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Dr. Rebecca Dodson-Webster - French Horn/History - 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. Previous teaching positions include 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 Campus Representative for the College Music Society and a member of the International Horn Society, serving on the IHS Regional Chapter Board of Advisors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Nancy Boston -Keyboard Area Chair - BM (cum laude), Lawrence University; Certificate, Mozarteum - Salzburg, Austria; MM, Peabody Conservatory of Music; DMA, Peabody Conservatory of Music. 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..
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Dr. Benjamin Moritz - Piano - BM (summa cum laude), Bradley University; MM, Indiana University; DM, Northwestern University. Moritz is an active pianist and scholar who has received critical acclaim for performances abroad as well as throughout the United States. He has just returned from a series of concerts in Michigan and Indiana, and recently performed concerts at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Istanbul Philharmonic Chamber Series and the Mersin State Opera House with cellist Ozgur Elgun. Moritz has been featured on Wisconsin Public Radio in its "Live from the Elvehjem" series and on Michigan Public Radio as part of the Blue Lake Summer Arts Festival. He has also performed in music festivals in Italy and Cyprus and has given solo recitals in South America, Asia and throughout the U.S. Moritz's scholarly work has centered on the music of Friedrich Nietzsche and he serves on the board of advisors for the Nietzsche Circle. Dr. Moritz has presented talks and lecture recitals on Nietzsche's music for the American Society for Aesthetics and at New York University, among other venues.
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Dr. Sheryl Monkelien -
BM, Iowa State University; MM, PhD , University of Nebraska. 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. Email Dr. Monkelein |
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Ellen Timmerman- BMME, Combs College of Music, MA, Immaculata University. Ms. Timmerman is a Board Certified Music Therapist, a member of NARAS, ASCAP and the AMTA. She has eleven years clinical music therapy experience, has presented workshops on stress management at the Philadelphia Music Conference and the Multiple Sclerosis Society, offered career options advice in music therapy at the GRAMMY in the Schools Panel at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and participated in an informative panel on effective treatments for dementia at the University of Pennsylvania’s Coalition on Aging. Ms. Timmerman has also composed, performed and recorded a relaxation compact disc which was published by “Ivory Productions”. As a singer-songwriter, keyboardist and recording artist, she has performed at The Blockbuster/Sony Music Entertainment Center in Camden NJ opening for James Taylor, and Elton John. She received very positive reviews in several Philadelphia publications and was featured on Edie’s People on WCAU TV channel 10, an NBC affiliate.
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Dr. Shellie Gregorich - Department Chairperson, Theory, Piano - BA, University of Washington; MM, Boston Conservatory; PhD, University of Oregon. 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." Gregorich has also written on Schoenberg's concept of "Musical Idea" and its application to his free atonal and twelve-tone songs. She presented one of these papers with her advisor, Dr. Jack Boss, at the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory and the West Coast Conference for Music Theory and Analysis. As an assistant at the University of Oregon, Gregorich has taught music theory, aural skills, and keyboard skills, while maintaining a priviate piano studio.
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Conrad Alexander - Percussion -
BM, Southern Methodist University; MM and Performer's Certificate, Eastman School of Music. Mr. Alexander has studied with John Beck, Don Liuzzi, Kalman Cherry, Doug Howard, John Bannon, Charles Owen is an instructor at Ithaca College, the Brevard Music Center and has taught at Interlochen Center for the Arts and James Madison University. He has also taught at the University of Virginia, the Odessa/Midland school system and the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. He is a member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and the Ensemble X New Music Ensemble. He has performed with the New York City Opera Touring Orchestra, the Albany and Harrisburg Symphonies, as was as the Dallas, Richmond , Greensboro, Knoxville, Oklahoma, and Anchorage Symphonies. He is co-owner of DAY percussion repair, specializing in all facets of percussion instrument repair and unique wooden percussion products. He has recorded for the ProArtes recording label.
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Dr. Adam Brennan -
Director of Bands/Percussion Studies - BA, MM, Western Illinois University; DMA, University of Oklahoma. Dr. Brennan is an active composer, arranger, performer and clinician in band and percussion. He is also Director of
The Spirit and the Pride of Pennsylvania - The Mansfield University Mountie Marching Band , a group for which he writes all music and drill. Also conducts the Concert Wind Ensemble, and Concert Percussion Ensemble. He teaches courses in percussion pedagogy, drill design, and instrumental conducting.
