Exposed to the Taubman approach to piano technique from an early age, he developed a passion for both solo and chamber music, and later attended the Interlochen Summer Arts Camp, where he studied composition and piano. The Office of Admissions can be reached at (315) 267-2180, toll free at 1-877-POTSDAM (877) 768-7326, or visit@potsdam.edu. received the Rhodes College Kinney Leadership Award for outstanding service to his community. Leaning on skills from her music business degree, she has been assisting audio engineers and the house band as they prepare the music for the show. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BM in Music Education) and the Eastman School of Music (MM and DMA in Conducting). An avid recitalist, Dr. Sierra is a founding member of the Vocalis Consort, an ensemble dedicated to exposing audiences to song recitals that extend beyond the traditional Western European canon. Edward Komara (Crane Librarian) has directed the Julia Crane Memorial Library since 2001. Dr. Skull's research was also featured at 52nd Conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Orlando. Her zarzuela Cerca del Ro won a Cubadisco Special Award in 2010. During her final semester at Crane,Erika Murata 22lined up the internship of a lifetime, working on the set of the Late Show with Seth Meyers in New York City. She has also been a horn instructor and chamber music coach at Kendall Betts Horn Camp, Crane Youth Music, the New York Summer Music Festival, and the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire. Her work Memorial, for soprano, cello, and piano is scheduled to be released on a CD that will feature works composed by CINTAS Fellows. TEL: (315) 267-2403. Her research interests include Sonata Theory, Musical Semiotics, Musical Narrative, Psychoanalysis, Schenkerian Analysis, and Hermeneutic Analysis of the music of Johannes Brahms and other 19th-century composers. His responsibilities consist of setting up sound reinforcement for the school's many events, overseeing the recording of student recitals, and providing students with sound playback when requested for a recital. Following receipt of your video(s), audition results are usually mailed to students about a weekafter the next scheduled on-campus audition day. She has also filled auxiliary positions with the Kingston Symphony and the She is currently working with contemporary While a master's student in Syracuse, Margaret gained experience with the Syracuse Opera Company and conducted the church choir at North Presbyterian Church in Geneva, N.Y. She also holds an MM from the University of Kansas and BM and BA degrees from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. FAX: (315) 267-2413, Program Coordinator / Visiting Assistant Professor: Music Business. She has served as a guest conductor at various All-County Choral Festivals. He has a passion for traditional fiddle and guitar music and folk art. Her scholarly writings have appeared in Music Educators' Journal, The International Journal of Community Music, Philosophy of Music Education Review, School Music News, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain and the edited volume Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Listening to Voices Seldom Heard. TEL: (315) 267-2417 He has prepared the complete songs of Nadia Boulanger, the famous pedagogue who was also a guest at The Crane School of Music on four occasions. During his time as a graduate assistant at Arizona State University, Mr. Biczo worked and taught classes emphasizing the use and negotiation of music technology in music learning and practices of contemporary musicianship in the music education classroom. Additional instructors include J. Biggers, C. Crozier, Hans-Ola Ericsson, M.Gailit, AC Galn, R. Glasgow, M. Haselbck, J-P. Leguay, A. Maron, S. Preston, and C. Terry. During his tenure, he brought the Young Mr. Button also serves as an adjunct faculty member at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, on the Board of Directors of the County Attorney Association of the State of New York and on the Curriculum Board of the Legal Studies program of SUNY Canton, as well. Radio and television appearances include performances on CBC Radio, CTV, Definitely Not the Opera with Sook-Yin Lee, Breakfast Television, TVO, and YTV. Directors Association as one of seven conductors nationwide for a two-week conducting fellowship By making your payment with Flywire you can: Track your payments from start to finish. including "Outstanding Young Conductor of the Year" by the American Choral Directors Her orchestral career also included positions in the Colorado Symphony, the Rochester Philharmonic, and the Berkeley Symphony. He has performed with opera companies and orchestras throughout the United States, some of which include Opera Philadelphia, Santa Fe Opera, Opera New Jersey, Spoleto Festival USA, New York Lyric Opera Theatre, Princeton Festival Opera, Long Island Opera, and the United Nations Symphony Orchestra. He is an active presenter and clinician, having given masterclasses and lecture recitals at institutions across the country. Additionally, he was a featured collaborator at the annual New Music on The Bayou Summer Festival. excellence, academic achievement, and personal discipline. Dr. Sullivan has a special interest in the intimate collaborations of chamber music and art song. The world premiere performance took place in December 2015 at the Musikhochschule Mnchen with soprano Christiane Iwen and mezzo Rachel Wilson. Dr. Doyle is passionate about music wellness, particularly seeking solutions to the Stress Velopharyngeal Insufficiency (SVPI/Soft Palatal Air Leak) in wind playing. Owing to its expertise, the ensemble has recorded four CDs of these works on the Albany Records label. His Update my info Your submission to Crane School of Music has been sent. Festivals featuring her music include Musica Polonica Nova, Sacrum Profanum at Play Krakw, the Composer's Conference at Brandeis, the National SCI Composers Conference, the Ball State New Music Festival, New Music on the Point, the Oregon Bach Festival, Southern Division