 Specializing in the performance of ancient and modern music for unaccompanied
voices, ARS NOVA SINGERS is celebrating its 21st anniversary
season in 2006-07 under the direction of Thomas Edward Morgan. In its
history, Ars Nova Singers has presented over 250 performances of more
than 100 different concert programs. The ensemble has received significant
national recognition for its Renaissance performances as well as its
commissioning and premiering of new works. In 2006 Ars Nova Singers
appeared in a sold-out performance at the Colorado Music Festival with
the Kronos Quartet in Terry Riley’s “Sun Rings.” In
2007 they will premiere a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
Steven Stucky. The Ars Nova Singers has been heard on radio broadcasts
internationally, has released nine independent recordings, and performed
on seven internationally released recordings with Boulder composer
and instrumentalist Bill Douglas.
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A member of the African American female a cappella ensemble, Sweet
Honey in the Rock, YSAYE M. BARNWELL, Ph.D.,
MSPH, is a composer, arranger, author and actress. She is a vocalist
with a range of over three octaves and appears on more than 25 recordings
with Sweet Honey as well as other artists. In addition,
she has taught at two universities and administered community-based
health programs in Washington DC. Trained as a violinist from the
age of 2½, she holds degrees in speech pathology, cranio-facial
studies and public health. For twenty years, Barnwell has led the
workshop Building a Vocal Community - Singing In the African
American Tradition, which utilizes African and African American
history, values, cultural and vocal traditions to work with singers
and non-singers alike.
http://www.ymbarnwell.com/ |
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GREGORY BARZ, Ph.D., has engaged in field research
in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa for the past 15 years.
He received the Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Brown University and
the MA in musicology from the University of Chicago. He is currently
associate professor of ethnomusicology and anthropology at the Blair
School of Music at Vanderbilt University. He is also general editor
of the African Soundscapes book series published by Temple
University Press and served as African Music editor for the New
Grove Dictionary and as Recording Review editor for the journal World
of Music. He has authored several works: Singing for
Life: HIV/AIDS and Music in Uganda (Routledge, 2006), Music
in East Africa: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture (Oxford
Univ. Press), and Performing Religion: Negotiating Past and Present
in Kwaya Music of Tanzania (Editions Rodopi). In addition he is
coeditor of Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork
in Ethnomusicology (Oxford). He is currently engaged in collaborative
research regarding music and HIV/AIDS in Uganda and South Africa, continuing
his ongoing fieldwork as a Senior Fulbright Research Fellow in the
African AIDS Research Program. |
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Professor JAMES BRODY’s
work with the Alexander Technique began in 1973. He has developed AT
courses and a Wellness Program for musicians at the University of Colorado
where he is on faculty. He has also taught AT for international music
programs and regularly performs as oboist with the Boulder Bach Festival
and the Colorado Ballet Orchestra. Brody has also authored the book,
Rock and Roll: An Introduction. |
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DON CAMPBELL is a recognized authority on the transformative
power of music and listening. He has authored eighteen books including The
Mozart Effect®, The Harmony of Health, Music--Physician
for Times to Come, and Master Teacher, Nadia Boulanger. He
has also produced 17 CDs and led numerous classes and workshops for
organizations ranging from corporations to parenting groups to symphony
orchestras. He is also a principal of Aesthetic Audio Systems, a company
providing custom audio programming for public, patient and clinical
spaces in healthcare institutions. http://www.mozarteffect.com/ |
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SUE COFFEE is the founding artistic director
of Sound Circle, a women's a cappella ensemble (1994), and founding
artistic director of the 100-voice Resonance Women's Chorus of Boulder
(2002). She directed the Denver Gay Men's Chorus from 1999-2005.
With Sound Circle and the Denver Gay Men's Chorus, she has performed
and collaborated with other GALA member choruses across the country;
her ensembles are known for their supportive collaboration with composers,
performers, and other organizations locally. Coffee received
a 2004 GALA Choruses Legacy Award in recognition of her contributions
to the gay and lesbian choral movement. She is serving as co-chair
of the 2008 GALA Choruses Festival in Miami. In Colorado, Coffee
has received a PFLAG Community Service Award and the 2004 Daily
Camera Pacesetter Award for Arts and Entertainment. |
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PAT MOFFITT COOK,Ph.
