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Bennett, Lawrence E.
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Professor of Music
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | bennettl@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6473 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University |
| Interests: |
Music History, American Music |
| Notes: |
Lawrence Bennett came to Wabash College in July, 1995, as Chair of the Music Department. A music historian and tenor, Bennett founded The Western Wind, an a cappella vocal sextet that made numerous recordings and sang many concerts in North American, Europe and Asia. Bennett has edited several collections of music and written often about the music of the Renaissance and Baroque Era. He spent his sabbatical year, 2001-2002, with his family in Vienna, Austria, where he researched several articles, laid the groundwork for a book on the Italian cantata, and sang in the choir of the Anglican Church of Vienna. Sabbatical/Year |
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Bowen, Richard
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Assistant Professor of Music/Glee Club Director
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | bowenr@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6307 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center 110 |
| Degrees: |
B.A., B.S. Lebanon Valley College; M.M. West Chester University; Ph.D. University of Cincinnati |
| Courses: |
MUS 053 Glee Club |
| Interests: |
Early Music, Choral Conducting, Handbells |
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Hulen, Peter
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Assistant Professor of Music
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | hulenp@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6089 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center M123 |
| Home Page: |
Peter Hulen's Home Page |
| Degrees: |
B.M. University of Tulsa, M.M. Southwestern Theological Seminary, Ph.D. Michigan State University. |
| Courses: |
Brass Ensemble, Fundamentals of Music, Music Theory, Electronic Music, Composition, Senior Seminar, Cultures & Traditions. |
| Interests: |
Acoustics, liturgy, cognitive development, art glass, multimedia, China, meaning and value of music. |
| Notes: |
Peter Hulen composes for acoustic instruments, voices, acoustic and electronic sounds, electronic sounds alone, multimedia, and media for web delivery. Performances include Festival Synthèse Bourges (France), the International Computer Music Conference. Presentations include Journees D'Informatique Musicale (France), MicroFest (California), Society for Ethno-Musicology regional conferences. Influences include microtonality, Chinese music, Medieval and Renaissance polyphony, Impressionism, and minimalism. Dr. Hulen also studied Chinese at the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. |
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Makubuya, James
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Associate Professor of Music, Dept. Chair
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | makubuya@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6474 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center M121 |
| Home Page: |
James Makubuya's Home Page |
| Degrees: |
B.A., Makerere University, Uganda; M.Mus., Catholic University; Ph.D., UCLA |
| Courses: |
World Music (Ethnomusicology); Instruments & Culture (Designing and Construction); Introduction to Music; Musicianship; East African Folk Instruments; Wamidan World Music Performance Ensemble |
| Interests: |
Department Chairman, Ethnomusicology/World Music; Contextual Meaning and Significance in Music; African Music and Dance |
| Notes: |
On joining the Music Department at Wabash College in July 2000, Dr. Makubuya started the World Music program. A number of new World music courses and a World Music Performance Ensemble, Wamidan became part of the curriculum. In addition to his main musical instrument, the endongo (8-string bowl lyre of the Baganda), Dr. Makubuya is proficient in several other East African traditional musical instruments. It is those instruments including tube fiddles, bow harps, thumb pianos, log xylophones, pan pipes, flutes and drums that form the nucleus of the Wamidan performance ensemble. Dr. Makubuya's geographical area of research is East Africa where he mainly focuses on organology, meaning and context of traditional music. Dr. Makubuya is an active participant in the national and international professional society conferences of the Galpin Society, the International Council for Traditional Music and Society for Ethnomusicology in which he has presented regular research papers. |
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BKT Assistant Professor of Music
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | rogersv@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6241 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center M119 |
| Degrees: |
B.M.E., Illinois Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California |
| Courses: |
Fundamentals of Music; Music History; Woodwind Ensemble |
| Interests: |
Eighteenth century music, ballad opera and early musical theater, early music |
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Staff
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Belmore, George
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Supervisor of Technical Operations in Fine Arts
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| Department(s): |
Theater, Art, Music, Rhetoric |
| E-mail Address: | belmoreg@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6438 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center M129 |
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Bowen, Eileen
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Administrative Assistant, Division II
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| Department(s): |
Art, Music, Rhetoric, Theater |
| E-mail Address: | bowene@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center Lobby |
| Degrees: |
BS in Music Education - Lebanon Valley College, Annville PA |
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Adjunct Instructors
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Abel, Alfred
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Orchestra Conductor / Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Viola
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | abela@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center M110 |
| Degrees: |
B.A. (Classics), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; B.A. (Violin Performance), Butler University |
| Notes: |
Alfred Abel brings a wealth of experience in teaching, conducting and violin performance to Wabash College. Concertmaster of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Indianpolis Chamber Orchestra for the past 20 years, Mr. Abel has performed many of the standard violin concertos with these orchestra and with other Indiana orchestras including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis, the Anderson Symphony, the Carmel Symphony and the Butler (University) Symphony Orchestra.
