OMEA State Events

Conference/All-State Presenters and Conductors

• Alan Evans, Conductor
• Ben Brooks, Conductor
• Bob Ponto, Conductor
• Cak Marshall, Clinician
• Chuck Bolton, Presenter
• Craig Bader, Conductor
• Dave Barduhn, Clinician
• David Childs, Middle School Choir Conductor
• David Sime, Conductor
• Debra Burgess, Conductor
• Denise Phillips, Presenter
• Dick Bauer, Conductor
• Doris Sjolund, Presenter
• Elizabeth Gilpatrick, Orff Clinician
• Emanuel McGladrey, Presenter
• Frank Dimiero, All-State Jazz Choir Conductor
• Fritz Gearhardt, Clinician
• Gemma Arguelles, Clinician
• James Jordan, Keynote Speaker
• Jamie Hall, Clinician
• Janis Dodson, Conductor
• Jay Gilbert, Middle School Band Conductor
• Jeff Cumpson, Conductor
• Jill Sager, Clinician
• Joe Wimmer, Presenter
• John Weiss, Clinician
• Jon Belcher, Drumset Clinician
• Jose Diaz, Clinician
• Les Otto, Clinician
• Lynn Nelson, Clinician
• Martin-Beatus Meier, All-State Orchestra Conductor
• Marty Behnke, Conductor
• Mary Lou Boderman, Conductor
• Melissa Roth, Clinicians
• Michael Gross, Clinician
• Mike Klinger, Presenter
• Nita Van Pelt, Conductor
• Panel, Discussion
• Pat Vandehey, Presenter
• Paula Crider, All-State Band Conductor
• Peter Boonshaft, Key Note Speaker
• Phyllis Paul, Presenter
• Randall Moore, Presenter
• Renee Westlake, Presenter
• Rob Walker, Clinician
• Robert Baca, All-State Jazz Band Conductor
• Robert Gillespie, Middle School Orchestra Conductor
• Roberta Jackson, Conductor
• Rodney Eichenberger, All-State Choir Conductor
• SWOKE, Kodaly Sessions
• Shannon Chase, Clinician
• Sharon Morgan, Clinician
• Sharon Paul, Conductor
• Steve Zielke, Presenter
• Steven Morrison, Clinician
• Tina Bull, Conductor
• Toby Koenigsberg, Clinician
• Todd Zimblemann, Presenter
• U of O Faculty String Quartet, Clinician
• Wallace Long, Clinician

Alan Evans
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Ben Brooks
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Bob Ponto
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Cak Marshall
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Chuck Bolton
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Craig Bader
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Dave Barduhn
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

David Childs
Middle School Choir Conductor

David Childs, Middle School Choir Conductor

David Childs, Director, Vanderbilt Symphonic Choir, Blair Chamber Choir, and Musical Director for the Blair Lyric Theatre.

Assistant Professor of Choral Studies.
B.M. (Canterbury, New Zealand); M.M. (Florida State); D.M.A. (Louisiana State University); Dip. Tchg. (Christchurch, New Zealand); LTCL (piano)

Student of Kenneth Fulton, Michael Butterman, Andr� Thomas, Rodney Eichenberger, Phillip Spurgeon, David Smyth, and Robert Peck. He is music director for the Vanderbilt Opera Theater program, having recently conducted performances of Mozart�s The Magic Flute, Puccini�s Gianni Schicchi, and Gilbert and Sullivan�s The Pirates of Penzance. He has some twenty compositions with Santa Barbara, Alliance Music, and Colla Voce, several of which frequently appear in All-State festivals and at national and regional ACDA conventions. In July of 2002 Childs worked under Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach Music Festival, one of 12 participants chosen to attend his master class. Dr. Childs has served as clinician and adjudicator in the United States on numerous occasions, working at the grade school, college, and community levels, most recently serving as honor choir conductor in Tennessee, Virginia, and Louisiana. Future All-State Choir engagements include Oregon and Tennessee (2004). Childs was also recently invited to appear on the Mid-America Productions concert series, and will conduct Haydn�s Paukenmesse in Carnegie Hall in 2005. Childs has been a member of the Blair School faculty since 2000.

