OMEA 2002 Conference:

Conference/All-State Presenters and Conductors

• Michael Allen, All-State Orchestra Conductor
• Jennifer Shelton Barnes, All-State Jazz Choir Conductor
• Jon Belcher, Clinician
• Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft, Clinician
• Lynn Brinckmeyer, Clinician
• Dan Bukvich, Clinician
• Dr. Michael Burch-Pesses, Clinician
• Simon Carrington, Choral Clinician
• Robert A. Duke, Keynote Speaker
• Joanne Erwin, Middle School Honor Orchestra Conductor
• Chantal Faraudo, Clinician
• David Fitch, Clinician
• Jane Forvilly, Clinician
• Gary Gilroy, Middle School Honor Band Conductor
• Willie L. Hill, All-State Jazz Band Conductor
• David Hoffman, Clinician
• Kathleen Jacobi-Karna, Clinician
• Jean Jordan, Clinician
• Jerry Jordan, All-State Choir Conductor
• Alan Keown, Clinician
• John Kline, Clinician
• Mike Klinger, Clinician
• Andrea Klouse, Middle School Honor Choir Conductor
• Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Keynote Speaker
• Sanna Longden, Clinician
• Clifford K. Madsen, Keynote Speaker
• Emanuel McGladrey, Clinician
• Debbie Montague, Clinician
• Steve Peter, Clinician
• Steve Posegate, Clinician
• Melissa Roth, Clinician
• Laurie Schopp, Clinician
• Gary St.John, Clinician
• Dr. Jill Trinka, Clinician
• William K. Wakefield, All-State Band Conductor
• Lorely Zgonc, Clinician
• Todd Zimbleman, Clinician

Michael Allen
All-State Orchestra Conductor

Michael Allen currently serves as associate professor of music education at Florida State University. His education includes a Bachelor's degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, a Master's degree from Case Western Reserve University, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of North Texas.

Dr. Allen began his teaching career in the public schools of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Following a graduate fellowship at the University of North Texas, he served as string coordinator for the Denton Independent School District (Texas) for eight years. Under his direction, the Denton High School Orchestra appeared in concert at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention in 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992 as the TMEA Honor Orchestra. The Denton High School Orchestra appeared at the 1986 Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic and the 1988 MENC National Convention in Indianapolis. Under his direction, the Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestra performed for the 1999 Southern Division of MENC in Tampa, Florida. The Tallahassee Fiddlers appeared at the 2000 MENC National Convention in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Allen is past president of the Texas Orchestra Directors Association and the founding president of the Texas Chapter of the National School Orchestra Association. He currently serves as editor-in-chief of the Florida Music Director. Dr. Allen has published articles in the Instrumentalist, American String Teacher, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Florida Music Director, and The Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education. In addition, Dr. Allen is co-author of Essential Elements for Strings, a comprehensive string method book series published by the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation.

He serves as an educational consultant for the Glaesel Stringed Instrument Division of the Selmer School and editor of the Selmer String Notes. Dr. Allen has conducted student orchestras and presented teacher workshops at national and state music educator conferences in thirty-two states and Canada.

Jennifer Shelton Barnes
All-State Jazz Choir Conductor

Jennifer Shelton Barnes is a highly sought-after jazz vocalist, educator, clinician and arranger throughout the U.S. and Canada. She has taught privately and directed downBeat [magazine] award-winning Vocal Jazz Ensembles at universities for over ten years, including Western Michigan University, the University of Miami, Northern Illinois University, and Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. She has served as a guest conductor for District and All-State Music Festivals (including Illinois, Wisconsin, Arizona and Washington), has taught jazz vocals at the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Camps for four years, and her vocal arrangements are published by UNC Jazz Press. In addition to her teaching activities, Jennifer is an active performer, having recently released her debut CD recording, "You Taught My Heart" (available on Amazon.com), comprised of jazz standards from both the instrumental and vocal traditions. She has extensive experience in commercial studio work as well as live performances with big bands and small groups at jazz clubs in Chicago and throughout the midwest. Jennifer earned the Master of Music degree in Studio Music and Jazz Performance from the University of Miami (FL) and the Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University.

Jon Belcher
Clinician

Jon Belcher 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 and touring) include Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Phoebe Snow, Crystal Gayle, Al Wilson, Ollie Mitchell, and Latin percussionist Jack Costanzo. He has recorded T.V. Jingles with Doc Severenson, the Golden Books for Disney studios, and a gold record with country artist Larry Groce. As a leader, Jon has performed at jazz festivals throughout the U.S. and Canada, and was a featured solo performer at the 1992 World's Fair in Seville, Spain.

Jon is the author of two highly acclaimed percussion method books: Drumset Workouts [Polyrythms and Independent Coordination Applied to Contemporary Grooves] and Drumset Workouts Book 2 [Advanced Concepts & Application]. These books have been endorsed by many top educators and percussionists, including: Jim Chapin, Hal Blaine, Louie Bellson, Michael Shrieve, and Dom Famularo. Jon's articles have appeared in numerous drum publications, including Modern Drummer Magazine, Creative Drummer Magazine, PAS Percussive Notes Magazine, and Percussive News (One of his articles is currently featured on-line at the Percussive Arts Society web site: www.pas.org Look for it under "Publications" & the "Hot Licks" column).

