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Susan Billin is adjunct instructor of organ at the University of Idaho and serves as organist of the First Presbyterian Church in Moscow. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Denison University (Granville, Ohio) and a Master of Music in organ performance from the Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York) where she was a student of Dr. David Craighead. She has served in leadership positions in the American Guild of Organists and the Sigma Alpha Iota International Fraternity for Women in Music; she is advisor to the Sigma Zeta College Chapter of SAI at Idaho. In addition to solo performances, Ms. Billin has been the organist for major choral performances at the University of Idaho and has accompanied many solo vocal recitals, playing piano, harpsichord and organ.
Robert Billups is professor of violin/viola and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra at the University of Idaho. He studied violin and conducting at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, the University of Illinois and the University of Arizona, where he earned his doctorate. Dr. Billups has performed as a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, was concertmaster of the Cincinnati Ballet Orchestra, and has been concertmaster of orchestras in the mid-west and southwest. Active as a chamber musician, he was founder and first violinist of several chamber groups while serving as artist-in-residence in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He appears often as recitalist, orchestral soloist, and clinician.
Lois Blackburn, specialist in music education at the University of Idaho, has had seventeen years of experience teaching various levels and aspects of music to children in public and private schools. She holds a bachelor's degree in language teaching and linguistics from Purdue University, a master's degree in violoncello performance from The Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in music education from the University of Arizona, where she combined her music education studies with work on the psycholinguistics of reading. Her research and publications concern parallels between language and music, kinesthetic learning, music learning theory, and integrating music into other aspects of an elementary curriculum.
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Roger Cole came to the UI in 1976. He is a graduate of Yale University with a doctorate in clarinet performance. He has studied with Jack Brymer in London, Keith Wilson at Yale and Richard Stolzman in New York. Dr. Cole was recently awarded the Idaho Commission of the Arts Fellowship to study in Europe. He is currently the clarinetist with the Northwest Wind Quintet and has been the bass clarinetist with the Spokane Symphony. In 1993, Dr. Cole was selected to perform in Flagstaff, Arizona at the International Clarinet Festival.
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Professor Mary DuPree is a musicologist specializing in American music and 20th century music. She has published in the areas of history of criticism, the community band movement in the West, and the pedagogy of music history. Professor DuPree also teaches in the UI American Studies program, and is director of the Auditorium Chamber Music Series. Her academic degrees are from Hollis College, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Colorado.
Alan Gemberling is director of the Vandal Marching Band and professor of trombone. He also leads the athletic pep bands for men's and women's varsity sports, the UI Concert Band, the Trombone Ensemble, and Jazz Band III. He performs in the UI Dance Band, the Swing Era Jazz Quartet and various other ensembles both on trombone and upright bass. He is an active clinician and adjudicator. His degrees include the B.M.E. degree from Montana State University in 1978 and the M.Mus. in trombone performance from the UI in 1988. He is a member of the International Trombone Association and MENC. His varied background includes performances with symphony orchestras, the Lionel Hampton New York Big Band, Jon Hendricks, Bob Hope, Wierd Al Yankovic, Three Dog Night, and Rita Coolidge.
Richard Hahn is Professor of Flute and Director of the Lionel Hampton School of Music. He began his career as a flutist with the Milwaukee Symphony and Milwaukee Chamber Players. His activities in solo and chamber music have earned him a national reputation as a performer of both early and modern compositions for the flute. Mr. Hahn is highly acclaimed as a teacher of the flute and travels widely to present clinics and master classes for students at all levels throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Students in his University of Idaho private studio have distinguished themselves as the recipients of Young Artist awards in regional, national and international competitions. He is a consultant for the Gemeinhardt Corporation, where his duties include extensive work in research and development. He is also an active and highly respected charter member of the National Flute Association.
Ronald Klimko holds a Bachelor's degree in music from Milton College and a Master's and Doctorate in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Wisconsin Madison. He has studied composition with Irwin Sonenfield, Hilmar Luckhardt and Robert Crane and bassoon with Richard Lottridge, Otto Eifert, Phillip Kolker, William Waterhouse and Cecil James. He also has studied French bassoon with Maurice Allard in Paris and performed with various French orchestras. Klimko is author of *Bassoon Performance Practices and Teaching in the United States and Canada* (1974) and co-author with Marc Apfelstadt of the revised edition: *Bassoon Performance and Teaching Materials, Techniques and Methods* (1993). He is also bassoon editor of the publications of the International Double Reed Society.
Since 1978, when he joined the piano faculty at the University of Idaho, Jay Mauchley has played hundreds of solo and chamber recitals throughout the United States, including numerous duo-piano concerts with his wife, Sandy Mauchley. A popular adjudicator and renowned teacher, Mr. Mauchley's students have won several piano competitions, and many have gone on to receive advanced degrees and to become successful piano teachers and performers. The Music Teachers' National Association recently awarded him the Master Teacher Certificate. He also has been awarded the the Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence at the UI. Mr. Mauchley received the Doctor of Music degree in piano performance from Indiana University, where he studied with Dr. Karen Shaw and Menahem Pressler. In addition to his piano teaching duties, he oversees the accompanying program at the UI.