David Sime
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Debra Burgess
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Denise Phillips
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Dick Bauer
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Doris Sjolund
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Elizabeth Gilpatrick
Orff Clinician

Elizabeth Gilpatrick�Orff Clinician

Liz Gilpatrick has been actively teaching Orff Schulwerk to adults and children throughout the United States for twenty-five years. She completed her levels training with Grace Nash in Arizona in 1980, and soon thereafter joined the faculty as recorder specialist. She has taught in numerous Orff levels training courses from California to Massachusetts, and given workshops from Alaska to Florida. In addition, she has presented at MENC gatherings through the western U.S., and at a dozen American Orff Schulwerk Association conferences.

From 1994 until 2003, Liz was an active member of the editorial board of the Orff Echo, the journal of the American Orff Schulwerk Association, and served as Interim Editor of during the 2001-2002 school year. In addition to writing about music education, Liz is a composer of classroom choral materials for children. Alfred Publishing Company lists four of her books in its catalog: Round We Go, Round the Seasons, Sing With Me; Learn With M e and Come Join In. She is at work on a fifth book, as yet untitled.

After completing a bachelor�s degree in music education and a master�s degree in horn performance at the University of Wisconsin, Liz taught k-5 music for nearly thirty years before retiring in 1998. In March of 2003, she graduated from the International Harp Therapy Program, and is a Certified Therapeutic Harp Practitioner.

Emanuel McGladrey
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Frank Dimiero
All-State Jazz Choir Conductor

Frank DeMiero, All-State Jazz Choir Conductor

Composer and jazz pianist Dave Frishberg calls Frank DeMiero the �Vince Lombardi of Vocal Jazz.� Noted music educator, clinician, adjudicator, guest conductor, composer/arranger and publisher, Mr. DeMiero recently retired as The Supervisor of Music for Edmonds (Washington) School District #15 where he served for 13 years. Prior to that, Mr. DeMiero was director of choral music at Weatherwax High School in Aberdeen for two years and at Mountlake Terrace High School in Mountlake Terrace, Washington for seven years. Mr. DeMiero founded and directed the Soundsation Jazz Choir and was Music Department Chairman at Edmonds Community College for 11 years. He was Director of Vocal Jazz Studies at the University of Washington for two years. Currently, Mr. DeMiero conducts and manages the Seattle Jazz Singers, one of the most exciting professional jazz choirs in the country today, and is the conductor of the newly formed Edmonds Community College Sno-King Community Chorale, an inspiring concert choir. Mr. DeMiero is the co-founder of Sound Music Publications, a publishing company that offers the best in all areas of choral literature, recordings, choral clinics/workshops and materials.

Mr. DeMiero attend Olympic College, received his BA in Ed degree from Easter Washington University, where he studied voice, conducting and choral literature with Dr. Ralph Manzo. He received his Masters in Music from Central Washington University, studying with Dr. Wayne Hertz. Mr. DeMiero's choral groups have received top honors for their performances throughout the United States, Canada, Central America, and Europe. His jazz choirs have performed with many great artists including Joe Williams, Anita Kerr, Carmen McRea, Mark Murphy, the Hi-Los, the Four Freshmen, Bill Cosby, and have toured with Bob Hope.

Mr. DeMiero is the founder of the Frank DeMiero Jazz Camp. This camp has had more than 6000 student and educator participants during the 25 years if its existence. Recognized internationally for his innovations in all areas of music education, Mr. DeMiero was on the Advisory Council for the International Association of Jazz Educators. He has served as President of the Puget Sound Music Administrators Association, the Sno-King Music Educators, the Washington Chapter of the International Association of Jazz Educators, and was the Northwest Coordinator for IAJE. Mr. DeMiero has conducted honor concert and jazz choirs through the United States and Canada and is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician presenting exciting workshops in all areas of choral music and music education.

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."�Leonard Bernstein

Fritz Gearhardt
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Gemma Arguelles
Clinician

Gemma Arguelles is K-5 Music Specialist at Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School in San Francisco where she directs two choruses: the CES Chorus (grades 4-6) and Les Petites Voix (grades 2-3). She is a regular faculty member of the Kod�ly Summer Institute at Holy Names College in Oakland (since 1997) and has also taught at Seattle Pacific University�s Kod�ly Summer program. Gemma is also a faculty member of Piedmont Children�s Choirs (since 1995), where she has conducted the Boys� Beginning and the Girls� Intermediate groups. She currently conducts the Girls� Advanced chorus.