Jon is also a Drum Set clinician for Ludwig, and currently leads the group Savoy Swing. He teaches privately in the Seattle area and may be contacted via e-mail at [email protected].

Dr. Peter Loel Boonshaft
Clinician

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 Kodaly Musical Training Institute, from which he holds a Specialist 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 has been a consultant or recorded for Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers, Southern Music Publishers, Kendor Music Publishers, Daehn Publications, and C. Allen Music. He was an Advisory Board member and adjudicator for Fiesta International Music Festivals in Mexico as well as Encore International, and is currently an adjudicator for Festivals of Music and North American Music Festivals, as well as a clinician for Educational Field Studies and Warner Brothers Publications. Active as a proponent of new literature for concert band, he has commissioned and conducted over twenty-nine world premieres by such notable composers as W. Francis McBeth, Johan de Meij, Fisher Tull, H. Owen Reed, Vaclav Nelhybel, David Gillingham, 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. Dr. Boonshaft 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. 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," Maynard Ferguson, 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", a Commendation from the Music Educators National Conference, 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 1997 MENC Eastern Division Conference in Baltimore, Maryland; as a featured clinician for the 1997 National Convention of the Canadian Music Educators Association in Halifax, Nova Scotia; as conductor of the All-Eastern Directors Band for the 1999 MENC Eastern Division Conference in New York City; as guest conductor and clinician for the 1999 and 2000 European Music Educators Convention in Heidelberg, Germany; as a featured clinician for the 2001 National Convention of the American School Band Directors Association in Honolulu, Hawaii; as a clinician for the 2001 MENC Northwest Division Conference in Spokane, Washington; was named conductor of the MENC National High School Honors Band for the 2002 National Convention in Nashville, Tennessee; and was invited to conduct in Beijing, China in the spring of 2002.

Lynn Brinckmeyer
Clinician

Dr. Lynn M. Brinckmeyer, Professor of Music, is Chair of the Department of Music at Eastern Washington University. Her degrees include a Bachelor of Science in Education and Master of Music Education from Eastern New Mexico University, and a Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of Kansas.

Dr. Brinckmeyer is President of the Northwest Division of MENC, the National Association for Music Education. She was the WMEA General Music Curriculum Officer for four years. At the national level she currently sits on the editorial board for Music Educators Journal. She also served on the MENC 2001 Music In Our Schools Month Music Selection Committee and the Choral Session Committee for the 2002 MENC National Convention.

Dr. Brinckmeyer taught elementary music and middle school choir in New Mexico. She received both the PTI Excellence in Teaching Award and the CenturyTel Award for outstanding faculty at Eastern Washington University. Dr. Brinckmeyer is extensively in demand as a clinician for elementary and choral music clinics and workshops in the Northwest, Midwest and Southwest, including the biennial meeting for Music Educators National Conference in Kansas City. She founded the Eastern Washington University Girls' Chorus, comprised of girls ages 9-14 and serves as the Music Director. Dr. Brinckmeyer has lectured, given master classes and performed vocal recitals in the United States, Korea, Taiwan and Amsterdam. Other conducting venues include: Festival of the Arts, Mountain Treble Choir Festival, Bi-County Gala Concert, Panorama Choral Festival, Gem State High School Girls Choral Festival and Pocatello Junior High Girls Choral Festival. She is also active in community theatre.

Dan Bukvich
Clinician

Daniel Bukvich has been a member of the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music since 1978. His teaching duties include; freshman music theory and ear training, percussion lessons and chamber groups, and a variety of instrumental and vocal ensembles. Bukvich's compositions and arrangements are performed world-wide by symphonic bands, wind ensembles, orchestral winds, choirs, jazz bands, symphony orchestras and marching bands.

Dr. Michael Burch-Pesses
Clinician

Michael Burch-Pesses is Director of Bands at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, and Jazz Choir, and teaches courses in conducting, music education, and MIDI technology. He holds Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in conducting from the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and is an internationally known adjudicator and clinician.

Dr. Burch-Pesses enjoyed a distinguished career as a bandmaster in the United States Navy before arriving at Pacific University, enlisting as a hornist and working his way up through the ranks to become the Navy's senior bandmaster and Head of the Navy Music Program. During his Navy career he served as Leader of the Naval Academy Band in Annapolis, Maryland. Under his direction the Naval Academy Band received the George Howard Citation of Musical Excellence from the John Philip Sousa Foundation, the highest civilian award for a military band. He also served as Assistant Leader of the Navy Band in Washington, DC, and Director of the Commodores, the Navy's official jazz ensemble.

His professional affiliations include the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, and Oregon Band Directors Association. He also is the Oregon Chair of the National Band Association and College Chair of the Oregon Music Educators Association, and is co-conductor of the Oregon Symphonic Band, Oregon's premier adult band.

Simon Carrington
Choral Clinician

Simon Carrington has recently been appointed Director of Choral Activities at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts, and will begin his duties in September, 2001.

Since 1994 he has served as professor, artist-in-residence, and Director of Choral Activities at the University of Kansas for seven years after his 25 year career as founder, member, co-director, and creative force with the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble, The King's Singers. With the group, he gave 3000 performances at many of the world's most prestigious festivals and concert halls, made nearly 70 recordings, and appeared on countless television and radio programs. Furthermore, he led workshops and masterclasses in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan.

