FACULTY AND STAFF
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Brass |
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Robert Dickow |
Horn, Theory,
Composition |
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Alan Gemberling |
Trombone, Wind
Ensemble, Jazz Bands |
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Torrey Lawrence |
Low Brass, Marching Band, Concert Band |
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Vern
Sielert |
Trumpet, Jazz
Studies, Jazz Bands |
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Music Education |
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Loraine Enloe |
Secondary
Music Education |
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Michele
Paynter Paise |
Music
Education |
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Music History |
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Carol Padgham Albrecht |
Oboe, Music
History |
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Barry Bilderback |
Music History |
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Roger Cole |
Clarinet,
Music History |
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Mary DuPree |
History,
Musicology (Emerita) |
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James Reid |
Guitar, Music
History |
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Vern
Sielert |
Trumpet, Jazz
Studies, Jazz Bands |
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Percussion |
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Daniel Bukvich |
Percussion,
Theory, Jazz Choir |
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Piano and Organ |
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Jon Anderson |
Jazz Piano |
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Susan Billin |
Organ |
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Eugene Cline |
Piano and Vocal Coach |
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Jonathan
Edward Mann |
Piano, Class Piano |
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Jay Mauchley |
Piano |
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Sandra Mauchley |
Piano (Emerita) |
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Kay Zavislak |
Piano |
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Strings |
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Ferenc
Cseszko |
Violin, Viola,
Orchestra |
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James Reid |
Guitar, Music
History |
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William Wharton |
Cello, Bass,
Theory |
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Theory/Composition |
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Daniel Bukvich |
Percussion,
Theory, Jazz Choir |
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Robert Dickow |
Horn, Theory,
Composition |
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Leonard Garrison |
Flute, Aural
Skills |
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James Murphy |
Theory,
Graduate Program Coordinator |
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William Wharton |
Cello, Bass,
Theory |
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Voice |
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Pamela Bathurst |
Voice |
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Claudia Krone |
Voice |
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Michael Murphy |
Director of Choral Activities |
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Chris Thompson |
Voice, Opera
Workshop |
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Woodwinds |
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Carol Padgham Albrecht |
Oboe, Music
History |
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Roger Cole |
Clarinet,
Music History |
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Leonard Garrison |
Flute, Aural
Skills |
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Susan Hess |
Bassoon
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Vanessa Sielert |
Saxophone,
Jazz Bands |
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Ensembles |
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Daniel Bukvich |
Percussion,
Theory, Jazz Choir |
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Ferenc
Cseszko |
Violin, Viola,
Orchestra |
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Alan Gemberling |
Trombone, Wind
Ensemble, Jazz Bands |
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Torrey Lawrence |
Low Brass, Marching Band, Concert Band |
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Vanessa
Sielert |
Saxophone,
Jazz Bands |
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Vern Sielert |
Trumpet, Jazz
Studies, Jazz Bands |
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Michael Murphy |
University
Chorus,
Vandaleers Concert Choir |
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Administration |
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Kevin
Woelfel |
Director - School of Music |
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Susan Hess |
Assistant
Director - School of Music,
Bassoon |
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James Murphy |
Theory,
Graduate Program Coordinator |
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Staff |
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Jenny
Warner |
Administrative
Assistant II |
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Robin
Ohlgren |
Program
Coordinator, ACMS |
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Matt
Pilcher |
Librarian |
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Sarah
Ritchie |
Administrative Assistant II |
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Kurt Ford |
Piano Technician |
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Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival |
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Cami McClure |
Interim
Executive Director |
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John
Clayton |
Artistic Director |
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Carol Padgham Albrecht, Associate Professor of Oboe and Music
History, holds degrees in oboe performance from the University of
North Texas and a Ph.D. in musicology/ethnomusicology from Kent
State University. Her oboe teachers include Noah Knepper, Richard
Henderson, Charles Veazey, John Mack, and Felix Kraus.
Dr. Albrecht’s career interests have always included both
performance and historical scholarship and outreach. Prior to
joining the LHSOM faculty in 1989 she was a program annotator for
the Fort Worth and the Kansas City Symphony Orchestras. She appeared
frequently in recitals and chamber music concerts, and performed
with the Kansas City Symphony, the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas
City, and the St. Joseph (Missouri) Symphony Orchestra. She also
developed a large private oboe studio.
Carol Padgham Albrecht is an ardent champion of all members of the
oboe family, and frequently adapts and performs music for the
English horn and the lesser-known oboe d’amore. She performs with
the Northwest Wind Quintet and teaches the oboe studio, and recently
formed the UI Double Reed Quintet, incorporating all the members of
the double reed family, oboe through contrabassoon. Her historical
teaching interests are also quite broad. She teaches the music
history survey (Medieval through Romantic periods); orchestra
literature; period courses in the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic
eras; and she has directed graduate seminars in Beethoven and
Wagner. A closet history buff, Dr. Albrecht likes to incorporate
perspectives from political history, art, literature, language, and
general culture into her classes.
Dr. Albrecht has given many papers at professional societies
including the American Musicological Society, College Music Society,
the International Conference on Romanticism, and the Midwest Jewish
Studies Association. Her primary research area is musical activity
and journalism in early 19th-century Vienna, but her interests also
extend to music and papal politics in the 15th-century, as well as
historical woodwind literature and pedagogy. For the past ten years
she has spent a portion of every summer conducting research in
Viennese archives. Her current work in progress is a study of the
operatic singing profession in Vienna between the deaths of Mozart
(1791) and Haydn (1809). She also enjoys giving oboe clinics and
workshops to support the study of the instrument in the inland
Northwest.
Jon Anderson began teaching at the University of Idaho in the fall of 1999. He currently teaches jazz piano lessons, jazz piano classes and coaches jazz combos. Jon also enjoys performing with the UI faculty jazz group known as the Palouse Jazz Project.
In addition to his work at the university, Jon maintains an active private piano studio, performs in various local jazz and rock ensembles, and enjoyed five seasons as musical director for the Idaho Repertoire Theater. He has been an active board member and executive director for Rendezvous in the Park, a local summer concert series and children’s arts festival. He was awarded Moscow’s 2008 Patron of the Art’s award for his work with this organization.
