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MusicSTUDENT NEWS
Kelly Jepson, M.M. '98, was accepted into Trevor Wye's course, The Studio, for 1998-99 in England. Wye, one of the top flute teachers in the world, accepts only five students a year from an international pool of applicants. Several of Debra Moree's viola students performed this summer: Marisa Reynolds '98 at the Aspen Music Festival, Brigid Shogan '98 and William McClain '98 at the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra, and Suzanne Miller '00 and Heather Weeks '98 at the Killington Music Festival. FACULTY FANFARE
In November assistant professor of clarinet Richard Faria '87 performed John Adams's new clarinet concerto, Gnarly Buttons, with Ensemble X at Cornell University. Music education professor Mark Fonder was conductor of the Signature Band Camp Band. The two-week summer music camp on campus for 13- to 15-year-olds was organized by Richard Ford '58. Graduates Amy Carpenter '97 and Alison McBride '96 were among the camp's staff members this year. Lawrence Harper [see below under "New Faculty"] taught horn and coached the ensemble this summer at the Indianhead Arts and Education Center in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. As conductor (now on leave) of two of the most respected wind bands in Wisconsin, he released two CDs this fall: Romantic Wind Masterpieces, performed by the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, and Wind Music of Women Composers, performed by the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band. He also will conduct the debut performance of the National Wind Orchestra at the National Theater of Costa Rica next summer. He guest-conducted at a concert in southern California in October in honor of the 60th birthday of Sir David Whitwell, the internationally recognized scholar and conductor of wind music. In November Harper conducted at the NYSSMA all-state band festival in Trumansburg. Viola faculty member Debra Moree was in residence this summer at the Killington Music Festival in Vermont. She performed on the Chamber Music in the Mountains series, heard live on Vermont Public Radio. Music theory faculty member Tim Nord gave a presentation on computer technology and aural skills at the international conference of the College Music Society in Vienna, Austria, in July. In November he was on a panel on various aspects of computer technology and higher education at the combined national conferences of the Society for Music Theory and the American Musicological Society. Associate professor of composition Gregory Woodward is guest composer in residence for 1997-98 with the Penn Yan High School Orchestra and Chorus, under the direction of Carin Reeves Griffith, M.M. '97. Woodward is working with the ensemble, as well as with several grades of English classes, in creating a new commissioned work to be premiered at the school's spring concert. Hundreds of students are involved in the overall creative process. The project is supported with a New Music in Our Schools grant from the Meet the Composer organization. Music education lecturer Robert Zazzara, M.S. '68, received this year's Outstanding Choral Director Award, presented by the New York State chapter of the American Choral Directors Association. He was guest conductor of the Zone I Area All State Junior High Chorus in Akron and Zone III Area All State Senior High Chorus in Trumansburg. Verna Brummett, assistant professor of music education, spent several weeks in May as a guest teacher at the Bandung International School in Java, Indonesia. Students at the school represent over 35 nationalities. Brummett taught classes at the primary, intermediate, and middle school levels, focusing on vocal/choral music experiences. Choruses were formed for grades 4-6 and 6-8, and they presented an assembly for the entire school and parents. Over the past five years Brummett has developed a volunteer music program for prekindergartners, "Music Friends," at the Ithaca Community Childcare Center. This fall a Dana intern and several selected senior music education majors are assisting her; they meet the classes each week. Singing games, musical dramatizations, exploration of instruments, and age-appropriate repertoire have been components of each teacher's work. The teachers are selected for the project based upon their effectiveness in their junior vocal student teaching program and their interest in teaching young children. The ICCC has been highly complimentary of the Ithaca College music teacher volunteers and the positive effect their presence has had upon the children. NEW FACULTY
Read Gainsford has joined the faculty in studio piano. He holds a bachelor's in performance from Auckland University in New Zealand, a diploma from the Guild Hall School in London, and is near completion of his doctorate in performance at Indiana University. He has taught at Indiana University and has won international competitions, including first prize in the 1994 East and West Artists Competition. Jeffrey Gemmell is teaching vocal music education and conducting the Ithaca College Chorus. He has a bachelor's from Towson State University, a master's from Northwestern, and a doctorate from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has taught extensively in the public schools of Maryland and has most recently served as a faculty member at Metropolitan State College in Denver. Lawrence Harper has accepted a one-year position as conductor of the wind ensemble and brass choir. He holds a bachelor's from California State University at Northridge, a master's from the University of Illinois, and a doctorate in conducting from Michigan State University. A frequent guest conductor, Harper has served as music director of several midwestern orchestras and has been director of bands at Carroll College in Wisconsin. Allison Evan Henry has taken a part-time position as organ/harpsichord teacher. She holds a bachelor's degree from Mansfield University and a master's and doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. She is a frequent organ recitalist in upstate New York and has served as a faculty member at the Pipe Organ Encounter Conferences in Rochester and Philadelphia. Gerald Krumbholz is serving in a one-year position in music theory. He holds a bachelor's from the University of South Florida, a master's from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. from the Eastman School. He has taught at Monroe Community College and the Eastman School and in secondary schools in Florida and Rochester. Paige Morgan has a one-year position as oboe professor. Her bachelor's in performance is from the University of Kansas, her master's and doctorate from the Eastman School of Music. She was an oboe teacher at the University of Virginia and has taught at Nazareth College and Eastman. She was oboist in the faculty woodwind quintet at the University of Virginia and in the Charlotte and Richmond Symphony Orchestras. Karin Ursin joined the faculty in a part-time flute position. She holds a bachelor's in performance from Northwestern University. For many years she has played flute and piccolo with the Syracuse Symphony; she has also performed with the Chicago and Milwaukee Symphonies and the Buffalo Philharmonic, Rochester Philharmonic, and Skaneateles Festival Orchestras. |
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Flute student Kristin Bacchiocchi '98 performed
at the Aspen Music Festival this summer.
Associate professor of trumpet Frank G. Campos
was featured soloist on a CD produced by California State University at
Fresno. Proceeds from sales will benefit music schol- arships in the CSUF
Department of Music.
Robert Bayless has accepted a one-year position
in music education. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees
at Kent State University. He has taught extensively in the Ohio public school
system, was director of instrumental music at Mount Union College in Ohio,
and most recently taught at Kent State.