words of note, 2009: duke ellington's queenie pie

The Magazine of The SaRah anD eRneST BuTleR School of MuSic

Celebrating Our Inaugural Year .........................................4

Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie ............................................ 2

Alumni ..................................................................................... 6

SARAH AND ERNEST BUTLERSCHOOL of MUSIC

College of Fine ArtsThe University of Texas

at Austin

DirectorB. Glenn Chandler

Associate DirectorsSteven Bryant

Robert DeSimoneGlenn Richter

Assistant to the DirectorC. Winton Reynolds

Director of Graduate StudiesEugenia Costa-Giomi

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Marianne Wheeldon

Director of AdmissionsSuzanne Pence

Assistant Director of Development

Lauren Zachry-Reynolds

WORDS of NOTEVolume 23:

Sept. 2008–Aug. 2009

Editor/DesignerJohn Wimberley

PublicityNathan Russell

ContributorsKathryn HutchisonC. Winton Reynolds

Nathan RussellLauren Zachry-Reynolds

Cover DesignAshley Kjos, AKA Design

Cover PhotographBen Aqua

The University of Texas at Austin

Butler School of Music1 University Station E3100Austin, Texas 78712-0435

www.music.utexas.edu

Faculty ...................................................................................16

New Faculty .........................................................................13

In Memoriam .......................................................................25

Students ................................................................................22

Guests ....................................................................................21

New Endowments and Gifts.............................................27

Gifts And Donations ..........................................................28

Faculty Teaching Awards ..................................................12

Texas Outreach Project ......................................................14

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Dear Alumni and Friends:

The past year was our first complete year as the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music, and what a monumental year it was in so many ways. We no longer trip over our new name—The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music—as it has become such a familiar sound to our ears now. During this first full year we enjoyed a series of dedicatory concerts and special events that celebrated the quality of our faculty and students as well as the diverse nature of our school, culminating in a great per-formance of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony in Bass Concert Hall. What a fitting celebration and expression of gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Butler for their magnificent generosity.

What a difference a year makes. News of the Butler endowment traveled fast and far and so the number of applications for ad-mission for the 2009-10 year was up dramatically, but also the pool of ap-plicants was stronger than ever. The recruitment of talented musicians is a primary goal in any year, and I am pleased to say that the entering class for 2009 is perhaps the best entering class of music students in our history. I might add that as we continue to raise the standards in our school, the need for scholarship money grows exponentially. So, contrary to what some may think, we still have need of additional scholarship funds and still depend on our alumni and friends for their continuing support.

As you read through this year’s Words of Note you will learn about the in-credible new faculty, the impressive achievements of our current faculty and students, and all the myriad ac-tivities that are available for our stu-dents. One of the most exciting events of the year was the Echoes of Ellington conference, which concluded with the pro-duction of his only opera, Queenie Pie. This project took more than two years to arrange and prepare, but it was well worth the wait. The conference brought scholars from around the world, and the production of Queenie Pie was nothing short of magnificent. That event is covered in more detail on the fol-lowing pages and you will also soon be able to hear it when we release the cast recording on our own label, Longhorn Music.

We all know that the music faculty is excellent, and this year we are pleased that so many of our faculty received recognition for their excellent work. In the Butler School of Music, Professor of Saxophone Harvey Pittel and Professor of Musicology Michael Tusa, received Outstanding Teaching Awards and were recognized at commencement. Associate Professor of Music Theory Ed Pearsall received an Excellence in Teaching Award presented by Texas Exes, and Trombone Professor

Nathaniel Brickens was named the Outstanding Teacher in the College of Fine Arts. Professor of Jazz Jeffrey Hellmer was in-ducted into the University of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers; that makes seven Butler School faculty who are now members of this prestigious group. And finally, Professor of Music and Human Learning Robert Duke, Associate Professor of Musicology Andrew Dell’Antonio, and Assistant Professor of Composition Yevgeniy Sharlat, all received the Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award. This award is new this year and was presented to only 30 faculty on the entire UT Austin cam-pus. Note that 10% of these awards went to Butler School of Music Faculty. I think that speaks volumes about the quality of our faculty; congratulations to these three and to all of our fac-ulty who were recognized for their excellence in some fashion this year.

The Butler School Outreach Program continues to expand. This year the UT Symphony Orchestra performed at the Round Top International Festival and in San Antonio at the TMEA conference. The Chamber Singers performed in Oklahoma City at the national conference of the American Choral Directors Association as well as in Houston at the TMEA conference in San Antonio. The Wind Ensemble performed at the Meyerson Center in Dallas as well as in College Station, and was the host and culminat-ing performers of the College Band Directors National Association con-ference here in Austin. In addition to these special events the Outreach Program sent chamber groups to Midland, Corpus Christi, Victoria, San Antonio, Hondo, and Marfa. On the international stage, four of our opera students performed with students

from the Universidad de Panama in Panama City. This begins a new collaboration with the Universidad de Panama that you will be hearing more about in the future. In addition, our world-renowned faculty was presenting around the globe. Last year Butler School of Music faculty performed and lectured on six continents.

We are very proud of our school and want you to share in that pride along with us. Please read the following pages and let us hear from you. And, please visit us sometime this year and enjoy first-hand the wonderful music of the Butler School.

Sincerely,

B. Glenn Chandler, Director andFlorence Thelma Hall Centennial Chair in Music

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It took more than 35 years for Duke Ellington’s only opera, Queenie Pie, to make the journey from script to stage. As audiences at the

Butler Opera Center premiere can attest, it was worth the wait. This official version of Queenie Pie debuted on April 15, 2009, as the crown-ing jewel in the Butler Opera Center’s fifth season. More than any pro-duction in recent memory, the performance brought together artists, academics, and the Austin community in a celebration of the Duke.

The story of how Ellington’s Queenie Pie came to the Butler Opera Center stage is almost as adventurous as the plot of the opera itself. In

fact, Ellington began writing the work before most of the production’s student perform-ers were born. Queenie Pie was originally commissioned by Public Television as an hour-long oeuvre, with Ellington as narrator. The telecast was cancelled, but Ellington con-tinued to work on the opera until his death in 1974. The Duke never got a chance to finish the opus.

Concert versions of the Queenie Pie music have been performed intermittently over

the past 30 years, along with several failed attempts to stage the pro-duction. The most complete staging of Queenie Pie before the Butler Opera Center’s premiere came in 2008 when the Oakland Opera presented its own version of the work. However, their orchestration added scenes, dialogue and Ellington songs that weren't originally part of the opera.

Scholars from the Butler School of Music began to take a close look at Queenie Pie in 2007. That year, Duke Ellington’s friend and collaborator Bettie McGettigan approached the UT Fine Arts Library about the possibility of purchasing some Ellington archival

materials. McGettigan met Ellington while coordinating a benefit concert for the California Youth Symphony in1969. Shortly thereafter, she began working with him as a writer and assistant, especially on the opera Queenie Pie. The two remained close until Ellington’s death.

The UT Fine Arts Library didn’t end up purchasing McGettigan’s materi-als, but music librarian David Hunter alerted Butler School of Music Director Glenn Chandler to the opera. Chandler, in turn, discussed the possibility of performing the work with Butler Opera Center Director Robert DeSimone and Professor of Jazz Studies Jeff Hellmer. The men

recognized the opera’s potential, but they knew it would be challenging to put on a performance of the work in line with Ellington’s original vision.

Still, they were determined to try. That year DeSimone, Chandler, Hellmer, and Associate Professor of Jazz Composition John Mills formed a creative team with the goal of finish-ing Ellington’s opera the way the composer had intended.

In the next months, DeSimone and Chandler kept in touch with McGettigan, hopeful that the Butler Opera Center might some-day stage a completed version of Queenie Pie with her blessing. In

December they flew out to California to visit the 89 year-old. As luck would have it, during a recent move, McGettigan had unearthed some of Ellington’s previ-ously lost archival material, including the most com-pleted version of the Queenie Pie score. She showed the score to Chandler and DeSimone, along with other incomplete sketches of the opera.

“It was incredible. Bettie had found this score and I couldn’t believe my eyes,” DeSimone said. “That night

Butler opera students are joined by singers from Huston-Tillotson University for the large jazz chorus.

Queenie Pie

Morgan Gale Beckford as Café Olay

Robert DeSimone

Bettie McGettigan

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we basically started from scratch and worked out exactly how the op-era should be, the way Duke had intended it.”

Chandler and DeSimone worked with McGettigan late into the night, clarifying the plot of the opera, discussing the stage instructions, and filling in some of the gaps in the score. They also realized how exten-sively McGettigan had worked with Ellington on the opera.

“Her memory was incredibly sharp. We knocked out eight or nine tunes that night, and Bettie helped to resolve some issues with the ending of the opera.” DeSimone said. “I remember at one point Bettie was so excited that she said, ‘This is what it is supposed to be about. This is what Duke wanted.’”

When Chandler and DeSimone returned to Austin, colleagues Hellmer and Mills began orchestrating the music of the opera. This was no easy task, even with McGettigan’s input. While some parts of the work were fleshed out completely, other scenes had only a melody written where Ellington had envisioned the sounds of an entire big band.

“Their orchestration was nothing short of brilliant,” said Chandler, “It takes a masterful understanding of the Ellington style to create such exciting music from so little material.”

DeSimone faced a different set of challenges in staging Queenie Pie. The show called for experienced jazz vocalists in the lead parts, and the traditional opera orchestra was replaced by an on-stage big band. No small challenge, either, was to create the atmosphere of the 1920s

Cotton Club using college-aged students in the 21st century.

“I remember the first time I saw the score I thought, There’s no way I can direct some of this stuff—there’s no way it will work!” DeSimone said. “Luckily, we had a great team to put it all together.”

Noted jazz singer Carmen Bradford, who grew up in Austin, was drafted to sing the title role. UT alum Keithon Gipson—an emerging New York-based Broadway singer—joined the cast as the male lead. For the production’s large jazz chorus, Butler School students joined with singers from the Huston-Tillotson University Chorus under the direction of Huston-Tillotson professor Gloria Quinlan (a UT alumna herself ) and local music producer Gary Powell. The Butler School’s Jazz Orchestra rounded out the team, with Professor Jeff Hellmer at the big band podium. By its debut in April 2009, the production was a group effort in every sense of the word.

“Queenie Pie had a uniquely exciting opening night. It was a real ex-perience with everyone working together, and we were all so thrilled

with the production,” DeSimone said.

The opera played to a full house during its five-show run, and by all measures Queenie Pie was a resound-ing success. The 75-minute show stayed true to Ellington’s vision while showcasing the academic and artistic talents of the Butler School of Music. Local critics praised the opera: Austin Chronicle critic Robert Faires wrote, “This Ellington opus…sure swings like the Duke!”

Of course, DeSimone was pleased with the opera’s critical acclaim. He was most proud, however, of the people who made the performance possible.

“With so many people working together, sometimes it’s difficult to predict how everything will turn out. Fortunately, it all came together beautifully,”

DeSimone said. “We really created something extraordinary on that stage. I remember hearing all this and realizing that I was really listen-ing to part of history.”

UT Jazz Orchestra steps out on the stage.

Carmen Bradford as Queenie Pie

Keith Gipson as Lil' Daddy.

The Butler Opera Center’s perfor-mance of Queenie Pie was recog-nized in academia as a milestone in the Ellington legacy. To mark the oc-casion, The Butler School’s Center for American Music hosted a three-day conference entitled Echoes of Elling-ton in conjunction with the opera’s premiere.

Leading Ellington scholars present-ed lectures, workshops, and speeches exploring the com-poser’s life and work. Conference presenters included Butler School of Music graduate students Mark Lomanno and James Fidlon, along with keynote speakers James Lincoln Collier, John Howland, and John Franceschina. Ellington friend and Queenie Pie collaborator Betty McGettigan travelled to Austin for the conference and participated in a special Q&A luncheon.

Echoes Of Ellington: The Duke in Academia

All Queenie Pie performance photographs by Ben Aqua


The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs join on the stage of Bass Concert Hall to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

t has been one full year since the transformative renaming of the Butler

School of Music and it is certain to be one of the most memorable in the School of Music’s history. After Sarah and Ernest Butler’s land-mark gift to the school was announced in the spring of 2008, a series of concerts was planned for the 2008-2009 season as an expression of appreciation for the Butler’s generous support. The Butler Dedicatory Concert Series se-lected four events from each

semester to showcase the artist faculty and talented students from across the program.

The fall semester kicked off with a Faculty Gala concert that featured diverse chamber works performed by a broad cross-section of the school’s faculty artists. Donald Grantham’s Music for the Blanton, originally commissioned for the opening of the new Blanton Mu-seum, was performed while imag-es of the representative art works were projected on large screens above the Bates stage. The Faculty

Brass Quintet and Jazz Sex-tet contributed to the eve-ning’s fare while numerous duos, trios and vocal works rounded out the program. The evening concluded with Judith Hancock bring-ing down the house on the magnificent Visser-Roland tracker organ. The concert met with rave reviews from both the performers and the audience alike and it was im-mediately decided to make the Fall Faculty Gala an an-nual event.

The remaining Butler Dedicatory Events for the fall of 2008 included the Butler Opera Center’s production of Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdink, a Choral Arts Society concert entitled Music for English Cathedrals, and the Miró Quartet in a performance of three quintets. The Miró’s program called for collaborations with Butler School of Mu-sic faculty Marianne Gedigian, Roger Myers, Adam Holzman, and Anne Epperson, leaving the impression of a musical reflection on the Faculty Gala from the beginning of the semester.

The spring semester’s Butler Dedicatory Events began with the UT Wind Ensemble performing two collaborations with faculty soloists. Michael Daugherty’s Raise the Roof featured percussion faculty Tony Edwards on timpani in a rousing tour de force of latin rhythms and extended performance techniques and the Faculty Jazz Trio (Jeff Hellmer, piano, John Fremgen, bass, and Brannen Temple, drums) kept things swinging with Shelly Berg’s Three Pieces for Jazz Trio and Wind Ensemble. Later in

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Director Glenn Chandler, Sarah and Ernest Butler, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and his wife, Graciela,

and Dean Douglas Dempster gather around the new commemorative plaque.

Celebrating the Inaugural Year of the Butler School of Music

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The University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and Combined Choirs join on the stage of Bass Concert Hall to perform Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

the semester the Texas Piano Quartet presented the sixth concert in the series, performing works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann with customary virtuosic flair. And, of course, the Butler Opera Center’s ground-breaking production of Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie was also selected as a dedicatory event.