During the early years of The King's Singers, he also enjoyed a successful career as an orchestral musician, playing with most of London's leading symphony and chamber orchestras and as the double bass continuo player in the performances and recordings of the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir that launched the career of his Cambridge contemporary, John Eliot Gardiner.

At the University of Kansas, Professor Carrington developed an extensive choral program that includes masters and doctoral degree programs along with seven choirs and three vocal jazz ensembles. With an ambitious selection of repertoire, his choirs were featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today, made three CDs, a PBS television recording of the University of Kansas Annual Holiday Vespers, and undertook highly successful concert tours to Carnegie Hall New York, England, France, Hungary and Brazil. In his final semester he took the University of Kansas Chamber Choir to perform three concerts before 6000 choral directors gathered from all over the world at the American Choral Director's National Convention in San Antonio, Texas.

In addition to his work at the New England Conservatory, Mr. Carrington is now pursuing a freelance career as conductor and choral clinician both in Europe and the USA. He is one of the busier All-State conductors in the United States. Hconducts, leads choral institutes and adjudicates festivals and competitions all over the world. He served recently on the jury and as conductor at the Marktoberdorf Chamber Choir Competition, he was a clinician at the Fifth World Symposium on Choral Music in Rotterdam and directed a series of choral workshops at the International Choral Convention in Singapore. Among other activities this year, he was the featured guest at the summer choral institute at the University of North Texas and ran a series of conducting seminars and concerts at the Franz Liszt Conservatory of Music in Budapest, Hungary.

Robert A. Duke
Keynote Speaker

Robert Duke is University Distinguished Teaching Professor and E. William Doty Professor of Fine Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches music and educational psychology. Widely published in music education, he has directed national research efforts under the sponsorship of such organizations as the National Piano Foundation and the International Suzuki Institute. His work has been presented at national and international conferences in the fields of music education, music therapy, and music psychology, and appears in major research journals and texts. Dr. Duke serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, and Psychomusicology, and is editor of Texas Music Education Research. A former studio musician and public school music teacher, he has worked closely with children at-risk, both in the public schools and through the juvenile court system, and he remains an active clinician and researcher in music learning, systematic observation and evaluation, and behavior management, presenting lectures and teaching demonstrations throughout the United States.

Joanne Erwin
Middle School Honor Orchestra Conductor

Joanne Erwin is Associate Professor and Director of the Music Education Division of Oberlin College. In addition, she directs the Northern Ohio Youth Orrchestra and the Oberlin College String Preparatory Program. Her area of specialty is string pedagogy, in which she holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Texas. Her Bachelor and Master's Degrees are from the University of Illinois. Before coming to Oberlin, she conducted the Junior Youth Orchestra of Greater Fort Worth, played cello in the Fort Worth Symphony, and taught in the Arlington public schools for fourteen years.She has given clinics on rehearsal techniques and conducted regional orchestras throughout the United States.

Chantal Faraudo
Clinician

Chantal Faraudo holds a Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Southern California. While not a credentialed teacher in the state of Oregon, she holds a Lifetime Teaching Credential in the State of California to teach community college. Chantal is a long standing advocate and supporter of instrumental music in the public and private school systems, and currently leads ensembles for the Westview High School band program.

David Fitch
Clinician

David Fitch was raised in a musical family in Southern California and has taught studio piano several years. He has a Master of Music in music education from the University of Oregon where his project paper was on the male changing voice. David is the choral music director at Shasta Middle School and has directed the Oregon Boychoir for seven years.

Jane Forvilly
Clinician

Jane Forvilly's 33 year teaching career was primarily with high school bands and choirs but also included adventures teaching at middle school and elementary levels; high school geography and physical education. In common with most teachers she is interested in observing and continually learning new skills and enhancements to the craft of teaching. Several years on the staff of summer band camps at UO and OSU and two years associated with the Oregon State Dept. of Education visiting school music programs were valued opportunities to do that. How members of the profession might help each other by sharing the rewards of their experience and expertise was an area of emphasis while president and the Oregon Band Directors Assoc. and is the major theme of the OMEA Mentor Program, retirees to active teachers, that Jane currently coordinates as Chairperson for the OMEA Retired Music Educators.

Gary Gilroy
Middle School Honor Band Conductor

Gary P. Gilroy is a professor of music at California State University, Fresno. He assumed the position of Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Marching Band, Danceline, & Colorguard at Fresno State in 1993. Prior to this appointment, he has served for a decade as Director of Bands at Fred C. Beyer High School in Modesto, California, where his band was awarded several national honors as well as the International Sudler Shield Award from the John Philip Sousa Foundation. Gilroy also served as faculty at CSU, Stanislaus, and was a graduate assistant at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where he completed his doctorate in 1995.

As an adjudicator for Drum Corps International, Music in the Parks, Youth in the Arts, and Bands of America, he has served in 39 states and throughout Canada. He has been involved as a performer or instructor/arranger for many Drum and Bugle Corps including the Santa Clara Vanguard, Valley Fever, and the Concord Blue Devils.

Gilroy has served on the board of California Band Directors Association for eight years, is a past President of the Fresno Madera Counties Music Educators Association and currently serves as the Western States Chair for the National Band Association.

