Ithaca College

In December, Associate Professor of Music, Nicholas Walker, spent a week at the Hochschule für Musik Theater und Medien in Hannover, Germany working with the students of Professor Ekkehard Beringer.

Professor Walker taught individual lessons and gave four technique classes, as well as two lectures at the college: Strategies for Understanding and Managing Adrenaline Performance Anxiety, and Critical Thinking in Early Music and Beyond.

Jason Staniulis (‘13) and Colleen Harwood (‘13)—two School of Music Sound Recording Technology (SRT) graduates who have just completed their degrees this month—are starting the New Year as new-hires at two of New York City’s most desirable recording studios.

Staniulis is serving as General Assistant at Germano Studios, credited with recording the who’s who of the industry over the years, including John Lennon, Michael Jackson, Neil Young and B.B. King, among many others. Studio CEO Troy Germano formerly ran The Hit Factory, another household studio name in the city.

Harwood will begin her position at the newly opened Jungle City Studios, a multi-million dollar facility orchestrated by Alicia Keys' longtime recording engineer Ann Mincieli. The studio generated highly positive reviews in the pages of New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Mix Magazine.

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The American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), an Oklahoma-based education non-profit, selected Vocal Performance and Music Education graduate Steve Humes (’12) as one of nine undergraduate semi-finalists in its biennial choral conducting competition.

Humes submitted to the competition as a junior in 2011 under the guidance of IC Music Education Professor Janet Galván, who has assisted with many successful IC student submissions in the past two decades.

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Quoted in the media: Donald Beachler, Rhoda Meador, William Ressler, Rachel Wagner, Taylor Graham, Zach Mulligan, Don Austin, and Sandra Steingraber. For more information on the following articles, please visit the IC in the Media page at the Office of Media Relations:

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Marella Feltrin-Morris (Modern Languages and Literatures) presented a paper at the Modern Languages Association Conference in Boston (Jan. 3-6, 2013) as part of a session dedicated to translation in second-language development. The title was "Translation Method, Revisited: Developing Translation-Based Activities for Foreign Language Textbooks."

Bronwen Exter's "Junkyard" was voted as #5 in the local "Jimmies", annual awards presented by Ithaca Journal entertainment writer Jim Catalano, highlighting the best local CD's released each year and recognizing the many talented people making music in our area. 

Brian Dozoretz, Manager of Recording Services in the School of Music, was the Mastering Engineer for the CD and played Upright Bass on a couple of the tracks as well. 

To read the full article: Return of the Jimmies: Rounding up the best local CDs of 2012

Congratulations Brian!
 

Patricia Zimmermann, professor of screen studies and codirector of the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF), delivered two invited lectures in Hong Kong in late November as part of a US State Department initiative to foster cultural exchange and understanding.

On November 29, Zimmermann presented a lecture entitled “The Open Space Project: Towards a Collaborative and Relational Theory and Practice of Transmedia Documentary” in the communications school at Hong Kong Baptist University for Ph.D. students and faculty. Showcasing US-based transmedia projects exhibited in previous Finger Lake Environmental Film Festivals at Ithaca College, her talk theorized how these works simultaneously continue documentary legacy formations and also offer new shifts and recalibrations that significantly alter the documentary project.

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Clinical Instructor Jana Waller (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) published an article titled, "Preparing Speech-Language Pathology Students for School-Based Practice: The Importance of Graduate Clinical Experiences in Universally Designed Classrooms" in the December 2012 issue of Perspectives on School Based Issues.

Perspectives is the member publication for the Special Interest Groups (SIGs) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

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Amanda B. Johnson publishes Choice Book Review

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Sara Haefeli presents an illustrated history, "Reflections on the New York School at John Cage's Centenary" at the Nuit d'Hiver Festival in Marseille, France.

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College Media Matters, a student journalism industry blog, recently listed Ithaca College’s Journalism Program as one of the 50 Best Journalism Schools and Programs at U.S. Colleges and Universities.

CMM was created and is maintained by student press scholar Dan Reimold. In his selection for the 2013 top programs, Reimold chose schools based on his personal knowledge of “various schools’ and departments’ reputations, faculty, affiliated student media, classes, internship and study abroad connections, and feedback … from students and (mostly younger) alums.”

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Jean C. Hardwick, E. Marie Southerland, Allison E. Girasole ('10), Shannon E. Ryan ('12), Sara Negrotto, and Jeffrey L. Ardell. Remodeling of intrinsic cardiac neurons: effects of β-adrenergic receptor blockade in guinea pig models of chronic heart disease. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2012 Nov;303(9):R950-8. doi: 10.1152/ajpregu.00223.2012. Epub 2012 Aug 29.  View the abstract here.

Peter Melcher  organized a symposium and presented in different section for the 2012 Botanical Society of America Meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

Robert Griffin-Nolan (biology student), wins the prestigious LICOR prize for best LICOR poster presentation in the physiological section.

Leanne Donahue (biology student) presented a poster.

• Details can be read here.

Dr. Couch read his paper entitled “The Homage: Eben's Analysis of Buxtehude” at The College Music Society’s 2011 International Conference in Seoul and Gyeongju, South Korea (July 3–10, 2011).

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Dr. Leon Couch, Assistant Professor, was invited to play a solo recital at The Salt and Light (Presbyterian) Church in Seoul, South Korea, on July 13, 2011. 

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Dr. Leon W. Couch III played a solo organ recital at the historic Union Sunday School in Clermont, Iowa, on May 29, 2011.

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Dr. Leon W. Couch played a solo organ recital at First Presbyterian Union Church in Owego, NY, April 17, 2011. 

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Assistant Professor of Music Leon W. Couch III was one of two guest artists at the Fifth Annual Keyboard Festival at Heidelberg University in Tiffin, Ohio.  He gave two public lectures, a masterclass, and a solo recital.  

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Leon W. Couch III, Assistant Professor of Music at Ithaca College, presented an hour-long lecture entitled "Affekt, Musical Figures, and Keys" at the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music on January 24, 2011. 

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Leon W. Couch published a review article on a new CD in the December 2010 issue of The Diapason.

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