Jon received his B.M. in Music Education and M.M. in Music Composition from the University of Idaho. He lives with his wife Tina and two children just outside of Moscow in a home they recently built themselves…but the work never ends!
Pamela Bathurst is a lyric soprano who has performed in a variety of venues. From singing back-up for Barbara Cook, to musical theatre to opera, Pamela has been an active performer throughout the United States.
An A.G.M.A. and Equity member, Pamela attended the University of Michigan for graduate work and subsequently studied with Boris Goldovsky, Richard Crittenden, Judith Raskin, Thomas Martin and Joan Dorneman.
Pamela has sung lead roles in more than 20 operas, including: Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Lucy in The Telephone and Little Red in Little Red Riding Hood with the Cincinnati Opera; Micaela and Frasquita in the Dayton Opera’s Carmen; Sophie in the Liederkrantz Foundation’s Werther (NYC); Norina in the Westside Opera’s Don Pasquale (NYC); and Mabel in the Topeka Opera’s Pirates of Penzance. She has also sung lead roles with the Ann Arbor Comic Opera Guild, the Ann Arbor Gilbert and Sullivan Society, the Ann Arbor Civic Opera, Richmond Theatre Collection (NYC), and North Country Productions (ME).
In concert, Pamela has soloed with orchestras throughout the United States. Her repertoire includes Bach’s Magnificat, Brahms’ Requiem, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s Creation, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, Vaughn Williams’ Serenade to Music, and Vivaldi’s Gloria.
Pamela is presently Associate Professor of Voice at the University of Idaho where she teaches studio voice, Freshman Voice Studio, Vocal Pedagogy, and History of Musical Theatre.
Barry T. Bilderback, Ph.D., newly appointed assistant professor
of music history and ethnomusicology, is a native of upstate New
York. He received his B.A. degree in applied music from
SUNY Oswego (1991—Magna Cum Laude) and his M.A. in music history
from the Bowling Green State University College of Musical Arts
(1994). Having earned his Ph.D. in music history from the
University of Oregon School of Music (2001) he also
received the School of Music's GTF Excellence in Teaching Award
in the academic area.
Prior to his Lionel Hampton School of Music appointment, Dr.
Bilderback taught at Linfield College and the University of
Oregon. He is also a past president of the College Music
Society/Pacific Northwest Chapter (2003-2005). With a
dissertation and focus of study on N.A. Rimskii-Korsakov and 19th
century Russian nationalism, Dr. Bilderback was awarded the
Council of International Education and Exchange travel grant and
scholarship whereby he studied and conducted research in St.
Petersburg, Russia. While giving numerous conference
papers for the College Music Society, Society of
Ethnomusicology, and the American Musicological Society, he has
also presented his research at the University of London
(Goldsmith College) for the Rimskii-Korsakov International
Festival and Conference. Dr. Bilderback has also received
an honorary membership to the American Slavic Society.
Currently, for publication he is writing a historical expose on
the Russian-American composer Vladimir (Vernon Duke) Dukelskii.
Dr. Bilderback’s overseas teaching includes a study abroad
course in Vienna, Salzburg and Prague during the 2006 Mozart
Festival. Having recently returned from Africa (Ghana), where he
conducted a study abroad course in Ghanaian drumming and dance,
Dr. Bilderback is researching contemporary Ghanaian institutions
and the way(s) traditional music is taught. In his study, he is
collaborating with renowned master drummer Prof. Komla Amoaku
(Founder and Director of the Institute for Ghanaian Music),
Prof. Kofi Anyidoho (University of Ghana), and Nii “Chief”
Tettey Tetteh (Founder and Director of the Kusun Cultural
Centre). Dr. Bilderback has been invited to present his research
on the koshaka /aslatwa tradition of the Ga people for
the upcoming 2008 International Conference of “Music, Health,
and Happiness,” to be held at the Royal College of Music,
Manchester, UK. In his spare time Dr. Bilderback is a
freelance society-style jazz pianist. He also continues
his work on the violin and the flute while fine-tuning his
kpanlogo and
djembe drumming skills under the direction of Ghanaian
master drummer Nii Ardey Allotey, and Guinean master drummer
Alseny Yansane.
Susan Billin is adjunct instructor of organ at the University of
Idaho and serves as organist of the First Presbyterian Church in
Moscow. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Denison University
(Granville, Ohio) and a Master of Music in organ performance from
the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) where she was a
student of Dr. David Craighead. She has served in leadership
positions in the American Guild of Organists and the Sigma Alpha
Iota International Fraternity for Women in Music; she is advisor to
the Sigma Zeta College Chapter of SAI at Idaho. In addition to solo
performances, Ms. Billin has been the organist for major choral
performances at the University of Idaho and has accompanied many
solo vocal recitals, playing piano, harpsichord and organ.
Daniel Bukvich has been a member of the faculty of the Lionel
Hampton School of Music since 1978. Professor Bukvich holds the
Master of Music degree in composition and arranging from the
University of Idaho. Bukvich was born in 1954 in Butte, Montana,
where he began composing while still in high school. His
compositions and arrangements are performed world-wide by symphonic
bands, wind ensembles, orchestral winds, choirs, jazz bands,
symphony orchestras and marching bands. Bukvich resides in Moscow,
Idaho, where he is Professor of Music at the Hampton School of Music
at the University of Idaho. He teaches percussion, freshman music
theory and ear training, composition and jazz choirs . He performs
regularly as a jazz drummer throughout the U.S. and Canada. See
Daniel Bukvich's web pages for further information.
Eugene Cline holds a Master of Arts in Piano Accompanying degree from the University of Kansas City where he studied with Jon Spong. While employed by the university as staff accompanist, he also worked with Kansas City Lyric Theatre as an assistant conductor. From 1969 through 1983, Mr. Cline was on the faculty of Louisiana State University as an opera coach and faculty accompanist. During that time he served as the assistant conductor of New Orleans Opera where he worked with luminaries of the opera world including Richard Tucker, Jerome Hines, Justino Diaz, Carol Neblett, and Giorgio Tozzi. He also founded a resident chamber opera company in Baton Rouge which provided a showcase for performances by students and faculty at the university in conjunction with singers from the local community.