Dr. Gilroy is in demand as a guest conductor of many honor bands in California and other western states. In 2002, in addition to his role as as the conductor for the Oregon Music Educators Association All-State Junior High School Band, he will serve as conductor for the California Band Directors Association All-State High School Symphonic Band.

Gilroy's music is published for concert band, marching band, and percussion ensembles through the Arrangers Publishing School, Matrix Publications, Warner Brothers, and CPP/Belwin Mills.

Willie L. Hill
All-State Jazz Band Conductor

Dr. Willie Hill is Director of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst and a Professor of Music Education. He received his BS degree from the University of Colorado-Boulder. Dr Hill was Professor in Music Education and the Assistant Dean at the College of Music at the University of Colorado-Boulder for eleven years and director of Education for the Thelonius Monk Institute. Prior to his tenure at the University of Colorado, Hill taught instrumental music and served as instrumental music supervisor for 20 years in the Denver Public School.

His professional activities in the Denver/Metro area included the following: a former member of the Denver Broncos Jazz Ensemble, a regular performer at the Denver Auditorium Theater, Paramount Theater, Boettcher Concert Hall and a variety of nightclubs; guest soloist with the Garden City Community College, Hastings College, the University of Colorado, and the University of Denver Jazz Ensembles; a freelance performer with George Burns, Liza Minneli, Lena Horn, Lou Rawls, Ben Vereen, Lola Falana, Johnny Mathis, Sammy Davis Jr., Dizzy Gillespie, James Mody, Jon Faddis, and many others. As a woodwind specialist, he has been a faculty member of the Clark Terry Great Plains Jazz Camp, Founder and Co-Director of the Rich Matteson-Telluride Jazz Academy, and the Mile High Jazz Camp in Boulder. The Colorado Clarinet Choir was chosen to represent the United Stated in London and Dr Hill was a member of that touring organization. His conducting experiences include numerous Denver Public School Citywide Honor performances, All-State Jazz Ensembles, All-County Bands, Musical Director at the Schwayder and Bonfils Theaters.

He is currently MENC: National Association for Music Education President-Elect, Past-President of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE), a member of the writing team for MENC's Vision 2020; a member of the national board of directors for Young Audiences, Inc., and is Past-President of the Colorado Music Educators Association and Pi Kappa Lambda. In January, 2001, Dr Hill was the recipient of the prestigious Lawrence Berk Leadership Award presented by the International Association of Jazz Educators. In 1998, he was inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Hall of Fame. A national artist/clinician for Yamaha Musical Instrument School, he is co-author of Learning to Sight-Read Jazz, Rock, Latin and Classical Styles (Ardsley House Publication), the author of The Instrumental History of Jazz (N2K, Inc.), and Approaching the Standards (Warner Brothers Publication, 1999). Hill is listed in the first edition of Who's Who Among Black Americans and Who's Who Among International Musicians.

Dr. Willie Hill is a YAMAHA performing artist and his appearance is sponsored in part by the YAMAHA corporation of America - Band & Orchestra Division.

David Hoffman
Clinician

David Hoffman is in his second year at Oregon State University, and conducts the OSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble, directs the OSU Jazz Ensemble, and teaches courses in conducting, music education and jazz studies. He is working toward his Ph.D. in music education from the University of Minnesota. He earned his master's degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University and his bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Illinois. Mr. Hoffman served for seven years on the faculty of the University of Dayton as conductor of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Director of Jazz Studies. He also has eight years of public school teaching experience, most recently as Director of Bands at Roseville Area High School, a program recognized for its excellence by the Minnesota Music Educators Association.

Kathleen Jacobi-Karna
Clinician

Kathleen Jacobi-Karna is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Oregon specializing in early childhood and elementary general music.

She received a Bachelor of Music in music education from Iowa State University; a Master of Music in music education from the University of Arizona; and a Doctor of Philosophy in music education also from the University of Arizona. In addition, she is certified in Orff-Schulwerk (Levels I, II, III, and Masters) from the University of Memphis as well as the first level of Kodaly training from the University of St. Thomas.

Prior to joining the UO, Jacobi-Karna was assistant professor of music and Coordinator of Music Education at Central Washington University and a member of the adjunct faculty at Salisbury State University. Her elementary general music specialist positions include the Salisbury School, an independent school for student preschool through the eighth grade in Salisbury, Maryland, and Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson, Arizona.

Kathleen is active as a clinician throughout the country presenting workshops at the national (American Orff Schulwerk Association, Kindermusik Educators Association, International Reading Association), regional (Northwest Division MENC), and state levels (Oregon Music Educators Association, Washington Music Educators Association, Maryland Music Educators Association). She has presented sessions for music educators (local Orff-Schulwerk chapters, state MENC organizations) as well as general classroom teachers and early childhood educators (READ-ALOUD Delaware, Delaware Association for the Education of the Young Children, Salisbury State University Children's Literature Conference).