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Ken Filiano - Double Bass -BM, Syracuse University; MM, Rutgers University. Mr. Filiano has studied under V. Stuart Wheeler, Bertram Turetsky, Dennis Trembly, Carolyn Davis, John Feeney, Michael Moore, Ted Dunbar, Kenny Barron, and Ralph Bowen. Ken performs throughout the world, playing and recording with leading artists in jazz, classical, spontaneous improvisation, world/ethnic, and interdisciplinary performance. Ken has a private bass studio at his home in New York, and teaches master classes in bass and improvisation. His lengthy discography includes his widely-praised solo CD, “subvenire”; for this and numerous other recordings he has received critical acclaim. Festivals performances include the Cascade Festival Orchestra (Principal Bass, 1985 – 2002), Montreal Jazz, DuMaurier International Jazz, JVC New York Jazz, Finger Lakes Chamber Music, Charles Ives, Bergamo Jazz, Banlieues Bleues (France), Tampere International Jazz (Finland), Texaco New York Jazz, Vision (New York), Bell Atlantic Jazz, Jazz em Agosto (Portugal), Seixal Jazz; concert stages throughout the world include Carnegie Hall. Ken leads his own trio and quartet, and has performed and/or recorded with Steve Adams, Bobby Bradford, John Carter, Vinny Golia, Nels Cline, Alex Cline, Ted Dunbar, Giora Feidman, Raul Juarena, Pablo Ziegler, Georgian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Grossman, Fred Hess, Joseph Jarman; The Aardvark Orchestra with Sheila Jordan; Joe Labarbera, Joelle Leandre, Frank London, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Tina Marsh, Warne Marsh, Dom Minasi, Barre Phillips, Don Preston, Bob Rodriguez, Roswell Rudd, Paul Smoker, Andrea Wolper, and many others.
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Andrew Rammon - Cello - BA, Pepperdine University; MM, The Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Rammon's teachers include Ronald Leonard, Stephen Geber, Daniel Robert Graf, and Richard Naill. He is currently cellist of the Grammy-nominated Eaken Piano Trio and has performed as soloist and in chamber ensembles across US, Europe, Russia, and Japan. Mr. Rammon also serves as adjunct instructor at Bucknell University, Susquehanna University, and Lycoming College and is principal cello of the Williamsport Symphony.
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Dr. Kenneth Sarch - Violin/Viola, Orchestra Conductor- BM, Julliard School; Artist Diploma, New England Conservatory; DMA, Boston University. 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.
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Dr. Matthew Slotkin -
Guitar - BM, MM, DMA, Eastman School of Music. Matthew Slotkin is the director of guitar studies at Mansfield University. He has taught guitar and chamber music at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, and classical and jazz guitar at Alfred University in Alfred, NY, and in the Eastman School of Music's Community Education Division. He has studied with Nicholas Goluses and historical performance practice with Paul O'Dette. Additional guitar studies include lessons with Bruce Holzman, and masterclasses with many artists including Manuel Barrueco, Raphaella Smits, Malcolm Bilson, and Ralph Towner. Slotkin has appeared at colleges and universities throughout the United States as well as at the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, the Chautauqua Institution, and the DuMaurier Jazz Festival in Toronto, Ontario. His first CD, Twentieth Century Music for Guitar, was released by Centaur Records in November 2003.
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Dr. Susan Laib -
Double Reeds - BM, Eastman School of Music; MM, University of Colorado; DM, Florida State University. Dr. Laib teaches oboe and bassoon, and coaches woodwind chamber ensembles. An active performer, Ms. Laib holds the position of principal oboe in the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes and the Williamsport Symphony. In constant demand as a free-lance oboist, she has performed for numerous organizations throughout Pennsylvania and New York. She has also been a member of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and on the faculty of Tennessee Technological University. As a member of the Cumberland Quintet, Ms.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 the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C. in August, 1988. Her teachers include Robert Sprenkle, Thomas Stacy, David Abosch and Ronald Roseman, and master classes with John Mack and Joseph Robinson.
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Christine Moulton - Flute, Keyboard Skills -
BA, Boston Conservatory of Music; MM, Manhattan School of Music; DMA, Rutgers University. 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 pProfessional 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.
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Joseph Murphy - Saxophone, Music Education -
BME, Bowling Green State University; MM, DM, Northwestern University, Premier Prix, Conservatoire Nationale de Bordeaux. 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.
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David Wetzel - Clarinet, Music Technology/Business -
BM, Lawrence University; MM, Peabody Conservatory; DMA, University of Arizona. 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.
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Dr. Peggy Dettwiler - Choral Director -
BS, University of Wisconsin-Platteville; BM, MM, University of Wisconsin- Madison; MM, University of Texas-
San Antonio; DMA, Eastman School of Music.
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.
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Dr. Youngsuk Kim - Voice - BM, Seoul National University; MM, New England Conservatory of Music; DMA, University of Miami. 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 .
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Dr. Jean-Anne Teal Greenshields - Voice -
BM, Oberlin College; MM, University of Maryland; ABD, University of Maryland. Dr. Teal Greenshilds has performed over fifty-five major roles in over twelve hundred productions during a twenty year career in opera and oratorio in Europe. Roles have included Mozart ( The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni ), Donizetti ( Lucia, Don Pasquale ), Verdi ( Traviata, Rigoletto ), and Puccini ( La Boheme, Madame Butterfly ) to name a few. She has sung with the Berlin Philharmonic, the London Chamber Orchestra, the Krakow and Warsaw Symphonies, and the Athens and Thessaloniki orchestras. She can be heard on the Studios Classique CD of Handel's Xerxes with the Polish Radio Orchestra.
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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, 1937-60, vocal, music ed
George Howard, 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, 1956-88, voice, Mansfieldians, musicals
Charles Fowler (deceased), 1957-62, music education
Sylvester Schmitz (deceased), 1959-74, chair
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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.
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