In 1983 Mr. Cline moved to New York City where he opened a private studio. His clientele came to include such artists as Sherrill Milnes, Faith Esham, Donnie Ray Albert, Greer Grimsley, and Joyce di Donato. As an accompanist, Mr. Cline has concertized nationally with artists from the New York City Opera, Metropolitan Opera, and the opera companies in Düsseldorf, Munich, and Milan. During the summers, Mr. Cline was, at various times, on the faculties of the International Institute of Vocal Arts, American Singers’ Opera Project, and Rising Star Singers.
After twenty-five years in the private sector, Mr. Cline has re-entered the academic world, moving to Moscow in 2008.
Roger Cole came to the UI in 1976. He is a graduate of Yale
University with a doctorate in clarinet performance. He has studied
with Jack Brymer in London, Keith Wilson at Yale and Richard
Stolzman in New York. Dr. Cole was recently awarded the Idaho
Commission of the Arts Fellowship to study in Europe. He is
currently the clarinetist with the Northwest Wind Quintet and has
been the bass clarinetist with the Spokane Symphony. In 1993, Dr.
Cole was selected to perform in Flagstaff, Arizona at the
International Clarinet Festival.
Dr. Ferenc Cseszko is currently Assistant Professor of Violin/Viola, and Director of the Orchestra Program at the Lionel Hampton School of Music of University of Idaho. He also serves as Concertmaster of the Walla Walla (WA) Symphony Orchestra, first-call substitute of the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and since 2006, as Artist-in-Residence at the School of Music of Universidad Juan N. Corpas in Bogotá, D.C., Colombia.
Born in Yugoslavia, Dr. Cseszko received an Artist/Teaching Diploma from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, a Master of Music degree in Violin Performance from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance (minor in Instrumental Conducting) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
As a soloist or chamber musician, Cseszko performed recitals in Austria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Serbia, Switzerland, the United States, Mexico and Colombia. His teachers included Tyrone Greive, János Pallagi, Sándor Devich, Peter Lissauer and Eszter Perényi (violin and chamber music), and David E. Becker (orchestral conducting). In addition, Dr. Cseszko participated in masterclasses given by Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sidney Harth, Michael Tree, Lóránd
Fenyves, György Pauk, Elmar Oliviera and Endre Wolf.
As an orchestra musician, Ferenc Cseszko was either a member or Concertmaster of the following orchestras: Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra (Budapest, Hungary), Madison Symphony Orchestra (WI), Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Chamber Orchestra, Washington-Idaho Symphony Orchestra (WA), and the Hays Symphony Orchestra (KS). In addition, Cseszko performed as violinist with the Wichita Grand Opera in the ensemble’s 2002 Gala Concert featuring Placido Domingo.
As an orchestra conductor, Dr. Cseszko frequently leads festival, university, and other orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. Most recently, he guest conducted the National Chiayi University Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan), the Orquesta Sinfonica de la Universidad Juan N. Corpas (Colombia), and the Washington-Idaho Symphony Orchestra on subscription concerts.
Currently Ferenc Cseszko resides in Moscow, Idaho, with his wife, Marcella, also a violinist, and their daughters, Camilla and Marianna.
Robert Dickow was born in San Francisco in 1949. After piano and
violin studies in his early years, at age 10 he discovered the horn,
and in two years was playing horn in the internationally recognized
California Youth Symphony, and later was a soloist with that
ensemble.
He studied horn with Charles Bubb and Ralph Hotz of the San
Francisco Symphony, and just out of high school began to play
professionally, working with musicians ranging from Ornette Coleman
and Bing Crosby to Seiji Ozawa and Robert Craft. In 1969 Dickow
played full-time in the Amici Della Musica Chamber Orchestra,
followed by a season as associate principal horn in the San
Francisco Opera Orchestra, until he decided to continue his musical
studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
While living in California he performed with many ensembles,
including the San Jose Symphony, San Francisco and Oakland Symphony
Orchestras, the Carmel Bach Festival, the San Francisco Civic Light
Opera, and the San Francisco Wind Quintet.
His studies at Berkeley led to a Ph.D. degree in music composition.
Dickow lived in London from 1973 to 1975 as a recipient of the
George Ladd 'Prix de Paris' and has had works performed by the
Fitzwilliam String Quartet, Park Lane Players, the Orchestra of St.
John's-Smith Square, and the American Horn Quartet, among other
ensembles. Among the U.S. groups to have performed his music are the
Pittsburg New Music Ensemble, Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players,
Ann Arbor New Directions Ensemble, and the Louisville Youth Choir.
He taught harmony at Berkeley for two years before taking a teaching
position at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Today
Dickow is active in the Northwest as a teacher, composer, and
performer, and plays with the Lionel Hampton School of Music faculty
wind and brass quintets, the Spokane Symphony, and is principal horn
in the Washington/Idaho Symphony.
As a composer he has received several prizes and commissions, and is
published by Thompson Editions, Shawnee Press, Queen City Brass, and
Manduca Music. Most recently he has been composing music for video
documentaries and interactive CD ROM educational software, and
chamber music. He is also a contributor to the Groves Dictionary of
Music and Musicians, The Groves Dictionary of Jazz, and The Groves
Dictionary of American Music.
His personal interests and hobbies include orchids, fishing,
gardening, and computers.
Mary DuPree is Professor of Music History and Musicology. She
teaches the history of music survey for music majors, and upper
division and graduate courses in American music, the twentieth
century, and research and bibliography. In addition, she is an
active member of the American Studies faculty.
Dr. DuPree received her B.A. from Hollins College, her M.A. from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in
musicology from the University of Colorado. She is a recipient of
the Idaho Governor's Award in the Arts and University of Idaho
Excellence in Teaching awards. She is one of the three University of
Idaho Humanities Fellows for 2002-2003.
Her research area is 19th and 20th century American music, including
historiography, criticism, and the community band movement in the
West. She has published articles in American Music, the Journal of
Musicology, College Music Symposium, and The Research Chronicle, and
edited Musical Americans: A Biographical Dictionary 1918-1926. She
also contributed to the internationally-touring exhibit Sacred
Encounters: the Jesuits and the Indians of the Intermountain
Northwest.
