French Horn/History
Dr. Rebecca Dodson-Webster's webpage
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Dr. Dodson-Webster was born in Apollo, Pennsylvania, and has previously taught at the University of Idaho and the University of Louisiana at Monroe. Her academic interests include the study of contemporary repertoire for the horn, fitness for musicians, and the study of the music of indigenous cultures. A member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 60-471, she performs regularly in numerous orchestras, and has released a solo CD on the Centaur label. She is also a member of the College Music Society and a member of the International Horn Society, serving on the IHS Regional Chapter Board of Advisors.
Jazz Ensemble/Trumpet
Dr. Galloway's jazz teaching includes courses in improvisation and arranging. He also conducts the award-winning MU Jazz Ensemble, which has appeared at major festivals, conferences, and conventions. He has performed with the U.S. Marine Band, National Gallery Orchestra, Duluth-Superior, Elmira, and Williamsport Symphonies, and at the White House, Kennedy Center, Wolf-Trap, and Smithsonian. Recordings include Nineteenth Century Ballroom Music on keyed bugle (Nonesuch), and the Mansfield Brass Quintet CD Voluntary, on which many of the selections are his arrangements. He recently arranged Duke Ellington's Come Sunday for the Mansfieldians Vocal Jazz ensemble.
Low Brass
Other studies include the Aspen Festival and the U.S. Navy School of Music. Mr. McEuen teaches trombone, euphonium, tuba, and music appreciation, and conducts the MU Trombone Choir and Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. He previously taught at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, and has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Altoona Symphony, the Corning Philharmonic, and the Elmira and Binghamton Symphony Orchestras. McEuen is presently Principal Trombonist in the Williamsport Symphony, and Bass Trombonist with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. He has toured extensively with the Mansfield Brass Quintet, including performances throughout the northeastern U.S., Canada and the Soviet Union. He performed on trombone and euphonium on Mansfield Brass Quintet CD, Voluntary and has extensive experience as soloist and clinician.
Assistant Band Director / Tuba / Instrumental Music Education
Dr. Rinnert co-directs the Pride of Pennsylvania - The Mansfield University Mountie Marching Band, for which he writes all drill, and conducts the Symphonic Band and Mansfield Tuba Ensemble. In 2003 Dr. Rinnert initiated the Mountie Sound Machine, a 25-piece, high-energy ensemble that performs at MU basketball games. In addition, he instructs the tuba studio, supervises music student teachers, and teaches courses in instrumental music methods and conducting. Dr. Rinnert is an active performer, educator, clinician, arranger, and researcher, having performed across the U.S. and Japan. He performed with the 1989 All-American College Band at Disneyland, spent two years playing at the Huis Ten Bosch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, and enjoyed a five-year stint with Joel Kaye’s “Neophonic Jazz Orchestra,” in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Rinnert’s PhD in music education and conducting culminated with a dissertation entitled “A History of the Bands at the Teachers' School in Mansfield, Pennsylvania: 1871-1971.”
Dr. Rinnert is the faculty advisor for the Mansfield chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, and a member of MENC, the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, the Collegiate Band Directors National Association, the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association, the International Tuba-Euphonium Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Tau Beta Sigma.
Keyboard Area Chair
Dr. Nancy Boston's webpage
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As an undergraduate, Dr. Boston was elected to Pi Kappa Lambda, national music honor society. A prolific performer, she has appeared in concerts throughout the United States, as well as France, Italy, New Zealand, Russia, and Canada. She has also been active as adjudicator and guest lecturer. In addition to the standard piano repertoire, Dr. Boston has done extensive study in the area of music by women composers, and has given numerous solo and chamber programs featuring these composers. She is an active member of the International Association of Women and Music, and also teaches a course in “Women and Music”. She is on the Executive Board and served as President for the PMTA. Most recently she released a CD of music by American female composers, which has been played on numerous NPR radio programs.
Dr. Monkelien teaches elementary and secondary methods, supervises student teachers, teaches graduate courses in music education and co-directs the Mansfieldians . Before coming to MU, she taught music at the elementary, middle, high school and college levels in Iowa, Washington, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and Nebraska.