The crowning event in the Butler Dedicatory Series was fittingly also one of the great concert events in the history of the School. The UT Symphony Orchestra combined with the UT Choirs and Choral Arts So-ciety to perform Beethoven’s 9th Symphony in Bass Concert Hall. Near-ly 300 musicians filled the stage in an exhilarating and impassioned performance of this masterpiece. No less impressive was the opening performance of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, which featured UT grad student Soo Jin Nam as the violin soloist. Ms. Nam soared through the ferociously difficult passages while the orchestra performed with im-peccable artistry. The concert was received with a standing ovation and rave reviews, including a 2008-2009 Austin Critics Table Award for Best Symphonic Performance.

Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” perfectly symbolized the end of the Butler School’s inaugural year, expressing through music the excitement of the past year and the anticipation of future achievements. A special reception was held for Sarah and Ernest just before the concert, attended by faculty, staff and administrators of the School of Mu-sic and the College of Fine Arts as well as the recently appointed Chancellor of the UT System, Francisco G. Cigarroa and his wife Graciela. A bronze plaque commemorating the Butler’s gift and the naming of the school was unveiled at the reception accompanied by a brass fanfare and a heartfelt ovation by

all present. The plaque is permanently mounted inside the main en-trance to the music building and is the focal point of a newly arranged display of the Butler School’s many generous endowments.

The success of the inaugural Butler Dedicatory Concert Series has prompted its continuation as the Butler Featured Event Series. Each year,

eight concert events will be selected to showcase the many artist faculty, guest artists and talented students from across the various performance areas of the Butler School of Music. Be sure to check the calendar on our web site at music.utexas.edu for these and all other concert events at the school. All Butler Featured Events are simultane-ously web cast should you be unable to attend, but if you do attend, be sure to take a moment to admire the new commemorative naming plaque at the entrance to the building.

Soo Jin Nam performing Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto.

Soo Jin Nam performing the Prokofiev Violin Concerto.Soo Jin Nam performing the Prokofiev Violin Concerto.

Maestro Zimmermann conducts Beethoven's Ninth.

David Small Brian Lewis Anne Epperson Nathan Williams

Faculty perform Music for the BlantonFaculty Jazz Sextet

Faculty Gala

Judith Hancock

Rebecca Henderson Kristin Wolfe Jensen

Pat Hughes

Marianne Gedigian

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Alumni

In the past season, Ryan Allen (MM 1973) sang in L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, performed in Regina and Un ballo in maschera at the Des Moines

Metro Opera, and as Senator Strom Thurmond in Clarence and Anita at the Center for Contem-porary Opera in New York City. Allen has performed profession-ally in all fifty states, appeared with numerous American opera companies, and has sung as a soloist in Russia, Israel, Poland, Norway and Sweden.

Lee Appleman (MM 1982) was the drummer for Monty Python's Spamalot and Chicago: The Musical tours during the past year. He will begin per-formances for the Mel Brooks’

Young Frankenstein tour in September 2009.

Justin Badgerow (MM 2001) has accepted a position as Assistant Pro-fessor of Music at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, where he will teach applied piano, music theory, and serve as the collaborative piano coordinator.

Linda Beard (BM 1972) moved to Denton, Texas, in 2007 to live with her daughter after developing ALS, also known as “Lou Gehrig's Disease.” She taught piano lessons and was a church organist for more than 20 years, and had recently completed a master's degree in counseling before she became ill. Music is still an important part of her life.

Catherine Bartoli (MM 2008) is Director of Music for St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas, where she directs adult, youth, and children's choirs and coordinates all aspects of the church music program. She also directs Spirit Wind, a Methodist youth choir from the Panhandle area, whose past year’s tour included a performance in Palo Duro Canyon for Texas, the Musical.

Wesley Bender (MM 2008) has taught elementary music at Brooke Elementary in Austin since completing her degree. In summer of 2009 she moved to Nicosia, Cyprus, where she will teach music with her fiancé, also a UT alum. The couple will be wed in Cyprus in the sum-mer of 2010.

Composer, conductor, and mezzo-soprano Jenni (Shaffer) Brandon (MM 2001) won the 2008 Sorel Medallion competition of the Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization for her choral piece At Night, which was premiered at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall by the Voices of Ascension. Brandon’s music is often influenced by themes of nature. The UT College of Fine Arts commissioned her The Wildflower Trio in 2004 to honor the life and environmental work of Lady Bird Johnson. The piece was recently recorded on the Longhorn Music label with Luci Baines Johnson reading poetry that inspired the piece.

Karin Boyce (MM 1996) recently marked her eleventh year at MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis, where she teaches

individual and group violin, coordinates various programs, and works with com-

munity partnerships. She also teaches at Winona Sate University and St. Mary’s University. She recently performed at the

Minnesota Music Teachers Association state convention.

Art Bumgardner (DMA 1973) retired in 2003 after 37 years of teaching voice, opera/music theatre, theory, and mu-sic appreciation. He served as Music Department Chair at the University of Wisconsin-Superior from 1978 until his retirement. He recently became an adjunct faculty member at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He remains active as a bass soloist, recently singing in Bach’s St. John Passion at the Charleston Bach Festival.

Chris Carrillo (DMA 2005) has been appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet at James Madison University. He previously taught at Texas A&M University-Kingsville and The University of Texas at San Antonio. He has performed with the Corpus Christi and Victoria Symphonies for the past four years and has presented master classes and recitals throughout the United States.

Anne (Schaffner) Clark (DMA 1988) has been named the national recipient of a grant from the American String Teachers Association’s

National Foundation to Promote String Teaching and Playing. The two-year grant will be used at the Flint Hills Christian School, the only school offering string classes in the large rural area of North Central Kansas. Clark teaches strings and general music to grades 3-8.

Georgia Blizzard Clifton (BM 1979) and her hus-band, Dennis Clifton, have released a recording of original songs entitled StoneShadows, which can be previewed at www.stoneshadows.com.

David Cloyd (BM 1998) was recently signed by Engine Company Re-cords. His debut album, Unhand Me, You Fiend!, was released in Janu-ary 2009. Mixed by Engine Company Records founder Blake Morgan, and mastered by Grammy Award-winner Phil “Butcher Bros.” Nicolo, Cloyd's national debut has evoked comparisons with Radiohead, Beck, and Peter Gabriel.

Linda Bridges Coney (BM 1970) has taught piano in League City, Texas, since 1972, and was assistant choir director at Clear Creek High School for three years. She has participated in workshops in Poland, France, and China. She accompanies orchestra and band students annually during UIL Solo and Ensemble contests, has been rehearsal pianist for a number of musicals, and has chaired many festivals. She is a founding member of the Gulf Coast Music Association.

Stacy Fuller Curtis (BM 1992) is Assistant to the Director of Music at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Austin, and directs the children's and youth choirs.

Janet Davidson (BM 1997) attended the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City, NY. She has made several appearances with the Juil-liard Choral Union and popular artists such as Kristin Chenoweth in

Lee Appleman in Thailand

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Live at the Met, Jason Robert Brown in American Songbook at Lincoln Center, and concerts with Marvin Hamlisch and the New York Pops. Davidson works full-time at an investment management firm, is a choral singer at various churches, and studies with soprano Marlena de la Mora. She is Membership Chair for the New York Texas Exes.

Paul G. Davis (DMA 2006) has been appointed Associate Professor and Director of Orchestral Activities at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Davis was a guest conductor for the St. Cloud Symphony in Minnesota for the season. He also was a recent contributor to Vol-ume VII of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, published by GIA.

In the past season, composer Charles Ditto (MM 1994, DMA 1998) had three pieces presented in nine performances on three conti-nents. In August, High Wood was performed by Austin Symphony oboist Ian Davidson in its African premiere at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth. The piece was selected for performances at regional conferences of the Society for Composers, Inc., at both California State University/Stanislaus and Oklahoma City University, and was published in the SCI CD series, # 28 – Soliloquies. It was performed at the College Music Society Conference at the University of Oklahoma and at the CMS International Conference in Zagreb, Croatia. The Texas State University Symphony Orchestra and Faculty String Quartet commissioned Cowboy Minimal, and premiered the work in Rome, Italy, followed by a performance in Florence. Porch Music from Earth was performed by the composer in April at the SCI National Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ditto’s sound installa-tion, Where Meets the Sea, was commissioned by New York artist Sylvia Benitez and performed at the Mitte Gallery in San Marcos, Texas, in February and March.

Oscar Diaz (DMA 2008), Assistant Professor of Trombone at Texas A&M Kingsville, served as tenor trombone clinician for the 2009 Texas Bandmasters Association Convention.

Imelda Delgado (BM 1958) recently completed a book, Reminiscences of Sidney Foster: Pianist and Mentor. In July 2009 she performed with the Camerata del Sol Trio, which includes Evelyn McCarty (MM 1960), oboe, and Dulane Aaberg, bassoon, at the International Double Reed Society's conference in Birmingham, England.

Alexandre Dossin (DMA 2001) has released two new recordings featuring the complete preludes and sonatas of Kabalevsky on Naxos, and will release a future Dossin recording in the company’s International Liszt Series. Dossin performed and edited Tchaikovsky's The Seasons for the Schirmer Performance Edition Series, and will record a Tchaikovsky children's album for the series soon. He recently performed Liszt's Totentanz in São Paulo, Rhapsody in Blue in Porto Alegre, and returned to Rio de Janeiro in August for two performanc-es of Villa-Lobos' Momoprecoce.

Gene Dowdy (BM 1983) recently completed six years as head of the music department at the University of Texas at San Antonio and has returned to his tenured position as conductor of the UTSA Orchestra and Opera. He is married to UT alumna Stacy Schneider, with two children: a UT senior and a sophomore at UTSA. Dowdy has an MM from UTSA and a DMA from the University of Iowa.

Ludek Drizhal (BM 2000) is completing the score for the film Alabama Moon with the Budapest National

Symphony in Hungary. Directed by Tim McCanlies (Secondhand Lions, The Iron Giant), the film is based on the award-winning novel by Watt Key. In March 2009 Drizhal completed his score for U Pana Boga Za Miedza (God’s Little Vil-lage) written and directed by acclaimed Polish director Jacek Bromski. This third installment of a popular trilogy premiered as the No.1 film in the Polish box office. It premieres in New York in August and will be featured at the Austin Polish Film Society’s festival in November. In 2008, Drizhal completed the score for the Austin-based comedy The Sno Cone Stand, Inc., written and directed by Travis Knapp and starring Morgan Fairchild and UT Theatre & Dance faculty member Lucien Douglas. Drizhal resides in Austin with his wife Amy Drizhal (BS 1989, MFA 1999) and daughter.

Josh Dumbleton (MM 2006) is now the Associate Director of Music and Organist at Edenton Street United Methodist Church, in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he helps direct the church's extensive music program and presides over the new 98-rank, 101-stop, 5-manual Letourneau Organ.

Mary Kay Hanks Seay Durham (BM 1956), longtime owner of the Fixture Shop in Austin (lighting repair and gifts), was forced to close her shop and retire because of health problems. She is recovering well and looking forward to finally having time to practice the piano.

Valerie Severin Finley (BA 1982) teaches music for a private pre-school/kindergarten in Dallas, Texas, in addition to maintaining a private piano studio.

Jean Farris Fuller (MM 1983) , Director of Music and Principal Organ-ist at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Austin, recently produced a recording entitled Gloria, a live recording of the St. Matthew's Choir and Orchestra performing the Vivaldi work. Proceeds of the disc will go to the Capital Area Food Bank of Austin.

Harpist Patricia Wentworth Furley (BFA 1957) retired in 2007 after a 53-year career with the Corpus Christi Symphony. After her UT gradu-ation, Furley toured the nation with a group of five New York-based harpists known as “The Angelaires.” She later became principal harp-ist with the Corpus Christi Symphony and served over twenty years as its assistant manager. In November 2009 she presented an annual concert by her past and present students with 27 harps in ensemble. The concert featured four students of UT harp professor Delaine Fed-son. Two of Furley's students have earned Masters degrees at UT.

Walter W. Furley (BFA 1949) retired in 2002 from KZTV, Channel Ten, in Corpus Christi after completing 45 years as anchor of the station’s daily noon newscast, a feat which earned him a mention in the Guiness Book of World Records as the “World's Most Durable Newsreader.” He served fif-teen years as the station's news director. In retirement, he devotes time to supporting the local PBS station and community cultural activities.

Renee Noel Gilliland (BM 2008) entered the online YouTube Symphony Orchestra competition and was chosen to perform at Carnegie Hall with musicians selected from all over the world, directed by Michael Tilson Thomas in April 2009. Ludek Drizhal

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Randy Goldberg (BM 1996), who teaches music history at Youngstown State University's Dana School of Music, presented the paper “Discordant Polemics: Tuning Systems in the Writings of Zarlino and Galilei” at the 2008 Renaissance Society of America meeting in Los Angeles.

Kristin Ohlson Gram (MM 2006) is a harp and piano instructor at the Suzuki Institute of Dallas in Richardson, Texas.

Joshua Habermann (MM 1993, DMA 1997) became Director of Choral Activities at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in August 2008. He also conducts the Master Chorale, a symphonic chorus in South Florida. In September 2008 he was named Music Director of the Santa Fe Desert Cho-rale, a professional chamber chorus that performs a two-week winter season and six-week summer season each year.

Joshua Harper (BA 2005) recently received two Master of Arts degrees in Old Testament Languages from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and

will begin Ph.D. studies at the Uni-versity of Cambridge in October. Last summer he was a visiting lecturer at Daystar University in Nairobi, Kenya, where he also soloed with the main choir of All Saints Cathedral.

Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez (MM 1995, DMA 1999) is on the faculties of the Washington Conservatory of Music and Shenandoah Conservatory. He is also Piano and Organ Master and Director of Music at Westmoreland Congregational Church. His success in promoting Latin American music has led to his being named International Fellow by the Institute of Latin Ameri-

can Studies and receiving the prestigious Republic of Mexico Solidari-dad Presidential Scholarship. He has also been a five-time fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival. He recently completed a tour in Mexico that culminated in a standing-room-only performance in the historic Degollado Theatre in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Cassie (Zahn) Holley (BA 2001) is releasing her debut album, CASS, this fall with a release party at Waterloo Records in Austin, in con-junction with a benefit for Lance Armstrong’s Livestrong and cancer research. The disc showcases her songwriting, piano, and vocal talent.

Highlights of Holley’s career have included playing a set with the Marley band in Jamaica and appearing in numerous commercials and films, including two that premiered at Sun-dance and Cannes.

James Jeter (BM 1971) continues as principal bassoon with the Westfield Symphony in New Jersey and St. Cecilia Orchestra in New York City, as well as various ensembles in the area. In March 2009, he was featured with

Sarah Schram, oboist, in a duo recital at the Calhoun School in New York City. He performed and taught at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in western Michigan during the summer.

Garrett Keast (BM 1995) was named a conductor to watch by Symphony Magazine's 2009 Guide to Emerging Artists, and The Austin American-Statesman said his “strong technique and right artistic sense” make him a sought-after young conductor. Keast has made guest appearances with numerous orchestras in the United States, including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, New Jer-sey Symphony Orchestra, Syracuse Symphony and Oregon Symphony. He has conducted a variety of successful youth concerts across the nation.