In addition to her academic responsibilities, Dr. DuPree is founder
and director of the Auditorium Chamber Music Series, now in its
seventeenth season.
Loraine Enloe is the Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education where she teaches undergraduate and graduate music education courses. Before coming to the University of Idaho, Enloe was a successful high school and middle school band director in North Carolina and Kentucky. Her bands received numerous superior ratings and recently won their division at Musicfest Orlando in April 2005. She studied conducting with Peter J. Martin at Transylvania University and with John R. Locke at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has maintained a successful woodwind studio and has played clarinet, bass clarinet, and bassoon with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony, Opera Plus, and the Fayetteville Symphony.
Her research interests are woodwind pedagogy and professional development for in-service music teachers. . In 2007, she initiated the Idaho Music Teacher In-Service to provide Idaho music teachers music-centered professional development. Enloe has presented at the 2007 International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic and the All-Northwest MENC Conference. In July 2008, Dr. Enloe presented an acoustics research paper, Effects of embouchure on clarinet timbre, at the International Society for Music Education Conference in Bologna, Italy. In August 2008, she was tapped to become the Research Chair for the Idaho Music Educators Association. She was interviewed in August 2008 as a national expert on music advocacy for the MENC periodical, Teaching Music. In December 2008, her article “Your philosophy revisited,” was published in the National Band Journal. In 2008, Dr. Enloe won an Idaho Technology Incentive Grant to initiate a new hybrid Master of Music in music education program, providing greater access to graduate course work for music educators. She is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator for Idaho, Montana, and North Carolina concert band and solo and ensemble festivals.
Dr. Enloe completed her Ph.D. in music education and Master of Music in music education (major: woodwind pedagogy) at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and can be heard on recordings of the UNCG Wind Ensemble: equus, internal combustion, october, and whirr. She is a graduate of Transylvania University in Lexington KY, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in clarinet performance and music education. She studied clarinet with Peter Martin at Transylvania and Kelly Burke at UNCG, where she also studied bassoon with Michael Burns and oboe with Ashley Barret. She is also currently writing a book about UNCG Director of Bands, John Locke and a book about teaching beginning woodwind students.
Leonard Garrison is Assistant Professor of Flute and Aural Skills at the University of Idaho, flutist in the Northwest Wind Quintet and The Scott/Garrison Duo, Principal Flute of the Walla Walla Symphony, and Chair of The National Flute Association. In summers, he teaches and performs at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and the Red Lodge Music Festival in Montana. His 2005 CD, “Superflute,” received rave reviews. Flute Talk magazine called it “astounding,” The Flute Network said “his performance was ‘just ‘superior’ both in brilliant technique and musicianship,” while the Dutch journal Fluit called it “Altogether a beautiful CD, which becomes more captivating after repeated hearings.”
Leonard has been flutist in the Chicago Symphony (including a 2003 tour of Japan) and the Tulsa Philharmonic, soloist on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," winner of the 2003 Byron Hester Competition, concerto soloist on both flute and piccolo, and a frequent performer at National Flute Association conventions. He has taught at The University of Tulsa, Bowling Green State University, the University of Arkansas, and the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. The Flutist Quarterly and Flute Talk have published his articles.
Leonard holds a Doctor of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied with Walfrid Kujala and Richard Graef. He received Master of Music and Master of Arts degrees from The State University of New York at Stony Brook, studying with Samuel Baron. His Bachelor of Music is from The Oberlin Conservatory of Music, where his teacher was Robert Willoughby.
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Alan Gemberling, M.M.
Associate Professor of Trombone and
Director of Wind Ensemble and Jazz Bands
208-885-6008
alang@uidaho.edu
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Alan Gemberling is an Associate Professor of Music at the Lionel
Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho in Moscow and is
in his eighteenth year as professor of trombone. He was director of
the University of Idaho Vandal Marching Band for 10 years and is
currently Director of Bands. His conducting responsibilities include
the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band IV and the Hampton Trombone Ensemble.
Mr. Gemberling is also responsible for teacher preparation courses
in conducting and various instrumental music education courses and
has recently joined the staff of the International Jazz Collections
to do research on various performance and educational projects. Mr.
Gemberling is active throughout the Northwest and Canada as an
adjudicator, clinician, performer and guest conductor in both
classical and jazz styles. He performs regularly on trombone and
string bass in groups that include the Idaho Brass Quintet, Spokane
Symphony, Washington/Idaho Symphony, Lionel Hampton New York Big
Band, Swing Era Jazz Quartet, Jazz Co-Op, and The Contenders (a
classic rock ensemble). He has performed with the Dizzy Gillespie
Tribute Big Band, Cab Calloway Orchestra, Gene Krupa Orchestra, Lou
Rawls, Jon Hendricks, Bob Newhart, The Supremes, The Temptations,
Dee Daniels, Jim Nabors, Bill Watrous and Al Grey.
In addition to her responsibilities as Assistant Director, Susan
Hess teaches bassoon and performs with the Northwest Wind Quintet
and the Intermontane Bassoon Trio, a trio consisting of faculty from
University of Idaho, Central Washington University and Washington
State University.
She is the principal bassoonist of the Walla Walla Symphony. She has been a member of many
musical organizations, including the Boulder Bach Festival, Colorado Music Festival,
Colorado MahlerFest, Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Solstice Wind
Quintet and Colorado Wind
Quintet (faculty ensemble at University of Colorado). As a free
lancer, Susan has performed with the Spokane Symphony, Delaware
Symphony Orchestra, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, and with
various other groups in the East Coast and Colorado. She earned her
doctorate and bachelor's degrees from the University of Colorado and
her master's degree from Florida State University.
Her principal teachers have been William Winstead, Robert Olson,
John Wetherill and Ryohei Nakagawa. When not making reeds, Susan
enjoys hiking, biking, eating fine food and
reading.
