Faculty Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments for Spring 2008

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

• Conversations for interactive piano and the KYMA Capybara 320 presented at the Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference in Salt Lake City on April 3–5, 2008. Beerman also participated on a panel honoring composer Vladimir Ussachevsky at the conference.

Dr. Per F. Broman, musicology/composition/theory (theory) and Dr. Nora Engebretsen-Broman, musicology/composition/theory (theory)

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  Edited What Kind of Theory is Music Theory? Epistemological Exercises in Music Theory and Analysis. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm Studies sin Musicology 1. Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2007. Broman wrote the article “Music Theory: Art, Science, or What?” and Engebretsen “Simplicity, Truth and Beauty in Music Theory” along with co-authoring the publication’s preface. June 2008.

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

• Presented “Torture, Pain, and Phil Collins: The Power of Music in South Park” at the Third Annual Music and the Moving Image Conference at New York University on May 30, 2008.
• Liner notes for the Anne Sofie von Otter CD titled Boldmann/Gefors/Hillborg with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Kent Nagano, on the Deutsche Grammophon label. The disc features songs by Anders Hillborg, Laci Boldemann and Hans Gefors. May 2008.
• “Musical Function in the Gesamtkunstwerk: Chopin and Werle in Bergman’s Persona and Autumn Sonata,” presented at the 15th Nordic Musicological Congress in Oslo, Norway. August 2008.

Vasile Beluska, performance studies (violin), and Dr. Alan Smith, associate dean and performance studies (cello)

• Toured music conservatories in Hungary and Romania in May 2008. The duo met with students and teachers, conducting master classes and presented recitals primarily in Szeged, Hungary, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Vasile Beluska, performance studies (violin)

• Recipient of an Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his service in bridging his homeland of Romania and his teaching and performing in the U.S. The ceremony was held on Ellis Island on May 10, 2008.

Dr. Emily Freeman Brown, performance studies (director of orchestral activities)

• Served as a judge for the 10th Annual Crescendo Music Awards in Tulsa, Okla., in April 2008.
• Conducted the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra in Interlochen, Mich., in April 2008. The concert included Samuel Adler’s Symphony No. 2 and was part of an 80th birthday celebration for the composer.

Dr. Nora Engegretsen-Broman, musicology/composition/theory (theory)

• Chapter titled “The Over-Determined Triad as a Source of Discord: Nascent Groups and the Emergent Chromatic Tonality in Later-Nineteenth-Century German Harmonic Theory,” published in the book Music Theory and Mathematics: Chords, Collections, and Transformations, edited by Jack Douthett, Martha Hyde and Charles J. Smith (University of Rochester Press, 2008). February 2008.

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

• Presented “Naming Mount Messiaen” to the members of the newly recognized American Musicological Society Ecocriticism Study Group in November 2007. He is a co-founder of the organization.
• Published the chapter, “Two Paths to Paradise: Reform in Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise,” in Messiaen Studies, ed. Robert Sholl (Cambridge University Press, 2007), 206’31, December 2007.

Dr. Carol Hayward, music education (band activities)

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  Dr. Hayward and members of the All-American Marching Band staff.

  Staff member of the first All-American Marching Band at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl in San Antonio, Texas, on January 5, 2008.

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

• Paper presentation, “Tejano Music Comes to the Midwest: The Musical Story of Conjunto Master, Jesse Ponce,” at the Society for American Music conference in San Antonio, Texas, in March 2008.
• Presented “Critical Approaches to Teaching World Music in the University Non-Major Classroom” and organized the “World Music Pedagogy in the Global Century” panel at the ninth international conference on Cultural Diversity in Music Education in Seattle on March 21, 2008.

Dr. Vincent J. Kantorski, professor (graduate studies)

• Presented “A Content Analysis of Survey Dissertations in Music Education, 2002–2006” at the MENC National Convention in Milwaukee, Wis., on April 10, 2008.

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

• Chiaroscuro for cello and electronics presented at the SEAMUS National Conference in Salt Lake City on April 3–5, 2008.