ACDA, and Piccolo Spoleto. His research interests include place-based pedagogies, instrumental music education, popular/vernacular music, and LGBTQ issues in music education. /Perspectives of New Music/ and a forthcoming paper in a German/English Drew also teaches music entrepreneurship at the Manhattan School of Music, and will be serving as a visiting faculty member and program coordinator for the Music Business Program at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. He was conductor of the Greater New Haven Youth Orchestra for 2008-2010. TEL: (315) 267-2460. Chelsea has been awarded two Fulbright research grants to work in Wrocaw, Poland with Agata Zubel and Marcin Rupociski in 2019-20 and in 2022. Visits are regularly scheduled by appointment Monday through Friday. georged@potsdam.edu TEL: (315) 267-3230. Dr. Hernacki's most recent solo performance was with the Crane Wind Ensemble in 2022 performing Anthony Barfield's Red Sky. In his continued interest of music technology and music pedagogy, Mr. Biczo facilitated learning and worked with local community groups, Boys and Girls Club and Project AMP, where youth explored music creation and music integration in film, processing, and video game design. He has performed extensively around the nation in prestigious venues and festivals, such as the Grand Teton Music Festival, where he is the collaborative pianist for Donald Runnicles Musical Arts Scholarship Competition. As a freelance orchestral musician, Spence has performed with numerous ensembles including the National Philharmonic, Fairfax Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Reading Symphony, Mid-Atlantic Symphony, Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra, Washington Opera Society, The New Orchestra of Washington, and the Orchestra of Northern New York. Timothy studied at UW-Madison with David Perry for a Doctorate of Musical Arts with a minor in music history. Additionally, he has appeared at numerous PAS Days of Percussion in New York, Virginia, and North Carolina; The Heartland Marimba Festival, and at the McCormick Marimba Festival in 2016 and 2020. TEL: (315) 267-3244. Ivette has taught Music Theory and Composition at the Instituto Superior de Artes, the Opera of El Salvador (OPES), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Western Illinois University, where she also taught Class Piano. ensemble concerts and vocal recitals and had the honor of singing for two seasons with the Santa Fe Faculty may need to review your video after your audition as they make decisions about music scholarships. He also was a teacher at the String Academy at Indiana University Bloomington. He started his music products career working for the multi-national Yamaha Corporation in the areas of artist relations, district sales, and product management and marketing. She has appeared on many other recordings, including the Eastman Wind Ensemble's collaboration with the Canadian Brass entitled Manhattan Music (Opening Day Entertainment Group) and the Buffalo Philharmonic's recording of selected works of Bartk (Naxos Records). Ms. Rubio is principal flutist and Personnel Manager of the Orchestra of Northern New York. A devoted teacher, Dr. Kastella has taught pianists aged 5 years to 75 years old, including as adjunct instructor at Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College in Baton Rouge, LA, from 2019-2020. She was associate professor of cello and chamber music at the University of South Dakota since 2007. She graduated from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam in 2009 with degrees in Crane School of Music Policies - SUNY Potsdam - Acalog ACMS Founded in 1816, The State University of New York at Potsdam is one of America's first 50 collegesand the oldest institution within SUNY. During his time at Crane, Matthew was a member of the Frackenpohl Honors Brass Quintet and a winner of the 2009 Crane Concerto Competition. As founder and artistic director of the interdisciplinary chamber music collective Verisimo, (Geneva, N.Y.) 1831-1904, January 30, 1878, Page 1, Image 1, brought to you by Rochester Regional Library Council, and the National Digital Newspaper Program. Additionally, Lewis was integral in the restructuring of his school's music program to include chamber music as a central part of the curriculum. Brian has participated in performances in France, Germany, Belgium, and throughout the United States. Being a charter member of the Business Administration Advisory Council for SUNY Potsdam gives him the opportunity to participate in events that are designed to enhance Potsdam College students' understanding of how the business world works. Crane feels a bit like a lot of the students are still in high school- maturity is lacking, and students are coddled too much. The Julia E. Crane Memorial Library is the branch library for music, located in Schuette Hall of the Crane School of Music complex. Society for Music Theory, "Grard Grisey, the spectral moment and its At Crane, students can choose from a wide variety of programs and majors. His experience as a pit orchestra conductor includes the CPS productions of Annie in 2010 and Beauty and the Beast in 2012 and the St. Lawrence University productions of Legally Blonde in Fall 2016 and Spring Awakening in Fall 2018. TEL: (315) 267-2433, wheelehl@potsdam.edu spencelj@potsdam.edu As a student of Michel Marc Gervais, Michael conducted the UCSB Women's Choir. TEL: (315) 267-2453. 