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UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE • 2015
UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE • 2015
Encore is published annually to serve the University of MissouriKansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and its constituents.
Encore
UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance
4949 Cherry St.
Kansas City, MO 64110
conservatory.umkc.edu
For alumni information, contact Tamara Morris, [email protected],
816-235-6173.
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800-735-2966 (TTY).
CONSERVATORY NEWS
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AIDAN SODER’S BENGALI CONNECTION
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ACADEMY NEWS
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UMKC SINGS WITH ROLLING STONES
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CRESCENDO FUNDRAISERS
10 DOWNTOWN CAMPUS MOVES CLOSER TO REALITY
11 CONSERVATORY ARTIST SERIES
12 NEW ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS
CONSERVATORY CONSTITUENT GROUPS
FACULTY NEWS
CONSERVATORY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
13 EVERETT PENS BOOK ON KC PHILHARMONIC
President: Christopher Munce
FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE
15 KAUFFMAN EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARDS
President: Tim Van Zandt
16 FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
JAZZ FRIENDS
18 STAFF NEWS
President: James Thornton
19 NEW FACULTY
WOMEN’S COMMITTEE
President: Margaret Athey
ALUMNI NEWS
20 SPOTLIGHT AWARD: MCINTIRE AND LEE
PROJECT DIRECTOR
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Dana Self
Dana Self
Kristin Shafel
Sandy Beaty
Mara Gibson
Bridget Koan
Julie Koch
Tamara Morris
Katrina Shapiro
Jennifer Wampler
Peter Witte, Dean, UMKC
Conservatory
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS
James Allison
Stephen Butler
Lauren Hart
Bruce Matthews
Janet Rogers
Dana Self
Kristin Shafel
University Communications
Eric Williams, Kansas City
Symphony
Jon Onstot
Mike Strong
Cover: Conservatory Wind Symphony
Inside Cover: 2015 Finale, backstage
GRAPHIC DESIGN
University Communications
21 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD: PRANGCHAROEN
22 ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS
23 TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
STUDENT NEWS
29 MASTER CLASSES, GUEST ARTISTS
32 STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTS
HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
38 HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
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FROM THE DEAN
T
• Our students performed in
master classes with the Kansas
City Symphony, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic, the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra and this
fall with the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra.
he cost of college. Arts careers
in the 21st century. Cultural
connection in an era of
demographic change.
UMKC’s Conservatory is focused on
these themes. The results?
• The cost of obtaining an
undergraduate degree at UMKC’s
Conservatory is actually lower today,
in many cases substantially, than it was
in 2008. In the case of an incoming
out-of-state dance major, today’s
freshman will save $11,000 over four years compared
to alumni who started the degree in 2008. How? We
chose to go on a diet. Our undergraduate degrees had
grown large, often requiring the equivalent of an extra
year or more of tuition. To save families money and
students energy, we made our undergraduate paths to
commencement clearer.
• We embraced UMKC’s new general education core.
Without sacrificing studies in their major areas, our
undergraduates now take a broader array of courses,
learning more of the writing, communication, and
numeracy skills vital to 21st century careers. We need
only read The New York Times or Arts Journal to see
evidence — while excellence in one’s craft remains
necessary, it alone is not sufficient to sustain a life in the
arts. Financial acumen and the ability to advocate for the
arts are only two essentials for today’s citizen-artist.
• Our faculty and students are more diverse. More than
before in our 110-year history, our students and faculty
resemble America. Women hold leadership positions
within our faculty, as do gay and lesbian colleagues.
Today, our faculty is more ethnically diverse than it had
been previously. Increasingly, our students are more
diverse as well. From 2010 to 2014 our African-American
student population increased 17 percent, our multiethnic student population increased 133 percent, and our
Hispanic population increased 170 percent. Diversity is
a strength we treasure, even as we work to become more
inclusive in the days ahead.
Our goal is that UMKC’s Conservatory is perceived as a
part of, rather than apart from, our communities. Today’s
conservatory undergraduate student is learning more
broadly. Today’s conservatory faculty member is reaching a
broader array of students and community members as well.
• Our students and faculty have
performed The Star Spangled Banner
at Sporting KC, Royals and
Chiefs games.
•Our jazz students, faculty and alumni extend America’s
musical legacy from Kansas City’s Blue Room, Green
Lady Lounge and Folly Theater to Paris and Japan.
• More deeply personal than public, our students and
faculty help loved ones heal and age through music
therapy.
• Consistently, UMKC alumni are leading educators in
music classrooms and school systems throughout our
region and our nation.
• In ways that would make Madame Tatiana Dokoudovska
beam, our students and alumni dance as principals in the
Kansas City Ballet, with Alvin Ailey and in choreography
companies and schools of their own creation.
As we have been for 110 years before, UMKC’s
Conservatory remains engaged, bringing people together
through music and dance.
For those driven by jobs and data, we know too that the arts
are vital to our nation’s economy. A $698 billion industry
annually, the creative sector is a whopping 4.3 percent of
the U.S. gross domestic product according to the National
Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Bureau of Economic
Analysis.
As you read about the accomplishments of our alumni,
students, faculty and staff; as you learn more about our
newest faculty and celebrate the careers of those who have
retired; and as you learn about the progress we are making
to place UMKC’s Conservatory in the heart of America’s
newest and perhaps most rapidly rising arts district, we hope
you sense our commitment to making your conservatory
accessible, inclusive and, as always, adventurous.
Gratefully,
Consider these examples:
• Our students performed with the Rolling Stones for
50,000 screaming fans at Arrowhead Stadium.
• Our students’ compositions are performed at leading
festivals in Thailand and China.
Peter Witte, Dean
Caitlin Vasser, dance alumna
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C O N S E R VATO R Y N E W S
Aidan Soder traveled to West Bengal to research and share how West Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore’s reach extended to Western culture.
AIDAN SODER'S
BENGALI CONNECTION
“My dear girl, this is going to be life-changing.”
Not what most musicians are accustomed to hearing, especially before
they’ve sung a note, given a talk or
taught a class. But here was the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Aidan
Soder, barely 36 hours in West Bengal,
being greeted in this manner by an excited, enthusiastic local gentleman.
Soder, Conservatory of Music and
Dance associate professor of vocal studies, was still recovering from her long
flight and the anxiety that accompanies
one’s immersion into the life of a developing nation. Now she was being told
that she was about to rewrite decades of
accepted knowledge surrounding West
Bengal’s favorite son and revered musician, Rabindranath Tagore. She was
about to demonstrate that Tagore’s po4 | UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE
ems and writings could be interpreted
in many languages and still be treated
respectfully and faithfully. And some
Bengalis couldn’t wait.
It all began years before, when Soder
and another student, a baritone, were
preparing for a premiere of Rice University composition professor and composer
Karim Al-Zand’s Tagore Love Songs.
Like many other Western composers,
Al-Zand set several of Tagore’s poems to
music, known as art songs.
“I remember thinking, ‘I wonder if
the Bengalis have any idea how much
influence Tagore has had on Western
culture?’ He was an Indian national treasure, a poet, mystic, composer and performer,” Soder said. “He even wrote the
Indian national anthem! He would be
the cultural equivalent of Shakespeare,
but worshiped almost like a divinity. Did
they know about his lofty reputation and
esteem outside of India?”
Tagore might have continued to labor in obscurity beyond his country’s
borders, except for his book Gitanjali,
which is a collection of 103 Tagore poems, translated from Bengali to English
by Tagore himself. The book captured
the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 and
won him worldwide acclaim. The Western world grew to admire his writing and
lyricism and saw possibilities for adapting his well-turned phrases into songs.
Coupled with Tagore’s growing reputation was an emerging hunger for Indian culture. Creative types are usually
more curious about the cultural world
outside their normal sphere, so contact Western classical composers use Tagore’s
with Asia, especially Japan, had sparked lyrics but not his melodies. Bengalis
an interest in all things “Eastern” that generally don’t separate the two, makbegan in the mid-1880s and continued ing it hard for them to imagine Tagore’s
until WWII. Travel was faster and easier, lyrics sung with any other melody. For
and tastemakers enjoyed
them, separating the
the exotic look and feel
two practically renof “Orientalism.” Pucders them non-Tagore
cini’s Madama Butterfly
songs.
was all the rage.
Next, Western classiQuestions
about
cal composers write the
Tagore’s little-known
voice and piano notareputation among his
tions for performance.
Western fans had ocTagore’s Bengali songs
cupied Soder’s mind
have only a melodic
for several years. Then,
line for voice, a melody
a chance conversation
inextricably wed to spewith a colleague on the
cific poetry; and any
Rabindranath Tagore
Conservatory’s faculty
accompaniment is immade Soder aware of the
provised.
“I would be
Fulbright U.S. Scholar
Finally,
Bengalis
Program. Through this
feel
passionately
about
revealing to the
program, approximately
Tagore being poorly
Bengalis perhaps
800 teaching and retranslated into other
search grants are given
languages. Unfortuthe only thing they
to American faculty or
nately, Tagore’s selfdidn’t know about
experienced professiontranslations are considals in a variety of acaered very poor, indeed.
Tagore – just how
demic and professional
Bengalis find them
fields. With the help of
incredibly inaccurate,
much others loved
UMKC’s International
sacrificing the lyricism,
him.”
Academic Programs ofcadence and meaning
fice, Soder secured one
of the originals;
of the coveted spots.
for them, Tagore’s beautiful poNext, Soder began to look for a good etry practically becomes “lost in
match with her background, research translation.” Tagore translated
and teaching interests. Coincidentally, Gitanjali as an exercise in the art
Rabindra Bharati, a West Bengal uni- of translation, and referred to his
versity in Kolkata, was offering a B.A. English versions as ‘retellings’ inhonors program in Western classical stead of ‘translations.’
music for the first time. This was a perIn spoken language, there
fect match. Soder would teach an Intro are idioms that are diffito Western Music class.
cult to explain. In so“I knew I could do that. At the same ciety, there are habits
time, I could visit all the Tagore land- ingrained in its memmarks and explore just how much the bers but are pecuBengali people knew of Tagore’s impact liar to outsiders.
on Western music,” Soder said.
Bengalis believe
So why was the Bengali gentleman so that
cultural
ecstatic?
translation is pos“Tagore is almost a closed system; and, sible only for scholars
literally, the adoration of the man and willing to immerse themhis music permeates the entire culture,” selves in that culture and
Soder said. “Bengalis adhere to a rigid language.
purity for Tagore’s works. So I would
Soder had a window of opbe revealing to the Bengalis perhaps the portunity, from October 2014
only thing they didn’t know about Tago- to March 2015, to convince
re – just how much others loved him.”
Bengalis otherwise. So in addiThere are three main reasons why Ben- tion to her teaching, she gave sevgalis were so surprised at the extensive eral concerts of Tagore’s art songs in
Western usage of Tagore’s material: first, Tagore’s home, Jorasanko Thakur-
bari, from the same stage where he performed. She sang in English and several
other languages.
Was it life-changing? As Tagore himself once said, “Music fills the infinite
between two souls.” Did Soder and the
West Bengalis come to an understanding through music?
“The trip was really about awareness.
Because of my visit there, Bengalis now
know that Tagore reached a demographic (Western classical composers) that
they never could have anticipated. For
me, the trip itself was life-changing in all
the ways that it should be – culturally, socially, educationally and professionally.”
Soder is hoping for another travelabroad opportunity. She has several projects in mind, including one Herculean
task: attempting her Western songs in the
original Bengali.
“I want to try out a couple of songs
with a better translation, or sing some of
the songs in Bengali because I know how
important language is for them, and because I love the Bengali people so much.
It would be as a show of respect.”
She and Tagore will have come fullcircle.
— Sandy Beaty
West Bengal
• The capital, Kolkata, is known as the
cultural capital of India
• Religious division during India’s
independence in 1947 separated Bengal
into the Indian state of West Bengal and
the separate nation of Bangladesh
INDIA
West Bengal
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ACADEMY NEWS
SHARING ARTS WITH THE COMMUNITY
Stanford Thompson, founder and
director of Play On, Philly!, spoke at
this year’s Musical Bridges Fundraiser.
MUSICAL BRIDGES
FUNDRAISER
The Conservatory welcomed Stanford
Thompson to campus March 31–April 2,
2015. Stanford Thompson is a musician
and educator who is passionate about
using music for social action, serving
as the founder and artistic director for
the El Sistema-inspired program, Play
On, Philly!, as well as the chairman of
El Sistema USA. This year’s Musical
Bridges Fundraiser, held at Pierson
Auditorium on campus, raised thousands
of dollars, helping to make possible the
continued growth and success of the
program.
Musical Bridges encourages talented young musicians through free music lessons and scholarships.
F
or the 2014–15 year, the Academy reached more than 2,000
students through its Preparatory
Department, Festivals and Summer Programs, and Community Engagement Programs.
Students in the Preparatory Department had a year full of accomplishments. The Academy choirs joined the
Conservatory Orchestra and Choirs to
perform selections of Zhou Long’s Madame White Snake; our piano students
saw superior ratings in piano at the
KMTA State Festival and a win in the
MTNA Senior High Piano Division.
There were also outstanding performances at the Academy Honors Recitals. Composition students had much
success with Brandon Thibodeau’s A
Collaborative Conversation, winning
second place in the MuSE 3rd Young
Composers Competition.
The Conservatory Festivals and
Summer Programs hosted more than
400 participants from 20 U.S. states,
as well as China. Guest artists in
2014–15 included Donald McKinney, University of Colorado Boulder;
Mary Schneider, Eastern Michigan
University; Matthew Dockendorf,
University of Colorado Boulder; Mary
Land, Young Harris College; Michael
Shults, University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire; Pamela Elrod Huffman, Southern Methodist University; Eph Ehly,
UMKC professor emeritus; Mark
Scatterday, Eastman School of Music;
Daniel Schmidt, Northern Arizona
University; newEar Contemporary
Chamber Ensemble; and Michael
Hall, violist.
The Musical Bridges program,
which provides private lessons to exceptional musicians from underrep-
resented populations, will expand to
60 students, which is made possible
by generous donations from many local funders. Seniors graduating from
Musical Bridges this year will be attending the UMKC Conservatory of
Music and Dance, Truman State University and Missouri S&T. The Composers in the Schools program, now
in its 22nd year, continues to reach
students throughout the Kansas City
metro. Ensembles in the Schools was
in place for a successful second year at
Allen Village School. The Conservatory in the Schools program received
its second NEA grant this spring and
was recognized at the Yale Symposium
for Music in the Schools in June 2015
as one of 30 national partnerships receiving the Distinguished Partnership
and Educator Award.
While in residence, Stanford gave a
master class to Musical Bridges students
at each school district, engaged with
Kansas City arts leaders and gave an
address on diversity in performing arts at
a benefit luncheon.
In addition to the weekly private lessons
each Musical Bridges student receives,
the success of the fundraiser makes
possible the award of nearly $15,000
in additional scholarships to Musical
Bridges students. These awards help to
cover the cost of summer music camps,
ensemble fees for Youth Symphony
of Kansas City and other special
opportunities for outstanding young
musicians.
Enrollment in the program has increased
exponentially, as have the successes of
the students. Next year, Musical Bridges
will reach 60 students in 16 schools
from Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas
City, Kansas and Hickman Mills school
districts.
The UMKC Chamber Choir performed “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” at the
Rolling Stones concert in June.
Stones fans get what they need
from UMKC Chamber Choir
Twenty-four singers and two conductors,
most of whom are students or graduates
of the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Conservatory of Music and Dance, had a
once-in-a-lifetime experience when they
joined the Rolling Stones for the encore
performance at the June 27 concert.
“This is the biggest thing we’ll ever do,”
said Bethany Unruh.
As the stage went from black to lights up,
the UMKC Chamber Choir started the familiar song “You Can’t Always Get What
You Want.” More than 50,000 fans packed
Arrowhead to hear the Rolling Stones and
cheered when the UMKC Chamber Choir
was acknowledged.
“It was a great experience,” said Alexander Peuser.
For graduate student Jacob Funk, one of
the two conductors, the opportunity to lead
such talented students was memorable.
“At the Conservatory, we work with the
best students and singers around,” Funk
said.
The Rolling Stones
THE ROLLING STONES.COM
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CRESCENDO 2014
THE TEMPO OF TOMORROW
From left: Greg and Deanna Graves (Crescendo 2014 honorary co-chairs),
Dean Peter Witte, Katherine and Jim Schorgl (Crescendo 2014 co-chairs), and
Tim Van Zandt (President of the Friends of the Conservatory).
Each year, Crescendo awes attendees with the outstanding talents of our Conservatory students and faculty. Crescendo 2014 co-chairs Katherine and Jim Schorgl brought
the gala to life in spectacular fashion with the second sellout year on Friday, Nov. 7 at the Kauffman Center for the
Performing Arts. Honorary co-chairs Deanna and Greg
Graves welcomed guests to cocktails in the upper lobbies of
the Kauffman Center before the performance.
The fast-paced ‘prism’ concert enthralled attendees. The
concert, a swirl of sights and sounds, music and dance,
moved throughout Helzberg Hall. Following the performance, gala guests savored dinner in Brandmeyer Great
Hall. Benefactor level patrons also enjoyed a lovely pre-gala
party at the home of Joan and Byron Thompson. New for
2014 was a ticket package featuring the Crescendo concert
and a prix fixe dinner at Lidia’s in the Crossroads.
Crescendo 2014 raised a record $260,000 to support the
students of the Conservatory. It is through the efforts of
members of the Friends of the Conservatory that Crescendo
raises significant funds for Conservatory scholarships, fellowships and performance opportunities for hundreds of
students each year.
CRESCENDO 2015
NEW MOOD RISING
On Friday, Nov. 6, Crescendo 2015: New Mood Rising
took place at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
Co-chairs Melanie and Mike Fenske and their committee prepared a delightful evening. Sherry and Gary Forsee
served as honorary co-chairs, and Anne and Howard Elsberry were Patron Party hosts.
Photograph © Nick Vedros 2015
A BENEFIT FOR
T H E U M K C C O N S E R VAT O R Y O F M U S I C A N D DA N C E
Crescendo is a fast-paced
performance of music and dance by
Conservatory students and faculty.
umkc.edu/crescendo
From left: Crescendo 2015 Co-chairs Melanie and Mike Fenske, Dean Peter Witte, Honorary Co-chairs Gary and Sherry Forsee.
KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
NOVEMBER 6
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The 2015–16 Conservatory Artist Series
The UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance is thrilled to partner with the Kauffman Center for the Performing
Arts and the Folly Theater to present our ensembles in these beautiful and important halls.
