Words of Note, 2007: Introducing . . . Longhorn Music

The Magazine of The UniversiTy of Texas school of MUsic

School Hosts Debussy Congress .....................4Reknowned international scholars and performers convene at UT.

Butler Opera Center ................................. 5Debussy performances at International Congress launch season.

Introducing Longhorn Music........................ 2The School of Music unveils its new record label.

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

Faculty ......................................................11

New Faculty ................................................18

Students .....................................................20

In Memoriam ...............................................24

Guests .......................................................25

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

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

SCHOOL of MUSICCollege of Fine Arts

The University of Texasat Austin

DirectorB. Glenn Chandler

Associate DirectorsMichael C. TusaScott S. Hanna

Assistant to the DirectorWinton Reynolds

Director of Graduate StudiesHunter C. March

Director of Undergraduate StudiesMarianne Wheeldon

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Sept. 2006–Aug. 2007

Editor/DesignJohn Wimberley

PublicityKathryn Van Zandt

ContributorsCharles ClarkBetty Mallard

Winton ReynoldsGlenn RichterNathan RussellMark Sarisky

Kathryn Van Zandt

Cover DesignAshley Kjos,AKA Design

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I am pleased to offer you the latest edition of Words of Note, which recounts School of Music activities for 2006-07. We are proud of the accomplishments of our students, faculty, and alumni, and know that you look forward to keeping up with your alma mater and former classmates.

One of the major events of 2006-07 was the retirement of Professor Phyllis Young af-ter 54 years of teaching at The University of Texas. Few people achieve such a record and she will be sorely missed by all of us. She indicated to me that she was not really retiring but rather refo-cusing her work so that she can do more workshops around the world. Also retiring this year are Professor Lita Guerra, who came to the piano faculty in 1957, and Professor Frank Speller, who be-gan teaching organ here in 1966. Both, however, will be return-ing to teach part-time next year, so we will have longer to say goodbye to them. You will have an opportunity to read about all three of these long-term faculty members later in this magazine. And you will also have opportunity to read about the new faculty who joined us this year.

This past year brought many highlights, which we are pleased to bring to your attention. The UT Wind Ensem-ble performed at the Napa Valley Festival in California. The UT Trombone Choir again won first prize in the International Trombone Association competition as did the UT Jazz Bones in their division of the competition. Both groups were featured in performances at the ITA national conference this summer in Las Vegas. These are examples of the excellence in performance that permeates the UT School of Music.

The cover story for this edition of Words of Note marks the unveiling of Longhorn Music, the School of Music’s own recording label. This initiative, born and nurtured in the Center for American Music, is the result of lots of work by many people. Longhorn Music is designed to function as a lab for students in the Recording Technology and Music Business degree programs under the guidance of

our faculty. The label will provide the perfect vehicle to showcase our talented students, artist faculty, and guest artists, and at the same time allow us to archive music that might not otherwise be preserved in recorded form by commercial companies. You will learn much more about it in the pages that follow, but suffice it to say that because the Longhorn Music label touches on every aspect of the School of Music it will truly be our window to the

world. By the way, we held up publication of this issue of Words of Note until all the legal hurdles were cleared for us to go public, so please forgive us for being later than usual this year.

This past year saw the establish-ment of seven new endowments in the School of Music, including scholarships, professorships, and other forms of program-matic support. For these we are most grateful. But as we continue to enhance the quality of our program and recruit more talented students our need for such support increases expo-nentially. We continue to seek additional student support that will allow us to compete with

other fine schools for these very talented students. This is the top priority in the School of Music. We need your help in addressing this issue.

Finally, we hope you will visit us when you have an opportunity and attend some of our 500 annual concerts and recitals. If you cannot attend in person, then we invite you to join us for a live web cast. You can find in-formation about programs that are web cast on our web site at www.music.texas.edu by clicking on “Upcoming Events.” And please do write us to let us know that you were listening.

We hope to see you soon.

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Butler Opera Center production of The Scarecrow New recording by Marianne Gedigian and Rick Rowley

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In the fall of 2007, the School of Music embarked upon a new era at The University of Texas when it unveiled Longhorn Music, the official UT record label.

Longhorn Music aspires to capture the best musical moments that the school offers and distribute them to a worldwide audience, while pro-viding an innovative hands-on education for students hoping to make a career in the music industry. Housed within the Center for American Mu-sic, the project serves as an incubator for students studying recording technology and music business, giving them real-world experience with the operation of a label at every stage of the production process—from recording and mastering, through copyrighting, licensing, distribution and marketing. In addition to providing a new avenue for showcasing the diverse and talented artists within the School, Longhorn Music will serve to archive and preserve music with historical and research merit that is often overlooked by commercial labels.

This enterprise is a collaborative effort between the Recording Tech-nology and Music Business programs within the School of Music’s Jazz and Music Industry Division. Projects begin in Recording Technology, where students working under Professor Mark Sarisky gain hands-on experience in both live and studio recording, as well as the post-production process. They have the chance to apply their classroom studies to practical situations, complete with the same challenges and complications they’ll face when working in the music industry. Students enter into their careers better equipped for future challenges, and with viable commercial recordings already on their résumé. They’ll also get to work with a wide variety of artists from both inside and outside the university. Longhorn Music plans to release recordings of student ensembles, faculty artists, and a diverse group of commercial artists from outside the UT system. This will expose students to a vast array of practical applications, while giving them a preview of the opportunities that are possible when working with world-class musicians.

Work on debut releases began even as the center was finalizing the details for Longhorn Music. In fall of 2007, production was completed for the label’s upcoming release, On the Cusp, by the UT Faculty Jazz.A collection of improvisations and original compositions by UT Jazz faculty, On the Cusp is a testament to the vitality of jazz in the 21st

century. During the recording, Professor Sarisky was assisted by UT junior Recording Technology student, Ed Ablan. Ablan served as second engineer on the project, gaining invaluable work experience in one of the finest recording studios in the world, The Texas Treefort. Nestled on a sprawling 7-acre compound in the Texas hill country, The Texas Treefort has become a sought-after destination for numerous worldwide acts including Blues Traveler, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Los Super Sevens, and countless others. Ablan’s opportunity to work with internationally acclaimed musicians in a state-of-the-art facility is a model example of the initiative’s educational value.

On the Cusp is just one of four recordings the label will release this year. Longhorn Music has already released Revolution, a dazzling collection of romantic violin works performed by acclaimed faculty performers Marianne Gedigian, flute, and Rick Rowley, piano. These lesser-known solo violin pieces by such composers as Stravinsky, Pierné, and Dvorák were beautifully transcribed by Gedigian and Rowley for flute and piano, breathing new life into the pieces, while making a sizable con-tribution to existing flute repertoire (the artists plan to support their work by making the transcriptions available to other performers). “One of the highlights of my short time here at the School of Music was be-ing able to record Marianne and Rick,” said Sarisky, who engineered the recording. “Both are obviously amazing musicians from a technical standpoint, but the passion with which they approached the sessions and their level of professionalism made the project a joy to record. Each day I was treated to an outstanding private concert. Talk about a guilty pleasure.” Revolution is currently available at fluteworld.com and flute4u.com.

In addition to these faculty recordings, the label is in the process of releasing two live performances from student ensembles this year: The University of Texas Chamber Singers and Orchestra, and the Butler Opera Center.

The Chamber Singers’ Sacred Music of Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia presents several works by this renowned Brazilian composer, including the premier recording of the recently re-discovered Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição. Under the direction of Professor James Morrow, the UT Chamber Singers and Orchestra gave the work’s first

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performance in 195 years on the UT campus in Austin two years ago. The recording was made a year later as the group toured the work throughout Brazil. This project is a prime example of one of the label’s missions to expose audiences to lesser-known works that otherwise may be overlooked by traditional labels. Longhorn Music will use productions from renowned faculty and commercial artists to help provide the funding required to record these types of works that may not have immediate commercial appeal, but have tremendous research and historical value. The final debut production is the long-awaited release of New York composer Joseph Turrin’s opera The Scarecrow, captured during the UT Butler Opera Center’s (BOC) world premier of the work in February 2006. Based on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Feathertop: A Moralized Legend, the story follows a scarecrow that is animated by a jovial witch and given the task of wooing the town maiden. The opera has received wide critical acclaim by groups such as the National Opera Association and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the BOC’s production recently appeared on the cover of the Winter 2007 edition of Opera America Magazine. “It’s important that contemporary composers have a venue for their works to be recorded for future audiences,” said Robert DeSimone, director of the BOC. “We are delighted to be given the honor of releasing the premier recording of such an important modern work.” All four debut recordings will be available commercially in the first half of 2008 when the label officially launches. The discs will be obtainable from the School of Music website in the near future, and distribution through popular online retailers such as Amazon and iTunes is also being negotiated.

Longhorn Music has several new projects already in the pipeline and will continue to broaden in scope eventually to encompass releases by all of the School’s elite ensembles. Important artists from outside the UT community will augment this core resulting in a rich and varied catalogue. In order to manage the recordings and make sure they find

an audience, Longhorn Music faculty and staff will oversee day-to-day operations, assisted by students from the Music Business program. Like their colleagues in Recording Technology, these students will discover first-hand what it takes to manage a successful music business. Through internships and coursework, they’ll learn how to secure copyright licensing, market their product, and manage distribution channels, among the many other operational challenges that any business encounters. This process will allow the students the opportunity to interact and network with multiple local, national, and international artists and business professionals, giving them not only great applied experience, but also vital working relationships within the industry. By the time the students graduate, they’ll already have a strong network of

contacts in the music business. However, beyond just giving them experience with current trends in the music business, the initiative will push students to think creatively about the future of the industry. As the music industry continues to struggle with the digital age, Longhorn Music will be the cut-

ting edge of how music will be distributed in the future. By challenging UT students to think outside the box it is possible that the next best distribution system will come out of Longhorn Music.

With such a powerful debut, and ambitious plans for the future, Long-horn Music promises to have a striking impact on all areas of the School of Music. While serving the educational and research missions of the University, it gives the School an unprecedented opportunity to pres-ent the vast creativity of faculty and students to a broader audience. The project will forge valuable inroads into the competitive world of music, providing lasting benefits to students and faculty alike. “Every-one knows the record industry is undergoing huge changes, as digital music distribution is replacing traditional channels,” said Professor Glenn Richter from the Center for American Music. “As the industry goes through these changes it’s more important than ever that we are pre-paring our students for real careers in the industry, and providing new avenues into the marketplace for our student and faculty performers and composers. This new venture is perfectly positioned to do just that.”

New recording by UT Jazz Faculty

Longhorn Music aspires to capture the best musical moments that the school offers and distribute them to a world-wide audience, while providing an innovative hands-on education for students . . .

UT Chamber Singers perform works of José Mauricio Nunes Garcia


The School of Music hosted an International Debussy Con-gress in October of 2006, bringing a group of the most re-

nowned Debussy scholars and performers from across the U.S. and Europe to the UT campus. The congress combined scholarly forums and lectures with performances of Debussy’s work that culminated with the U.S. premier of Debussy’s opera La Chute de la Maison, (Fall of the House of Usher) by the Butler Opera Center (BOC).

“Debussy was the most influential composer in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century,” said Elliot Antokoletz, Professor of Musicol-ogy. Together with Marianne Wheel-don, Professor of Theory and noted

Debussy scholar, and Professor Robert DeSimone, Director of the Butler Opera Center, Antokoletz assembled a group of the world’s most acclaimed Debussy scholars to participate in the congress, including Denis Herlin, Robert Orledge, Jann Pasler, Richard Langham Smith, Roy Howat, James Briscoe, Marie Rolf, Kenneth Caswell, and Mark Devoto.

Attendees participated in formal lectures during the day and attended performances of Debusy’s work each evening. “We wanted to represent the many sides of Debussy and his work,” Antokoletz remarked, “so we scheduled a variety of performances, including a vocal recital, solo piano concert, an evening of chamber music, and of course, the opera. We also wanted the scholarly presentations to be broad. Debussy was

a pianist, composer, music critic, and teacher.”

The Congress opened with a recep-tion and exhibition at UT’s Harry Ransom Center. The Center’s Carlton Lake collection of French manu-scripts, first-edition books, photos and various other media, is widely regarded as one of the world’s fin-est collections of modern French art, music, and literature. It contains an impressive sample of Debussy manuscripts. Following the exhibi-tion, renowned French soprano Fré-dérique Added gave a performance

of Debussy’s vocal music in Jessen Auditorium.

Thursday and Friday were filled with scholarly presentations on topics ranging from analysis of specific Debussy works, to discussions on his influences, his use of poetry, and his significant influence on the music of his time. On Thursday evening, Roy Howatt from London’s Royal Academy of Music gave a performance of Debussy’s piano works that included the Estampes, Three Études, and Préludes, Book 1.

On Friday, the Butler Opera Center presented three works which spanned the length of Debussy’s career, including his first and last compositions, and a third song cycle from early in his career.

The production opened with a presentation of Debussy’s famous Chanson de Bilitis. Originally written for voice and piano, this perfor-mance was the world premier of a new orchestration for the work by Robert Orledge.

The Center then presented De-bussy’s first composition, L’Enfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Child), a can-tata that was staged by BOC Direc-tor Robert DeSimone, before closing with the U.S. premiere of Debussy’s final work, La Chute de la Maison, a chamber opera that was only recently completed and orchestrated by Orledge.

“The opera was not completed by Debussy in his lifetime, and for years it was uncertain how close Debussy had come to completing it,” explained Marianne Wheeldon. “After his death, whenever Debussy’s wife was short of money, she would break up his manuscripts and sell them, so it wasn’t until years later, when all the pieces of the manuscript were brought back together, that it became clear just how close Debussy was to finishing.”

Orledge used clues in Debussy’s piano score to complete and orchestrate the opera. He then spent several weeks working closely with DeSimone and Conductor David Neely in final rehearsals leading up to the premiere.

The Opera Center ’s production opened to wide acclaim from Austin audiences and the congress partici-pants and scholars in attendance.

The final concert for the congress was an evening of Debussy cham-ber music performed by the School of Music's renowned performance faculty. The concert featured per-formances by Marianne Gedigian, flute; Delaine Fedson, harp; Brian Lewis, violin; Rick Rowley, piano; and the Miró Quartet.

The Congress closed with a day of informal forums that in-cluded a panel discussion with Orledge, Neely, and DeSimone on the staging of Debussy’s Usher, and question and answer sessions with Roy Howatt and Kenneth Caswell, a noted De-bussy scholar who resides in Austin.

School Hosts International Debussy Congress

Roy HowatRobert Orledge

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As part of the Debussy Congress, the Butler Opera Center presented a triad of Debussy works spanning his career. Top: Chanson de Bilitis, with premier of orchestration by Robert Orledge. BOC faculty members David Small (above left) and William Lewis (left) perform with students in La Chute de la Maison Usher. Below: Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue

The Sarah and Ernest Butler Opera Center, directed by Robert DeSimone, opened the 2006–07 season with the American premiere of Claude Debussy’s last opera, The Fall of the House of Usher, as the centerpiece of the Claude Debussy International Congress

hosted by the School of Music in October. Also included during the season was a February production of Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, a special production of Gordon Getty's opera Plump Jack, and an Opera Studio Evening in April.

In the spring semester, the UT Undergraduate Opera, directed by William Lewis, officially became part of the Butler Opera Center, and will be known as the Butler Opera Ensemble. The spring production of the group, conducted by William Lewis and directed by DMA opera directing major Alan Hicks, was a highly successful performance of Orpheus in the Underworld.

