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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Roger Cole |
Clarinet,
Music History |
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Mary DuPree |
History,
Musicology |
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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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Susan Billin |
Organ |
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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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Ian
Sinclair |
Jazz Piano |
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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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Tracy
Perry |
Coach/Accompanist |
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Chris Thompson |
Voice, Opera
Workshop |
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Cheryl Weiss |
Voice
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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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Chris Thompson |
University
Chorus |
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Michele
Paise |
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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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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Chris Robinson
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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, has studied with Cleveland Orchestra members John Mack and
Felix Kraus. She received bachelor's and master's degrees from North
Texas State University, where she studied with Charles Veazey, and
is now working towards a doctorate in musicology at Kent State
University. Prior to joining the UI faculty in 1989 she was program
annotator and on-call oboist for the Kansas City Symphony. She has
published articles and given many papers on various topics,
includingoboe pedagogy, 19th-century chamber music, and the music of
Francis Poulenc. She is a member of the American Musicological
Society, the International Double Reed Society, Sigma Alpha Iota,
and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honorary.
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.
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.
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, a secondary music education specialist, joins
the UI music faculty in fall 2006. Her experience has been as a
middle and high school band director in Kentucky and North
Carolina and she recently taught woodwind methods at Meredith
College in Raleigh, NC. Her bands have 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 Fayetteville Symphony. She has been in demand as
a woodwind clinician and has worked as an adjudicator for North
Carolina concert band and solo and ensemble festivals.
Loraine can be heard on recordings of the UNCG Wind Ensemble:
equus, internal combustion, october, and whirr.
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. Her dissertation, in progress,
is a survey of band director clarinet tone quality preferences.
Her research interest concerns the effects of instrumental music
participation on middle and high school students and on senior
adults. She is also currently writing a book about UNCG Director
of Bands, John Locke.
Leonard
Garrison is Assistant Professor of Flute and Ear Training at the
University of Idaho. In summers, he teaches and performs at Blue
Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan and the Red Lodge Music Festival
in Montana. His recent CD, “Superflute,” has 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.”
Garrison has
been flutist in The Scott/Garrison Duo, the Chicago Symphony
(including a 2004 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, and he has served as
Treasurer and Secretary of The National Flute Association.
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 paritcular 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’s students 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 Theory and also the Director
of the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho in
Moscow. Prior to his arrival in Moscow in July 1999, he was the
Chair of the Department of Music at Fort Hays State University in
Kansas. His previous experience in higher education includes six
years as the Esther Becker Simplot Professor of Performing and Fine
Arts at Albertson College of Idaho (formerly The College of Idaho)
and eleven years in Texas colleges.
A native of Greenville, South Carolina, Dr. Murphy holds a Bachelor
of Music degree with double majors in Music Theory/Composition and
Church Music from Stetson University. He earned a Master of Music
degree with double majors in Conducting and Voice from Southwestern
Baptist Seminary, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Music Theory
with a collateral area in Fine Arts Administration from Texas Tech
University. As a charter member of Walt Disney World's "Kids of the
Kingdom," Dr. Murphy began his professional career in Florida where
he was also a high school choir director. Since 1970, he has
maintained an active schedule as a choral clinician and adjudicator.
He was musical director and conductor of the Boise Master Chorale
from 1990 to 1993, and was the inaugural director of the Boise River
Festival Grand Finale Chorale. Dr. Murphy holds active memberships
in the American Choral Directors Association, National Association
of Teachers of Singing, Music Educators National Conference, and the
College Music Society.
He has served on the board of directors of several organizations
including the Idaho Alliance for Arts Education, the Caldwell Fine
Arts Series, the Idaho Music Educators Association, the Kansas Music
Educators Association, and the Kansas Choral Directors Association.
He is the author of numerous concert reviews, commentaries, and
articles. Dr. Murphy and his wife, Karen, are the parents of one
daughter, Bethany.
Michele Paynter Paise, vocal/general music specialist
and director of the Vandaleers Concert Choir is beginning her
first year at UI. 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.
Throughout her career, Paise has been active as both a soloist and choir member,
singing with the Baltimore, Nashville, and Phoenix Symphony Orchestra Choruses,
the Nashville Opera Association, the Millbrook Chamber Orchestra, and the jazz duo,
A Weave of Color.
An active clinician at both the state and local level, Paise has taught both general
and choral music students, elementary through college level for the last 14 years.
She has presented research at local, state, and national conferences and is certified
in both the Kodály and Orff-Schulwerk methodologies. Recently, Paise co-authored the
text, Music with the Arts and Across the Curriculum, which was published by Silver Burdett Ginn.
Professor Paise’s research interests include stages of growth 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.
Paise lives with her husband, John and their dog, Victoria.