Gemma has given music workshops for the Northern California Association of Kod�ly Educators (NCAKE), the Northwest Kod�ly Educators (NKE) in Seattle, and the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Conference, and has conducted the San Francisco USD All-City Honor Choir. She is a board member of Northern California Association of Kod�ly Educators, and sings with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.

Gemma holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Choral Conducting from the University of the Philippines, and Master of Music Education with Kod�ly emphasis from Holy Names College.

James Jordan
Keynote Speaker

James M. Jordan�Keynote Speaker

Associate professor of conducting; conductor of the Westminster Chapel Choir; artistic director of Westminster Vocal Institute. Faculty, Westminster Choir College (1991- ).

One of America's most respected choral conductors and educators, James Jordan is conductor of the Westminster Chapel Choir and associate professor of conducting at Westminster. An internationally recognized pedagogue, his theories of rhythm pedagogy and movement are now widely applied in music education for the teaching of rhythm to children and adults. His five textbooks and several videos on the subjects of Group Vocal Technique, ensemble diction and conducting, and philosophy are used for the education of teachers and conductors around the world. Dr. Jordan is also recognized as the pioneer in the use of the case study in music as a valid research model. His unique background in conducting, the psychology of music, dance education and psychology allow him to make poignant observations into the music-making process from the vantage point of a conductor.

Dr. Jordan is editor of "The James Jordan Choral Series" published by Hinshaw Music. This series contains distinctive choral literature for choirs at all levels. He is also executive editor of the EVOKING SOUND Choral Series published by GIA Music. His collaborations with the late Frauke Haasemann resulted in landmark texts and videos on the subject of Group Vocal Technique. His book, The Musician's Soul (GIA, 1999), has garnered critical acclaim from all parts of the music world. It has been called "inspirational" and "of great value to the professional community and should be required reading for all conductors and students of conducting" (Choral Journal). He was recently honored by renowned American composer Morten Lauridsen, who, in his new edition of Mid-Winter Songs, dedicated Movement III to him.

Dr. Jordan wrote the forward for an innovative new book: The Structures and Mechanisms of Breathing (GIA) written by Barbara Conable. His newest new book, video, and two choral rehearsal octavos co-authored with Matthew Mehaffey of The George Washington University, Choral Ensemble Intonation, were released by GIA Music. These materials are innovative because they detail for the first time a method for the teaching of aural literacy to a choir via the rehearsal. A new video, Evoking Sound: Body Mapping and Conducting Technique, with Heather Buchanan was released in March 2002.

Dr. Jordan's latest book, The Musician's Spirit (GIA, 2002) was an artistic collaboration between himself and three visual artists and has already garnered critical acclaim for its groundbreaking direction and ideas proposed for musicians.

Prior to his appointment to the distinguished Westminster faculty in 1991, Dr. Jordan served as chair for music education at the Hartt School of Music where he established the Connecticut Center for Education in early Childhood Movement and Music, and designed the innovative BFA program in Dance between the Hartt School and The Hartford Ballet. He has also held positions at the School of the Hartford Ballet and The Pennsylvania State University.

For the year 2000-2001, Dr. Jordan has been named Distinguished Choral Scholar at The University of Alberta. Previous recipients of the award have been Eric Ericson and Frederich Bernius. Dr. Jordan was initiated this year into Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia as an honorary member of the Epsilon Iota Chapter of that fraternity at Florida State University. Previous honorary inductees of that chapter include Carlisle Floyd and Pablo Casals.

Dr. Jordan's seminars on Group Vocal Technique and Conducting are attended by hundreds of choral musicians each year. Last year, over 20,000 musicians heard keynote addresses across the nation from Dr. Jordan. This year he will present over forty workshops, master classes, and keynote addresses. Dr. Jordan's website, www.evokingsound.com, details his activities and publications.

Education

Bachelor of Music: Susuquehanna University
Master of Music (Choral Conducting): Temple University
Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology of Music): Temple University
Additional Professional Study

Laban Institute of Movement Studies - New York
Bucknell University (Psychology)
Laudinella Kulturzentrum: Conducting Studio Wilhelm Ehmann
Conducting and Choral Music Studies

Elaine Brown
Wilhelm Ehmann
Frauke Haasemann
Gail B. Poch
Janet Yamron
Howard Swan
Volker Hempfling
Sabine Horstmann
Welfard Lauber
Psychology of Music

Edwin E. Gordon (Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor)

Jamie Hall
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Janis Dodson
Conductor

Janis Dodson is in her fourth year at Roseburg High School in Roseburg, Oregon. Ms. Dodson received her Bachelor of Music in Vocal performance from the Eastman School of Music and her teaching certification and Masters in Vocal Performance from the University of Redlands, California. She also pursued doctoral studies in Music Education and Choral Conducting at the University of Oregon. Over the past 15 years Ms. Dodson has taught music from kindergarten through high school in small and large school districts in California and Oregon. As a performer, Ms. Dodson has performed as soprano soloist from east coast to the west coast in operatic, recital, and oratorio performances.