Butler Opera Center productions of The Fall of the House of Usher and The Turn of the Screw were nominated for the Austin Critics Table Awards for 2006–07; BOC singers Gerardo Ra-mos, Phillip Hill, Agnes Votjko, and Julie Anne Hamula also received nominations. Voice faculty nominations went to David Small for Austin Lyric Opera’s The Barber of Seville and to Nikita Storojev for the Austin Symphony performance of an all-Shostakovich evening. Phillip Hill received the award for his performances in The Fall of the House of Usher and in the title role of Plump Jack.

All photographs by Mark Rutkowski


Lori Bade (DMA 1994) was recently promoted to Professor of Voice and Interim Director of Graduate Studies for the School of Music at Louisiana State University. She performs opera and oratorio around the nation, most recently with Pensacola Opera, Mobile Opera, and New Orleans Opera. She has been mezzo soprano soloist with the Austin Symphony Orchestra, Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, and others. Bade remains an active recitalist. She has served as Visiting Professor of Voice

in Salzburg, Austria, and at the Universidad Federal di Piaui in Brazil.

Butler Opera Center graduate Ben Bear (MM 2006) recently joined Sarasota Opera’s Apprentice Artists Program, a season-long intensive training program for young singers.

Christine Erlander Beard (MM 1998, DMA 2003) was the featured piccolo soloist at the 2006 International Wind Music History Symposium and Vintage Brass Band Festival in Northfield, Minnesota. She also presented a paper entitled “The Solo Piccolo in the 19th Century.” In September, she and Michelle Vigneau (DMA 2004) presented a lecture recital of Latin-American works for flute and oboe at the College Music Society National Convention in San Antonio. Beard was interviewed and featured as piccoloist of the month on the website “piccoloist.com.” In October,

she was the featured guest artist at the Hot Springs Flute Ensemble Flute Festival. Beard is Assistant Professor of Flute and Coordinator of Woodwind Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Molly Bensinger-Lacy is Principal of Graham Road Focus School for Languages and Fine Arts in the Fairfax County Public Schools of Virginia, where she has been an elementary school administrator for 24 years. Among the duties of her job, she considers it important to give children access to top quality professional performances and the opportunity to become musicians.

Herbert Bilhartz (BM 1950) retired in 1977 as US Army Bandmaster after 26 years service in Armed Forces Bands. He served as Band Di-rector in the Medina, Texas, school district from 1978 to 1980. He later established the Fest-Musik-Haus company to import arrangements from German publishers and make them available to American band directors. He also founded and directs two volunteer concert bands:

the Hermann Sons German Band in San Anto-nio, and Blasmusik Texas, a 45-member band which will perform at New Braunfels Wurstfest in November.

Cynthia Fadely Carlton (BM 1977) recently finished her master’s degree in church music from Shenandoah Con-servatory at Shenandoah University in Virginia. Degree requirements included both vocal and conducting recitals. She continues to perform and teaches music in Fairfax County public schools.

Brian Cassidy (BM 2002, MM 2004) is guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with the band Okkervil River, whose fifth full-length album was released

Alumni

Don T. Haynes, Jr., Director of Bands at LBJ High School in Austin, was honored in a formal ceremony in April

2007 when the newly built performance hall at the school was officially named the Donald T. Haynes, Jr., Theater. Music for the ceremony was furnished by the LBJ Jazz Band and Wind Symphony, and speakers included school administrators, band mem-bers, and parents. As a child, Haynes studied piano, trumpet, French horn, flute, clari-net, and cello. He earned a bach-elor’s degree in music at UT and was a member of the Longhorn Marching Band. He completed a master’s degree at UT, specializing in instrumental music conducting.

He was Assistant Band Director at Anderson High School in Austin before being named Director at LBJ High School in 1975. Mr. Haynes has been awarded the prestigious, statewide De-nius Award by the University Interscholastic League (UIL). His colleagues at LBJ High School have selected him Teacher of the Year four times. He is frequently invited to conduct

regional bands in Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Florida. He has held advisory positions with the TMEA and the UIL for many years. Under his leadership, the LBJ Band’s accomplishments have been numerous—marching in the London New Year’s Day Parade, tours of France and China, and appearances in Paris and Honolulu. LBJ Bands have won first place honors in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, California, and Colorado, and the band consistently wins at UIL marching and perormance competitions. Many friends and admirers agree that the greatest accomplish-ment of Donald Haynes is influencing thousands of young people through his love for music, dedication to excellence, and commitment to creating a “band family” at LBJ High School.

Performance Hall Named in Honor of Band Director

Lori Bade

Don T. Haynes, Jr.,

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in August 2007. The band tours the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Shane Clare (BM 2004) recently won a position playing French horn in the U.S. Army Band “Pershing's Own” Concert Band in Washington, D.C.

Anne (Schaffner) Clark (DMA 1988) was listed in the last two editions of Who's Who for her work as director and founder of the Community Chamber Orchestra in North Central Kansas. The Orchestra received a Chamber Music America Residency Partnership grant in 2005–06, working with the Elaris Duo of Washburn University. The orchestra has just released Music of the Kansas Pioneers, a 2-CD set of music of the late 1800s, played directly from the original sheet music. To learn more about the Community Chamber Orchestra, visit kansasmusic.net.

Jack Cooper (DMA 1999) is co-writer and presenter of a National En-dowment of the Humanities grant for the six-part Looking At Jazz series. Cooper was a contributing author for former UT professor Richard Lawn’s Experiencing Jazz text, published by McGraw Hill. He continues to do staff arranging and composing for Alfred Music Publications, and has over 100 works in publication with Alfred, RGM, 3 to 2, Increase Music, UNC Jazz Press, and Brass 4 Publishing. Cooper played lead alto sax this past year with the Temptations, and also performed with tour-ing productions of Annie and Sweet Charity, and with the Hot Springs Festival Symphony Orchestra. He is an Associate Professor of Music at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis.

Rian Charlton Craypo (BM 2004) recently won the national audition for Principal Bassoon of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, after earn-ing her master’s degree from Rice University.

Jan Davidson (BM 1997) has lived in New York City since 2005, working in the financial industry and singing in vocal ensembles. During the last year, she performed with the Juilliard Choral Union at Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and at Avery Fisher Hall, working with such luminaries as Marvin Hamlisch, Kristin Chenoweth, Andrew Lippa, Kathleen Marshall, and Jason Robert Brown. She also sang with a small ensemble for a non-commercial recording of traditional Hebrew songs.

David Dawson (BA 2000) received a Grammy© award with recording artists Asleep At The Wheel. He has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Orchestra of Santa Fe, at the Colorado Festival in Boulder, the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, and the Victoria Festival, among others. Davidson teaches double bass at Texas State University in San Marcos.

James Deaton (DMA 1971) retired in 2001 after serving for seven years as Head of the Music Department at Texas A&M-Commerce. He was Professor of Clarinet at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce) from 1965 to 1994. He performs with the Bois d'arc Dixieland Band (thedixielandband.com) and is Director of Music at First Presbyterian Church of Commerce.

Following his graduation, Rob Deemer (DMA 2005) taught as a sab-batical replacement at the University of Oklahoma School of Music. He was recently hired as Chair of the Composition Department at SUNY-Fredonia, and has been requested to re-organize the composi-tion program.

Don Devous (BM 1984) received his MA in Music from the University of North Texas in 2006.

Charles Ditto (MM 1994, DMA 1998) co-authored an article with Dr.

Lucy D. Harney (Texas State University Department of Spanish) entitled “Musical Function in Selected Spanish and Cuban Zarzuelas,” scheduled for publication in the November 2007 issue of Gestos: Teoría y práctica del teatro hispánico, no. 44 (UC/Irvine). Ditto presented a paper at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in conjunction with the Edinburgh Arts Festival in August 2006. As pianist, together with a full chamber orchestra, Dr. Ditto performed a trio from his opera Histories at the National Association of Composers national conference at Texas State University in March 2007.

Wally Doggett (BA 1993) recently played drums on Austin singer-songwriter Jimmy Lafave's latest release Cimmeron Manifesto, which appeared on the national Americana charts at number one. Doggett and a partner recently began an acupuncture clinic in South Austin.

John David Earnest (BM 1964, MM 1967) has lived and composed in New York City since 1968. He is currently working on his fourth opera, The Theory of Everything, a commission from the Encompass New Opera Theatre in New York City, to be premiered in 2008. A recording of several of Earnest’s chamber works will be released in late 2007 by

School of Music alumnus Darrell Raby (BM 1997) won the 2006 Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Com-

petition grand prize award, presented at a special ceremony in Los Angeles in August 2006. Joining in the presentation was Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Simpsons Movie), who will mentor Raby and served as a judge in the competition.

As winner among more than 650 aspiring composers in the competition, Raby received a $10,000 grand prize and pro-vided a full score for the TCM premiere of Tod Browning’s 1927 melodrama The Show. Raby earned two bachelor’s degrees in music and computer science at UT. He continued studies at the University of Southern California, scoring numerous student films and winning the Harry Warren Award for Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television. In 2003 he won second prize in the Turner Classic Movies Competition, and in 2004 he was selected into the internationally acclaimed ASCAP Film-Scoring Workshop.

Darrell Raby (l) and Hans Zimmer

Raby wins Turner Classic Movies Composers Competition


Koch International Classics.

Ron Emoff ( Ph.D. 1996) recently completed his third book, Resurrecting Place in the Non-Nation: Accordions and Drumming on Marie-Galante, French Antilles. He is Associate Professor in the School of Music and Department of Anthropology at Ohio State University.

Helen Fanelli (nee Shuler) (BA, 1983) made her Metropolitan Op-era debut in 2002, and has sung in two productions there recently, Beethoven’s Fidelio in 2006, and Wagner’s Die Meistersinger Von Nurn-berg in 2007. Fanelli begins her sixth year this fall on the faculty at the Mozartina Musical Arts Conservatory of Music in Tarrytown, New York. She was recently accepted into membership with the New York Singing Teacher's Association, and is also a member of Professional Women Singers Association and American Guild of Musical Artists. For more information, visit www.classicalsinger.net/HelenFanelli.

Ryan Fogg (DMA 2006) is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Keyboard Studies at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennes-see, where he teaches applied piano, class piano, piano pedagogy, and piano literature. Since leaving UT, he has maintained an active schedule performing in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina.

Robert E. Foster has continued an active career following his 2006 induction into the National Band Association Hall of Fame for Distin-guished Conductors, conducting the award-winning Lawrence City Band in Lawrence, Kansas, and serv-ing as guest conductor/clinician for various bands and honor bands. Foster is enjoying a new phase of his career portraying John Philip Sousa in “Sousa Band concerts” with various groups. His recent perfor-mances included “A Sousa Birthday Concert” at the University of Kansas, an appearance with the Nebraska Wind Symphony at the University of

Nebraska-Omaha, and “Sousa on the Strip” with the National Band Association National Honor Band in Las Vegas.

Sheryl Goodnight is Prin-ciple Flutist with the Temple Symphony Orchestra and part time flute instructor at Temple College and the University of Mary Hardin Baylor. She also maintains a private studio. In 2001, she released her first CD, Debut, and also performed at the National Flute Association-Convention in Dallas.

Erin Greene (BM 2006) won the John Alexander Scholarship Prize in the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music scholarship competition in opera. The award carries a full tuition scholarship and a $5,000 stipend. Idona Griffith (aka Barker/Lawrence) has taught music and directed award-winning choirs in the Texas public schools for more than 24 years, and is also a published composer. She currently lives in the Chicago area, where she is Music Director for Grace Methodist Church in Lake Bluff and Drama Director for the Woodlands Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois. She performs locally as a singer and guitarist, and participates in community theatre. She is married to Dr. Harry Griffith, a 1983 UT graduate, who is Superintendent of Schools in Lake Forest.

Victoria Guerra (BM 1979) taught for several years after receiving her music degree, then attended The University of Texas Law School, where she graduated in 1985. She has practiced law in Austin, San Antonio, and presently practices in McAllen, Texas.

Kevin Hanlon (DMA 1983) performed as vocalist and guitarist in a pro-gram of his own compositions with his ensemble, The Quintet for the End of Time, at the Matese Friend International Festival in Bojano, Italy. Hanlon also presented composition master classes at the Accademia Internazionale Mario Santoro. Recently the Quintet performed Hanlon's

Nancy Hill Elton (MM 1975, DMA 1988) received the 2005 Georgia Teacher of the Year Award from the Georgia Music Teachers

Association. She has held positions at Georgia State University and Clayton State College, and cur-rently teaches at the Atlanta Music Academy, the Presbyterian School of the Performing Arts, and in her private studio. Her students have consistently won first and second places in local and state competitions. Nationally, one of her students won second place in the Clara Wells Piano Competition sponsored by the American Matthay Association. Elton is an adjudicator and clinician for many piano festivals. She is the Immediate Past-President of Atlanta Music Teachers Association

and is the Secretary for the Atlanta Music Club. In addition to teaching, Elton has fashioned a dual performing career in piano and voice; she has degrees in both piano and voice from UT. She has received critical acclaim as a concerto soloist and recitalist. Her reviews include statements such as “an artist capable of amazing fire and brilliance ... as well as the most graceful sen-sitivity” and “an unbelievable sense of freshness and vitality.” (The State and Columbia Record.) She is featured as soprano soloist in a recording of Priscilla McLean’s Fantasies for Adults and Other Children on Capstone Records. Elton has sung with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the Chamber Chorus under the direction of Robert Shaw. Recent proj-ects include a recording of Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata, and a per-formance at the Liszt-Matthay Festival at the University of Georgia.

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Kickin' It at Southern Methodist University, and gave a concert of Han-lon's music in Dallas. Cellist Christopher Phillpot recently performed Hanlon's Intermezzo at Texas Christian University.

Brian Hecht (BM 2007) has won a merit-based scholarship to attend Northwestern University this fall.

Hank Hehmsoth heads Jazz Piano Studies and is Director of Com-puter Applications in Music at Texas State University. In 1980, Hehm-soth joined Christopher Cross, winning 6 Grammies© and an Academy Award© for Best Song. He has toured and performed with Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Bonnie Raitt, Beverly Sills, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Phil Woods, Count Basie, and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, among many others. He has been cited in Who’s Who in Entertainment since 1993. His band, The Hehmsoth Project, includes UT Professor John Mills and former UT adjunct Steve Summer. The band has performed recent benefit concerts for the Michael Jordan Foundation, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund, and staged a retrospective “All Chick Corea” concert in February.

Donald A. Henriques (Ph.D. 2006) is an Assistant Professor of Ethno-musicology in the Department of Music at California State University, Fresno.

Ruth Huber (MM 1979) lives in San Jose, California, where she teaches piano, writes songs and choral music, and conducts an amateur chorus. She earned a master’s degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 2004, and her compositions have won several awards, including the San Francisco Art Song Festival and the California Composition Competition of the American Choral Directors Association.

Bassoonist James Jeter performed at the 2006 White Mountain Music Festival in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. In June 2006, he taught and performed at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan, and was featured with clarinetist Les Nicholas (UT alumnus) in the Bender Duo for Clarinet & Bassoon. Jeter is Principal Bassoon with the St. Cecilia Orchestra in New York and the Westfield Symphony in New Jersey. In June 2007, he performed at the International Double Reed Society Conference at Ithaca College and at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, New York, with his Virtuosi Quintet.

Janette Jones (BM 1977) sang her fifteenth season in the chorus of the Austin Lyric Opera this year, co-directed and performed in the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Austin's school program, and played the role of Mad Margaret in the Society ‘s summer production of Ruddigore. She also sells customer support at ROC Software in Austin.