Sandy Mauchley has been on the UI faculty since 1977; she holds a graduate degree from the University of Wisconsin. Her teachers and coaches have included Gunnar Johansen, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Dr. Karen Shaw (Indiana University). A brilliant accompanist and chamber musician, she has frequently toured the country, performing with her husband, Jay Mauchley, as a duo pianist and with soloists and small instrumental ensembles. A popular clinician, adjudicator and renowned teacher, Ms. Mauchley has been awarded the Master Teacher Certificate by the Music Teachers' National Association. The UI recently awarded Ms. Mauchley the Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. Her students, many who now have successful teaching and performing careers, have won numerous medals, scholarships, and awards for their outstanding performance abilities. Ms. Mauchley has developed a curriculum in piano pedagogy and enjoys composing as well as performing. In addition to her piano teaching duties, she oversees the piano pedagogy and class piano programs.
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Robert Miller teaches saxophone, music education, and jazz-related courses at the University of Idaho, and was director of the School of Music from 1986 to 1991. Before joining the UI faculty, Miller was chairman of the department of music at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1982 until 1986. Before that, he was assistant director of the School of Music at Arizona State University. Miller holds both the Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Arizona State and a Ph.D. in music from Michigan State University. In addition to his service at the university level, Miller has extensive experience as a teacher in public schools.
Richard Neher holds piano performance degrees through the doctorate (Northwestern and Indiana Universities). His students have won national and regional competitions and have honored him with the Standard Oil Foundation award "for excellence in teaching." Critics have praised Richard Neher in solo, concerto, and chamber music repertoire ranging from Bach to Rochberg. The Washington Star-News proclaimed him "Wizard of the Keyboard," and the eminent Paul Hume declared "Neher was immensely impressive," playing "with the panache of the great pianists."
One of the Northwest's premier guitarists, James Reid performs regularly in the region and also throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has been a featured artist at a number of festivals including Guitar New Orleans, The Portland Guitar Festival, The Northwest Guitar Festival, The Fairbanks Summer Music Festival, the California Guitar and Lute Institute, and the Elkhorn Festival. He has also been featured on public radio and television broadcasts. Mr. Reid's debut recording, "Evocation," is available on the Lost Trail label and he can also be heard on William Perconti's CD of contemporary saxophone music on Crystal Records. Mr. Reid is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory and the Hartt School of Music.
Lynn J. Skinner, Professor of Music Education and Executive Director of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is nationally known as an adjudicator, clinician and conductor of Jazz Bands and Concert Bands. He has performed four of his latest compositions with the Lionel Hampton New York Big Band. Dr. Skinner holds degrees from Utah State University. The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival is dedicated to improving jazz education by offering concerts, workshops and clinics with the greatest legends in jazz. The festival is held in Moscow, Idaho each February.
Robert Spevacek is Director of Bands and professor of euphonium and tuba at the UI. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. His duties at the Hampton School include conducting the Wind Ensemble, teaching conducting and band literature, and teaching the euphonium/tuba studio. He studied for an extended period with Arnold Jacobs, tubaist with the Chicago Symphony and emminent brass pedagogue. He is a member of the American Bandmasters Assn.
As director of the opera program at the University of Idaho, Professor Charles Walton has produced operas by Puccini, Rossini, Verdi, Johann Strauss, Menotti, and others. With degrees from the University of Michigan, and additional study at Aspen and Vienna, Austria, he has studied voice and opera with Harold Haugh, Jennie Tourel, Karl Heinz Tuttner, Anton Dermota, and Josef Blatt. He has performed recitals throughout the Northwest, and has appeared as soloist with the Spokane Symphony, Great Falls Symphony, Tri-Cities Symphony, and the University of Michigan and University of Idaho orchestras. For the past few years, Walton has been a student of the Alexander Technique.
William Wharton, cellist, is a native of New Orleans, where he graduated from Tulane University. He studied with Gordon Epperson at Louisiana State University and Ohio State University, where he received the B.M. degree in cello; he received the M.M. degree from the University of Oklahoma, and the D.M.A. degree at the University of Arizona. Dr. Wharton has been active as a teacher and performer, serving on the faculties of the University of Oklahoma, Eastern Washington State College, the University of Wisconsin and Youngstown State University before coming to the University of Idaho.
Jerry Yonkman is a native of Chicago. He studied voice at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music theory and composition from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He received the Master and Doctor of Music degrees in choral conducting from Indiana University. From 1988 to 1994 Dr. Yonkman was conductor and music director of the Bach Chorale Singers in Lafayette, Indiana. Before accepting his current position at the UI School of Music, he was Director of Choral Activities at Manchester College in North Manchester, Indiana. Dr. Yonkman is director of the Vandaleer Concert Choir and the University Chorus