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Donald Baldini
Artist in Residence, B.M.,
Indiana University.
Double Bass, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra, Jazz History
tel: (603) 358-2169 • email:
Bassist and teacher Don Baldini has lived in Vermont
for the past twelve years. Before coming to the area, Mr. Baldini had
a professional career as a studio musician in Los Angeles, touring and
performing with The Tonight Show, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mathis, Peggy
Lee, Tony Bennett, Helen Reddy, Paul Anka, Nancy Wilson, Teddy Wilson,
Andy Williams, Henry Mancini and The Tshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Band.
He can be heard on the sountracks of The Little Mermaid,
St. Elsewhere, The Love Boat, Charlie's Angels, Jaws II, Disneyworld,
Epcot Center and most recently with the Cincinnati Pops "Route
66" recording
of the music of Nelson Riddle, whom Mr. Baldini was closely associated
with in Los Angeles. he currently appears with the Vermont Symphony,
Dartmouth Symphony, Opera North, and The Keene Chamber Orchestra, as
well as several local chamber music and jazz groups in the region. Mr.
Baldini holds a degree in music from Indiana University and did graduate
studies at California State University at Northridge.
James Chesebrough
Assistant Professor,
B.M.E., Heidelberg College; M.M., D.M.A., University of Connecticut .
Concert Band, Instrumental Music Education, Conducting, Low Brass, Brass Methods
tel: (603) 358-2193 • email:
For twenty-six years he was a band director in public
schools in Ohio and New Hampshire. From 1983 - 2001 he worked as instructor
of low brass at Plymouth State University and was visiting conductor of
that school's Symphonic Band in 1999. In 1995-96 and again from 2001-2004
he served as the assistant conductor of the University of Connecticut
Wind Ensemble. In 2005-2006 he was the Visiting Music Director of the
Yale University Bands and has recently been named assistant professor
and Band Director at Keene State College. In 1998 the New Hampshire
Band Directors' Association honored him as their "Outstanding Band Director of the Year."
Joseph Darby
Professor,
B.M., College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; M.M.,
University of Illinois; Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate
Center.
Musicology, String Methods
tel: (603) 358-2140 • email:
His publications include Nicolas Slonimsky: The
First Hundred Years (Schirmer, 1994), Classic
Essays on Twentieth-Century Music (Schirmer,
1996), Dmitri Shostakovich’s Second, Third, and Fourth Symphonies (UMI, 1999). He has given scholarly presentations at a number
of leading universities in the U.S. on a wide range of topics, including
the music of Shostakovich, cultural politics in Soviet Russia, musical
life in eighteenth-century London, the life and music of G.F. Handel,
and interdisciplinary teaching in higher education. As a concert
violist, he leads an active freelance career in the northern New England
area, performing on faculty recitals, guest recital appearance, and
with the Monadnock Chorus Orchestra and the Keene Chamber Orchestra.
Professor Darby's current research projects involve eighteenth-century
concertos published by subscription in the United Kingdom, G.F. Handel's
music issued by subscription during the 1720s and 1730s, and concert life
in eighteenth-century London. He is presently working on a project
that identifies the music that Handel performed on his oratorio concerts
in the 1730s and 1740s. In addition, Professor Darby is at work producing
an index-catalog and digital preservation library of the Colony House Collection
of Recorded Sound in Keene, a collection of seventy rare wax-cylinder recordings
from 1890s and 1900s.
Heather Gilligan
Assistant Professor, B.S., Lehigh University, M.M., Longy
School of Music, D.M.A., Boston University.
Music Theory Coordinator, Composition, Piano
tel: (603) 358-2327 • email:
Dr. Heather Gilligan has lived in Boston for 13 years, where she has
been an active composer, pianist, and educator. She has written works
for Boston-based musicians, including Juventas New Music Ensemble, Lorelai
Ensemble, The Newton Symphony Orchestra, The Rivers School’s “Seminar
On Contemporary Music For the Young,” and The New Trio of Brookline.
Before coming to Keene State College, she taught music theory and aural
skills at Boston University and keyboard harmony at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. She also taught piano and music theory classes
at the Brookline Music School, where she served as coordinator of both
the piano and theory departments. At Keene State College, she teaches
music theory, aural skills, and composition.
Dr. Gilligan received her D.M.A. in Composition from Boston University,
where she studied with Richard Cornell, Ketty Nez, and Martin Amlin.