D., FAMI, is the founder and director of the Open Ear Center in Washington
State. For over 25 years, Cook has traveled extensively throughout
the world recording and participating in musical rituals and the
daily life of other cultures. She is a pioneer in the use of cross-cultural
sound and music in American healthcare and education. Her doctoral
work in music paralleled extensive practical training and certification
in Auditory Stimulation and Sensory Integration (Tomatis Method,
LiFT) and in cross-cultural methods of music-evoked imagery from
Indonesia and India and Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) in America.
She is author of Music Healers of Indigenous Cultures: Shaman,
Jhankri and Nele and Brainwave Symphony. http://www.openearcenter.com/
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Professor BARBARA J. CROWE has been director of
music therapy at Arizona State University since 1981. She holds Bachelor’s
and Master’s degrees in music therapy from Michigan State University.
She has made numerous presentations at music therapy and related field
conferences and has a number of publications, including her new book, Music
and Soulmaking: Toward a New Theory of Music Therapy (Scarecrow
Press). She is a past president of the National Association for
Music Therapy and co-authored the new Standards for Education and Clinical
Training for the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). She is
winner of the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award from AMTA and the 2006
Research Achievement Award from the ASU Herberger College of Fine Arts.
Additionally, Crowe has studied with the Foundation for Shamanic Studies
and is a graduate of their three-year advanced training program.
http://www.barbarajcrowe.com/ |
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CHERYL DILEO, Ph.D., MT-BC, is professor of music
therapy and director of the Arts and Quality of Life Research Center
at Temple University, Philadelphia. She has served as president of
the National Association for Music Therapy and the World Federation
of Music Therapy. She was named the 2001 McAndless Distinguished
Professor and Chair in the Humanities at Eastern Michigan University.
Now recognized as one of the world’s leading researchers in
the field, she has authored, coauthored and edited 12 books and over
90 articles/chapters. Her primary clinical and research interests
include medical music therapy and professional ethics. She was the
2006 recipient of the Temple University Faculty Research Award and
the 2003 Distinguished Research Award from the American Music Therapy
Association. Dileo earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees
in music therapy (Loyola University of the South) and her Doctorate
in Music Education for college teaching (Louisiana State University). |
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TONY EDELBLUTE,
LPC, MT-BC, has worked as a music therapist at The Children's Hospital
in Denver since 2003. As a member of the Ponzio Creative Arts
Therapies Program at TCH, he works with children with psychiatric and medical
diagnoses in units throughout the hospital, with a focus on multi-family
work. Prior to TCH, Edelblute provided palliative music therapy for patients
and families through HospiceCare of Boulder and Broomfield Counties. Currently
a songwriter and band leader, Tony has also been a professional saxophonist
for the past 20 years. Prior to his Music Therapy training, he studied
the Acutonics(r) system of sound healing. |
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BILL ELLIOTT teaches
freshman theory and aural skills and the University of Colorado at
Boulder. A pianist and composer, he served for twenty years as music
director for the CU Department of Theatre and Dance. He holds a M.M.
from CU in composition and has done doctoral work in musicology, specializing
in American popular music and Tin Pan Alley. |
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MARGRET ELSON, master piano teacher and psychotherapist,
has been pioneering investigation into wellness for artists and performers
for 30 years. She has presented her work at international conferences,
is author of Passionate Practice: A Musician's Guide
to Learning, Memorizing and Performing and is currently writing The
Couch at the Piano: Tales of Demons and Redemption at the
Keyboard.
