THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Professor of Libraries and Head Librarian of Music & Dance Library / Music & Dance Library 210, 18th Avenue Library
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- Assistant Professor of Teaching, Theory
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- Professor and Area Head of Musicology
- Professor of Music, Focuses
Arved Ashby, professor of music, focuses on 20th- and 21st-century art music within broader contexts of cultural history, critical theory, post-Marxist aesthetics, and media and communications. He received his PhD in musicology from Yale University with a dissertation on Alban Berg's Lyric Suite. In 1996, continuing this work on the historical-cultural contexts of twelve-tone music, Ashby received the prestigious Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society for an article on Berg's methodological connections with his teacher, Arnold Schoenberg. Further investigating highly individual composers who developed love-hate relationships with modernism, he has also published articles on Frank Zappa and Benjamin Britten, and designed and edited the collection The Pleasure of Modernist Music: Listening, Meaning, Intention, Ideology (University of Rochester Press, 2004).
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- Assistant Professor of Teaching, Musicology
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- Vice President of Communications
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- Post - Doctoral Scholar, GAHDT Fellow / N462 Timashev Building
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- Associate Professor of Horn
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- Assistant Professor of Practice at Ohio State
- Assistant Professor of Practice, Voice
C. Andrew Blosser, a native of Belle Center, Ohio, has performed roles in opera and musical theatre, and presented master classes and recitals throughout the United States, Ireland, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Germany, Czechia, and Switzerland. Blosser received a bachelor of music in vocal music education from the Conservatory of Music at Capital University, a master of music in voice performance and a doctor of musical arts degree from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Blosser has been a featured soloist with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Lakeside Symphony, Tuscarawas Philharmonic, South Eastern Ohio Symphony Orchestra, and the Lancaster Festival Orchestra for concert and oratorio performances. A few highlights include Ralph Vaughn Williams' On Wenlock Edge with the Carpe Diem String Quartet as part of the Marble Cliff Music Festival, Handel's Messiah with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, and was the soloist for the world premiere performance of Te Deum, by British composer Patrick Hawes, at the Lancaster Festival. He served as cantor for services at the Berlin Cathedral, as well as the soloist for the Mozart Missa Longa at the Salzburg Cathedral. Blosser most recently performed on the recital Singing Our History, a chronological story of American history told through the works of American composers at the National Association of Teachers of Singing conference in Boston, Massachusetts.
Blosser currently serves as an assistant professor of practice at Ohio State, where he teaches applied voice, voice literature, opera history, and diction courses. Prior to this appointment, Blosser served on the faculties of Terra State Community College, Ohio Christian University, Capital University, and Muskingum University. Blosser holds professional memberships with the National Association of Teachers of Singers (NATS), the Ohio Music Education Association (OMEA), the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Pi Kappa Lambda Honor Society, and Phi Mu Alpha.
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- Professor and Area Head of Piano
Casey L. Cook began piano study at age four and was accompanying by age ten. Two of her most influential teachers were Mary Craig Powell, who nurtured her musical growth for fifteen years, and Dr. Nelita True at the Eastman School of Music.
Chris Anderson is the founder of Open Tone Music, a non-profit 501c3 organization which provides access to premier music education and performance programming for all people. Through Open Tone Music he has reached thousands of individuals in the northern Ohio area. After studying music education at Baldwin Wallace University, where he received his bachelor's degree, Anderson went on to receive his Master of Music degree from The University of Akron. In addition to being a successful music educator, Anderson composes and performs numerous different styles of music. He has performed trombone with some of the best in the classical, jazz, gospel, Latin and other musical idioms. Anderson has had the pleasure of performing with such recording artists as Clark Terry, John Fedchock, Jiggs Whigham, Jon Faddis, Nancy Wilson, Frank Wess, Louie Bellson, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Barry Manilow, Bobby Caldwell, The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band featuring Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Antonio Hart and many others. Chris Anderson has also been heard on national and international radio and television including WCPN, BET and HBO. He is also in demand as a clinician, conducting music workshops for individuals of all ages throughout the United States, South Africa and India. Additionally, Anderson has displayed success in local and national solo competitions and can be heard featured on several CDs. More important than his accolades is his passion to help improve the lives of young people and their communities.
