SALLY AHNER | BRUCE DUDLEY | JAMES FOGLESONG | JOE REA PHILLIPS | DEANNA WALKER

SALLY AHNER Lecturer in Music
B.A. (Salem [North Carolina]); M.A. (Eastman); ATI-certified teacher of the Alexander Technique E-mail

Additional studies: The Alexander Alliance (Philadelphia), The Alexander Technique Summer Course (Sweet Briar); Franz Schubert Institut (Austria), Westminster Choir College, Oberlin College. Voice student of Sharon Mabry. Master classes with Elly Ameling, Hans Hotter, Walter Berry, Jörg Demus, Martin Katz, Yehudi Wyner, Shirlee Emmons, and Julianne Baird. Dicton study with Thomas Grubb (French) and Viktor Handlos (German). Numerous solo and chamber recitals as well as appearances as soloist with regional symphony orchestras. Member of faculty: Westminster Choir College, 1972-75; Belmont College, 1978-80; Austin Peay State University, 1994-2000, 2002-2003; Belmont University, 2001, 2003. Blair School since 1987.

Specialty Course: The Alexander Technique

BRUCE DUDLEY Adjunct Artist Teacher of Jazz Piano
B.S. Music, Business and Technology (New York University), M.M. (Eastman School of Music)

Student of Irma Wolpe, Constance Keene, Jaki Byard, and Bill Dobbins with additional studies with Dr. Billy Taylor and Sheila Page. Performances at Houston International Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Jazz in June, Calgary Jazz Festival, Edmonton Jazz Festival, and Corpus Christi Jazz Festival. Performed with Herb Ellis, Marvin Stamm, Eddie Daniels, Randy Brecker, Eric Alexander, Chester Thompson, and others. Frequent clinician, having conducted clinics on jazz improvisation at universities including Brigham Young University, Western Washington State University, Tennessee State University, Eastman School of Music, Houston Community Colleges, Humber College, University of Saskatoon, University of Alabama and others. As a composer, has received commissions from Meet the Composer, The Commission Project, The Canadian Saxophone Quintet, East Nashville Center for the Creative Arts, and Murfreesboro Youth Orchestra. Previously on faculty at Middle Tennessee State University, San Jacinto College in Houston, and St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia. Member of faculty of Commercial Music at Belmont University since 1995 and adjunct instructor of jazz piano at Blair School since 2005..

Specialty Course: Jazz Piano

JAMES FOGLESONG Adjunct Professor of Music Business
B.M. (Eastman) E-mail

Recitals, choral concerts, television, Broadway, and recording studio work with Fred Waring, Walter Schuman, Ray Charles, and Arturo Toscanini. Producer, Columbia and RCA records for Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, Norman Luboff Choir, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, Sergio Franchi, and Al Hirt, 1953-70. Artist/Repertoire Department head, Dot Records, Nashville, 1970-73. President: Dot Records, 1973/74; ABC Records, Nashville, 1974-79; Nashville division, MCA Records, 1979-84; Nashville division, Capitol Records, 1984-89. Board of Directors, Howard Hanson Memorial Institute of American Music (Eastman School of Music), 1997-99. Former chairman, Board of Directors, Country Music Association. President: Board of Directors, W. O. Smith Community Music School. Chairman: Board of Trustees, Country Music Foundation; Metro Arts Commission; Board of Directors, Nashville Symphony Association. Blair School since 1991.

Specialty Course: The Business of Music

JOE REA PHILLIPS Senior Artist Teacher of Guitar; Assistant to the Dean
B.S., M.S. (Peabody) E-mail

Student of John Johns. Performances and lecture recitals throughout the Southeast and on radio and television. Performances with the Lassiter and Phillips Guitar Duo, 1974-92. Touring artist, Tennessee Arts Commission, since 1988; Johns and Phillips Guitar Duo, touring artists, Tennessee Arts Commission, 1991. Member of Blair Chamber Players. Blair School since 1985. Joe Rea Phillips' home page

Specialty Course: T'ai Chi for Musicians

DEANNA WALKER Adjunct Artist Teacher of Piano;
Coordinator, Songwriting Seminar
B.M. (Eastern New Mexico University); M.M. (Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University)

Student of Morris Cotel, Jean Eichelberger-Ivey, Thom Uchtmann. Co-author of Alfred's Basic Piano Library, Composition Books Levels 1-3. Clinician and performer for Alfred Publishing. Independent clinician and speaker at national, division, state and local conventions of Music Teachers National Association. Journal and newspaper articles. Numerous commissions. Had national student composition winner (MTNA) in 1998. Blair School since 1998.

Specialty Course: Songwriting Seminar