Dr. Jacqueline Leclair, performance studies (oboe)

• Concert titled A/Rhythmia, with the 20-member ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Auditorium, New York City in February 2008. Concert included the New York premiere of Son of Chamber Symphony by John Adams.
• Lecture on Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIIa at the University of Michigan in March 2008.

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

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  Dr. Elainie Lillios and Stacy Borden (MM—composition)

  Veiled Resonance for soprano saxophone and live electroacoustics, premiered at the SEAMUS National Conference, which took place in Salt Lake City, April 3–5, 2008. The work was commissioned and performed by saxophonist Steve Duke.

Dr. William Mathis, associate professor and chair of music performance studies (trombone)

• Soloist for T-Rex for Trombone and Tape by Mark Phillips at the Heidelberg University’s New Music Festival in Tiffin, Ohio, on April 12, 2008.
• Clinician and featured soloist in Annie Laurie by Author Proyor with Lima High School Band on May 14, 2008.
• Featured soloist on Annie Laurie by Author Proyor and Lassus Trombone by Henry Fillmore with the Ostsego High School Band on their John Philip Sousa Concert on May 22, 2008.

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

• Performed Samuel Adler’s Three Preludes as part of a live interview with the composer for Israeli National Radio in Kol, Israel, in January 2008.
• Performance of Samuel Adler’s Three Preludes and the Sonata for Flute and Piano with flutist Carol Wincenc as part of a live interview with the composer on Radio Nacional de Espana in January 2008.
• Recitals as a member of the Phoenix Piano Quartet at the University of Michigan, Bluffton College and Oberlin College in March 2008. The quartet is a collaboration of faculty from Arizona State University and BGSU.

Dr. Bruce Moss/, music education (director of band activities)

• Article titled “At Home in Two Worlds. Memorable Programming for College ad Community Band. An Interview with Bruce Moss” in the May 2008 issue of The Instrumentalist.

Dr. Mark Munson, music education (choral activities)

• Presented “Living and Working Abroad through a Teacher Exchange” with his wife, Paula, at the Ohio Music Educators Association (OMEA) Conference in Cincinnati in February 2008.
• Served as an adjudicator for the Lima Symphony Orchestra’s Young Artist Competition in Lima, Ohio, in March 2008.
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  Founding members of Opus 181.

  Founded the community vocal chamber ensemble, Opus 181, in spring 2008. Members of the ensemble are BGSU alumni, faculty and staff. The ensemble presented concerts at the Wood Country District Library and the Pemberville Opera House in April 2008.
• Published “The Music Profile Schools of Sweden: Enriching a Nation’s Choral Heritage” in the Choral Journal, the official journal of the American Choral Director’s Association, in April 2008.
• Served as an adjudicator for junior and senior high school choruses at the annual State Choral Festival of the Michigan School Vocal Music Association on May 6–7, 2008.
• Adjudicator for junior and senior high choruses for the Festivals of Music sponsored by the Education Networks Program in Sandusky, Ohio, on May 9,10, 16, 17 and 24, 2008.
• Conducted community singers in a “Summer Sing” presentation of Mozart’s Mass in C Minor at the University of Toledo on June 17, 2008.

Dr. Andrew Pelletier, performance studies (horn)

• Performed the Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1 with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, conducted by Xiao-Lu Li, at the Garde Arts Center in New London, Conn., in March 2008.

Dr. Eftychia Papanikolaou, musicology/composition/theory (musicology)

• Published chapter titled “Of Duduks and Dylan: Negotiating Music and the Aural Space.” In Cylons in America: Critical Studies of Battlestar Galactica. Edited by Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall, 224–236. New York and London: Continuum, 2007. The book won the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture by the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. December 2007.
• Essay review publication of “The Art of the Ballets Russes Captured: Reconstructed Ballet Performances on Video.” in Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association 64/3: 564–585. March 2008.
• Presented “Death in Vienna: Modes of Memory in Ken Russell’s Mahler“ at the Third Annual Music and the Moving Image Conference at New York University from May 30 to June 3, 2008, and at the Ninth Annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum: “European Cinema: Past and Present,” Institute of Technology in Dublin, Ireland, in July 2008.
• Presented “Spontini the Subversive?” at the 15th Biennial International Conference on 19th-century Music at the University College in Dublin, Ireland, in June 2008.