Nathan Kelly (BM 2003) works on Broadway in New York City as keyboardist and orchestrator on such shows as Catch Me If You Can, Gypsy, Legally Blonde, 13, Grease, The Color Purple, Curtains, The Little Mermaid, and many others. He has worked with such artists as Sir André Previn, Stephen Schwartz, Tobias Picker, and many others. Kelly is

currently working on film scores for Sorority Row and a Disney ani-mated film, Rapunzel.

Bradley Kent (MM 2001, DMA 2004) was recently appointed Director of Fine Arts in the Richardson Independent School District in Richard-son, Texas.

Drew Leslie (DMA 2009) was hired as trombone professor at Big 12 sister institution, the University of Missouri-Columbia, replacing UT alum William Mann (DMA 2008) who was named the new trombone professor at Morehead State University in Kentucky.

Natalie Rubin Levine (BM 1956) retired several years ago after work-ing many years as piano teacher, public school teacher, and accompa-nist in theatrical programs. She still accompanies weekly synagogue chorale as well as other events.

B.Z. Lewis (BA 1992) won two Emmys recently for composing music for a CBS television station in California. Lewis was nominated in five categories. Lewis owns Studio 132 in Oakland and is a partner in popTuna, a successful company that creates music for movies, video games, and television. Lewis studied under classical guitarist Adam Holzman while at UT.

Bruce A. McDonald (BM 1967) teaches religion, philosophy, and hu-manities at Texas Wesleyan University in Ft. Worth. He has served as a United Methodist pastor, and also attended the University of Edin-burgh, Scotland, to earn his Ph.D. in Ecclesiastical History. His musical activities include 2-piano recitals with John Fisher, head of the music department at TXU. They have recently recorded a CD.

Erica (France) Manzo (MM 2001, DMA 2003) was a guest soloist at the 2008 University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium and also per-formed at the International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest in Kansas City. She was invited to premiere Diversions for Clarinet and Band by Barton Cummings at the 2009 ICA ClarinetFest in Porto, Portugal. She teaches at the University of Missouri in Columbia and is Executive Secretary for the Missouri Music Teacher's Association. She performs with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra and maintains a large private studio.

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Cassie Holley's debut CD

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Ricardo Martinez (BM 2008) works as Executive Co-ordinator to Sir Earl Toon, formerly of Kool and the Gang, in Y.M.O. Enterprises, a production company owned by Toon. Martinez leads a team in business development, strategic planning, and web manage-ment. He is currently coordinating projects with Artfest International, Inc. and legendary producer Quincy Jones.

Colin Mason (DMA 2005) is beginning his third year as Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Temple College in Temple, Texas. He was tour coor-dinator and leader for the Temple Jazz Orchestra’s European performance tour in summer 2009, with concerts at major festivals in France, Holland, and Switzerland, and at the annual July 4th gala at the U. S. Diplomatic Mission to the U. N. in Geneva. Mason and UT alumni Todd Oxford, Robert Medina, and Billy McPhail perform as the Elision Saxophone Quartet, which recently finished a recording to be released soon. Mason’s son, Jim, is beginning his third year of cello study in the UT String Project.

Martin McCain (DMA 2008) has been appointed low brass teacher at Henderson State University in Arkansas. McCain was bass trombone

clinician for the 2009 Texas Bandmasters Association Convention in San Antonio.

In the past season, pianist Martha Hadley McCarroll (BM 1994, MM 1996) worked on productions with Berkeley Opera and West Bay Opera and ac-companied a major Wagner concert with Golden Gate Opera. In the summer, McCarroll worked with the Utah Festival Opera, then returned to the Bay Area to work on new productions with Festival Opera, the University of San Francisco, Berkeley Opera, and West Bay Opera. She appeared with sfSoundGroup and continues to perform with cellist Monica Scott as martha & monica. The duo

has finished their first album, which includes music by Elliott Carter, Beethoven, and Nadia Boulanger. In March 2009, McCarroll recorded John Glover’s new adaptation of The Iliad entitled War Music. In June she joined the San Francisco Cabaret Opera as musical director for A Week in Hell: The Old Maid and the Thief and No Exit.

William L. McGinney (BM 1990) was awarded a PhD in Musicology from the University of North Texas in May.

Todd Meehan (BM 1999, DMA 2008) is in his seventh year as Direc-tor of Percussion Studies at Baylor School of Music. Recent career highlights include performances of the Meehan/Perkins Duo at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Ojai Music Festival, Princeton Uni-versity, the Peabody Conservatory, and the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. In fall 2008, the duo presented the world premiere of Table of Contents by Pulitzer Prize winner David Lang in New York City. This past spring Meehan joined faculty colleagues in concerts and master classes in Belgium as part of the Baylor-in-Belgium program.

(Vivian) Sue McCallum Melton (BM 1975) has taught music for 27 years, with most of that time in elementary music. She recently pub-lished a children's book with accompanying CD titled Chairs to Mend.

The story is about a young girl in the late 1800's and how she creates a song while hearing song chants through her busy day. More information about the book can be found at chairstomend.com.

Meg Meo (BM 1977) is a public relations consultant at Elizabeth Christian & Associates Public Relations in Austin. She is a member of the St. Michael's Episcopal Church Choir directed by UT Professor James Morrow. Her daughter, Emily, is a freshman at the Butler School of Music studying piano and composition.

Jazz bassist and composer David Morgan (DMA 1996) is a 2008 recipient of a “New Works: Creation and

Presentation” grant from Chamber Music America. The Ways of Man, inspired by the ideas of mystic G. I. Gurdjieff, will be premiered in Oc-tober 2009. The American Wind Symphony Orchestra recently com-missioned two pieces, Reflections and Mediations for clarinet and wind ensemble, and The Art of Seven. Morgan’s Romance for Flute and Strings and Three Vignettes for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra are available on Centaur Records. The most recent recording of his jazz works is The Surprise of Being—Live at Birdland by the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra featuring Joe Lovano. Morgan received an Award of Achievement from Northern Ohio Live magazine for his transcriptions and arrangements of the music of Frank Zappa, per-formed in concert by the Jack Schantz Jazz Unit. Morgan is Associate Profes-sor of Jazz Studies and Double Bass at Youngstown State University.

Quinton Morris (DMA 2008) debuted William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Orchestra with the Thalia Symphony, performed a solo recital at Seattle’s Town Hall, and presented lecture recitals for the Seattle Chamber Music Society and Global African Studies De-partment at Seattle University. Morris was music director and concertmaster for the Opus Prize Awards, during which he premiered Be the Change by Michael Milkulka with members of the Seattle Symphony. During the summer, Morris presented master classes at the Sydney Conserva-tory of Music in Australia. His string octet, The Young Eight, continue to perform concerts across the globe.

Edmund L. (Ed) Nichols (MM 1957) retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after serving at embassies in Rome, Copenhagen, Oslo, Ma-drid, and at the U. S. Mission in Brussels. He was profiled in the Austin American Statesman's “Tales of the City” series in February 2009. Nich-ols returned to the Butler School during the 2008-09 academic year to audit Jeff Helmer's jazz theory courses.

John Paul (BM 1978) is Chair of the Music Department at Marylhurst University in Portland, Oregon. He recently received a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission to help with the composition and live per-formance of an original score to accompany F. W. Murnau's silent film, City Girl. The film with score was premiered at the Oregon Sesqui-centennial Film Festival in May. Excerpts are posted at youtube.com/user/marylhurstuniversity. Paul is finishing his final year as chair of the National Association of Schools of Music Region 2.James E. Richards (BM 1974, MM 1975) received the 2009 Faculty Excellence Award from the College of Fine Arts and Communication

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at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he is Chair of the Depart-ment of Music. He conducted the New York premiere of the music theatre work Booth! in June 2009 at the Skirball Theatre. Dr. Richards produced a concert honoring composer and ethnomusicologist John Donald Robb in October 2008, with segments of the concert featured later in a television documentary on Robb’s artistic legacy. Richards recently authored chapters on works by Johann Strauss, William Grant Still, and Elliot Del Borgo in Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra, Vol. III, published by GIA. William Richardson (DMA 2000), Associate Professor of Music at Northwest Missouri State University, recently received a Fulbright Scholar grant to teach trumpet at the Jazeps Vitols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga, Latvia, in the spring of 2010. He will perform exten-sively at schools and other venues in the area. Richardson has taught at Northwest Missouri State for ten years.

Richard Rose (Ph.D. 1989) was recently awarded the Sylvan E. Meyers Endowed Teaching Chair at Miami Dade College.

Pianist Roberta Rust (BM 1978) received a rave review from Fanfare magazine for her Centaur Records album, Devoted to Debussy. Rust performed with the Philippine Philharmonic and the Clarion Chamber Ensemble during the 2008 Opusfest, adjudicated the Ultimate Pianist Competition in Manila, and gave a lecture on piano literature at Chul-alongkorn University in Thailand.

In the past year, mezzo-soprano Cindy Sadler (BM 1990) made her El Paso Opera debut in Il trittico and sang original music composed for her voice by UT alumnus Michael McKelvey in Austin Shakespeare's MacBeth. She appeared in Cavalleria rusticana in San Antonio, in the American premiere of Jonathan Dove's The Adventures of Pinoc-chio in Minnesota, in Austin Lyric Opera's Dialogues of the Carmelites, and reprised her signature role of Erda in Das Rhe-ingold with Indianapolis Opera. Sadler travels widely through her Business of Singing workshops and directs an opera training program at St. Edward's University.

Pianist John Salmon (DMA 1988) performed in character as a jazz musician in Libby Larsen’s opera Picnic, which premiered at the Uni-versity of North Carolina at Greensboro in April 2009. Also in April, Salmon was featured in an NPR program on Dave Brubeck’s 24-min-ute orchestral piece, Ansel Adams: America. Salmon edited Dave Brubeck at the Piano, a collection of 14 previously unpublished pieces, which was published by Alfred in November 2008. In March 2009, he appeared as recitalist and adjudicator at the Festival for Creative Pia-nists at Mesa State College in Colorado. Salmon is Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Jonathan Santore (MM 1987) is Professor of Music Theory and Composition and Chair of the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. He also serves as Composer-in-Residence for the New Hampshire Master Chorale, which received a “Best of New Hampshire 2008” award from New Hampshire Magazine for his compositions. Four of his choral works are forthcoming from Alliance Music Publications and Yelton Rhodes Music, and his article on the “Invention on a Rhythm” from Berg’s

Jerry McCoy (MM 1980, DMA 1982) is Director of Choral Studies and Professor of Music at the Uni-versity of North Texas where he conducts the A Cappella Choir, the North Texas Chamber Choir, and the Grand Chorus, teaches grad-uate choral conduct-ing and literature, and guides the choral studies program.

Dr. McCoy was re-cently elected Na-tional President of the 18,000-member American Choral Di-rectors Association. His agenda for the association includes encouraging broader participation and leadership in world choral music affairs and strengthening relationships with international organizations such as Musica Mundi, the sponsor of the World Choir Games.

Dr. McCoy is one of America’s most respected guest cli-nicians, having conducted all-state, regional, professional, and festival choirs and clinics in thirty-six states across the nation. He has served as guest clinician and conductor in Great Britain, Korea, Sweden, and Venezuela, and has been Artist-in-Residence at universities across the nation. His activities for 2008–2009 included appearances in Austria, China, Taiwan, Alabama, California, Colorado, Kansas, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas. His choirs have released ten compact disc recordings, including three for GIA Music Publications and one for Klavier Records.

Reflecting on his studies at The University of Texas with renowned Professor Emeritus of Choral Conducting Dr. Morris Beachy, McCoy said: “My studies at UT provided me with a rare and profound glimpse into the descriptive power of choral singing. I will always be indebted to UT for the opportunities it provided me as a student and young conductor.”

Alumnus elected president of national directors association

Wozzeck recently appeared in In Theory Only.

James Sclater (DMA 1970) heard his Concerto for Orchestra featured at the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra's celebration of the 100th birthday of writer Eudora Welty. The work was originally commis-sioned for her 80th birthday in 1989. Sclater's Concerto for Piano and Wind Ensemble will be premiered by the Mississippi Wind Symphony in May 2010. The University of Southern Mississippi has commissioned Sclater to compose an orchestral work to celebrate the school’s upcoming 100th anniversary. Sclater continues to play

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clarinet in recitals and orchestras in the southeast. The coming year will be Sclater's fortieth year to teach at Mississippi College in Clinton. He has received an ASCAP Concert Music Award every year since 1990.

Ed Schaefle (MM 1985), orchestra teacher at Blaine High School in Minnesota, has received two statewide awards for excellence in teaching. In February 2007 Schaefle was named Music Educator of the Year by the Minnesota Music Educators Association and in October 2008 he received the Master Teacher award in the School Orchestra division from the Minnesota chapter of the American String Teachers Association. He is a co-founder and concertmaster of the Northern Symphony Orchestra in the St. Paul and Minneapolis regions. He and his wife, Karen Conley Schaefle (BM 1983), are former UT String Proj-ect teachers. Karen Schaefle teaches violin and viola privately and is assistant principal second violin in the Northern Symphony Orchestra.

Deborah Schwartz-Kates (Ph.D. 1997) is Chair of the Musicology Department and Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Miami. In 2009, she organized the Ginastera Festival, a three-day tribute to the composer in the 25th anniversary year of his death, which featured con-certs, lectures, and master classes by renowned Argentine artists and univer-sity faculty, ensembles, and students. The composer’s daughter, Georgina Ginastera, attended the festival as guest of honor. Currently, Schwartz-Kates is completing the first English-language book on the composer, forthcoming in 2010 from Routledge Press. She is authoring a chapter on Argentina for a textbook on Latin American music to be published by W. W. Norton.

Rob Smith (DMA 1999), Associate Professor of Music Composition and director of the AURA Contemporary Ensemble at the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston has published a work for wind ensemble, Fuse, with Boosey & Hawkes. A recording of Smith’s Sprint appears on the University of Houston Percussion Ensemble's album Not Here, But There on Albany Records. A new work for dance, Transparent, was premiered in October 2008 by contemporary music ensemble Musiqa.

Mark Spede (DMA 1998) received the Clemson 2008-09 College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities Award for Excellence in Teaching. Spede directs the Clemson University Tiger Band and the Clemson University Symphonic Band.

Wanda Rowena Smith Stenis (BM 1943) is retired and now lives in Austin with husband Tom Stenis (BS 1950, MS 1947). The couple played in the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra for 38 years, and have entertained often at nursing homes and special occasions. Since re-turning, they have been active in the Austin Civic Orchestra and their church orchestra.