The 2015–16 Conservatory Artist Series is composed of nine performances, three in Helzberg Hall, two in the
Folly Theater, and this year, we are pleased to include our two main stage operas in our series, directed by
Fenlon Lamb, our new director of opera.
Conservatory Wind Symphony
Conservatory Orchestra
Directed by Steven D. Davis, a program that includes a world
premiere of [fuse] by Nick Omiccioli; Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony
for Band, John Mackey; Ba Yin for Saxophone Quartet and Wind
Ensemble, Chen Yi, special guest PRISM Quartet (world premiere
for the wind ensemble version); Symphonic Dances from West Side
Story, Leonard Bernstein, arr. Paul Lavender.
Directed by Robert Olson, the program includes Richard Strauss’s
Don Quixote, Op. 35; and Suite from Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59.
October 4, 2015, 7 p.m.
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Helzberg Hall
Arianna String Quartet
November 3, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
White Recital Hall
Hailed for its outstanding musicianship, the Arianna String Quartet
has firmly established itself as one of America’s finest chamber
ensembles. The group’s performances have been praised for “tonal
warmth, fastidious balance…expressive vitality” (Chicago Tribune)
and “emotional commitment and fluent virtuosity,” (Pretoria News,
South Africa).
This concert is underwritten by the James and Vera Olson Fund for the Arts.
CREDIT: HELIX AND HGA
This conceptual design shows the south entrance on 18th Street that will welcome Crossroads visitors to the Downtown Campus for the Arts.
NEW DOWNTOWN CAMPUS MOVES
CLOSER TO REALITY
The UMKC Conservatory is moving closer to its vision of a new campus
downtown in Kansas City’s Crossroads Arts District.
In September 2014, five architectural teams participated in a four-day
Urban Design Charrette. During this
process, architects and students from
the Conservatory as well as the department of Architecture, Urban Planning
and Design worked to determine the
needs of the Conservatory and the
community in the design and planning of the new downtown campus.
Themes that emerged were: the need
for the Conservatory to have a central
gathering space, which doesn’t exist
now; the need for the building to blend
into the Crossroads and feel like a part
of a village; and third was that the new
Conservatory will be a gateway from
the Kauffman Center into the Crossroads.
Helix Architecture + Design, headquartered in the Crossroads, and HGA,
from Minneapolis, were the teams chosen to design the new campus.
In January 2015, the architects began working with a planning group
made up of students, faculty, staff and
campus administration. The full process evolved over eight months.
The estimated cost for the new
Conservatory downtown is $96 million, including construction and land.
UMKC officials expect to raise half
this amount, $48 million, from private
sources, and ask the state to match it.
Private fundraising as of October 1,
2015 is $34 million, including a $20
million challenge grant from the Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation,
which is set to expire June 30, 2016.
UMKC is grateful to those who have
pledged their support to this project,
including million dollar gifts from
Shirley and Barnett Helzberg and the
Sunderland Foundation. A complete
list of donors can be found at umkc.
edu/artscampus.
For more information on the downtown campus or to give to the future
of the Conservatory, contact Jennifer
Wampler, senior director of development, at 816-235-1247 or wamplerj@
umkc.edu.
Central Ticket Office
816-235-6222
umkc.edu/cto
Crescendo: New Mood Rising
November 6, 2015, 7 p.m.
The Conservatory’s annual fundraising event for scholarships, with
music and dance performed by Conservatory students and faculty;
6 p.m. patron party/cocktails. Patron dinner in Brandmeyer Hall
follows performance.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Conservatory of Music and Dance
Fall Opera: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Die
Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
November 17–20, 2015, 7:30 p.m.
White Recital Hall
Directed by Fenlon Lamb, guest conducted by Andy Anderson,
UMKC Opera Theatre presents Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte (The Magic
Flute). Sung in German with English dialogue, the cast list includes
Tamino: Chad DeMaris, Derrek Stark, (Cover-Xin Shao); Pamina:
Leah McIntire-Barnett, Ashley Wheat; Papageno: Alfredo Beltrán,
Armando Contreras; Queen of the Night: Stephanie Meyer, Alba
Cancél; Sarastro: Rhys Talbot; First Lady: Lindsey Allen, Grace
Wallace, (Cover-Laura Powell); Second Lady: Nicolette Nazarowski,
Logan Snook; Third Lady: Kelly Birch, Alice Chung; Monostatos:
Christopher Puckett, Vince Woods, (Cover-Garrett Torbert);
Papagena: Kate Sikora, Sophia Zey; First Spirit: Shannon Lowe;
Second Spirit: Nichole Kelly, (Cover-Elizabeth Snow); Third Spirit:
Willow Parsons; Speaker: Samuel Lim; Priests: Garrett Torbert
(tenor), Brandon Smith (bass); Armored Men: Aaron Redburn
(tenor), Adam Edmonds (bass).
February 11, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
White Recital Hall
Spring Opera: Benjamin Britten’s The Turn of the Screw
March 22–25, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
White Recital Hall
Directed by Fenlon Lamb, guest conducted by John Baril, UMKC
Opera Theatre presents Benjamin Britten’s enigmatic and chilling
chamber opera The Turn of the Screw based on the Henry James
novel. It tells the tale of good versus evil, natural versus the
supernatural, possession and exorcism, all of which follows the
trials and tribulations of a new governess at Bly House. Tensions
mount as she gets to know the inner workings of the house and
those living within. This tautly constructed opera tightens and
closes in with astonishing dramatic and musical power, creating the
overwhelming feeling of intense claustrophobia. Join us for a spinetingling evening of theatre, virtuosic orchestral playing and alluring,
otherworldly vocalism.
Spring Dance Concert
April 21–23, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Folly Theater
Experience the athleticism, precision and passion of the
Conservatory’s Dance Ensemble. Witness the historic Folly
Theater spring to life with the extraordinary creativity of the dance
faculty’s choreography combined with exciting collaborations from
Conservatory musicians.
UMKC Jazz Night
April 26, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Folly Theater
A collage concert featuring a variety of ensembles that represent
the entirety of jazz studies at the Conservatory, directed by Bobby
Watson and Dan Thomas.
Finale: Conservatory Orchestra
and Conservatory Choirs
May 5, 2016, 7 p.m.
Enjoy the excitement and passion of the Conservatory Orchestra and
Choirs in another breathtaking performance conducted by Robert
Olson. Program includes winner of the 2016 Chancellor’s Concerto
competition and Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody for alto, male chorus and
orchestra, Op. 53, with faculty Aidan Soder, mezzo soprano.
All White Recital Hall and Folly Theater concerts are $12 for the general public, except for
Arianna Quartet. The White Recital Hall performances are free for UMKC faculty, staff and all
students with ID (except for Arianna Quartet). Folly Theater tickets are $5 for UMKC faculty, staff
and all students with ID.
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FA C U LT Y N E W S
XUELI LIU WINS
CHANCELLOR'S
CONCERTO COMPETITION
Xueli Liu, a D.M.A. student in piano
performance who studies with Robert
Weirich, won the third Chancellor's
Concerto Competition. She performed
Totentanz: Paraphrase on Dies Irae,
Franz Liszt, Feb. 20, 2015, on the Folly
for Five miniseries in the historic Folly
Theater. Qizhen Liu, cello, won the
alternate place.
Left to right: Robert Weirich, Xueli Liu
and UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton
NEW ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS PROVIDE
STUDENT SUPPORT
Scholarships are the lifeblood of
the Conservatory. As important as
financial aid, scholarships are a vital recruitment tool, allowing faculty to bring the best students to
UMKC. Similar to a sports team
that needs certain players, the
Conservatory needs students who
play particular instruments. An
orchestra can’t be made up of all
flutes; a choir must be more than
sopranos; and we need both male
and female dancers.
Conservatory scholarships are
as individual as each donor. The
Conservatory is grateful for the
following new endowed scholarships created between July 1, 2014
and June 30, 2015.
• Hilda Gibbs Scholarship, established through a bequest from
the Hilda Gibbs Revocable Trust
• Thomas H. Howell Piano Scholarship, established by Nancy L.
Panzer-Howell
•
Rose and Art Johnson Instrumental Music Scholarship, established by an anonymous donor
•
Jean Rosenfield Scholarship in
Opera Performance, established
by Jean Rosenfield
• Noah Matthew Siegel Academy
Scholarship in Piano Performance, established by Edward
and Debra Siegel
• Noah Matthew Siegel Prize for
Young Composers, established
by Edward and Debra Siegel
• Linda H. and Thomas H. Talbott
Scholarship for Performing Arts
Excellence, established by Dr.
Linda Hood Talbott
• Ruth and Lowell Williams Jazz
Scholarship, established by Rebecca and Phil Smith
You can create an endowed
scholarship with a minimum gift
of $25,000. This principal amount
will produce a scholarship of 4.5
percent each year. You can create
a scholarship in many ways: a current gift of cash, gifts over time or
a bequest as part of a will. Many
scholarships are created in memory of loved ones or to honor a beloved professor.
If you are interested in creating
an endowed scholarship, please
contact Jennifer Wampler, senior
director of development at 816235-1247 or wamplerj@umkc.
edu.
Bill Sullivan enjoys breakfast with jazz scholarship recipient
Khamali Cuffie-Moore.
The Women’s Committee of the Conservatory is an important
scholarship donor. Standing: President Margaret Athey; sitting:
Kristen Shedor (student), Cheryl Sue Herbert and Linda Horn
(Women’s Committee), Kelly Birch and Chad DeMaris (students)
Everett pens new book on the
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
D
r. William Everett, Curators’
Professor of Musicology, has
written Music for the People:
A History of the Kansas City
Philharmonic Orchestra, 1933–82,
published by Rockhill Books; Michael
Stern, Kansas City
Symphony music
director, wrote the
book’s
introduction.
“When I was
asked to write a history of the Kansas
City Philharmonic
Orchestra, which
was the professional orchestra in
Kansas City from
1933 to 1982, I
thought it would be a fairly straightforward task,” Dr. Everett said. “I was
genuinely surprised at the wealth of
musical treasures that existed in Kansas City, thanks to the Philharmonic.
Writing the book became a series of
discoveries and 'wow' moments that
happened nearly every day. I am particularly grateful to the Norman B.
Kahn family for entrusting me with
telling the Philharmonic’s story, to
Michael Stern for writing a generous
foreword to the book and to everyone
who shared their memories of the orchestra and its legacy.”
The book, which traces the Kansas
City Philharmonic Orchestra’s history from its beginning in the Great
Depression through its triumphs and
challenges, celebrates the variety of
glorious music it gave to the people of
Kansas City and beyond.
Everett holds degrees from Texas
Tech University (B.M., music theory), Southern Methodist University
(M.M., music history, instrumental conducting) and the University
of Kansas (Ph.D., musicology). At
UMKC, he teaches graduate courses
in medieval music, American musical
theater, music and national identity,
research and bibliography in music,
and pedagogy of music history. He
also team-teaches a course on medicine and music through the UMKC
School of Medicine’s Sirridge Office
of Medical Humanities and Bioethics.
Dr. Everett is
the author of four
books, including
British Piano Trios, Quartets, and
Quintets,
18501950: A Checklist
(Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press,
2000), The Musical: A Guide to Research (New York:
Routledge, 2004),
Sigmund Romberg (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 2007) and Rudolf
Friml (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008). He is contributing co-editor of The Cambridge
Companion to the Musical (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2002; second edition, 2008) and coauthor of The Historical Dictionary of
the Broadway Musical (Lanham, MD:
Scarecrow, 2008). His book on operetta composer Sigmund Romberg received the 2008 Certificate of Merit
for Outstanding Research on Recorded Classical Music from the Association of Recorded Sound Collectors (ARSC). He is a commissioning
editor for musical theater for the New
Grove Dictionary of American Music,
2nd Edition.
Dr. Everett received the 2003
Kauffman Award for Excellence in
Teaching, a 2008 UMKC Trustees
Faculty Fellowship, the N.T. Veatch
Award for Outstanding Research
and Creative Activity and the 2009
Kauffman Award for Excellence in
Research and Creative Activity. From
2008 to 2010, he served as a Faculty
Fellow in UMKC’s Faculty Center for
Excellence in Teaching (FaCET).
Dr. William Everett
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FA C U LT Y N E W S
FA C U LT Y N E W S
MURIEL MCBRIEN KAUFFMAN
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARDS
The late Muriel McBrien Kauffman established
an annual gift to the Conservatory to reward
outstanding faculty and staff through excellence
in teaching and service awards. The first
awards were presented in 1991 and continue to
underscore the Conservatory’s commitment to
excellence. In 1998 the Excellence in Teaching
award increased with the encouragement of
Muriel’s daughter Julia Irene Kauffman. In
2003, the award categories increased to the
four we currently enjoy. All honorees, selected
by a group of constituent leaders, students and
former award-winners, receive a monetary prize
and a plaque.
EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING
GRADUATE TEACHING
ASSISTANT AWARD
EXCELLENCE IN STAFF
SERVICE
Richard Jeric, piano performance, Artist’s
Certificate
Jason Scheufler, recording engineer
JoDee Davis, associate professor of trombone
One of her students noted, “Dr. Davis is
incredibly encouraging, and it is clear that
she wants us to succeed in all that we do and
perform.” Others shared, “Dr. Davis gives us
great opportunities to experience all types of
music,” saying she is also clearly a master
of the trombone. Her teaching abilities are
evident in her students’ accomplishments.
Chris White was a finalist in the 2014
Chancellor’s Competition. Ryan Heinlein is
adjunct professor of jazz at Ottawa University.
Nathan Dishman, after completing a one-year
position as trombone professor at Morehead
State University, won the audition for the
tenure-track position. Freshman Bronco Green
advanced to the semifinal round of the Naftzger
Young Artist Auditions.
EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
AND CREATIVITY
Andrew Granade, chair of composition, music
theory and musicology; associate professor of
musicology
Dr. JoDee Davis, associate professor of trombone, received the 2014–15 Kauffman Excellence in Teaching Award.
One of Dr. Granade’s many accomplishments
includes the current publication of his book,
Harry Partch, Hobo Composer, for the Eastman
Series of Music. Honors and awards for his
book include publication subvention awarded
by the Howard Hanson Institute for American
Studies for support of outstanding work on
American Composers; publication subvention
awarded by the UM Research Board at its
annual spring competition; the AMS 75 PAYS
award, an extremely competitive subvention
from the American Musicological Society. His
book has received great reviews. The Register
lists it as one of the three essential reads along
with David Mitchell’s latest book, The Bone
Clocks. One review reads, “Granade has written
a fascinating account of one of the music’s
great outsiders. It is also an absorbing memoir
of a culture long since gone and a tribute to
Partch’s lifelong struggle and achievements.”
His nominator writes, “Richard served as a
graduate teaching assistant in the keyboard
division for the past two years. His growth
as a teacher during this time has been
remarkable. Starting with little experience
and a strong desire to develop his teaching
skills, Richard distinguished himself among
his peers through his work ethic, dedication
to his students and overall commitment to
excellence. Richard’s students were eager
to support him when he was nominated
for this award, with many praising him as
both a teacher and mentor.” Undergraduate
student Matt Anderson notes, “Mr. Jeric is
well on his way to becoming an outstanding
piano professor. In his current assignment he
has already developed successful teaching
strategies and demonstrated a disposition
that enables him to motivate and educate all
students assigned to his class. In the time
that I have worked with him, his skills and
attention to detail have helped him improve
instruction for each subsequent class period
or lesson. As a teacher I found Mr. Jeric to be
fair, open-minded, motivated and determined.
He challenges his students to push themselves
in and outside of the classroom, inspiring
them to set high goals and exceed their own
expectations.”
The 2014–15 Kauffman Excellence in Teaching
Awards were presented at the May 16, 2015
Conservatory Commencement Recognition
Ceremony in Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman
Center for the Performing Arts.
His nominator writes, “Jason works tirelessly
to make sure that our students and faculty
receive the best possible service. He brings
his ‘A game’ to every project. Though he
avoids the limelight and is often behind the
scenes, those who work directly with Jason are
consistently grateful for his calm demeanor
and his ability to do great work in less-thanideal circumstances. Jason is a team player
and goes above and beyond the expectations of
his clients.”
EXCELLENCE IN FACULTY
SERVICE
Diane Petrella, professor of piano and piano
pedagogy, chair of keyboard studies, associate
dean for graduate studies
Dr. Petrella’s service includes immediate
past-president of MMTA, and she currently
holds offices in MTNA and a number of offices
in the College Music Society and national
office. Her leadership in the University of
Missouri System includes Graduate Opportunity
Fellowship Award Committee and the MyVita
Implementation Committee. Her UMKC
campus-wide service includes University
Assessment committee, Academic Compliance
Council and serving as a Graduate Officer.
In the Conservatory she is on FEBAC, KSD
rep., the Curriculum Committee and the
Assessment Coordinators Committee.
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FA C U LT Y N E W S
FA C U LT Y N E W S
FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS REFLECT EXCELLENCE
COMPOSITION/MUSIC
THEORY/MUSICOLOGY
Chen Yi’s Three Dances from
China South won Chamber Music
America’s annual Commissioning
Award, with a world premiere by
Music from China on its Premiere
Works XXIII concert, Music from
China’s 30th Anniversary and
Beyond, Carnegie Hall’s Weill
Recital Hall, New York City, N.Y.,
Nov. 2014. She was a featured
guest composer at the Creative
Imperatives Week, University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse, March 2015
and the 2015 UNM John Donald
Robb Composers Symposium
on the 44th Annual Exploration
of Creativity and Music: Musical
Retellings, Albuquerque, N.M.,
March 2015. Ge Xu (Antiphony) was
performed by Basel Symphony
Orchestra (Sinfornieorchester
Basel) on its March 2015 Asian tour,
directed by Dennis Russell Davies,
at the Forbidden City Concert Hall,
Beijing and Shanghai Oriental Art
Center. It was also performed by
the Tianjin Conservatory Youth
Symphony in Seoul, Korea, March
2015, and the Canadian Esprit
Symphony and Guangxi Academy of
Arts Symphony Orchestra at ChinaASEAN Music Week, June 2015.