Jean Jordan
Clinician

Jean Jordan is Professor Emeritus at The University of Mississippi, where she directed the Women's Glee Club and teaches voice. After receiving two degrees in music from the University of Illinois she continued her studies at the Juilliard School and the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria. Professor Jordan taught elementary and junior high school choral music for five years in the public schools of Illinois and Iowa. She began her college teaching career at the University of Northern Iowa and has been at Ole Miss for the past 22 years. Professor Jordan is a specialist in the development of voices in the choral rehearsal. She has made numerous appearances as a clinician at ACDA conventions, All-State and Honor Choirs, summer workshops, music camps, and choral festivals. The Women's Glee Club made its Carnegie Hall debut and was featured at the Mississippi State Convention of the American Choral Directors Association in 1997. In the spring of 2000, they performed at the Southern Regional Convention of ACDA and were again featured at the ACDA National Convention in San Antonio in 2001. On three different occasions the choir has performed Carmina Burana with the Atlanta Ballet and orchestra and has sung several major works with various orchestras in Carnegie Hall and Avery Fischer Hall in New York. The Women's Glee Club took its first overseas tour in March 1999. The group traveled to England and France where it sang in the Sunday Mass at Notre Dame Cathedral and participated in two choral competitions, winning first prize in both the Worcester Competitive Arts Festival and the Brighton and Hove Competitive Music Festival. The Women's Glee Club also has distinguished itself in appearances with the Mississippi Symphony, Memphis Symphony, and other regional orchestras.

An active professional, soprano soloist, Mrs. Jordan made her New York recital debut in 1989 in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. In 1987, she sang Handel's Israel in Egypt with the American Symphony Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall. The same year, she was the Southern Regional winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Artist Awards Vocal competition. In 1990 she toured Mexico with the Bajio Philharmonic. She sang in the New York Premiere of Jonathan Wilcock's "Come Rejoicing!," and in other Carnegie Hall engagements, she performed Rutter's Requiem twice under the direction of the composer and was also the soprano soloist in Faure's Requiem with the Manhattan Philharmonic. Most recently, she performed as guest soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. She has performed a number of times with the Mississippi Symphony and the Memphis Symphony.

Jerry Jordan
All-State Choir Conductor

For twenty years Jerry Jordan led one of the most active and accomplished collegiate choral programs in the United States at the University of Mississippi. Under his direction, the University of Mississippi Concert Singers performed at national and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association and won seven major international choral competitions in Europe. Among these were the Florilege Vocal De Tours (1994), the Gran Premio Europeo di Canto Corale (1998), and the mixed choir competition in the Choir Olympics 2000.

The American Choral Directors Association sponsored a national survey in 1989 that named Dr. Jordan as one of America's ten most highly recommended choral clinicians. In 1988, he made his New York City debut in the first of several performances in Lincoln Center. Commenting on his performance, the New York Daily News said, "Jerry Jordan led the choral works of Haydn, Gabrieli, Schubert and Stanford, and the immense chorus, taken from six US regions, sang most seraphically and cleanly despite its size." He also has been a regularly featured conductor in Carnegie Hall.

Dr. Jordan has twice served as a member of the jury at the Concorso Polifonica Internazionale Guido D'Arezzo in Arezzo, Italy, and served on the jury of the Florilege Vocal de Tours this June. He frequently serves on juries for the Musica Mundi international choral competitions in Europe and is a member of the artistic committees for Musica Mundi competitions in the United States and Austria. He has also taught conducting seminars or adjudicated at international choral competitions in Germany, Ireland, and Italy.

He is a member of the Advisory Board of Walton Music Corporation and is the editor of Walton's Ole Miss Choral Series. In 1993, Dr. Jordan edited and published the University of Mississippi Choral Performance Library. Mailed free to choral directors across the United States, this innovative edition of works was the first major publication that made traditional and new music immediately available by photocopy.

Alan Keown
Clinician

Alan Keown is a noted percussionist and teacher in the Pacific Northwest. As a performer he has worked with the Smothers Brothers, Suzanne Sommers, Sharri Lewis, the Britt Festival orchestra and numerous symphony orchestras including the reknowned Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra. As a drum set artist he has performed in concerts and nightclubs throughout the Northwest, as well as recording studio dates for albums, jingles, and video projects.

He is a prominent studio teacher and frequent consultant to high school and college band programs, and has been involved with Ted Turner's Goodwill Games as well as the competitive tour sponsored by Drum Corps International.

Alan is a clinician for Yamaha Drums and Johnny Rabb Drum Sticks, as well as the marching percussion specialist for Oregon State University, in Corvallis.

Mr. Keown is also President of Matrix Publishing School, which produces and markets marching band music, jazz band music, concert percussion literature, and instructional videos world-wide.

Alan Keown is a YAMAHA performing artist and his appearance is sponsored in part by the YAMAHA corporation of America - Band & Orchestra Division.

John Kline
Clinician

John Kline (b.1970) is a composer and classical guitarist from Miami, Florida. He holds degrees from Indiana University and The Yale School of Music. Mr. Kline is also an active consultant in the field of music technology and has worked in a technical capacity for Sibelius Software, and as an instructional software designer for Teach.Com. Among notable awards John has received are those from ASCAP, The American Composers Orchestra, and Yale University. He has received commissions from Amadinda, Bob van Sice, The Denver Young Artists Orchestra, the Fadoul-Leandro Duet, Tim Krol of Chanticleer, the Elm City Ensemble, the Yale Percussion Group, and the Czech-American Chamber Music Academy among others. Mr. Kline's music is performed throughout Europe, South America and the United States. Currently, he teaches composition and theory at Southern Oregon University and is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Yale University.