As a student at Butler University and Indiana University Graduate School of Music, he studied violin with Vartan Manoogian, Jackson Wiley, and Franco Gulli. He coached chamber music with members of the American Quartet, the Tokyo Quartet, the Borodin Quartet, the LaSalle Quartet and Quartetto Italiano and now performs chamber music with Trio Amabile along with his wife, Colette, and 'cellist Margot Marlatt. |
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Baranyk, David
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Adjunct Instructor of Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Dobro, and Percussion
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.F.A., Butler University; M.S., IUPUI |
| Notes: |
Mr. Baranyk studied guitar with Brett Terrell at Butler University, Robert Facko at Oakland University, and Richard Creveling at Indiana University. In addition, he has studied percussion with Paul Berns, principal percussionist for the ISO. Mr. Baranyk is a frequent performer in musical theatre orchestras and bands in the Indianapolis area, and groups performing jazz and folk music, including Celtic and Blue Grass. He also teaches at the IUPUI School of Music, Marian College, and the Center for the Performing and Visual Arts Indianapolis Public School Magnet Program at Broad Ripple High School. |
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| | Colwell, Lynn
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Adjunct Instructor of Low Brass and Jazz String Bass
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.A., Purdue University |
| Notes: |
Lynn Colwell has been involved with music performance and education in the Lafayette area since 1988. He performs regularly on tuba, bass trombone, euphonium, and acoustic (jazz) and electric bass with such groups as the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Lafayette Citizens Band, Tony Zamora Jazz Ensemble, Emporium Dixieland Jazz Band, Los Blancos Latin Jazz Band, Moment’s Notice Jazz Group, the Judd Danby Jazz Quartet, and the Danny Weiss Jazz Ensemble. He has recorded with these same groups and on other independent projects. He is an applied music instructor at Purdue University in addition to Wabash College, teaches extensively with the band programs in the Lafayette and Tippecanoe School Corporations, and maintains a private teaching studio of over 30 weekly students. |
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Everett, Cheryl
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Adjunct Instructor of Piano and Organ / Glee Club Accompanist
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | everettc@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
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In addition to teaching piano and organ, Cheryl Everett is accompanist for the Glee Club and the Music Department. Ms. Everett is on the Executive Board of the Indiana Music Teacher's Association and serves as the Ensemble Concert Chair. In 1999 she was honored by that organization as their "Teacher of the Year." Ms. Everett has performed in recitals and master classes in conjunction with the International Workshops in Canada, France, Italy, Switzerland, and England. In summer 2004 she participated as soloist and chamber musician at the International Workshop in Graz, Austria. Ms. Everett is also Organist and Co-Choral Director of the Wabash Avenue Presbyterian Church in Crawfordsville and is accompanist for the Crawfordsville Community Chorus. For eleven years she was a student of the distinguished pianist Dorothy Munger. Currently she is studying piano with Dr. Louis Nagel at the University of Michigan. |
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| | Landowne, Kirsten
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Adjunct Instructor of Cello
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.M., Eastman School of Music; M.M., Butler University |
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Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Saxophone
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.M., Indiana University |
| Notes: |
Tom Meyer is a woodwind doubler and teacher in Indianapolis with a degree in Jazz Studies. A teacher at the Aebersold Summer Jazz Camps, Mr. Meyer has toured with Natalie Cole, Andy Williams, Henry Mancini, Perry Como, Johnny Mathis, and others. He has played brief engagements with Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Woody Herman, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and has also played in numerous musical theater orchestras. He performs with the Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra and the Steve Allee bands in Indianapolis. |
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Norton, Diane M.