Happy Rain on a Spring Night was
performed by E-MEX-Ensemble
at the Forum DLF hosted by
Deutschlandfunk, which streamed
a radio broadcast and webcast
of the performance, Cologne,
Germany, April 2015. Thinking of
My Home was commissioned by
the American Composers Forum
ChoralQuest program and received
its premiere by Bel Canto, Frontier
Trail Middle School’s Women’s
Choir, conducted by Conservatory
alumna Gretchen Harrison, Olathe,
Kan., May 2015. Her compositions
were recorded and released by Jun
Qian and Jianbing Ju (East Meets
West II: Clarinet Music by Chinese
Composers Overseas, Albany
Records), Bridge Chamber Virtuosi
(Bridge Chamber Virtuosi, Con Brio
Recordings), saxophonist Jeffrey
Heisler (gradient, AMP Recordings),
and the Texas Tech University
Symphonic Wind Ensemble,
conducted by Sarah McKoin (Chen
Yi: Music for Wind Band, Naxos). A
new CD of her compositions was
released on Naxos, which includes
her Suite for Cello and Chamber
Winds featuring faculty cellist
Carter Enyeart, August 2015.
William Everett’s book, Music
for the People: A History of the
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra,
1933–82, was published by Rockhill
Books, May 2015.
William Everett and Andrew
Granade were on the panel for
“Sounds from an Unsettled World,
1914–19,” an event in collaboration
with the Friends of Chamber
Music, the UMKC Department of
History and the National World
War I Museum, January 2015. A
discussion was held exploring
how the events surrounding and
including World War I affected
composers, their art and audience
response to it. Music Alliance guest
artists Alon Goldstein, piano, and
the Ariel Quartet performed music
from the era.
Mara Gibson’s “pocket piece”
series Folium received its premiere
in three European cities: Vienna,
Austria, and Telmezzo and Udine
in Italy, February–March 2015. She
held a month-long residency at the
Virginia Center for the Arts, August
2015, during which she composed a
new string quartet to be premiered
at the Kansas City Art Institute on
an ArtSounds concert in the 2015–
16 season. Her first full solo album
of chamber music compositions,
ArtIfacts, was released in May 2015.
Andrew Granade won an AMS 75
PAYS Endowment Award from the
American Musicological Society
for his book Harry Partch, Hobo
Composer, published in 2015 on
University of Rochester Press,
and his article “Speaking Chinese:
Music and the Exotic in Firefly”
appeared in Firefly Revisited: Essays
on Joss Whedon’s Classic Series,
edited by Michael Goodrum and
Philip Smith, published by Rowman
& Littlefield Press, spring 2015. He
received the Conservatory’s 2015
Kauffman Excellence in Research
and Creativity Award.
James Mobberley enjoyed 40
performances and broadcasts
of his music. International
performances include a premiere
in Vienna, Austria, a new version
of a 2001 work premiered at the
International Electroacoustic Music
Festival Beijing, a performance
at the Thailand International
Composition Festival, and a
performance at the École normale
supérieure, Paris, France.
American performances of note
include three performances and
a recording session of FUSEBOX,
a revised 2004 chamber work, by
the Paul Dresher Ensemble, San
Francisco, Calif. He was a featured
composer at the Cleveland Institute
of Music and Western Michigan
University, and his music was the
subject of a dissertation chapter
at the University of Wisconsin. His
Capricious Invariance for solo piano
was recorded and released by
Conservatory alumnus Christopher
Janwong McKiggan on his album
Paganimania, Albany Records (Troy
1543) and his Once Again to the Light
for alto saxophone and fixed media
was released by saxophonist John
Sampen on his album The Electric
Saxophone II, AMP Records (2015).
His SoundCloud page reached
9,815 plays (4,027 in 2014 alone).
He continues to serve as a board
member of the Barlow Foundation
(2013–17 term), which includes
panel membership for the Barlow
Prize and Commissions — one
of the three most significant
commissioning organizations in the
U.S. for contemporary art music.
David Thurmaier had two journal
articles published: “‘When Borne by
the Red, White, and Blue’: Charles
Ives and Patriotic Quotation” in
American Music, Vol. 32, No. 1, and
“A Figment of His Imagination:
Elliott Carter on Charles Ives and
Musical Borrowing” in Current
Musicology. He received a grant
from The Patricia and Howard
Barr Institute for American Music
Studies to further his work on
a critical edition of Ives’s choral
piece Psalm 67 for the Charles Ives
Society.
Zhou Long composed 60 minutes of
music in 2014, with several positive
reviews from major media outlets
of the dozens of performances
and world premieres of his music
around the world. His Temple
Bugler for soprano saxophone and
orchestra was commissioned by
SaxOpen, the World Saxophone
Congress and Festival, Strasbourg,
France, and received its premiere
in July 2015. Confluence for solo
flute was commissioned by the
Flute New Music Consortium with
support from a New Music USA
Award and premiered Oct. 3, 2015.
Zhou Long and Chen Yi’s joint
composition Symphony Humen 1839,
a four-movement symphonic work,
was performed by the Thailand
Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted
by Delta David Gier, on a concert
titled “The Exotic East,” at Mahidol
University’s Mahidol Hall, Bangkok,
Thailand, May 2015. It was also
performed by Qingdao Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Zhang
Guoyong, at Qingdao Concert Hall,
China, June 2015. The piece was
recorded by the New Zealand
Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Darrell Ang, and released on
Naxos, May 2015.
DANCE
Gary Abbott and Paula Weber were
invited to teach master classes at
the Tianjin Conservatory, China, as
part of a dance exchange arranged
by Mary Pat Henry. Following
this engagement, they presented
master classes and choreographic
projects that culminated in a final
performance during an eight-day
residency at the Iliev Dance Art
Foundation’s Dance It! Spring
Intensive 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Sabrina Madison-Cannon joined
Hello Art’s Board of Directors,
Kansas City, Mo.
INSTRUMENTAL
STUDIES
Marita Abner hosted the Midwest
Double Reed Society’s Annual
Meeting and Festival at the
Conservatory, February 2015,
which featured master classes,
discussions, recitals and guest
artists Charles Hamann, oboe,
and Christopher Millard, bassoon,
both of the National Arts Centre
Orchestra of Ottawa, Canada.
Keith Benjamin gave a master
class and recital at Ball State
University, September 2014,
performed a faculty recital at the
Conservatory, November 2014,
Dr. Andrew Granade, associate professor of musicology, received the 2014–15 Kauffman Excellence in Research and Creativity Award.
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FA C U LT Y N E W S
and performed a collaborative
recital with trombone faculty
member JoDee Davis and pianists
Patricia Higdon and Melody Steed
at Bethany College, Lindsborg,
Kan., November 2014. He served
as second trumpet on Mahler’s
Symphony No. 5 performed by the
Kansas City Symphony, February
2015, and appeared in more than 40
performances with the Symphony,
Kansas City Ballet and Lyric Opera
of Kansas City. He hosted master
classes and clinics featuring
Stanford Thompson, Roger
Oyster, Stuart Stephenson, Terry
Warburton and Jeff Biancalana for
his students at the Conservatory.
JoDee Davis received the
Conservatory’s 2015 Kauffman
Excellence in Teaching Award
and presented master classes
and recitals at Western Michigan
University, University of Michigan,
Michigan State University and
Central Michigan University.
Steven D. Davis was featured
in an educational video on
conductingmasterclass.com,
working with the Conservatory
Wind Symphony on common
performance issues in Steven
Bryant’s Dusk, with the composer
present. He toured Australia in
May 2015, conducting in Brisbane,
Tasmania (Hobart), Melbourne,
Sydney, Rockhampton and Cairns.
Guest conducting engagements
included the World Band at the
Interlochen Arts Academy Summer
Camp, featuring guest saxophone
soloist Tim McAllister, August
2014; Eastman Wind Ensemble,
plus lectures, Rochester, N.Y.,
October 2014; Tchaikovsky’s
Symphony No. 6 with the Youth
Symphony of Kansas City and
Sabrina Madison-Cannon, Midwest
Clinic, Chicago, December 2014;
Texas All-State Band, Texas Music
Educators Association Conference,
San Antonio, February 2015; and
Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 with the
Youth Symphony of Kansas City
to a standing room-only audience
at the Kauffman Center for the
Performing Arts.
Carter Enyeart had four new
editions of cello studies and
transcriptions published by
International Music Company:
Dotzauer: 113 Studies for Cello (Vols.
I and II), Studies for Cello Solo by
Cossmann, and Dotzauer: Three
Sonatas for Two Cellos (Opus 103).
Robert Olson led the Conservatory
Orchestra to win second place in
the College/University Division
of the 2014 American Prize in
Orchestral Performance. In
May 2015, he conducted his
final performances of Colorado
MahlerFest, which he founded in
1987, to many rave reviews.
Joseph Parisi, director of the
Fountain City Brass Band (whose
members include faculty, students
and alumni), led the group to Grand
Champion winner of the U.S. Open
Brass Band Championships for the
fourth year in a row — its seventh
win in eight years.
Nick Petrella won the 2014
President’s Industry Award from
the Percussive Arts Society,
presented at PASIC 2014.
Peter Witte won the Architectural
Advocate of the Year Award,
presented by the Board of the
AIA-KC.
The Missouri Brass Quintet (Martin
Hackleman, horn; Keith Benjamin
and Joseph Parisi, trumpets; JoDee
Davis, trombone; Thomas G. Stein,
tuba) performed in Columbia, Mo.
and at the 2015 MMEA Conference,
Tan-Tar-A, Osage Beach, Mo.,
January 2015.
JAZZ STUDIES
Dan Thomas performed and
taught in two countries and six
states in the last year, notably
at the historic jazz speakeasy
Bill’s Place in Harlem, N.Y. with
Curtis Lundy and Bobby Watson;
as lead alto saxophone with
the American Jazz Orchestra
in a performance alongside the
Count Basie Jazz Orchestra for
the inaugural Jazz Walk of Fame
celebration, Kansas City, Mo.;
a live performance on NPR for
the Charlie Parker Celebration,
nationally broadcast on more than
120 radio stations; as a guest artist
with the Conservatory Saxophone
Ensemble at MMEA; and numerous
appearances at the Kauffman
Center for the Performing Arts as
a featured guest veteran artist with
the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra.
He composed new music for
Conservatory Connections, which
he performed live in the Chinese
Gallery at The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, and wrote a new
work for the Conservatory’s 11
O’Clock Jazz Band, which gave the
premiere under his direction. He
was renewed as an artist/educator
for Yamaha Corp., Vandoren,
Locoparasaxo, Roo Pads, KCTone,
and WeWOOD Watches; and was
nominated for the Kauffman
Excellence in Teaching Award.
KEYBOARD
Diane Petrella received the
Excellence in Faculty Service Award
and was promoted to full professor.
EDUCATION/MUSIC
THERAPY
Melita Belgrave was appointed to
the Editorial Board of Music Therapy
Perspectives.
Robert Groene presented “A Study
of the Need for Music Therapists
in the Coming Decade” at the
World Congress of Music Therapy
(WCMT) Research Poster Session in
Krems, Austria, July 2014. He also
presented “A Historical Analysis of
the Music Therapy Program of the
Conservatory of Music and Dance
at the University of MissouriKansas City (UMKC) 1972–2014”
at the AMTA National Music
Therapy Conference, Louisville, Ky.,
November 2014. He presented a
five-hour CMTE Guitar Workshop,
“Play the Beatles: Experiencing
their Essence on Six Strings,” at
the AMTA Midwestern Regional
Music Therapy Conference, Omaha,
Nebraska, April 2015.
VOICE
Robert Bode’s Seattle group
Choral Arts was a finalist for the
2014 American Prize for its album
Life Stories: Choral Music of Eric
Barnum, and won second place
in the 2014 American Prize in
Choral Conducting (Community
Division) for his performance
with Choral Arts of the chamber
version of Brahms’s Ein deutsches
Requiem. He conducted Choral
Arts at the National Convention
of the American Choral Directors
Association, Salt Lake City, Utah,
February 2015.
FA C U LT Y N E W S
FACULTY AND
STAFF NEWS
WELCOME
Jane Allen is the
Conservatory’s new Senior
Business
Specialist.
She has
more than
20 years
experience
in Human
Resources,
eight of
which were spent in the
UMKC Human Resources
Office. She previously worked
in both the public and private
sectors.
RETIRING
Anne DeLaunay, associate
professor of voice, retired at
the end of the 2015 spring
semester after 25 years at the
Conservatory. In addition to
teaching duties, Dr. DeLaunay
administered the opera
program at the Conservatory
from 1991–93 and served as
the artistic director of the
Civic Opera Theater of Kansas
City in 1994. Her awards and
accolades include a Puccini
Foundation Award, Bagby
Foundation Award, Wagner
Society of New York’s 1989
Outstanding Wagnerian
Singer, 1996–97 Who’s Who
Among America’s Teachers
and the Conservatory’s 1995
Kauffman Excellence in
Teaching Award.
OF NOTE
Conservatory Professor
Emeritus Eph Ehly was
named Educator Laureate
by Distinguished Concerts
International New York,
November 2014.
Recording engineer Jason
Scheufler received the
Conservatory’s 2015
Kauffman Excellence in Staff
Service Award.
NEW FACULTY
DR. ALISON DESIMONE
Assistant Professor of
Musicology
Alison DeSimone specializes in
music of the Baroque period, with
a focus on seventeenth- and early
eighteenth-century opera. She
cultivates particular interest in
the history of opera singers and
singing practices
of the early
modern era,
as well as the
music of George
Frideric Handel.
In addition to
her study of
theatrical music
in London, she is currently at work
on projects concerning the early
history of musical celebrity, the
lives and careers of professional
female singers in Baroque Italy
and musical patronage in late
eighteenth-century Bohemia. She
is also at work on two substantial
book projects: the first, a co-edited
essay collection on Music, Theatre,
and the Benefit Concert in England,
1660–1800; and the second, a
monograph on musico-theatrical
miscellany and its effects on the
creation of celebrity and cultural
taste in early eighteenth-century
London.
Dr. DeSimone holds a Ph.D. in
historical musicology from the
University of Michigan (2013)
and a Bachelor of Arts from
Vassar College. Her research has
been recognized by grants and
fellowships from the American
Association of University Women,
The Institute for the Humanities
at the University of Michigan, The
Handel Institute of the United
Kingdom and The American
Handel Society. She has presented
her work both nationally and
internationally, and her article on
Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s opera
Médée (winner of the Leland Fox
Award from the National Opera
Association) was published in The
Opera Journal in 2011. In addition,
she is a Research Associate at
Nelahozeves Castle in the Czech
Republic, where she is helping to
catalogue the Lobkowicz family’s
collection of musical prints and
manuscripts from the turn of the
19th century.
Dr. DeSimone taught previously
at the University of Michigan and
Albion College, and she comes
to UMKC from the University of
Cincinnati, College-Conservatory
of Music, where she was a Visiting
Assistant Professor during the
2014–2015 academic year.
FENLON LAMB
Director of Opera and Assistant
Teaching Professor
Opera News called Fenlon Lamb
“moving and convincing,” and
Seen and Heard International
complemented her “well-honed
theatrical sensibility.” Ms. Lamb
brings these
qualities of
experience and
perspective as
an outstanding
singing actress
to her work as a
stage director.
Currently, Ms.
Lamb is the director of opera and
Vocal Programming at Bar Harbor
Music Festival. She has designed
and directed engaging productions
of Carmen, L’elisir d’amore, Madama
Butterfly, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Le
nozze di Figaro and La bohème
while she continues to program
innovative recitals and pop
concerts each festival season.
Most recently, Ms. Lamb directed
Pearl Fishers in her debut with
Dayton Opera, Little Women for
the UMKC Conservatory of Music
and Dance, and La bohème at
Palm Beach Opera. She joined
Mobile Opera for Werther with
Gran Wilson in the title role and
returned to Arizona Opera as
stage director for Rigoletto. Ms.
Lamb directed a new production of
Hänsel und Gretel for Nightingale
Opera Theatre and Il barbiere di
Siviglia for Palm Beach Opera’s
2014 International Season. She
also directed Our Town and Alcina
with the young artists of that
company to critical acclaim. She
returned to Opera Carolina as
stage director for Der fliegende
Holländer with Greer Grimsley.
In recent seasons, Ms. Lamb
directed Cendrillon at the UMKC
Conservatory of Music and
Dance, a production that was
called “the most spectacular
visual production.” She served
as associate director for Les
pecheurs du perles with Opera
Carolina and remounted Bernard
Uzan’s Faust at Austin Lyric Opera.
Fenlon directed a new production
of Werther with Nightingale
Opera Theatre. She returned to
Arizona Opera as director for
Lucia di Lammermoor and made
her company debut with Orlando
Philharmonic directing Le nozze di
Figaro. She was in residence with
Palm Beach Opera as assistant
director for several productions.
She also directed Toledo Opera’s
production of La traviata.
As the director of opera at Kent
State University, she created
an acting and performance
curriculum to train young singers
with full productions of Dido and
Aeneas, The Telephone, Trial by Jury
and Handel’s Semele. During her
tenure as resident director for
Cleveland Opera on tour, Ms. Lamb
created and directed condensed
productions of Tosca, Don Giovanni,
Madama Butterfly, Il barbiere di
Siviglia, Carmen and Turandot which
toured throughout northeast Ohio.
Upcoming engagements for Ms.
Lamb include her direction of
L’elisir d’amore with Nightingale
Opera Theatre, La Cenerentola for
Bar Harbor Music Festival and
Don Pasquale in her debut with the
Crested Butte Music Festival.
FRANK DIAZ Associate Professor of Music
Education (Strings)
Frank Diaz comes to the
Conservatory from the University
of Oregon, Eugene, where he
was assistant professor of music
education.
At UO he
coordinated the
string music
education
program,
supervised
student teachers
and taught
courses in music education,
psychology of music and research
methodology. He also served as
music director and conductor of
the Corvallis Youth Symphony
Association, where he provided
artistic, organizational and
educational leadership to more
than 350 students, faculty and staff
involved in the organization. Dr.
Diaz is currently president-elect
of the Oregon Music Education
Association (OMEA) and is past
chair of the Affective Response
Special Research Interest Group
for the Society for Research in
Music Education. He also served as
coordinator of the Music Learning,
Perception, and Cognition Focus
Group at the University of Oregon’s
Institute of Cognitive and Decision
Sciences.
Prior to his appointment at the
University of Oregon, Dr. Diaz was
an instrumental music teacher
for school districts in New Jersey,
Pennsylvania and Florida, where
his ensembles were invited to
perform at the Music Educators
National Conference and the
Midwest International Band and
Orchestra Clinic. As a conductor,
Dr. Diaz has led performances
with the Florida State University
Symphony and Philharmonia, the
University of South Florida Wind
Ensemble and with various honor
groups and youth symphonies
throughout Florida, New York
and Pennsylvania. He continues
to maintain an active schedule
as a conductor, adjudicator
and clinician, with upcoming
engagements in Oregon, Wisconsin
and North Carolina, among others.