She earned her Masters degree in Composition from the Longy School of
Music, where she studied composition with Howard Frazin and Eric Sawyer.
She studied piano with Martha Marchena, Judith Gordon, Sally Pinkas,
and Randall Hodgkinson. In 2007, she won the Malloy Miller Prize in
Composition and the Boston University Department Honor Award. She won
the 2002 Honors Competition at the Longy School of Music and the 2001
Call For Scores by the Longy Chamber Orchestra. In summer of 2002, she
studied composition at La Schola Cantorum in Paris, under the auspices
of the European American Musical Alliance, studying counterpoint with
Philip Lasser and composition with Michel Merlet. She also holds a bachelors
degree in Chemistry from Lehigh University.
Maura Glennon, Department Chair
Professor,
B.M., University of Tennessee at Martin; M.M., D.M., Florida State
University.
Piano, Accompanying, Piano Literature and Ensemble
tel: (603) 358-2157 • email:
Maura Glennon received her masters and doctoral degrees
in piano performance from Florida State University, with specializations
in chamber music and accompanying. A member of the MTNA and College
Music Society since 1986, she is in command as a collaborative pianist,
soloist, adjudicator, and lecturer. She is the recipient of numerous
honors and awards, including top prizes in the Florida Chopin Competition,
the Florida Orchestra Concerto Competition, the MTNA Collegiate Chamber
Music Competition, the Carmel Chamber Music Competition, and the Fischoff
Chamber Music Competition. She has performed throughout the United States
and abroad as a collaborative pianist with violinists Victor Romanul
and Nadya Canahuati, and as a soloist with the Florida Orchestra, Monadnock
Chorus Orchestra, Keene State College Orchestra, and Karlovy Vary Symphony
Orchestra of the Czech Republic. Performances in the 2006 season included
a series of chamber music recitals throughout New England with violinist
Kathy Andrew and cellist Judith Serkin, and a cello and piano recital
in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with cellist Astrid Schween of
the Lark Quartet. Glennon is an Associate Professor of Music at Keene
State College, where she has taught applied piano, keyboard literature,
piano ensemble, accompanying, opera workshop, and chamber music since
1998.
Sandra Howard
Assistant Professor,
B.M.E., M.M., University of Maine; Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas
City
Choral and General Music Education, Chamber Singers
tel: (603) 358-2344 • email:
Dr. Sandra Howard earned a bachelor degree of music education and master’s degree in vocal performance from the University of Maine and a doctoral degree in music education/curriculum and instruction from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She taught choral and general music at Kennett Middle and Senior High Schools in Conway, New Hampshire. Howard also served as adjunct faculty member at Granite State College in New Hampshire, Blue River Community College in Missouri, and at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dr. Howard has worked with singers of all ages including preschoolers to senior citizens and is an active conductor/clinician for honor choruses across the United States.
She currently serves as an assistant professor of music at Keene State College where she teaches courses in general and choral methods, supervises methods practicum and student teaching, and directs Canticum Novum, a 10-member vocal chamber ensemble. She was recently appointed as director of the community-based Chamber Singers of Keene. Recent performances include the North American premiere of Jose Lezcano's "Canciones de Lluvia", soloist for Amy Beach's "Sea-Fairies", featured soloist with KSC Concert Band's performance of selected folk songs by Vaughan Williams, and as a member of the New Hampshire Master Chorale under the direction of Dr. Daniel Perkins.
Dr. Howard has presented research and workshops at SRME Research Symposium, ACDA, and MENC regional and national conferences. Research interests include visual biases in vocal performance evaluation, body mapping techniques in the choral rehearsal, music educators’ interpersonal skills, singers’ motivation, and female researcher contributions to music education. Dr. Howard’s scholarship has been published in the "Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education" and "Teaching Music". She serves as the NHACDA treasurer and R & S chair for Student & Youth Activities. She currently serves on the advisory board for the "Music Educators Journal" and is active in NHMEA, MENC, CMS, and ISME.
Carroll J. Lehman
Professor, B.S.,
Eastern Mennonite College; M.A., D.M.A., University of Iowa.