John Tidmore (MM 2007) is Organist and Associate Director at the University United Methodist Church in San Antonio, where he plays the 1200-pipe Rosales mechanical-action organ and directs several ensembles.

Andrew Trechak (DMA 1988) was recently appointed Director of

Keyboard Studies at the School of Music of Wichita State University.

Anne Dean Turk (BM 1944) was a member of the Fine Arts Faculty of Kilgore College for 37 years before her retirement in 1982, and served many years as head of the Piano Depart-ment. She was the originator of the Kilgore College Bach Piano Festival and has judged piano festivals and competitions throughout the United States. She has performed with the Longview Symphony Orchestra, East Texas State University Symphony Orchestra, and the Kilgore College Concerto Orchestra. Among many honors, in 1989 the Applied Arts Building at Kilgore College was renamed the Anne Dean Turk Fine

Arts Center in a special musical event which included Van Cliburn as speaker of the evening.

Beth Ullman (BM 1987) is a profes-sional jazz vocalist and has released five recordings. She has taught voice for 15 years at McLennan Community College in Waco, Texas, and has performed original music around the country. Highlights of her career include being a session singer for Disney films and hav-ing her choral compositions published by Warner Brothers Publishing.

Pianist David Viscoli (BM 1987), Profes-sor of Piano at Minnesota State Uni-

versity, recently performed Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra of Panama. He also taught master classes at The University of Panama and in the National Theatre in Panama City while participating in the Festival de Música Alfredo De Saint-Malo.

Mabel Hayden Williams (BM 1963) has stayed busy with many activi-ties since her study at UT, including studio teaching, accompanying solo artists and choirs, performing with ministries in prisons and nursing homes, and taking care of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She is a member of Keyboard Arts Associates, the National Guild of Music Teachers, Wednesday Morning Music Club, and many other musical organizations. She has served with ministries in Austin, Lockhart, Burnet, Webberville, and Manor, Texas, among others.

Cellist Hai Zheng (BM 1988, MM 1990) and Kiyoshi Tamagawa (DMA 1988) recently gave master classes and recitals at GuangZhou and Macau Conservatories and performed a special concert for the Asia Society at the Hong Kong Club. In March 2009, a concert tour took them to Xiamen University for a master class and performance at the Gulangyu Concert Hall in China, then continued to the Chinese Cul-ture University in Taipei, Taiwan, for a master class and recital. While visiting the Chi-Mei Museum, Hai Zheng was able to study its major rare instrument collection. She also gave a master class and concert at Duke University and a recital at Meredith College in North Carolina during a tour in spring 2009.

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Michael C. Tusa, Professor of Musicology Butler School of MusicTeaching Excellence Award

Faculty Teaching Awards

Edward R. Pearsall, Associate Professor of TheoryTexas Exes Teaching Award

Nathaniel Brickens, Professor of Trombone

College of Fine ArtsDistinguished Teaching Award

Harvey C. Pittel, Professor of SaxophoneButler School of Music Teaching Excellence Award

Robert A. Duke, Professor of Music

and Human LearningRegents’ Outstanding Teachers Award

Andrew Dell'Antonio, Associate Professor of Musicology

Regents’ Outstanding Teachers Award

Recently the University of Texas Board of Regents introduced the Regents’ Outstanding

Teachers Awards for the nine academic institutions of the system in recognition of those who serve students in an exemplary manner and as an incentive for others who aspire to such service. Professors Dell'Antonio, Duke, and Sharlat received these prestigious awards, out of a total of thirty awarded this year at UT-Austin.

Professors Tusa, Pittel, Pearsall, and Brickens were recognized for their awards at the UT Spring commencement ceremonies in May, 2009.

Jeff Hellmer, Professor of Jazz Studies University of Texas

Academy of Distinguished Teachers

The Butler School of Music proudly congratulates faculty members who received teaching awards in the past year.

Yevgeniy Sharlat, Assistant Professor of Composition

Regents’ Outstanding Teachers Award

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Mark J. ButlerHarrington Fellow, Music Theory

Mark Butler (Associate Pro-fessor of Music Theory and Cognition, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University) will be a Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fel-low in the Butler School of Music during the 2009–10 academic year. He was pre-viously a faculty member at the University of Pennsyl-vania and holds a Ph.D. in music theory from Indiana University. He has received fellowships from the Ameri-can Academy in Berlin and the National Endowment

for the Humanities, as well as the Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award from the Society for American Music. Butler’s research in-terests include popular music, rhythm and meter, music and sexu-ality, and technologically mediated performance. His book Un-locking the Groove: Rhythm, Meter, and Musical Design in Electronic Dance Music (Indiana University Press, 2006) explores the rhythmic and metrical organization of electronic dance music from the measure to the complete DJ set, drawing upon field research with audiences and musicians as well as musical analysis. While in Aus-tin he will be completing a book entitled Playing with Something That Runs, which will focus on relationships between technology, improvisation, and composition in electronic-music performance. It will be published by Oxford University Press. Other publications have appeared in such journals as Music Theory Online, Twentieth-Century Music, Theoria, and Popular Music.

James LoweAssistant Professor, Opera Conducting

James Lowe joins the faculty of the Butler School of Music as the new Musical Director of the Butler Opera Center. Lowe’s long list of accolades reflects his eclectic musical tastes and versatile skills. He has received acclaim across the country in virtually every musical style, from his work with The Houston Grand Opera, to performances with Randy Newman and Sir Elton John. Most recently, Lowe conducted the Tony

Award-winning Broadway revival of Gypsy, starring Patti LuPone. He has also conducted for the national tours of My Fair Lady and The Light in The Piazza. His work with the Houston Grand Opera includes productions of the Marriage of Figaro, Carmen and The Abduction from Sergalio. Among his other conducting credits are productions with The Pittsburgh Opera, Wolf Trap Opera, Lyric Op-era Cleveland, Dayton Opera, Opera San Diego, and the Ash Lawn Opera Festival, where he was resident conductor.

Lowe has held positions with Houston Grand Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Virginia Opera, American Institute of Music Studies, and Blackfriars Theater in Rochester New York. He has served on the faculties of Hochstein Music School and Syracuse University. Lowe received his Master of Music from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor’s from the Eastman School of Music.

Anne Akiko MeyersAssistant Professor, Violin

Internationally renowned violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is one of the most celebrated violinists of our time, earning worldwide recognition as a soloist, chamber musician and educator. Audiences in Austin know Meyers from her recent solo appearance at the Butler School of Music's Starling Distinguished Violin Series and from her multiple performances with the Austin Symphony Orchestra.

Meyers' portfolio includes multiple premieres of works by composers which include David Baker, John Corigliano, Jennifer Higdon, Wynton Marsalis, Olivier Messiaen, and Somei Satoh. She has recorded more than twenty albums. She brings a commitment to teaching and new music, and participates in com-munity outreach programs around the world. She was recently the first violinist to be named Regent's Lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In her concert career, Meyers has been a regular guest at some of the most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall, the Concert-gebouw, the Hollywood Bowl, Lincoln Center, and Suntory Hall. She has also performed with some of the world's most recognized orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, London's Philharmo-nia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, l'Orchestre de Paris, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and many others.

New Faculty AppointmentsThe Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music announces these new appointments for 2009–10.

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Anne Akiko Meyers

James Lowe

In Spring of 2008 the Butler School of Music launched the Texas Outreach Project with the goal of sending

students and faculty into venues across Texas. The UT Symphony Orchestra kicked the program off with a performance at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas in March of 2008. The project was expanded in the 08-09 season to include the three major metropolitan areas, and a handful of smaller Texas Cities. Here is a small sampling of where Texans found the Butler School in the past year.

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The Miró Quartet made a mini-tour of McAllen in November, where they made visits to three high school and two middle school orchestras. At each school the Miró performed an intimate concert for the students. After the concerts, they spoke with students about pursuing music as a career and answered questions about studying music at the college level.

UT Harp Ensemble, under the direction of Delaine Fedson, played a concert at Odessa College, and per-formed at five Ector County junior high and high schools. Ector County ISD has a robust harp program. The ensemble also performed at the Corpus Christi Harp Ensemble festival in November.

The Marfa Trio performed in Marfa and Alpine Texas in Late April. The weekend's activities included a presenta-tion to junior high and high school students at Marfa High School, a fundraising event for Marfa Public Radio, and an afternoon lecture at Sol Ross State University in Alpine. They also performed an evening concert to a delighted audience at Sol Ros, which included an impromptu perfor-mance of the Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto with a com-munity member who had brought his cello to the concert. The Marfa trio is comprised of Butler Graduate Students Isaac Thompson, violin, Elizabeth Lee, cello, and Michael Schneider, piano.

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UT Chamber Singers performed in Fall 2008 at Cy Fair High School, Seven Lakes High School, and the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, and presented a joint concert at the Centrum with choirs from Spring, The Woodlands, and Klein Collins High Schools. Associate Professor of Voice David Small also performed on the concert and his delightfully theatrical performance of “Largo facto-tum della cittá” from The Barber of Seville brought the crowd to its feet.

Senior percussion student Phillip Welder and members of the percussion studio played a se-ries of house concerts in Hondo, San Antonio, and Welder's native Victoria. Hundreds of junior high and high school students attended the concerts alongside friends of the Butler School and commu-nity dignitaries. Welder and crew also made a visit to Little Flower Catholic School in San Antonio.

UT Symphony Orchestra performed in Round Top as part of the International Festival-Institute's August-April series in October. In February UTSO was a major presence at TMEA in San Antonio. Their concert featuring Bernstein's Divertimento for Orchestra, and Kodály's Variations on a Hungrian Folksong, was a highlight of the conference. The group also served as the concert orchestra for the All-State Choir performances.

UT Wind Ensemble played to a full house at the Meyerson Symphony Center in down-town Dallas in March. Jerry Junkin led the ensemble in a rich and varied program that included John Adams' Grand Pianola Music, works by local Austin composers Steven Bryant and John Mackey, and a Sousa march. But the evening's highlight was William Bolcom's Concert Suite for Alto Saxophone and Band. the virtuosic performance by grad-uate saxophone student Sunil Gadil brought down the house.

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Gregory Allen, Professor of Piano, was a featured artist at the International Joaquín Rodrigo Festival 2009, held at the University of Texas at El Paso. In commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, he performed Oiseaux Exotiques with the UT Wind Ensemble conducted by Jerry Junkin. As a longtime observer of the Van Cliburn International Competition in Fort Worth, Allen was commissioned to provide daily blog cover-age of the 2009 event for American Public Media’s Performance Today; his reports are archived at pub-licradio.org/columns/performance today/fredlines/archive.

Elliott Antokoletz, Professor of Musicology, has published the Polish translation of his book, Twentieth-Century Music (Prentice Hall), entitled Muzyka XX Wieku (Innowroclaw: Pozkal, 2009). As contributing editor with Marianne Wheeldon, he completed a volume entitled Contextualizing Debussy, for Oxford University Press. He presented four lectures on a new concept of tonality and progression in twentieth-century music at Polish universities and academies, a lecture on “The Romanian ‘Hora Lunga’ as Structural Convergent Point for the Chiasmal Harmonic Design in Bartók’s Fourth String Quartet,” at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and four invited lectures at Belmont University in Nashville: one on Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande and three on the evolu-tion of Bartók’s musical language. He published an article on “The ‘New’ Hungarian Art Music,” in Music and Society in Eastern Europe 3, and a forthcoming chapter on “Polymodal Chromaticism in Ravel's Sonate pour violon et violoncelle,” in Ravel Studies (Rochester University Press). He is preparing the second edition of his 1992 book, Twentieth-Century Music, and the third edition of his 1988/1997 book, Béla Bartók: A Research and Information Guide, both for Routledge Press. Antokoletz continues as editor of the annual International Journal of Musicology.

Nathaniel Brickens, Professor of Trombone, received the 2009 UT College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award and was nomi-nated for the UT Senate of College Councils Professor of the Year Award. During 2008-09 he was tenor trombone soloist in a St. Mary's Cathedral performance of the Mozart Requiem, served as acting Assistant Principal Trombone for the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra, per-formed with the Austin Brass Ensemble, and was active as a freelance trombonist with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and Ballet Austin. He recorded backup tracks for an international tour by Tops in Blue, the US Air Force's premiere touring ensemble, and recorded with the John Vander Gheynst Jazz Orchestra for a new CD, Just Passing Through. Brickens served as a clinician at the Alessi Seminars (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque), Texas A&M Kingsville, and Morgan State University, and as an adjudicator for the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition and the Texas Music Educators Association All-State Ensemble tryouts. He conducted the UT Trombone Choir locally and in performances in Baltimore, Maryland; Herndon, Virginia; and at the Eastern Trombone Workshop in Arlington, Virginia.

In addition to leading the renowned Longhorn Band before live audi-ences of thousands and television audiences of millions, Robert M. Carnochan, Director of the Longhorn Band and Associate Director of Bands, was honored this spring by being invited to become a mem-ber of The American Bandmasters Association. He will be officially

inducted at the ABA conference in Charleston, South Carolina, in March 2010. The American Bandmasters Association recognizes out-standing achievements of concert band conductors and composers.

Dr. Carnochan also led performances with student ensembles and UT faculty which received high praise from composers Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, David Maslanka, Carter Pann, and John Mackey.

In addition to travels to Denmark and Seattle, Robert DeSimone, Director of the Butler Opera Center, traveled to Panama City in September 2008 to direct Madame Butterfly for the 100th Anniversary of the Teatro Nacional. He was recently named Artistic Director of Opera Panama. Singers from the BOC also traveled to Panama for three concerts of operatic highlights. Under DeSimone’s direction, the Butler Opera Center presented four major pro-ductions during the 2008-09 season: Hansel and Gretel, Bastien and Bastienne, La Curandera, and the premiere performance of Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie, which was awarded Best Musical Direction and

Best Costumes in the Austin Critics’ Table awards in June. La Curandera, by Texan composer Robert Rodriguez, was presented in conjunction with the Austin Lyric Opera as part of a production which included eighteen performances for hundreds of public school students in the Austin area.

Professor of Collaborative Piano Anne Epperson reports a very suc-cessful inaugural year of the new Collaborative Piano Area, with its

new MM and DMA graduate degree programs, collaborative service com-ponent, and stellar faculty. The first class of graduate students in this crucial discipline have been involved

in lessons, juries, recitals, and master classes with their vocal and in-strumental colleagues, have participated in choral, orchestral, wind ensemble, opera, and new music presentations, and have contributed unprecedented support to the students and faculty of the Butler School of Music. Faculty colleagues Dr. Colette Valentine, Chuck Dillard, Jeanne Sasaki, Rick Rowley, and Yu-Chi Hsu worked hard to help establish this important program on the national music school map and also distinguished themselves in performance and teaching activities at home and beyond. In addition to collaborative perfor-mances around the country, Professor Epperson served as juror for the prestigious Coleman Chamber Music Competition in California, presented a collaborative workshop at Portland State University in Oregon, and returned for her third summer as artist faculty at the Colorado College Summer Music Festival in Colorado Springs.