George Garrett Keast (BM 1995) completed his third season as Associate Conductor of New York City Opera, conducting the new Stephen Lawless production of Handel’s Semele. In fall 2006, he led the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra in a series of fourteen education concerts and conducted Mexico’s Orquesta Simfonica de Xalapa. Mr. Keast made debuts with the Oregon Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, and the Woodstock Mozart Festival. In July, he conducted a program of Mozart, Stravinsky, and Beethoven with the Naumburg Orchestra in Central Park, and returned for his fifth season as conductor at the Music at Port Milford chamber music festival in Canada.

Naseem Khozein (BA 2006)has recorded and performed around the world. Since 2005, she has performed with the group Barrage, described as a “high-octane fiddle-fest that features an international, multi-talented cast performing an eclectic mix of music, song and dance.” She dances, plays, and sings at the same time with the group, which has gathered such reviews as, “Too wow for words!” (Denver Post).

David Littrell (MM 1972, DMA 1979) was named Kansas Professor of the Year for 2007 by The Carn-egie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Ad-vancement and Support of Education. Littrell is a University Distinguished Professor of Music at Kan-sas State University, where he conducts the Univer-sity Orchestra and teaches strings. He was the national president of the American String Teachers Association in 2002-2004.

Jennifer Mann (MM 2000, DMA 2007) began teaching bassoon full time last year at the University of Alabama, where she performs with the faculty wind quintet. She was also named Principal Bassoon of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra and performs with several other ensembles in the area.

Travis Marcum (BM 2006) is Director of Education and Outreach for the Austin Classical Guitar Society and teaches classroom guitar to over 200 students in the Austin school district. He has developed an intensive curriculum for classical guitar for grades six through twelve. Recently, his outreach program met with success when the McCallum High School Advanced Guitar Ensemble, under his direction, won The University of Texas Brownsville Guitar Ensemble Competition.

Esther Chung Marks (MM 1987) and Kent Marks have been married for twenty years and living in Long Island, New York. Kent Marks is the Assistant Dean of Admissions for the graduate school at Stony Brook University, and is active as a composer and composition teacher. Esther Marks is active as a solo and chamber re-citalist and has a private piano studio.

Martha Hadley McCarroll (BM 1994, MM 1996) has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1996, working internationally as a collaborative and solo pianist. She directs her own piano studio of students ranging in age from 5 to 70, coaches sing-ers throughout the Bay Area, and teaches piano at the San Francisco Community Music Center. She was on the music staff at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 2007. McCarroll is a member of the acclaimed Bay Area vocal-instrumental trio The Mirage Ensemble, and recently began duo performances with cellist Monica Scott as martha & monica.

Todd Meehan (BM 1999) is in his fifth year as Director of Percussion Studies at the Baylor Naseem Khozein

David Littrell


School of Music. Recent activities involve a new chamber music duo with percussionist Doug Perkins. During the past season the duo was featured at the Bang on a Can Marathon and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Dartmouth University Festival of New Musics, Stony Brook University, Southwestern University, East Central

Oklahoma University, and Sarah Lawrence University.

Matthew Middleton (BM 2003) was appointed by the Presby-terian Church (USA) in 2006 to serve as music coordinator in Bethlehem in the West Bank territory occupied by Israel. He directs five music ensembles through the Christmas Luther-

an Church and International Center of Bethlehem, and has founded a music program for Dar Al-Kalima College. Previously, Middleton spent a year in Egypt where he taught piano at the Theological Seminary of Cairo and was organist at St. Andrew’s United Church. He is studying for a master’s degree at Boston University.

Brett Mitchell (MM 2003, DMA 2005) has been named Conducting Fellow of the Houston Sym-phony by the American Symphony Orchestra League, joining the newest class of the American Conducting Fellows Program, a professional development program placing young conduc-tors with orchestras. Mitchell has been Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre National de France since 2006, and has also served as Director of Orchestras at Northern Illinois University. He has held music directorships of numerous collegiate, community, and youth orchestras in Austin and in his native Seattle.

Phillip Moll (MM 1968) has taught at the College (Hochschule) of Music and Theater in Leipzig, Germany, since fall 2004. His professorship is in song interpretation for pianists, singers, and some chamber music students. He continues to reside in Berlin, where he has lived for thirty years, playing concerts and touring, primarily as accompanist. He is a member of a small group of Texas-Exes in Berlin.

Lee Moore has developed unique software called Musical Muse, “the audio encyclopedia of classical music.” Details may be found at www.musicalmuse.com. Moore lives in Verona, Italy.

Carlyn Morenus (DMA 1999) continues as Associate Professor of Piano at Illinois State University. During the past spring she gave two dozen recitals, presentations, workshops, and master classes in Malaysia and Thailand, and numerous performances in Austria and Slovakia. Her performances works by American composer Nancy Van de Vate will be included on a recording released this fall on the Vienna Modern Masters label.

Dean O’Brien (DMA 2000) has been appointed as the new Artistic Director of the Calgary Pro Musica Society in Alberta, Canada. He is also viola instructor at the Mount Royal College Conservatory, part-time instructor at the University of Calgary, and violist of the University of Calgary String Quartet.

Julie Olsen (MM 1995) is the Annual Giving and Engagement Officer at Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, the largest performing

arts institution in the state.

Mary Jo Parks (BM 1967) returned to Austin in 2005 and is Assistant to the Director of Missions and the Director of Discipleship at Covenant Presbyterian Church.

David Pittel (BM 2004) has maintained an active career since gradu-ating. He spent a year in central Texas performing in symphonies, big bands, and chamber ensembles, and teaching at six different schools. He then auditioned for Carnival Cruise Lines and Princess Cruises and traveled to over thirty countries on five ships while backing guest art-ist vocalists and instrumentalists. He has also played twelve different Vegas and Broadway-style shows. He now lives in North Hollywood where he has played with the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Antelope Valley Symphony, and Geo Valley’s Swing City Big Band, among others.

Melissa Polka (BA 2006) is working in the division of budget, policy, and planning in the office of Texas Governor Rick Perry. She has found her fine arts and music background to be of great service in her current

position, allowing her to find ways to protect and support the arts.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Putterman (nee Bernard) retired early as a music and drama teacher at the Delphian School, a private K-12 school in Oregon, and currently resides in Custer, Washington, where she is active as a minister of the Church of Scientology.

Robert Riseling (MM 1962) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario where he taught from 1970 to 2003. An active solo, chamber musician and adjudicator, Riseling has performed extensively in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Scandina-via, Iceland, Israel, and Asia. Numerous broadcasts for CBC Radio Canada have included some of the

more than fifty works written for him and groups he has founded. As a conductor he has worked with many amateur and professional groups around the world. For the past thirteen years he has made trips across China to teach, coach, and perform. His ensemble, TriofuS, has just completed its first CD, Cool Steps.

Courtney Rodriguez (BM 1984, MM 86) became an applied faculty member at Villa Maria College in Buffalo in Fall 2007. He is in demand as a tuba and euphonium soloist, performer, and private teacher through-out the Western New York area. Following his UT studies, Rodriguez earned an MM from Yale. He spent 13 years teaching band, orchestra, and drama in leading schools in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Oman,

Kuwait, and Thailand, while also performing in those areas. Rodriguez returned to the U.S. in 2002, and began teaching at Niagara County Community College in New York. He has been first trombone in the Amherst Community Band, first baritone in the Buffalo Silver Band, and first eupho-nium in the American Legion Band of the Tonawandas. He is founder of the Boca Grande tuba quartet.

Composer Andrew Rudin Courtney Rodriguez

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heard his Canto di Ritorno for violin and small orchestra premiered in January 2007 by Orchestra 200l, ensemble-in-residence at Swarthmore College. In a local media review, Michael Caruso wrote that Rudin’s “contributions to the modern canon have been eagerly awaited and happily appreciated. That was certainly the case with Canto di Ritorno . . . Many of the moods established reveal a soulful poignance that touches the heart while others thrill the senses.”

Paul Rudy (DMA 1997) is Associate Professor, Director of Composition and Director of the Inter-media/Music Production and Computer Technology Center of the Conserva-tory of Music at the University of Mis-souri, Kansas City. From 1995–2001 he was the composition technolo-gist at the Aspen Music Festival and School and has created over 80 radio programs for public radio. He has re-ceived recognition and awards from the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, the Fulbright Founda-tion, Meet the Composer, and many others. He has had compositions

commissioned by Meet the Composer USA, the American Composer’s Forum, Van Cliburn Piano Competition Composer’s Initiative, and the New York New Music Ensemble, among others. His works can be found on Living Artist, SCI (Capstone), SEAMUS, and Centaur recordings.

Mezzo-soprano Cindy Sadler (BM 1990) enjoyed a busy season, ap-pearing Gianni Schicchi with Opera Santa Barbara, and in The Magic Flute and The Rake’s Progress at Des Moine Metro Opera, a performance which won praise from Opera News. She appeared in The Barber of Seville with Austin Lyric Opera and as mezzo soloist in the Duruflé and Mozart Requiems with the St. Edward’s University Madrigal Singers. She directed the 2007 Summer Opera Scenes Intensive Workshop at St. Edward’s University in Austin. She continues to write “Ask Erda,” Classical Singer magazine’s longtime advice column and is author of The Student Singer’s Starter Kit, a book advising young singers and their parents.

Michael D. Sandgarten (BM 1965, Ph.D. 1970) is enjoy-ing his first year of retirement after a forty-year career in New York State as Director of Bands and music teacher at SUNY Buffalo and Brockport. He and his wife have built a home in Lago Vista, Texas.

Henry Schraub (BM 1961, MM 1969) was inducted into the Phi Beta Mu Texas Bandmasters Hall of Fame in July, 2007. Schraub was a high school band director for 15 years, then served 27 years as Director of Fine Arts for the Birdville Independent School District. He retired from teaching in 2003, and is presently conductor of the Greater Fort Worth Community Band.

Deborah Schwartz-Kates (Ph.D. 1997) began a new position this fall as Associate Professor and Chair of the Musicology Department at the University of Miami.Karl E. H. Seigfried (DMA 2002) lives in Chicago and is Director of Aca-demic Programs at Music Arts School. He has performed with numerous major jazz artists including Fred Anderson, Jim Baker, Robert Barry, David Boykin, Bobby McFerrin, and many others. He performs with the Seigfried Trio, the Galaxy String Quartet, the Soul Power Trio, and

others. Seigfried is Principal Bass for the Peoria Symphony Orchestra, where he has led the bass section behind Emmanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, and Itzhak Perlman. Recent recordings include the trio album, Boykin, Seigfried, & Reed, and unaccompanied solo bass on Criminal Mastermind. Both received international critical acclaim.

Violinist Michael Judd Sheranian (MM 1976) has been a member of the Utah Symphony for many seasons and has performed both as a violin soloist and vocal soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony, the Honolulu Symphony, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. In addition to his UT studies, Sher-anian studied violin with Dorothy Delay at the Juilliard School, and earned his DMA from the University of Arizona. He is an active studio recording artist in violin and voice, both of which he has taught at several universities. He is Director of Committees for the Stradivarius International Violin Competition.

Jennifer Sherwood (MM 1992) was appointed in 2005 as Executive Director of New York City’s Turtle Bay Music School, one of the oldest community music schools in the country. She has been a private piano teacher and early childhood music instructor for over twenty years, working with a variety of organizations including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Pennsylvania Ballet, Chorus America, Center for Arts Educa-tion, and Young Audiences New York.

Tom Shine (BM 1970, MM 1973) received the 2006 Texas Bandmasters Association Meritorious Achievement Award. He has been Director of Instrumental Music for the Duncanville ISD since 1980. His ensembles have twice been named Texas 5A Honor Band and three times 5A State Cham-pions in Marching. The Duncanville High School Wind Ensemble has performed for the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the TMEA, and the All-Japan Band Directors Conference in Nemu-no-Sato, Japan. Dr. Shine is married to UT graduate, Verda Spann Shine.

Verda Spann Shine (BM 1972, MM 1979) has taught band for 34 years and for the past 26 years has been Associate Director at Byrd Middle School in Duncanville, Texas. Byrd Middle School Symphonic Band was named the Texas CCC Honor Band in 1982 and 2004. She also teaches beginner woodwinds. She and husband Tom Shine have three children who have been active in

music programs.

In January 2007, flutist Seetha Shivaswamy (MM, 2001) and DMA oboe student Leigh Ann Woodard toured India with Global Rhythms, a western music/Indian music ensemble dedicated to integrating di-verse styles of music. While in India, Shivaswamy, Woodard, and other members of the group had the opportunity to meet and record with A.R. Rahman, India's top selling singer/song-writer, on his latest CD, Pray For Me, Brother. The success of that recording session resulted in invitations for an all-expense paid return to India to record on two film scores. Shivaswamy was also invited to join Mr. Rahman's group for a North American tour during the summer, including performances in Toronto, Vancouver, San Francisco, and New York.

Vivian Siao (MM 1972 has taught as Visiting Professor in Piano at the China Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, since 2005.

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Cindy Sadler

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Susanna Silvestro (BA 2003) has taught music and drama at Rising Stars Creative Arts Center and now teaches piano and voice at the Albertson School of Music in Austin. She has been co-worship leader for Skyview Baptist Church, Music Director of The First Presbyterian Church of Elgin, and continues to perform at various churches.

Rob Smith (DMA 1999) is Associate Professor at Moores School of Music at the University of Houston, where he teaches composition, directs the AURA Contemporary Ensemble, and is a member of the ensemble Musiqa. He received the Aaron Copland Award and was in residence at the Copland House in December 2006. Recent works include Concerto for Orchestra, premiered at the Texas Music Festival in June 2006, and Sprint, which premiered at the 2006 Percussive Arts International Society Conference.

Corey Spratlan (MM 2006) is orchestra director for Ridgeview Middle School in Round Rock, Texas. He has taught for the Central Texas String Academy, the Midway Independent School District, the Northwest School of Music, as well as maintaining a private studio.

Kenneth Steele (MM 1971) is organist/choirmaster for the Kemble Memorial United Methodist Church of Woodbury, New Jersey. He is the sub-dean of the SW Jersey American Guild of Organists Chapter, serves as Music in Worship Research and Scholarship Chair for the Eastern Division of the American Choral Directors Association, and accompanies at several schools and private studios.

Kristen (Smith) Stoner (BA 1995) recently earned tenure and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Flute at the University of Florida. Her first solo CD, Images for Solo Flute, will be released this year on the Meyer Media label. She has been very active with the National Flute Association, performing at seven recent conventions, as well as serving on the board of directors for the Florida Flute Association. In 2005, she performed at the Festival Internacional de Flautistas in Quito, Ecuador.

Sarah Hanover Tarver (BM 1950) taught elementary music in Port Arthur, Texas, from 1951 to 1955. She served as pianist and later organ-ist at the First Baptist Church in Port Arthur from 1963 to 2002. After retirement, she moved to Dallas, where she is active in choir, handbells, and other musical activities at Park Cities Baptist Church.

Kathi Thomas (BM 1976) is interim director for the Hill Country Community Band, comprised of musicians from across Hays County, southwest of Austin. She is also an event planner and designer and owns Kathi Thomas Design.

Mike Vernusky (MM 2005) composes in a variety of media, including electronics and films. He was grand prize winner of the 2004 Digital Arts Award in Tokyo, and was recently a guest composer at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands. He scored two selections of the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. Vernusky recently served as Artist Associate in Residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts for the second time. He is featured on recordings with Spectrum Press, Capstone Records, Hive Records, and Displeased Records. His record label, Quiet Design Records, released its forth recording this past summer, an album by

Kioku, a trio with percussion, live electron-ics, and saxophone.