Claudia Krone is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Voice at the
University of Idaho. She has been on the voice faculties of
University of Massachusetts and Olivet Nazarene University. She has
had large private vocal studios in Salt Lake City, Utah and Madison,
Wisconsin. She has an M.M. in Vocal Performance from the University
of Illinois and a B.A. in Music Education from Olivet Nazarene
University. Claudia has been a recitalist and guest soloist with
orchestras in Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Idaho and Utah. Her
operatic roles include Mimi in Puccini's La Bohéme, Electra in
Mozart's Idomeneo, and Michaela in Bizet's Carmen. Claudia sings
with the Idaho Washington Concert Chorale and Chamber Choirs where
she served as interim director for the 1999-2000 concert season.
Claudia is an active member of NATS and is deeply committed to the
total development of her students.
Torrey Lawrence joined the faculty of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the
University of Idaho in 1998. He is currently an Associate Professor of Music.
His teaching duties include the tuba/euphonium studio, Concert Band, and
athletic bands including the Vandal Marching Band. Prior to coming to Idaho, he
was the Executive Director of the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra and taught at
Clarke College, Dubuque, IA.
Though originally from Tacoma, Washington, Mr. Lawrence attended Northwestern
University in Evanston, IL. There he studied with Rex Martin and earned both a
Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees. Mr. Lawrence is currently
pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Tuba Performance and Wind Conducting
at the University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, where he studies with Michael Grose and
Robert Ponto.
Mr. Lawrence is currently a member of the
Idaho Brass Quintet, the Walla Walla Symphony, and the
Washington Idaho Symphony. He has also performed recently with
the Spokane Symphony, Oregon Symphony (Portland), Eugene
Symphony, and the Oregon Mozart Players. As a soloist he has
performed over twelve recitals throughout the West and is in
demand as a clinician, adjudicator, and guest conductor.
He and his wife, Sara, live on twenty-three
acres outside of Viola, Idaho, where they have home improvement
projects too numerous to mention. They are supervised by their
yellow Labrador and two cats.
Dr. Jonathan Edward Mann enjoys a dynamic performing and teaching career
that has taken him across the United States and Europe. He is currently
Assistant Professor of Piano at the University of Idaho's Lionel Hampton
School of Music.
Dr. Mann received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in piano performance
under Dr. Karen Shaw from Indiana University, Bloomington, where he was
associate instructor as well as faculty member of the Young Pianist's Program.
He earned his Doctorate in piano performance from the University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music. There he served as teaching assistant to Professor
James Tocco and was on the faculty of the College-Conservatory's Preparatory Department.
Orchestral engagements include the Brevard Orchestra, Indiana University
Symphony Orchestra, North Manchester Symphony, and Fort Wayne Philharmonic,
where his performance of Liszt's Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major was hailed as
"dashing, elegant, and mercurial." Aside from extensive solo and chamber engagements,
Dr. Mann is in high demand as a vocal collaborator. He has served on the faculty
of the Brevard Music Center, coaching vocalists and performing scenes from such
operas as Die Zauberflöte and La Bohčme.
Dr. Mann embraces a diverse repertoire, with a particular interest in the
music of Frédéric Chopin, Leopold Godowsky and Nikolai Kapustin, the subject
of his doctoral dissertation. Dr. Mann's penetrating interpretations of
romantic repertoire have received unanimous praise from critics. A highly
sought-after clinician, Dr. Mann has given numerous lecture recitals and
presentations on such subjects as the pedagogical works of Godowsky, the
transcriptions of Franz Liszt, techniques for teaching class piano, and
introducing jazz to classically trained musicians.
Jay Mauchley, a brilliant soloist and chamber musician, is a
professor of music at the University of Idaho Hampton School of
Music. He received the Master and Doctor of Music degrees in piano
performance with “High Distinction” from Indiana University, where
he studied with Dr. Karen Shaw and Menaham Pressler.
Dr. Mauchley has played hundreds of recitals to critical acclaim
throughout the United States, both as soloist and as collaborative
pianist. He performs and coaches each summer at the Red Lodge Music
Festival and at the Interlochen Center for the Arts. A significant
part of his performing career is as a duo-pianist with his wife,
Sandy.
A popular clinician, adjudicator and renowned teacher, Dr. Mauchley
has taught students who have won several piano competitions, and
many have gone on to receive advanced degrees and become successful
piano teachers and performers. He has been awarded the Master Teacher
Certificate, the highest teaching achievement given by the Music
Teachers’ National Association, and the Alumni Award for Faculty
Excellence at the University of Idaho.
Critics have praised Dr. Mauchley’s “mature artistry,”...”great
range of skills,” and “obvious emotion and charm.” Among his
triumphs was a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme
of Paganini, which one critic called “a quicksilver
performance...Mauchley tossed off the difficult piano part with
technique to spare.”
Sandy Mauchley has been on the UI faculty since 1977; she holds
a graduate degree from the University of Wisconsin. Her teachers and
coaches have included Gunnar Johansen, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Dr.
Karen Shaw (Indiana University). A brilliant accompanist and chamber
musician, she has frequently toured the country, performing with her
husband, Jay Mauchley, as a duo pianist and with soloists and small
instrumental ensembles. A popular clinician, adjudicator and
renowned teacher, Ms. Mauchley has been awarded the Master Teacher
Certificate by the Music Teachers' National Association. The UI
recently awarded Ms. Mauchley the Alumni Award for Faculty
Excellence. Her students, many who now have successful teaching and
performing careers, have won numerous medals, scholarships, and
awards for their outstanding performance abilities. Ms. Mauchley has
developed a curriculum in piano pedagogy and enjoys composing as
well as performing. In addition to her piano teaching duties, she
oversees the piano pedagogy and class piano programs.
James L. Murphy is a Professor of Music and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in
music. He began his post-collegiate career by helping to open Walt Disney World
in Florida (a comment on his age) as a professional entertainer, singing and
dancing with the Mouse as a charter member of the Kids of the Kingdom.
Sensing the need to grow up, he has tried his hand at public school teaching,
church music, composition, music theatre, and professional choral conducting.
He even survived a 3-year stint as music critic for a large newspaper.
Heeding his real calling in life, however, he settled into a career of teaching
in higher education. A former Director of the Lionel Hampton School of Music, he
spent a total of 26 years as a music administrator in Texas, Kansas and Idaho.