Mike Klinger
Clinician

Mike Klinger is the owner/founder of The Synthesis Midi Workshop located in Carson, Washington as of Jan 1, 2002. He has over 35 years of experience in synthesizers, computers and midi. He is a graduate of North Texas State University with B.M. and M.M. in music composition/theory. From 1976-1980 he was on the teaching staff at Mt. Hood Community College. Currently he specializes in teacher training/sales in music technology traveling throughout Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, and Alaska with over 4200 teachers having taken his courses. He is also a very proficient jazz pianist with 4 albums to his credit.

Andrea Klouse
Middle School Honor Choir Conductor

Andrea S. Klouse has gained international recognition as a choral writer, teacher and guest conductor. Andrea's choral works are published by Hal Leonard Publishing School, Warner Brothers/Chappell Music, and Hinshaw, among others. An active clinician and director, Andrea has conducted numerous choral festivals and All-State choirs throughout the United States. She is also a veteran teacher of 25 years utilizing a strong mixture of sight-singing and theory to fuel her students' musical "baptism" into the culturally rich areas of world music and language. Many of her groups have been featured at MENC and ACDA conference performance venues and are repeat trophy winners at The Best in the Northwest Choral Festival at the University of Portland (2000 and 2001). In addition to acclaimed program at Frontier Junior High, Andrea is also the Founder and Executive Director of The Vivace! Choral Program, currently in residence with the Bethel School District at Frontier Junior High. Vivace!'s mixed choral program offers beginning, intermediate and advanced choral students from the South Puget Sound area the ability to explore choral opportunities in addition to their regular school-day music programs. Vivace! also offers special summer projects such as Vivace! Summer Choir Camp (all ages) and "Cathedrals of Washington" -- a traveling summer tour program for advanced singers. Andrea's work with her students is creative, energetic and imaginative. She was named Outstanding Music Educator in 1998, and in April she was nominated for Disney's American Teacher Award 2002.

Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser
Keynote Speaker

Tim Lautzenheiser is a well known name in the music education world as a teacher, clinician, author, composer, consultant, adjudicator and above all, a trusted friend to anyone interested in working with young people in developing a desire for excellence.

His own career involves ten years of successful college band directing at Northern Michigan University, the University of Missouri, and New Mexico State University. During this time, Tim developed highly acclaimed groups in all areas of the instrumental and vocal field.

Following three years in the music industry, he created Attitude Concepts for Today, an organization designed to manage the many requests for workshops, seminars and convention speaking engagements focusing on the area of positive attitude and effective leadership training. In addition, Tim is presently serving on the music faculty at Duquesne University.

Tim's books, produced by G.I.A. Publications, the Art of Successful Teaching and The Joy of Inspired Teaching, are best-sellers in the music profession. He is also co-author of Hal Leonard's popular band method, Essential Elements, as well as the creator of the highly acclaimed Director's Communication Kits.

Tim is a graduate of Ball State University and the University of Alabama. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from VanderCook College of Music. Tim has been recipient of the distinguished Sudler Order of Merit from the John Philip Sousa Foundation as well as the first recipient of the Mr. Holland's Award for his commitment and dedication to the development of youth in music. Most recently, he received The Music Industry Award from the Midwest Clinic Board of Directors.

Sanna Longden
Clinician

Sanna Longden has presented at many AOSA, Kodaly, MENC conferences and chapters. She also spends much time in elementary schools as a resident artist, is an instructor in university courses, and a choreographer of ethnic dances for theater productions.

A longtime international dance leader and ethnic dance performer from Evanston, Il, Sanna�s specialty is to focus on the "folk." She has produced five instructional videos with tapes/CDs; a book, Folk Dance Cultures and Styling, co-authored with Phyllis Weikart (HighScope Press, 1998); and the ancient Passover dance, "Oy, Matzorena," with the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band. She also is an editor of the National Folk Organization�s NFO News, and is a Silver Burdett Ginn author and clinician. In addition, Sanna and her husband and partner, Mars, give private swing dance lessons and teach piano instructors dances of the classical piano music repertoire.

Clifford K. Madsen
Keynote Speaker

Clifford K. Madsen is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor in the Center for Music Research, School of Music at Florida State University. He was appointed to the FSU faculty in 1961 as a trumpet instructor and worked regularly with all of the university bands. He now teaches in the areas of music education, music therapy, research and psychology of music; since 1977 he has been Coordinator of Music Education/Music Therapy/Contemporary Media. He is the first recipient of both the Senior Researcher Award granted by MENC and the Award of Merit, the National Association for Music Therapy's highest recognition. He is past chair of the Music Education Research Council (MENC) and is a past Editorial Board member of the Journal of Music Therapy, Psychology of Music, Journal of Band Research and The Quarterly: Journal of Music Teaching and Learning. Presently he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Arts Medicine, and Council for Research in Music Education. He has authored or co-authored 130 research articles and 13 books. His latest edited book is Vision 20/20: The Housewright Symposium, MENC. His most recent research deals with teacher education, classroom management, and empirical measurement of ongoing responses to music.