Dr. Monkelien is an experienced jazz singer, conductor and clinician studied vocal jazz for two years at the Phil Mattson School of Music. Her vocal jazz ensembles have performed at numerous festivals, state and regional conferences including the 2003 Eastern Division MENC Conference in Providence, RI and at the 2003 PMEA State In-Service Conference in Hershey, PA; and in 1997 Dr. Monkelien's UNL Vocal Jazz Ensemble was invited to perform at Carnegie Hall with guest conductor Phil Mattson, and has presented throughout the northeast.
Her paper “The Influence of Phil Mattson on Vocal Jazz Education in America” was published in IAJE's 2004 Jazz Research Proceedings Yearbook. She currently serves as Higher Education Chair for District 8, PMEA; and as Vocal Jazz Repertoire & Standards Chair for ACDA-PA. Dr. Monkelien, is a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, and The Boston Pops Orchestra under conductors Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Helmuth Rilling and John Williams, and has appeared on several PBS Evening with Pops television specials.
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Theory
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Andrew Walters studied composition with Robert Chamberlain at Millikin, where he received his Bachelor of Music Education degree. He has also studied with Jan Bach, James Phelps and Robert Fleisher at Northern Illinois University. He received his DMA in composition at the University of Illinois where he worked in the EMS studios under the guidance of Scott Wyatt and James Beauchamp. His dissertation was on the use of texture in the music of Louis Andriessen. While working at the University of ILlinois, his primary teachers were William Brooks, Zack Browning, Erik Lund, and Paull Zonn. Walters' music has been performed at various conferences throughout the US and Canada, including SEAMUS, SCI, ICMC, Spark, Imagine II, Electronic Music Midwest, and the Electroacoustic Juke Joint. His piece "IN-EX" won Honorable Mention at the 1998 Russolo Pratella International Electroacoustic Compostiion Competition and is featured on the "Music from SEAMUS, Volume Nine" compact disk. "Pushing Buttons", a piece for alto saxophone and 2-channel electroacoustic music is featured on the "Music from SEAMUS Volume Sixteen" CD and was performed at the International Computer Music Conference in New Orleans, in 2006. Dr. Walters has taught at Millikin University, Brookhaven College, and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Theory, Piano
Dr. Gregorich's current research interests include the analysis of twentieth-century music. Her dissertation focused on a pitch-class set analysis of George Crumb's "A Little Suite for Christmas." She has also presented at regional and national conferences of the College Music Society on various topics related to the teaching of music theory. As an active member of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA), Dr. Gregorich served as Treasurer of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association for several years and is currently the Eastern Division Composition Competition Coordinator for MTNA. Recently Dr. Gregorich co-authored a textbook with Dr. Benjamin Moritz entitled, Keyboard Skills for Music Educators: Score Reading which will be published by Routledge Publication.
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Director of Bands/Instrumental Conducting Graduate Studies/Percussion
Dr. Adam Brennan's Bio
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Dr. Brennan is an active composer, arranger, performer and clinician in band and percussion. He is the Director of The Spirit and The Pride of Pennsylvania - The Mansfield University Marching Band , a group for which he writes all music. Dr. Brennan conducts the outstanding Concert Wind Ensemble, and works with the Concert Percussion Ensemble, Mexican Marimba Band, and newly formed MU Steel Pan ensemble. He teaches courses in percussion pedagogy, drill design, and instrumental conducting and servers as an Assessment Coordinator on campus.