In Texas, his choral groups won national and international recognition and
toured extensively. While in Kansas, he was chair of the Kansas Music Teacher
Licensure Redesign Committee. In Idaho, he has been chair of the Alliance for
Arts Education, a consultant to the State Department of Education, and a member
of the Moscow Art Commission. On a national level, he has served on the
boards of several professional organizations, including the National Association
of Schools of Music for which is a visiting evaluator. He is now happily
teaching courses in music theory and film music, and pursuing his lifelong
research interest in the criticism of music in film. It’s a career choice
wherein he can continue to be just one of the kids.
Together with Karen, his first and only
wife of 35 years, Jim is the parent of one daughter, Bethany.
Michael Murphy is the newly appointed Director of Choral Activities and Assistant Professor
of Music of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho.
Dr. Murphy, a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, received his Ph.D in Choral Conducting and
Choral Music Education from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida and Master and Bachelor
degrees in Choral Conducting and Choral Music Education from East Carolina University in Greenville,
North Carolina. Dr. Murphy’s dissertation, Performance Practice of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Passio
secundum Johannem – A Study of Twenty-Five years of Recorded History as Influenced by the Historically
Informed Performance Movement was awarded a grant for dissertation research.
In 2007, Dr. Murphy made his international conducting debut in the People’s Republic of China.
He conducted choirs in concert venues such as the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China,
the Yanshan University in Qinghuandao and Tianjin University in Tianjin. The same year, he conducted
Florida State University Singers at the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) National
Convention in Miami, Florida for the Exhibitors Concert.
Prior to his matriculation to the University of Idaho, Professor Murphy taught many levels from
elementary to university students. His choirs consistently were recognized with distinction earning
all superior ratings at choral festivals. As an active member, Dr. Murphy has held several state
leadership positions in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and the Music Educators
National Conference (MENC). Dr. Murphy continues to serve as an active adjudicator and clinician
for workshops, festivals, honor choirs and clinics.
Michele Paynter Paise, a vocal/general music education
specialist has taught both general and choral music students,
elementary through college level for over 15 years. Prior to
this appointment, Professor Paise taught methods courses at
Middle Tennessee State University and Arizona State University,
where she also directed the ASU Women’s Chorus, the Sun Devil
Singers, and the ASU Concert Choir.
Throughout her career, Paise has been active as a soloist and
choir member, singing in many organizations, including the
Baltimore, Nashville, and Phoenix Symphony Orchestras, the
Nashville Opera Association, the Millbrook Chamber Orchestra,
and the jazz duo, A Weave of Color.
Michele is an active clinician at regional, state and local
levels and teaches Special Topics for the Arizona State
University Kodály Certification program. She has presented
research at local, state, national, and international
conferences and is certified in both the Kodály and
Orff-Schulwerk methodologies. Co-author of Silver Burdett Ginn’s
Music with the Arts and Across the Curriculum, Michele
currently serves as Faculty Advisor for all Collegiate MENC
chapters in the state of Idaho.
Professor Paise’s research interests include identity
perceptions of new teachers, music education in one-room
schools, vocal physiology, and Byzantine music notation. She is
a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, Kappa Delta Pi, the American
Choral Director’s Association and MENC: The National Association
for Music Education.
Paise earned two undergraduate degrees (Vocal Performance and
Music Education) from Shepherd University, a Master of Music
degree in Music Education from the Peabody Conservatory of the
Johns Hopkins University, and is completing her doctoral work at
Arizona State University.
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James Reid, M.M.
Professor of Guitar and Music History
208-885-7169
jreid@uidaho.edu |
Over the past twenty-five years James Reid has performed hundreds
of times throughout the United States and Canada appearing in
concerts for guitar societies, colleges and universities, and for
arts councils. He has also been a featured artist at numerous
festivals including the Sun Waves Guitar Festival in Miami,
the Portland Guitar Festival, Guitar New Orleans, The Guitar
and Lute Institute, the Elkhorn Festival, and the Fairbanks
Summer Music Festival. In addition, his music has been aired on
many public radio and television broadcasts in the west. Mr. Reid
is also the founder of the Northwest Guitar Festival and the director
of the guitar program at the University of Idaho.
Mr. Reid has released seven solo recordings that have been reviewed
favorably both here and abroad. He has commissioned works by Bryan
Johanson, Andrew York, Maximo Diego Pujol, and Gwyneth Walker and
he regularly features recent compositions in his recital programs.
In addition, he performs classics of the guitar repertoire by
composers such as Mertz, Giuliani, Bach, and Sor. Mr. Reid has
three times given presentations at international guitar festivals;
on the music of Abel Carlevaro, on the music of Maximo Diego Pujol,
and on the music of Bryan Johanson. In 1998, he was the recipient
of a grant from the University of Idaho Research Council to record
the music of the 19th century virtuoso-composer Johann Kaspar Mertz.
In September of 1999 his recording, Sounds of the Bard, was featured
on National Public Radio’s Performance Today program. Most recently,
Mr. Reid has released the CD Birds, which features the world premiere
recording of Four American Folksongs by Gwyneth Walker, a piece written
for Mr. Reid in 2006.
In addition to his activities as a performer and teacher Mr. Reid
served for eight years as the Review Editor for Recordings for
Soundboard, the quarterly publication of the Guitar Foundation
of America. He has also served as a judge for numerous state,
regional, national, and international competitions.
For more information on James Reid visit his website:
www.jamesreidguitarist.com
Vanessa Sielert is Assistant Professor of Saxophone
at the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho. Before
moving to Moscow, she was living in the Seattle area with her husband, Vern.
There she kept a busy schedule performing professionally and teaching instrumental
music at Bonney Lake High School in Sumner, Washington. She has served as
professor of saxophone on the faculties of Pacific Lutheran University,
Seattle Pacific University and the University of Southern Illinois. Vanessa received a Bachelor of Music in music education
and saxophone performance from the University of Idaho, a Master of Music
in saxophone performance from Baylor University and a Doctor of Musical Arts
in saxophone performance from the University of Illinois. She has studied
saxophone with Robert Miller, Michael Jacobson, and Debra Richtmeyer.
