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MICHAEL SLAYTON | EMELYNE M. BINGHAM | PAUL DEAKIN | MICHAEL KUREK | DANIEL LANDES | STAN LINK | JOSHUA McGUIRE | MARIANNE PLOGER | MICHAEL ALEC ROSE | MICHAEL SLAYTON | CARL SMITH | DAVID B. WILLIAMS
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MICHAEL SLAYTON Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition; Student of Michael Horvit, Jerome Reed, David Ashley White. Member, American Composers Alliance, College Music Society, South Central Society for Music Theory, BMI. Winner of Louisa Stude Sarofim Composition Award, 2000; MTNA Tennessee Composer of the Year, 2001. Peformances in Chemnitz, Zeitz, Leipzig and Weimar, Germany; the Conservatoire royale de Bruxelles, Belgium; the Operafestival Kristiansund, Kristiansund, Norway; the Festival Internacional de Piano in Aviero, Portugal; the Festival International Albert Roussel in Marquette-lez-Lille, France; Tours, France. Papers/lectures delivered at the Society of Composer's National Conference, Greensboro, NC; Hopewell Valley School-Performing and Visual Arts Division, Princeton, NJ; le Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, Belgium. Publications in The International Alliance for Women in Music Journal. Blair School since 1999.
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EMELYNE M. BINGHAM Senior Lecturer in Aural Studies Assistant Conductor, Nashville Symphony Orchestra; Music Director and Conductor, Columbus (OH) Women's Orchestra; Music Director and Conductor, Nashville Youth Orchestra Program (1986-1996); Guest Conductor, National Orchestra of the Ukraine (Kiev), State Orchestra of the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia, Toledo Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Nashville Opera, Nashville Ballet, Indiana University, Numerous recordings and broadcasts. Studies and Masterclasses with; Aaron Copland, George Crumb, Gustav Meier, Mendi Rodan, Kenneth Kiesler, Kirk Trevor, Tseung Yeh, Alexander Polistchuk, Mikhail Kukushkin, Larry Ratcliff, Travis Hatton. Blair School since 1986. Emelyne M. Bingham's homepage.
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PAUL DEAKIN Lecturer in Music Theory Electronic scores for independent films [Kilowatt Ours, 2004/2007] and documentaries [The Millennium Project: Writers, Photographers and the American Scene, 2002]. Incidental music for educational CD ROMS [Orpheus and Eurydice and Minotaur] and stage [Behind a Harvest Moon, 2006]. Works performed on BBC radio. Innovative music-drama projects for young people featured on CBS news and NPR. Past contributor to the UK's Classic CD magazine. Host of Life Masterpieces radio show on Nashville's WAMB [2004-2006]. Author of a self-directed, multi-media music theory curriculum used by Blair pre-college students (2005 - present). Teaching: Head of Music, Pensnett School of Technology, UK 1997-1998; University of Birmingham, UK 1998; Museum of Photographic Arts (Education Department), San Diego 1999-2002. Blair School since 2004.
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MICHAEL KUREK Associate Professor of Composition Student of Leslie Bassett, Hans Werner Henze, William Bolcom. Fellowships at the McDowell Colony, Tanglewood, and the Wellesley Composers Conference. Academy Award in Music, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1994. Awards from B.M.I., American Symphony Orchestra League, Meet the Composer, and others. Performances of orchestral and chamber music throughout the United States, in Europe, and in Japan. Published by International Music Service (New York) and Lyon and Healy (Chicago). Music recorded on New World Records. Member of faculty: Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University, 1985-87; SUNY at Fredonia, 1987/88. Blair School since 1988. Michael Kurek's homepage.
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DANIEL LANDES Adjunct Associate Professor of Music Post-graduate studies: American University, University of Arizona. Student of Henry Black, Roy H. Johnson, Maurice Hinson, and Jerzy Sapievsky. Publications include: articles in professional journals; original music (Sonata for Trombone and Piano; The Legend of the Corn Husk Doll); coauthor of The Electronic Encyclopedia of Hymnology; instructional textbooks (Class Piano Resource Materials) and hymn tunes (The Faith We Sing). Workshops, papers, piano and synthesizer performances throughout the United States. Member of faculty: Indiana University Southeast, 1980-1983; Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1978-1983; West Virginia University, 1986, 1987; Belmont University since 1983 (Professor of Piano and theory). Member society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Blair School since 1996. Daniel Landes' homepage.
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STAN LINK Associate Professor of the Philosophy and Analysis of Music Additional Studies: Vienna Hochschule für Musik. Composition studies with Steve Mackey, Claudio Spies, Louis Andriessen, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Richard Hoffmann, and Ed Miller. Computer music with Paul Lansky. Acoustic and electro-acoustic music programmed in the U.S., Europe, and Australia, including Electronic Music Midwest, Third Practice Festival, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U. S., NWEAMO, and the American Music Week in Sofia. Recipient: ASCAP composition prize, Charlotte Elizabeth Proctor Fellowship, La Trobe Central Starter Grant, Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wellesley Composers Conference Fellowship, NCSU Arts Now commission. Musical publications by Ariadne Verlag in Vienna. Papers delivered at Screen, Connecticut College Biennial Symposium on Art and Technology, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, UCSB Digital Arts Week, Society for American Music, American Musicological Society South Central, and others. Scholarly publications in Perspectives of New Music, Music Theory Spectrum, Mikropolyphonie, and American Music. Member of faculty: La Trobe University, Australia, 1995-1998, University of Illinois, 1998. Blair School since 1999.