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- Director of Marching and Athletic Bands Endowed Chair for Director of the Ohio State University Marching Band
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- Area Head of Music Education
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- Professor and Director of Music, Media and Enterprise Program - Integrative Studies
David Bruenger joined Ohio State to build and direct the program funded by the Targeted Investment in Excellence grant awarded to the School. He developed and teaches an interdisciplinary curriculum that critically examines the roles of music in media, commerce and culture in both theory and practice. "Essentially," Bruenger states, "the MME Program explores the ways that artists, audiences and economic opportunities intersect."
Bruenger was formerly associate professor of music at the University of Texas-San Antonio where he developed and coordinated the music industry program and taught courses in popular music and culture. Previously, at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, he directed several concert and educational series. Bruenger has degrees from Southern Illinois University, Washington University and the University of North Texas. He has been a classical, commercial and academic performer, teacher, administrator and scholar for more than 30 years.
Bruenger's research focuses on the interrelationships between and among music, media, commerce and culture, with a particular focus on how digital technologies and social media platforms affect the creation, distribution and reception of music in the 21st century.
His book, Making Money, Making Music: History and Core Concepts was published by the University of California Press in 2016.
David Clampitt has taught music theory at The Ohio State University since 2008. He taught previously at Yale University (1997-2008) and at University of Chicago (1995) and received his PhD in music theory from SUNY Buffalo. He is a leading researcher in the field of mathematical music theory, working especially on the structure of basic musical materials. He was a keynote speaker at the WORDS 2017 conference and has published in mathematical journals such as Theoretical Computer Science. His teaching focuses especially on music analysis and history of theory, and he is very interested in relationships between performance and analysis. Together with co-author Thomas Noll, he received the Society for Music Theory Outstanding Publication Award in 2013, for their Music Theory Online article, "Modes, the Height-Width Duality, and Handschin's Tone Character." With co-author Norman Carey, he received the Society for Music Theory Emerging Scholar Award for their Journal of Music Theory article, "Regions: A Theory of Tonal Spaces in Early Medieval Treatises" (https://societymusictheory.org/archive/publications). He has published in Music Theory Spectrum, Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Integral, Music Theory Online, Journal of Mathematics and Music, Gestalt Theory, Empirical Musicology Review, Muzica, Notes and elsewhere. Clampitt also does analytical work on Brahms and his contemporaries. A chapter on Webern appears in Intimate Voices: The Twentieth-Century String Quartet, Evan Jones, ed. (University of Rochester Press), a book which won a Special Citation publication award from the Society for Music Theory in 2011. Clampitt has contributed chapters to numerous other books, including six volumes published by Springer devoted to proceedings of the Society for Mathematics and Computation in Music, of which he is a founding member and officer. Clampitt was editor of the Journal of Music Theory and served as guest editor of the second issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music. He is an active violinist in chamber music and orchestral music, and has coached chamber music extensively.
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director and Chair of Undergraduate Studies
- Associate Professor of Music Education Associate Director and Chair of Undergraduate Studies
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- Graduate Associate
- Student in Musicology
Dylan Crosson is a PhD student in Musicology and a graduate teaching associate at The Ohio State University. Dylan comes to Ohio State with a Master of Arts in Musicology from Pennsylvania State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Worship Arts from Spring Arbor University. During his time at Spring Arbor and Pennsylvania State, his research focused on the genre of finger-style guitar, especially the music of Michael Hedges. Beyond this research, Dylan has presented research at the Music and Moving Image Conference on the musical silence in Studio Ghibli's Grave of the Fireflies (1985).
Dylan's current research involves music consumption patterns within contemporary Christian music as well as this music's role in delineating cultural evangelicalism. Outside of this sphere, his other research interests include the history of Christian musical thought, aesthetics of music, and American classical music of the twentieth century.
Elena Cruz-López is a PhD candidate in musicology with a graduate minor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. She graduated in 2017 from Valparaiso University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Music in violin performance. At Valparaiso University's 2016 Symposium on Undergraduate Research and Creative Expression, she presented her project on rock and roll's influence in politics and North American society by analyzing a number of songs from the 1950s and 1960s. As part of her senior lecture-recital, she presented her research on Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14, focusing on Barber's American and European influences. Elena's current research focuses on the music of Motown girl groups, fan reception, and how this music shaped fans' lives. Her work has been presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association's Midwest branch. Some of her research interests include popular music in the 20th and 21st centuries, women in popular music, and girlhood in popular culture.