Tracy Perry enjoys a wide variety of teaching
and performance opportunities as a collaborative artist, vocal
coach, and solo pianist. Tracy earned her B.M. degree in both piano
performance and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point and her M.M. degree in piano performance and accompanying at
the University of Utah. Tracy is currently finishing her doctoral
studies in piano with a minor in neurophysiology at the University
of Arizona where her research focuses on the neurological and
physical bases for human finger independence. While a graduate
assistant at the University of Arizona, Tracy was the principal
vocal coach for the opera theatre department and most recently, the
Arizona premiere of Mark Adamo’s Little Women at the School
of Music in April 2006. Tracy has performed in masterclasses with
Mischa Dichter, Robert Shannon, Gary Kirkpatrick, Graham Scott, and
the Pro Arte String Quartet. She was the pianist at a reception for
former Secretary of Defense, Melvin Laird, and the opening of the
Laird Research Center in Marshfield, Wisconsin, in 1996, and she
appeared in a masterclass with Maria del Pico Taylor at the Music
Teachers National Convention in Salt Lake City in 2003. Away from
the piano, favorite activities include mountain biking, traveling,
and skiing.
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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
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Vanessa Sielert, D.M.A.
Assistant Professor,
Saxophone and Jazz Bands
(208) 885-6158
vanessas@uidaho.edu
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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.
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Ian
Sinclair, M.Mus.
Knickerbocker Piano Artist in Residence
(208) 885-7362
ians@uidaho.edu
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Ian Sinclair is the new Paula Knickerbocker Artist-in-Residence and a
Lecturer at the University of Idaho. He will be performing on-campus
throughout the year in various guises including with the Faculty Jazz Sextet,
and will be teaching jazz piano courses and a Core Discovery class related to jazz.
His educational background includes a M.Mus in Jazz Performance from the
University of North Texas. While attending, he studied with Eddie Gomez's
regular pianist, Stefan Karlsson, and with renowned educator and pianist,
Dan Haerle. At UNT, he performed with the 2 O'Clock Lab Band, one of the
most respected college big bands in the United States, as well as an electronic
music group, The Zebras. In addition, as a teaching assistant, he directed
the UNT 6 O'Clock Lab Band for a year. Earlier, he received Bachelor's degrees
in Music Education and Education from the University of Saskatchewan in Canada.
In between, he also did further study in jazz performance at the University of
McGill in Montreal, Quebec where he studied with some of the most famous Canadian jazz players.
He spent much of the last three years performing regularly
as a jazz artist in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in clubs and for
private functions. This included performances with his own quintet
and as a sideman. He was recently recognized for his work with the
Donohoe/Goynes Quintet which were co-winners of the 2007 Down Beat
award for Outstanding College Jazz Combo. In addition, he was included
on four selections on the recently released collection of UNT small
group recordings, Etranger, including two selections as leader.
While in the DFW area, he was also a very active commercial musician.
He was a regular member of well-established acts in the area including R&B/jazz mainstay
Fingerprints and Dallas's most recognized commercial cover band, Emerald City Band.
In this vein, he performed at the most prominent DFW public venues including
American Airlines Center and the Gaylord Convention Center as well as for the
most high-profile events, including an event for former NYC mayor Rudy Guiliani.
In addition, he served as a regular choral accompanist for First Baptist Church in
Coppell. Prior experience included work in jazz clubs in Edmonton and Montreal in
Canada and as a pianist for cruise ship showbands.
Prior teaching experience has included some instrumental band instruction in
Canadian public schools, and studio piano teaching in both jazz and beginner
piano. While at UNT, he was part of the Community Music Teaching program as a
private piano teacher and, as mentioned, he was also director of the 6 O'Clock Lab Band.
He is originally from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada - a small town in the Prairies
above North Dakota.
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)
Cheryl Weiss has had an extensive career as a performer,
workshop presenter, and educator. Her musical training includes
a Bachelor of Music degree in voice/music education from Boston University,
a Master of Fine Arts degree in vocal performance from the University of
California - Irvine, and post-graduate vocal studies and master classes.
She is a past winner of the Music Teachers National Association national
vocal award. As a voice teacher, Cheryl’s students have been selected for
participation in All-State, MENC All-Eastern, and ACDA national choirs;
local and regional theater roles; and the Boston University Tanglewood
Institute. Many of those singers have gone on to win voice and/or musical
theatre scholarships at top university and conservatory programs throughout
the country. In addition, Cheryl holds a Master of Education degree in
counseling psychology - emphasis in sports psychology - from Boston University.
She completed a post-graduate internship in New York City, adapting the mental
skills training utilized by athletes for both performing artists and public speakers.
A member of Pi Lambda Theta (national education honor society) and the
Association for the Advancement of Applied Sports Psychology, Cheryl is
currently a Ph.D. student in the division of HPERD at U of I, majoring in
sport psychology and philosophy.. She also teaches mental skills training
and presentational techniques privately, voice lessons at the University of
Idaho’s Lionel Hampton School of Music and Voice for the Stage in the Department
of Theatre and Film. She is director of music at the Unitarian Universalist
Church in Moscow, Idaho. The University of Arizona's School of Music and
Dance, University of Arizona Teaching Center, Southern Arizona chapter of
NATS, Arizona Opera Chorus, University of Arizona’s Eller School of Business
and Public Administration, the Arizona conference of the American Choral
Director's Association, Arizona Screen Actor's Guild, Opera Guild of Southern
Arizona, Washington State Music Educator’s Association, Mesa and Pima Community
Colleges, the University of South Alabama, the University of Idaho, Washington
State University have hosted Cheryl's workshops.
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.
STAFF
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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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