http://www.margretelson.com/ |
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JOHN K. GALM is a percussionist interested in Latin
American and World music. Before retiring, he served as music professor
at the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music, where he
founded the CU-Boulder Percussion and Marimba Ensembles. Galm was also
a percussionist in the National Gallery of Art Chamber Orchestra, the
U.S.A.F. Orchestra and Band, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as a percussion soloist with the
Colorado Festival Orchestra, the New Mexico Music Festival, and the
Denver Symphony Orchestra. In 1976 he published Discography of
Percussion Music, and he has served as a consultant on historic
percussion instruments for the Smithsonian Institution. |
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JONATHAN GOLDMAN is an author, teacher, musician,
leading authority on sound healing and a pioneer in the field of
harmonics. He has worked with masters of sound from both scientific
and spiritual traditions. He has produced 23 original recordings
for meditation, relaxation and self-transformation, including the
1999 Visionary Award-winning Chakra Chants and Grammy-nominated Tibetan
Master Chants. His books include Healing Sounds: The Power
of Harmonics (Inner Traditions), Shifting Frequencies (Light
Technology), The Lost Chord (Spirit Music), and Tantra
of Sound (Hampton Roads), coauthored with his wife Andi. He
also facilitates Healing Sounds® Seminars at
universities, hospitals, holistic health centers and expos throughout
the United States and Europe. Before his sojourn into sound
healing, Jonathan was a well-known blues artist. http://www.healingsounds.com/ |
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DON GRUSIN is a musician, composer, arranger and
producer. Originally focused on economics and sports, he began to
give music his full attention in the 1970s after joining the band Azteca with
Pete Escovedo and his daughter Sheila E. He has performed with jazz
greats including Clark Terry, Zoot Sims, Carl Fontana, and Gary Burton.
He has recorded with Quincy Jones, Billy Eckstein, Peggy Lee, Tom
Scott, Lee Ritenour, Sergio Mendez, Sadao Watanabe, Milton Nascimento,
Gilberto Gil, Dori Caymmi, Patti Austin, and his brother Dave Grusin.
Grusin was the creative sparkplug for the acclaimed fusion ensemble Friendship and
has recorded nine solo albums, as well as produced and arranged many
more, including the Grammy-winning Musician for Ernie Watts,
and Grammy-nominated the Hang. Today he has a wide international
following from having played, composed, arranged, and produced for
artists in the US (David Benoit, Tom Jans, Patti Austin), in Japan
(Mari Nakamoto, Sadao Watanabe), and in Brazil (Milton Nacimento,
Simone, Djavan, Dori Caymmi, Totonho, Daniela ‘Dakine' Procopio). http://www.dongrusin.com/ |
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Having been immersed in Native American song and ceremony over the
past thirteen years, CHAD HAMILL (Spokane) has more
recently brought his experience into the study of traditional music
of the Columbia Plateau. His Ph.D. dissertation focuses on
phenomena associated with song transmission from the spirit-realm
to the human being, a process he explores through the Washat,
or “7 drum religion” of the Plateau region. Hamill has
taught college-level courses in indigenous music since 1998 at California
Institute of the Arts, Naropa University, and the University of Colorado-Boulder,
while presenting papers at numerous national and international conferences,
including the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Cultural Diversity
in Music Education symposium. Hamill is also a performer in the classical
vocal tradition of northern India, studying and performing in the
United States and India. |
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DAVID HARRIS,
B.S.E., M.M., D.M.A., has conducted choral and instrumental ensembles
since 1995. He began Boulder's Jubilate Sacred Singers in 2002 and
remains the Artistic Director. Harris also serves as the Chorus Director
for the Boulder Bach Festival. Over the past four years with Jubilate,
Harris has recorded two CDs, performed over 150 times in the Boulder
area, and directed three national and international tours. He is also
an active arranger and composer, writing or arranging over 40% of Jubilate's
repertoire. In conjunction with Thomas Riis and the American Music Research Center,
Harris recently published In the Good Old Summer Time: An Illustrated History
of American Popular Sheet Music. Past professional appointments include public
school, choral festivals, and children's, church, collegiate, community, and
civic ensembles. |
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ARTHUR HARVEY, B.S., M.M., D.M.A., has been active
for 47 years as a music educator with an emphasis on special needs
students, as a church musician, and as a neuro-musicological researcher
in music for health care applications. Recently retired from the University
of Hawaii, he continues to teach online graduate courses in Psychology
of Music, The History and Philosophy of Music Education,
and Music As Therapy. Previously, he was on faculty
at Eastern Kentucky University and the University of Louisville School
of Medicine, where he helped to develop the Program for Arts in Medicine.
