a tempo winter2008

Faculty News

Dr. Burton Beerman, musicology/composition/theory (composition)

• Selected as a 2008 Governor’s Awards for the Arts in Ohio recipient in the category of Individual Artist.
• Performances of JOLT! by Kayle+Company Dance Ensemble in Helsinki, Finland, and St. Petersburg, Russia, in June and July.
• Multimedia work Playthings Revisited reviewed in Journal SEAMUS, the official publication of The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States in July 2007.

Dr. Per F. Broman, musicology/composition/theory (theory)

• Presented two papers: “Bartok’s Sentences: Teaching Non-Tonal Form in the Undergraduate Curriculum” and “The Good, the True, and the Professional: Teaching Music History in an Age of Excess”, during the College Music Society annual meeting, held in Salt Lake City in November.
• Presented “Beyond Diegesis: Ingmar Bergman and Music” at the Music and the Moving Image conference at New York University in May 2007. An extended version was read at the Swedish Musicological Society annual meeting at Stockholm University this past summer.
• Presented and co-authored, with Dr. Nora Engebretsen-Broman (theory), “Roman or Riemann: Considerations for the Bologna Process” at the Music Theory Symposium at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm in May 2007.
• Article “In Beethoven’s and Wagner’s Footsteps: Phrase Structures and Satzketten in the Instrumental Music of Béla Bartók” in Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 48. Budapest, Hungary, published in 2007 by Akadémiai Kiadó.

Dr. Nora Engebretsen-Broman musicology/composition/theory (theory)

• Has been appointed to a two-year term on the Society for Music Theory’s publication committee, representing the organization’s online journal Music Theory Online.

Dr. Emily Freeman Brown (director of orchestral activities)

• Served as conductor of the Ohio Northeast District Orchestra in Cleveland in November. Program included a performance of Into Light by Dr. Marilyn Shrude, Distinguished Artist Professor.
• Member of the jury for the third Eduardo Mata International Conducting Competition, held in Mexico City, honoring the Mexican composer Eduardo Mata, in September 2007.

Winston Choir, performance studies (piano)

• Solo recital in Montreal as part of the Montreal en Concert Series in December.
• Presented 11 concerts in the Prairie Provinces in Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba) from October 27 to November 10. The tour was sponsored by Prairie Debut.
• Two performances of Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto with the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in Victoria, British Columbia, in September and October.
• Soloist for Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto with the Kamloops Symphony Orchestra in Kamloops, British Columbia, in September.

Kurt Doles, MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music (coordinator)

• Not Remembering for violin and piano performed at the 2007 Ashland (Oregon) New Music Concerts in March 2007.

Dr. Robert Fallon, musicology/composition/theory (musicology)

• Presented “Nature and Supernature: Messiaen’s Theology of Birdsong” at the Ohio Sate University’s Lectures in Musicology series in November.
• Presented “Dante as Guide to Messiaen’s Gothic Spirituality” at the interdisciplinary conference “Messiaen the Theologian,” hosted by the Boston University Messiaen Project, the BU School of Music and the BU School of Theology in October.
• As part of a pre-opera panel, spoke on the opera, Margaret Garner by Richard Danielpour and Toni Morrison, for a new production by the New York City Opera in September 2007. His fellow panelists included Bernice Johnson Reagon, the singer/composer who founded the group Sweet Honey in the Rock and Columbia University’s Center for Jazz Studies, and Lenore Kitts, a postdoctoral research fellow at UC Berkeley.
• Chapter, “The Record of Realism in Messiaen’s Bird Style,” in Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art, and Literature, published by Ashgate in May 2007. The book was named editor’s choice by BBC Music Magazine.

Megan Fergusson, performance studies (viola)

• Solo recital titled “The viola as a voice of the 20th Century: 1940–1975” at the University of Michigan in November.

Scott Gwinnell, performance studies (jazz piano, adjunct)

• The Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra performed at the Detroit International Jazz Festival and at Cliff Bell’s in downtown Detroit in September. BGSU alumna Shannon Ford ’95 plays baritone saxophone with this group.

Dr. Penny Thompson Kruse, performance studies (violin)

• Appointed to a two-year term on the Ohio String Teachers Association’s general board.

Dr. Mikel Kuehn, musicology/composition/theory (composition)

• New work for 12 saxophones and electroacoustic music to be premiered by Jean-Michel Goury’s saxophone ensemble at the North American Saxophone Alliance Convention in Columbia, S.C., this coming April.
• Cracked for flute, alto saxophone and electroacoustic music, recorded by the Zephyr Duo on ERROL records in France.
• Lecture on the “History of Electroacoustic Music” at the Laurentian University in Sudburry, Ontario.
• Color Fields, for tenor saxophone, vibraphone, guitar and piano, was performed by Flexible Music at Brigham Young University in October. The work will be performed by Flexible Music on Music at Our Saviors Atonement in Manhattan this coming March.
• Unfoldings for solo guitar performed by Daniel Lippel on the Guitar Guild Festival at the Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum in Texas and on the ICE Plucked Strings Concert at The Tank in New York City in December.