David Viscoli (BM 1987) is an Associate Professor of Music at Minnesota State Uni-versity, Mankato. His recently released live CD on the Eroica label received favorable reviews in the American Record Guide.

Grayson Wagstaff (Ph.D. 1995) is Associate Professor and Chair of Musicology in the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music at Catho-lic University of America in Washington, D.C. His book, Matins for the Dead in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Mexico, was released in 2007. He also presented guest lectures at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona and Universidad Complutense de Madrid and participated in the International Musi-cological Society Congress in Zurich.

Kate Walker (McLellan) (BM 1989) was an orchestra teacher and freelance bassist for 13 years following UT graduation. She received a master's degree in counseling and a Ph.D. in counselor education and is now a licensed marriage and family therapist. She also serves as director of Project CONNECT, a student support service at Sam Houston State University, working to improve retention and graduation rates.

Kathleen (Hollahan) Wayland (BM 1987) has taught band, choir, orchestra, and elementary music for fifteen years in public school and church. Searching for a way to share her love of music with her child, she recognized the excellence of the Kindermusik program and was soon licensed to open Kindermusik with Kat! in Grapevine, Texas. She was recently named a Maestro by Kindermusik International®, representing the top 1 percent of over 5,000 licensed educators in the world who use the Kindermusik method.

Beth Ray Westlund (MM 1994, DMA 2002) was recently awarded tenure as Associate Professor of Voice and Diction at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

Benjamin Whitcomb (MM 1994, Ph.D. 1999), Associate Professor of Cello at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, recently finished a book on practicing the cello, which is being considered by various publishers. He performs frequently in solo and chamber music recit-als, and as a member of the Whitcomb-de Vries duo. He has recorded several CDs, including a collection of works for unaccompanied cello on the MSR Classics label. Whitcomb is a contributing author to Teaching Music through Performance in Orchestra, Vol. 3, and is the chair of editors revising the cello portion of the American String Teachers' Association (ASTA) String Syllabus.

William T. Whitener (BM 1967, MM 1970) became a junior high band director in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1970, and later directed high school bands. He became Assistant Professor at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, where he completed his doctorate. He served as band director and taught music education, music theory, music history, and woodwinds at UAA until 1992, when he retired. He returned to Texas in 2005, and now lives on a ranch in south Texas near the Rio Grande.

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University of Texas Professor Emeritus Raymond Crisara, one of the 20th century’s most influential trumpet per-

formers and teachers, was named as the Distinguished Teacher Honoree of the UT Center of Music Learning for 2007.

Each year, the Center for Music Learn-ing hosts residencies by internation-ally recognized artist-teachers, who are among the finest musicians dedicated to teaching music. The Distinguished Teachers Series brings together teach-ers, performers, and scholars in in-terdisciplinary sessions that include public lectures, demonstrations, perfor-mances, and discussion sessions. Raymond Crisara was born in Cort-land, New York. In high school, he played trumpet in the Cortland Mu-

nicipal Band, conducted by his father. He was a student at the Ernest Williams School of Music in Brooklyn, New York, and later studied with William Revelli at the University of Michigan. He became a soloist of the Goldman Band in New York and was appointed First Trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Drafted in 1942, he was assigned to the special services

orchestra that performed for films, records, concerts, and radio broadcasts. After the war, Crisara joined the staff orchestra of the National Broadcasting Company. His career at NBC included the position of Associate First Trumpet in the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini and playing under virtually all of the notable conductors of the time. His career expanded to include all areas of the New York commercial and concert community. Professor Crisara later taught trumpet at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and held the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Cen-tennial Professorship. Other recognitions include an honor-ary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Cortland, the Edwin Franko Goldman Citation of the American Bandmasters Association, and the Award of Merit of the International Trumpet Guild. Having served the musical community as a performer and teacher for more than 55 years, Ray Crisara has influenced many people. Former student Charles Decker expressed what many of Professor Crisara's students know to be true: “... this quiet man humanized my outlook on the music profession and more importantly on life . . . . there are a handful of individuals who can ultimately shape our destiny over time. Ray Crisara is one of these special few.”

Center of Music Learning Names Crisara as 2007 Honoree

Raymond Crisara

Each year The University of Texas at Austin School of Music and the Committee for the Advocacy of Pipe Organs bring great organists

to our campus to perform on the magnificent Visser-Rowland tracker organ in Bates Recital Hall. The artists chosen for the past year reflect the quality of excellence continually maintained in this fine perfor-mance series.

In October 2006, Chris Oelkers began the series season, performing pieces by Bach and Messiaen among others. Mr. Oelkers is Associate Music Director and Director of Publications for St. Louis Catholic Church in Austin. He was named a finalist in the 2000 American Guild of Organ-ist's National Competition in Organ Improvisation.

Marilyn Keiser performed a November concert which included com-positions by William Henry Harris, Herbert Howells, J. S. Bach, and Josef Rheinberger. Ms. Keiser is Chancellor's Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she teaches courses in sacred music as well as applied organ. In February, Fred Swann came to campus to perform. He is President of the American Guild of Organists, Organist Emeritus of The Crystal Cathedral, Organist Emeritus of First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, and Organ Artist-in-Residence at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, California. Judith Hancock performed in March to finish the Great Organ Series season. A leading interpreter of Romantic organ repertoire, her per-formance included pieces by Mozart, Saint-Saens, and Respighi. Dr. Hancock teaches sacred music and organ at the UT School of Music.

Inaugurated in 2002, the Center for American Music works to advance the teaching, scholarship, and performance of American music from

all traditions, including concert, folk, and popular music. In keeping with the richness and diversity of the United States itself, it addresses the multiplicity of American music through research, educational, and per-formance programs of the highest quality. The faculty governing board for the Center includes Glenn Richter, director; David Neumeyer, James Buhler, Bruce Pennycook, Jeff Hellmer, Jerry Junkin, and Mark Sarisky.

The Center’s fifth year saw a number of successes, chief of which was the development of the School’s new recording label, Longhorn Music. Glenn Richter coordinated the trademark registrations, and Mark Sarisky handled recording and editing of the label's first discs.

The Center co-sponsored several guest appearances. Michael Gray, author and lecturer widely recognized as an expert on the music of Bob Dylan, spoke to a standing-room-only audience in a joint venture by the Center, the Harry Ransom Center, the UT English Department, and Humanities Professor Tom Palaima. Professor Bruce Pennycook coordinated a visit by Paul Chihara, UCLA music-in-film specialist, who gave lectures in composition, recording, and the music business. Jazz trumpet specialist Tim Hagans was featured with the UT Jazz Orchestra during the 2007 Longhorn Jazz Festival, with Professor Jeff Hellmer coordinating appearances and workshops.

The Center wishes two departing colleagues the best: Indiana Uni-versity alumnus Phil Ford was recruited to return to teach at his alma mater; and Kevin Mooney was recruited to pioneer new graduate music initiatives at Texas State.

The Great Organ Series Center for American Music Completes Fifth Year


Elliott Antokoletz, Professor of Musicology, was named recipient of the E. W. Doty Professorship in Fine Arts for 2007–08. Professor Antokoletz

has recently published four articles: “Musical Symbolism in Bartók’s Bluebeard: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Un-conscious.” Studia Musicologica 47/3-4 (Sept. 2006); “Music and the Unconscious: Socio-Cultural Context and New Correspondences in Early Twentieth-Century Symbolist Opera.” Music and Society (Spring 2007); “Bartók’s Bluebeard: Trauma and the New Musical Language of Symbolist Opera,” lead article for the Yearbook for ABAO-OLBE (Bilbao, Spain: Friends of Opera Society, 2007–08); and “Bartók’s Bluebeard: Modernism in Opera.” Season Book (Bar-celona: Amics del Liceu, 2007–08). He served as Director of the Debussy International Congress 2006 at The University of Texas at Austin, where he also presented a lecture, “Musical Symbolism in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande: Trauma, Gender, and the Unfolding of the Unconscious.” He also presented an invited international lecture: “Bartók’s Eight Improvisations on Hungarian Peasant Songs, op. 20: From ‘Folksong Arrangement’ to ‘Composing with Folk Tunes’ and a greater abstraction in his Three Etudes, op. 18,” at the University of Geneva in December, and gave a twelve-hour seminar on “Twentieth-Century Piano Music,” at the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain in March. Professor Antokoletz con-tinues as editor of the annual International Journal of Musicology (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang), now in its tenth year. He has also completed a book entitled From Modality to Serialism in the Music of Georg von Albrecht.

Nathaniel Brickens, Professor of Trombone, was a featured soloist and clinician at the 2007 Festival Internacional De Inverno De Brasilia held at the University of Brazil. He served as trombone soloist and conductor at “76 Trombones plus 4,” at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in October, as clinician at the Historically Black College Band Directors Consortium Convention in Atlanta, as soloist at the UT COOP Faculty Awards Dinner, and as trombone clinician at the Austin Brass Institute at Westlake High School in June. He was trombonist and brass contractor for the soon-to-be-released Willie Nelson movie, Fighting with Anger. He served as an adjudicator for the Klein ISD Solo Competition, the Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition, and the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) All State Ensembles tryouts. During 2007, he performed with Con-spirare, the Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra, the UT Faculty Brass Quintet, the UT Faculty Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, the Austin Brass Ensemble, and was active as substitute trombonist with the San Antonio and Austin Symphony Orchestras.

Robert Carnochan is the Director of the Longhorn Band, Associate Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music, overseeing all Longhorn Band performances for live audiences totaling over 720,000 people in the past year. In October and November, he guest conducted the UT Wind Ensemble, collaborating with Associate Professor of Percussion Tom Burritt in performances at the Myer-son Symphony Hall in Dallas and at the Percussive Arts Society International Conference in Austin. During these performances, the Wind Ensemble premiered the work Alabados Song, by UT alumnus Paul Bissell. Carnochan conducted the Tri-State Festival Honor Band at Florida State University and the Region 24 Honor Band in the Dallas-Metro area. He directed the UT Wind Ensemble during Professor Jerry Junkin’s spring research leave. In March, he adjudicated 63 bands at the Coyote Band Festival in La Joya, Texas. In July, he served as Assistant Producer of the Dallas Wind Symphony’s upcoming recording featuring music for winds and organ, and presented a clinic session on score study with colleague Scott Hanna at the Texas Bandmaster Association Conference.

Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Associate Professor of Music and Human Learning, applied for and received a Grammy foundation grant with Les Cohen, professor in Developmental Psychology, to con-tinue their studies on infant categorization of music. The grant will allow the team to provide financial support as well as training to students interested in the research.

Robert DeSimone, Director of the Sarah and Ernest Butler Opera Center, was named the first recipient of the Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in Opera, established by the Butlers. DeSimone was co-director of the Claude Debussy International Congress hosted by the School of Music in October 2006. In addition he directed The Turn of the Screw in February. Both productions were nominated for awards by the Austin Critics Table Awards. During the 2006–07 academic year he hosted regional auditions of the Bel Canto Vo-cal Scholarship Foundation and the first Classical Singer Magazine regional auditions at the School of Music. During July and August, DeSimone directed The Magic Flute in Costa Rica and Mexico.

Eric Drott, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for the 2008–09 academic year. The fellowship will support his research on a book dealing with the interactions between music and politics in France during the tumultuous period following student protests and the general strike of May 1968.

Robert Duke, Marlene and Morton Meyerson Centennial Professor

School of Music composer and conductor Dan Welcher

was inducted into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame by the Austin Critics Table in a special award ceremony in June honoring outstanding achievements in the Austin arts. Welcher has created a body of compositions in almost every imaginable genre including opera, con-certo, symphony, vocal litera-ture, piano solos, and chamber music. His orchestral music has been performed by more than fifty orchestras.

With degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Man-hattan School of Music, Dan Welcher joined the UT faculty in 1978 and went on to create the New Music Ensemble, which he directs. He also founded and continues to oversee the Vis-iting Composers Series, bringing outstanding composers to campus each year to rehearse, lecture, and assist in student ensemble performances of each composer’s work. He holds the Lee Hage Jamail Regents Professorship in Composition. With over eighty works to his credit, Welcher is one of today’s most performed composers.

Welcher Inducted into Austin Arts Hall of Fame

Dan Welcher

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in Music and Human Learning, delivered keynote addresses at meetings of the College Band Directors National Association in Ann Arbor, the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago, the Ohio Music Educators Association Research Symposium in Cincinnati, and the Texas Music Teachers Association in Dallas. He gave additional plenary lectures at meetings of the Suzuki Association of the Americas, the Missouri Music Educators Association, the American Accounting Association, and the ASM Postdoctoral Institute in Preparation for Careers in Science. Hedelivered invited lectures and seminars at Northwestern University, Penn State University, the University of Maryland, West Chester University, VanderCook College of Music, and The Juilliard School, where he taught in the Starling-Delay Symposium on Violin Studies. He published, with current graduate students, two research articles on procedural memory consolidation in the Journal of Research in Music Education. He published a third article on teaching expertise in the Bulletin for the Council for Research in Music Education which grew out of the Center for Music Learning Distinguished Teachers Series. Another article appeared in both American Music Teacher and Southwestern Musician. He and co-author James Byo, Professor at Louisiana State University, recently completed an instructional method for beginning wind instruments entitled The Habits of Musicianship: A Radical Approach to Beginning Band, which is freely distributed to public and private schools through the UT Center for Music Learning. His computer program, Scribe 4, designed for behavior analysis in teaching and learning, is also distributed through the Center for Music Learning and is now used in university education and research programs throughout the United States. All profits from sales and licensing fees generated from Scribe 4 are dedicated to the Center for Music Learning.

After stepping down as Dean of the College of Fine Arts in September 2006, Robert Freeman spent the 2006–07 aca-demic year on paid leave, returning to the active faculty in September 2007 as Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professor of Fine Arts. During the year, he made two recordings as a pianist. He recorded with faculty members Rebecca Henderson and Kristin Wolfe Jensen, and with narrator Luci Baines Johnson, on Jenni Brandon's Wildflower Suite, for narrator, oboe, bassoon and piano, which Free-man had commissioned while still Dean. During July, he recorded works by Foote, Berger, and Piston with Boston Symphony cel-list Luis Leguia at Boston’s Symphony Hall for Albany Records. In March, he performed a recital with cellist Bion Tsang on San Angelo’s annual chamber music series. In July, Professor Freeman chaired a session on the development of a plan for support of the arts by American corporations and foundations, at Napa Valley’s Festival del Sole, founded and directed by IMG Artists’ Barrett Wissman. Also in July, he was keynote speaker in a symposium on music and entrepreneurship at the Brevard Festival in North Carolina. Since retiring as Dean, Dr. Freeman has joined the boards of the Austin Symphony and the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. In 2007, he became board chair of the Institute for Music and Brain Science at Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital. In April, he presented a paper at Rice University, entitled: “The Finale of Mozart's KV 576; a stab at a neurologically directed understanding of what I think I'm thinking about while performing.”