Charles Saenz, performance studies (trumpet)

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  Charles Saenz with Jason Dovel (MM ’05)

  Invited to adjudicate the preliminary round of the 2008 International Trumpet Guild Solo Competition.
• Guest soloist on the Terre Thunder Jazz Band and State of the Art vocal group’s “Winter Jazz” concert in Port Clinton, Ohio, in February 2008.
• Featured clinician on the Northeastern Trumpet Festival at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Okla., in February 2008.
• Master class at Michigan State University in March 2008.

Kevin Schempf, performance studies (clarinet)

• Performance with the Sympatico Percussion Quartet at Ohio State University in January 2008.
• Performance with the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (PNME) in Louisville, Ky., on February 1, 2008. PNME also recorded its second CD titled against the emptiness, which will be released by New Dynamic Records in 2009.
• As a member of the new music ensemble Brave New Works, Schempf performed at Cornell University, Syracuse University, Eastman School of Music, and at Christ and Stephen’s Churches in New York City in March 2008.
• Performed solo and chamber pieces as a guest with the new music group fEARnoMUSIC in Portland, Ore., in April 2008.
• Presented a recital and master class at the University of Washington in Seattle on April 21, 2008.
• Two recitals at the Hasty Festival at Ohio State University on April 30–May 2. The festival honoring the master teacher, Stanley Hasty from the Eastman School of Music, featured performers and teachers across the country.
• Clarinetist and bass clarinetist on PNME’s first CD, released in 2008, titled Drunken Moon/Night Music.

Dr. Roger Schupp, performance studies (percussion)

• Performed a number of concerts with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra’s Percussion Trio throughout the Toledo area in March 2008.
• Master class and recital at the University of Central Missouri in March 2008.
• Featured clinician at “Drum Daze,” a day of percussion, at the Toledo School for the Arts in Toledo in May 2008.

Dr. Marilyn Shrude, Distinguished Artist Professor, musicology/composition/theory (chair, composition); and Dr. John Sampen, Distinguished Artist Professor, performance studies (coordinator of woodwinds, saxophone)

• Performed Shrude’s Lacramosa for alto saxophone and piano at the SCI National Convention in Atlanta in February 2008.
• Presented a concert titled “Voices of Dissent” at Appalachian State University, in Boone, N.C., and at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, Tenn., in April 2008. The concert included two compositions by Shrude, as well as the works of BGSU faculty members Dr. Burton Beerman, Dr. Mikel Kuehn and Dr. Elainie Lillios. Works by Beerman, Kuehn and Lillios were also performed by the duo at the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference in Columbia, S.C., on April 19, 2008.

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

• Published “Teaching Composition in Twenty-first-Century America: A Conversation with Milton Babbitt” by Marilyn Shrude in American Music (vol. 25, no. 3, fall 2007). 312–333.
• Renewing the Myth performed by saxophonist Joseph Murphy (BM ’82) at Mansfield University and on the Eighth Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in March 2008.
• Recipient of the Chair Leadership Award from the BGSU Faculty Senate on April 8, 2008. The award recognizes her many efforts on behalf of the department and college, including her service as chair of the Department of Musicology/Composition/Theory since 1998. “During her tenure, she has greatly expanded the scope of the department, in particular its offerings in contemporary and world music, as well as its interaction with the rest of the University.” (Bowling Green Sentinel Tribune. 4/18/08)
• Lacrimosa for alto saxophone and piano published by C.F. Peters (Edition Peters No. 68155) in April 2008. The work was commissioned by Sigma Alpha Iota and is dedicated to the memory of BGSU alumni Christopher Carducci (BM ’02) and Robert Samels (BM ’02).
• Into Light performed by the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Katherine Kilburn, in Battell Chapel at Yale University on May 11, 2008.
• Face of the Moon performed by guitarist Dan Lippel and saxophonist Timothy Ruedeman at the New Music Festival for Guitar and Saxophone at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, N.C., on April 10, 2008.
• Raining Glass for violin, cello and piano performed by the Icicle Creek Piano Trio at the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival in Walla Walla, Wash., on June 17, 2008.
• Litanies for flute, oboe and piano premiered at the International Double Reed Society’s 37th Annual Conference in Provo, Utah, in July 2008. The work was commissioned and performed by the Spectrum Trio. Theresa Delaplain Mueller (MM ’84) is the oboist in the trio.