As a scholar, Dr. Diaz has
published research on motivation,
pitch memory, affective response,
mindfulness, flow experiences
and music teacher education, with
articles appearing in Psychology of
Music, Journal of Research in Music
Education, Journal of Music Teacher
Education and several other
publications. He has also served
as a guest reviewer for Psychology
of Music, Psychomusicology,
and Mindfulness, and is on the
editorial board of the Oregon Music
Educator. His current research
deals with the potential role of
mindfulness-based practices
on musicians’ wellness and with
psychophysiological responses
during music listening, teaching
and performance.
Dr. Diaz holds a Ph.D. in music
education from Florida State
University, M.M. degrees in
instrumental conducting and
performance from the University
of South Florida and a B.M.E. from
Florida State University.
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UMKC SPOTLIGHT AWARD
David McIntire and Andy Lee receiving the 2015 UMKC Alumni Spotlight Award from Chancellor Leo E. Morton at the Alumni Awards luncheon.
McINTIRE, LEE PRODUCE PRIZEWINNING RECORDINGS
Two globally recognized musicians
have focused laser beams of acclaim on
UMKC and its Conservatory of Music
and Dance. Recipients of the Alumni
Spotlight Award, the two have succeeded against monumental odds.
Andy Lee (M.M. ’06, piano,
D.M.A. ’10, piano) and David McIntire (D.M.A. ’09, composition) have
garnered international recognition in
classical music, specifically the world
of minimal and electroacoustic music.
They met as graduate students at
UMKC in 2005 and decided to form a
partnership to produce the music they
loved. They launched a company, Irritable Hedgehog Music, in 2010 – a
risky and entrepreneurial move. The
recorded music industry had been in
decline for many years, and small, independent labels had a dismal record
of success.
McIntire and Lee bucked that around them. Lee cut his teeth on Motrend. The Hedgehog label is now a town, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff.
significant voice in minimalist and For McIntire, it was church choir piecelectroacoustic music. They have re- es, Sibelius, folk songs and film scores.
leased more than a dozen albums to
“Music chose me, rather than the
date. One of their recordings, Dennis other way round,” McIntire said.
Johnson’s November, was
“When I was about 12, I
named best recording of “Music chose me, bought a clarinet — the
2013 by Steve Smith of
same one I play to this
rather than the
Time Out New York.
day — with money I
Lee and McIntire re- other way round.” earned raising calves.”
ceived the Spotlight
He says he considered
David McIntire
Award at the annual
engineering but spent all
Alumni Awards luncheon
his time listening to muon Thursday, April 23. The Spotlight sic, reading about music and avoiding
Award is given by the campus and the engineering.
UMKC Alumni Association to alumni
A chance meeting between McInwhose accomplishments, leadership tire’s wife, Michelle (M.M. ’06, conand public service have drawn national ducting), and Lee in a class at UMKC
attention to the University and the led her to introduce the two men.
metropolitan area.
They discovered a common interest
Both men grew up with music all in minimal music. The McIntires at-
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tended Lee’s recital performance of
Tom Johnson’s An Hour for Piano, and
David declared Lee’s performance better than any he’d ever heard.
“Well,” his wife replied, “Andy
should record it, and you should produce it.”
Lee and McIntire had found a calling.
“I wanted to produce recordings we
could be proud of, and not lose our
shirts,” McIntire said. With Lee in his
stable of artists, that was almost guaranteed.
Lee, a pianist, is one of the foremost interpreters of minimal music,
known for his impressive solos. He
has recorded six albums with Irritable
Hedgehog. Their recording of William
Duckworth’s The Time Curve Preludes
was named a 2012 Critics Choice by
Gramophone, the gold standard in classical music reviews.
This genre of music is created by performing acoustic, or “unplugged,” music using “plugged” techniques such as
loops, feedback and layering. Instruments are usually orchestral-based,
but anything goes. Duckworth’s music
uses chanting, some Erik Satie piano
notes and even a banjo. Lee and McIntire plan to premiere a work by composer Scott Unrein that is meant to last
from sunset until sunrise.
Minimalist music has an ethereal,
other-worldly sound, sensitively layered and calmly paced. Lee says that,
unlike the drama of Beethoven and
other classicists, minimalists fill you
with wonder.
Of their years at UMKC, both
fondly recalled the insight, energy and
generosity of Conservatory faculty, especially James Mobberley, Paul Rudy
and Andrew Granade.
“I strive to honor their example in
my own teaching,” McIntire said.
McIntire admits his path has been
a meandering one, but he has reached
his goal: to teach music in higher education. He is director of Music Technology Studies at Missouri Western
State University, where he teaches music technology and electronic music.
Lee is associate university minister
for Liturgical and Sacred Music at Regis University in Denver but says he is
proud to be from Kansas City. “I take
my drinking and grilling seriously,”
said Lee, “and I have a penchant for
interesting socks.”
Narong Prangcharoen, 2015 Conservatory Alumni Achievement Awardee, with Dean Peter
Witte at the 2015 UMKC Alumni Awards luncheon
Prangcharoen’s legacy earns award
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but
imagination.” – Albert Einstein
Award-winning composer Narong
Prangcharoen (D.M.A. ’10, composition) gives
this Einstein quote to his students. It’s a quote
he’s also adopted as he expresses himself and
his imagination through the art of music.
While studying at UMKC with Chen Yi, Ph.D.,
Lorena Searcy Cravens/Millsap/Missouri
Distinguished Professor of Composition,
Prangcharoen started to explore bridging the
music of his native Thailand with the music of
the West. “She told me to explore and find my
unique style,” he added. Since then most of
Prangcharoen’s work has been a cross between
Thai/Asian and Western music.
Prangcharoen is considered a “mover” in the
modern concert music scene and contributor to
the direction of contemporary orchestral music.
Chicago Sun Times called his music “absolutely
captivating.”
He is composer-in-residence with the Thailand
Philharmonic, where he is recognized as one
of the “national” composers of Thailand and
composes orchestra pieces featuring young
Thai artists. He also founded and, for the past
decade, has single-handedly run the Thailand
International Composition Festival.
Prangcharoen is also a composer-in-residence
for the Pacific Symphony, a position that has
led to major commissions, performances
and professional recordings. In this role,
he composes for the orchestra and the
Pacific Symphony Youth Ensemble, creating
compositions that are inspired by the people
living in the Orange County community. In
addition, he established a Young Composer
Program to mentor composition students.
He also teaches at the UMKC Conservatory’s
Community Music and Dance Academy.
Among Prangcharoen’s many awards and
commissions are the prestigious 2013
Guggenheim Fellowship and the Barlow
Prize, the 20th Annual American Composers
Orchestra Underwood New Music Commission
and the American Composers Orchestra
Audience Choice Award.
“I am proud to state that I am a composer. For
the next 50 years, I might no longer be in this
world, but all the arts that I have created will
still be there,” he said. “I believe that music is
one of the million sources that make this world
beautiful. I am glad and thankful that I am a
part of it. If I love what I am doing, then I believe
that the quality of my art and work will be
automatically perfect.”
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IMPRESSIVE ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENTS
COMPOSITION/MUSIC
THEORY/MUSICOLOGY
Jesse Allison (D.M.A. ’10,
composition) enjoyed exhibitions
of his works at the New Interfaces
for Musical Expression Conference,
London and the International
Symposium of Electronic Arts,
Dubai/Abu Dhabi. His NexusUI
Javascript Software Library for
browser-based user interaction
received 18,000 visitors in 2014,
11,000 of which were unique
(nexusosc.com). His music was
performed at the SEAMUS National
Conference; Stonybrook University,
N.Y.; at the Mardi Gras Sci-Fi
Parade, New Orleans, La.; by the
Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana,
Baton Rouge; and on a Cinema
for the Ears concert. He gave
presentations at the Southeast
Music Library Association Annual
Meeting and New Interfaces for
Musical Expression 2014, London
(which also published two of his
co-authored articles). He gave
master classes/workshops at a
Mobile Music in the Classroom
clinic; TI:ME/TMEA National
Convention, San Antonio, Texas;
SEAMUS National Convention;
and Girls Rock at EMDM Academy
Outreach Summer Workshop. He
received a 2013 NSF Research
Experiences for Undergraduates
Grant and a monetary award for
CoAD Fabrication Factory & 21st
Century Studios.
Jason Bahr (B.M. ’95, composition)
received two Florida Gulf Coast
University (FGCU) Faculty Senate
Grants, served as an adjudicator
for the SCI/ASCAP Competition,
and was commissioned to
compose a new fanfare for the Gulf
Coast Symphony. His music was
performed by the Alabama Trumpet
Guild, Fresh Squeezed Opera Guild,
pianists Paul Barnes and Cameron
Bennett, Lakeland (Ohio) Civic
Orchestra, Ida S. Baker High School
Symphonic Band, Locrian Chamber
Players (reviewed in The New York
Times), percussionists Adam Garcia
and Jason Baker, the Fort Myers
Symphonic Mastersingers, and
several FGCU ensembles. His music
was heard at the Trumpet Festival of
the Southeast, Christian Fellowship
of Art Music National Conference,
SCI Region VII Conference,
University of South Florida New
Music Festival, Sam Houston
State University, Mississippi State
University, and CMS’s Great Plains
Chapter Conference.
Bruce Barrett (B.M. ’05,
composition) received the Best
Foreign Teacher in Futian Award
(Futian District, Shenzhen, China)
and was runner-up for the Futian
International Friendship Award.
Brad Baumgardner (D.M.A. ’12,
composition) became a full-time
student advisor at the Middle
Tennessee State University’s School
of Music, and was commissioned
by Conservatory student Charles
Calloway (D.M.A., trumpet
performance) and a CBDNA
consortium for a bass clarinet
concerto. Conservatory piano
alumna Jessica Koebbe gave the
premiere performance and recorded
his piano preludes With One Eye
Open, and his bass clarinet duet
Cosmic Turtle Sidekick was recorded
and released by Sauro Berti, bass
clarinetist of Teatro dell’Opera di
Roma, on the album Solo Non Solo.
He was featured in the article “The
Bass Clarinetist as Composer” in
The Clarinet, Vol. 41, No. 4, written
by Jon Russell of the bass clarinet
quartet Edmund Welles and bass
clarinet duo Sqwonk.
Christopher Biggs (D.M.A. ’10,
composition) served as co-chair
for SCI Region V and won an
ASCAP Plus Award. His violin
and electronics piece Greed was
included on SCI’s CD Series,
Vol. 29 (2015), and Conservatory
alumnus Samuel Wells, along
with a consortium of trumpet
players, commissioned him for
Decoherence, a piece for trumpet
and interactive audio/video. Amass
for clarinet and computer was
a finalist for the 2014 Sonic Arts
Award (Italy) and recorded by Sonic
Arts on the finalists compilation
disc. Trumpet players Samuel
Wells and Scott Thornburg;
pianists Kari Johnson, Lawrence
Axelrod, and Keith Kirchoff; and
cellist Zachary Boyt performed
his music, which was heard at
Western Michigan University,
Kansas State University, University
of Central Missouri, Northern
Arizona University, UC San Diego,
New York City Electroacoustic
Music Festival, ArtSounds (Kansas
City, Mo.), SEAMUS National
Conference, Electroacoustic Barn
Dance, Fresh Minds Festival
(Texas A&M), Sherman Avenue
Theater (Evanston, Ill.), EMM, the
International Computer Music
Association Conference (Athens,
Greece), and the International
Electroacoustic Music Symposium
(Toronto, Canada).
Jason Bolte (D.M.A. ’12,
composition) served as co-host
for EMM & Mountains Festival,
Bozeman, Mont., and was assistant
coordinator of the Threshold
Festival: Young Composers in the
Electron-Media. He received a
number of grants from Montana
State University, an American
Physical Society outreach grant,
a NASA education grant from the
Montana Space Grant Consortium,
and won an Award of Excellence
from the MSU Foundation and
Alumni Association. His music
was published on Ablaze and
ELECTRO<>ACÚSTICO Records,
and R & F Encaustic Handmade
Paints. He was adjudicator for
the Northwest Regional EMMY,
Conference, and the New York City
Electroacoustic Music Festival.
His music was performed at the
Fresh Minds Festival (Texas A&M),
EMM (Romeoville, Ill.), SEAMUS
National Conference (Middletown,
Conn.), Roots Signal Electronic
Music Festival (Jacksonville, Fla.),
CESEAM/SCM 2014 (Costa Rica),
New York City Electronic Music
Festival, Sweet Thunder Music
Festival (San Francisco, Calif.),
SCI National Conference (Muncie,
Ind.), New Horizons Music Festival
(Kirksville, Mo.); San Francisco,
Calif.; New York City; Los Angeles,
Calif.; Florence, Italy; and Viseu,
Portugal, to name a few. His music
was heard on radio broadcasts in
Barcelona and on several Internet
streams, and was included on
Composers Circle’s March Mixtape:
New Electronic Music (2014).
Stephan Casurella (M.M. ’99,
composition) had five of his works
published by St. James Music
Press, Paraclete Press, and MorningStar Music.
Alan Chan (M.M. ’04, composition)
was an applied music instructor and
Jazz One band director at El Camino
College, assistant director of iPalpiti
Artist International, and continued
as director of the Alan Chan Jazz
Orchestra (ACJO). The ACJO
performed seven times publically in
2014 including CD release concerts
at Catalina Jazz Club, Hollywood,
and ShapeShifter Lab, New York
City. The ACJO also received radio
broadcasts on 70 stations across the
United States and abroad, including
the syndicated Jazz After Hours on
Public Radio International. He held
a residency at Visby International
Centre for Composers, received
commissions from the ACJO and
from the Laguna Art Museum and
Laguna Dance Festival for Lotus
Land, performed by Argus Quartet
and Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater.
Liz Comninellis (B.M. ’09,
composition) was a winner of the
2015 Women Composers Festival of Hartford International Call for Scores.
Chin Ting (Patrick) Chan (D.M.A.
’14, composition) was a 2014–15
Charlotte Street/Urban Culture
Project Studio Performing Artist
Resident. He won the 2015 MMTA
Composition Commission, and
his commissioned work was
performed at the MMTA annual
conference, November 2015. He
attended June in Buffalo 2014
and was featured on Composers
Circle and included on its May
Mixtape (2014). He was a finalist
of the Brussels Jazz Orchestra’s
International Jazz Composition
Contest, RED NOTE New Music
Festival Composition Competition,
and the 2014 ASCAP Foundation
Morton Gould Young Composer
Award and received honorable
mention in the 8th Annual Robert
Avalon International Competition
for Composers 2014 (Foundation for
Modern Music) and the 4th Annual
BGSU New Music Ensemble Call for
Scores. His music was performed
at Muestra Internacional de Música
Electroacústica MUSLAB 2014;
New Music Conflagration, Inc.
2014–15 Open Call for Scores; 2014
New Horizons Festival, Truman
State University; Acousmatic for
the People, gruppoGruppo; 57th
NEW TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
Erik Augereau (D.M.A.,
trombone performance) Adjunct
instructor of trombone, Truman
State University, Kirksville, Mo.
Jonathan Borja (D.M.A. ’10,
M.M. ’05, flute performance;
M.M. ’10, musicology) Assistant
professor of music: flute and
music history, University of
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Christopher Kelts (D.M.A. ’10,
orchestral conducting) Assistant
professor of music, director of
Orchestral Studies, Missouri
State University, Springfield
Jessica Koebbe (D.M.A. ’15,
piano performance) Adjunct
instructor of piano, MidAmerica
Nazarene University, Olathe,
Kan.
Will Braune (B.M.E., ’07, music
education) Music instructor,
Northview Elementary School,
Olathe, Kan.
Nicholas Lee (M.M.E. ’15, music
education) Choral director,
Brighton High School, Brighton,
Colo.
Tyler Capp (D.M.A., composition)
Visiting assistant professor,
Mahidol University College of
Music, Bangkok, Thailand
Brian Clay Luedloff (B.A.
‘92, music) Promotion: Full
professor, University of Northern
Colorado, Greeley
Chin Ting (Patrick) Chan (D.M.A.
’14, composition) Adjunct
instructor, Conservatory of
Music and Dance, University of
Missouri-Kansas City
Ramiro Miranda (D.M.A.,
orchestral conducting) Oneyear sabbatical replacement:
Professor of upper strings,
orchestra conductor, Emporia
State University, Emporia, Kan.
Yu-Fang Chen (D.M.A. ‘13, violin/
viola performance) Assistant
professor of violin and viola,
Washburn University, Topeka, Kan.
Andrew Cole (D.M.A. ’14,
composition) Visiting assistant
professor of music, Lawrence
University, Appleton, Wis.
Joe Presson (B.M.E. ’15, music
education) Director of bands,
Concordia R-II School District, Mo.
Ingrid Stölzel (D.M.A. ’09,
composition; B.M. ’95, music
theory) Assistant professor
of composition, University of
Kansas, Lawrence
Sophia Tegart (D.M.A. ’11, flute
performance) Adjunct instructor
of flute, Pacific University, Forest
Grove, Ore.
Alex Toepfer (M.M. ’10,
saxophone performance)
Director of bands, Shawnee
Mission East High School, Kan.
Emily M. Trapp (M.A. ’15, music)
Piano instructor, Northland
Cathedral School of Music,
North Kansas City, Mo.
Katherine Turner (M.M. ’15,
piano performance) Adjunct
instructor, College of St. Mary,
Omaha, Neb.
Adam Uhlenhake (M.M. ‘09,
saxophone performance) Band
director, Oakwood High School,
Dayton, Ohio
Matthew Vangjel (D.M.A. ’10,
trumpet performance) Professor
of trumpet, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge
Chris Waage (D.M.A. ’14,
trombone performance) Band
director, instructor of music,
Wentworth Military Academy,
Lexington, Mo.
Jacob Wanner (B.M.E. ’15,
music education) Director of
bands, New Salem High School,
New Salem, N.D.
Danielle Warner (D.M.A. ’14,
choral conducting) Director of
choral activities, George Fox
University, Newberg, Ore.
Chris White (D.M.A., trombone
performance) Adjunct instructor
of low brass, William Jewell
College, Liberty, Mo.
William White (B.M.E. ’15,
instrumental music education)
Assistant director of bands,
Bellevue East High School,
Bellevue, Neb.
Dustin Williams (D.M.A.,
trumpet performance) Adjunct
professor of brass, Graceland
University, Lamoni, Iowa
Kerwin Young (M.M. ’15,
B.M. ’11, composition) Music
composition teacher, Tamu Sana
Kanyama Prepatory Academy,
College Park, Ga.
Dominic Zanaboni (B.M.E. ’15,
music education) Director of
bands, Spokane R-VII School
District, Mo.