Dr. Jacqueline Leclair, performance studies (oboe)

• Recorded The Long Boat for mezzo-soprano and English horn for the Albany Records release featuring music of Charles Wuorinen’s works for voice.
• As a member of Alarm Will Sound, presented a concert at Virginia Tech in October and on Stanford University’s Lively Arts Series in November. The Stanford program, titled “A/rhythmia,” included a world premiere chamber symphony by John Adams. The group also presented The Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in the Library of Congress Founder’s Day Concert in Washington, D.C. in October and a five-day residency with a concert, open rehearsals and master classes at Otterbein College in September.
• Performed Thomas Ades’ Sonata de Caccia, Op. 11 for oboe, horn and harpsichord as part of the Contemporary Performance Program’s faculty recital at the Manhattan School of Music in November.
• Chamber orchestra, Sequitur, released a CD TRI-STAN by Eric Moe, on KOCH International Classics in October.
• Guest soloist with the New Millenium Ensemble in the world premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Iridule in September. Vivien Schweitzer said in The New York Times that Leclair “played with finesse and flair.”

Dr. Elainie Lillios, musicology/composition/theory (composition)

• Encounters, a collaboration with Bonnie Mitchell, was on exhibition at Owens Community College in November and December 2007 and at Ohio Northern University in January 2008.
• Listening Beyond… premiered on High Voltage, a concert of new electroacoustic music at Louisiana State University, in December. The ambisonic piece was commissioned by LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology.
• Composer in Residence, hosted by the Center for Computation and Technology at Louisiana State University, for a month during November and December.
• Guest composer at Tulane University, where she presented a concert of her electroacoustic music in November.
• Featured composer on An Evening of Difficult Music #10 at McKeown’s bookstore in downtown New Orleans in November.

Dr. David McDonald, musicology/composition/theory (ethnomusicology)

• Presented “Poetics and the Performance of Violence in Israel/Palestine” at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. in December.
• Presented “Geographies of the Body: Violence and the Performance of Manhood in Israel/Palestine” at an interdisciplinary national conference on “Music, Gender, and Justice” sponsored by Syracuse University in September.

Dr. Laura Melton, performance studies (coordinator of keyboard, piano)

• Solo recital programs at Kent State University, Malone College and Youngstown State University in October and November 2007.
• Solo program broadcast on “Live from FM-91” on WGTE in Toledo in November 2007.
• Presented concerts as a member of the Phoenix Piano Quartet at the Idyllwild Arts Academy and the University of California at Santa Barbara in California in October 2007. Program included the Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat Major.
• Performed and recorded solo and chamber works by Samuel Adler for Albany Records at the Academy of Arts and Letters in New York in September 2007.

Dr. Bruce Moss, music education (director of bands)

• President of the College Band Directors National Conference, North Central Division.
• Served on the evaluation committee for the College Band Directors National Association Young Band Composition Award in December.
• Appointed to National Council of Kappa Kappa Psi honorary band fraternity for a two-year term as Vice President for Professional Relations, beginning in the fall.
• Conducted the renowned Wheaton Municipal Band, with soloists Richard Mathey, professor emeritus, Shawn Mathey and members of the major service bands, in a series of popular summer venue concerts.
• Conductor and tour director of the Ohio Ambassadors of Music Honor Band. The group toured seven European countries in June and July.
• Guest conductor of the Marshall University Honor Band in Huntington, W. Va. in February 2007.
• Guest conductor of bands at Dobyns-Bennett High School in Tennessee.
• Guest conductor of the University of Nebraska Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

Dr. Mary Natvig, musicology/composition/theory (musicology)

• Appointed secretary of the American Musicological Society Council (non-voting board member) at the annual meeting in Quebec City, November 2007.

Dr. Andrew Pelletier, performance studies (horn)

• Performance of George Crumb’s Idyll for the Misbegotten and Jamo Sermila’s Monody for Horn and Percussion with the Percussion Plus Project at Depauw University in September 2007.
• Master class at Depauw University in September 2007.
• Host and producer of the 2007 International Horn Competition of America, which was held at the college July 18–22. Fifty competitors and 20 judges attended from all over the world, competed in university and professional divisions.
• Performance at Long Lake Chamber Music Festival in Harrison, Maine, in July 2007.