Emanuel McGladrey
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Debbie Montague
Clinician

Debbie Montague is in her 12th year as the director of bands and music department chair at Kenmore Junior High in the Northshore School District, Kenmore, WA. Prior to her teaching position at Kenmore, Debbie taught elementary band, choir and general music in the Northshore School District, and instrumental music at Lakeridge Junior High in the Sumner School District, Sumner, WA. She is a graduate of Central Washington University with a B.A. in Music Education and holds a Masters of Arts in Music Education from the University of Washington.

In addition to her teaching assignments, Debbie has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the South Puget Sound League Music Educators Association, Band Representative for the Executive Board of the West Central District Music Educator Association, and is currently a board member for the Cascade Youth Symphony Orchestras.

Debbie has had outstanding groups in all areas of instrumental performance throughout her teaching career. Her symphonic band has performed at the 1993 and 2001 NW Music Educators Conferences. Debbie and the ensemble are currently preparing for their performances at the 2002 WMEA Conference and the 2002 MENC National Conference. Believing in the education of the whole child, she has served on many school improvement and curriculum development committees, and is one of 25 music educators in the United States and Canada selected to be a pilot teacher for the World Music Drumming Curriculum. She is also active as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor throughout Washington and the Northwest.

Steve Peter
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Steve Posegate
Clinician

Steve Posegate is a doctoral student in Music Education and Wind Instrument Conducting at the University of Oregon. Previously, Steve taught public school music at all levels in Alaska. He also founded and conducted The Anchorage Civic Orchestra, was on the adjunct faculty at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), and was involved in church music.

Steve has Orff-Schulwerk levels training from Alaska Pacific University, Hamline University, DePaul University, and Seattle Pacific University. He earned his B. M. E. from Wheaton College (IL), and his Masters in Education (Public School Administration) from UAA. He completed his Masters in Music (Composition) from Indiana University in August 2000.

His current research interest is the Student Teaching experience in Music Education.

Melissa Roth
Clinician

Melissa Roth currently teaches vocal music at Spring Mountain Elementary in the North Clackamas School District and is co-director of the North Clackamas Children's Choirs, Portland, Oregon. In her ninth year of teaching, Mrs. Roth has presented at state and district Inservices in Oregon and Texas. She holds a BME from Baylor University, Kodály Level IV Certification from Portland State University, and graduate work at the University of North Texas. Mrs. Roth's session will present games from the playground, some old and some new, and how to connect them to classroom objectives.

Laurie Schopp
Clinician

Laurie Schopp is the Music Education Specialist and Program Manager at VH1. Ms. Schopp's work includes developing VH1's Cable In The Classroom initiative "VH1 Music Studio," which provides commercial free educational programming for use in the music and cross-curricular classroom as well as managing the VH1 Save The Music Foundation's initiatives throughout the United States. The VH1 Save The Music Foundation restores music education programs in public schools and raises public awareness about the importance of music education. Ms. Schopp has taught in the orchestra, chorus and classroom music settings on the K-Collegiate levels. In addition to her work as an educator, Ms. Schopp performed in numerous professional theater productions including the Broadway Musical "Cats," where she played the role of "Jellylorum." Ms. Schopp received her Bachelors Degree in Music Education with a concentrate in violin and voice from the University of Michigan and Masters in Voice Performance from Ithaca College.

The VH1 Save The Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of education in America's public schools by restoring music programs in cities across the U.S., and raising public awareness about the importance of music participation for our nation's youth.

Through partnerships with affiliates and advocates, as well as corporate and national sponsors, VH1 Save The Music purchases new musical instruments to restore music education programs that have been cut due to budget reductions. The Foundation also conducts awareness campaigns, musical instrument drives, and fundraising events in conjunction with public schools to help restore instrumental music programs. Since VH1 Save The Music was created in 1997, more than $17 million worth of musical instruments has been donated to 750 public schools in 70 cities, improving the lives of more than 250,000 children. The Foundation's ten-year plan is to bring music participation to one million children in public schools.

Gary St.John
Clinician

Details forthcoming.

Dr. Jill Trinka
Clinician

Dr. Jill Trinka is Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in Music Education at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds degrees in music education from the University of Illinois (B.S.) and the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), and Kodály Certification from the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, as a Ford Foundation Ringer Fellow. Dr. Trinka has taught in Kodály teacher education programs throughout the United States, including the University of North Texas, where she was also Director of the Center for Contemporary Studies in Music Education; Portland State University; the Hartt School at University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; and DePaul University on Chicago. She is currently serving as President of the Organization of American Kodály Educators.

Internationally recognized as "an energetic and winsome performer," Jill is a frequent lecturer, clinician, and performer at national, regional, and local conferences and workshops. Her specialties include music literacy pedagogy and folk music performance, analysis, and research. She plays guitar, dulcimer, autoharp, and banjo, and has recorded and written four volumes of folksongs, singing games, and play parties for kids of all ages: My Little Rooster (1987), Bought Ma a Cat (1988), John, the Rabbit (1989), and The Little Black Bull (1986). Dr. Trinka is an author and recording artist for the Silver Burdett and Ginn music series.

