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Dr. Rebecca Dodson-Webster
French Horn/History
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- BM, Grove City College
- MFA, Carnegie Mellon University
- DMA, University of Wisconsin
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.
Dr. H. Michael Galloway
Jazz Ensemble/Trumpet
- BME, Baldwin-Wallace College
- MM, New England Conservatory
- DMA, Hartt College
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.
Mr. Stephen McEuen
Low Brass
- BM, BME (summa cum laude), Northeast Missouri State University
- MM, The Juilliard School
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.
Dr. Nathan Rinnert
Assistant Band Director / Tuba / Instrumental Music Education
- BME, University of Kansas
- M.Ed., Auburn University
- PhD, University of Miami
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.