William Hite, Voice (Voice website)
Jeffrey W. Holmes, Director of Jazz Studies, Conductor, Composition, Trumpet, Piano
Jason Hooper, Music Theory
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Infinity Brass Ensemble
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Miriam Jenkins, General Education
Catherine Jensen-Hole, Vocal Jazz, Undergraduate Composition/Arranging
Amy Johnson, Voice (Voice website)
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Gary S. Karpinski, Music Theory (Coordinator)
Ayano Kataoka, Percussion
Laura Klock, Horn (Studio website)
Lynn Klock, Saxophone (Studio website)
Erinn Knyt, Music History
Ludmila V. Krasin, Piano
Christopher Krueger, Flute
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Lisa Lehmberg, Music Education (Coordinator)
Kathryn Lockwood, Viola
(Viola Studio website)
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Salvatore Macchia, Contrabass, Jazz Bass, Composition
Ernest May, Music History, Organ
Marjorie Melnick, Voice (Voice website)
James Patrick Miller, Director of Wind Studies (Wind Bands website)
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Stephen A. 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.
Greg Spiridopoulos, Trombone
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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Gilles Vonsattel, Piano
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Stephen Walt, Bassoon
Richard Webb, Music Education/Instrumental
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NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS FOR FALL, 2012
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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. |
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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 received 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.
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TERESA CHEUNG
UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR, 2012-13
Ms. Cheung holds an MM in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music and a BM in Piano Performance from Belmont University. She received additional professional training from Gustav Meier, Leonard Slatkin, and Otto-Werner Mueller. She served as the resident conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra and the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestra, and the conductor of the Bard College Orchestra. Cheung taught conducting at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University, and is currently Music Director and Conductor of the Altoona Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania.
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RICHARD WEBB
MUSIC EDUCATION/ INSTRUMENTAL, Lecturer 2012-13
Mr. Webb will receive a Ph.D. shortly from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; his dissertation topic was Construction of Musical Understandings: An Exploration of Peer Tutoring in the Orchestra Program. He also holds an MM in Performance from the University of Cincinnati/Conservatory of Music and a BM in Performance from Bowling Green State University. Webb taught for 13 years in the public schools in Ohio and was on the faculty at Northwestern and DePaul Universities. He has also served as a clinician in Illinois, Virginia, Ohio and Kansas.
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MICHAEL COMPITELLO
STUDIO PERCUSSION, Fall 2012
Mr. Compitello holds an M.M.A. (the residency portion of the D.M.A. program) and an M.M. in Percussion Performance from Yale University, and a B.M. in Percussion Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. At Peabody and Yale, he served as a teaching assistant for private instruction and courses. A Fulbright Grant winner, he pursued independent research in Germany at the International Ensemble Modern Academy. Compitello participated in the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra-conducted by Pierre Boulez, the Aspen Music Festival and the Banff Centre Summer Percussion Residency.
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Retired 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
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
John A. Jenkins
Music Education, General Studies
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 (Deceased)
Composition; Emeritus
Julian Olevsky (Deceased)
Violin
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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
Benedict Smar
Music Education, Trombone/Euphonium
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
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