Lorie Enloe, PhD, a secondary instrumental music education specialist, joined the UI music faculty in fall 2006.  She is a graduate of Transylvania University, where she was a clarinet performance and music education double major.  She completed a Masters in Music Education and a PhD in Music Education at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.  Her doctoral dissertation, The Effects of Clarinet Embouchure on Band Director Tone Quality Preferences, is a study of the effects of facial muscle tension on clarinet timbre and teacher tone quality preferences.  Her other research interests concern the effects of instrumental music participation on middle and high school students and professional development for in-service music teachers..  She is also currently writing a book about UNCG Director of Bands, John Locke. 

Lorie recently presented Teaching Beginning flute and Clarinet Students:  A Focus on Characteristic Tone Quality at the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, December 2007.  She will present an acoustics paper at the International Society for Music Education Conference in July 2008, Effects of Embouchure on Clarinet Timbre.  She recently provided information about experienced teacher licensure in  Idaho, Washington, and Oregon for the Society for Music Teacher Educators: 

http://smte-professional-development.wikispaces.com/

In May 2007,she was awarded the Idaho State Board of Education Technology Incentive Grant to facilitate music teacher access to the University of Idaho Master of Music Education program.

 She has experience 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 Idaho, Montana, and North Carolina concert band and solo and ensemble festivals. Enloe is currently the bass clarinetist with the Coeur D’Alene Symphony and also played with the 2007 Opera Plus performances of Madama Butterfly..

Lorie can be heard on recordings of the UNCG Wind Ensemble: equus, internal combustion, october, whirr, and Comet, the Wonderdog.  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.