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- Professor of Music Education
Eugenia Costa-Giomi is a professor of Music Education, Distinguished Professor of the Academy of Teaching, and an associate researcher at the Crane Center for Early Childhood. Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty in 2015, she served as director of Graduate Studies, professor of Music and Human Learning, and affiliated professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of Texas-Austin, and associate professor and head of Music Education at McGill University in Canada. She completed music and music education studies at the National Conservatory of Music in her native Buenos Aires (Argentina), Indiana University, and The Ohio State University. She has taught music in public schools and educational institutions in Argentina, Canada and Mexico, and has served on doctoral committees of students around the world.
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- Director of Entrepreneurial Studies
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- Vice President of Outreach
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- Professor
- Professor of Musicology
Graeme Boone, professor of music, was born and raised in San Francisco and educated at the University of California, Berkeley (BA); National Superior Conservatory of Music, Paris (Premier prix, histoire de la musique); and Harvard University (MA, PhD). Prior to coming to Ohio State in 1997, he taught at Haverford College and at Harvard University, where he served as assistant and associate professor of music.
Boone's research focuses on Renaissance and American popular music. He wrote his dissertation on the songs of Guillaume Dufay (c. 1400-1474) and has written articles and a monograph (Patterns in Play, 1999) on related subjects, involving paleography, musical analysis, and the relationship between poetry and song in the fifteenth century. He has also co-edited a book of essays in the analysis of rock music (Understanding Rock, 1997) and a book of writings in jazz history (in preparation). As a professor, he has taught courses in the subjects named above, and in other areas of classical, popular, and non-Western music. As a performer, he specializes in guitar, banjo, and other instruments of American folk tradition.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Tuba and Euphonium
James Akins, associate professor of tuba and euphonium, has been principal tuba of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra since 1981. He is a member of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet and the Ohio Brass Quintet. Akins is also a clinician/consultant for the Tuba Exchange in Durham, North Carolina and has been a design consultant for various tuba companies.
Currently, he is working with the G+P Instrument Company of Milan, Italy. As a consultant for the United Musical Instrument Company, working with the Conn Instrument Co. division, he collaborates to develop professional tubas. Through these and other companies he has developed many new designs for the tuba community. As a clinician for these companies, Akins has given tuba master classes and recitals for high schools and colleges throughout the country. Akins has presented many master classes with the Native American flute and has become a world renowned flute maker. He studied the tuba with Ronald Bishop, Cleveland Orchestra; Arnold Jacobs, Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Robert Ryker, Montreal Symphony; Fredrick Schaufele Jr., Lakewood High School; and Robert LeBlanc, professor emeritus at The Ohio State University. He received his BM in 1978 and MM in 1982 from The Ohio State University.
Jaryn Danz, a native of Madison, Wisconsin, is pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in viola performance. Jaryn was drawn to the viola in elementary school, choosing it from the string family because cello and bass were "too big" and because "everybody plays violin." Over the years, she has enjoyed working with musicians all over the country, and counts the people she has met as the best perk of being a musician. Some of her current musical interests include contemporary viola repertoire and chamber music for unexpected groupings of instruments.
In addition to playing with regional orchestras such as the Chippewa Valley Symphony, the Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra and the Boulder Symphony, Jaryn also has experience working in arts administration. She credits her work in administration at the National Music Festival and the University of Colorado Boulder for her enjoyment of "putting out fires" and creating spreadsheets for every aspect of her life.
Prior to attending Ohio State, Jaryn received degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She currently studies with Juliet White-Smith; her past teachers have included Erika Eckert, Geraldine Walther, Molly Gebrian and Marie Pauls.
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- Assistant Professor of Teaching, Music Education
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- Visiting Assistant Professor of Theory
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- Director
- Assistant Professor of Practice, Choral Music Education
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- Vice President of Finance
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- Professional Staff
- Professional Staff / Dept of Art 258 Hopkins
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- Associate Professor of Bassoon
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- Professor of Flute and Area Head of Orchestral Instruments
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- Associate Professor of Voice
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- Piano and Music Education
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- Assistant Professor of Practice, Jazz Guitar
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- Associate Professor of Violin
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- Assistant Professor of Practice, Voice Area Head of Voice
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- Vice President of Musicianship
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- Assistant Professor of Practice, Class Piano and Music Education
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- Associate Professor of Theory
Marc Ainger is active as a composer and sound designer. He has worked extensively in the area of computer and electronic music, using computers alone and in combination with traditional instruments, as well as in combination with other media such as film, dance, and theater.