Jay Gilbert
Middle School Band Conductor

Jay W. Gilbert�Middle School Band Conductor

Dr. Jay W. Gilbert is director of Instrumental Music at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble and the Doane Tiger Pep Band and oversees all aspects of the instrumental music education program. He is also music director of the Blue River Community Band. He holds degrees in music education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and master's and doctoral degrees in conducting from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., where he studied with the renowned conductor and arranger John P. Paynter, and the outstanding orchestral conductor Victor Yampolsky.

Dr. Gilbert's career as a band director began in the public schools of Wisconsin, where he taught instrumental music in elementary, middle, junior high, and high schools. Prior to his appointment at Doane, Dr. Gilbert was assistant director of Bands at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He has been a guest conductor throughout the United States and Canada. He has also served as a presenter for numerous state conventions and the Midwest International Band/Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.

An interest in composition and arranging has produced a film score for Wisconsin Educational Television, some commercial music, and pieces for speaking chorus and numerous commissions for bands and band instruments. His compositions and arrangements are published by Southern Music Company, Kendor, and Shawnee Music Press. He currently has commissions from school bands in Texas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Kansas.

His study of quality wind band literature is often cited, and a summary of his research was recently included in the book The Winds of Change by Frank Battisti. He is also a contributing scholar to the series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Volumes II, III and IV. Dr. Gilbert has received several awards, including a Distinguished Service Award from the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association, an Artist�s Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Zenon Hansen Leadership Award, for his outstanding contributions to Doane College.

Dr. Gilbert is a member of the Nebraska School Bandmasters Association, Music Educators National Conference, College Band Directors National Association, the Conductors Guild, and honorary band fraternity, Phi Beta Mu.

Doane College has occupied a distinguished place among liberal arts colleges of the Midwest and Great Plains since 1872. Doane is a four-year, private college which maintains historical ties with the United Church of Christ. Doane has been named by U.S.News & World Report as a top value in liberal arts colleges in the Midwest.

Doane�s campus in Crete, Neb., occupies more than 300 wooded acres. Modern facilities, as well as historic buildings, house classrooms, administrative offices, and students. More than 1,000 students attend Crete�s residential campus, and approximately 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students study at campuses in Lincoln and Grand Island. A total of 47 undergraduate areas of study are offered in the sciences, business, social sciences, fine arts and humanities, and education. Doane also offers a number of pre-professional degree programs. A variety of intercollegiate sports and other co-curricular activities are also part of the Doane student�s experience.

Jeff Cumpson
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Jill Sager
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Joe Wimmer
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

John Weiss
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Jon Belcher
Drumset Clinician

Ludwig Drumset Clinician Jon Belcher

Jon Belcher is best known as the soundtrack drummer for TVs
Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids show. He majored in percussion at Berklee College of Music and studied privately with Alan Dawson. A veteran of the Los Angeles recording studios, his credits (recording & touring) include Phoebe Snow, Al Wilson, Crystal Gayle, Ollie Mitchell, Latin percussionist Jack Costanzo, TV Jingles with Doc Severenson, the Golden Books for Disney studios, a gold record with country artist Larry Groce, and of course his work as the soundtrack drummer with Fat Alberts Junkyard Gang.

Jon is the author of two percussion method books:
DRUMSET WORKOUTS [Polyrhythms & Independent Coordination Applied to Contemporary Grooves] (a Hal Leonard publication), and DRUMSET WORKOUTS BOOK 2 [Advanced Concepts & Application] (an IBP publication). His books are endorsed by Jim Chapin, Hal Blaine, Louie Bellson, Michael Shrieve, Dom Famularo, Modern Drummer Magazine, and Percussive Notes Magazine (For more information about these books, visit Jons web site at: www.drumsetworkouts.com/ )
He has also contributed several dozen technique articles to drum publications, including Modern Drummer Magazine, Creative Drummer Magazine, PAS Percussive News, and PAS Percussive Notes Magazine (Most recently The Cosby Walk Groove in the February, 2003 Issue of Percussive Notes).

