SALLY AHNER | 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

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