Significant commissions and performances include the Aspen Music Festival, the American Film Institute, the KlangArts Festival, Gageego New Music Ensemble, Guangdong Modern Dance, the Royal Danish Ballet, the New Circus, Streb, and Late Night with David Letterman. Awards include the Boulez Composition Fellowship, the Irino International Chamber Music Competition, Musica Nova, Meet the Composer, the Esperia Foundation, and the Ohio Arts Council. As a sound designer, Ainger has worked with such institutions as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tempo Reale, IRCAM, the Olympic Arts Festival, and Pacific Coast Soundworks.
He holds a PhD in composition from the University of California-Santa Barbara, and an undergraduate degree from California Institute of the Arts. As a student, he worked with a number of composers, including Stephen Mosko, Barry Schrader, Morton Subotnik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Adams, Morton Feldman, Earle Brown, John Cage, Steve Reich, Vinko Globakar and Bill Kraft. Before joining the faculty of The Ohio State University, he taught composition and computer music at the University of California-Santa Barbara.
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- Education and Assistant Dean ( Lima Campus )
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- Audio Engineer Music, Media and Enterprise - Integrative Studies / N342 Timashev Building
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- Associate Professor of Cello
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- Assistant Professor of Practice, Saxophone and Composition
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- Assistant Professor of Practice, Jazz Studies Area Head
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- Associate Professor of Latin American Indigenous Cultures
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- Director
- Assistant Professor of Practice, Orchestral Conducting Director of Orchestras
Miriam Burns was on staff with the New York Philharmonic as one of their cover conductors from 1999-2007, having been appointed by Kurt Masur as a result of a competitive audition by-invitation-only. In this capacity, she accompanied the orchestra on tour to the Far East as the tour assistant conductor to then new music director, Lorin Maazel, and for eight years was entrusted as an assistant conductor on call for countless specific, fully prepared programs under many guest conductors of international repute.
Recent former music director and conductor of the Tysons McLean Orchestra (VA) 2012-2020, Ms. Burns now serves as artistic director and conductor of the Paragon Philharmonia, visiting professor and director of orchestras at The Ohio State University and continues as music director of The Orchestra of the Redeemer in New York City since 1995.
Other prior music directorships include the Tallahassee Symphony, where she was designated a Paul Harris Fellow for six years of outstanding contribution to the cultural life of Tallahassee, the Kenosha Symphony and the Lawton Philharmonic. Ms. Burns recently served as principal conductor and music advisor for the popular multimedia orchestral show RePLAY: Symphony of Heroes, based on the symphonic music of videogames. As such, she conducted the world premiere with the Sydney Symphony at the Sydney Opera House in Australia, followed by performances with the Houston Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, members of the Toronto Symphony at the Sony Centre, and others.
Ms. Burns debuted as guest conductor with the Rochester Philharmonic in 2018 and was re-engaged for another performance at the end of the season. International engagements have included two recent performances with the Magdeburg Philharmonic (Germany), preceded by debuts with the Bournemouth Symphony (England); at the Stadthalle (Wuppertal, Germany); the First Ladies Symphony Orchestra of Poland, and the YinQi Symphony Orchestra (Taiwan). Highlights of prior guest conducting within the US include appearances with orchestras such as the Memphis Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Syracuse Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic, Mansfield Symphony, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, MasterWorks Festival, Sewanee Music Festival, C. W. Post Music Festival and the Skaneateles Festival. During the 2021-22 season, Ms. Burns guest conducted three concerts with the Youngstown Symphony.
Versatile in all genres, she is active on operatic stages as well, having conducted opera at the MasterWorks Festival and having been associate music director of the Bronx Opera Company - conducting opening nights - for nine years. Ms. Burns has performed with two-time Grammy winner Sylvia McNair, and guest conducted two performances of an Elvis Tribute with the Memphis Symphony. Equally fluent in choral and orchestral repertoire, Ms. Burns has conducted major oratorios with prominent Metropolitan Opera soloists such as Ben Heppner, Heidi Grant Murphy, Angela Brown, Mark Delavan, Mark Oswald and others. Committed to the furthering of musical education of all generations, she guest conducted the NAfME All-National Youth Orchestra, is sought-after as an All-State conductor, has guest conducted at CelloSpeak and has twice served as a private coach/specialist on the faculty of Chorus America's Choral/Orchestral Masterclasses for the orchestral conducting training of choral conductors.