Jon has been an active Drumset clinician with the Ludwig Drum Company and Vater Percussion for the past ten years. To book a clinic, write to the Ludwig/Musser Company, Attention: Marketing Administration, P.O. Box 310, Elkhart, Indiana 46515, or phone at: 1/800/348-7426.

CONTACT JON BELCHER AT:
Phone/Fax: (360) 802-7903
E-Mail: [email protected]
Mail: 3045 Highpoint Street, Enumclaw, WA 98022

Web site: www.drumsetworkouts.com/
Audio Samples: www.cdbaby.com/cd/belcher/

Jose Diaz
Clinician

Jose Antonio Diaz is currently in his ninth year as Director of Bands at MacArthur High School and in his seventeenth year as Director of the MacArthur High School Jazz Ensemble in Houston, Texas. During his tenure, the group has garnered many first place awards in local, regional, and national level jazz ensemble competitions and has performed with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Jon Faddis, Danilo Perez, David Sanchez, and Arturo Sandoval, to name just a few. Diazs groups have performed three for the International Association of Jazz Educators and three times for the Midwest Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Event. Diazs success with the MacArthur High School Jazz Program was the subject of a featured cover story in Band Directors Guide Magazine.

Jose Antonio Diaz is the founder and Artistic Director for Diaz Music Institute. Diaz Music Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit fine arts organization dedicated to development, promotion and documentation of Hispanic music.

He received a Down Beat Magazine Award for Achievement in Jazz Education and was selected by FOX 26 and Univision Television stations as Hispanic Hero. Recently, Diaz was inducted into the Texas Christian University Band of Fame.

Currently, Diaz is also the Past-president of the International Association of Jazz Educators-Texas Unit, a member of the Da Camera of Houston Teacher Advisory Board, a member of the Midwest Clinics Advisory Panel, the new jazz ensemble music reviewer for Band and Orchestra Magazine, and is an active composer, arranger, and clinician.

Les Otto
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Lynn Nelson
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Martin-Beatus Meier
All-State Orchestra Conductor

Martin-Beatus Meier, a native of Switzerland, pursued his musical training in Berne, Paris and Salzburg. Recipient of the International Mozart Prize for Outstanding Young Conductors, he went on to conduct at major opera houses in Germany, France and Italy, and later at Indiana University and in El Paso, where he served as Artistic Director of the U. of Texas Opera Theatre. Coming to the Pacific Northwest in the 70's, he was for 15 years director of orchestras and opera at Washington State University and music director of the Washington-Idaho Symphony, the Spokane Youth Orchestra and the Mid-Columbia Symphony. Among other musical pursuits, he has been active as a chamber music pianist, vocal coach and accompanist, and as a composer. In recent years, the latter vocation (which he has come to regard his primary "raison d'etre") has drawn him away from the concert stage. In 1998 he settled in Port Townsend, a picturesque peninsula town near Admiralty Inlet. Besides composing orchestral, chamber and vocal music, he enjoys exploring island trails along the coast or canyons in the desert Southwest.

Marty Behnke
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Mary Lou Boderman
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Melissa Roth
Clinicians

Details forthcoming.

Michael Gross
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Mike Klinger
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Nita Van Pelt
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Panel
Discussion

Details forthcoming.

Pat Vandehey
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Paula Crider
All-State Band Conductor

Paula A Crider�All-State Band Conductor

Following a distinguished 33-year teaching career, Paula Crider has earned the high honor of having been granted the title of Professor Emeritus at The University of Texas in Austin, Texas. She has served as guest conductor, lecturer or adjudicator in 30 states, Canada, Ireland, Australia and the United Kingdom. Professor Crider is the immediate Past President of the National Band Association, the largest band organization of its kind in the world.

Prof. Crider received degrees in Music and in English Literature from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a Master of Music Education from The University of Texas. She has taught in public schools at all levels, and holds the unique distinction of having been the first female in the State of Texas to serve as Director of Bands at a Class 5-A high school. Her Crockett High School Bands in Austin, Texas earned 12 University Interscholastic League "Sweepstakes" Awards, received national recognition on the concert stage, and were twice named Texas 5A State Marching Champions. Ms. Crider was the recipient of the National Band Association's "Citation of Excellence" presented by Dr. Wm. J. Revelli for her band's performance at the National Band Association Convention in Knoxville, Tennessee.