He has coauthored several books and is featured on the video series Music
and the Brain and on the CD Music for Health and Wellness. |
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ART JONES is a
senior clinical professor of psychology at the University of Denver
and the founder and current co-chair of the Denver-based Spirituals
Project. He is an experienced singer and expert in the cultural and
psychological functions of African American music, having recently
worked with New Orleans residents following the Katrina disaster. |
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SACRED SINGERS is a nonprofit cultural organization
dedicated to providing community outreach and service through its
performance of choral music. The choir's repertoire ranges from
classical to contemporary a cappella music, encompassing sacred
music as well as traditional American songs. Jubilate performs
weekly for church services, benefit concerts, celebrations, community
gatherings and other occasions free of charge. These performances
are accented by larger events in conjunction with Boulder-area
organizations, recordings and tours. Their CDs, Sing
for Joy and
We As Advent People, are available
online, and their third CD, Let
It Shine, will be available in the summer of 2007. http://www.jubilatesacredsingers.org/
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RON MINSON,
M.D. received his medical degree from UCLA School of Medicine and
is board-certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. He served as a Peace
Corps physician, family physician, and Medical Director of fifty physicians
at a metropolitan neighborhood health center. He also served as Chief of Psychiatry
for Presbyterian Medical Center and Director of Behavioral Sciences
at Mercy Hospital in Denver. For over 15 years, he co directed The
Center for InnerChange, a clinic offering Tomatis-based listening
therapy and psychiatric counseling. In 2001, he founded Dynamic Listening
Systems, Inc., the premier listening therapy technology for clinicians
and educators. He recently co-founded, with Kate O'Brien Minson and
Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D., OTR, a new clinic garnering national attention:
the Sensory Therapies and Research (STAR) Center.
http://www.starcenter.us
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Recognized as a significant choral conductor and composer, THOMAS
EDWARD MORGAN is artistic director and founder of the
Ars Nova Singers. Morgan received the B.A. degree in music summa
cum laude (Macalester College, St. Paul MN) and the M.M. degree
in composition (University of Colorado). He currently holds
a continuing fellowship in the Lucas Arts Program at the Montalvo
Arts Center in Saratoga CA. During the prestigious fellowship,
awarded by invitation only, he is collaborating with NY visual/performance
artist Lesley Dill in the creation of an opera based on the poetry
of Emily Dickinson. |
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KAY NORTON, associate professor of music history
in the School of Music and affiliate faculty of the Women's Studies
Department at Arizona State University, completed her Ph.D. at University
of Colorado, Boulder. She began working on music and the medical
humanities in 1996 at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Medical
School, funded by Culpepper Foundation grant. She has presented for
the Central Group on Educational Affairs of the Association of American
Medical Colleges (1999), University of Arizona’s Health Sciences
Center (2005, 2006), and the Mayo Clinic/ASU Research Symposium (Humanities
and Biosciences, 2006). Her work on American hymnody was published
in a 2002 monograph by Harmonie Park Press and in journals such as American
Music (2003) and The Hymn (2006); she is also the biographer
of Colorado composer Normand Lockwood. |
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PAULINE OLIVEROS Composer, performer, and humanitarian
focused on opening our sensibilities to the many facets of sound. She
is founder and president of the Deep Listening Institute, Ltd., based
in Kingston NY and creator of the practice of Deep Listening®. Oliveros
teaches at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and leads Deep Listening
retreats and workshops throughout the world. Since the 1960s
she has influenced American music profoundly through her work with
improvisation, meditation, electronic music, myth and ritual. Many
credit her with being the founder of present day meditative music.
All of Oliveros' work emphasizes musicianship, attention strategies,
and improvisational skills.