Orchestra Director/Music Education/Cello and Bass
Dr. Jacobsen also serves as Artistic Director and Conductor for the Binghamton Community Orchestra (NY). He has conducted All-State, All-Region, and All-District Honor Orchestras as well as professional orchestras in the United States and Europe. Dr. Jacobsen was Music Director of the Orchestra of the Pines and Director of Orchestral Activities and Opera at Stephen F. Austin State University. He founded the Blue Valley Chamber Orchestra and conducted for the Youth Symphony of Kansas City. He taught in the public schools of Colorado, Kansas, and Virginia. Dr. Jacobsen earned his Masters in Music Education and Performance at the University of North Dakota and his Doctorate in Music Education with a secondary in Jazz Pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado. Post-doctoral studies in conducting were taken at several universities as well as in Europe. An accomplished bassist and cellist, as a professional musician, Dr. Jacobsen has served as principal cellist or bassist for numerous orchestral ensembles as well as performing in jazz venues across the nation. He received a Grammy nomination for his work on the jazz recording "Hot IV" and is currently a recording artist for Naxos Records. Dr. Jacobsen’s former students on cello and bass currently hold positions in major symphonies and opera companies as well as in touring jazz ensembles.
Violin/Viola, Orchestra Conductor
Dr. Kenneth Sarch's website
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Dr. Sarch is Concertmaster of the Williamsport Symphony, a frequent international guest-conductor, an extensive recitalist, and frequent chamber musician and soloist with orchestra as well. He performs, conducts and presents master classes both here and abroad, most recently at the PMEA District 8 Orchestra, and in Bolivia and Panama. His appearances have earned him an international reputation as violinist, conductor, master teacher and clinician. He has studied with Ivan Galamian, Dorothy DeLay, Sally Thomas, Robert Koff of the Juilliard Quartet, Rudolf Kolisch and Roman Totenberg, and has been on the faculty of New England Conservatory and served as Assistant to Roman Totenberg at Boston University. as well as East Tennessee and Shanandoah Universities. Dr. Sarch was invited to travel to Cuba as a member of a United States Delegation of String Teachers sponsored by People To People Ambassador Program.
Guitar
Eric Carlin is a Mansfield University Alumni where he completed his Bachelor of Music degree in classical guitar in 2005 under the direction of Dr. Matthew Slotkin. Mr. Carlin is currently a candidate for the prestigious Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music where he completed his Master of Music degree in 2008. He is also a faculty member at Nazareth College and the Nazareth Community Music Program where he teaches classical guitar to all ages and levels as well as Guitar Methods. Previous teaching experience includes the Eastman Community Music School and secondary guitar instruction at the Eastman School of Music. A native of Hornell, NY, Carlin enjoys songwriting as well as singing and playing popular music. As an eclectic musician Carlin also enjoys performing electric blues and country. Eric resides in Rochester, NY with his wife Jodie.
Double Reeds
Dr. Laib teaches oboe and bassoon, and coaches woodwind chamber ensembles. An active performer, Dr. Laib holds the position of principal oboe in both the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes and the Williamsport Symphony. In frequent demand as a free-lance oboist and double reed clinician, she has performed for numerous organizations throughout Pennsylvania and New York and presented master classes in New Jersey as well as the Twin Tiers. Previously a member of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and on the faculty of Tennessee Technological University, as a member of the Cumberland Quintet, Dr.Laib toured Belgium and Holland in the spring of 1988 and performed in the group's successful 1986 debut in the Carnegie Recital Hall in New York City. She was also a featured performer at the convention of the International Double Reed Society at Ithaca College in 2007, and the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., in August, 1988. Her teachers include Robert Sprenkle, Thomas Stacy, David Abosch, Ronald Roseman, Richard Killmer, and she has attended master classes with Barrick Stees, Christopher Weait, John Mack, Joseph Robinson, and the 2005 Glickman-Popkin Bassoon Camp.
Flute, Keyboard Skills
Dr. Moulton's Website
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Dr. Moulton is a member of the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the Allentown Symphony, and performs regularly with professional orchestras in eastern PA and NY. She has served on the teaching faculties at the Manhattan School of Music and Northampton Community College and presents master classes throughout the northeast. Her professional career began in the Boston area where she earned a reputation as a skillful interpreter of new music performing with noted new music ensembles including Extension Works, the Harvard Group for New Music and Alea III. As an orchestral musician she has performed with orchestras including the Boston Symphony (Tanglewood), the Philadelphia Pops and the Rhode Island Philharmonic and has participated in the Spoleto Festivals both in the USA and Italy. She has been featured in both live and recorded performances on Boston's WGBH Radio and is described by the Boston Globe as a "classy and resourceful musician, and quite a player." Her principal teachers have been Keith Underwood and Bart Feller.