Christine Damm (D.M.A. ’00,
clarinet performance) Assistant
professor of music, Quincy
University, Quincy, Ill.
Jacob Gotlib (M.M. ’08,
composition) Visiting adjunct
professor of composition,
Marshall University, Huntington,
W.Va.
Lee Hartman (D.M.A. ’09, M.M.
’05, composition) Full-time
instructor of music: music
theory and composition,
University of Central Missouri,
Warrensburg
Ryan Heinlein (D.M.A.,
trombone performance) Adjunct
professor: low brass and music
business, Avila University,
Kansas City, Mo.
Kaitlyn Keck (B.M.E. ’15,
instrumental music education)
Assistant director of bands,
Webb City R-VII School District, Mo.
Tyler Capp (D.M.A., composition) discusses his work with a member of the Kansas City Symphony
on Reading Day.
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and SCI (Student). Two of her
pieces were published by Alliance
Publications Inc., Sinsinawa, Wis.
Daniel Eichenbaum (D.M.A. ’11,
composition) is founder and director
of the West Fork New Music
Festival, Fairmont State University,
W.Va. Maxwell for clarinet and
fixed media was performed at the
Electroacoustic Barn Dance and
the West Fork New Music Festival,
which was broadcast on NPR and
for which he was interviewed on
WBOY TV (NBC). Conservatory
alumna and pianist Kari Johnson
and the University of MissouriSt. Louis commissioned him for
new works, and he attended the
Eastman Theory Pedagogy Institute.
Cast members from the opera Cendrillon by Jules Massenet
CMS National Conference; Call
for Tape Music #1 (Italy); 2014
Seoul International Computer
Music Festival; New York City
Electroacoustic Music Festival 2014;
EMCC’s 5th Annual Composition
Festival; 2014 S.E.M. Ensemble
Workshop; 3rd Annual National
Student Electronic Music Event
2014; and the SCI Region V
Conference, Western Michigan
University.
Nee Chucherdwatanasak (M.M. ’14,
musicology) won the Outstanding
Thesis Award from the School of
Graduate Studies for her thesis,
“Narong Prangcharoen and
Thai Cross-Cultural Fusion in
Contemporary Composition.”
Patrick Alonzo Conway (M.M. ’92,
B.M. ’89, composition), director of
Gamelan Genta Kasturi, received
a 2014–15 Charlotte Street/Urban
Culture Project Studio Performing
Artist Residency on behalf of
the ensemble. He set choruses,
arranged instrumental music
and led/performed in the band
for Gorilla Theatre’s production
of Elektra at The Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, June 2014. The
People’s Liberation Big Band of
Greater Kansas City (PLBB) gave
the premiere of his piece Hats off
to UnRa and performed his piece
Torus, written for Philadelphia
jazz musician Elliott Levin and the
PLBB, as part of Jeff Harshbarger’s
Alternative Jazz Series at the
recordBar, Kansas City, Mo.
Lisa Coons’s (B.M. ’02, composition)
Music Painted from Memory was
included in the score for the short
dramatic film Krisha, directed by
Trey Shults, independently released
in 2014.
Ian Corbett’s (D.M.A. ’05,
composition) book Mic It!
Microphones, Microphone Techniques,
and Their Impact on the Final Mix was
published by FocalPress, June 2015.
He served as recording engineer
for the Mark Lowrey Trio’s Waltzes
and Consolations album, recorded
live at the Majestic Restaurant
and Jazz Club, Kansas City, Mo.,
and released December 2014. He
recorded “antique pop” duo Victor
& Penny live at the Living Room
Theatre, Kansas City, Mo., and was
the mastering engineer on Irritable
Hedgehog’s EMM CD release. He
gave presentations on his published
writings at the Audio Engineering
Society Convention, Los Angeles,
Calif.; Central Region Audio Student
Summit, Webster University, St.
Louis, Mo.; and Montana State
University, Bozeman.
Brad Cox’s (M.A. ’01, music;
B.M. ’95, composition) original
compositions and arrangements
were performed by The People’s
Liberation Big Band of Greater
Kansas City, the Owen/Cox Dance
Group (with choreography by
Jennifer Owen), and Philadelphia
jazz musician Elliott Levin. His
arrangements of the music of
Jacques Brel were featured
on Musical Theater Heritage’s
November 2014 show, “Jacques
Brel: The Life and Music of a
Legend,” Kansas City, Mo.
Amy Dunker (D.M.A. ’00,
composition) was promoted to full
professor at Clarke University,
Dubuque, Iowa. Her music was
performed at the RED NOTE New
Music Festival and Illinois Wesleyan
University by the Concordance
Trio, which, with Lynette Schatz,
also commissioned her for a new
work. She served as a judge on the
composition competitions of the
Northeast Iowa School of Music/
Julien Film Fest (Silent Film),
University of Wisconsin-Platteville
(Orchestra Concerto), CMS National
Conference, IAWM Conference,
Jacob Gotlib (M.M. ’08, composition)
served as a board member for
the Dreamland Arts Center,
Louisville, Ky. At the University of
Louisville, he gave a lecture on his
compositions and the percussion
ensemble performed his Scape
After Louise. His music was
performed at the New Music and
Culture Symposium, Albany, N.Y.;
Northwestern University New Music
Conference, Evanston, Ill.; SCI
Region VI Conference, Kalamazoo,
Mich.; and New Music Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, by ensembles
such as Crossfire Percussion Duo,
Ensemble Dal Niente, Coalescence
Percussion Duo, and Violet
Collective. His book review “Andrew
Smirnov, Sound in Z: Experiments in
Sound and Electronic Music in Early
20th Century Russia” was published
in Computer Music Journal, Winter
2014. He was also awarded a $7,500
Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship
from the Kentucky Arts Council.
Morgan Greenwood (B.M. ’15,
composition) performed of The
Dreaming Body, Dreaming and
Contact at the EMCC 2014 Regional
Conference.
Joshua Hey (B.M. ’10, composition)
was a composer-in-residence
at the ICon Arts Festival, Sibiu,
Romania, and participated in
the SYNTHETIS International
Summer Course for Composers,
Radziejowice, Poland; Composit
New Music Festival, Rieti, Italy; and
MATA Festival’s Uusinta Chamber
Ensemble reading, New York,
N.Y. His mixed septet Rupturous
was a finalist in the International
Kozani Music Seminar Composition
Competition, and is scheduled for
commercial recordings by ICon Arts
and the International Kozani Music
Seminar. He received an AmericanScandinavian Foundation Grant from
The Jane and Aatos Erkko Fund and
a departmental travel grant from
the University of Pennsylvania. He
was commissioned for new works
by the ICon Arts Ensemble, Lyra
Society, and Composit Ensemble
and selected to collaborate as a
Max/MSP programmer for Finnish
composer Antti Auvinen’s upcoming
opera.
Elizabeth Hougland (B.M. ’14,
composition) was a 2014–15
Resident.
Xiao-ou Hu’s (D.M.A. ’10, M.M. ’05,
composition) music was performed
at the Berlin New Music Festival,
Casalmaggiore International Music
Festival, Italy; Central Conservatory
of Music Analysis Conference,
Beijing, and in Shanghai and
Ontario, Canada, by ensembles
such as T’ang Quartet and Borealis
Quartet, and pianists Ya-ou Xie and
Ya-shuangzi Xie. The KitchenerWaterloo Orchestra commissioned
him for Fire, Illusion and Instinct, a
concerto for pipa and orchestra,
which received its premiere in
Ontario, Canada, February 2015.
Ryan Jesperson (D.M.A. ’11,
composition) served as senior
applications instructor at NHUnited
and attended ensemble miseen’s 2014 Composer Workshop
and June in Buffalo 2015. He was
commissioned for Ephemeral
Moments by soprano Elisabeth
Halliday-Quan and won the
Connecticut Composers, Inc./
Hartford Independent Chamber
Orchestra’s call for scores. His
music was performed by Trio 114,
Cuatro Puntos, Bolivia; Asylum
Quartet at the Newport Music
Festival; the Hartford Independent
Chamber Orchestra and various
solo artists.
Richard Johnson’s (D.M.A. ’12,
composition) Anarrhichthys loops,
a multi-media collaboration with
Conservatory alumna Caroline
Miller (B.M. ’10, composition), was
performed at the Fresh Minds
Festival, and his piece Hiram for
clarinet, digital audio and video was
performed at Electroacoustic Barn Dance.
Wesley Johnson (M.M. ’07,
composition) received performances
of his music at the University of
Alabama-Birmingham, St. Jaoua
Chapel, Plouvien, France; and
the CMS South Central Regional
Conference, Fort Smith, Ark. His
“Sail Sea Shanty” arrangement
received 100,000 views on YouTube
in a two-week period and was
performed by Spot the Octopus,
Berkeley University’s alumni a
cappella group, Berkeley, Calif.
He co-presented the article
“Indigenous Semai Folktales
Presented in Digital Media:
Negotiating ‘Authenticity’ and
Innovations through Collaborative
Fusion of Indigenous Agency and
Academic Scholarship” at the First
International Music and Performing
Arts Conference, Malaysia, and
it was published in the book
Sustainability in Music and the
Performing Arts: Heritage, Education
and Performance.
Cody Kauhl (M.M. ’15, composition)
served as treasurer of KcEMA.
He was selected for the 2014
Conference in Athens, Greece, for
which he won a UMKC Conservatory
travel grant to attend. He won
a Transitional Artist Residency
Award from the Kimmel Harding
Nelson Center for the Arts, and an
Inspiration Grant from ArtsKC for
research in infrared motion tracking
and wearable accelerometers.
His music was performed at the
Festival of New American Music,
Sacramento, Calif.; New Horizons
Music Festival, Kirksville, Mo.;
Muestra Internacional de Música
Electroacústica MUSLAB 2014;
Gallery MC, New York, N.Y.;
MANTIS Spring Festival 2015;
EMCC; NoiseFloor 2015; Bang!
Festival 2015; Hot Air Music
Festival 2015; FSU Festival of
New Music 2015; West Virginia
University, Morgantown; Westfield
State University Festival of New
Music, Mass.; and SEAMUS 2014.
It was performed in Kansas City
on KcEMA, UMKC Composers’
Guild and ArtSounds concerts.
He attended St. Mary College’s
Summer Composition Intensive,
Notre Dame, Ind., and the 2014
Thailand International Composition
Festival.
JooPoong Kim’s (D.M.A. ’98, M.M.
’95, composition) paper “Musical
Therapy of Juveniles through
Tailored Instrument Playing and
Active Participation in Music
Ensembles” was published in
the Korean Journal of Correctional
Discourse, Vol. 8, No. 2, December
2015, and he presented it at the
Joint Conference of the 20th
Asian Forum for Corrections,
Seoul, Korea. His paper “A Study
of Configuration Music as a
Compositional Technique and its
Proposal as Future Music (II)” was
published in Journal of the Science
and Practice of Music, Vol. 32,
October 2014. His piece Good Luck
was performed at the 46th Seoul
Composition Music Festival. As head
of the Music Therapy Department at
Kyonggi University, he established
a continuing education program for
music therapy instructors.
Nahyun Kim (D.M.A. ’14,
composition) received a fellowship
to attend the Valencia International
Performance Academy and Festival,
Spain, July 2015, where she
participated in master classes and
forums, presented her work and
received a premiere of her piano
piece Hypochondriasis. Her wind
quintet Insomnia was performed
at the 2014 Women Composers
Festival of Hartford, Conn.
William J. Lackey (D.M.A. ’09,
composition) served as technical
editor for The Musical Art of
Synthesis (Sam McGuire and Nathan
Van der Rest) at Taylor and Francis
Focal Press, and as adjudicator for
the MMTA Composition Competition
and the MTNA Composer
Commissioning Project (Missouri
Finals). He received a 2014
Innovative Program Award given to
the Community Arts Project by the
Community Development Society,
and he co-presented papers at the
2014 CMS National Conference
and the 15th Annual Engagement
Scholarship Consortium
Conference, University of Alberta,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He
was selected as a 2015 Resident
Composer for the Black House
Collective’s Kansas City-Montréal
Exchange, and his screaming electric
whispers for alto saxophone and
electronics was performed on the
KU-MU New Music Exchange.
Xinyin Li’s (D.M.A. ’12, composition)
music was performed by TEMPO
New Music Ensemble at CSU
Northridge; by Lieurance Woodwind
Quintet at the KMEA Conference,
Wichita State University, Kan.; by
bassoonist Stephanie Patterson,
Wichita State University; and at the
SCI National Conference. Her sextet
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Mongolian Impressions received its
U.S. premiere at the 2015 Aspen
Music Festival, where she was
invited to be a guest composer.
Michael McFerron’s (D.M.A. ’00,
M.M. ’96, composition) music was
performed at the NACUSA 2014
National Conference, MusicBYTES,
EMM, New York Electroacoustic
Festival, Lewis University and
the SCI National and Region
V Conferences by Vox Novus
(on its Circuit Bridges Series),
percussionist Andrew Spencer,
the Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Orchestra (Illinois) and others. His
Chris, Whose Glory Fills the Skies
for SATB, piano and brass was
commissioned by the PC Mountain
Chancel Choir, Salt Lake City, Utah.
David D. McIntire (D.M.A. ’09,
composition) was a 2015 UMKC
Alumni Spotlight Award winner,
and he gave a performance/
presentation with his trio Ensemble
of Irreproducible Outcomes (EIO)
at the UMKC Academy’s 2014
Composition Workshop. EIO
performed in Kansas City at The
Brick and The SandBox, and his
compositions were performed
at Montana State University,
Washington State University, Lewis
University and Missouri Western
State University. He served as
producer on two albums released
by his publishing imprint, Irritable
Hedgehog: Jürg Frey: Pianist,
Alone performed by Conservatory
alumnus R. Andrew Lee (D.M.A.
’11, M.M. ’06, piano performance)
and Dave Seidel: ~60Hz, both of
which received positive reviews and
inclusion on several best-of-2014
lists.
Allen Myers (D.M.A. ’03,
composition) gave a guest lecture
at the Conservatory on the topic
“Licensing Your Music for TV, Film
and Advertising.” His music was
released by Hollywood Trax (Runway
Strut on the CD Fashion Dance, Vol.
3) and on the Noise Cloud label
for Pacifica Music (“Relaxin’” and
“Holiday Overture”). His “Carefree
Latin Memories” was featured on
the CBS television show Friends
with Better Lives. The Allen Myers
Jazz Orchestra performed at the
American Jazz Museum in Kansas
City, Mo., June 2014.
Richard Nangle (M.M. ’94,
composition) received an American
Musicological Society professional
development travel grant to attend
its annual meeting, Milwaukee,
Wis., November 2014, where he
presented his paper “’Ideal und
Wirklichkeit’: Hanns Eisler’s Later
Settings of Tucholsky.”
Nick Omiccioli (D.M.A. ’14, M.M.
’09, composition) was a winner of
the RED NOTE New Music Festival
Composition Competition, TEMPO
New Music Ensemble’s Composition
Competition, and Boston New
Music Initiative’s Call for Scores,
and was nominated for New Voices
from the New World Symphony,
San Francisco Symphony, and
Boosey & Hawkes. He received
the Alumni Achievement Award
from Heidelberg University (where
he was a visiting composer on
its New Music Festival), and was
a composition fellow at the 2015
Atlantic Music Festival and an
artist-in-residence at Willapa Bay.
His music was performed by the
Mizzou New Music Ensemble,
Curious Chamber Players, Southern
Maine Chamber Singers, nu
ensemble, COSMOS Trio, Harmonia
Chamber Singers, ShoutHouse,
Cantori Chorale and California
Earplay; in Stockholm, Montréal,
New York City (Carnegie Hall and
The DiMenna Center), San Francisco
(ODC Theater), across New England,
at Ohio State University and the
University of Maryland; and on the
2014 Kansas City Fringe Festival,
American Harp Society’s Harp
Carnivale 2014 and SCI’s Region
VIII Conference. He was a visiting
composer at the University of
North Carolina’s School of the
Arts, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, and University of
Missouri-Columbia. His push/
pull was featured on I Care If You
Listen’s Spring 2014 Mixtape, and
he was commissioned by Ensemble
Paramirabo of Montréal.
Cooper Ottum (M.M. ’15,
composition) was a finalist in
the 2015 UMKC Chamber Music
Composition Competition with
Breathe In for saxophone quartet,
and was selected for June in
Buffalo 2014, which included
a performance of his Prelude
and Fugue by Ensemble Signal.
He was commissioned to write
Hawaii Aloha for the Century High
School Marching Band, which was
performed at the Prince Kuhio
Parade, Honolulu, Hawaii. He
was commissioned to write full
competitive marching band
shows for Century and Liberty High
Schools of Hillsboro, Ore.
Brian Padavic (M.M. ’12,
composition) was a featured
artist at the 2015 Kansas City
Bass Workshop, and performed
in the Kansas City area with his
trio Ensemble of Irreproducible
Outcomes (EIO), Black House
Collective, Derin, Anna Lee and
the Lucky So & Sos, Mid America
Freedom Band, and more. He
gave a performance/presentation
with EIO at the UMKC Academy’s
2014 Composition Workshop,
and he received the 2014 Lighton
International Artist Exchange
Program Grant and an ArtsKC
Inspiration Grant for three months
of private study in France with
renowned bassist-composer
François Rabbath. His master’s
thesis, A Tale of Two Rabbys, was
performed on the ConservatoryKCAI series ArtSounds, February 2014.
Narong Prangcharoen (D.M.A.
’10, composition) was the
Conservatory’s 2015 Alumni
Achievement Award winner. His
piece Dialogue, commissioned by
the Bach Aria Soloists, received
its premiere in February 2015 at
Village Presbyterian Church, Prairie
Village, Kan. He served on the
Artistic Committee of the Beijing
Modern Music Festival, and his
music was performed in the United
States; Canada; Vienna, Austria;
Singapore; China; and Thailand.
He was commissioned for new
works and performances by the
Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the
Designated Areas for Sustainable
Tourism Administration, the Barlow
Endowment for Music Composition
for “The President’s Own” United
States Marine Band, cellist Alvin
Wong, Conservatory alumnus
and pianist Christopher Janwong
McKiggin, flutist Luisa Sello and the
Bangkok Choral Society.
Leah Sproul Pulatie (D.M.A. ’14,
composition) was commissioned by
Conservatory student David Dimmit
(D.M.A., euphonium performance)
for a new work for euphonium and
piano, and her Songs of Sensibility
was included on I Care If You
Listen’s Fall 2014 Mixtape.