Senior Lecturer in Harp Delaine Fedson was elected Director at Large for the American Harp Society, Inc. in June 2009. She also served throughout the year on the AHS Strategic Planning and Salzedo Centennial Committees and was appointed as editor of a new col-umn in the American Harp Journal. In July, Fedson taught student master classes in New Orleans and was the Guest Artist for the North Jersey Harp Camp. In August, she was invited to teach Suzuki Teacher Development classes at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, and at Wilfrid Laurer University in Ontario, Canada, where she gave the first-ever Canadian Suzuki Harp Teacher Development class.

Professor of Musicology Robert Freeman, Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professor of Fine Arts, organized a weeklong symposium

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for the Round Top Festival on the development of future leader-ship for American music schools. It was sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. With a distinguished faculty which included Larry Faulkner, Don Randel, Sheldon Ekland Olson, James Moeser, Tayloe Harding, Don Casey, Gary Beckman, Ben Roe, Neal Burns, and James Dick, the symposium drew 45 students. Presentations and notes are being prepared for publication. Professor Freeman continued as music director for the University Cooperative Society annual ban-quets. He collaborated this season with Anne Epperson and Michael Schneider, performed music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms with Austin Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Jessica Mathaes, and put together music for the UT Ransom Center’s celebration of the 100th birthday of Harry Ransom. With Anton Nel, four of his students, and several Headliners members, Freeman participated in what has be-come an annual round robin of music for piano four-hands at Austin’s Headliners Club. In June he performed Tennyson-Strauss Enoch Arden with the Theater Department’s Lucien Douglas for a Texas Exes reunion. He continued to serve on the boards of the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Houston’s National Center for Performing Arts Medicine, and as Board Chair of Harvard’s Institute for Music and Brain Science.

Professor of Composition Donald Grantham’s Symphony for Winds and Percussion, commissioned by the West Texas State University Symphonic Band, was premiered in March at the College Band Directors National Association Convention in Austin by the WTSU Symphonic Band conducted by Donald J. Lefevre. Four other Grantham compositions were performed at the same convention: Starry Crown (Oklahoma State University Symphonic Band, conducted by Joseph Missal), Lone Star Twister (North Texas University Wind Symphony, conducted by Eugene Migliaro Corporon), Music For The Blanton (chamber ensemble consisting of UT faculty and students, conducted by Robert Carnochan), and Farewell To Gray (Intercollegiate Band, conducted by Virginia Allen). Baron Cimetiere’s Mambo was recorded in the past year by three ensembles: University of Florida Wind Symphony, conducted by David Waybright (Raise The Roof!, Mark Recordings), University of Las Vegas Wind Symphony, conducted by Thomas Leslie (Vegas Maximus, Klavier Recordings), and the United States Coast Guard Band, conducted by Kenneth W. Megan.

During June and July 2009, Eugene Gratovich, Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music, was invited to the International Academy of Music in Castelnuovo di Garfagnana, Italy, where he taught and also performed the violin sonatas of Mendelssohn. In August, he performed works by Debussy and Copland at the Viana do Castello Music Festival in Portugal. At the 2009 International Buddhist Progress Society Music Festival in Austin, Dr. Gratovich performed the music of Dvorak and Rachmaninoff with pianist Sylvia Golmon. Gratovich helped coordinate and performed with the Bach Cantata Project at the Blanton Art Museum. He also performed the world premier of A Fantasy on the Thanksgiving Hymn in Arlington, Massachusetts, with composer Sid Knowlton at the piano. Dr. Gratovich is Associate Concertmaster of the Austin Symphony and of the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra.

Professor of Organ Gerre Hancock was awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree in May by the Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, New Jersey. He has three honorary doctor of music degrees and one honorary doctor of divinity degree. In July, Judith and Gerre Hancock performed a duo-organ recital on the great organ in Westminster Abbey to open the Summer Organ Festival in London. The Hancocks toured Germany during the spring break, playing organs in churches that were known to J. S. Bach in Lübeck,

Hamburg, Leipzig, Weimar, and several smaller towns.

Robert Hatten, Visiting Professor of Music Theory, delivered the key-note address, “Performance and Analysis--or Synthesis: Theorizing Gesture, Topics, and Tropes for Performers,” for the Texas Music Theory Society conference in conjunction with the 26th Annual International Piano Festival at the University of Houston. During brief residencies at the University of Houston and the University of Alabama, he taught classes, gave lectures and gave master classes on the piano sonatas of Beethoven. In the spring, he traveled to the University of Alcala in Spain, where he gave an invited series of lecture/demonstrations on the relationships between performance and analysis, drawing on piano sonatas of Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert. In April 2009 he presented “Syntactic Dissonance as Trope in Late Beethoven” to faculty and students at a theory forum at the Butler School of Music.

Jeff Hellmer, Professor of Jazz Studies, served as music director and wrote orchestrations for UT’s production of Duke Ellington’s Queenie Pie, for which he received an Austin Critic’s Table Award for Outstanding Musical Direction. He co-conducted the UT Jazz Orchestra performance of Ellington: Past and Present at the Echoes of Ellington Conference, and led the ensemble in performances at the AT&T Education and Conference Center, the Capitol Area Council’s Award Ceremony, the Blanton Art Museum Gala, and a Del Valle edu-cation concert. For the third consecutive year, Hellmer conducted and performed with the Dallas Wind Symphony in their Big Band Valentine show. He was a soloist with the UT Wind Ensemble on the Butler Dedicatory Concert Series and the Performing Arts Center’s World of Sound concert. He performed with the Faculty Jazz Group on the Butler School’s fall gala concert, and gave a recital with UT alumna

Hunter March, Professor of Music and Human Learning, has been appointed as Associate Dean for Arts Education in the College of Fine Arts, a position newly created to help strengthen the College’s commitment to leadership in arts education research and teaching, with an emphasis on teacher training. Professor March has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music education in the Butler School of Music for 31 years. He has written three music textbooks published by Silver Burdett Ginn, which are in wide use throughout the U.S. He recently received the College of Fine Arts Teaching Excellence Award.

Professor March has served for the last several years as Director of Graduate Studies in the Butler School of Music, and previously served another term of over a decade in that position. Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Professor of Music and Human Learning, has been appointed Director of Graduate Studies at the Butler School.

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Helen Sung. He performed and adjudicated in Riverside, California; conducted the All-Region 23 Jazz Ensemble; adjudicated the Percussive Arts Society National Jazz Vibes Competition; and taught at the Idyllwild Arts Jazz Academy and the UT Jazz Improvisation Camp. This spring, he was named to the University’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Associate Professor of Oboe Rebecca Henderson returned to the Butler School of Music full-time in the fall of 2008 after completing a second year performing with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C. She presented a recital with pianist Rick Rowley on the Jessen Series in October. She is currently working on a second solo CD featuring works she has premiered over the course of her career. Henderson con-tinues to perform and teach at the Festival Institute of Round Top, and recently returned to the Marrowstone Music Festival in Bellingham, Washington, after a four year hiatus.

Jacqueline C. Henninger, Assistant Professor of Music and Human Learning, gave two presenta-tions at the Texas Music Educators Association Conference in San Antonio in February 2009: a paper, “Effects of Multicultural Music Experiences on Graduate Students’ Reported Preferences, Levels of Familiarity, and Attitudes,” and a session entitled “Multiculturalism in the Instrumental Music Classroom: Using Music and Culture to Enrich the Lives of Young Musicians.” Another manuscript, on which Dr. Henninger was the lead author, “Prospective Music Teachers Reflect on First Experiences as Artists in Elementary Classrooms,” was pre-sented by the third author, Dr. Judith Jellison, at the American Music Therapy Association conference in St. Louis, Missouri, in November 2008. “The Effects of Performance Quality Ratings on Perceptions of Instrumental Music Lessons” was published in November 2008 in Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. “A Tribute to a Gifted Music Educator: Diane E. Gorzycki,” was published in Texas Music Educators Conference Connections in January 2009. “The Effects of Constant and Intermittent Verbal Feedback on Complex Motor Skill Development” was published in Texas Music Education Research in February. As an officer on the Texas Music Educators Conference Executive Board, Dr. Henninger served on the Editorial Board for Texas Music Educators Conference Connections and is chairing the Committee on Peer Review Articles. She was also a member of the Research Committee for Texas Music Education Research. She has served as sym-posium panelist, clinician, and adjudicator for various competitions in the central Texas area.

The Handel House Museum in London asked David Hunter, Music

Librarian of the UT Fine Arts Library, to write a chapter for the guide to the new exhibition “Handel Reveal’d” on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel’s death. The chapter focused on Dr. Hunter’s research into the illnesses that Handel endured from 1737. Media interest was quite intense. Substantial articles based on interviews appeared in four British newspapers: The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent and The Times. A two-page piece ap-peared in The New Scientist. Interviews by Irish and Canadian radio stations followed, as well as mentions on BBC and Australian radio programs and a feature for the June issue of History Today. Dr. Hunter first presented the work to a musicology colloquium at the School of Music in 2001. Since then two articles have been published in

Eighteenth-Century Music and in the Research Chronicle of the Royal Musical Association. Hunter proposes two major diagnoses: binge-eating disor-der to explain the obesity and aber-rant eating habits, and lead poisoning to account for the recurrent paralysis, mental confusion, irritability and eventual blindness. The exhibition is open until October 25 at the Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, Mayfair, London.

Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Professor

of Bassoon, launched her multimedia, online bassoon method, Music and the Bassoon, which includes numerous melodies, exercises, and duets arranged and sequenced for student bassoonists, as well as instructional audio and video clips for many of the examples. In July, she performed at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Birmingham, England, and gave a recital in Haxby, England, with alumna Michelle Schumann on piano. She gave guest master classes at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, the Oberlin Conservatory, Baylor University, the University of Colorado, and the University of Memphis for its Double Reed Festival, and was again an Artist/Faculty member at the International Festival Institute at Round Top, Texas. Jensen continues as Principal Bassoonist of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston and as Co-Director of the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, which offers the largest bassoon competition prize world-wide. Along with her students, Professor Jensen hosted UT Bassoon Day on October 4, 2009, welcoming forty young bassoon-ists from the Austin area to campus. At TMEA, she joined several col-leagues running an All-State Symphonic Band sectional rehearsal and presenting clinics on practicing.

Violin Professor Brian Lewis, holder of the David and Mary Winton Green Chair in String Performance and Pedagogy, performed several concerti with orchestras around the world this past season. Among these were performances of the Barber Violin Concerto with the UT Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Double Violin Concerto at the

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St. Barth’s Music Festival, French West Indies, with fellow UT faculty member Daniel Ching. Professor Lewis returned to Japan in April for his annual tour of recitals and teaching, working with over 2000 students. The Brian Lewis Young Artist Program continues in Kansas in its second year, featuring renowned faculty Stephen Clapp, Stephanie Chase, Akayo Yonetani, Simon James, and UT teaching assistant Pasha Sabouri. Professor Lewis continues as Artistic Director of the Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies at The Juiliard School. This year, the Symposium was a resounding success featuring classes with Itzhak Perlman, Paul Kantor, David Kim, Chee-Yun, and UT faculty member Bob Duke, among others.

John Mills, Assistant Professor of Jazz Composition/Jazz Saxophone, was featured as both composer and saxophonist with Tina Marsh’s Creative Opportunity Orchestra for Chamber Music America-sponsored concerts at the Roulette in New York City and in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was also invited to be the guest composer of the Diane Moser Big Band, a collective of New York jazz artists, for a concert in Montclair, New Jersey. Mills collaborated with Professor Jeff Hellmer to complete a big band score of Duke Ellington’s un-finished “folk opera” Queenie Pie, premiered at the Echoes of Ellington Conference in April. His new etudes for jazz saxophone and piano were selected as audition material for the TMEA All-State Jazz Band. Mills wrote for a wide variety of commercial recording sessions and performed at many events, including the Texas Medal of the Arts award ceremony, Austin Chamber Music’s Ellington Sacred Concert, and jazz concerts at both Temple College and Texas State University. As baritone saxophonist of the renowned R&B brass section, the Texas Horns, Mills returned in July to the Ottawa Blues Fest, where the unit marked its twelfth consecutive year as “horn section in residence” for the event’s two-week duration, backing featured artists from across North America.

Robin Moore gave academic presentations on Cuban music at Vassar College, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Florida International University, Tulane University, Indiana University, and elsewhere in the past year. His recently completed new book, Music of the Hispanic Caribbean, will be released in November 2009 by Oxford University.

Assistant Professor of Musicology Luisa Nardini was invited to join the faculty of the graduate program in musicology at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the Centro di Studi sull’Ars Nova in Certaldo, Italy, to serve as an honorary member and to offer lectures and con-sultations on curricular developments. She participated in conferenc-es of the International Association of Music Librarians in Naples, the International Musicological Society in Amsterdam, the Conference on Early Music at the University of Krakow, Poland, and the Conference of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Tempe, Arizona. She has had recent contributions appear in Plainsong and Medieval Music, the Sixteenth-Century Journal, Speculum, and the volume Early Music: Context and Ideas, published by Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She has a forthcoming essay on Gallican chant to be published in a miscellaneous volume with Oxford University Press.

Anton Nel, Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor, spent part of Summer 2009 at the Aspen Music Festival and School in Colorado, where he has been an artist/faculty member since 1997. During his five-week stay he performed six solo and chamber music concerts and taught a class. Earlier in the summer he performed an all-Dvorak solo program with the Miró Quartet at the Dvorak Festival in Georgetown, Texas, as well as several performances at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego and Mexico. In August he performed the Mozart Concerto in C, K 503, Peter Bay conducting, at the Britt Music Festival in Oregon.

He finished the summer with three weeks of concerts at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival. During the academic year Anton Nel per-formed concertos in Austin, Michigan, and Kansas City, as well as coast-to-coast recitals and master classes from Boston to Los Angeles. He toured the United States with the St. Lawrence String Quartet, continued his regular series in collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony, and played many concerts in Austin with UT faculty members and the Austin Symphony. In March he presented the first solo piano recital at the Long Center in Austin. This concert as well as the concerti with the Austin Symphony was nominated for three Austin Critics’ Table Awards: Anton Nel was the winner in the Best Instrumentalist category.