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JOSHUA McGUIRE Lecturer in Aural Studies Student of Clare Callahan and John Johns. Additional studies with Oscar Ghiglia, William Kanengeiser, Matteo Mela, & Lorenzo Micheli. Conducting studies with Mark Gibson and Kenneth Kiesler. Additional aural training with Marianne Ploger, University of Michigan. Assistant Conductor, Opera Theatre & Music Festival of Lucca (Italy). Guitar recitals throughout US and at Seminari & Festival di Primavera, Imperia (Italy). Premiere, elinda Reynolds' Convergence: Concerto for Guitar & Orchestra with INTY Contemporary Orchestra (Cincinnati). Performances with Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble broadcast on NPR. Faculty, Georgia College & State University (2006-7). Blair School since 2007.
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MARIANNE PLOGER Senior Artist-Teacher of Musicianship and Director of the Musicianship Program Creator of a comprehensive musicianship program that is oriented towards real-time music cognition, developed after more than 30 years of teaching experience and based upon original observations concerning the perception of musical pitch, interval and rhythm; Lecturer II, University of Michigan School of Music, Conducting Department; Guest lecturer and clinician for the Conductors Guild, the Royal Danish Conservatory, Brehmen Hochschule für Musik and Freiburg Hochschule für Musik, the Berlin Hochschule für Kunst und Musik, Brüchner Academy in Linz, Austria, University of Goteborg, Sweden, University of Minnesota, West Virginia University, Oberlin Conservatory, Hamilton College, Bowling Green University, Kennesaw State University, Eastern Michigan University, The Conductors Retreat at Medomak. Director of the Institute for Musical Perception; Compositions performed in the United States, Europe and Japan. Music commissions include; Sanctus for Brass Ensemble (Hamilton College, premiered by the Monarch Brass Ensemble); Passacaglia and Fugue for Wind Ensemble (University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point). Teachers include Nadia Boulanger, Eugene Bossart, Benning Dexter, Jane Allen Ritter and Dean Boal. Blair since 2007.
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MICHAEL ALEC ROSE Associate Professor of Composition Student of George Rochberg, George Crumb, Richard Wernick, and Samuel Adler. Recipient, Walter W. Naumburg Foundation commission, 1985 (String Quartet No. 2), with performances at Lincoln Center, NY, and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, in 1988. Performances of works at Spoleto Festival, 1987 and 1989. Commissions by the Blair (String Quartet No. 3, 1987), Mendelssohn (String Quartet No. 4, 1996), and Kreutzer (Hubbert Peak, 2008) Quartets. Seven commissions in all from the three major Nashville concert music organizations: three from the Nashville Symphony (including Symphony No. 1-Paths of Peace), two from Nashville Ballet (including The Night of the Iguana), and two from the Nashville Chamber Orchestra (including Arguing with God: Concerto for Klezmer and Chamber Orchestra). Performances of Interferon, or Piano Concerto by two orchestras in the Czech Republic, 2001. Commission of Graces, Furies by the Carolina Piano Trio (2007). Numerous recent works for various ensembles commissioned and performed in seven countries (2004-2008), growing out of co-directorship of Exchange Program among the Blair School and the Royal Academies of Music in London and Glasgow. Recipient of 23 Annual ASCAPLUS Awards, 1986-2008. Ellen Gregg Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, 1990. Chancellor's Cup for Teaching Excellence, 1995; Vanderbilt Chair of Teaching Excellence, 1997-2000. Member of faculty: Hartwick College, 1985/86. Member, Phi Beta Kappa. Blair School since 1986. Michael Alec Rose's homepage.
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CARL SMITH Senior Lecturer of Theory and Composition, Organ and Additional studies with Anton Heiller and Gustav Leonhardt. Concerts, workshops, and lectures throughout the United States. Commissions, premieres, and performances in London, New York, Philadelphia, Austin, and St. Louis. Publications of choral, vocal, and instrumental works and articles. Annual concerts in Italy as well as nationally as organist, harpsichordist, conductor. Minister of Music, Delmar Church (St. Louis) 1973-1983; Director of Music and Organist, The Ethical Society of St. Louis, 1983-1985; Organist and Choirmaster, Trinity Presbyterian Church (St. Louis), 1985-1998; Member: American Guild of Organists; IRAS (The Institute for Religion in an Age of Science). Motet "God of Creation" chosen for performance for His Holiness Pope John Paul II. Faculty member, Washington University 1982-1998. Blair School since 1998.
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DAVID B. WILLIAMS Lecturer in Aural Studies Theory studies with Gary Wittlich and Mary Wennerstrom. Conducting studies with Earl Rivers, John Leman and Elmer Thomas. Piano studies with Edward Auer and Evelyne Brancart. Written and produced music for nationally-broadcast TV and radio commercials. Numerous positions conducting church and community choirs. Member of faculty: Blair School (1995-1998), Belmont University (1995-1998), Middle Tennessee State University (2005-2006). Blair School since 2006. |