Garth Simmons, performance studies (trombone/adjunct)

• Soloist on Concert for Trombone and Orchestra by Christopher Rouse with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra on two performances on March 14 and 15, 2008.

Bryan Standbridge ’06, web designer, performance studies (steel drums/adjunct)

• Member of the combined choirs of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church (Toledo) and St. Aloysius Catholic Church (Bowling Green), directed by Jean McLaughlin and Dr. Ann Corrigan (performance studies/adjunct [voice]), on a pilgrimage to Italy. The group performed an evening Mass in St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, an evening concert in St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome and an evening Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, as well as a papal audience in the Vatican in March 2008.
• Premiere of For with the LORD is Kindness: Psalm 130 by the combined church choirs of St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church and St. Aloysius Catholic Church during an evening concert in the Basilica of St. Ignatius of Loyola in Rome in March 2008. The SATB work was commissioned for the choir’s 2008 pilgrimage to Italy and was conducted by the composer.

Dr. Sandra Frey Stegman, music education (choral education) and Dr. Nancy Sugden, music education (early childhood)

• Presented workshop titled “21st Century Singing Schools for Children and Youth” at the 28th World Conference of the International Society of Music Education in Bologna, Italy, in July 2008.

Dr. Nancy Sugden, music education (early childhood)

• Co-director of the project titled “Singing to the Tune of Early Literacy.” Project is funded by Partnerships for Community Action and the Center for Innovative and Transformative Education, and is a collaboration between the Wood County Corps/Wood County District Public Library, WSOS Head Start and the College of Musical Arts. March 2008.

Dr. Kenneth Thompson, music education (band activities)

• Named conductor and artistic director of the Toledo Youth Orchestra for the 2008–2009 season in February.
• Appointed to the By-Law Adoption Committee to form the Youth Wind Band for the United Nations in spring 2008.
• Conducted rehearsal clinics with over 50 bands and orchestras from Texas, Nebraska, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri in spring 2008.
• Guest conductor for the Strongsville (Ohio) High School Bands Festival Concert in spring 2008.
• Guest conductor for the Lakewood (Ohio) High School and the Hoover High School (Iowa) Wind Ensemble Concerts in spring 2008.
• Guest residency at Larkin High School, an arts magnet school, in Elgin, Ill., in spring 2008. As part of the residency, he conducted the Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra and presented a master class for the school’s conducting students.
• Served as organizational chair, with Scott Corley from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, for the 2008 CBDNA Intercollegiate Honor Band for the 2008 CBDNA North-Central Division Conference in spring 2008.
• Served as the conducting adjudicator for the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Directors Association Large Group Contest.
• Conductor of the 2008 Putnam County Honor Band in spring 2008.
• “Impetus for Innovation: Causality and Percy Grainger’s Affinity for Folksong” published in the Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, spring 2008.
• “The Small Things Matter” in the Instrumentalist Magazine, spring 2008.

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

• Panel presentation, titled “A Time to Reflect: Regional Chapter Presidents Discuss the Role of Chapters in the Next Stages of CMS’ Evolution” and served as the session chair for “Trans-and Interdisciplinary Issues I” at the national meeting of the College Music Society in Salt Lake City in November 2007.
• Presented “Teaching and Learning Styles of the 4MAT System: Exploring Opportunities for Deeper Student Engagement” as part of the BGSU Teachers on Teaching Series during the Teaching and Learning Fair at BGSU on March 14, 2008.
• Presented the “History of the Great Lakes Chapter of the College Music Society” and organized and moderated a panel of “Past Presisents for the Great Lakes and Great Plains Chapters” during “Two Greats Chapter Histories” at the CMS Super Regional at Illinois State University on March 28, 2008.

Faculty Accomplishments for Fall 2007

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.