Ms. Burns has received conducting awards from the Aspen Music Festival, studying with Paul Vermel, and the Conductors Guild, where she was unanimously presented with their prestigious biennial prize, the Thelma Robinson Scholarship, while still a student at Mannes College of Music (NY). Ms. Burns also received an Artist Diploma in Yale University's eminent Conductor Apprentice Program on full scholarship and upon special invitation of Yale faculty. In this capacity, she regularly worked with noted mentor conductors such as Gunther Herbig, Lawrence Leighton Smith and Eleazar de Carvallho. She also participated in master classes under the tutelage of prominent guests such as Kurt Masur, Leopold Hager and Zdenek Macal. Ms. Burns completed her master's degree and Professional Studies in Orchestral Conducting on full scholarship at the Mannes College, where she studied with Yakov Kreizberg and Michael Charry. Previously active as a violinist, she holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in violin performance from Mannes, where she began preliminary conducting studies with Semyon Bychkov. Ms. Burns is an alumna of both the New York String Orchestra Seminar under Alexander Schneider, and The Quartet Program. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Burns was an original member of the former Chester String Quartet.
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- Graduate Associate
- Student
Nicholas Booker is a PhD student and graduate teaching associate in musicology and ethnomusicology. His research interests include postnational and transnational musical identities, tradition, heritage, commodification and globalization. He is currently focused on interactions between folk and traditional music communities in the Great Lakes region of North America and Cornwall in the southwest of Britain.
He has worked with scholars including Dr. Brian Casey, Dr. Nancy Glen, Dr. Jonathan Bellman, Dr. Mark Montemayor, and Dr. Jittapim Yamprai. He served on the Performing Arts Committee at the Center for Arts and Community Enrichment in Fort Morgan, Colorado for four years, and has been associated with the International Council for Traditional Music, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the National Association for Music Education, the Colorado Music Educators Association, and the Denver Musicians Association. He has presented original research at conferences associated with the Society for Ethnomusicology, Indiana University, The Ohio State University, and the University of Northern Colorado. He has a book review published in Ethnomusicology Forum, and his master's thesis is available on ProQuest.
Nicholas has a passion for music instruction and has applied it to varied contexts including his four years as jazz ensemble instructor at Morgan Community College, his two years as K-12 music teacher at the Converge School and Day Treatment Center, and his eleven years of private music instruction in flute, guitar, piano and songwriting. He performed for six years with the 101st Army Band of the Colorado Army National Guard and started his own indie folk music group, All Those Who Wander, in 2011. He has studied flute with Paul Nagem, Pamela Endsley and Richard Blake, and has attended masterclasses with Robert Winn, Karen Jones, Kate Hill, Caroline Hobbs-Smith and Marianne Gedigian, among others. He studied conducting with Dr. Richard Mayne and Dr. Kevin Padworski.
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- Professor of Music Education ( Newark Campus )
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- Associate Director of Marching and Athletic Bands, Assistant Director of University Bands
Phillip Day is assistant director of university bands and associate director of Marching and Athletic Bands at The Ohio State University. Day earned his master's degree in wind conducting from Ohio State in 2014 and his bachelor's degree in instrumental music education and trombone performance from Capital University in 2005. He is currently a candidate for the doctor of musical arts degree in conducting at Ohio State. While his focus is in the Marching and Athletic Bands, Day has teaching, conducting and administrative responsibilities throughout the School of Music's band program.
Previously, Day served as the associate director of bands at Worthington Kilbourne High School, where he directed the marching band, pep band and symphonic band, and taught Advanced Placement music theory. He also guest conducted the WKHS wind symphony in performances at the OMEA Professional Development Conference in 2011 and at Carnegie Hall in 2008 and 2012.
From 2007 until 2015, Day served as the associate conductor of the Grove City Community Winds, a community band based in Grove City, OH. He is also active as a clinician, trombonist, and teacher in the Columbus area. He lives in Hilliard with his wife Jennie, their son Oliver and their dog, Jack.
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- Artistic Director of Choral Arts Northwest
- Conductor in Residence and Associate Director of Choral Studies
Robert Bode joined the faculty at The Ohio State University School of Music in 2019 as a visiting professor of Choral Music. In 2010, Bode was named the Raymond Neevel Endowed Chair of Choral Music at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Prior to coming to UMKC, Bode served on the faculty at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, where he was awarded the Thomas E. Howells Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Alma Meisnest Endowed Chair in the Humanities. His choirs have performed at both regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association, the Missouri Music Educators Association, and Chorus America.