Donald Grantham, Professor of Composition, fulfilled four com-missions in 2006 and 2007. Starry Crown (wind ensemble) was commissioned by the Michigan State University Wind Symphony, and premiered in April 2007, conducted by Kevin Sedatole. From “An Alabama Songbook” (wind ensemble) was commissioned by the University of Alabama Wind Symphony and the University of Alabama Press, and premiered in January 2007, conducted by Paul Davis. The UT Trombone Choir commissioned Las Vegas Shuffle (Leaving Broke). Professor Nathaniel Brickens conducted the Trombone Choir’s premiere of the piece at the 2007 International Trombone Association Convention in Las Vegas. Baron St. Croix’s Shuffle (wind ensemble) was commissioned by the Grossmont School District, La Mesa, California, and is scheduled for pre-miere in January 2008. A two disc recording, Composers Collection: Donald Grantham, was released by GIA. The discs contain 13 of Grantham’s works performed by the University of North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor. Corpron also recorded Grantham’s Court Music on a disc entitled Transforma-tions, and Baron Cimetiére’s Mambo and Baron Samedi’s Sarabande (and Soft Shoe) on a disc entitled Altered States, both produced by GIA. Music for the Blanton (large chamber ensemble) was recorded by ten faculty and students from the UT School of Music, and is available for downloading—along with specified art works—on the Blanton Museum of Art’s web page. In addition, Grantham completed the orchestration of Fantasy Variations, based on Gershwin’s Prelude II for piano. This work will be premiered by the Austin Symphony

in an upcoming season. Grantham was awarded the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Mu-sic Award, Composition, during a ceremony at the University of Alabama at the premiere of Starry Crown.

Eugene Gratovich, Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music, performed with pianist Sylvia Golmon on the Perform-ing Arts Series in Alexandria, Louisiana, in January 2007. The program included music by Rob-ert Schumann, Kreisler, Bartók, Dvorák, and Joaquin Nin. He and Sylvia Golmon performed the Preludes for Violin and Piano at the

Shostakovich Centennial Concert in Jessen Auditiorium. Gratovich was featured with composer-pianist Sydney Knowlton on the Ve-rizon-Comcast-RCN Cable program Journal Experience, broadcast in the Boston area. He served as concertmaster of the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra in the world premiere of Waiting for the Barbarians by Philip Glass, and collaborated with the composer in editing the string parts. He presented a master class at Taylor High School in Katy, Texas, and guest conducted the Austin High School orches-tra in Fort Bend, Texas. He performed and gave master classes in Austria, Spain, and Portugal, during the summer of 2007.

Gerre Hancock, Professor of Organ and Sacred Music, performed organ concerts in Exeter, New Hampshire; Columbus, Ohio; Los Angeles; Hartford, Connecticut, and New York City. He conducted a multi-choral concert in Nashville commemorating the events of 9/11, a Diocesan Choral Festival at Christ Church Cathedral in Houston, and a concert at Saint Mark's School of Texas in Dallas. He lectured on the art of improvisation for the American Guild of Organists in Chicago, and at The Eastman School of Music during

Eugene Gratovich, violin, was invited to perform with local guitarists at the International Burgos Music Festival, where he was a faculy member.


the ImprovFEST week, which he founded in 2003. Two of his works were published recently: Holy Week, a suite for two organists at two organs, was published by Paraclete Press, and Prelude on St. Denio, by Hinshaw Music, Inc. Hancock composed Listen, sweet Dove for chorus, organ, brass, and timpani, on a George Herbert text. The piece was commissioned by Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh.

Judith Hancock, Senior Lecturer in Organ and Sacred Music, per-formed recitals at Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in November 2006, at historic Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Chestertown, Maryland, in January 2007, and at Bates Recital Hall in March. She appeared in duo-organ concerts with her husband, Gerre Hancock, at The University of the South in Sewanee, Ten-nessee, in February, and a May concert at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. In November, the Hancocks played the Bates Recital Hall Organ at the Choral Arts Society concert, directed by James Morrow. The Hancocks returned to Sewanee to perform and teach at the Summer Church Music Conference in July. Judith Hancock serves on the National Committee for Education of The American Guild of Organists in New York, where she is currently producing an audio documentary on the teaching methods and techniques of David Craighead of The Eastman School of Music. Gerre and Judith Hancock have assumed the responsibilities of directing the Organ Department, upon the retirement of Professor Frank Speller. In addition, they will direct the Center for Sacred Music.

Jeff Hellmer, Professor of Jazz Studies, contin-ued an active performing and teaching career in Austin and around the US. He performed and adjudicated with Tonight Show trumpeter Kye Palmer at the Riverside, California, Community College Jazz Festival, and with Terrell Stafford, Conrad Herwig, and Matt Wilson at the Western Connecticut/Litchfield Jazz Festival. He conduct-ed the Association of Texas Small School Bands All-State Jazz Ensemble, and taught at the Idyll-wild Summer Jazz Workshop and the Litchfield Jazz Camp. For the second consecutive year, he was guest conductor and soloist with the Dallas Wind Symphony for their Big Band Valentine Concert. As head of the Jazz and Music Industry Division at the UT School of Music, he coordinated the Longhorn Jazz Festival, directed the Jazz Orchestra, and performed with the UT Faculty Jazz Group. He frequently appears on the Austin music scene in a variety of events.

Rebecca Henderson, Associate Professor of Oboe, was on a partial leave from UT during the academic year, while performing as Acting Assistant Principal Oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in Washington, D.C. During the year, she trav-eled to Austin once a month to teach oboe students, who, in her absence, also worked with guest artists Richard Killmer (Eastman School of Music), Robert Atherholt (Rice School of Music), Alex Klein (Oberlin Conservatory), and Mark Ackerman (San Antonio Symphony). Professor Henderson will again be on partial leave during the 2007–08 academic year while performing as Acting Principal Oboe with the NSO. Henderson will return to full-time teaching at UT in the fall of 2008.

Jacqueline C. Henninger, Assistant Professor of Music and Hu-man Learning, presented “The Effects of Constant and Intermittent Verbal Feedback on Complex Motor Skill Development” at the

TMEA Convention in San Antonio in February 2007. Her article, “The Effects of Performance Quality Ratings on Perceptions of Instrumental Music Lessons,” is currently in press with Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. In addition to completing work as a guest consultant, clinician, and adjudicator for several local middle school band programs, Dr. Henninger also served as a guest adjudicator for the Austin Independent School District River City Band Festival and was guest clinician/conductor for the AISD Middle School All-City Band.

Kristin Wolfe Jensen, Professor of Bassoon, played her second season as Principal Bassoonist in both the innovative River Oaks Chamber Orchestra in Houston, and the Eastern Philharmonic in North Carolina, where she teaches at the Eastern Music Festival. She was the guest artist at the University of Alabama’s Double Reed Day, artist/teacher at the Round Top Music Festival, and gave master classes at the University of Maryland, Arizona State, the University of Houston, and James Madison University. Along with Michelle Schumann (DMA 2002), she performed Virko Baley’s Partita for Bassoon and Piano on the Nevada Encounters of New Music conference in Las Vegas, and recorded the piece for future release on TNC Recordings. In June, Jensen presented a recital at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Ithaca, New York, and hosted the second Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition for young women bassoonists of the Americas, which she co-founded

and directs. In January she was soloist on the A. Mozart Fest concert in Austin, performing Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto, and on the UT New Music Ensemble Concert in October, per-forming Dan Welcher’s Concerto da Camera for bassoon and small ensemble.

Brian Lewis, Professor of Violin, saw his debut CD with the London Symphony Orchestra released on the Delos label last fall. The CD, featuring Bernstein’s Serenade and the world premiere recording of Elements by Hollywood composer Michael McLean, was immediately well received. Local classical radio station KMFA featured the recording as its “Classically Austin CD” for 2007. In November, Professor Lewis performed the live world premiere of

Elements with the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra of Houston, under the direction of Alistair Willis. Among his international performances and workshops, Lewis recently returned from a four-city tour of Japan, where he worked with 2500 children and performed numerous concerts, including one attended by the Princess of Japan. Lewis was recently appointed as holder of the David and Mary Winton Green Chair in String Performance and Pedagogy.

John Mills, Assistant Professor of Jazz Composition/Jazz Saxo-phone, composed the music and co-authored the lyrics for the new musical theatre production VineLand. The Broadway-based cast completed a successful preview tour of several major cities, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Miami. Mills presented a concert of his compositions at the University of Lju-bljana, lectured on jazz history (in German) at the University of Greifswald, and was artist in residence for a week of concerts on Prince Edward Island. He performed at major blues festivals in Ottawa, Edmonton, Portland, and San Diego as a member of the Texas Horns. With the Texas Horns, he also played several Los Lonely Boys concerts, including a television taping for Austin City Limits and as the opening act for the Rolling Stones. Mills

Brian Lewis CD with the London Symphony Orchestra

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played tenor saxophone solos behind rhythm and blues legend Aretha Franklin and Motown icons The Funk Brothers. His studio recordings included TV/Radio spots for Time Warner Cable and the Texas Lottery, as well as playing all woodwinds on the score of Ladron for Lion’s Gate films. His writing projects ranged from jazz compositions published by Walrus Music, to wind and string arrangements for the Austin Pops, the Wild Basin Winds, Toni Price, and Carolyn Wonderland.

Robin Moore, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, presented several papers at various universities during the past academic year. In 2006, he presented: “Dance Music and the Politics of Fun in Socialist Cuba” at the City University of New York and for the Gilbert Chase Memorial Lecture in Latin American Studies at Tulane University, New Orleans. He also presented “Music and Revolution: Cultural Change in Socialist Cuba” at the University of Pennsylvania and at Texas State University in San Marcos. In April 2006, Moore presented “Revolution, Folklore, and Transgres-sion: Reflections on the Career of Pedro Izquierdo” at the Institute of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Anton Nel, Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor of Piano and Chamber Music, was named as Austin District Music Teachers Association Collegiate Teacher of the Year. He had an unusually busy concert season. He performed three of the Beethoven Concer-tos on consecutive weekends in November: the C Major in Richmond, the C Minor in Riverside and Saginaw, and the Emperor in Boston. Other concerto appearances included the Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Song with the Austin Symphony, and the Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a theme by Pa-ganini in Ann Arbor. Recital venues included Aspen, Seattle, Houston, and his native South Africa. Nel played three violin and piano programs with Andres Cardenes in San Diego, each including five Mozart Sonatas. Highlights of the season included perform-ing with the acclaimed Imani Winds for the Da Camera Society of Houston, and three performances in his annual concert series at the Palace of the Legion of Honor with Alexander Barantschik and Michael Grebanier, concertmaster and principal cellist of the San Francisco Symphony. He played recitals in Austin and Houston with longtime friend and distinguished violinist Sylvia Rosenberg. He toured with the Concertante Chamber Play-ers, culminating with a performance at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, and collaborated with Ballet Austin’s Stephen Mills on a new work based on the Brahms Ballades, op. 10. The past summer was filled with performances aboard the Queen Mary 2, and fifteen concerts at the Aspen Music Festival, where he performed with violinist Joshua Bell and the Takacs String Quartet, among many others. He also performed the Stravinsky Concerto for Piano and Winds with Jerry Junkin and the UT Wind Ensemble at the Festival del Sole in Napa, and gave seven concerts at the Chamber Music Festival in Seattle.

David Neubert went to Edinburgh, Scotland, in October 2006 to do research on the Scottish Fiddling tradition. His wife Terri, an avid Celtic fiddler, sparked his interest in alternative playing styles. He gave a master class

at the St. Mary's School of Music and visited with Master Fiddler Alasdair Hardee, composer and publisher of Scottish fiddle music. In February, Neubert gave a solo recital of Brazilian works and arrangements by Francisca Aquino, several master classes, and a “Bassercise”” class at the University of Georgia Double Bass Symposium. Neubert arranged several Scottish jigs, reels and a waltz for a double bass quartet performance at the International Society of Bassist Convention held at Oklahoma City University. The quartet was comprised of Neubert and his former UT students Jessica Gilliam-Valls, George Fahlund, and Ricky Pringle, now Orchestra Director at McCallum High School. The presentation was entitled “Contemporary American Double Bass Music With a Scottish Twist,” and included Neubert’s composition, Moby Bass for Whales, Bass and Tape, works by UT alumni Ken Metz and P. Kellach Waddle, and a piece by former UT professor Eugene Kurtz. This fall Neubert will begin his new position as Coordina-tor of Instructional Technology at the School, developing on-line opportunities for music learning and designing programs for applications of technology in classrooms and studios. After Pro-fessor Neubert accepted this new assignment, DaXun Zhang was appointed to teach string bass beginning in 2007. Neubert will continue as Principal Bass of the Austin Symphony and Lyric Opera Orchestra and state adjudicator for the University Interscholastic League and the TMEA All-State Convention.

Harvey Pittel, Professor of Saxophone, had a busy year as a touring concert artist. He performed as soloist with symphony orchestras and concert bands including the West Point Military Academy Band in June, the honor band of the California Music

Educators Association in February, the Mid Texas Symphony Orchestra in May, and

the Round Top Festival Orchestra in June. The Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet, with University of Texas gradu-

ates Dan Goble and Todd Yukumoto, continues to tour extensively. The quartet fin-ished the season with the Meadowlark Music Festival in Nebraska after appear-ing in McAllen, Westlake, Round Rock, Southlake,

Texas, and many other venues throughout the year. Professor Pittel also appeared

as on-call saxophonist with the Austin and San Antonio Sympho-nies in both classical and pop series and performed extensively with the

Nash Hernandez Orchestra. Contrasts, a new solo saxophone CD featuring

Harvey Pittel, was released in May by CRS recording. This recording contains

American saxophone music with piano (UT alum Michelle Schumann) and unac-companied, including two works written for Pittel by the late Anthony Vazzana, who taught briefly at the UT School of

Music after his retirement from the University of Southern California.

Photo by John Nollendorfs

The Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet(l-r) Harvey Pittel, Dan Goble, Todd Yukumoto, Vincent Gnojek

TheHarvey Pittel

Saxophone Quartet


Glenn Richter, Professor of Music, was active as guest conductor/clinician for over forty bands during the past school year. In April, he conducted the Austin All-City Band for the 100th anniversary of the Austin Independent School District. He also served as the Director for the Center for American Music, which launched the UT School of Music’s new Longhorn Music recording label. Professor Richter created three new courses for the new music busi-ness program: “Artist and Venue Man-agement” taught by Pebbles Wadsworth, Director of the UT Performing Arts Center, “Copyrights and Contracts” taught by Austin entertainment attor-ney Ed Fair, and “Entrepreneurship in Music” taught by McCombs School of Business faculty member Lynda Cleveland.

Ray Sasaki, Professor of Trumpet, has been named to The Univer-sity of Texas Academy of Distinguished Teachers. As a member of the St. Louis Brass quintet, Professor Sasaki toured through Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee, playing concerts and presenting master classes. A new DVD, Saint Louis Brass Live in Concert, was released by Summit Records in 2006 and was broadcast on Bloomington Indiana Public Television.

Laurie Scott, Assistant Professor in Music and Human Learning and Director of The University of Texas String Project, was the keynote speaker at the Eighth International Research Symposium on Talent Education held in Minneapolis in May 2006. Dr. Scott also presented sessions at the American String Teacher's Confer-ence, Suzuki Association of the Americas International Conference, Music Educators’ National Conference, Midwest Clinic, Interna-tional Band and Orchestra Conference, and the TMEA conference. She was guest conductor for the ASTA Honor String Festival in Birmingham, Alabma, the All-West Tennessee Band and Orches-tra Concert in Memphis, and the TMEA Region XVIII All-Region Orchestra concert in Round Rock, Texas. During the spring of 2007, Scott visited public school string programs in Chicago, St. Louis, El Paso, and Austin to videotape and record data on student achievement and skill development in school orchestras. The string teachers in those schools have graduate degrees in Music and Hu-man Learning from UT and have instituted curriculum based on Dr. Scott's book Mastery for Strings. A second volume, Navigating the Fingerboard, will be released in the fall of 2007. The Suzuki As-sociation of the Americas most recently designated Professor Scott as one of only two teacher trainers for Suzuki in Schools.