2016-2017: 71.8%; 2017-2018: 66.6% Dr. D. Jason Bishop enjoys a national and international reputation as a conductor, music educator, The video should be framed so we can see your entire body. SUNY Potsdam Alumna, Rene Fleming, to Perform at Super Bowl XLVIII The honor of singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl is one that would be coveted by any musician. Michelle particularly enjoys collaborative performances and has accompanied orchestras and choirs, focusing on large works such as Maurice Durufl's Requiem and various Bach Cantatas. Chief among her awards and prizes in teaching are the MTNA 'StAR' award (2004), and paid residency at the Heifetz International Music Institute (New Hampshire) as a Piano Pedagogy Fellow, sponsored by the Surdna Foundation (2008). He There is no registration fee for on-campus auditions. Drew X Coles is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, serial entrepreneur, and educator. Rob has accumulated a wealth of music retail experience with his many years of employment at Potsdam's Northern Music and Video where his primary areas of expertise were both home and mobile audio. Mr. Lewis's teachers have included Michael Burritt, Bruce Gertz, Kai Eckhardt de Carmargo, Wayne Gorder, Malcolm W. Rowell, Jr., and has studied with Shanti Simon, Mark Scatterday, Craig Kirkhhoff, and H. Robert Reynolds. He has performed in the flute sections of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Acadiana Symphony, Adrian Symphony, Battle Creek Symphony, and Dearborn Symphony, Rapides Symphony, and Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, among others. Drew has served as the Executive Director of the international chamber orchestra of America. Under his direction, the Crane Chorus and Crane Symphony Orchestra appear annually on public television stations in over 25 states. He recently collaborated with Benjamin Brecher (tenor) and Robert Koenig (piano) to release Forgotten Liszt (MS1538), a CD of previously unrecorded Liszt songs. In 2008, Dr. Bishop changed In 2009, Mr. Button started as an Assistant Public Defender in the St. Lawrence County Office of the Public Defender. Previously he served as Vice President of International Business Development at D'Addario & Company, where he was responsible for expanding D'Addario business in emerging markets such as Africa, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and China, including the executive management responsibility for D'Addario China. Julie Welsh Miller has been teaching piano at the university level for thirty years, and her former students teach at every level from elementary to university. He is a past recipient of the University of Rochester's Excellence in Secondary Education Award. Like all music education students at The Crane School of Music,Erica Ylitalo spenther last semester at SUNY Potsdam as a student teacher in both a middle school and high school in Central New Yorkleading everything from band rehearsals and band lessons, to music theory classes. She is a member of two international music education research consortia, Culture, Criticism, and Community and FUTURED both supported by the Norwegian Research Council and producing cross-cultural research in the area of music education practices in higher education. Michelle was a semifinalist in the 2002 Royal Bank Calgary International Organ Competition, a competitor in the National Young Artists Competition in Organ Performance (2003-04), and a finalist in the International Bach Organ Competition (2000). with Ann Howard Jones, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Classical Languages from TEL: (315) 267-2436, Music Education Field Experience Coordinator, Adjunct Instructor / Off-Campus Teaching Supervisor / Director Crane Youth Music. The music of Phil Salathe ranges widely in scale and scope, from multi-movement orchestral pieces to hand-programmed "chiptunes" for independent video game publishers. Since working on his doctorate, Matthew developed an interest in disability and music, and consequently wrote his dissertation on the representations of invisible illness in The Who's rock opera, Quadrophenia. Borden completed her Doctoral studies at Arizona State University, where she served as Teaching Assistant to David Hickman and was recipient of Raphael Mendez Scholarship for Outstanding Graduate Student. As your voice teacher I pledge to look for the best in you and then use my experience and abilities to help you develop and hone your skills as a singer. hunterje@potsdam.edu He has also appeared at the Ljubljana Conservatory, Conservatorio Profesionalde Musica MarcosRedondo Ciudad Real, Escuela se Musica de La Eliana, Conservatorio Profesionalde Musica Valencia, and in Basel Switzerland twice. She is principal flutist and a founding member of the Northern Symphonic Winds. Borden is honored to be an S.E. SUNY Potsdam has two options allowing students to pay securely from any country and any bank, generally in your home currency. Spence earned his DMA and MM at the University of Maryland where he studied with Chris Gekker and holds a BM with a minor in musicology from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where he studied with Roy Poper and was the recipient of the 2014 James Stamp Award. TEL: (315) 267-3210. Michael serves as the director of the Crane Jazz Ensemble, Crane Jazz Band, Giroux Honors Combo, and the instructor for jazz theory, improvisation, and jazz-related history classes. Dr. Steven Groth, baritone, is a classical vocalist, teacher, and collaborative pianist who has relocated to upstate New York. Junior Dec 14 2021 Overall Experience His recording of the songs of Margaret Lang Love is Everywhere was Music Web International's CD of the Year and together with Volume 2 New Love Must Rise nominated for a Grammy in the first round. Dr. Docker earned a Ph.D. from Penn State University where he held a University Fellowship. sommerjp@potsdam.edu composers on a digital project commissioning and recording live performances of new works for arrangements of Schubert and Schumann Lieder have been performed by men's, women's, and A frequent chamber music collaborator, Jill is half of the Rubio Flute and Guitar Duo, with her husband, Doug. Correlating with his research, Mr. Biczo presented at the Mountain Lake Colloquium, Society of Music Teacher Education Symposium, ArtsWork Graduate Student Research Colloquium, and has been invited to present at the Association for Popular Music Education. Before coming to Crane, Dr. McKinnie has had full-time faculty positions: in the department of Recording Arts of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and in the department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University. 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