Music Faculty News Frank G. Campos, associate professor of trumpet, performed the world premiere of a new composition by Dana Professor of Music Dana Wilson at the International Trumpet Guild conference in Lexington, Kentucky, in May. The piece, "I Remember . . . ," won first prize in the 1998 ITG contest and was a featured supplement in the September issue of the International Trumpet Guild Journal. Campos, a member of the ITG board of directors, has a feature column in the journal. In June trumpet professor Kim Dunnick, who is president of the ITG, presented an award to Adolph Herseth in honor of Herseth’s 50 years with the Chicago Symphony. In July Dunnick traveled to Sydney, Australia, to give a talk, "Education and Development of Trumpet Performers in the United States," at the Australian ITG conference. He also conducted the mass trumpet ensemble for the conference’s closing ceremonies and gave master classes at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales. In June saxophone professor Steven Mauk was the featured guest artist at the Northern Arizona University Saxophone Workshop, at which he presented lectures, master classes, and a recital. Included in his concert were the premiere of "Luminescence" by Dana Wilson and "Angels in the Rain" by composition professor Gregory Woodward. Mauk also performed with Ensemble X at Cornell University in September. Associate professor Mark Fonder has been elected chair of the editorial committee for the Music Educators Journal. At the Mid-Europe Band Festival in Schladming, Austria, in July, Fonder presented his research on Ithaca band director Patrick Conway to the International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Band Music. At Carnegie Hall this June Professor Janet Galván conducted the fourth annual North American Children’s Chorale, premiering associate professor of electroacoustic music Peter Rothbart’s arrangement of "Mayim for Treble Voices and Orchestra," now issued by Roger Dean Publishers. In July Galván took the Ithaca Children’s Choir to Spain to sing at the International Music Festival. Assistant professor Keith Kaiser, together with C. K. Madsen, presented "Pre-internship Fears of Music Therapists" at the American Music Therapy Association’s national conference in Cleveland in November. The paper will appear in the Journal of Music Therapy, and another paper Kaiser and Madsen cowrote, "Pre-internship Fears of Student Teachers," will be published in Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. During the summer Kaiser was assistant music camp director at Florida State University. The Syracuse Society for New Music premiered Dana Wilson’s "Dancing with the Devil," commissioned with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Armstrong Duo premiered his "Pu Em Remu." Wilson is writing a long work commissioned by the Chicago Chamber Musicians. Professor Gordon Stout attended the second annual Leigh Howard Stevens International Marimba Competition and Festival at the Eastman School of Music in August. He was one of an international panel of judges who awarded second prize to David Hall ’85, a member of the Grand Rapids Symphony, and third prize to Michael Overman, M.M. ’96. Stout’s recital, which included assistant professor Pablo Cohen on guitar, was a highlight of the festival. Stout also performed, adjudicated, and gave a master class at the World Marimba Festival in Osaka, Japan. Lecturer Allison Evans Henry has been elected region II councillor of the American Guild of Organists. In the spring she performed with the Onondaga County Music Educators Wind Ensemble, was the soloist with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble, and recorded two programs for WVIA-FM’s Music from St. Stephen’s, broadcast from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Assistant professors Ellen Jewett, violin, and Elizabeth Simkin, cello, were in residence as members of the Taliesin Piano Trio at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, for five weeks. They gave concerts in a series devoted to contemporary music and produced a premier recording of the opera The Consul, with composer Giancarlo Menotti directing and Richard Hickox conducting. Debra Moree, associate professor of viola, spent two weeks at the Killington Music Festival as a guest artist. She performed live on Vermont Public Radio, and one concert aired on NPR’s Performance Today. She was a featured guest soloist at the Bach and Beyond Festival in Fredonia, New York, where she performed two concertos with orchestra. In June 1997 associate professor Patrice Pastore sang Robert Cogan’s "Polyutterances" at the Festival of Contemporary Music in Paris, and a CD of this composition will be issued soon. This August Pastore performed "As in a Dream" by Chen Yi at the University of Cincinnati Grandin Festival. Assistant clarinet professor Richard Faria ’87 played with Ensemble X at Cornell University in September and also performed at the Skaneateles Festival. He will tour the Midwest with the Sylvan Wind Quintet in February. Professor Michael Galván, clarinet, spent his spring sabbatic in Europe. He gave a master class at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, graded wind-conducting examinations at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, and served on the jury for the clarinet concours at the Leuven Conservatory. This summer associate professor Lee Goodhew, bassoon, played with the Fontana Chamber Music Concert Society in Shelbyville, Michigan. Associate flute professor Wendy Mehne was elected secretary of the National Flute Association. She also judged the National Flute Association High School Soloist competition and presented a workshop on breathing and stress management at the association’s national convention in Phoenix in August.