During her tenure at The University of Texas, Professor Crider conducted the Symphony Band, the Longhorn Marching and Concert Bands, and served as instructor for undergraduate Conducting, Brass Methods and Marching Techniques. She taught graduate wind literature, supervised student teachers, and served as administrator for the Longhorn Music Camp. Highly acclaimed for its musical and marching excellence, the 380 member Longhorn Band enjoyed national acclaim under her leadership.

Prof. Crider has written numerous articles for The Instrumentalist, The Band Director's Guide, and the National Band Association Journal. She has published manuals for brass techniques, marching band methods, and instrumental conducting. She has presented numerous professional teacher seminars throughout the United States, and continues to work with talented young students in student leadership workshops.

Awards and honors include two "Eyes of Texas" awards for teaching excellence, the Tau Beta Sigma/Kappa Kappa Psi Outstanding Service to Music Award, the Sudler Legion of Merit, and the Texas Bandmaster's Association Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1995, Ms. Crider was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmaster's Association. Ms. Crider was only the third woman to be so honored.

Peter Boonshaft
Key Note Speaker

Peter Loel Boonshaft holds Bachelor of Music (Summa Cum Laude), Master of Music Education in Conducting, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees. Dr. Boonshaft was also awarded a Connecticut General Fellowship for study at the Kod�ly Musical Training Institute, from which he holds a Certificate. He is currently on the faculty of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, where he is Professor of Music and Director of Bands. He is Conductor of the Hofstra University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, professor of conducting and music education, and Director of the graduate wind conducting program. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Boonshaft was on the faculty of Moravian College and the University of Hartford. He was Founder and Music Director of the Pennsylvania Youth Honors Concert Band and the Connecticut Valley Youth Wind Ensemble. In addition, he held the post of Music Director and Conductor of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony of Boston.

Dr. Boonshaft is the author of Teaching Music with Passion recently published by Meredith Music Publications, distributed by Hal Leonard Corporation. He is also the author of Vaclav Nelhybel: His Life and Works, the only authorized biography of the composer, and articles for Instrumentalist Magazine, the National Band Association Journal, MENC's Teaching Music and Band Director's Guide. In addition, he holds the post of Band/Wind Ensemble Editor for the School Music News. Dr. Boonshaft has been a consultant or recorded for Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Southern Music Publishers, Kendor Music Publishers, Daehn Publications, and C. Allen Music. Active as a proponent of new literature for concert band, he has commissioned and conducted over thirty world premieres by such notable composers as W. Francis McBeth, Johan de Meij, Fisher Tull, H. Owen Reed, Vaclav Nelhybel, David Gillingham, Philip Sparke, Andrew Boysen, Robert W. Smith, David Holsinger, Robert Washburn, Elliot Del Borgo, Herbert Deutsch, Robert Hawkins, Larry Lipkis, Ian McDougall, Reber Clark, Gregory Sanders, Roland Barrett and Jared Spears. Among the soloists who have appeared in performance with Dr. Boonshaft are John Marcellus, Harvey Phillips, Ed Shaughnessy, Lynn Klock, Don Butterfield, Dave Steinmeyer and the United States Air Force "Airmen of Note," Chester Schmitz, and the Vienna Schubert Trio.

Dr. Boonshaft has been awarded membership in Pi Kappa Lambda and Alpha Chi, as well as twice receiving the University of Hartford Regent's Award and that University's Outstanding Music Educator Award. He has received official proclamations from the Governors of four states and a Certificate of Appreciation from President Ronald Reagan, as well as performing for President and Mrs. George Bush, and for Margaret Thatcher, Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His honors also include being selected three times as a National Endowment for the Arts "Artist in Residence", three times awarded Honorary Life Membership in the Tri-M Music Honor Society, and being selected for the Center for Scholarly Research and Academic Excellence at Hofstra University. Extremely active as a guest conductor and clinician for festivals, concerts, and workshops nationally and internationally, he was chosen to conduct the All-Eastern Band for the MENC Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore, Maryland; as a clinician for the National Convention of the Canadian Music Educators Association in Halifax, Nova Scotia; as conductor of the All-Eastern Directors Band for the MENC Eastern Division Conference in New York City; as guest conductor and clinician for the European Music Educators Convention in Heidelberg, Germany; as a clinician and speaker for the National Convention of the American School Band Directors Association in Honolulu, Hawaii; as a clinician for the MENC Northwest Division Conference in Spokane, Washington; was named conductor of the MENC National High School Honors Band for the National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee; as conductor of the All-Northwest Band for the MENC Northwest Division Conference in Portland, Oregon; and recently received invitations to conduct in China and Brazil.