Nate Riebli (M.M. ’09, composition)
served as music director for the
Gravenstein Mandolin Ensemble
and productions of Spamalot (Santa
Rosa Junior College), The Addams
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Family (6th Street Playhouse)
and The Pirates of Penzance
(Summerfield Waldorf). As music
director for 6th Street Playhouse’s
production of Grease, he was
nominated for a Theatre Bay Area
Award for Outstanding Achievement
in Music Direction and a San
Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics
Circle Award for Music Direction. He
composed music for six episodes
of Marriage Boot Camp: Bridezillas
(WE tv).
Jonathan Robertson (M.M. ’10,
composition) served as sound
designer for the Unicorn Theatre’s
fall 2014 production of Bad Jews.
The Audio Cart, a play that he
produced and directed, appeared
on the 2014 Kansas City Fringe
Festival.
Timothy Roy (M.M. ’14, composition)
was selected as alternate associate
artist at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts and was a guest speaker for
Missouri Western State University’s
Audio Recording II class. His piece
Ghosts of Cluny was performed at
Sweet Thunder Music Festival, San
Francisco, Calif.; and his Wunderkind
was performed as part of an
Internet broadcast of winning works
from the 6th Destellos Competition,
electrotheque.com. His chamber
ensemble piece Archistrategos was
read and recorded by Conservatory
graduate students.
Ingrid Stölzel (D.M.A. ’09,
composition; B.M. ’95, music
theory) was selected for the 2014
Contemporary Japanese and
American Music and the Parma
Music Festival, and was a winner of
the New Music Conflagration Call
for Scores and the 2015 Missouri
State University Composition
Festival. Her SATB choir piece
Into Being was published in the
PROJECT : ENCORE™ catalog. Her
music was performed by Alejandro
Castillo and Ferran Carceller
Amoros, Barcelona, Spain; Schola
Cantorum on Hudson, New York,
N.Y.; Wakarusa Trio, Overland Park,
Kan.; Cayuga Chamber Orchestra,
Ithaca, N.Y.; and Conservatory
alumnus Stanislav Ioudenitch,
Kauffman Center for the Performing
Arts, Kansas City, Mo.; and was
broadcast on WBRB’s Classical
Discoveries, Princeton, N.J., and
Kansas Public Radio. She served as
an associate editor for International
Journal of Contemporary
Composition, published by the
International Association for
Academic Research.
EMM, and Electroacoustic Barn
Dance.
Ben Stonaker (M.M. ’07,
composition) conducted the world
premiere of his Chamber Concerto,
performed by the UT-Austin New
Music Ensemble, November 2014.
Two other world premieres of his
music took place: Sentimental
Reminiscences at the 2014 ICA
ClarinetFest, Baton Rouge, La.
(commissioned by Mary Alice
Druhan); and Past in Flood for
woodwind quintet and piano at
the Bennington Chamber Music
Conference, where he was a
Composition Fellow. Iridium Quartet
included his Saxophone Quartet No.
3 on its CD Into Xylonia, Blue Griffin
Recording, Inc., November 2014,
made possible by the Aaron Copland
Recording Fund.
Kerwin Young (M.M. ’15, B.M. ’11,
composition) composed music for
KCPT’s Ruckus and Arts Upload,
and held composer residencies
with Clark Atlanta University and
Chicago Modern Orchestra Project,
which gave premieres of two of his
compositions. He produced and
composed for 2014 albums by J.E.
Chapman, Kasuf and the Mazz
Muvement and Chosen Voice KC;
and is slated to do so for 2015–16
albums by Muddy Waters Jr., Black
Linen, Mattiel Brown, Ruby Woo,
Sophia and Public Enemy. He is
a staff recording producer and
arranger at Randy Michael and
Jonah Swilley’s InCrowd recording
label in Atlanta. He also initiated
a concert series consortium with
Sophia Martinson and Reginald R.
Robinson, a MacArthur Fellow. His
piece Theme from the Motion Picture
“It Happened in January” received its
premiere by Jeff Nielsen at the 2014
Southwest Horn Convention, San
Diego, Calif.
Wang A Mao (D.M.A. ’15,
composition) won the
Conservatory’s 2014 Gerald
Kemner Prize for Orchestral
her piece Impressions of Beijing
Opera, and was Honorable Mention
in the 2014 Gerald Kemner Prize
for Wind Ensemble Composition
Competition. Conservatory student
Hui Yao (D.M.A., piano performance)
performed Wang’s Shades of
Chinese Essence at the MMTA
Commissioned Composer Concert
at the University of MissouriColumbia, November 2014. She was
selected as one of six composer
fellows for The Intimacy of Creativity
2015 with her piano-cello duet
Returning Home, Hong Kong.
Xi Wang (M.M. ’03, composition)
enjoyed performances of two of her
pieces commissioned by Voices of
Change, Dallas’ professional new
music ensemble, in March 2015:
Echo. Poem. Image (composed in
2010) and Tibet Fantasia (world
premiere).
Alannah Garnier (M.M., vocal performance)
Samuel Wells (B.M. ’12,
composition; B.M. ’12, trumpet
performance) was a guest artist
and composer at the 2014 Montana
State University Brass Weekend,
Feb. 2014; National Student
Electronic Music Events, University
of Southern Georgia, February 2014;
University of Western Ontario, April
2014; and the University of Western
Michigan, April 2014. His music was
performed at these events, and also
the SEAMUS National Conference,
New York Electronic Music Festival,
The Ensemble of Irreproducible
Outcomes (David McIntire, D.M.A.
’09, composition; Ryan Oldham,
D.M.A. ’08, composition; and Brian
Padavic, M.M. ’12, composition)
released its debut album Foggy,
Foggy Dew on McIntire’s imprint
Irritable Hedgehog, February 2015.
DANCE
Jane Gotch (dance) was a 2014–15
Resident.
Appie Peterson (B.F.A. ’14, dance;
B.S. ’14, chemistry) performed in
the San Diego Ballet’s production
of The Nutcracker, December 2014,
during her first season with the company.
Hannah Studebaker (B.F.A.
’15, dance) performed in the
Gregory Hancock Dance Theatre’s
production of La caza azul, a musical
about the life of Mexican artist Frida
Kahlo, Carmel, Ind., June 2015.
Molly Wagner (B.F.A. ’07, dance)
performed the title role in the
Kansas City Ballet’s Giselle, May 2015.
Four recent dance alumni and one
current student were invited to
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perform in the Kansas City Ballet’s
annual tradition, The Nutcracker:
Caroline Fogg (B.F.A. ’15, dance),
Holly Marcin (B.F.A., dance),
Branson Bice (B.F.A. ’15, dance),
Alexis Borth (B.F.A. ’15, dance),
and Hannah Studebaker (B.F.A. ’15,
dance).
INSTRUMENTAL
STUDIES
Jonathan Borja (D.M.A. ’10, M.M.
’05, flute performance; M.M. ’10,
musicology) and Kristín Jónína
Taylor (M.M. ’99, B.M. ’97, piano
performance) released their
collaborative album Thorkell
Sigurbjörnsson: Short Stories for
Flute and Piano on Smekkleysa
Records, January 2015.
Matthew Haislip (D.M.A. ‘15,
horn performance) had his set of
original etudes for horn published
by BrownWood Publishing, August
2015.
Christopher Koch (M.M. ‘96,
conducting; M.M. ‘96, flute
performance) was appointed
music director of the Springfield
Regional Opera. He is also music
director of the Springfield-Drury
Civic Orchestra and an associate
professor of music at Drury
University, Springfield, Mo.
Mark Lauer (B.M. ’15, bassoon
performance) was a finalist in the
Conservatory’s 2015 Concerto/
Aria Competition and was awarded
a Kansas City Musical Club
Scholarship.
Ryan McLouth (M.M. ’08, guitar
assistant director of the Center
for Faith and Service, Central
Methodist University, Fayette, Mo.,
where he leads the student Praise
Band program, implements music
ministry events for students, and more.
Michael O’Brien (B.M. ’15, flute
performance) won the MTNA Young
Artist Woodwind Competition,
Missouri State Round, Columbia,
Mo., November 2014, and went on
to become a National Finalist after
winning the West Central Divisional
Round, Fargo, N.D., January 2015.
Hannah Porter Occeña (B.M.
’11, flute performance) won the
principal flute position in the Topeka
Symphony Orchestra.
Grant Smiley (B.M. ’13, trumpet
performance) won first place in the
Orchestral Excerpts Competition
at the 2015 International Trumpet
Guild Conference.
new album titled Shades of Jade:
Fingerprinted Memories, Pt: I, October 2014.
Tyler Vahldick (B.M. ’07, trombone
principal trombonist of Michigan
Opera Theatre, Detroit.
KEYBOARD
Sandra Fernández Vizcaíno (D.M.A.
’15, flute performance) was a
finalist in the Conservatory’s 2015
Concerto/Aria Competition.
JAZZ STUDIES
Clint Ashlock (M.M. ’06,
composition; M.A. ’06, music) was
a featured soloist at the Montreux
and Vienne Jazz Festivals. He also
appeared as a guest soloist on
the premiere of Dan Gailey’s New
Kansas City Suite at the Kauffman
Center for the Performing Arts,
Kansas City, Mo., and released The
Return, an album of his original jazz compositions.
Hunter Long (B.M. ’07, jazz and
studio music), founder and manager
of Black House Collective, received
a 2014–15 Charlotte Street/Urban
Culture Project Studio Performing
Artist Residency on behalf of the
ensemble.
Jim Mair (M.A. ’90, music),
director of the Kansas City Kansas
Community College Blue Devil Jazz
Band, performed with his band at
the Havana Jazz Festival, Cuba,
November 2014.
Hermon Mehari (B.M. ’10, jazz and
studio music) was a semifinalist in
the Thelonious Monk Institute of
Jazz’s 2014 Trumpet Competition
and was featured in an interview
in the February 2015 issue of 435
Magazine.
Dominique Sanders (music
education, string bass) released a
new album titled A True Story Based
On… on Innate Sounds in 2015. The
album was reviewed on KCUR and
features several Conservatory jazz
alumni including Andrew Ouellette,
Steve Lambert, Hermon Mehari
and Ryan Lee, and also adjunct
jazz guitar faculty member Danny
Embrey.
Josh Williams (B.M. ’12, jazz
studies) and his band Shades of
Jade independently released a
Halie Augustus (M.M. ’15, piano
performance) won the MTNA
Collegiate: Piano (Young Artist)
Competition, Columbia, Mo.,
November 2014, and went on to
be named an Alternate in the West
Central Divisional Round, Fargo,
N.D., January 2015.
Richard Jeric (A.C. ’15, piano
performance) received the
Outstanding Graduate Teaching
Assistant Award and performed
at the 2015 MTNA National
Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., March 2015.
Jessica Koebbe (D.M.A. ’15, piano
chamber coordinator for the
Midwest Chamber Ensemble
and maintains an active touring
schedule at various venues and
universities around the United
States.
Kairy Koshoeva (D.M.A. ’10, piano
performance) is the recipient of the
2015 Berta Eisberg Award, given
by the Kansas City Alumni Chapter
of Mu Phi Epsilon International
Professional Music Fraternity, for
her work with the Owen/Cox Dance
Group in its performances of Bach's
Goldberg Variations, June 2013 and
Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis, June
2015.
R. Andrew Lee (D.M.A. ’11, M.M.
’06, piano performance) was a 2015
UMKC Alumni Spotlight Award
winner. He released Jay Batzner: as
if to each other, a CD of Conservatory
alumnus Jay Batzner’s (D.M.A. ‘06,
composition) music, on alumnus
David McIntire’s imprint Irritable
Hedgehog, July 2015.
Nicholas Phillips (D.M.A. ‘07, piano
performance) won a 2015 American
Music Project grant.
Emily Trapp (M.A. ’15, music)
won the MMTA Collegiate: Piano
(Graduate) Competition, Columbia,
Mo., November 2014.
Katherine Turner (M.M. ’15,
piano performance) attended the
Maccagno Piano Days Festival, Italy,
July 2015.
MASTER CLASSES
Stephanie Yu (M.M. ’15, piano
performance) received a Graduate
Assistance Fund Award from the
UMKC Women’s Council to attend
Piano Texas 2015: Frédéric Chopin
“The Poet of the Piano” and the
6th Texas State International Piano
Festival.
Karen Zorn (M.M. ’88, piano
performance) was named one of
Musical America’s Professionals of
the Year in its annual “Profiles in
Courage” report.
MASTER CLASSES AND VISITING
ARTISTS, 2014–15
Visiting artists and master classes
are important components
of Conservatory students’
experiences. This past year
included a roster of excellence.
The American Horn Quartet
EDUCATION/MUSIC
THERAPY
Peter Anastos, dance
Steven Franco Santiago (M.A.
’15, music therapy) accepted an
internship at the Department of
State Hospitals, Forensic Mental
Health Facility, Atascadero, Calif.
Kirven Boyd, Alvin Ailey, dance
VOICE
Elizabeth Crawford, clarinet
Christopher Carbin (B.M. ’15, vocal
performance) performed at the
Austin Chamber Music Festival,
Texas, and the Silver Lake Chamber
Music Festival, Barnard, Vt.,
summer 2015.
Ariel Quartet
Inci Bashar, voice
Boston Brass Quintet
Dann Coakwell, vocal
John Corigliano and Mark Adamo,
composers
Donald Crockett, composer
Robert Duke, educator
Noa Even, saxophone
Ronni Favors, Alvin Ailey, dance
Wesley Ferreira, clarinet
Sarah Frisof, flute, and Ellen
Bottorff, piano
Kyle Gann, composer and
musicologist
Alon Goldstein, piano
Harlem Quartet
Icarus Saxophone Quartet of the
399th Army Band
Imani Winds
Miguel Zenón Quartet
• Catherine Payne, flute
Mirari Brass Quintet
• Robert Ward, horn
Cory Mixdorf, trombone, and
Miroslava Panayotova, piano
• Russ deLuna, oboe
Victoria Morgan, dance
John O’Conor, piano
Carol Oja, musicologist
Tiffany Blake Oliver, voice
John Owings, piano
• Jacob Nissly, percussion
• Timothy Higgins, trombone
• Jeff Biancalana, trumpet
• Jonathan Vinocour, viola
• Jeremy Constant, violin
George Palton, tuba
“The President’s Own” United
States Marine Band
Pamela Mia Paul, piano
Tianjin Conservatory, dance
Philharmonia Quartett Berlin
• Hongyun Wang
Presidio Brass
• Da Wang
Joe Lulloff, saxophone
Adam Rainey, bass trombone
• Ye Li
Gayle Sherwood Magee,
musicologist
Roomful of Teeth
• Huiyu Zhang
San Francisco Symphony
Frank Weinstock, piano
John Manning, tuba, and Alan
Huckleberry, piano
• Scott Pingel, bass
MUCS(sel) Jarrod Williams, tuba
• Stephen Paulson, bassoon
Robert Young, saxophone
David Justin, dance
Kansas City Symphony Reading Day
R. Andrew Lee, piano
Lowell Liebermann, piano and
composer
Melissa Martiros, music pedagogy
David McIntire, composer
• Amos Yang, cello
• Jerome Simas, clarinet
Rachael Colman (M.M. ’15, vocal
performance) was awarded a
Kansas City Musical Club
Scholarship.
Kristin Griffeath (D.M.A. ’11,
vocal performance; M.M. ’11,
musicology) delivered a lecture to
UMKC’s Cockefair Annual Luncheon
members, August 2014, on the
subject of World War I’s music used
to propagandize the war to the
American public and as a morale
weapon for our troops. She and
tenor Robin Griffeath (D.M.A. ’11,
vocal performance) performed a few
of the songs.
William Krusemark (D.M.A. ’89,
vocal performance) was named an
inaugural recipient of the Kansas
Independent College Association
(KICA) Faculty of Distinction Award.
Bryan Pinkall (D.M.A. ’13, vocal
performance), with his crew
members, was nominated for
several prime-time Emmy Awards
for their work on the opening
ceremony of the February 2014 XXII
Winter Olympics, Sochi, Russia.
Ariel Quartet, Master Class, Jan. 2015
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MASTER CLASSES
MASTER CLASSES
Jerome Simas, clarinet, San Francisco Symphony, Master
Class, Nov. 2014
Boston Brass Quintet, Master Class, Feb. 2015
Composer Lowell Liebermann, Master Class, Jan. 2015
Kirven Boyd, dance, Alvin Ailey, Master Class, Oct. 2014
Students at Kansas City Symphony Reading Day, April 2015
Victoria Morgan, dance, Master Class,
Feb. 2015
Imani Winds, Master Class, Oct. 2014
Amos Yang, cello, San Francisco Symphony, Master Class, Nov. 2014
Roomful of Teeth, Master Class, Sept. 2014
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STUDENT NEWS
STUDENTS FIND THEIR
CREATIVE VOICES
COMPOSITION/MUSIC THEORY/
MUSICOLOGY
Tatev Amiryan (D.M.A., composition) gave a lecture-recital on
her piece Ortus at the Hildegard Festival of Women in the Arts,
California State University, Stanislaus, March 2015. She held a
residency at Southern Connecticut State University, April 2015,
which included a series of lecture-recitals featuring Armenian
music in collaboration with soprano Anna Hayrapetyan, in
commemoration of the centenary of the Armenian Genocide.
Her piano piece Waiting for the Dawn was performed at Handel
Hall, Halle, Germany, May 2015. She received a fellowship to
attend the Valencia International Performance Academy and
Festival, Spain, July 2015, where she participated in master
classes, forums, and more; presented her work; and received
a premiere. Her piano piece Remembrance was performed by
Takahiro Akiba, Tamaha-Ginza Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
Christina Butera (D.M.A, composition) received a Graduate
Assistance Fund Award from the UMKC Women’s Council
to attend the 2014 Electroacoustic Barn Dance and won
second place in the 2015 UMKC Chamber Music Composition
Competition with Animals of Habit for saxophone quartet. Her
music was performed at the GAMMA-UT Conference, Austin,
Texas, EMM and Electroacoustic Barn Dance. She presented
a research paper on spectralism at the 2014 CMS National
Conference, and she attended the 2014 Thailand International
Composition Festival.
Tyler Capp (D.M.A., composition) won a Copland House
Residency Award, and also held residencies at the Virginia
Center for the Creative Arts, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for
the Arts, and highSCORE Festival, Pavia, Italy. He attended the
CMS Northeast Regional Conference, where he won the Elliot
S. Schwartz Student Composition Award and was a finalist in
the Thailand International Composition Festival Competition.
His Reception and Emergence was performed at the Graduate
Student Conference, Bowling Green State University, and
he received commissions from the UC Davis Composition
Workshop for Sō Percussion and from 6wire ensemble.