Nikita Storojev, Assistant Professor of Voice and Opera, gave concerts with symphony orchestras in Denmark, Mexico, Ireland, and Portugal. He performed solo recitals with piano in Austin; San Antonio; Washington D.C.; and Warsaw, Po-land. He sang opera productions at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Nederlande Opera of Amsterdam, and Austin Lyric Opera. He presented master classes in Moscow, Florence, Mexico City, Monterrey, Amsterdam, and Baltimore. A major highlight of the season was Storojev’s performance on an Opus Arte DVD recording of

Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Shostakovich, a production of Amsterdam Opera with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Mariss Janson. Recent en-gagements include the world premiere of Russian Requiem by Lera Auerbach at the Bremen Fest in Germany.

Rose Taylor, Professor of Voice, enjoyed several oratorio performances this past year. In January, she was alto soloist in Beethoven's Mass in C with the Fort Worth Symphony and the Killeen Texas High School Advanced Choirs, conducted by

David Keith, Associate Conductor of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. In February, she appeared in the Rachmaninov’s Ves-pers with the UT Choral Arts Society, under the direction of James Morrow. In March, she sang two performances of Dvorak’s Stabat Mater at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church with the Texas Choral Consort, under conductor Barry Scott Williamson. In April, Rose Taylor was featured in the role of the Hostess in the UT Butler Opera Center production of Gordon Getty's Plump Jack, conducted by David Neely. The composer was present for the opening per-formance and was delighted with the new updated production of the opera, directed by Octavio Cardenas.

Specialist in Jazz/Drum Set Brannon Temple and his group, Blaze, won the 2007 Austin Music Award for Best Jazz Group, an award the group has won consistently for several years. Temple is one of the most sought after drummers in Texas, and has performed with numerous artists including Mitch Watkins, Kevin Paige, Ron Brown, Carmen Bradford, Sheena Easton, Alejandro Escovedo, Kenny Wheeler, James Cotton, Chaka Khan, Janet Jackson, Chris Duarte, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Me'Shell Nde-geOcello, Paul Jackson Jr., Ernie Watts, Roy Hargrove, Adam Levy, Big John Patton, and Leni Stern.

Dan Welcher, Professor of Composition held residencies as guest composer at Cleveland State University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, Florida State University, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and The University of Texas, Dallas. Many of his works were performed during the residencies including an all-Welcher chamber music concert at UT Dallas. There were numerous per-formances of his orchestral works in the US, Mexico, and Europe. On the UT campus, Welcher directed the New Music Ensemble in five concerts and one opera. Highlights include a full-length Histoire du Soldat in honor of Igor Stravinsky's 125th birthday, a celebration of Steve Reich’s 70th birthday, and another honoring Gyorgi Ligeti, who died in 2006. Welcher again brought a group of distinguished composers to campus for his Visiting Composers Series (See separate story). In February and March, he conducted the New Music Ensemble in the orchestra pit for Benjamin Britten's Turn of the Screw. Robert DeSimone directed the production, which was nominated for an Austin Critics Table Award for “Best Opera Production.” Welcher's Symphony #4, American Visionary, received a boost in popularity at its performance by the Florida State Symphonic Band as the final work of the 2007 College Band Directors National Association convention in Ann Arbor. Several of Welcher's other wind ensemble works were widely performed this past season, with Minstrels of the Kells receiving more than 25 performances in March alone. Welcher spent July working on his third string quartet at Yaddo, an artists’ community in New York state. The Cassatt Quartet, based in New York, will record all three Welcher quartets for New World Records in the coming year.

Laurie Scott gives a lesson to Annika Jensen, daughter of Professor Kristin Jensen

Nikita Storojev

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The School of Music bids a fond farewell to three of its faculty members who are entering retirement with a

combined total of 141 years of service to UT. The School wishes Lita Guerra, Frank Speller, and Phyllis Young relaxing retirements.

LiTA GuERRA, Emeritus Professor of Piano, is also on the faculty of the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. Well known as a solo and chamber music performer, she tours in North America and Europe, presenting lectures

and master classes for teach-ers’ groups and on campuses. She has recorded two volumes of solo piano literature on the Educo label.

Critics have described her as “a storyteller at the piano,” and her playing as “extraordinary by any measure … spell-bind-ing in its beauty and insight.” Guerra began teaching at the School of Music in the fall of 1959. During her long tenure at UT, she has served as Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Fine Arts and on numerous School of Music,

College, and University committees. Professor Guerra will continue to teach in 2007–08 on a part-time basis.

Perhaps best known locally for his annual Halloween “Phantom of the Opera” perfor-mances, FRANK SPELLER began teaching at The University of Texas at Austin School of Music in 1966.

Now Emeritus Associate Professor of Organ and Harpsichord, Speller has appeared in recitals in Europe, the US, on National Public Radio, and in one national and three regional conventions of the American Guild of Organ-ists. He has been described in reviews as “one of the most brilliant organists in America” and a “remarkably gifted performer.”

His organ and choral compositions are widely published, and two commercial compact discs of his works have been released by Albany and Pro Organo. His students have won many competitions and prizes. He holds a DMA from the University of Colorado and a Performer’s Certificate from Indiana University.

In October of 2006, students, friends, colleagues, and fans gathered in Bates Recital Hall for a “Tribute to Frank Speller: A Celebration of the Composer’s Works.” Current and former students performed selected works from the Speller oeuvre, including a performance of Te Deum, complete with brass ensemble. Speller originally dedicated Te Deum (We praise

thee, O God) to organ builder Pieter Visser, creator of the great Visser-Rowland organ in Bates Recital Hall. Mr. Visser was present and gave remarks at the tribute to Speller.

Although Professor Speller is officially retiring from his full-time position he has agreed to continue on a part-time basis in 2007 –08 to see some of his students through the program.

Internationally acclaimed string teacher PHyLLiS youNG has been an institution in the School of Music since 1953. In retirement she will hold the title of the Parker C. Fielder Regents Emeritus Professorship in Music. She has presented workshops and master classes in 32 countries on six continents and in 44 American states.

Young's reputat ion and dedication as a teacher was recently honored by the Texas Unit of the American String Teachers Association through its establishment of a new award named “The Phyllis Young Outstanding Studio Teacher Award.” The President of TexASTA, Kathy Fishburn, announced, “This award will be presented annually to a studio teacher that goes above and beyond their regular duties to support and foster their own students and their orchestra

programs.” Phyllis was named the first recipient of this new prestigious award in an ASTA ceremony at the Texas Music Educators Association Conference in February.

Professor Young has authored two widely distributed pedagogy books, Playing the String Game: Strategies for Teaching Cello and Strings (now in its eighth printing) and The String Play: The Drama of Playing and Teaching Strings. She has served as national president of the ASTA and was the recipient of its 1984 Distinguished Service Award. ASTA honored her again with the 2002 Paul Rolland Lifetime Achievement Award for being “a pedagogue of renowned stature who has made significant achieve-ments and contributions to the profession

throughout her career.” In 2000, Indiana University bestowed her the title of “Grande Dame du Violoncelle.”

For 35 years she directed the University of Texas String Project, a large teacher-training program that has been a model for numerous string programs throughout the United States and abroad. Her former students are university professors, sym-phony musicians, public school teachwivate Suzuki teachers, and worldwide string leaders. She is an honorary member of the European String Teachers Association and has been listed in Who's Who of America.

A Fond Farewell to Retiring Faculty Members

Lita Guerra

Frank Speller

Phyllis Young


DaXun ZhangAssistant Professor, Double BassZhang comes to UT as one of the most celebrated double bassists in the world. He has appeared with such orchestras as the Pacific Symphony, the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, and the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra. He gives

extensive solo recitals, and performs frequently with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project. Among his many accolades, Zhang has won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the La Jolla Music Society Prize, the Orchestra New England Soloist Prize, and others. In April 2007, Zhang became the second double bassist in history to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant. He was the youngest artist to win the International Society of Bassists Solo Competition, and has received the Grand Prize of the American String Teachers Associa-tion National Solo Competition. Zhang

has studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Indiana University School of Music. Previous to his appointment at UT, Zhang served on the faculty of Northwestern University.

yevgeniy SharlatAssistant Professor, CompositionYevgeniy Sharlat has composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo, theater, ballet, and film. He received last year’s Charles Ives Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Other honors include ASCAP’s Morton Gould, Boosey & Hawkes, and Leiber & Stoller awards; Yale University’s Rena Green-wald Award; and a MacDowell Fellowship. Sharlat’s Pavane was recently performed by the Seattle Symphony

and the Hartford Symphony. The Seattle Chamber Players took his Divertissement on their European tour last year. Astral Artistic Ser-vices, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, and Chamber Orchestra Kremlin have commissioned future works. Born in Moscow, Russia, he ma-jored in violin, piano, and music theory at the Academy of Moscow Conservatory. After immigrating to the United States, he studied composition at the Juilliard Pre-College, received a BM from the Curtis Institute of Music, and an MM from Yale University. His teachers included Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick, Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem, and Richard Danielpour.

Bruce PennycookProfessor, CompositionAfter serving several years as Senior Lecturer in composition, Bruce Pen-nycook has been appointed to a full professorship. He holds a joint ap-pointment in the School of Music and the Department of Radio-Television-Film. Pennycook specializes in new media and audio technologies, including music visualiza-tion, film/video music, interactive music performance, and net-

work-based audio. He received a DMA from Stanford University, and taught in both the Department of Music and the Department of Information and Computer Sci-ence at Queen's University in Canada. He developed new degree programs in music, media, and technol-ogy while teaching at McGill University in Montreal. Pennycook's compositions include electroacoustic and acoustic pieces for solo, chamber, and large ensemble. He has published many articles on various aspects of music technology, and has been a consultant for gov-ernment, industry, and institutions of higher learning in Canada and the U.S.

New Faculty AppointmentsThe University of Texas at Austin School of Music announces these new appointments for 2007-2008.

DaXun Zhang Bruce Pennycook

Yevgeniy Sharlat

The Miró Quartet, The University of Texas String Faculty Quar-tet in Residence, had another truly eventful year in 2006–07.

The ensemble’s eleventh season included teaching and coaching chamber music at the School of Music, and a festive completion of the Cleveland Quartet Award winners’ tour with performances in Buffalo, New York; Kansas City, Missouri; and Champaign, Illinois. The Miró completed their fourth year on the UT faculty. The Miró gave performances at UT’s International Debussy Congress in October, and presented a part-time teaching residency at the University of Pennsylvania. The scholarly trend continued with teaching and concert debuts at several of the Miró members’ alma maters, including the North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale University, and one of the quartet’s early student homes, the Cleveland Institute of Music. In fall of 2006, the Miró explored the Old South for several performances in Georgia and South Carolina. They performed an all-Shostakovich centennial program for the Houston Friends of Chamber Music. In Rhode Island, they collaborated with the

Providence Quartet in their outreach to inner-city youth. As recipients of a 2007 Chamber Music America grant, the Quartet spent a snowy springtime week in residency by the Erie Canal in rural Oswego, New York. Yet another winter sojourn was made in St. Barthelemy in the Carribean at the St. Barts Music Festival. Summer brought the Miró to the Risor Kammermusikfest in Norway, where they performed with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, as well as a return to the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, where they collaborated with violinist superstar Pinchas Zukerman and members of the famed Guarneri quartet. Debuts this year included the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and two UT sponsored appearances at museums in the Dallas area, among many other performances. Repeat appear-ances were made in Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, and many others. A high point of 2007 was a brilliant review in the German press of the Miró Quartet’s triumphant return to the Herculessaal in Munich, Germany.

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Jane Audrey Dahlgren DiNino passed away July 14, 2007. She was born in Idaho and grew up in Minnesota. She attended the Univer-sity of Minnesota, where she married her high school sweetheart, Vincent R. DiNino, who would later become the longtime director of the Longhorn Band. She supported her husband's career with great pride, and served as editor and collaborator for his writing. A trusted advisor to the Longhorn Band, she was also the primary originator of the Longhorn Alumni Band as well as the original de-signer of the flags and silks for the famous Flag Brigade. To ensure the Longhorn Band’s continued success, the DiNinos helped endow a faculty chair to be held by the director of University bands. They then challenged the College of Fine Arts and Longhorn Alumni Band to match their gift. Many friends and alumni contributed towards the goal of the DiNino Chair Fund, which was completed in 2005. After more than thirty years in Austin, the DiNinos moved to Fredericksburg, Texas, where they greatly enjoyed retirement living in the Hill Country. Jane DeNino is survived by Vincent, her husband of 67 years, two daughters, and a grandson.

David Green, political consultant, businessman, and philanthro-pist, died March 26 in Naples, Florida, at the age of 85. Born in Chicago, Green earned a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago. After serving in World War II, he founded Quartet Manufacturing, an office-supply business he ran for over four decades. Green be-came involved in Democratic politics, working for the presidential candidacy and as a trusted adviser to John F. Kennedy. He also helped elect Illinois Governor Dan Walker. Though he contrib-uted financially to campaigns, politicians sought him first for his political wisdom. David Green was a patron of the arts, as is his wife, Mary Winton Green. Together they endowed a curatorship at the Art Institute of Chicago, a chair at the Chicago Symphony, and a professorship at the University of Chicago. Their support has benefited many institutions, including The University of Texas, where Mary Winton Green earned her bachelor’s degree in music studies. In 1994, the Greens created the Mary Winton Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music to benefit undergraduate string students at UT. In 1997, they established the David and Mary Winton Green Professor-ship in String Performance and Pedagogy to attract distinguished violinists to the School, and shortly thereafter provided additional support to upgrade the Professorship to a Chair. Two years ago, they doubled the endowment in order to provide more support for the String Program. Truly, David and Mary Winton Green have made a significant difference in the quality of the School of Music through their generosity. David Green’s survivors include his wife, a daughter, two sons, and eight grandchildren.

Verna M. Harder of Austin died January 5, 2007, in Austin. She taught piano and piano pedagogy at The University of Texas from 1946-1977. She traveled extensively during vacations and leave, taking master classes with many of the greatest pianists and pedagogues. While teaching, she continued to perform for many years. Dr. Lorene Rogers, former President of the University, honored Harder by establishing an endowed scholarship in her name. Harder was dedicated to the education of children—and their teachers, thereby making her most significant contribu-tion and national reputation. She established both the UT piano pedagogy program and the Piano Project, where, under her close supervision, non-UT students, ages 4-18, were taught by UT music students. Her students and the parents and children of the Piano Project always remember her great influence. Her legacy consists of instilling a deep love of music, training generations of future

teachers in a musically sound pedagogy, and teaching an ethical and disciplined approach to life through her own example.

John P. Patterson died July 12, 2006. He was Professor of Bassoon, Saxophone, and Percussion at the LSU School of Music from 1955 until 1985. He received degrees from Peabody College and The University of Texas. He performed with the Timm Wind Quintet and the Baton Rouge Symphony, along with several other orches-tras. His impact on his students was significant and long lasting. A memorial concert in his honor was presented by bassoonist William Ludwig and others in March 2007.

John Raush, Professor of Percussion at Louisiana State University School of Music from 1977 until 1998, passed away November 18, 2006. He earned a master’s degree from Northwestern State University, and a doctoral degree from The University of Texas. Raush held an important role in the UT percussion program as its first doctoral percussion student. While at UT, he was a teaching assistant, performed in numerous ensembles, and was a member of the Austin Symphony. In addition to teaching at LSU, he was principal percussionist and timpanist in the Baton Rouge Sym-phony Orchestra.