Phyllis Paul
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Randall Moore
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Renee Westlake
Presenter

Renee Westlake is the Supervisor of Music for the Bozeman Public Schools in Bozeman, Montana. Her degrees include a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education and a Master of Education in Elementary Music from Montana State University where she is a member of the college’s Centennial Alumni, recognized as one of the 100 top graduates in the history of the college.

Mrs. Westlake is president of the Northwest Division of MENC, the National Association for Music Education. She is a past president of the Montana Music Educators Association and the Montana General Music Teachers Association, has served as the band education sessions chair at the 1999 Northwest MENC Conference, the MENC National Nominating committee, and has served as chair for the Montana task force for Gifted and Talented education.

Renee taught general music, band and AP music theory in Montana. She received the 1998 MMEA Leadership Award, the 2000 NPR Outstanding Educator recognition and the 2001 Outstanding Music Educator Award from the National Federation of Interscholastic Music Associations. Renee is active as a clinician, adjudicator and performer of chamber and symphony music. She also conducts a high school chamber ensemble and is its founder. She is co-founder and education director of a private fine arts studio that teaches all of the arts and specializes in various styles of dance.

Rob Walker
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Robert Baca
All-State Jazz Band Conductor

Robert Baca's versatility as a consummate trumpet player and his contributions to music teaching have gained him wide recognition in jazz and classical areas of the performing arts. He received a Bachelor of Music Education and Masters of Music from Indiana University, and has taught privately and in the public school systems for 15 years. He has also worked as a band director in the Lockport, Illinois public schools.

His professional background includes touring as a member of the Frank Sinatra Orchestra, the Buddy Rich Big Band, Mel Torme, Tony Bennett, Charles Aznavour, the Pia Zadora and Andy Williams Orchestras. He has performed with the Milwaukee Symphony, Phillip Brunelles Plymouth Music Series Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Baca is also active in studio recording and location contract work in Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Minneapolis. He is an international performer/clinician for the Selmer-Bach Corporation. Recently, he performed in China, Hong Kong and Costa Rica.

Mr. Baca is an Associate Professor of Trumpet and Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Other duties include teaching Jazz Improvisation, Jazz History, directing the first and third Jazz Ensembles, and coordinating one of the nation's largest jazz festivals. In the last four years he has directed the Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Nebraska Honors Jazz Ensembles. He was past Vice President of Wisconsin Music Educators Association (Northwest Region) and President of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Wisconsin Chapter.

Robert Gillespie
Middle School Orchestra Conductor

Bob Gillespie�Middle School Orchestra Conductor

Bob Gillespie, professor of music, is responsible for string teacher training at The Ohio State University, which has one of the largest and most extensive string pedagogy degree programs in the nation. Dr. Gillespie is national President-Elect of the American String Teachers Association. He is a frequent guest conductor of All-State, Region, and festival orchestras throughout the country and Europe, and he has presented string teacher sessions, workshops, and conducted concerts at national and state music educator conferences in forty-three states and Canada.

His string education articles appear frequently in all the major music journals. He is co-author of the Hal Leonard string method book series, Essential Elements for Strings, Essential Elements 2000 for Strings, and Getting Started: Strolling Strings for MENC. He is also co-author of the new Oxford University Press book: Strategies for Teaching Strings: Building A Successful School Orchestra Program.

He received the Distinguished Scholar award given by his faculty colleagues in 2002-2003 in the School of Music at Ohio State University.

In summers, Dr. Gillespie directs the OSU Midwest Summer String Teacher Conference, one of the largest string/orchestra teacher training workshops in the country. Dr. Gillespie is a string education clinician for Scherl & Roth String Instruments, a division of United Musical Instruments Corporation. He is past president of the Ohio String Teachers Association. In Columbus, he conducts the Columbus Symphony Junior Strings Youth Orchestra and is a performing violinist in the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra.