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Adjunct Instructor of Piano
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | nortond@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6330 |
| Campus Location: |
Lilly Library |
| Degrees: |
A.B., Knox College; M.M., Northwestern University; M.L.S., Indiana University, Bloomington |
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Diane Maximovich Norton is an instructor of piano in the Music Department, and Music and Circulation librarian in the Lilly Library. She was a piano student of Rudolf Ganz and
Mollie Margolies in Chicago, and performed as soloist with orchestras in the metropolitan area. During her undergraduate studies at Knox College, she furthered her interest in contemporary music as both pianist and violinist, participating in ensembles which introduced newly-commissioned works to audiences throughout the Midwest. She received an M.M. and completed her doctoral studies in music history and literature at Northwestern University, where she also taught piano, and began to perform in early music ensembles. She earned her MLS at Indiana University in Bloomington. Diane has been active in the Wabash College music department for over three decades, performing as piano soloist and harpsichordist with the Wabash chamber orchestra, concert band and percussion ensemble. She has performed in recital with members of the faculty and the student body, and has given world premieres of compositions written for her by such composers as Fredric Enenbach, Bernard Schulz, and Judd Danby. |
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| | Purkhiser, Beth
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Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet and Saxophone
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.M., Indiana University; M.M., Arizona State University |
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Lafayette resident Beth Purkhiser has a teaching studio of 70 saxophone and clarinet students. An active performer, she is a member of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Lafayette Citizens Band, “Joy of Sax” Saxophone Quartet, Indianapolis Saxophone Quartet, Lafayette Wind Quintet, and various jazz groups throughout Indiana. Her teachers have included Larry Teal, Joseph Wytko, Daniel Deffayet, and Eugene Rousseau. She is featured with Rousseau in the “Yamaha Steps to Excellence” video series. |
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Robinett, Stephen
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Jazz Band Director / Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| E-mail Address: | robinetr@wabash.edu |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6398 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center M109 |
| Degrees: |
B.M., Indiana University |
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Since graduation he has been a professional trumpeter gathering experience "on the road" with the bands of the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Guy Lombardo Orchestra and more. Steve has also toured with stars like Perry Como, Andy Williams, Pia Zadora, Burt Bacharach, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme, and the O'Jay's. |
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Träger, Kevin
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Adjunct Instructor of Voice
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.M., University of the Pacific; M.M., Indiana University |
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Kevin Träger has been teaching at Wabash College since the fall semester of 2004. Mr. Träger also teaches voice at the Center for Visual and Performing Arts at Broad Ripple High School in Indianapolis, and conducts the choir at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church. He is a session artist with Aire Born Recording Studios in Zionsville, and lives in Indianapolis. |
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Walters, Gary
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Adjunct Instructor of Jazz Piano
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.S, Ball State University; M.M., Butler University |
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Mr. Walters is an active freelance musician and teacher who has worked with a variety of local artists performing jazz, R&B, fusion, straight ahead, bebop, country, southern gospel, and rock n’ roll oldies. He is a founding member and past president of the Indianapolis Jazz Foundation. He has taught applied music in jazz and popular piano techniques at Butler University since 1999. |
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| | Wheeler, Jennifer
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Adjunct Instructor of Flute
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
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| | Wilson, Barb
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Adjunct Instructor of String Bass
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| Department(s): |
Music |
| Phone Number: |
765-361-6392 |
| Campus Location: |
Fine Arts Center |
| Degrees: |
B.M.E., M.M.E., Indiana University |
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Ms. Wilson has studied double bass with Greg Dugan and Nami Akamatsu of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. She taught public school as Director of Bands in the North West Hendricks School Corporation from 1970–1976. More recently, she owned and operated a nationally recognized plant mail order/retail business, while continuing active participation in performance organizations. She currently operates “Music on Grant,” a private music studio with 50 students. Ms. Wilson performs with the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, Lafayette Citizens Band, Montgomery County Civic Band, the Athena Brass Quintet, and the Wabash College Chamber Orchestra. |
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