Kenneth Carter (B.M., composition) was a participating
composer in the Conservatory’s Co(mp)llaborations dance
concert. He had pieces used in a short video biography
(Lithuania) and an online audio-drama, and was selected for a
reading by the Conservatory Orchestra. He was commissioned
to compose music for the short films Lullaby and Marooned and
to produce and record music for a music video.
John Chittum (D.M.A., composition) served as a systems
software engineer/release engineer at Akamai Technology,
N.Y., and as recording engineer and assistant to Jean-Baptiste
Barrier at the Atlantic Music Festival. His Failure of Semiotricracy
was performed by the Ghettoblaster Project, led by Russ
Zokaites, Enschede, Netherlands, and at Biennial International
Electroacoustic Music Festival, Brooklyn College, N.Y., and
Electroacoustic Barn Dance. He recorded and edited an album
at Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden, which was
released February 2015.
Dustin Shrum (M.A., music), UMKC Jazz Night at the Folly, March 2015
Jiyoun Chung (D.M.A., composition) was a semi-finalist in The
American Prize in Composition (Chamber Music) and a finalist
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in the PUBLIQ Access Composition
Competition and 2014 Birmingham
New Music Festival, Birmingham
Art Music Alliance, and was
selected for the Oregon Bach
Festival Composers Symposium.
She won the Genevieve G. Hail
Award from the UMKC Women’s
Council and a UMKC Graduate
School Travel Fund Award. She
performed the piano part on the
Midwest premiere of Elliott Carter’s
A Mirror on Which to Dwell, Musica
Nova concert, UMKC, April 2014.
Philip DeWalt (D.M.A., composition)
was a finalist in the 2015 UMKC
Chamber Music Composition
Competition with Seven Marches
for saxophone quartet. His Spanish
Dagger for mandolin orchestra won
the Austin Mandolin Orchestra’s
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Competition. His Trifecta received
its premiere by Robert Margo at the
annual convention of the Classical
Mandolin Society of America,
Portland, Ore. Margo, also principal
mandola for the New American
Mandolin Ensemble, commissioned
him for a work for solo mandolin.
AJ Harbison (M.M., composition)
served as an audio recording
assistant at the Conservatory
and as worship leader at Wornall
Road Baptist Church, Kansas City,
Mo. His music was performed in
Kansas City at the Folly Theater
(Kansas City Women’s Chorus,
conducted by Conservatory student
Michael Robert Patch), City Stage
at Union Station (pianist Lamar
Sims to choreography by Stephanie
Whittler), and The SandBox
(Shannon McCranor, horn), and
in St. Paul, Minn., by The Singers
(conducted by Matthew Culloton,
at the Nativity of Our Lord Catholic
Church). He was commissioned
for a collaborative piece with a
Kansas City choreographer for the
Charlotte Street Foundation’s Open
Studios event.
Dillon Henry (D.M.A., composition)
was a winner in the Vox Novus
15 Minutes of Fame Competition,
resulting in a performance by New
Thread Quartet, and attended the
highSCORE Music Festival, Pavia,
Italy. His music was also performed
by the University of Michigan
Symphony Orchestra.
Aaron Hill (B.M., composition) was
involved with the Gateway Festival
Orchestra as founding chair of
the programming committee
and a member of the marketing/
development committee, initiating
a social media presence for
the organization. At St. Charles
Community College, Cottleville,
Mo., he performed as violinist
in its production of Dirty Rotten
Scoundrels and was a guest lecturer
in its Music Appreciation class on
the subject of Richard Wagner and
his influence on modern music. He
received commissions from pianist
Alexander Kusztyk for Adagio
and from St. Charles Community
College during its Opera Workshop
for Conversations with A Dream,
the premiere of which he also
conducted. He also presented the
first movement of his piece String
Serenade during Robert Rodriguez’s
master class at the Conservatory.
Best Music Submission Award
(Asia and Oceania) at the 2014
Conference, Athens, Greece. His
Whiskey-Powered Tyrannosaurus Rex
for trombone and piano received
its U.S. premiere at the USF New
Music Festival, Tampa, Fla., and
his S…s…..Sound…s…..s…..s…
cream!!! received its premiere at
Max Extravaganza, UMKC. His
“FYA,” a collaborative pop-rock
song produced by Bobby Swingers
and Cio-Cio San & The Butterflies,
was released in Thailand. He
collaborated with visual artists
Emily Kenyon, Hannah Carr
and Molly Garrett on the short
film Phantasmagoria, and radio
broadcasts of his music were heard
in London, Paris and online.
Derek Jenkins (D.M.A.,
composition) served as the
student representative for College
Music Society’s Great Plains
Chapter, Liberty, Mo. He was
accepted to several conferences:
CME International Conferences,
Stockholm, Sweden, and Helsinki,
Finland; SCI Region VI (Arkadelphia,
Ark.) and Region V (Kalamazoo,
Mich.); CMS conferences of the
Southern (Columbus, Miss.),
Great Lakes (Fargo, N.D.), Rocky
Mountain (Denver, Colo.), and
Pacific Northwest (Missoula,
Mont.) Chapters; and the NASA
Conference, Champaign, Ill.
His music was performed at
the Midwest Clinic by the Youth
Symphony of Kansas City; the
Conservatory’s Wind Symphony,
Wind Ensemble, Saxophone
Ensemble, and Musica Nova; the
Wind Symphonies of Northern
Arizona University and Western
Michigan University; and the
Joseph Wytko Saxophone Quartet;
and his Quintet for Winds was
performed in Austria. He was a
visiting guest composer at Northern
Arizona University. He furthered
his composition studies with Peter
Graham at the University of Salford,
Manchester, England, and was
commissioned for new works by the
Youth Symphony of Kansas City and
the Wind Ensembles of the UMKC
Conservatory and University of
Tennessee at Martin.
Ted King-Smith (D.M.A.,
composition) won third place
for his piece Manhattan in the
student division of The American
Prize in Composition (Band/
Wind Ensemble). His music was
performed at the NASA Conference,
Root Signals Electronic Music
Festival and the New Horizons
Festival. The Conservatory
Wind Symphony performed his
Crossroads Fanfare during the
Conservatory’s Crescendo 2014,
Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for
the Performing Arts. His Ping was
recorded by the Alloy Saxophone
Quartet, Seattle, Wash., released
in 2015.
Arsid Ketjuntra (D.M.A.,
composition) was composer-inresidence at the Japan-America
Institute for New Music. His Dance
Music 020 Not Bad for guitars,
synthesizer and tape received the
Steven Landis’s (D.M.A.,
composition) piece Thronateeska,
composed about the Flint River,
received its premiere by the
Albany Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Claire Fox Hillard,
February 2015. He won first place
in the 2015 UMKC Chamber Music
SWARM!!! for saxophone quartet.
He taught composition at Salem
College, Winston-Salem, N.C.,
and double bass and composition
at the Music Academy of North
Carolina. He served as a counselor
at the University of North Carolina
at Greensboro’s (UNCG) Summer
Music Camp, and is a GTA and
Composers in the Schools Fellow
at the Conservatory. Three of his
pieces were performed by Trio
Chymera at the NASA Conference,
and he also received performances
of Hemingway was a bomb maker
by UNCG’s new music ensemble
Present Continuous at UNCG,
Winthrop University and Georgia
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Gala (his commission for Ravenfeather).
He was selected as a composer-inresidence at the Fresh Inc. Festival and
the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and he
won an ASCAP Plus Award.
Southern University. He is a
founding member of new music
ensemble COLLAPSS (COLLective
for hAPpy SoundS), and performed
on its seasons, Southeastern U.S.
tour and the Greensboro Fringe
Festival, which included his Thinking
About How We Just Lost Contact
on the set lists. Dr. Andrew Smith
commissioned Landis for a multimovement solo for tuba, which
received its premiere in spring
2015. He played bass in the Albany
Symphony (principal), Gainesville
Orchestra (guest principal) and
Valdosta Symphony.
Scott Steele (M.M., composition) cofounded FuseBox New Music, a Kansas
City-based composer collective, and
served as assistant director of Musica
Nova at the Conservatory. His The
Avoidance of a Word was performed by
the Panta Rhei New Music Collective at
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and
Conversations w/Ligeti and Heidegger, (&
Mom in the background) was featured
on Composers Circle and performed
by Trillium Ensemble at American
University, March 2015. Without Fear of
Wind or Vertigo received its premiere
by Hamiruge as part of its Ion Project,
and Nine Coins was performed in
Glenn Brook, N.H., and at EMCC at
the University of Iowa. Duo Scordatura
commissioned him for a violin and
viola duet for its next CD, and FuseBox
commissioned him for a flute-violaharp trio. His Su Counterpoint was
recorded by clarinetist Jun Qian for his
CD West Meets East, to be released on
Albany Records.
Elbert Liu (D.M.A., composition)
won the Conservatory’s 2014 Gerald
Kemner Prize for Wind Ensemble
his piece A Particle-ar Theory.
He attended the 2014 Atlantic
Music Festival, where his piece
Tetranity Mindloggers was read by
the AMF Orchestra and Elecphilia
was performed by the AMF
Contemporary Ensemble. His
music was performed by pianist
Miki Sawada, violinist Julia Glenn,
the UMKC Composers’ Guild, at the
EMCC 2014 Regional Conference,
and set to choreography by recent
Conservatory alumnus Branson
Bice.
Zane H. Winter (M.M., composition)
served as president of the Composers’
Guild at the Conservatory. He was a
finalist for a New Music USA project
grant, and was commissioned for
two new pieces: Were you there? for
soprano and guitar and Drone Phrases
for three cellos.
Charles Luttrell (M.M.,
composition) was a finalist with his
Woodwind Quintet No. 1 (“Tragic”) in
the UWRF Composition Competition
and Workshop, where he also gave
a presentation on his Saxophone
Quartet No. 1 and Messiaen’s
modes of limited transposition. He
was commissioned for new works
by flutist Elaine Welch (Rippling
Wind), Daniel Loudenback (Rain
Sketches for alto saxophone and
piano), and Bert Bostic and the
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church Choir
(Glorious Light for SATB choir and piano).
Shao Zheng’s (D.M.A., composition)
Xiao Yao You (Symphonic Overture) was
selected by the China National Center
of the Performing Arts for its Young
Composer Programme.
Zhou Jing’s (D.M.A., composition) Four
Gentlemen Among Flowers for clarinet
and guzheng was commissioned by
clarinetist Jun Qian for his album East
Meets West, Vol. II (Albany Records) and
won Honorable Mention for the IAWM
Libby Larsen Prize. It was performed
at UMKC in both its clarinet-guzheng
duet and flute-clarinet-guzheng trio versions.
Brian Lynn (D.M.A., composition)
reactivated his Missouri teaching
certificate in K–12 vocal music, with
an endorsement in instrumental
music.
Daniel Morel (D.M.A., composition)
served as executive director of the
Hartford Independent Chamber
Orchestra and director of the
Women Composers Festival of
Hartford, Conn. His music was
performed at NACUSA’s annual
conference, the Fresh Inc. Festival
(Kenosha, Wis.) and at Western
Michigan University’s Dance Winter
Prometheus, choreography by Ronald Tice
One current composition student
and two recent alumni had works
performed in a reading session by the
Kansas City Symphony in Helzberg
Hall at the Kauffman Center for the
Performing Arts, April 2015: Arsid
Ketjuntra (D.M.A., composition), Up
on the Hill, Below the Clouds; Cooper
Ottum (M.M. ’15, composition), Single
Point Perspective; and Wang A Mao
(D.M.A. ’15, composition), Tibetan
Tableaux.
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DANCE
Twenty-nine Conservatory dance
students were selected to perform Alvin
Ailey’s Memoria with the Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theater at the Kauffman
Center for the Performing Arts, October 2014.
INSTRUMENTAL STUDIES
Jeff Barbee (D.M.A., euphonium
performance) won the MMTA State
Honors Auditions: Brass (Graduate),
Columbia, Mo., November 2014.
David Dimmit (D.M.A., euphonium
performance) was a winner of the
Conservatory’s 2015 Concerto/Aria
Competition.
Adam Fontana (D.M.A., wind conducting)
presented his research on Stanisław
Skrowaczewski’s piece Music for Winds
at the 2015 CBDNA National Conference,
Nashville, Tenn.
Julia Janda (P.C., clarinet performance)
attended the MasterWorks Music
Festival, Winona Lake, Ind., June–July
2015.
Qizhen Liu (D.M.A., cello performance)
won the MTNA Young Artist String
Competition, Missouri State Round,
Columbia, Mo., November 2014, was
a finalist in the Conservatory’s 2015
Concerto/Aria Competition, was awarded
a Kansas City Musical Club Scholarship,
and received a Graduate Assistance Fund
Award from the UMKC Women’s Council
to participate in the 2015 Tchaikovsky
International Competition.
Yee Ling Elaine Ng (D.M.A., violin
Competition.
Catherine Ramos (D.M.A., cello
Assistance Fund Award from the UMKC
Women’s Council for travel to be a
replacement faculty member at Northern
Arizona University, Flagstaff, April–May
2015.
Scott Rogers (M.M., euphonium
performance) was named Runner-Up
in the MMTA State Honors Auditions:
Brass (Graduate), Columbia, Mo., November 2014.
Michael O’Brien (P.C., flute performance)
William Shaltis (D.M.A., percussion
performance) was selected to present his
research on teaching timpani tuning for
high school and early college at Midwest
Clinic, December 2015.
STUDENT NEWS
Luis Víquez’s (D.M.A., orchestral
conducting) article about Costa Rican
symphonic music was published in the
College Orchestra Director’s Association
Journal, Vol. VII, page 30.
Mention in the MTNA Chamber
Music (Winds) Competition,
Columbia, Mo., November 2014.
Chris White (D.M.A., trombone
performance) served as principal
trombone in the Liberty (Mo.) Symphony
and was a winner of the Conservatory’s
2015 Concerto/Aria Competition.
JAZZ STUDIES
Two current students and one recent
alumna won the MTNA Young Artist
Brass Competition, Missouri State
Round, Columbia, Mo., November
2014: Brielan Andersen (D.M.A., tuba
performance); Brittany Klever (M.M.,
euphonium performance); and Natalie
Higgins (D.M.A. ’15, horn performance),
who went on to become a National
Finalist after winning the West Central
Divisional Round, Fargo, N.D., January 2015.
The UMKC Conservatory Graduate
Fellowship Woodwind Quintet (Sandra
Fernández Vizcaíno, D.M.A., flute
performance; Gregory Stead, D.M.A.,
oboe performance; Trevor Stewart,
M.M., clarinet performance; Natalie
Higgins, D.M.A. ’15, horn performance;
Joshua Draves-Kellerman, M.M.,
bassoon performance) won the Missouri
State Round of the MTNA Chamber
Music (Winds) Competition, November
2014, and went on to become a National
Finalist after winning the West Central
Divisional Round, Fargo, N.D., January
2015. The group was one of two winners
of the Artist Presentation Society
Auditions, St. Louis, Mo., April 2015.
The UMKC Conservatory student brass
quintet Kecktet (Audrey Link, B.M.,
trumpet performance; Phillip Olson,
B.M., trumpet performance; Josh East,
B.M., horn performance; trombonist
Bronco Green, B.M.E., instrumental
music education; and tubist Sarah
Keck, B.M.E., instrumental music
education) won Honorable Mention
in the MMTA State Honors Auditions:
Brass (Undergraduate), Columbia, Mo.,
November 2014.
The Kansas City Saxophone Quartet
(Nicolas Lira, D.M.A., saxophone
performance; Patrick Olmos, M.M.,
saxophone performance; Paul Lorenz,
M.M., saxophone performance; and
William White, B.M.E. ’15, instrumental
music education) was named Alternate
and Saxonomics (Will Peak, B.M.,
saxophone performance; Tyler Obico,
B.S., business; Colleen Seyer, B.M.E.,
instrumental music education; and
Gerald Turner, B.M.E., instrumental
music education) received Honorable
Gunnar Gidner (B.M., jazz studies)
won the 2015 Vandoren Emerging
Artist Competition (Jazz Category),
which included performing in the
Vandoren Emerging Artist Concert
at the 2015 Chamber Music
National Festival (part of the Music
for All National Festival), travel to
Paris to visit the home of Vandoren
and to meet key Vandoren artists, a
cash award and a Vandoren product
prize package.
KEYBOARD
Aurélien Boccard (D.M.A., piano
performance; M.M., musicology)
received the Merle Montgomery
Doctoral Grant for $1,000 and
the 2015 National Marian Bowker
Davidson Collaborative Piano
Award, both from the Mu Phi
Epsilon Foundation.
Li-Hsin Chen (D.M.A., piano
Competition.
Charles Hoeft (M.M., piano
performance) was a winner of the
Competition.
Hui Yao (D.M.A., piano
2015 MTNA National Conference,
Las Vegas, Nev., March 2015.
Xueli Liu (D.M.A., piano
performance) won the 2015 UMKC
Chancellor’s Concerto Competition
with Liszt’s Totentanz: Paraphrase
on Dies Irae, which she performed
with the Conservatory Orchestra
in a Folly for Five Series concert,
February 2015.
Michelle Nam (D.M.A., piano
performance) was a winner in
the Artist Presentation Society
Auditions, St. Louis, Mo., April 2015.
Gayoung Park (D.M.A., piano
performance) was named
Honorable Mention in the MMTA
Collegiate: Piano (Graduate)
Competition, Columbia, Mo.,
November 2014.
Hyunki Yoon (D.M.A., piano
performance) won The American
Prize in Piano (College/University
Solo Division), 2014; won the
American Protégé International
Competition to perform in Carnegie
Hall, New York City, November
2015; and was selected to perform
recitals in Ho Chi Minh City’s Opera
House and in Hanoi, Vietnam, with
South Korea’s Eine Flute Ensemble,
July 2015.
Xiangyu Zhao (D.M.A., piano
2015 MTNA National Conference,
Las Vegas, Nev., March 2015.
EDUCATION/MUSIC
THERAPY
Sarah Carney (M.A., music therapy)
interned at Ozanam, Kansas City,
Mo., June 2015.
Mallory Huck (B.A., music therapy)
accepted an internship at the
Olathe School District, Kan.
Sarah Hughey (M.M.E., music
education) received a Graduate
UMKC Women’s Council for Orff
Training and Music Immersion.
Emily McGinnis (I.Ph.D., music
education) received a Graduate
UMKC Women’s Council for her
international research project in
exploring the experience of women
in brass bands worldwide.