Roberta Jackson
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Rodney Eichenberger
All-State Choir Conductor

Rodney Eichenberger, All-State Choir Conductor

Rodney Eichenberger, Professor of Choral Music at Florida State University, has lectured and guest conducted throughout the United States and abroad. He has conducted more than 70 All State Choirs in 43 of the 50 states and guest conducted or lectured at more that 50 US Universities. Choirs under his direction have sung at the National Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.

In September 2001 and in April of 2003 he guest conducted the professional Korean National Chorus in concert in the Seoul Arts Center. He conducted the Pusan City Choir in concert in March of 2003, as well. In September of 2002 he led conducting workshops for the Eighth International Choral Conducting Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has guest conducted and lectured at the Swedish Choral Directors Association in Orebro, Sweden, presented session at the Third World Symposium of Music in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Fifth World Symposium of Choral Music in Rotterdam, Holland. He presented workshops at the First International School and Youth Choral Festival in Buenos Aries, Argentina. He has served as guest conductor of the Singapore Youth Choir Festival, International Schools Choral Festivals in London, Vienna, and Tokyo.

For the past 28 years, he has been an active participant in choral music education in Australia and New Zealand returning annually to guest conduct and lead conducting workshops. In 1995 he was scholar in residence at the University of Western Australia under the auspices of the Fulbright Commission. In 1977 the governing board of the Australian National Choral Association granted him an Honorary Life Membership. He was instrumental in the inauguration of the New Zealand Choral Federation and was an official U.S. Cultural Ambassador to that country during their sesquicentennial celebration. He taught conducting workshops in both countries in January of 2003.

He is the program coordinator for the choral conducting division of International Workshops with recent summer seminars in Stavanger, Norway; Brisbane, Australia; Biarritz, France and Graz, Austria. He annually teaches summer choral conducting workshops at Portland State University�s Haystack Festival of the Arts held in Cannon Beach, Oregon and CCIS�s Chesapeake Bay Workshop in St. Michaels, Maryland. His instructional video on Choral Conducting, �What They See Is What You Get,� is now in its ninth printing. In 2001, a second instructional video, �Enhancing Musicality Through Movement,� was released through Santa Barbara Press.

Professor Eichenberger holds the Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Olaf College and the Master of Arts degree from the University of Denver, with advanced study at the University of Washington and the University of Iowa. From 1976-1900 he was Professor of Choral Music and Conductor of the Chamber Singers at the University of Southern California and prior to his appointment there he was Professor of Choral Music at the University of Washington in Seattle.

SWOKE
Kodaly Sessions

Details forthcoming.

Shannon Chase
Clinician

Shannon Chase, assistant professor of choral music education, joined the School of Music faculty in the fall of 2002. She received the B.M.E. degree from the University of Southern Maine, the M.M. degree in choral conducting from the University of Maine, and a Ph.D. in music education from Florida State University.

Chase taught choral & general music at the Mary E. Taylor Middle School and Camden-Rockport High School in Maine. During her tenure in Maine, she was active at the local, district, and state levels as a conductor and clinician. As a choral director, Chase has conducted youth, collegiate, community, and church choirs.

At Oregon, Chase teaches courses in choral music education, vocal & choral pedagogy, choral music & materials, choral conducting, group vocal technique, music teaching and graduate research. She serves as conductor of the newly established Concert Choir, a mixed ensemble open to all university students. During the Bach Festival, Chase teaches choral musicianship for the Oregon Bach Festival's Youth Choral Academy.

Chase actively serves as adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor in Oregon. Her areas of research include choral techniques, teacher and conductor preparation, foreign language and ensemble diction, and multicultural choral music. In addition, Chase has initiated a new choral partnership program with the secondary schools in the Springfield and Bethel school districts. She has presented research projects at the state, divisional, and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the Music Educators National Conference (MENC).

Chase serves as the faculty adviser to the UO Collegiate MENC chapter, and holds active memberships in MENC, ACDA, the International Society for Music Education (ISME), International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM), and the College Music Society (CMS). She also serves as Multicultural Chair on the Board of Control for the Oregon Music Educators Assn.

Sharon Morgan
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Sharon Paul
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Steve Zielke
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

Steven Morrison
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Tina Bull
Conductor

Details forthcoming.

Toby Koenigsberg
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Todd Zimblemann
Presenter

Details forthcoming.

U of O Faculty String Quartet
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Wallace Long
Clinician

Details forthcoming.