Robert Bode received his doctorate in conducting from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio and his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas. Prior to attending the Cincinnati Conservatory, Dr. Bode won a conducting scholarship at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival, where he studied opera conducting with Fiora Contino. In 1982, Bode studied in Wales as a Conducting Fellow at the University-College of Music in Cardiff. In addition to his distinguished teaching career, Dr. Bode has enjoyed a successful international conducting career as guest conductor of the Kammerorchester (Leipzig, Germany), Filharmonia Sudecka (Walbryzch, Poland), Vratca Philharmonic (Vratca, Bulgaria) and the Yunnan Provincial Chorus (Kunming, China), among others.
Dr. Bode is the artistic director of Choral Arts Northwest, a semi-professional chamber chorus in Seattle, WA. In the spring of 2010, Bode and Choral Arts NW received the Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, presented by Chorus America.
Dr. Bode is noted for his dedication to the commissioning and performance of new choral music. He has commissioned over fifty works for chorus from American composers, including William Averitt, John David Earnest, Eric Barnum, Jake Heggie, Gwyneth Walker, Richard Hundley, Rick Asher, Melinda Bargreen, William Hawley, John Muelheisen, Frank Ferko, Jake Runestad, Dominick DiOrio, Dale Trumbore, Shawn Kirchner and Kevin Siegfried, among others.
Dr. Robert Brooks is a jazz saxophonist and educator dedicated to cultivating the tradition of jazz education. He holds a DMA and MM from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a BM from Central Michigan University. He currently serves as associated faculty in Jazz Studies at Ohio State. Robert's most recent releases, "Accidental Nomad" and "New Standard Duo" on Ropeadope Records, have received critical acclaim. He has toured with Reginald Chapman's "Pressure Fit," Sun Stereo, and The Lake Effect, throughout the Midwest and East Coast. He has also performed with jazz legends including Bob Mintzer, Bobby Shew, Tom "Bones" Malone, Jeff Hamilton Trio, Jim Pugh, Joel Spencer, Tito Carillo, Nathan Gunn, The Temptations and many more.
Brooks' passion for jazz performance and pedagogy comes through the lens of small-ensemble performance and a focus on exploring improvisation within the language of jazz and from other disciplines. In addition to his expertise in jazz improvisation, he also has strong roots in the tradition of classical saxophone, clarinet and flute; he has performed in pit orchestras for the national tours of Kinky Boots and Chicago as well as multiple productions at The Little Theatre on the Square.
At Ohio State, Robert Brooks' duties include coaching jazz combos, directing the Jazz Combo Recital Series, teaching jazz saxophone lessons, teaching Advanced Jazz Improvisation, directing the Ohio State Jazz Festival, and involvement with the summer Jazz Camp.
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- Associate Professor Director of Choral Studies
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- Professor and Area Head of Conducting and Ensembles Director of Bands
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- Associate Professor of Musicology
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- Professor and Associate Director of Bands
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- Professional Staff / Music / Dance Library - 225 18th Avenue Library
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- Associate Professor of Jazz Saxophone
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- Assistant Professor of Practice, Trombone
Ted Clark is associated faculty for applied trumpet at The Ohio State University. He is also the instructor of applied trumpet at Malone University, and holds positions with the Firelands and Ashland Symphony Orchestras.
Before moving to Ohio in 2016, Dr. Clark lived in Toronto, Canada, where he was a member of the Toronto Brass Quintet and the Charlottetown Festival Orchestra, and taught trumpet at Royal St. George's College. While living in Toronto he also played with a wide variety of ensembles, including the Hannaford Street Silver Band, Symphony Nova Scotia, National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, Hamilton Philharmonic, Orchestra London and Toronto Philharmonia, as well as the Kitchener-Waterloo, Thunder Bay, Windsor, and Niagara Symphonies.
Since moving to Ohio, Clark has recorded and performed extensively with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as with the Erie Philharmonic, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, CityMusic Cleveland, the Cleveland Opera, and the Chautauqua, Columbus, and Akron Symphony Orchestras. In addition to his classical work, Clark has performed with The Who, Weird Al Yankovic, Il Divo, Hanson, Roger Hodgson of Supertramp, among many others.
A dedicated teacher, Clark has given masterclasses at Illinois State, the College of Wooster, the Crane School of Music (SUNY Potsdam), and numerous Canadian universities. His etude book, 20 Interesting Etudes for the Developing Trumpet Player, is available from qPress Music Publishers.
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- Professor of Composition and Area Head of Integrative Studies
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- Associate Director
- Associate Director and Chair of Graduate Studies
- Professor of Trumpet Associate Director of Graduate Studies
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- Visiting Assistant Professor of Theory