Julia Stephens (M.A., music
therapy) interned at Truman
Medical Center, Kansas City, Mo.,
June 2015.
Raschell West (B.A., music therapy)
accepted an internship at the
Madonna School for Special Needs
Children, Omaha, Neb.
VOICE
Alfredo Beltrán (M.M., vocal
performance) was awarded
Scholarship.
Devin D. Burton (M.M., vocal
Competition.
Jay Carter (D.M.A., vocal
performance) had a solo part in
Bobby Watson, UMKC Jazz Night at the Folly
four performances of Handel’s
Messiah with the National
Symphony Orchestra, under the
direction of Nicholas McGegan,
Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.,
December 2014.
Alice Chung (M.M., vocal
performance) was awarded
Scholarship.
Emily Hines (B.M., vocal
Lower College Women Division of
the 2015 NATS Vocal Competition.
Laura Lowry (D.M.A., vocal
Assistance Fund Award from
the UMKC Women’s Council
for extensive recording of an
underrepresented composer of
early German song repertoire
and a DAAD Scholarship (German
Academic Exchange Service) for
intensive German study at the
Carl Duisberg Centren München,
Munich, summer 2015.
Aaron Redburn (B.M.E., choral
music education; B.M., vocal
performance) won second place in
the Lower College Men Division of
the 2015 NATS Vocal Competition.
Xin Shao (D.M.A., vocal
Advanced Division of the 2015 NATS
Vocal Competition.
Alexandria Wreggelsworth (M.M.,
vocal performance) was accepted
to London’s Guildhall School of
Music and Drama with a £5000
scholarship.
The Conservatory Choirs,
directed by Robert Bode and
Charles Robinson, raised $1,515
for the Rose Brooks Center at its
“Celebration for Peace Festival,” a
collaboration with the Community
of Christ Temple’s Dome and
Spire Series. The Choirs also
raised donations totaling $2,456
during its fifth annual Operation
Breakthrough benefit concert “For
the Children.”
The UMKC Conservatory Chamber
Choir had a once-in-a-lifetime
experience when they joined
the Rolling Stones on stage at
Arrowhead Stadium, June 2015.
The choir sang the introduction
of the hit song “You Can’t Always
Get What You Want” to more than
50,000 fans.
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UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance gala, Crescendo, November 2014
Women's Committee for the UMKC
The UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following individuals and organizations for their gifts of $100
or more received July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2015.
$5,000 - $9,999.99
Allen Village School
$100,000+
$50,000 - $99,999.99
$10,000 - $24,999.99
Anonymous
Atterbury Family Foundation
Bertha Degginger Estate
Mr. Alan and Mrs. Mary Atterbury
The Estate of Mrs. Hilda Gibbs
Mr. Howard and Mrs. Anne Elsberry
-F
Muriel McBrien Kauffman
Foundation
The McDonnell Foundation Inc.
$25,000 - $49,999.99
Francis Family Foundation
The Granary Fund
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McDonnell
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Hallmark Cards, Inc.
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Sullivan – J, F
Kansas City Southern
Mr. Gary and Mrs. Sherry Forsee
Kansas City Southern Industries
Charitable Fund
Richard J. Stern Foundation for
the Arts
Lorraine Watson Trust
Mrs. Nancy L. Panzer-Howell* - W,
F
Mr. Joseph Levin and Ms. Suzanne
Aron
Mr. George and Mrs. Wendy Powell
-F
ArtsKC
Rockley Family Foundation, Inc
Victor and Caroline Schutte
Foundation
Mr. Phillip and Ms. Rebecca Smith
-W
The Sosland Foundation
UMB Financial Corporation
Mr. John and Mrs. Carol Kornitzer
UMBFC Charitable Foundation
Kornitzer Capital Management, Inc.
Mr. Michael A. Waterford
Mr. Richard and Mrs. Jane
Bruening
Dr. Virginia Carol Dale (B.M. '84)
Mr. Albert and Mrs. Ellen Darling
Gary Dickinson Family Foundation
Mrs. Beth Ingram – W, F
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-F
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Middelkamp - F
Walsworth Publishing Company
Inc.
Thomas and Sally Wood Family
Foundation
$2,500 - $4,999.99
RLS Illumination Fund
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Ballentine (B.M. '81) – W, J, F
Bank of America
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Schorgl - F
Bank of Kansas City, N.A.
Mr. Martin Smoler and Mrs.
Suzanne Shank - F
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Ms. Ann K. Dickinson - F
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Foundation
Mr. Nick and Mrs. Lynn Douthat
Tortoise Capital Advisors LLC
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VanTrust Real Estate LLC
Mr. Michael and Mrs. Karen
Herman – J
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Creative Candles
Mr. Don and Mrs. Patricia Dagenais
-J
Dentons US LLP
The Miller Nichols Charitable
Foundation
Mr. Charles and Mrs. Elizabeth
Schellhorn - F
Dr. Blake and Ms. Melissa Cooper
Mr. William Bates
Mr. Christopher Beal and Mr.
Timothy Van Zandt - F
Mr. Jim Blair
JE Dunn Construction Group, Inc.
Drs. William and Linda Eddy
(B.A.,B.M. '65, M.M. '67) – J, F
Mr. Steve and Ms. Kim Elsberry
Mr. Robert N. Epsten
Mr. Warren and Mrs. Jenny Erdman
-F
Financial Counselors, Inc.
Mr. Ollie Gates and Ms. Arzelia
Gates
Mr. Irwin and Mrs. Rita Blitt - F
Mr. Brian Weith and Ms. Michele
Hamlett-Weith (B.A. '77) - W
Mr. Sherman and Ms. Becky Botts
Helix
Helen S. Boylan Foundation
HGA Architects
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Mr. Paul and Ms. Amy Holewinski
$1,000 - $2,499.99
Husch Blackwell LLP
The Ingram Family Foundation
G. Kenneth Baum Charitable Trust
Fund
Mr. Howard and Mrs. Rosalyn
Jacobson - F
Mr. G. Kenneth Baum and Ms. Ann
Kaufmann Baum
Mrs. Yvonne Umland Jameson
Dr. Loretta M. Britton - F
Mr. Eric and Mrs. Alison Jager - F
Kansas City Power & Light
Company
Mr. Peter and Mrs. Lynne Brown*
Ms. Mary Lou Jaramillo
Dr. Robert and Ms. Pamela Bruce
Dr. Andrew and Mrs. Lynn Kaufman
R. Crosby Kemper Charitable Trust
& Foundation
Dr. Eugene (D.M.A. '74) and Mrs.
Mary Butler
Mr. Asher and Ms. Audrey
Langworthy - F
Mr. Michael and Mrs. Julia Kirk - F
Mr. John and Mrs. Jenny Carnahan
Mr. Jason and Dr. Heather Kort
Dr. Ann Cary and Mr. Bob Cary
Mr. Stewart and Ms. Michele Legg
-J
Kuehn Foundation Fund
Lathrop & Gage LC
Centennial United Methodist
Church
Mary Elizabeth Martin Charitable
Trust
The Honorable Jon R. Gray and Dr.
Valerie Chow
Thomas Martin Foundation
Ms. Kay Martin - F
Master Craftsmen Foundation
McCownGordon Construction
Dr. Sidney and Ms. Carole McKnight
– J, F
Mr. Edward P. Milbank - F
Mrs. Margaret Jacobs – J, F
Mr. Robert and Ms. Louise Liepold
-F
Mr. Scott M. Smith
Mr. Burton and Ms. Barbara
Smoliar - F
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Solberg
Mr. Neil and Dr. Blanche Sosland
-F
Mr. Jack and Mrs. Barbara Spilker
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Mr. Merle Stalder - J
Ms. Susan M. Stanton
Sterneck Family Foundation
Mr. Frank and Ms. Robin Sterneck
-F
Lockton Companies LLC
Mr. Steve and Ms. Lisa Strong
Copaken Brooks
Elaine and Benjamin Mann - F
Summerfest Concerts, Inc.
Mr. Jonathan Copaken and Ms.
Shelley Southwell
Barbara Hall Marshall Advisory
Fund
Mr. Michael and Mrs. Nancy
Thiessen - F
Mr. John and Mrs. Carol Cowden
Mrs. Barbara H. Marshall - F
Mr. Jeff Dobbs and Ms. Roshann
Parris
Mr. G. Mark Sappington and Dr.
David McGee – F
Mary Agnes Thornhill Charitable
Fund
Epsten Family Foundation Fund
Mr. Jon and Mrs. Wendy McGraw
-J
Warren and Jenny Erdman
Charitable Fund
Mr. Abraham and Ms. Cynthia Ofer
Ernst & Young LLP
Dr. Joe Parisi
Mr. James and Ms. Teresa Farley*
The Presser Foundation
Dr. Allan and Mrs. Nancy Reichman
Mr. Mike and Ms. Melanie Fenske
-F
Robb & Robb Charitable Foundation
Ms. Sally A. Firestone - J
Mr. Gary and Mrs. Anita Robb
Mr. Ernest and Mrs. Barbara
Fleischer – W, F
Dr. Christopher (B.A. '78, M.D. '78)
and Mrs. Lisa Sirridge - F
Dr. Roger and Ms. Sandy Jackson
-F
Mrs. Mary Beth Smith
Mr. Wayne E. Lippman
Henry Dexter Musselman Trust
Seeley Foundation
Mr. Charles and Mrs. Mary Kay
Horner - F
Mr. J. Scott Francis and Ms. Susan
Gordon
Mrs. Dorothy Meiners
Mr. Joseph and Ms. Yvette Miceli
– J, F
Dr. Patricia Cleary Miller
Miller-Mellor Associates
Chancellor Leo E. Morton and Mrs.
Yvette Morton
Mr. Walter and Mrs. Daisy Muff – J,
F
Mr. Matthew and Ms. Kathy
Nordhus
Martha Tranby Music Enrichment
Fund
Trapp and Company
Mr. Bryan and Mrs. Jennifer
Wampler (MBA '90) – W, J, F
Ms. Phyllis Washington - J
Mr. James and Mrs. Sarah Weitzel
-J
Dr. Harry and Ms. Karlyn Wilkins
Wylliams / Henry Dance Company
$500 - $999.99
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Mr. Lynn Adkins and Ms. Linda
Lighton
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Leonard and Irene Bettinger Fund
Greater KC Chamber of Commerce
Mr. William H. Poland Jr.
Dr. Irene E. Bettinger – J, F
Mr. Jay Tomlinson
Mr. Lawrence and Ms. Genie
Greenberg
Ms. Barbara J. Reynolds (B.M.E.
'74, M.M.E. '88)
Mr. Thomas M. and Ms. Mary S.
Bloch - F
U.S. Bank Foundation Fund
Mr. Donald J. Hall, Sr. - F
Mr. Paul and Ms. Jody Blythe - J
Waddell & Reed Companies
Mr. Donald and Mrs. Jill Hall - F
Mrs. Barbara M. Roberts and Mr.
Amos L. Roberts – W, F
WB Family Offices
Mr. Steven and Ms. Patricia
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Drs. Wallace and Mary Fern
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Stinson Leonard Street
Mr. John and Ms. Ann Sundeen - F
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Tiffany and Co
Wells Fargo
Charles Zeskey Trust
Mr. Karl and Mrs. Beth Zobrist - F
Mr. Jack and Mrs. Trudy Gabriel –
W, F
Mr. Michael G. Gerken - J
Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Jane Grant
-F
Mr. James and Mrs. Judith Heeter
Mr. Barnett and Mrs. Shirley
Helzberg (H.D.M.A. '13) – W, F
Mr. Ken Sherman
Evan Cooper (M.M., viola performance), Finale, 2015
Mrs. Dalene D. Bradford - F
Dr. David A. Cooley - J
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Mr. Stephen White and Professor
Mary Pat Henry
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Mrs. Jo Anna Dale – J, F
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Crescendo, 2014
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Donigan - J
Dr. Howard and Ms. Roseanne
Rosen - J
Mr. James and Mrs. Virginia Crosby
-J
Edward J. Goldstein Donor Advised
Fund
Mr. Robin and Ms. Doris Royals
Mr. Don and Ms. Judy Culp - F
Mr. Charles and Ms. Jeanne
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Jerry and Patty Reece Family
Foundation
Mr. Steve and Mrs. Cathy Doyal - F
Mr. Donald and Mrs. Rita Reed - F
Dr. Daniel and Ms. Anne Durrie
Dr. Ron and Mrs. Sandra Riley - J
Mr. Richard and Mrs. Maureen
Durwood - F
Dr. Paul Rudy
Mr. Edward Goldstein and Ms.
Rachel Krantz
Mr. Kevin and Ms. Kimberly Harris
-F
Ms. Monica Jeffries Hazangeles
(MM '91)
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Thornton - J
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Tinsman
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The Honorable Hans and Mrs. Ruth
Tuch
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Hirsch - F
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Mr. James and Mrs. Mary Kay
Hogan
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The Kansas City Club
Dr. J. D. Kelly (B.M. '54, D.M.A. '74)
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Legg Family Foundation Fund
Mr. John and Ms. Jennifer Legg
Lighton Fund
Mr. Bill Longmire
$250 - $499.99
Dr. Arthur and Mrs. Laura Allen
Mr. Pete and Ms. Annette Sherrow
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Mr. Andrew Elsberry
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Kathleen A. Hauser - F
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Professor Richard L. Williams
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Advisory Fund
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and Mrs. Mary Lynn Hallett (B.M.
'00, M.A. '02)
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McAnany Van Cleave & Phillips
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McCoy
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Johnson
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Andrea Bough
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RC Royals & Associates, LLC
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Thielman
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-F
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Mr. Heinz Wehner - F
Dr. Janice Lane Wiberg (B.M. '68,
M.M. '72)
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General Federation of Womens
Clubs of MO
Mr. John and Mrs. Mildred Wood
Dr. Clell E. Wright (D.M.A. '02)
Mr. Hugh and Mrs. Eulalie Zimmer
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$100 - $249.99
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John and Kay Callison - F
Ms. Shelly Kinnune
Cellar Rat Wine Merchants
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Ms. Carolyn Chandler
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Mr. John K. Adams (B.M.E. '56)
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Joseph Kern (D.M.A. ‘15, composition) and Richard Jeric (A.C. ‘15, piano performance)
Mr. Charles and Mrs. Margaret
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Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh
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Copaken Family Fund
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Laura Ann Shutz Cray Estate
Northeast Community Center
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Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Linda Beal - F
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R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation
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Ms. Ruth M. Blythe (M.M.E. '72)
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Dr. Larry (B.A. '85) and Mrs.
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Mrs. Bonnie K. Chaney (M.M.E.
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P.F. Chang's
Charity Giving Card Fund – Greater
Kansas City Community Foundation
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Folly Theater
Ms. Marilyn Foltz
Mr. Allan and Ms. Cindy Foskett
Ms. Faith Y. France (B.A. '44, M.M.
'47)
Mrs. Virginia Fruchterman (B.A.
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Ms. Nelle Gilmore
Mrs. M. Elizabeth Greene
Mr. Walter and Mrs. Karen Greer
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Mr. Marvin Rau and Ms. Kate
Porterfield
Ms. Barbara Lutman - W
Dr. Donald and Mrs. Barbara Potts
-J
Dr. Leslie W. Hale Jr. (D.M.A. '73)
Luyben Music Shop, Inc.
Ms. Paulette Hall
Ms. Kathryn Maness
Ms. Kathryn C. Harris
Dr. Frank and Mrs. Shelley Manley
Mr. Michael Harris (M.A. '06)
Mrs. Lynnly Busler Marcotte
Mr. Craig and Ms. Cheri
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Mr. John and Ms. Sue Massman - F
Dr. Robert and Mrs. Charlotte
Herman - J
Mr. Richard and Dr. Betty LaRue
Herndon
Dr. Kathleen M. Higgins (B.A. '77)
Ms. Jo Ann S. Hodges
Dr. Thomas and Mrs. Kathryn
Holder
Mrs. Darlene M. McCluskey – W, F
Dr. Michael R. McFerron (M.M. '96,
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Mrs. Anna B. McMahill
Mr. Pat and Ms. Wendy Mejia
Mr. J. Scott Merritt Jr. - F
Ms. Rosalie Miceli
Dr. Andrew C. Mills (B.M. '69)
Mr. Chuck and Mrs. Laurie Jarrett
-J
Mr. Patrick and Ms. Rhonda
Johnston
Mr. Matthew K. Reeves
Dr. Jacqueline K. Thompson (M.M.
'79, D.M.A. '83)
The Reilly Holding Company
Ms. Sharon K. Thompson
Ms. Jill Reynolds - F
Mr. Robert D. Trapp - F
Mr. Paul Reynolds (B.M. '08)
Mr. Gerald L. Turner
Ms. Liane P. Rockley (B.M. '94)
Mr. Samuel and Ms. Sharon Turner
Mr. Bob and Mrs. Charlotte Ronan
-J
Ms. Josephine G. Tutera
Mr. Jack and Ms. Jean Rosenfield
-W
Mr. Gerald and Ms. Deborah
Rushfelt
Ms. Amy Van Houtan
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Mr. and Mrs. Marshall F. Walker
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Ms. Sara E. Welch - F
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Ms. Gale L. Sanford
Dr. James and Mrs. Joan Wells
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Mr. S. Thomas and Mrs. Anita Wertz
Ms. Denise E. Moyer-Staker (B.M.E.
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Dr. Charles and Dr. Patricia Bowers
Schultz (D.M.A. '84)
Ms. Joan C. Wheeler - J
Mr. John and Mrs. Charlotte Mullin
Ms. Vickie L. Schultz (B.M. '75)
Mu Phi Epsilon Patron Fund
Dr. Brian J. Williams - J
Mr. Randell Sedlacek and Ms. Mary
Ventura
Mr. Dale and Dr. Robin Williams
(B.M. '77)
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Mr. Arthur F. Wortman - J
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'89)
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Ingraham
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The Capital Grille
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Mr. David J. Jackson
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Mrs. Phyllis Willbanks - J
Mr. John and Ms. Heather Johntz
Dr. Walter (D.M.A. '79) and Mrs. J.
Kaye Myers
Mr. James and Ms. Lydia Kanki - J
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Ms. Regina K. Kellogg
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Pamela Nordquist (M.M. '93)
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(M.M. '04)
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Kinderknecht - J
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M.M.E. '97)
Dr. William (D.M.A. '89) and Mrs.
Susan Krusemark - F
Dr. Janet Ann Kvam (D.M.A. '86)
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Suh-Lane (B.M. '86)
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Mr. Sean O'Byrne - F
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Pacesetters of Colorado
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Les Bourgeois Vineyards
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