David Neumeyer, with co-authors James Buhler and UT alumnus Rob Deemer, published a textbook with Oxford University Press en-titled Hearing the Movies: Music and Sound in Film History. Neumeyer presented a paper during the Sounds of Early Cinema conference at the University of London in Britain. His topic was the development of dialogue underscoring in the early 1930s. He also published an article, “Diegetic/Nondiegetic: A Theoretical Model,” in the national film-music journal Music and the Moving Image. He and James Buhler published an essay on “Music in the Evolving Soundtrack” in Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media (ed. Graeme Harper, Continuum), and a chapter on “Composing for the Films, Modern Soundtrack Theory, and the Difficult Case of A Scandal in Paris,” in Kompositionen für den Film: Zu Theorie und Praxis von Hanns Eislers Filmmusik (ed. Peter Schweinhardt).

Professor of Composition Bruce Pennycook recently completed a work for soprano saxophone and real-time electronics commissioned for alumna Shirley Diamond, who premiered the piece in July at the World Saxophone Congress in Thailand. Diamond will record the piece, Dark Ethers/Bright Lights, in the fall of 2009. Pennycook’s Duo Concertante for Violin, Cello and String Orchestra was premiered by the Lake Travis High School Symphonic Orchestra in May 2009. The solo-ists were the composer’s children, Gabriel Costa-Giomi on cello and Daniela Pennycook on violin. The piece was composed for Gabriel and Daniela and for Anna Macias, Director of Orchestras for the Lake Travis Independent School District. Pennycook received a Summer Creative Research Grant from the UT College of Fine Arts to com-plete a commission for The Paul Dresher Band, which will premiere the piece in late 2009. Entitled For Joe Z., the piece is an homage to the late keyboardist/composer Joseph Zawinal, and celebrates the rhythmic detail and harmonic complexity of Dresher’s group. As part of the UT-Portugal Research Project, Pennycook taught a workshop in interactive electronic music and images in Porto, where he later pre-sented research as the keynote speaker for the 2009 Sound, Music and Computing Conference. He also pursued a three-year grant with three Portuguese colleagues for research to develop new forms of comput-er-generated musical materials, with one possible target being soft-ware for iPhones which would derive variants of a user’s favorite music according to the user’s adjustments.

Professor of Ethnomusicology Stephen Slawek was invited to lecture and perform in Baylor University’s Lyceum Series in April. His per-formance of traditional ragas on sitar, accompanied by Gourisankar Karmakar on tabla, was enthusiastically received, as was his presenta-tion of a paper, “Recent Experimental Compositions in the Classical Music of North India.” Earlier in the year Professor Slawek traveled to Amsterdam to deliver his paper, “A Tale of Two Concertos: Inauthentic Authenticity and Authentic Inauthenticity in Ravi Shankar’s Orchestral Works,” in a major international conference, India and the World: Intercultural Performing Arts, hosted by the University of Amsterdam and the Indian Musicological Society. In November, Professor Slawek


coordinated the visit of master Indian instrument maker Sanjay Sharma to recondition the Butler School’s aging sitars and tanpuras. In addition to his regular teaching load, Slawek continued instruction on the Javanese gamelan during the absence of its previous instructor. He served as fac-ulty liaison for a visiting Fulbright Exchange musician from Pakistan and continued as editor of Asian Music, Journal of the Society for Asian Music. In his role as Chair of the Ethnomusicology committee of the American Institute of Indian Studies, he traveled to Chicago and New Delhi to report on the activi-ties of the Archive and Research Center before the AIIS Board of Trustees and the Indian Advisory Committee of the Government of India.

David Small, Associate Professor of Voice, en-joyed many performances in the Austin area during the past season. With Professor Anne Epperson, he performed Ravel's Don Quichotte à Dulcinèe in November in Jessen Auditorium and then Faure's L'horizon chimerique, Finzi's Let Us Garlands Bring, and Brahms’ Zwei lieder, opus 91 at the Blanton Museum of Art. Other performances included Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs with the UT choral groups and Bach's Cantata BWV 82 with Dr. James Morrow as part of the Bach Cantata Project at the Blanton. Professor Small also portrayed the role of Le Marquis de la Force for Austin Lyric Opera's Les Dialogues des Carmelites in April, 2009. During the summer he re-turned to Guadalajara for two weeks of intensive master classes and concerts with students there.

Early in the year, Professor of Composition Dan Welcher finished his Fifth Symphony, which was premiered by the Austin Symphony under Peter Bay's direction on May 1 and 2, 2009, playing to sold-out houses

both nights. The new symphony was award-ed “Outstanding Original Composition/Score” by the Austin Critics Table, and its performance earned a “Best Symphonic Performance” award for the ASO. Welcher's new song cycle Four More Personal Ads (a collection of cabaret songs set to sonnets by Beth Gylys) was premiered by tenor Richard Clement and pianist Peter Marshall in April at Georgia State University in Atlanta. The new cycle completes the earlier Four Personal Ads, which was sung by soprano Sharon Stephenson in the Atlanta performance. The completed Eight Personal Ads makes a full half-hour of whimsical cabaret about men seeking women, women seeking men, and variations thereof. Welcher's most recent large-scale chamber work (String Quartet #3) received its New York City premiere in October 2008 by the Cassatt Quartet, which has now recorded and released all three of Welcher's quartets on Naxos. The University

of Houston Moores School of Music celebrated Welcher's 60th birth-day and the 80th birthday of Samuel Adler, Welcher's teacher at the Eastman School of Music, with two days of concerts, lectures, and master classes in November 2008. The University of Texas has awarded Welcher a Faculty Research Assignment to complete his new chamber opera The Yellow Wallpaper, which is being written for alumna mezzo-soprano Lucy Schaufer. Welcher will spend a year's sabbatical at the MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire, and at the Camargo Institute in Cassis, France.

The past year was yet another whirlwind season for the Miró Quartet, the faculty string quartet at the Butler School of Music.

First and foremost, in May the Quartet recorded its first CD on the School’s new record label, Longhorn Music. The CD features a com-mission by former UT composition professor Kevin Puts as well as

the Dvorak “American” Quartet, and will be released in the coming months.

The Quartet's past season had many memorable highlights includ-ing a return to Carnegie Hall (with a brilliant review in the New York Times), teaching and performances at the Festivale Reggio Emilia in Italy, St. Baths in the Carribbean, and the Eastman School of Music, in addition to touring coast to coast and in Canada.

At the White Pine Festival in Minnesota, the Miró participated in a unique fusion of music and poetry: the 5th Quartet of Phillip Glass was set to an original text by poet Matthea Harvey of Sarah Law-rence College. This new work, along with quartets by Haydn and Beethoven, will soon be broadcast nationwide on National Public Radio stations. Of particular interest on the UT campus was the Miró Quartet's 200th Birthday Celebration Concert for composer Felix Mendels-sohn in Bates Recital Hall in February. Along with two Mendelssohn quartets played by the Miró, four students joined the group in a fes-tive performance of the Mendelssohn Octet in E-flat Major. These students had been selected as winners of the Intensive String Quartet Competition, held for the first time at the Butler School last fall.

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Joseph Flummerfelt Carolyn HoveDavid KimEric Mellenbruch

Weilerstein Trio Saint Louis Brass Quintet

Felice Pomeranz

Jesse Eschbach Dong-ill Shin Helen Sung St. John's College Boys Choir at UT stadium

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Barbara Conrad Pierre Pincemaille George Pope Peabody Trio

Some of our guest artists from 2008–2009


Eleanor Alexander Stribling Award for Excellence in Jazz Studies Undergraduate: Aaron Allen, BM Jazz Performance, Double BassGraduate: Russell Haight, DMA Jazz Performance, Saxophone

2008 Sydney Wright Piano Accompanying Competition:Yoon Jeong Kim, DMA Piano Performance: First PrizeChu-Han Huang, DMA Piano Performance: Second PrizeAlena Gorina, DMA Piano Performance: Honorable MentionYunkyong Koo, Violin Performance: Best InstrumentalistMichael Bartnik, DMA Clarinet Performance: Best InstrumentalistIcy Simpson, MM Opera Performance: Best Vocalist

David O. Nilsson Solo Piano Competition:Cho Young “Gloria” Kim, BM Piano Performance: First prizeJoseph Choi, BM Piano Performance: Second prizeChris Evatt, BM Piano Performance: Third prize

Butler School of Music Concerto Competitions, 2008-09Caleb Polashek, BM Violin Performance Sunkyung Hwang, DMA Violoncello PerformanceSoo Jin Nam, MM Violin PerformanceElizabeth Lee, DMA Violoncello Performance

Undergraduate AwardsSAI Collegiate Honor Award, 2009Katherine J. Leander, BM Music Studies, Percussion

SAI Scholastic Award, 2009 Erin M. Miller, BM Music Studies, Trumpet

Outstanding Undergraduate Recitals, 2008-09Junior Recital: Christopher Evatt, BM Piano Performance

Presser Foundation Scholar, 2009-2010Kelsey Pehrsson, BA Music & Business Administration

Graduate Awards and FellowshipsEmerging Scholar Awards, Echoes of Ellington Conference, 2009Mark Lomanno, PhD EthnomusicologyJames Fidlon, DMA Music and Human Learning

Editorial Graduate Research Assistantship, 2008-09Julie Silva, MM EthnomusicologyAndres Amado Pineda, PhD Musicology

University Continuing Fellowship, 2008-09Ryan Kangas, PhD Musicology

Livingston Fellowship, 2008-09Jennifer Iverson, PhD Music Theory

University Preemptive Fellowship, 2008-09Sarunas Jankauskas, DMA Clarinet Performance Harrington Graduate Fellowship, 2008-09Icy Simpson, MM Opera Performance

Graduate Dean's Prestigious Fellowship Supplement Fellow, 2008-09 Mathayo Ndomondo, PhD Ethnomusicology

Outstanding Graduate RecitalsMaster of Music RecitalsMichael Hertel, MM Saxophone Performance Juan Gallegos, MM Clarinet Performance Dylan Rieck, MM Violoncello Performance

Doctor of Musical Arts RecitalsColleen McCullough, DMA Violin PerformanceElizabeth Lee, DMA Violoncello PerformanceChristopher Guzman, DMA Piano PerformanceKristopher Storm Knien, DMA Organ PerformanceJung Hyun Hwang DMA Voice Performance, tenor

Doctor of Musical Arts Chamber RecitalElizabeth Petillot, DMA Voice Performance, mezzo sopranoKatherine Lee, DMA Piano Performance

Doctor of Musical Arts Lecture Recitals:JouAn Hou, DMA Violoncello Performance Joachim Reinhuber, DMA Piano PerformanceDrew Leslie, DMA Trombone Performance

Other Prizes and AwardsThe William C. Hall Organ-Playing Competition, San AntonioChristopher Ahlman, DMA Organ Performance: Second Prize Winner, Hymn-Playing Winner

2009 Zellmer Minnesota Orchestra Trombone Competition Alex Glen, BM Trombone Performance: Semi-Finalist

2009 Big 12 Solo Competition Alex Glen, BM Trombone Performance: Finalist Ben Balleza, MM Trombone Performance: Finalist

2009 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Solo Competitions.Alex Glen, BM Trombone Performance: FinalistJavier Stuppard, DMA Trombone Performance: Finalist 2009 Zellmer Minnesota Orchestra Trombone Competition Graham Gibson, BM Trombone Performance: Third Prize

International Horn Symposium College Solo Competition Josh Horne, BM Horn Performance: FinalistJancie Philippus, BM Music Studies, Horn: Finalist

International Horn Symposium Horn Ensemble Competition The UT Horn Choir: First Place

Philips Jazz Piano CompetitionPeter Stoltzman, DMA Music and Human Learning: Finalist

Mu Phi Epsilon Polome Scholarship Competition Anna Lyddane, BM Flute Performance: First Prize

Regional MTNA competition, Senior Woodwind division (15 - 18 yr.) Alicia Mielke, BM Flute Performance: South Central Winner

Regional MTNA competition, Young Artist division (19 - 25)Won Lee, BM Flute Performance: South Central Winner

Student Awards 2008-09

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DOWNBEAT Magazine Student Recording Awards Blues/Pop/Rock Soloist Category, 2008 ,and Outstanding Performance Award: Blues/Pop/Rock, 2009Ulrich Ellison, MM Jazz Performance, Guitar: Winner

Classical Singer Convention and Expo, 2008Ages 18-30 Pre-Professional DivisionIcy Simpson, MM Opera Performance, Winner

Marilyn Horn Foundation Master Class Auditions and Festival, 2009Icy Simpson, MM Opera Performance: Participant

19th Northwest Guitar Festival in BC, Canada, 2009Janet Grohovac, MM Guitar Performance: First Prize

The Gyeongham International Piano Competition in KoreaChristopher Guzman, DMA Piano Performance - Fifth Prize

San Angelo Symphony Young Artist Competition, 2008 Christopher Guzman, DMA Piano Performance: Grand Prize

Since their first joint recital in 2007, undergraduate students Morgan Beck-ford, soprano, and Dan K. Kurland, piano have performed together numer-

ous times. In addition to performing solo, collaborative, and chamber works ranging from Mozart to Poulenc, the duo has appeared in the annual Butler School of Music concerts “Celebrating Black Composers and Arrangers.” Their rendition of Morgen! by Richard Strauss was a notable component of the memorial service for their friend, fellow student Jeffrey Weng in February. They performed the piece again at the annual UT Remembers ceremony, a universi-ty-wide tribute to those who have died in the past year. At the invitation of the Performing Arts Centre in Germantown, Tennessee, the duo presented a recital featuring opera arias, art songs, African-American spiri-tuals, and Broadway/cabaret tunes. Performed as a fundraiser for the center’s education and outreach fund, the concert raised almost $4,000! Beckford and Kurland presented a shortened recital for K – 5 students at St. George’s Independent School in Colliersville, and the students were visibly ap-preciative as the performers greeted them after the event. Two professional development awards from the Butler School of Music enabled the undergraduates to travel to Tennessee and perform. Morgan Beckford stud-ies with Professor Darlene Wiley and Dan Kurland studies with Dr. Anton Nel. They are both third-year students.Morgan Beckford and Dan Kurland greet their young audience.

Undergrad duo performs on campus and on the road

University of Texas Harp Studio

The UT Harp Studio, directed by Delaine Fedson, had a busy year. In October 2008, the Harp Ensemble performed at Odessa College and

for schools in Ector County ISD. In November, they were featured artists for the Corpus Christi Harp Ensemble Festival with concerts at the Cor-pus Christi First United Methodist Church and Rockport’s Main Street Arts Center. They finished the Fall 2008 semester with a performance on the St. David’s Episcopal Church Advent Series. Students Emily Clarkson and Amy Buescher placed fourth and fifth in the finals of the 18th American Harp Society National Competi-tions in Salt Lake City, UT, and Emily Clarkson won the Salzedo Prize for the best performance of a work by composer Carlos Salzedo. Harp studio alumna Alaina Seabourne entered the University of Toronto in the Fall of 2009 as a Teaching Assistant to internationally re-nowned harpist Judy Loman.