Saxophone, Music Education
Joseph Murphy's website
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Dr. Murphy has studied with some of the best saxophonists in the world, including Fred Hemke, John Sampen, and Jean-Marie Londiex (as a Fulbright scholar). He is an educational clinician for the Selmer Corporation, and has written several pedagogical articles on the saxophone. He has performed in Europe, Japan, and the U.S., and has recorded on the Erol (France) label and Opus One. Memberships include MENC, NACWPI, MTNA, World Saxophone Congress, CBDNA, Phi Mu Alpha, and Kappa Kappa Psi.
Clarinet, Music Technology/Business
David Wetzel's website
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Dr. Wetzel is a specialist in new music and interactive electronics. He has collaborated often with composers and multimedia artists, and his recent performances include many world premieres as well as works from the traditional clarinet repertoire. Dr. Wetzel has previously taught courses in music, music technology, and multimedia at the Peabody Preparatory, the Baltimore High School for the Arts, ITT Technical Institute, and Central Arizona College. He has also worked as an orchestra manager, sound engineer, interactive multimedia programmer, and education technologist. His research interests are primarily in the field of interactive electroacoustic performance and real-time computer music systems. His clarinet teachers have included Jerry Kirkbride, Loren Kitt, Edward Palanker, Thea King, and Dan C. Sparks.
Voice
Dr. Alissa Rose's webpage
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Dr. Rose has performed numerous operatic roles, recitals, and concerts throughout the United States and in Europe. She spent several years in Germany, where she sang at the State Theaters in Osnabrück, Münster, and Bielefeld, as well as singing with the West German Radio Chorus. Dr. Rose made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2006 as a soloist with the American Composers Orchestra in the world premiere of Kristin Kuster's Myrrha, and has appeared as a soloist with many other orchestras, including the Billings Symphony, the Battle Creek Symphony, and the Bielefelder Philharmonie. Operatic roles she has performed include Adina (L'elisir d'amore ), Gretel (Hansel and Gretel), Adele (Die Fledermaus), Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Frasquita (Carmen), Célie in Pasatieri's Signor Deluso, Berenice in L'occasione fa il ladro (Rossini), Esm eralda in Prodana nevesta (The Bartered Bride), Mabel (The Pirates of Penzance), and many others. Her recording of Célie in Signor Deluso was released on Albany Records in 2006. Dr. Rose enjoys teaching voice, and previously taught at Adrian College.
Choral Director
Dr. Peggy Dettwiler's webpage
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Peggy Dettwiler is Professor of Music and Director of Choral Activities at Mansfield University in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, where she conducts the Concert Choir, Festival Chorus, and Mansfieldians, and teaches choral conducting and methods. She holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York; a Master of Music Degree in Choral Conducting from the University of Texas at San Antonio; and a Master of Music Degree in Music Education from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Prior to coming to Mansfield in 1990, she was Director of Choral Activities at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, and Choral Director at Mt. Horeb High School in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. She has served as a guest conductor and lecturer throughout the country and has given presentations at numerous MENC and ACDA Conventions. The Mansfield University Student Chapter of ACDA, which she advises, was recognized as the Outstanding Student Chapter in the Nation both in 1997 and 2001, and the Mansfield University Concert Choir has been invited each of the last fifteen years to perform at state, regional, national, or international choral conventions. This is her 3rd season as Artistic Director of the Williamsport Chamber Choir.