Vanessa has performed with a wide range of performing
groups including the Emerald City Jazz Orchestra, the Tacoma Symphony Orchestra,
the Federal Way Symphony, Orchestra Seattle, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago.
As a member of the Millennium Saxophone Quartet, she was a medal winner at the
prestigious Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. She has performed
as a soloist and quartet member at conferences of the North American Saxophone
Alliance and at meetings of the World Saxophone Congress in Minneapolis and Montreal.
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Vern
Sielert, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor, Trumpet and Director of Jazz Studies
(208) 885-4955
verns@uidaho.edu |
Vern
Sielert is Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies at the
University of Idaho. From 2001-2006 he was Director of Jazz
Ensembles at the University of Washington, and he has also served
on the faculties of Baylor University, Illinois State University
and Millikin University. Sielert has also directed jazz ensembles
at Normal Community West High School in Normal, Illinois. He
holds BM degrees in jazz studies and music education, and a MM
degree in jazz studies from the University of North Texas, and a
DMA in trumpet performance from the University of Illinois.
Sielert
has been a student of Jack Adams, Keith Johnson, Don Jacoby,
Michael Ewald, and Ray Sasaki. He has performed with artists such
as Rosemary Clooney, Freddie Hubbard, The Spinners, The O’Jays,
Bobby Shew, Don Lanphere, Gerald Wilson and Ralph Carmichael, and
in such diverse settings as the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, the
Illinois Chamber Orchestra, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Norwegian
Cruise Lines, and Walt Disney World. Vern was also a member of
the University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band, which has
recorded several of his compositions and arrangements.
Vern
maintains an active performing schedule with groups such as the
Jim Knapp Orchestra, Emerald City Jazz Orchestra, Seattle
Repertory Jazz Orchestra, and the Jay Thomas Big Band. He can be
heard on recent recordings by Kelly Wright, the Emerald City Jazz
Orchestra, and Phil Kelly’s Northwest Prevailing Winds. Vern is
also an active clinician and adjudicator, and has appeared at
schools and jazz festivals throughout the US, and at conferences
of the Washington Music Educators, MENC Northwest Division, and
the International Association for Jazz Education.
His jazz
trumpet solo transcriptions have appeared regularly in the Journal
of the International Trumpet Guild since 1998, and he was host of
the 2005 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo
Competition at the University of Washington.
Chris Thompson, lyric baritone, earned his D.M.A. in vocal
performance from the University of Kansas, his master of music from
Loyola and his B. Mus. from Kansas State. He has sung with San Diego
Opera, San Diego Comic Opera, Rimrock Opera, Opera Idaho, Rogue
Opera, The CoOPERAtive Opera, Utah Festival Opera Company, New
Orleans Opera, British Youth Opera, University of Kansas Opera, and
Loyola Opera Theatre.
A strong advocate of new music, Chris has appeared in several
readings and world premičres including Guest from the Future with
Nine Circles Chamber Theatre at Lincoln Center, The Scrimshaw Violin
at An Appalachian Summer Festival, Box and Cox at the University of
Utah, and Hester Prynne at Death at CUNY.
In concert, Chris has sung with the Westchester Oratorio Society,
Armor Artis, Canticum Novum, The Louisiana Philharmonic, the Virgin
Consort, St. Jean's Choral Society, Augustana Oratorio Society, the
Kansas City Youth Symphony, the Rogue Valley Chorale, the University
of Kansas Symphony and Wind Ensemble, and the Fort Hays State
University Orchestra in works such as: B minor Mass (Bach),
Magnificat (Bach), St. John and St. Matthew Passions (Bach), the
Requiem masses of Brahms, Faure, and Willan, Messiah and Judas
Maccabeus (Handel), Te Deum (Dvorak), Verspers (Monteverdi),
Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saens), Hodie (Vaughan Williams), African
Portraits (Peterson), and Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams).
Chris is a founding member of the Quinn Arts Players in which he has
collaborated with actors and musicians on original works by New York
author and poet Terry Quinn for the Nathaniel Hawthorne bicentennial
(2004) and premiered new music projects based on poems from Mad for
New Yorktown. In addition, Chris made his Off-Broadway debut as
Daniel Keane in Fermat's Last Tango (Original Cast Recordings) and
is a featured soloist on the recently released CD of music by Joshua
Rosenblum, Impetuosities. (Albany Records)
William Wharton, cellist, is a native of New Orleans, where he
graduated from Tulane University (B.S. Chemistry). He studied with
Gordon Epperson at Louisiana State University and Ohio State
University, where he received the B.M. degree in cello; he received
the M.M. degree from the University of Oklahoma, and the D.M.A.
degree at the University of Arizona. He did further study-- as
principal cellist-- at the Congress of Strings under Theodore
Salzmann and Lorne Monroe, and at the Aspen Music Festival with
Claus Adam.
Dr. Wharton was also principal cellist with Symphony Orchestras in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, Spokane, Washington, Tucson, Arizon and
Youngstown, Ohio as well as assistant principal cellist of the
Oklahoma City Symphony.
In all of the above areas Dr. Wharton has been active as a teacher
and performer, serving on the faculties of the University ofOklahoma,
Eastern Washington State College, the University of Wisconsin and
Youngstown State University while concertizing and appearing for
both radio and TV with the Mutual Broadcasting System, the Armed
Forces Radio Network, National Educational Television, and the
Youngstown State University radio station.
Dr. Wharton has been a recipient of several prizes including a
William Perry Award from the Louisiana Music Teachers Association, a
Holschue String Award from the Oklahoma Bloch Competition, and a
Congress of Strings Award from the American Federation of Musicians.
 | Kevin Woelfel, M.M.
Director of the Lionel Hampton School of Music
208-885-6231
kevinw@uidaho.edu |
Kevin Woelfel has recently been appointed as the Director of the
Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.
Previously, he was the Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for Music
at University of Colorado at Boulder. His diversity in the music industry
includes performance, composition, and manufacturing. At age nineteen, Mr.
