Faculty Spotlight
Department Chairs
Faculty
Charles Bontrager
William Boris
Instructional Areas
Jazz Guitar Instruction, Guitar Tech, Fusion Ensemble
Kazimir Boyle
Instructional Areas
MFA Music Composition for the Screen: Electronic Orchestration, Acoustic and Hybrid Orchestration, Screen Music Forum
Typhanie Coller
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Contemporary Commercial Music Singing Styles and Techniques, Vocal Pedagogy, Voice Science, Ensemble Direction, Private Voice Instruction, Vocal Jazz
Joel Corelitz
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My method, focused mainly on communication and iteration in response to feedback, aims to give emerging composers the necessary skills to excel at what makes composing for game unique.
Craig Davis Pinson
Instructional Areas
Musicology, Ethnomusicology, Popular Music Studies, Sound Studies, Music History.
Daniel Dehaan
Instructional Areas
Music Technology, Music Composition, Sound Design, Electronic Music Composition & Performance, Music and Sound Designed for Augmented and Virtual Realities, Musical Programming
Jeff Derringer
Instructional Areas
Digital Music Production 1 Digital Music Production 2
Timothy Edwards
Instructional Areas
Composition, Music Theory, Aural Skills, Counterpoint, Orchestration, Contemporary Music, Jazz Harmony, Writing about Music, Electronic Music, Computer Music Programming
Lon Ellenberger
Instructional Areas
Voice Instruction, Technical and Stylistic application of the voice
Buddy Fambro
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Theatre music, jazz improvisation and music production.
Derek Fawcett
Instructional Areas
Private Voice Lessons (contemporary music and jazz), Songwriting, Improvisation
Christopher Goldston
Instructional Areas
piano, class piano, keyboard, theory, composition
David Grant
Instructional Areas
Foundations of Music 3 and 4, Music Fundamentals, Composition
Stuart Greenspan
Instructional Areas
Music Theory, Foundations, Ensembles, Electric Bass, Guitar
Thomas Gunther
Instructional Areas
• Courses that teach how to utilize music recording and production hardware/software, • Piano/keyboard courses and privat lessons, • Music arranging & orchestration courses with emphesis on jazz and popular music genres, • Music theory and listening related courses,
Scott Hall
Instructional Areas
Music, Jazz, Composition, Arranging, Music Business, Private Instruction, Ensembles
Charles Heath
Sebastian Huydts
Instructional Areas
Director New Music Ensemble, Orchestration and Arranging, Composition, Music Technology
Kimberly Jones
Jill Kaeding-Gailloreto
Joshua Lava
Michael Levin
Ilya Levinson
Instructional Areas
Schillinger System of Musical Composition, Use of folk idioms in the concert music, Polytonality, Extended tonality, Polyrhythms
Leandro Lopez Varady
Amina Norman-Hawkins
Instructional Areas
Hip-Hop History, African American Music,
Randall O'Connor
Instructional Areas
Video game production, Game design, Video game art
Matthew Oliphant
John Paris
Instructional Areas
Foundations Of Music 1 Foundations Of Music Lab 1 Afro Latin and Caribbean Music
Lee Sanders
Instructional Areas
Composition for media, incorporating traditional acoustic instruments from a variety of global traditions along with electronic resources.
Rosita Sands
Instructional Areas
African-American Music History, Music of the African Diaspora, World Music Cultures, Music Pedagogy
Philip Seward
Instructional Areas
Composition, Piano, Analysis, Aural Skills, Critical Listening, Theory
Stacey Tappan
Kubilay Uner
Instructional Areas
Music composition and production for visual media (film, TV, advertising, and experiential installations).
Petter Wahlback
Instructional Areas
Music Composition, Arranging and Orchestration, Music Theory, Ear Training, Production, and Technology; Current Classes: Foundations of Music I and II (producing), Foundations of Music Lab I and II, Music Fundamentals; Past Classes: Notation and Recording Lab, Music Theory I, II, III, and IV, Aural Skills I, II, III, and IV, Music Printing, Creating Music (HSSI).
Howard Weiss
Instructional Areas
Foundations of music III and IV, Music Styles and Analysis, Music Through the Ages and saxophone performance.
Ellen Winters Reynolds
Instructional Areas
Vocal Arranging and Writing, Vocal Coaching in Musical Theatre, Cabaret and Jazz.
Gary Yerkins
Instructional Areas
Songwriting, music production, collaboration, curriculum development, performance coaching