William K. Wakefield
All-State Band Conductor

Dr. William K. Wakefield is Director of Bands and Department Chair of Conducting at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. His responsibilities include conducting the Wind Symphony, and coordinating the doctoral and masters wind conducting programs. Since his appointment in 1985, the OU Wind Symphony has received acclaim for performances of the standard and contemporary band literature while performing for thirteen national and regional conventions of the College Band Directors National Association, the American Bandmasters Association, and Oklahoma Music Educators Association. In the 2000 spring semester the OU Wind Symphony performed for the American Bandmasters Association Convention in Austin, Texas, while also hosting and performing for the CBDNA Southwestern Division Conference in the new Catlett Music Center at the University of Oklahoma.

The OU Wind Symphony has cultivated new music for wind ensemble through commissions for composers Dan Welcher, Cindy McTee, Stephen Rush, Steven Stucky, Don Grantham, Daron Hagen, Carolyn Bremer, David Maslanka, Roland Barrett, Charles Rochester Young, and Jerry Neil Smith. The ensemble has a compact disc recording of wind music spanning three centuries with premiere performances of compositions by Cindy McTee and Carolyn Bremer. In the past several years the Wind Symphony and Symphony Band have collaborated with conductors and artists Jerry Junkin, Craig Kirchhoff, Ray Cramer, Gary Hill, Gary Lewis, Mark Camphouse, The American Brass Quintet, Rhythm and Brass, Harvey Phillips, and Sam Pilafian.

Dr. Wakefield, active as a guest conductor with All-State bands and university ensembles throughout the United States and Canada, is also a collaborative participant in the Music Education Division at OU. The undergraduate music education program has developed an innovative teaching/conducting performance-oriented curriculum that implements role development strategies to develop future band directors. His graduate conducting students have attained substantial positions at the university and secondary school levels.

Wakefield is the recipient of Phi Mu Alpha's Orpheus Award for significant contributions to music in America and has also been recognized for teaching excellence by the Blue Key Society of honor students. In 1997, he received the Outstanding Faculty Member Award from The University of Oklahoma College of Fine Arts, and, in 1998, he was nominated and inducted into the American Bandmasters Association. Recently Alpha Phi Omega, a national service fraternity recognized him as a leader of the 20th Century.

Wakefield's previous positions include Director of Bands at Indiana State University and secondary school positions at Dickinson and Nimitz High Schools in the Houston, Texas, area. His educational background includes a DMA in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Texas at Austin, an MM in Trombone from the University of Houston, and a BM in Trombone from the Manhattan School of Music in New York City. Additional studies were obtained from summers at the Aspen Music Festival, the Juilliard School, and the University of North Texas. He is current President for the CBDNA Southwestern Division, state chairman for CBDNA, treasurer and Past President of the Big 12 Band Directors Association, and a member of CBDNA, ABA, MENC, OMEA, OBA, Phi Beta Mu, Pi Kappa Lambda, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Phi Mu Alpha.

Lorely Zgonc
Clinician

Lorely Zgonc is a professional musician and music educator. As a violinist she has played with the Phoenix, Tucson, and Oregon Symphonies. She is currently concertmaster and soloist with the Oregon Ballet Theater and Portland Opera Orchestras.

Ms. Zgonc presently teaches in the Reynolds School District, where she has taught strings for the past fourteen years to students beginning in the fourth grade and continuing up through eighth grade. She enjoys writing for her orchestras, focusing on building and refining specific skills. Alfred Publishing Co. Inc., will soon be publishing her string arrangement "King's Gavotte." She has just recently published a beginning performance trainer for individual and group string instruction: Stars & Strings Forever, from the "I Can Perform" String Training Series. Individual learning styles are targeted within each unit, with corresponding CD's assisting as practice and performance partners. Arranged and produced by Ms. Zgonc, the CD's feature original accompaniments performed by professional string soloists.

Todd Zimbleman
Clinician

Todd R. Zimbelman is associate director of bands and director of athletic bands at the University of Oregon. He directs the Oregon Marching Band, Basketball Band and is director of the Oregon Summer Music Camps.

Zimbelman earned his bachelor's degree in 1992 from the University of Oregon, where he was a trumpet player in the Basketball Band, Oregon Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Oregon Jazz Ensemble, Oregon Wind Ensemble, and director of the Green Garter Band. After completing the teacher certification program in 1993, he went on to earn his master's degree in music education from the University of Oregon. Prior to joining the UO music faculty in 1999, Zimbelman taught at Grants Pass High School for six years. He has also served as guest conductor for the Rogue Valley Wind Ensemble, various honor bands, and was the orchestra conductor for Rogue Music Theatre's production of The King and I.

Under Zimbelman's direction, the performing groups at Grants Pass High School received many accolades. The Marching Band received twenty Grand Championships and more than 240 caption awards in the past six years. The Jazz Ensemble placed in the top three at the Pleasant Hill Jazz Festival, Mt. Hood Community Jazz Festival, and the Reno International Jazz Festival. The Wind Ensemble consistently placed in the top three at the local district band competition, qualified for the OSAA State Band Championships every year, and received first place at the 1999 Lewis and Clark Northwest Concert Band Festival.

Zimbelman's arrangements have been performed by many of the nation's top marching band programs. He has served as a guest clinician for various performing groups in California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. In addition to his clinician experience, he has also served as an adjudicator for OBDA, DCI, WGI, and NWMBC. Zimbelman is a member of the College Band Director's National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Oregon Band Director's Association, Oregon Alliance for the Arts, Oregon Music Educators Association, and is currently president of the Northwest Marching Band Circuit.