Celebrated worldwide, John Rockwell in the 1960s named
her work Bye Bye Butterfly one of the most significant of that decade.
In the 1970s she represented the U.S. at the World's Fair in Osaka, Japan; during
the 1980s she was honored with a retrospective at the John F. Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C.; the 1990s began with a letter of
distinction from the American Music Center presented at Lincoln Center in New
York; in 2000 the 50th anniversary of her work was celebrated with the commissioning
and performance of her Lunar Opera: Deep Listening Fortunes. Oliveros
holds two honorary doctorates and her work is available on numerous recordings
produced by companies internationally.
http://www.deeplistening.org/ |
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RON PEN, Ph.D., is associate professor of musicology
and director of the John Jacob Niles Center for American Music at
the University of Kentucky. His primary research is in the area of
American vernacular music, especially the music and culture of the
Southern Appalachian region. He is completing a book on John Jacob
Niles. Other publications include book reviews, articles, forewords,
book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and documentary films focusing
on topics such as shape note hymnody, early folk music collections,
fiddle tunes, and traditional, country, and bluegrass musical styles.
http://www.uky.edu/finearts/music/niles |
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For the
past 30 years, RON POND (Umatilla/Palúus descendant) has been
an active singer in the Indian Religion and War Dance Drum
traditions. Taking part in “war dancing” from the age
of five, Ron
was instrumental in reviving the traditional 7 Drum Religion and re-
establishing the Memorial Horse Parade on the Umatilla reservation.
In 2004, Ron received a PhD in interdisciplinary studies from
Washington State University where he has served as Interim Director
of the Plateau Center of American Indian Studies for two years.
He currently teaches courses at WSU focused on indigenous Plateau
culture in the departments of Anthropology and Music. |
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GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY, JR. is associate professor of
music and director of graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania
School of Music. He specializes in African-American and American
music, jazz, cultural studies, popular music, film studies, and historiography.
His book, Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop,
was named outstanding book of 2003 by IASPM (International Association
for the Study of Popular Music). His current projects include
books about jazz pianist Bud Powell and singer/songwriter Curtis
Mayfield. He has also published in Black Music Research Journal,
The Musical Quarterly, Journal of Popular Music Studies, The
Black Scholar, Callaloo, American Music, American Quarterly,
Journal of the American Musicological Society, The New York
Times and The Village Voice. His band, Dr. Guy’s
MusiQologY, has performed internationally and moves beyond the traditional
jazz idiom, with R&B, Latin, and Hip-Hop fusions. |
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THOMAS RIIS is the Joseph Negler professor of musicology
and director of the American Music Research Center at the University
of Colorado College of Music. He is a specialist in Musical Theatre
and writes and lectures frequently on many topics in 19th and 20th
century American music. His book Just Before Jazz, devoted
to African-American Broadway shows, received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor
Award in 1995. His other interests include medieval song, historical
performance practice, and the music of Frank Loesser. Riis remains
active as a conductor, choral singer, viol player, and cellist.