The David O. Nilsson Solo Pianist Competition hit

its stride this past February with an enthusiastic turn-out of participants vying for the prize. A preliminary round was held in which only three of the compet-ing pianists were select-ed to perform in the final competition.

The final round was held on Saturday evening, February 28, in Recital Studio, where undergraduate pianists Joseph Choi, Chris Evatt, and Gloria Kim presented their programs to an enthusiastic audience. While the distinguished panel of judges awarded first prize to Gloria Kim, it was agreed that all three finalists de-served to be recognized for their stellar performances. Anony-mous donors then provided second and third prize scholarship awards to Joseph Choi and Chris Evatt. The evening set a great precedent for future competitions in which all finalists can be appropriately recognized for their achievement.

The distinguished artist judges for the 2009 competition were Alegria Arce, Kiyoshi Tamagawa, Jane Abbott-Kirk, and Carla McElhaney (for the preliminary round). The Butler School of Music faculty judges were Robert Freeman, Caroline Polk O’Meara, and Jacqueline Henninger.

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Second Annual David O. Nilsson Solo Pianist Competition


Longhorn Music presents God's Trombones

Longhorn Music proudly announces its latest release: God’s Trombones. The disc features the award-winning UT Trombone

Choir performing sacred favorites, including Holy, Holy, Holy!, Amazing Grace, and How Great Thou Art, under the direction of Professor Nathaniel Brickens.

God’s Trombones offers listeners a unique perspective on familiar hymns and spirituals, while spotlighting less famous sacred works by composers Anton Bruckner and Franz Joseph Haydn. Brickens drew inspiration for the CD from the sacred music traditions of early trom-bonists. “Trombone choirs became popular in Europe over 400 years ago, where they were used to blend with voices in the sacred services of the church,” said Brickens. “Over the years, the UT Trombone Choir has performed quite often in churches. At the conclusion of our per-formances, there are often requests for a recording of our ensemble. God’s Trombones was undertaken to fulfill those requests.”

The CD’s title highlights the trombone’s long association with the church. It is also an allusion to civil rights activist and poet James Weldon Johnson’s 1927 book by the same name. In the book, Weldon names the trombone as “the instrument possessing above all others the power to express the wide and varied range of emotions encom-passed by the human voice—and with greater amplitude.”

Undoubtedly, the students in Brickens’ trombone choir are the stars of the album. However, the CD features several notable supporting cast members. Huston-Tillotson professor Gloria Quinlan appears on the disc as soprano soloist during the moving spiritual, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child. Austin Symphony timpanist and UT profes-sor Tony Edwards performs with the choir in their upbeat rendition of, Keep Your Lamps! Also featured on the album is the work of local composer Gary Slechta, a longtime friend of the UT trombone studio, who arranged nine of the CD’s 15 tracks specifically for the group of students who perform on the album.

The University of Texas Trombone Choir serves as a laboratory ex-tension of the UT Trombone Studio and specializes in performing

original music written for 4- to 16-part ensembles of trombones. The Trombone Choir presented concerts in the Washington DC area in March 2009. The tour included a concert and masterclass at Morgan State University in Baltimore and a showcase concert in Arlington, Virginia at the Eastern Trombone Workshop—one the world’s larg-est annual trombone events. The group received rave reviews and standing ovations on each occasion. The UT Trombone Choir was named winner of the 2002 and 2007 Emory Remington International Trombone Choir Competitions. They also presented a showcase per-formance at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in March 2006, one of the first trombone choirs to be so honored. Their debut CD, Christmas with the UT Trombone Choir, released on Mark Records, was submitted for Grammy nomination consideration.

Longhorn Music, the official record label of the UT Butler School of Music, has earned a reputation for releasing exciting and engaging performances of classical music. The label aspires to capture the best musical moments offered by the Butler School and to distribute them to audiences worldwide, while providing an innovative hands-on education for students. A complete catalog of the label’s releases can be found at http://music.utexas.edu/longhornmusic/.

A Tribute to Donald and Charlotte Knaub

On Saturday, November

15, 2008, hun-dreds of trom-bone students and friends from around the world gath-ered on the University of Texas campus to honor Don-ald and Charlotte Knaub. A near capacity crowd in Bates Hall enjoyed heartfelt and often humorous testimony by former students and faculty, as well as resounding performances by the University of Texas Trombone Choir, the UT Alumni Trom-bone Choir, and the Oak Hill United Methodist Church Choir, in an unforgettable evening of celebration. Sadly, in the spring, Charlotte passed away unexpectedly. There was a huge outpouring as a result of her death and many donations were made to the scholarship fund. Within their lifetimes, Donald and Charlotte Knaub have made extraordinary contributions to the field of trombone perfor-mance and education. Their time, knowledge, and support have benefitted generations. Thanks to the overwhelming generosity of former students and friends, over $25,000 has been raised, enough to estab-lish a scholarship endowment in Donald and Charlotte Knaub’s honor and memory. Once approved by the Board of Regents, funds from the endowment shall be used to support talented trombone students in Butler School of Music, perpetuating the Knaub legacy for generations of trombone students to come.

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Gina Rifino Ducloux passed away on April 15, 2009. She was married for 53 years to the late Walter Ducloux, who was Centennial Professor Emeritus of Opera at The University of Texas, a celebrated international conductor, pianist, translator, writer, and educator. Born in New Jersey, Gina excelled as a student, musician, singer, pia-nist, and teacher. She won numerous scholarships and began giving operatic recitals as a teenager. Gina attended the University of New Hampshire on voice scholarship, where, in her first opera class as a freshman, she met a dashing young professor (and assistant conductor to the NBC Symphony) from Switzerland, Walter Ducloux. She called her parents two weeks after arriving and announced that she wanted to marry her professor. After WWII, Gina and Walter lived in Prague and performed throughout Europe, he as conductor, she as a soprano. In 1948 they

moved to New York, where Walter was musical director of the Voice of America. In 1954, Walter became head of the University of Southern California Symphony and Opera Department. In 1968, at the personal urging of Frank Erwin, Walter and Gina moved to Austin to develop the opera and sym-phony at The University of Texas. In 1986, they co-founded the Austin Lyric Opera. In their later years, they also created the Walter and Gina Ducloux Fine Arts Fellowship Endowment at the University. Gina was a remarkable

voice teacher and coach, her students regularly taking top prizes in competitions. She was often invited to teach at various events, includ-ing the annual summer Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria, where she taught as recently as 2004. Gina Ducloux was an incomparable host-ess, musician, and teacher with a vibrant, engaging personality, and was often described as a missionary for opera, the musical passion of her life.

Albert Gillis died May 27, 2009, at the age of 93. Born in New York City, he received diplomas from the Juilliard School of Music and a Master of Music degree from Yale University, where he studied viola with renowned musician Paul Hindemith. Gillis was a member of the UT music faculty from 1948 to1958, and had a distinguished career as a musician and teacher. He left an enduring legacy as the first direc-tor and organizer of the University of Texas String Project, a program for training string teachers and students which has been internation-ally recognized and acclaimed for more than 60 years. Gillis was also active in forming the Texas Chapter of the American String Teachers Association and became one of its early presidents. After leaving The University of Texas, he joined the celebrated Paganini String Quartet, well known for its many concert tours and recordings. Gillis served as professor of violin, viola, and chamber music at the University of California in Santa Barbara, San Jose State University, the University of California at San Diego-La Jolla, and California State University at Fresno. Gillis retired from academic life at the age of 71 and moved to San Diego, where he resided the rest of his life. Through his talent and work, Albert Gillis influenced and inspired hundreds if not thousands of students, teachers, and fellow musicians in his long and eminently successful life.

Diane Elaine Gorzycki, Austin middle school band director, died September 30, 2008, at the age of 54. Born and educated in Austin, Diane received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from the UT School of Music in 1975. Her distinguished 30-year teaching career included being Director of Bands at Porter Middle School from 1977

to 1993 and at Bailey Middle School from 1993 to 2006. Shortly af-ter accepting a position as Administrative Supervisor of Fine Arts in 2006, she learned she had cancer and retired in 2007. Bands under Ms. Gorzycki's direction received numerous invitations to perform at na-

tional music conferences. Her bands received hon-ors each year in the Texas University Interscholastic League and accumulated 28 “Best in Class” honors in major national festivals. The Bailey Middle School

Band, under her direction, received the prestigious Sudler Silver Cup International Award in 2001. Even after retirement, Diane continued to be an adjudicator, clinician, and director at conferences across the nation. On three separate occasions she was awarded the National Band Association Citation of Excellence , and her bands received three Proclamations from the Texas State Senate. She was a guest conductor at summer music camps at Baylor, Texas Tech, and the Longhorn Music Camp. She served on commit-tees and boards of the John Philip Sousa Foundation, the Texas UIL, the National Band Association, Phi Beta Mu International Bandmaster Fraternity, and the Texas Music Educators Association. She was past president of the UT Longhorn Alumni Band. Recently, a new middle school in southwest Austin was named in her honor, after many recommendations by parents, students, friends, and col-leagues. She will be surely missed and often remembered by the many people whose lives she touched with her knowledge, talent, and great appreciation of music and life.

Ina Jo Grubbs, wife of Dr. John Whitfield Grubbs, Associate Professor Emeritus of Musicology and former Assistant Dean of the Graduate School at UT Austin, passed away on November 23, 2008, at the age of 80. She and her husband were married on July 6, 1951. She not only helped raise their three children but also worked to help her husband John complete his education at U.C.L.A. In 1966, when her husband John accepted a position at UT Austin, she worked first for the Texas State Legislature and later in retail. Mrs. Grubbs was active in The University of Texas at Austin Newcomers Club, The University of Texas Women's Club, and the First Presbyterian Church. She was known by many for her culinary skills and for the occasions she hosted. A beloved mother, wife, and tireless worker, she is deeply missed by her family and friends. Mrs. Grubbs is survived by her husband of 57 years, John, two sons, a daughter, grandchildren, a sister, and many nephews and nieces.

Paula Marcheta (Keta) Hixson died November 2, 2008. She was born November 30, 1926. She graduated from UT Austin in 1949 with a BA in Music and received her Master’s degree in 1953. For over sixty years, Keta was a Longhorn fan, no matter what the sport. If the Longhorns were playing, Keta was watching and cheering. Hundreds of piano, vi-olin, cello, and clarinet musicians learned to play under Keta’s tutelage.

Charlotte Seifert Knaub, beloved wife of longtime UT trombone pro-fessor Donald Knaub, passed away April 15, 2009. In addition to her husband of 58 years, she is survived by sons David of Portland, Oregon, Stephen of Houston, one grandson, and a sister. A contribution to Charlotte Knaub’s memory can be made to the Donald & Charlotte Knaub Endowed Trombone Scholarship Fund of the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Daniel Allen Laufer, retired Austin ISD Band Director, passed away on August 22, 2008, at the age of 58. He graduated from the UT School of Music in 1972. Mr. Laufer taught band at Bedichek Middle School for 17

years. He also taught at Zavala, Zilker, Peace, and several other schools. As an outstanding music educator for more than 30 years, he taught the fundamentals of music and an appre-ciation of its beauty to hundreds of students. Dan was also a professional trumpet player who had performed with dance bands, circus bands, and in churches. He was a member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra and toured with the American Wind Symphony. He was also founder and leader of the Gabrielli Brass Quintet which performed extensively throughout the area and in many elementary schools as part of the

Music in Our Schools program. Dan Laufer touched the lives of many, and was loved by his students and co-workers.

Students and faculty at the Butler School of Music were deeply sad-dened by the tragic death of sophomore percussionist and com-position major Jeffrey (Chung-Hsun) Weng on February 15, 2009. Jeffrey was born in Taiwan in 1989. He moved with his family to Plano, Texas, before he entered the eighth grade. He graduated in 2007 from Plano High School, where he was considered one of the most promising percussionists in their music program. “Jeffrey had all the talent in the world and a work ethic that was unparalleled,” said Michael Hernandez, the associate band director at Plano Senior High School, who taught Weng for four years. The UT Taiwanese Student Association and the Butler School of Music Percussion Studio held a Jeffrey Weng Memorial event on February 28 to remember him and to express condolences to his family, who had traveled here from Taiwan. A program of music, eulogies, and testimonials was presented in the Longhorn Band Room, which overflowed with family, students, facul-ty, and friends fondly recalling Jeffrey’s infectious enthusiasm, his love of life, and his dedication to music. Jeffrey’s friends felt a deep sense of loss at his death, but were also heartened to have known such an exceptional person.

The UT Chamber Singers have long been considered one of the premiere collegiate choral ensembles in America. Be-

gun in 1958 by Dr. Morris Beachy, the group has travelled and performed all over the world. Under Director of Choral Activi-ties Dr. James Morrow, the Chamber Singers enjoyed a banner year in 2008-09. The group was selected by blind audition to perform for two major music conferences this past spring, at the annual Texas Music Educators Association Convention in San Antonio and the national convention of the American Cho-ral Directors Association in Oklahoma City.

In recent years, the Chamber Singers have seen significant ac-tivity in recording for international labels, including American Choral Music with Naxos and Sweet Music of Christmas (record-ed in the Great Hall of the LBJ Presidential Library) with Koch International Classics. Additionally, the group recorded a disc of works by Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia on UT’s new Longhorn Music label. This past year saw the release of their second CD on the Koch label, Great Hymns of Faith, in collaboration with UT organ professor Dr. Gerre Hancock on the magnificent Visser-Rowland tracker organ in Bates Recital Hall. Last May the Chamber Singers recorded a disc of folk songs with UT professors Marianne Gedigian, flute; Adam Hol-zman, guitar; and Rick Rowley, piano, to be released by Long-horn Music this year. A second Naxos recording of American choral music will be released electronically for downloading in November 2009 and in CD format next July.

Chamber Singers invited to perform at ACDA national convention

Bach Cantata Project at the Blanton Museum

Initiated by Dr. James Morrow, Director of Choral Activities, the Bach Cantata Project was conceived to provide opportunities for graduate choral conducting majors to gain practical experience working with instrumentalists and singers on the rich repertoire of more than 200 Bach cantatas which survive today.

Butler School of Music students and faculty present a different cantata at noon on the last Tuesday of each month during the fall and spring semesters. Performed in the Atrium of the Blanton Museum, the con-certs have become immensely popular, attracting regular standing-room-only audiences. The Austin American Stateman writes that “the Bach Cantata Project has become something of a phenom in the three years since it started.”