Voice
An active performer, Dr. Kim has appeared in including Paolino (in Cimerosa's Secret Marriage), Alfredo (in Verdi's La Traviata), Don Jose (in Bizet's Carmen), Rodolfo (in Puccini's La Boheme), and Werther (in Massentet's Werther). As an oratorio soloist, he has performed in Handel's Messiah, Haydn's Creation and The Seven Last Words, Bach's B minor Mass, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 and The Mount of Olives, and Verdi's Requiem. Recitalist throughout the U.S. and France. Musical Theater conducting experience includes Sweeney Todd, The Music Man, Into the Woods, The Telephone, Gallantry, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Assassins, Big River, Nunsense, Mikado, and Guys and Dolls. He is a member Pi Kappa Lambda, NATS, and has been selected for the first edition of Who's Who among Asian Americans.
Voice
Todd E. Ranney, Belcore, (DMA) has performed over 100 productions throughout the Midwest with the Michigan Opera Theater, Des Moines Metro Opera, Opera Iowa, Ohio Light Opera, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Cleveland Opera, and Dayton Opera. Some of his roles include Figaro, Don Giovanni, Guglielmo, Papageno, Marcello, and Sharpless. He has been a featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra at both the Blossom Music Center and Severance Hall and has sung with the Symphony Orchestras of Dayton, Akron, Lakeside, Wooster, and the Cleveland Pops. He performed 12 seasons with Cleveland Opera and was featured in numerous productions including Carmen, Die Meistersinger, Romeo and Juliet, and H.M.S. Pinafore. Dr. Ranney is the founding Artistic Director of Akron Lyric Opera Theatre where he has directed Madama Butterfly, Cosi fan Tutti and La Bohème among others. Dr. Ranney has additionally directed and produced operas for The Wooster Symphony in Wooster Ohio and The Summit Choral Society of Akron Ohio.
Hamlin Cogswell (deceased), 1887-1905, director
Will George Butler (deceased), 1914-39, violin, harmony, chair
Grace Steadman (deceased), 1921-39, chair, music ed, chorus
Marjorie Brooks (deceased), 1926-59, piano, chair, theory
Clarissa Randall (deceased), 1937-60, vocal, music ed
George Howard (deceased), 1937-40, instrumental music
Bert Francis (deceased), 1940-74, wind ensemble, trumpet, chair
Christine Lewis (deceased), 1946-70, voice
Florence Borkey (deceased), 1946-74, keyboard, eurhythmics
John Doyle (deceased), 1947-79, piano, music appreciation
John Baynes, 1947-79, brass, music ed, chair
Benjamin Husted (deceased), 1950-71, chair, theory, clarinet, chorus
John Little (deceased), 1950-86, piano, composition
Helen Henry (deceased), 1955-75, horn, music ed
Charles P. Hummer (deceased), 1955-56, choral director
Eugene Jones (deceased), 1956-83, vocal choral, piano, history
Jack Wilcox (deceased), 1956-88, voice, Mansfieldians, musicals
Charles Fowler (deceased), 1957-62, music education
Sylvester Schmitz (deceased), 1959-74, chair
William Goode, 1962-88, piano, Intro to Music
Angeline Schmid, 1962-90, piano
Wayne Rusk, 1963-96, piano, theory, organ
Charles Wunderlich, 1964-98, music history
Marjorie Kemper, 1965-88, music ed, piano class, harp
Richard Kemper, 1965-88, double reeds, music ed
Joyce Wunderlich, 1965-97, music ed, chair
Irwin Borodkin, 1966-85, (deceased) cello/bass, orchestra
David Dick (deceased), 1966-87, voice, choral, conducting
Donald Stanley, 1966-91, wind ensemble, low brass, chair
Edwin Zdzinski (deceased), 1966-91, violin, orchestra, chair
Katherine Dyck, 1967-87, voice, chorus, diction
Richard Talbot, 1967-91, bands, percussion, merchandising
Kent Hill, 1967-95, piano, organ, theory, eurhythmics, chair
John Monaghan, 1969-97, flute, music ed, theory
Ed Brown (deceased), 1971-98, piano, theory
Konrad Owens, 1966-04, clarinet, business, keyboard, tech
David Borsheim, 1973-04, french horn, theory, comp.
Elizabeth Grovenstein, 1978-2007, music therapy
Jean-Anne Teal, 1991-2009, voice
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