Dr. Andrea Reinkemeyer, musicology/composition/theory (composition/adjunct)

• Lucky Sevens, Crazy Eights premiered by the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings in October 2007.

David Rogers, performance studies (horn, emeritus faculty)

• Songs of Joy and Comfort, a CD of original music for Native American flute, was nominated by the Native American Music Association for a Native American Music Award in the “Native Heart” category.

Dr. Jane Schoonmaker Rodgers, performance studies (soprano)

• Performance on the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival at St. Hugo’s Chapel in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., with renowned pianist James Tocco and members of the Detroit Symphony wind section in June 2007.

Dr. John Sampen, Distinguished Artist Professor, performance studies (coordinator of woodwinds, saxophone); and Mark Bunce, electronic/recording engineer

• Toured the northwestern U.S. in September 2007, presenting a multimedia show including music of Bunce and Dr. Marilyn Shrude, Distinguished Artist Professor. Concerts and saxophone master classes were presented at Lewis & Clark College, Whitman College, Pacific Lutheran University and the University of British Columbia (Vancouver).

Dr. John Sampen, Distinguished Artist Professor, performance studies (coordinator of woodwinds, saxophone)

• Representing the USA as a member of the jury for the International Londeix Saxophone Competition in Bangkok, Thailand in January 2008.
• Master class at the University of Puget Sound, September 2007.

Dr. Roger Schupp, performance studies (percussion)

• Played in the pit orchestra with the national touring company of Spamalot at the Stranahan Theatre in Toledo for ten performance in November and December.
• Served on the planning and execution committee for the Percussive Arts Society’s International Solo Marimba Competition in October and November.
• Multiple performances with the Toledo Jazz Orchestra in the fall.
• Guest soloist in James Curnow’s Concertino for Solo Percussionist and Symphonic Band with the Toledo Symphony Concert Band in August 2007. He also performed throughout the summer as a member of the band.
• Performed with Clark Terry and the Toledo Jazz Orchestra at the Art Tatum Jazz Festival in Toledo in June.
• Recorded Passaphae by Samuel Adler with Dr. Laura Melton (performance studies, piano) in June. The recording is being released on the Naxos label.
• World premiere of Insomnia by Brooks Joyce at the International Double Reed Society Convention with Susan Tomkiewicz and Dr. Nathaniel Zeisler (performance studies, bassoon) in June.

Dr. Marilyn Shrude, Distinguished Artist Professor, musicology/composition/theory (composition)

• Visions in Metaphone was perfomrmed by Theofilos Sotiriades, master’s candidate from Greece, and Ariadne Mikou at the Internationale Musiktage Brache in Germany in August.
• Evolutions for mixed saxophone ensemble was premiered at the Ionian Summer Academy’s Corfu Festival 2007 in July.

Dr. William Skoog, performance studies (director of choral activities)

• “Musical Settings of War Texts in Three Major 20th-Century Choral Works,” will be included as a chapter in The Literature of War edited by Richard Pine. UK: Cambridge Scholars, to be published in October, 2008.
• Invited clinician for the Cherry Creek Chorale (Brian Leatherman, artistic director) for a retreat that took place in Boulder, Colo., in September 2007. The ensemble performs with the Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra in Denver.

Bryan Stanbridge ’06, web designer, performance studies (steel drum/adjunct)

• Directs the newly established Steel Drum Ensembles.

Dr. Sandra Frey Stegman, music education (choral education)

• Guest conductor for the East Allen County Schools Honor Choir in Indiana in October 2007.

Dr. Kenneth Thompson, music education (band activities)

• Selected to present a session titled “Teach to the Back of the Room” at national MENC in Milwaukee in April 2008.
• Guest conductor for the St. Louis Metro 8 Honor Band in November 2007.
• Worked with graduate and undergraduate music education majors and graduate conducting students at the University of Iowa’s School of Music in October 2007.
• Rehearsal clinician for the wind ensemble and symphony orchestra at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in October 2007.
• Selected to serve as the only external consultant for the redrafting of the music content standards for all ETS/PRAXIS national exams, which are required for music education majors.
• Principal guest conductor of the St. Louis Wind Symphony; conducted a performance in their summer concert series.
• Guest residency at Larkin High School in Elgin, Ill., in April 2007. He presented conducting master classes, worked with conducting students and conducted two orchestras.

Dr. Gene Trantham, musicology/composition/theory (theory)

• Presented “Harmonic Hypermeter: Implications for Analysis and Performance” as part of a panel discussion at the MARCO Annual Musician’s Workshop in Madison, Wis. in June 2007.