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The Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in MusicThe Butlers continue to lead by example in their support of the Butler School of Music. In February of 2009 they established an Endowed Professorship in Music, intended for the support of out-standing Butler School of Music faculty. This marks the second endowed professorship provided by the Butlers in one year and the third in the past three years. The first was the Sarah and Ernest Butler Professor-ship in Opera, endowed in 2007 and now held by Professor Robert DeSimone. The second, the Sarah and Ernest Butler Profes-sorship in Opera Conducting, was given in January 2008, shortly before the naming gift. Newly appointed Assistant Profes-sor James Lowe has been named Fellow to the Opera Conducting Professorship ef-fective fall semester, 2009. The third Professorship in Music will be awarded to a music faculty member in the spring of 2010. This generosity becomes even more remarkable when considered with their Endowed Presidential Scholarship matching gift challenge grant described just below.

The Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Piano Scholarship and Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Chair in PianoJoe and Teresa Long also have a significant history of giving to the Butler School of Music. Their support was instrumental in com-pleting the College of Fine Arts String Quartet Endowment that brought the Miró String Quartet onto the Butler School of Music faculty. This year, the Longs chose to bring their philanthropic fo-cus to the piano division with two new endowments intended to work hand in hand. The first, established in March of this year, was a $500,000 Endowed Presidential Scholarship to support But-ler School of Music piano students. Shortly thereafter, the Longs established an Endowed Chair in Piano in support of the piano fac-ulty. The recipients of the Endowed Scholarship are to be students

of the holder of the Endowed Chair. In this way, the Longs have assured that the Butler School is able to attract and retain brilliant artist faculty as well as the most promising piano students. The Long Chair will be assigned in the near future according to univer-sity procedures.

Lois Johnson White Endowed Presidential ScholarshipEstablished by Mary N. and W. Dexter White in honor of Mrs. Lois Johnson White, this Endowed Presidential Schol-arship will be used to provide scholar-ship support for deserving members of the Longhorn Band who are incoming freshmen.

The College of Fine Arts Vocal Patron EndowmentInspired by a recital performance of Robert Schumann’s Widmung by Butler School alumnus Dr. Holly Schwartz, this new endowment provides unrestricted

support of outstanding and talented voice students. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, strongly encourages all who support voice studies at the Butler School to contribute generously to the endowment fund.

Robert M. Gerdes Music Program EndowmentBequeathed by Cathryn G. Berninger, funds from this endowment shall be used for programs and student scholarships in the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music. The endowment honors Robert M. Gerdes, who graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.F.A in 1954.

For more information on giving to the Butler School of Music, please contact Lauren Zachry-Reynolds at 512.232.8279 or [email protected].

Preparing the way for a banner UT Butler School of Music capi-tal campaign is an unprecedented opportunity to double your

scholarship investment, while helping talented music students achieve their educational goals.

Sarah and Ernest Butler have agreed to match, on a dollar for dollar basis, contributions of $25,000 to $50,000 per donor to establish named Endowed Presidential Scholarships for students in the But-ler School of Music.

Specifically, the match applies to new scholarships created from now until the end of December 2009. The donor’s commitment must be completely funded by December 31, 2009 to qualify for the matching funds. The matching funds will then be applied to all qualifying scholarships in January 2010.

The title of the scholarship must read “(Name as specified by Donor) Endowed Scholarship (at the $25,000 level) in Music” or “(Name as specified by Donor) Endowed Presidential Scholarship (at the $50,000 level) in Music.” If the donor wishes to specify, for example, a choral, jazz, cello, or piano designation for the named scholarship, that is welcome as well. The main criterion is that the scholarship must be designated for students in the UT Butler School of Music. Once the matching funds are applied in January 2010, any new $25,000 Endowed Scholarships will be upgraded automatically to the $50,000 Endowed Presidential Scholarship level. A new $50,000 Endowed Presidential Scholarship will have its principal endow-ment doubled by the matching funds to $100,000.

Please join us in thanking Sarah and Ernest Butler for their most generous support.

New Endowments

Sarah and Ernest Butler Offer Challenge Grant to Raise New Endowed Presidential Scholarships for the UT Butler School of Music

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Endowed Faculty PositionsMary D. Bold Regents Professorship of MusicThe Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in OperaThe Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in Opera ConductingCollege of Fine Arts String Quartet Endowment FundVincent R. and Jane D. DiNino Chair Fund in MusicE. W. Doty Professorship in Fine ArtsThe Walter and Gina Ducloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship EndowmentFrank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Fine ArtsFrank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professorship in MusicFrank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professorship in OperaParker C. Fielder Regents Professorship in MusicPriscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professorship in Organ Or Piano PerformanceFoxworth Centennial FellowshipDavid and Mary Winton Green Chair in String Performance and PedagogyM. K. Hage Centennial Visiting Professorship in MusicFlorence Thelma Hall Centennial Chair in MusicFlorence Thelma Hall Centennial Visiting Professorship in MusicHistory of Music ChairThe Lee Hage Jamail Regents Professorship in Fine ArtsThe Wolf and Janet Jessen Centennial Lectureship in MusicMarlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professorship in MusicMarlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Visiting Professorship in MusicGrace Hill Milam Centennial Fellowship in Fine ArtsJohn D. Murchison Fellowship in Fine ArtsSusan Menefee Ragan Regents Professorship in Fine ArtsJack G. Taylor Regents Professorship in Fine ArtsLeslie Waggener Professorship in the College of Fine Arts

Endowed ScholarshipsAlamo City Endowed Scholarship for PianistsBurl H. Anderson Endowed Presidential Scholarship for the Creative ArtsBurdine Clayton Anderson Scholarship in MusicRichard S. Barfield Endowed ScholarshipWayne R. Barrington Endowed Scholarship in HornBetty Osborn Biedenharn Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicJack and Ginger Blanton Endowed Presidential ScholarshipMary D. Bold Scholarship FundMarietta Moody Brooks Endowed Scholarship Fund in the College of Fine ArtsDr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler Centennial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in OperaDr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Butler Endowed Presidential Scholarship in OperaButler Opera Center Endowed Presidential ScholarshipButler Opera Center Endowed Presidential Scholarship 2Sarah and Ernest Butler Family Fund Endowed Presidential Scholarship in OperaSarah and Ernest Butler Family Fund Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Opera 2Pauline Camp Operatic Voice ScholarshipEloise Helbig Chalmers Endowed Scholarship in Music Therapy and Special EducationPearl DuBose Clark Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicCollege of Fine Arts Student Excellence FundConcert Hall Patron Seat EFBarbara Smith Conrad Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine ArtsMary Frances Bowles Couper Endowed Presidential Scholarship for Graduate Students in Piano PerformanceMary Frances Bowles Couper Endowed Presidential Scholarship for Undergraduate Students in Piano Performance

Ainslee Cox Scholarship in MusicPatsy Cater Deaton Endowed Presidential ScholarshipWilliam Dente Endowed Memorial Scholarship in OperaE. W. Doty Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicE. William Doty Scholarship FundWhit Dudley Endowed Memorial Scholarship in HarpMarguerite Fairchild Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicPriscilla Pond Flawn Endowed Scholarship in MusicFondren Endowed Scholarship in MusicDalies Frantz Endowed Scholarship FundDavid Garvey Scholarship FundGarwood Centennial Scholarship in Art Song PerformanceMary Farris Gibson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMary Farris Gibson Memorial Scholarship in MusicAnnie Barnhart Giles Centennial Endowed Presidential ScholarshipAnnie B. Giles Endowed Scholarship Fund in MusicLucille Roan Gray Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMary Winton Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMargaret Halm Gregory Centennial ScholarshipVerna M. Harder Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicLouisa Frances Glasson Hewlett Scholarship in MusicNancy Leona Dry Smith Hopkins Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoVirginia McBride Hudson Endowed ScholarshipLee and Joe Jamail Endowed Presidential Scholarships for the Longhorn BandJesse H. Jones and Mary Gibbs Jones Endowed Presidential ScholarshipMichael Kapoulas Endowed Scholarship in CompositionJean Welhausen Kaspar 100th Anniversary Endowed Longhorn Band ScholarshipKent Kennan Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Music Composition Or TheoryAnna and Fannie Lucas Memorial Scholarship FundGeorgia B. Lucas Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicGeorgia B. Lucas Foundation FundPansy Luedecke Scholarship FundDanielle J. Martin Memorial ScholarshipJ. W. “Red” McCullough, Jr. Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Jazz StudiesMusic Endowment FundGino R. Narboni Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Orchestral ConductingWillie Nelson Endowed Presidential ScholarshipDr. David O. Nilsson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Performing ArtsDavid O. Nilsson Solo Pianist AwardNelson G. Patrick Endowed Scholarship in Music EducationLeticia Flores Penn Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoWilliam C. Race Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoA. David Renner Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoLucille Roan-Gray Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicPhyllis Benson Roberts Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicE. P. Schoch Endowed Presidential Scholarship in BandThe Mary A. Seller-Yantis Endowed Presidential ScholarshipWilla Stewart Setseck ScholarshipEffie Potts Sibley Endowed Scholarship FundLomis and Jonnie Slaughter Scholarship in MusicCarl and Agnes Stockard Memorial Endowment FundElizabeth McGoldrick Surginer Endowed ScholarshipJack G. Taylor Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine ArtsTexas Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMollie Fitzhugh Thornton Music Scholarship Fund

The Trammell Scholarship Endowment in MusicLaura Duncan Trim Scholarship in MusicElizabeth Anne Tucker Centennial ScholarshipRuth Middleton Valentine Endowed Presidential ScholarshipRobert Jeffrey Womack Endowed Presidential ScholarshipLola Wright Foundation Centennial Endowed ScholarshipSidney M. Wright Endowed Presidential Scholarship

Endowed Program SupportWilliam D. Armstrong Music Leadership EndowmentSarah and Ernest Butler Opera CenterSarah and Ernest Butler School of Music EndowmentFine Arts Advisory Council Endowment for ExcellenceThe Eddie Medora King Award for Musical CompositionMusic Education EndowmentMusic Leadership Program Endowment

Gifts of $1,000,000 or moreSarah and Ernest ButlerJoe R. & Teresa Lozano Long

Gifts of $100,000 to $999,999Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation

Gifts of $10,000 to $99,999Estate of Cathryn G. BerningerMs. Maria Candil MunozDHB PartnershipProfessor Vincent R. DiNinoThe Dow Chemical FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationMr. Ben I. GomezMrs. Mary A. HellerMr. Jeffrey L. KodoskyDavid O. Nilsson, Ph.D.Mr. W. T. ProbandtRork Music Ltd.Silicon Valley Community FoundationTIW CorporationWashington Mutual FoundationWaukesha-Pearce Industries Inc.W. Dexter White, Ph.D., P.E.

Gifts of $1,000 to $9,999AnonymousElliott Antokoletz, Ph.D.Mr. Daren R. AppeltCapitol Area CouncilCheney G. Crow, Ph.D.The Ex-Students' AssociationExxonMobil FoundationFriends of MusicThe Junior League of AustinProfessor Jerry F. JunkinDr. Michael KapoulasMrs. Ruth D. KillamProfessor Donald L. KnaubMorton Meyerson Family FoundationMr. Robert L. NegrinParamount PicturesPhi Mu Alpha SinfoniaThe Presser FoundationEugene P. Schoch, Jr., M.D.

GiftsTargetPaul J. Tsang Foundation Inc.University Co-operative SocietyMary N. White, Ph.D.Mark R. Williams, D.M.A.

Gifts of $500-$999American String Teachers AssociationAnonymousMs. Darla E. AndersonAustin District Music Teachers AssociationAustin Girls' ChoirSterling K. Berberian, Ph.D.Mr. Ryan H. Edwards, Jr.Mr. Steven A. FleckmanMrs. Nancy W. McCannDavid P. Neumeyer, Ph.D.Oak Hill United Methodist ChurchProfessor A. David Renner

Gifts of $250-$499Ballet Austin GuildMr. Miles J. BraffettDr. Nathaniel O. BrickensDr. George H. DupereSusanna P. Garcia, D.M.A.Mr. George L. GreeneMr. Michael S. GuarinoMrs. Katherine P. RaceSigma Alpha IotaMr. Albert StowellUT Women's ChorusMr. Bill Walter

Gifts under $250Ms. Joanne P. AbdoProfessor Gregory D. AllenAmbleside School of FredericksburgKathleen H. AndersonMs. Bliss H. AngermanMs. Louise K. AvantMrs. Jannette H. BalkeMr. Benjamin N. BallezaProfessor Wayne Barrington

Ms. Catherine P. BartoliBrian BerlinMrs. Amy G. BlairMs. V. Laura BozemanMr. Steven L. BryantStanley Clay BurnittMs. Marie R. CaesarMr. Ara V. CarapetyanDavid CarterCentral Presbyterian ChurchMr. Lung-I ChengMs. Patricia A. ChericoDr. Eui Y. ChungMs. Jonell A. ClardyMr. Charles A. ClarkMr. Jeff CompConcert ChoraleMs. Celia D. CookMrs. Beverly A. CranshawProfessor Paula A. CriderCross Mountain RetreatMr. John A. DebnerMrs. Koma DonworthDr. Alexandre S. DossinMr. Bryan V. DoughtyMr. Thomas L. EarpMr. Ryan A. EastF. A. V. A.Mrs. Karen FincherMr. Richard L. FloydJason P. FosterMr. Perry N. FrankMs. Rebecca J. Frazier-SmithMrs. Carol M. FreemanMrs. Carol M. FreemanMr. Billy GaymanMr. Bruce G. GibsonMr. James A. GirouxMr. Alexander Morgen GlenBeverly GoldenMr. David GonzalezMs. Kathryn B. GovierMr. E. Jackson Green IIIMs. Ruthellen GruberJudith GryantMrs. Ruth S. Gurwitz

George K. Halsell, D.M.A.Mr. Wallace B. Harwood IIIMr. Daniel C. HawkinsMrs. Laura L. HickfangMr. Shaun P. HillenMr. William R. HornbuckleMr. Joseph S. HoustonMrs. Petra V. JalifiMr. Jeffrey M. Jones-RagonaChandar KamalanathanMr. David KirkJeffrey S. KirkMrs. Edith C. KnauerRobert L. KoehlerMr. William M. KonitzerProfessor Karl F. KraberMs. Renata Wai-Ying KwongMs. Rhonda L. LashleyMr. Richard J. LawnDr. Drew Clifton LeslieMs. Laurel R. LoehlinMs. Sondra LomaxMrs. Myrna S. LongeneckerMr. Marc LumleyBetty P. Mallard, D.M.A.Mr. William P. MannRobert R. MartinMr. Chris A. MattenDr. Martin G. McCain, Jr.Ms. Donna B. McCormickMrs. Mary M. McDonaldMr. Michael D. McLemoreMr. John MeyerP.J. MeyerMs. Suzanne M. MitchellGeorge Mohr, Ph.D.Mrs. Mary N. MorseMr. Carl V. MullerAnton Nel, D.M.A.Mrs. Brenda C. NelsonMs. Anne NeubauerMr. Alvin A. NickelMs. Phyllis A. NoonanMs. Julie K. OlsenMrs. Judy OlsonMr. Steven D. Parks

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