http://www.ucblibraries.colorado.edu/amrc |
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LAURIE RUGENSTEIN, MMT, MT-BC, LPC, FAMI, is
the founder and director of the master’s degree program in music
therapy at Naropa University. She also founded the music therapy
program at HospiceCare of Boulder & Broomfield Counties. Laurie
has a private practice specializing in therapeutic voice work and
the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery & Music. |
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OSCAR SANTILLAN is a gifted Ecuadorian musician-shaman
from a lineage of Quichuan healers. The teachings of the elders of
the Andes say that now is the right time-space for them to share some
of their ancient Andean traditions with the rest of the world. Their
lineage centers on opening the heart and on the natural elements, bringing
the natural world actively into our lives. The Santillan family runs
a bicultural Quichuan-Spanish school in Quito and has created
a Quichuan Cultural Center in Otavalo, the home of Oscar and his musician
brothers. Santillan is very active in local and regional educational
and musical activities, and his group, Pakarinka Sisari, has produced
two CDs. |
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TERRY SAWCHUK, Associate Professor
of Trumpet at the University of Colorado since 1983, has been Assistant
Principal Trumpet with the Colorado Symphony; Principal Trumpet with
the Central City Opera Orchestra, the American Chamber Ensemble, the
Denver Chamber Orchestra, and the Colorado Ballet Orchestra; and has
performed and recorded widely. Also a member of the Buell Theater
Orchestra in Denver, the Boulder Brass, and first call extra trumpet
with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Sawchuk teaches and coaches trumpeters
in a variety of musical styles from classical to jazz. Many of
Sawchuk’s students are professional musicians in orchestras,
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ensemble directed by Sue Coffee. Founded in 1994, the ensemble
performs music of all styles, emphasizing music by women and music
that speaks to the sounds, rhythms, and experiences of women’s
lives. A member of the Gay and Lesbian Association of Choruses (GALA
Choruses) and the Sister Singers Network, Sound Circle has performed
around the U.S. Highlights have included a 1999 performance in Carnegie
Hall and participation in the 1996, 2000 and 2004 GALA Festivals
in Tampa, San Jose and Montreal. In Colorado, Sound Circle
has commissioned many new works and performed with many local musicians
including the Colorado Music Festival, choreographer Mary Wohl Haan,
and Helander Dance Theater. In 2002-03, they created a performance
piece, Sound Circle: On Bodies, on the topic of bodies and
body image; it has since become the subject of a documentary film.
Sound Circle has released two CDs, Sound Circle and Stick
Around, and participated in two video documentaries.
http://www.soundcircleboulder.org/
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TOBY TENENBAUM is a composer, choral director,
teacher and pianist. He spent formative years in Italy before attending
the Oberlin and San Francisco Conservatories, where he received his
M.M. degree in piano performance. He has written music for dance
and ballet, works for cello and piano, in addition to recording two
albums of original piano music. He led a community choir for nine
years, and his numerous choral compositions have been performed extensively
by various ensembles. He frequently leads Sacred Harp shape note
singing workshops. http://www.tonytenenbaum.com/ |
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MARIANNE WAMBOLDT,
MD, is the Vice Chair for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University
of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, as well as Chair
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The Children’s Hospital in Denver. With over
25 years of clinical experience with children and teens, she helped
to develop the Ponzio Creative Arts Therapy Program at the Children’s
Hospital in order to offer a complementary approach to healing. Through
this program, she has been delighted to meet and work with music
therapists, and has helped to set up multi-family groups, which incorporate
music therapy into the process of the group. |
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WILSON WEWA is Palouse/Northern
Paiute from the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Central Oregon.
Wilson was introduced to the songs of his father’s people at
an early age and later was nurtured by the elders of the Plateau and
Great Basin. Today, he is known as a spiritual leader throughout the
northwest and the Great Basin. The repertoire of songs he knows encompasses
the traditional realms of pleasure, games, faith and healing. Wilson
travels extensively to assist other people in Indian country and around
the nation who ask for his help. His travels have also taken him as
far south as Peru, where he met with elders of the high Andes and the
jungles of the Amazon. Currently, he works as the elder services coordinator
for his tribe and oversees the Caregiver program for his people. His
job gives him the freedom to assist those who are in need of spiritual
guidance and comfort in the homes and hospitals in his area. |
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SUE WILLIAMSON is an assistant professor of choral
music education. She received her B.M.E. from Ball State University,
her M.M.E. from the University of Colorado, and her Ph.D. in music
education at the University of Washington. Williamson has taught choral
music in elementary, middle and high schools in Indiana, Ohio, Colorado
and Washington and has presented choral clinics at MENC Conferences
and the regional conference of the American Choral Directors Association.
She is a frequent choral adjudicator and has been the featured honor
choir conductor in festivals in Washington, Oregon, and British Colombia,
Canada. Williamson's research interests include informal learning in
adolescence, teacher development and renewal. She has presented her
research at conferences of the American Educational Research Association,
the Society of Ethnomusicology, the International Society for Music
Education and the Conference of Qualitative Research at the University
of Illinois. |
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