Woelfel's professional career began as the Third/Assistant Principal Trumpet
in the Spokane Symphony. Kevin went on to perform over the years with many
orchestras including the Chicago Lyric Opera, Grant Park Orchestra, Rhode
Island Philharmonic, and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. Active in the
jazz and pop genres, he has played with the Larry Elgart Orchestra, Third
World, and numerous touring productions. As a composer and arranger, Mr.
Woelfel was in the U.S. Air Force band program stationed in Vacaville,
California and Yokota, Japan. He has also written and arranged music for
many projects including docudramas for air on National Public Radio. A serial
entrepreneur, Kevin has founded several companies including WolfPak
Incorporated, and Rocky Mountain Case Works, both of which produce high-end
music instrument cases for international distribution. He was also Director
of Operations for the David G. Monette Corporation, manufacturer of exclusive
custom trumpets. Most recently, Mr. Woelfel has founded ArtsStart.org to
distribute his opportunity analysis tool called I'mART.
Kay Marie Zavislak is an Assistant Professor of Piano
at the University of Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music.
Born and raised in Japan, Ms. Zavislak attended the Tōhō
Gakuen High School of Music, one of the most prestigious
conservatories in her native country. From 1996 to 2007, Ms.
Zavislak resided in Michigan, where she earned the degrees
Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts
from the University of Michigan. Prior to her appointment at the
University of Idaho, Ms. Zavislak held positions as an applied and
classroom piano instructor at Schoolcraft College (Livonia, MI),
Albion College (Albion, MI), and the University of Michigan.
Ms. Zavislak has performed extensively in Michigan, Florida, Illinois,
Louisiana, New York, Ohio, Texas, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy,
Japan, and Poland. Concert appearances include featured soloist with
the University Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance of Prokofiev’s
Piano Concerto No. 1 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a lecture
recital featuring the piano music of Toru Takemitsu, and appearances in the
Chopin Project at the University of Michigan, which was praised as one of
the most successful events in the history of the School of Music.
In 2001, Ms. Zavislak was named a winner of the concerto competition at
the University of Michigan. Her other awards include second prize in the
Richardson Young Artist Award Competition and third prize in the William
Byrd International Concerto Competition. Among the scholarships and fellowships
Ms. Zavislak has received are the Benning Dexter Scholarship for Piano,
Elsie Gardner Stanley Piano Scholarship, Joseph Brinkman Memorial Scholarship,
Alice Kern Pedagogy Award, and a University of Michigan Graduate Fellowship.
Ms. Zavislak has studied under the guidance of Arthur Greene, Logan Skelton,
Yoshie Kora, and Miyoko Hamamoto.
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Jenny Warner
Administrative Assistant II
Office Phone: (208) 885-6233
Office Location: Lionel Hampton School of Music, Room 206
jwarner@uidaho.edu
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Jenny has worked for the
University of Idaho on and off since 1978 and for the Lionel
Hampton School of Music since 1990. A native of Potlatch, Jenny
lives there with her husband Bill, a University of Idaho
chemist. Jenny has a wide range of interests which include
collecting 19th Century cookbooks, housekeeping
guides, and other Victorian era prescriptive literature. She
also enjoys spending time with her two grown children Jim and
Wendy, her large extended family, working in her flower garden,
and scrapbooking.
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Sarah Ritchie
Administrative Assistant II
Office Phone: (208) 885-6231
Office Location: Lionel Hampton School of Music, Room 206
sritchie@uidaho.edu
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Sarah is fairly new to the University of
Idaho Lionel Hampton School of Music. Born and raised in Walla
Walla, WA she received her Bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young
University- Idaho in the spring of 2008. Sarah lives with her
husband, Brandon, a student at the University of Idaho College
of Law. Music has always been a part of her life and she
especially enjoys singing and playing the piano. Some of her
hobbies outside of her career include making crafts, decorating,
running, and spending time with her family.
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Robin Ohlgren
Auditorium Chamber Music Series Coordinator
Phone: (208) 885-7557
rohlgren@uidaho.edu
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Since
arriving to the Palouse in 1978, Robin has worked with various
arts and educational organizations throughout the region. She’s
a founding member of the early music ensemble, Carliol Consort;
a capricious alto with the UI Chorus and Idaho-Washington
Concert Chorale; and a steady presence in activities sponsored
by the Moscow Arts Commission, the Moscow Food Co-op and the Hog
Heaven Handspinners. Having traveled extensively and lived
abroad with her two children in Paraguay, Tonga, Nepal, Jamaica
and Cambodia, she remains active in the international community
as a local coordinator for high school exchange students. Robin
joined the Auditorium Series in the summer of 2004. In spring
of 2006, she earned a Certificate in Arts Management from the
University of Massachusetts – Amherst.
Kurt was born and raised in Ann Arbor,
Michigan where he attended the public school system and
graduated from Ann Arbor Huron High in 1972.
He played French Horn all through school
and twice was awarded scholarships to attend the all-state camp
at Interlochen.
In 1974 Kurt began a two year training
program at the Detroit School for Piano Technicians. Upon
completion, he moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico to establish a
clientele.
In 1980 Kurt moved to Anchorage, Alaska and
found a large demand for Piano Technicians. He joined the Piano
Technicians Guild and passed the exams to become certified as a
Registered Piano Technician. He has been to all of the Steinway
Factory training seminars including a week of private study in
concert preparation with Franz Mohr.
As Technician for the University of Alaska,
the Anchorage Concert Association, and the Anchorage Symphony
Orchestra he had the opportunity to work with some of the worlds
finest musicians in all fields of music.
Kurt has been a sailing enthusiast from age
10 and beginning in 1997 took three extended summers to explore
the West Coast from Seward, Alaska to San Diego, California
single handing a 30 foot sailboat. He moved to Long Beach, CA.
in 2000 and earned his 100 ton Masters License as a Merchant
Marine. He spent five summers driving high speed passenger
ferries to and from Catalina Island.
As the lead Contract Technician for Kawai
America from 2003 to January of 2008, Kurt worked preparing
pianos for trade shows, concerts, and recording studios and
attended the Shigeru Kawai training seminar.
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For more information contact the College of Letters, Arts
and Social Sciences at 208-885-6426 or class@uidaho.edu.
© 2003 University of Idaho. All rights reserved.
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