Dixie Ross-Neill died in Montreal on May 28, 2007, at the age of 67. She is survived by her husband, Bill Neill, and a son and daughter-in-law. She played studio piano in New York for sing-ers Eileen Farrell, Robert Merrill, Beverly Sills, and many others. Dixie Ross-Neill studied with Dalies Frantz at The University of

Texas, and received a full tuition and a salaried position in accompanying. While at UT, she also met singer Bill Neill, soon to be her husband. After earning her master’s degree, she moved

to Germany, where she worked as an accompanist while her hus-band made his operatic debut. In 1970, the Neills moved to New York, where she gained acclaim as a vocal coach and rehearsal pianist while he performed in Europe and the U.S. She was later appointed as Director of Musical Studies for the Canadian Opera Company’s training program. Bill Neill became Director of Vocal Studies at McGill University in Montreal in 1989. Dixie Ross-Neill became Director of Opera Studies at McGill in 1993. Together, the Neills received the 2003 Opera Educator Award in recognition of a lifetime of achievement. Glenn Tims, a longtime friend of the School of Music and one of its most faithful and dedicated supporters, died July 31, 2007. Mrs. Tims, who had recently moved to Houston to be near family members, was born in Wisconsin in 1914, earned her MA in history from Syracuse University and pursued a Ph.D. at American Uni-versity in Washington, D.C. A researcher in the Office of Strategic Services during WWII, she met and married a colleague, Richard Tims, who became a Foreign Service Officer. Glenn and Richard raised their family of two girls and two boys at diplomatic posts in Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest before moving to Austin in 1970. Despite the demands of family, her genealogical research, church choir practice, and parish duties, Glenn attended several School of Music recitals each week. Countless students remember her as someone who always offered a word of appreciation and encour-agement. Faculty knew her as a tireless supporter, gracious host, and a welcome presence. Staff remember her for her thoughtfulness and diplomacy. She was a constant friend who shared our belief in the power of music, and her smile and good cheer are greatly missed. In her memory, her family has established The Glenn Tims Memorial Scholarship Fund, to which contributions may be made through the School of Music.

In Memoriam


Elena Portnaya (DMA, Piano Performance) won First Prize in the 2006–07 Sydney Wright Piano Accompanying Competition. Other win-

ners included Mark Cheikhet, Vio-lin, Best Instrumentalist; Jonathan Dexter, Cello, Best Instrumentalist; and You Jeong Jin, Best Vocalist.

Tami Iskenderian (BM, Violin Perfor-mance) won the 2006 UT School of Music Concerto Competition.

Brandon Hendrix (DMA, Composi-tion) wrote the winning music for the 2006 University of Texas Radio Theme Contest.

Performer Certificates of Recogni-tion for 2006–07 were awarded to Lindsay Elizabeth Taylor (BM, Music Studies, Oboe), Robin L. Mc-Gregor (BM, Music Studies, Flute), and Zachary C. Buie (BM, Music

Studies, Trumpet).

James Tolleson (BM, Tuba Performance) received the Texas Exes Presi-dential Leadership Award, 2006.

Dries Berghman (BM, Composition) was named the Presser Foundation Scholar for 2007–08.

Recognized for Outstanding Undergraduate Senior Recitals, 2006–2007, were: Charlene Sutton (BM, Piano Performance), Tom Siders (BM, Trumpet Performance), Chelsey Green (BM, Viola Performance), and Tami Iskenderian (BM, Violin Performance).

Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies Summer Travel Grants for 2007 were awarded to Tristan del Canto (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology), Elisa Ferrari (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology), and Krista Kateneva (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology).

Ana Sanchez Rojo (MM, Musicology) re-ceived the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies Apertura Scholarship for 2006–2007.

The Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies E.D. Farmer International Fellowship, 2007–08, went to Octavio Cardenas (DMA, Opera Directing). Cardenas directed the Butler Opera Center production of Plump Jack by Gordon Getty in April.

Ricardo Bernardes (Ph.D., Musicology) received the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Graduate Fellowship, 2006–07.

Ajay Kalra (Ph.D., Ethnomusicology) was awarded the Berea College Appalachian Music Fellowship for June–July 2006. He also received theAppalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Non-fiction as contributor and editor of The Bristol Sessions: Writings about the Big Bang of Country Music.

University Preemptive Fellowships for 2006-2007 Vanguel Tangarov (DMA, Clarinet Performance) and Alexandr Tsiboulski (MM, Guitar Performance).

Dorsey Mitchell Butler (DMA, Trombone Jazz Studies) won the Uni-versity Graduate Recruitment Fellowship, 2006 –07.

The South Texas Graduate Fellowship for 2006–07 was awarded to Monica Cristine Martinez (MM, French Horn Performance).

University Continuing Fellowships, 2007-08, went to Leanne Zacharias (DMA, Cello Performance), Jennifer Smull (Ph.D. Musicology), and April Prince (Ph.D., Musicology).

Jennifer Iverson (Ph.D., Music Theory) received a research fellowship from the Paul Sacher Stiftung to work at their archives in Basel, Swit-zerland, in spring 2008.

Recognition for Outstanding Graduate Recitals, 2006 –07, went to the following:Master of Music Recitals: Katherine Lee (Piano Performance), Storm Knein (Organ Performance), and Amira Bedrush-McDonald (Violin Performance).Doctor of Musical Arts Recitals: Justyna Chesey-Parda (Piano Perfor-

mance), Lenore Alford (Organ Performance), and Brian Shaw (Trumpet Performance).Doctor of Musical Arts Lecture Recital: Michalis Kout-soupides (Viola Performance)

The award for 2006-07 Outstanding Treatise went to Chia-Lun Chang (DMA Piano Performance).

Brian Hecht (BM, Trombone Performance) was 2nd Alternate in the 2007 International Trombone Association Yaxley Bass Trombone Solo Competition.

Students

The University of Texas Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Associate Professor Thomas Burritt (left foreground), won the Percussive Arts Society International Percussion Ensemble Competition in June 2007. The ensemble performed a showcase concert at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, held in Austin in November.

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Graham Gibson (BM, Trombone Perfor-mance) was a Finalist in the 2007 Inter-national Trombone Association Gagliardi Tenor Trombone Solo Competition.

Lauren Sofka (BM, Flute Performance) won First Place in the Collegiate Division of the 2006 Kentucky Flute Society Solo Competition.

Jennifer Wheeler (DMA, Flute Perfor-mance) won the 2007 National Flute Association Convention Performer’s

Competition.

Franklin Gross (MM, Composition) received the 2006 Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) for his Scherzo for Piano. He received $2,000 prize money and performed his work at the NFMC National Convention in Minneapolis. His picture and bio will appear in an upcoming NFMC journal.

The UT Guitar Quartet won First Prize in the Quartet Division of the 2007 Brownsville Guitar Festival. Members of the UT Guitar Quartet are Jon Dotson (DMA, Guitar Performance), Alejandro Montiel (DMA, Guitar Performance), Jeremy Osborn (MM, Guitar Perfor-mance), Oscar Villanueva (BM, Guitar Performance).

Raimundo Morales (DMA, Trombone Performance) won First Place in the 2007 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Classical Trom-bone Solo Competition.

Al ex a n d r Ts i b o u l -ski (MM, Guitar Perfor-mance) won First Place in each of the following five competitions: the 2006 Saint Joseph’s In-ternational Guitar Com-petition, 2006 National Guitar Workshop Inter-national Guitar Festival, 2006 Tokyo Internation-al Guitar Competition,

2007 Southwest Guitar Festival International Guitar Competition, and the 2007 Dallas International Guitar Competition.

Incoming MM opera student Icy Simpson was awarded a prestigious Harrington Fellowship for 2007–08, the first time this competitive national music scholarship has been won by a UT student.

Dohee Kim, who recently received her DMA in piano performance, won the Special Presentation Recital Award of Artists International's 2006 Annual Award Auditions. As a result of winning, she had the op-portunity to perform a recital in the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

in New York in June.

Bill Mann, DMA trombone student, recently won the audition for prin-cipal trombone of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, but declined the position when he was offered and accepted an appointment as Professor of Trombone at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

HyoJin Song (DMA, Organ) won First Prize in the 2006 Gruenstein Me-morial Organ Competition held in April by the Chicago chapter of the American Guild of Organists. She was also sponsored by the Berghaus Organ Company to present a September recital at Grace Lutheran Church in River Forest, Illinois.

Matthew Wood, DMA student in trombone, has been appointed As-sistant Professor of Low Brass at Auburn University in Alabama.

DMA student Oscar Diaz, has been appointed Assistant Professor of Trom-bone at Texas A&M University at Kings-ville.

Three students conducting research in motor learning and procedural mem-ory in the Center for Music Learning completed their Ph.D. degrees in Music and Human Learning in 2007. Each of them has assumed a position in higher education in Texas. Amy Simmons is an assistant professor in the Department of Music and the Institute for Music Research at The University of Texas at San Antonio, Carla Davis is an assistant

professor in the School of Music at Texas Tech University, and Sarah Allen is an assistant professor in the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. Katie Goins, who completed her DMA in Music and Human Learning and Keyboard Pedagogy, is a member of the faculty at the New School for Music Study in Princeton, N.J.

Butler Opera Center mezzo-soprano Alta Boover was recently hired to sing in Opera Carolina's production of The Pirates of Penzance.

Yoon-Sang Lee, Butler Opera Center baritone, was a finalist in the Art-ist Division of the second annual Charles A. Lynam Vocal Competition.

Graham Gibson, a freshmen performance major, was named a finalist in the International Trombone Association Gagliardi Tenor Trombone Solo Competition and competed in final-round competition at the International Trombone Festival in Las Vegas.

DMA student Brian Shaw was recently appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.

DMA student Quinton Morris has accepted a position at Seattle Uni-versity as Director of Chamber Music and Instrumental Studies and Assistant Professor of Music. Also, The Young Eight, a performance ensemble founded by Morris, have been named as Artists in Residence at Seattle University.

DMA trumpet student Mike Hengst won Fourth Place in the National Trumpet Competition Solo competition, Masters Division, in March 2006.

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CML graduates Katie Goins, Amy Simmons, and Carla Davis (l-to-r)

Aleksandr Tsiboulski


Tex Sax, The University of Texas Saxophone Choir has released a second CD with Mark

Records.

The recording includes arrangements by students Robert Selaiden, John Peterson, and Erik Steighner, who also conducted their individual works.

Professor Harvey Pittel conducted and also performed as soloist on the new recording.

Dvorak’s Serenade in D minor, op. 44 was arranged by UT graduate Todd Yukumoto for the recording and conducted by Dr. Scott Hanna, Associate Director of the UT School of Music.

UT Jazz Studies Program

In June 2006, members of Professor Steven Bryant’s tuba/euphonium studio traveled to Denver University to attend the International Tuba Euphonium Conference. The trip was sponsored by

the School of Music and the Alpha Iota Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. On the opening night concert, the UT students presented their humorous take on a 1940’s radio detective show. Replete with humorous references to all things tuba and euphonium, the piece was very well received. The conference was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for students, featuring discussions and per-formances by many of the world’s best euphonium and tuba artists. As one of the School’s tubists put it, “It is truly remarkable to be able to approach any and all of your musical idols and just hang out, or to have the greatest euphonium player in the world tell you that he really enjoyed your performance. Experiences such as these have a way of lighting a fire under you.” In March 2007, the Professor Bryant and his tuba/euphonium studio hosted the South Central Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, drawing student, professional, and amateur players from Kansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas. Recitals featured solos by teachers, professionals, and students. Ten university tuba/euphonium ensembles performed. Public school students were invited to master classes and rehearsals. Solo and mock audition competitions were offered, in addition to special sessions on recital, audition preparation, and alternative careers. A high point of the conference was a panel of five composers discussing their new works for tuba and euphonium, followed by world premiers of their pieces. In all, there were nine works premiered at the conference. The final evening featured performances by the Honors Tuba/Euphonium Ensembles, the profes-sional quartet Vortex, and the Texas Army National Guard’s Lone Star Band. Winners of the solo competitions performed with the band, and the concert’s grand finale was an industrial-strength performance of Huffine’s Them Basses, featuring tuba and euphonium professionals adding weight to the solo part.

UT Tuba/Euphonium Ensemble, with Director Steven Bryant (third from right)

Tuba/Euphonium Students Attend International Conference, Host Regional Conference at UT

University of Texas Saxophone Choir Releases CD

The UT Jazz Studies pro-gram enjoyed a productive

year, highlighted by the an-nual Longhorn Jazz Festival, numerous student ensemble concerts, and performances and recording by the UT Faculty Jazz Group.

The 2007 Longhorn Jazz Fes-tival featured trumpeter and composer Tim Hagans per-forming with the UT Jazz Or-chestra. Hagans records on the prestigious Blue Note label. After the concert he wrote that the Jazz Orchestra was “a blaz-ing big band” that “played my music like a road band.”

Students Dave Renter and Michael Arthurs created some new arrangements of works by Hagans for the concert. Nu-merous high school jazz bands attended the festival in addition to a large public audience.

As a vital component of jazz studies, the jazz composition program contributed new works to each concert per-formed by the Jazz Orchestra, the Jazz Ensemble, and AIME (the Alternative Improvisation Music Ensemble). Several con-certs were comprised entirely of new works by students and faculty.

The UT Faculty Jazz Group, fea-turing John Mills, Ron Westray, Dennis Dotson, Mitch Watkins, Jeff Hellmer, John Fremgen, and Brannen Temple, per-formed in Bates Recital Hall after recording their new CD titled On The Cusp.

The recording, on the new Longhorn Music label, was released in September at the group’s appearance on the Jessen Series of Distinguished Faculty Artists. Mills, Westray, Hellmer, and Fremgen wrote the material for the recording.

Next year’s festival will be held March 1, 2008.

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The following are just a few of the literally hundreds of guests and scholars visiting our campus to teach and perform each year.

The acclaimed Russisan cellist Nina Ko-tova was invited to the School of Music as Visiting Artist in cello and composi-tion in September 2006. She performed a recital with pianist Anton Nel and presented master classes in September and February.

Mary-Karen Clardy, professor of flute at University of North Texas, gave a recital with pianist Pamela Mia Paul, Regents Professor at University of North Texas in September 2006.

Milton Masciadri, professor of double bass at the University of Georgia in Ath-

ens, gave a recital in October.

Flutist Ransom Wilson gave a master class and recital in October. Mr. Wilson has recorded 30 albums as both flutist and conductor.

Composer David Lang, co-founder of New York’s Bang on a Can, presented a talk in No-vember on the Music Leadership Lecture Series.

Bones Apart, one of the world's leading young chamber ensembles, performed in November. Their diverse programs incorporate music of all styles and genres including baroque, classical, romantic, latin, jazz, contemporary, and popular.

The School hosted its 3rd annual Sacred Music Workshop in January 2007, this year commemo-rating the life and music of organist and com-poser Jean Langlais. The workshop culminated in a concert of Langlais’ music performed by Ann Labounsky, renowned organist and a former student of Langlais. She has recorded the complete organ works of Langlais: a project encom-passing 24 compact disks, 18 of which have been released..Western Wind Quintet, the resident faculty ensemble at Western

Michigan University, performed a January recital in Bates Recital Hall.

The world-renowned ensemble Rhythm & Brass presented a master class and special concert in January. Entitled “On Your Radio Dial,” the presentation was designed to span centuries of composition and multitudes of genres. It featured music from composers as diverse as J.S. Bach and Ralph Vaughn Williams to The Beatles and Pink Floyd, affirming a philosophy that all music is connected.

The duo of violinist Stanley Chepaitis and cellist Linda Jennings per-formed in February. Chepaitis holds a DMA in addition to a Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Jennings, a UT alumnus,

received her Doctorate of Music in 1999.

James Ryon performed a guest recital in Feb-ruary. He is Principal Oboist of the Baton Rouge Symphony, Associate Professor of Oboe at the Louisiana State University School of Music, and member of the Timm Wind Quintet.

Visiting composer Paul Chihara gave a guest presentation in February. In addition to many concert works, Chihara has composed scores for over 90 motion pictures and television series. He has worked with directors Sidney Lumet, Louis Malle, Michael Ritchie, and Arthur Penn. His movie credits include Prince of the City, The Morning After, Crossing Delancey, and John Turturro's Romance and Cigarettes.

Metropolitan Opera soprano Cynthia Law-rence and husband Mark R. Calkins, tenor, performed a February benefit concert for the

Sarah and Ernest Butler Opera Center with Anton Nel on piano in Jes-sen Auditorium.

In March, collaborative pianist Anne Epperson, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, gave a master class and performance featuring collaborations with School of Music faculty members and students.

In April, renowned pianist Leon Fleisher gave piano and chamber music master classes in conjunction with a performance of solo piano and duet with faculty cellist Bion Tsang at the UT Performing Arts Center.

Malcolm Bilson, one of the world's most respected interpreters of classical piano works, visited campus and gave a lecture in April.

Jill Felber, Professor of Flute at the University of California, Santa Bar-bara, and Principal Flute with Opera Santa Barbara, performed a guest recital in Jessen Auditorium in April.

One of the world’s most distinguished pianists, Claude Frank, visited the School for master classes and a performance in April. The release of his recordings of the Beethoven Sonatas and his worldwide per-formances of the cycle decades ago gained him unequalled critical acclaim.

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The Starling Distinguished Violinist Se-ries continued in its second year with

appearances by two of the world’s most venerated violinists, Glenn Dicterow and Sylvia Rosenberg. Supported by a grant from the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation, and directed by Professor of Violin Brian Lewis, the Starling Series brings outstanding violinists to campus for master classes and performances. Glenn Dicterow performed in January with the distinguished pianist Gerald Robbins to begin the series. One of

today's most prominent violinists, Dicterow is well known to audi-ences throughout Europe and North America both as an orchestral soloist and a recitalist. A top prizewinner in many international competitions, Dicterow has been Concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic since 1980 and is a featured soloist on many of its recordings. He has also recorded the Holdridge Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Bernstein Serenade with the New York Philharmonic, and solo works of Korngold, Ives, Bernstein, Martinu and Corigliano. Glenn Dicterow serves on the faculties of

the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music. In April 2007, the School was visited by Sylvia Rosenberg, perform-ing with UT’s own world-class pianist, Anton Nel. Rosenberg has performed extensively throughout the US and abroad, appearing with major orchestras, including the Chicago, National, and London Symphonies; the Royal Philharmonic; Stockholm Philharmonic; Amsterdam Concertgebouw; New York Philharmonic; and the BBC orchestras, among many others. A graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian, she has also worked with Szymon Goldberg and Nadia Boulanger. Ms. Rosenberg has been Professor of Violin at the Eastman School of Music, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival since 1980. She was most recently on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music. In September 2007, she joined the faculty of the Juilliard School.

Three distinguished composers were brought to campus this past year by UT composer Dan Welcher for the Visiting Com-

poser Series. They were in residence for rehearsals, consultations, and lectures, followed by performances of some of their major works by the UT New Music Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and the Symphony Orchestra.

Donald Crockett is Chair of the Composi-tion Department and Director of the Con-temporary Music Ensemble at the Univer-sity of Southern California Thornton School of Music. He has received commissions from the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Stanford String Quartet, and many others. His music has been widely performed by ensembles including the Saint Paul Chamber Orches-

tra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, and the Arditti Quartet, and by solo artists including violinist Ida Kavafian, mezzo soprano Janice Felty, and oboist Allan Vogel. Also active as a conductor, Crockett has presented many world, national, and regional premieres.

Jennifer Higdon is Professor of Composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and one of the most important young composers in the United States. She was the first woman composer to be named a featured composer at the Tanglewood Con-temporary Music Festival. She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Pew Fellowship in the Arts, Meet-the-Composer, the National Endow-

ment for the Arts, and ASCAP. Her music is commissioned by many leading orchestras and her works have been performed more than 200 times a year. Her blue cathedral is has been programmed by more than 100 orchestras since its premiere in 2000.

Evan Chambers is a composer, traditional Irish fiddler, and As-sociate Professor and Chair of the Composition Department at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. His work has been recognized by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the International Luigi Rus-

solo Competition, the Vienna Modern Masters Orchestral Competition, and the American Com-posers Forum. His works have been performed by the Cincinnati, Kansas City, Memphis, New Hamp-shire, and Albany Symphonies. He has received commissions from the Albany Symphony, Eighth Blackbird, Quorum, the Greene String Quartet, the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, and the Uni-versity of Michigan Bands, and many others.

The Visiting Composers Series is among the most celebrated events at the School of Music. With the School’s new webcast system, the concerts may be “attended” remotely by persons all over the world.

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Endow-A-Stand Scholarship donors com-mit to a $25,000 endowment in support of a particular instrument, thus creating a Permanent Named Endowed Scholarship for that instrumental stand. Each recipient of the scholarship will carry the name of the endowed stand into any ensemble in which they participate and it will ap-pear in association with that student in all programs and publications in which that student is mentioned.

The School of Music is pleased to announce the establishment of the following new endowments between September 2006 and August 2007.

RichaRd S. BaRfield endowed ScholaRShip

The Richard S. Barfield Endowed Scholarship, established through the Dorothy and Jim Kronzer Foundation, will sup-port an outstanding undergraduate Longhorn Band member who is a Texas resident. Richard S. Barfield was an alumnus of the Longhorn Band. His niece, Kim Kronzer o’Brien, chose to honor his memory by establishing this scholarship in his name.

Michael KapoulaS endowed ScholaRShip in coMpoSition

Dr. Michael Kapoulas received his doctorate in Composition from the UT School of Music in 2001. He has since pursued a successful career as a composer for film and television. His work can be heard on stations such as The History Chan-nel, The Discovery Channel, CNN, and many others. Dr. Kapoulas, who received significant scholarship sup-port during his own studies here, has established this endowed schol-arship for students in Composition so that future generations of talented young composers may also benefit from the high quality of the School of Music’s Composition program.

Ruth Middleton Valentine endowed

pReSidential ScholaRShip

Darlene Wiley, Professor of Voice at the UT School of Mu-sic, and her husband, Dr. Arno Bohm, Professor in UT’s

Department of Physics, established this endow-ment to honor long-time friend and musician Ruth Middleton Val-entine. Ruth Middle-ton Valentine was an accomplished pianist and the daughter of one of the first American baritones to sing at the Metropolitan Opera in the late 1890’s. Profes-sor Wiley offers these words about her friend-ship with Ms.Valentine:

“Ruth was my next door neighbor in Palos Park, Illinois. When I was five years old, she and I were playing four-hand piano music. At the age of 6 she took me to the Chicago Symphony and Lyric Opera of Chicago. When I was 10, Ruth and her husband actually found an Edison phonograph to play all of her father’s Edison recordings. However scratchy, I became enamored with her father’s recordings. Later, when I finally decided to become a singer, Ruth always came to my performances and competitions in the Chicago area. Obviously she planted the spark.” Professors Wiley and Bohm established the endowment to assist deserving undergraduate soprano or mezzo-soprano voice majors.

New Endowments

Darlene Wiley and Arno Bohm

Michael Kapoulas

This past year the School has benefited from a number of significant gifts in ad-dition to the new endowments mentioned above.

Ernest and Sarah Butler have continued their unprecedented support of the School of Music through a number of significant gifts. They completed the funding for the Butler Opera Center earlier this year – two years ahead of schedule.

In addition, they completed the funding for the Sarah and Ernest Butler Professorship in Opera established last year while also adding significantly to four of their six en-dowed voice scholarships. Over the course of this past academic year, the Butler’s gifts to the School of Music totaled nearly $2,000,000. Because of their generosity, the Butler Opera Center is assured of its continued success.

Gift Highlights Two New Scholarship ProgramsThe School of Music introduces two exciting new scholarship programs that will significantly impact our ability to recruit the nation’s most talented students. In each program, sponsors focus their support on students within a particular area of interest. Such opportunities offer the potential for a rich and rewarding relationship between the donor and the recipient of that support.

For more information on either of these programs or to participate please contact Winton Reynolds, Assistant to the Director, at (512) 471-0774 or via email at [email protected].

Adopt-A-Student scholarship donors commit to providing annual support for a student for up to four years. The mini-mum contribution is $2,000 a year. Annual contributions above $2,000 provide much needed leverage in attracting the “best of the best” students. Participating donors determine particular areas of interest that are then carefully considered and matched with a deserving student who reflects those interests.

Adopt – a – student Endow – a – stand

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

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

Endowments

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Mary Frances Bowles Couper Endowed Presidential Scholarship for Undergraduate Students in Piano PerformanceAinslee Cox Scholarship in MusicPatsy Cater Deaton Endowed Presidential ScholarshipWilliam Dente Endowed Memorial Scholarship in OperaE. W. Doty Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicE. William Doty Scholarship FundWhit Dudley Endowed Memorial Scholarship in HarpMarguerite Fairchild Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicPriscilla Pond Flawn Endowed Scholarship in MusicFondren Endowed Scholarship in MusicDalies Frantz Endowed Scholarship FundDavid Garvey Scholarship FundGarwood Centennial Scholarship in Art Song PerformanceMary Farris Gibson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMary Farris Gibson Memorial Scholarship in MusicThomas J. Gibson IV Endowed Presidential ScholarshipAnnie Barnhart Giles Centennial Endowed Presidential ScholarshipAnnie B. Giles Endowed Scholarship Fund in MusicLucille Roan Gray Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMary Winton Green Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMargaret Halm Gregory Centennial ScholarshipVerna M. Harder Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicLouisa Frances Glasson Hewlett Scholarship in MusicNancy Leona Dry Smith Hopkins Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoVirginia McBride Hudson Endowed ScholarshipLee and Joe Jamail Endowed Presidential Scholarships for the Longhorn BandJesse H. Jones and Mary Gibbs Jones Endowed Presidential ScholarshipMichael Kapoulas Endowed Scholarship in CompositionJean Welhausen Kaspar 100th Anniversary Endowed Longhorn Band ScholarshipKent Kennan Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Music Composition Or TheoryAnna and Fannie Lucas Memorial Scholarship FundGeorgia B. Lucas Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicPansy Luedecke Scholarship FundDanielle J. Martin Memorial ScholarshipJ. W. “Red” McCullough, Jr. Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Jazz StudiesMusic Endowment FundGino R. Narboni Endowed Presidential Scholarship win Orchestral ConductingWillie Nelson Endowed Presidential ScholarshipDr. David O. Nilsson Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Performing ArtsDavid O. Nilsson Solo Pianist AwardNelson G. Patrick Endowed Scholarship in Music EducationLeticia Flores Penn Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoWilliam C. Race Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoA. David Renner Endowed Presidential Scholarship in PianoLucille Roan-Gray Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicPhyllis Benson Roberts Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Music

Endowments held in the School of Music, 2006-2007

GiftsGifts of $1,000,000 or moreErnest and Sarah Butler

Gifts of $100,000 to $999,000Austin Community FoundationJerry Jeff Walker Tried & True Foundation

Gifts of $10,000 to $99,999Ayco Charitable FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationAndrew R. Heller, Ph.D.IBMDorothy and Jim Kronzer FoundationMr. and Mrs. John V. McLaughlinDr. Gino R. and Mrs. Charlotte A. NarboniDavid O. Nilsson, Ph.D.Dorothy Richard Starling FoundationThe Tobin EndowmentProfessor Darlene C. WileyMr. Mark J. Williams

Gifts of $1,000 to $9,999Mr. James C. ArmstrongMr. Moton H. Crockett, Jr.Richard E. Ewing, Ph.D.Friends of MusicDr. Gerre E. HancockJunior League of AustinDr. Michael KapoulasProfessor Donald L. KnaubDr. John R. MillsMr. Hunter H. PerrinThe Presser FoundationMrs. Eugenia W. SchochSt. Luke's on the Lake Episcopal ChurchUniversity Co-operative SocietyUniversity Federal Credit UnionMr. Roger F. Welder

Gifts of $500-$999Austin Chapter American Guild of OrganistsSterling K. Berberian, Ph.D.International Tuba-Euphonium AssociationDr. John B. LoweMs. Donna B. McCormickPok-E-Jo's Smokehouse Inc.Nicolas Shumway, Ph.D.String Letter Publishing

Gifts of $250-$499Austin District Music Teachers AssociationMr. George L. GreeneMr. Scott I. HarmonDonald A. Henriques, Ph.D.Mr. Daniel M. KowalskiMorton Meyerson Family FoundationMrs. Laura L. MorganMr. Richard C. Robinson

Gifts under $250Ms. Vickie L. BibroBlackerby Violin ShopMs. Christine E. BooneMr. Ara V. CarapetyanMr. Ralph B. Castillo, P.E.Mr. Timothy Mark CheekMr. Charles A. ClarkMr. Robert F. CoffeeMr. Jeff CompMr. Tommy N. CowanMs. Katherine M. CrainMr. W. Kennedy CroneMr. Timothy CrooksMs. Sue W. DawsonWarren R. Donworth, Ph.D.Ms. Marquita DubachMr. Stephen T. FalkMrs. Shudde B. FathCarol S. FieldsMr. Alan W. FordMr. David GallagherDr. Susanna P. Garcia

Gifts under $250 (continued)Ms. Hettie Page GarwoodMrs. Deborah W. GoolsbyMrs. Bell Dudley GraceMr. Mark C. HastingsMr. Jeffrey L. HellmerMrs. Virginia L. HoustonMr. Leonard A. JohnsonMr. George G. KeastMrs. Judy KirkseyMs. Jill A. KitzmillerUniversity of Oregon Knight LibraryMrs. Maryanne F. KnutsonMs. Gladys H. KrauseMs. Judith W. LenoxMs. Tamara J. LinnMs. Laurel R. LoehlinBetty P. Mallard, D.M.A.Ms. Kristin C. Marsh-ZimmermanMrs. Emily J. McAllisterMrs. Nancy Woodruff McCannMs. Luisa NardiniMrs. Brenda C. NelsonMs. Virginia W. OramParallel Petroleum CorporationMrs. Gena D. PattersonMr. James K. PinkertonMs. Diane G. PowellMs. Judith M. RatliffMr. Ben S. RichardsMs. Kerry H. SchneiderScience Applications International Corp.Ms. Laura A. SheridanMr. Thom SloanMr. Albert J. StowellSwivel Engineering LPMs. Amanda VillarrealViolins Etc.Mr. Yea-Mei WangMr. Robert V. WaskoWestbank String ShopLeslie A. Wilson

E. P. Schoch Endowed Presidential Scholarship in BandThe Mary A. Seller-Yantis Endowed Presidential ScholarshipWilla Stewart Setseck ScholarshipEffie Potts Sibley Endowed Scholarship FundLomis and Jonnie Slaughter Scholarship in MusicCarl and Agnes Stockard Memorial Endowment FundElizabeth McGoldrick Surginer Endowed ScholarshipJack G. Taylor Memorial Endowed Presidential Scholarship in Fine ArtsTexas Endowed Presidential Scholarship in MusicMollie Fitzhugh Thornton Music Scholarship FundThe Trammell Scholarship Endowment in MusicLaura Duncan Trim Scholarship in Music

Elizabeth Anne Tucker Centennial ScholarshipRuth Middleton Valentine Endowed Presidential ScholarshipRobert Jeffry Womack Endowed Presidential ScholarshipLola Wright Foundation Centennial Endowed ScholarshipSidney M. Wright Endowed Presidential Scholarship

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

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