Voice, Oratorio Society
tel: (603) 358-2179 • email:
Dr. Carroll J. Lehman received his Master’s and
Doctor’s degrees in vocal performance from the University of Iowa
where he studied with the late Albert Gammon. He has been a member of
Keene State College Faculty since 1978. Prior to that time he was on
the faculties of Hope College, Holland, Michigan and Western Washington
University in Bellingham, Washington. Dr. Lehman studied voice privately
with Hermanus Baer in Chicago, Leon Lishner in Seattle and in 1984 spent
six months in Salzburg, Austria studying with Rudolf Knoll at the Mozarteum.
As a bass-baritone he has performed more than 20 principal roles in
opera including all three major bass/baritone roles, Figaro, Dr. Bartolo,
and Count, in Le Nozze di Figaro, Germont in La Traviata, Jupiter in
Orpheus in the Underworld and Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte, El Capitan
in Sousa’s El Capitan, and Peachum in Gay’s Beggar’s
Opera. He has performed recitals in Iowa, Michigan, Washington, Pennsylvania,
Virginia and New Hampshire. Since coming to the Northeast, he has been
engaged to perform the bass solos in many of the major choral works
for chorus and orchestra with groups in many New England cities including
Concord, Keene, Peterborough, Nashua, Plymouth and Manchester. He has
performed as soloist with the Nashua, New Hampshire, and the Vermont
Symphonies,
Dr. Lehman has successfully taught many voice students
over his thirty years of teaching, many going on to study and earn degrees
from some of the best graduate schools and conservatories including
Julliard, Shenandoah, Boston and New England Conservatories, Boston
University, Eastman and Florida State University. His students have
won National Association of Teachers of Singers (NATS) competitions
at the state and regional levels. He has adjudicated vocal competitions
for NATS and Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) at the state,
regional and national levels.
José Lezcano
Professor, B.S.,
Peabody Conservatory of Music; M.M., University of South Carolina;
Ph.D., Florida State University.
Guitar, Guitar Orchestra, Latin American Music
tel: (603) 358-2180 • email:
Described by the New Millennium Guitar Magazine as
"a superb guitarist as well as a first-rate composer and arranger" José
Manuel Lezcano has captivated audiences on four continents. His programs
featuring both classical and Andean music have taken him as recitalist,
collaborative musician, and concerto soloist from Carnegie Recital
Hall in New York City to major venues and festivals in Ecuador, Colombia,
Peru, Brazil, China, the Czech Republic and Germany.
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1960, Lezcano was invited to join the faculty
of Keene State College in New Hampshire in 1991, where he is Professor
of Music and teaches courses in guitar, music theory, and Latin American
music; he directs the Guitar Orchestra and Latin American ensemble.
He earned degrees from Peabody Conservatory (BM), University of South
Carolina (MM), and Florida State University (Ph.d. music theory) where
his teachers included Aaron Shearer and Christopher Berg. He also
participated in master classes taught by Michael Lorimer, Sharon Isbin,
and Leo Brouwer the noted Cuban guitarist and composer who referred
to him as "a magnificent guitarist --un guitarista magnifico."
Dr. Lezcano's own Guitar Concerto (2004), which he premiered in New
York City as soloist with the North-South Consonance Chamber Orchestra
directed by Max Lifschitz, has received critical acclaim after release
on the North-South label in 2007 as "Remembrances/Recuerdos." Fanfare
Magazine wrote, "Colorfully scored ... agreeable music, and dashingly
performed by the composer." Turok's Choice wrote, "Lezcano's
Guitar Concerto (is) a first-rate composition ... Lezcano is a fine
guitarist in his own cause." And the American Record Guide wrote, "Amiability
is the keynote in the latest collection .. by the excellent North-South
Chamber Orchestra ... Lezcano's Guitar Concerto is a atmospheric,
tuneful melange." In September, 2008, Dr. Lezcano is scheduled
to perform the concerto with the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Peru.
Dr. Lezcano's works include two additional concerti, a song cycle,
a choral suite, chamber music, and solos, written in an eclectic,
expressive, but accessible language that is praised for "energy" and "soaring
melodies" (Flute Talk). His chamber works with guitar, published
by Alry and Tuscany, have been performed by major artists including
Ricardo Cobo, Antigoni Goni, Duo Fresco, the Alturas Duo, and William
Bennet. A recent CD by Ms. Goni, "Songs from the New Village," on
Koch International, includes José's Sonatina
Tropical.
José has earned numerous awards, including first prize in the MTNA
National Guitar Competition, the NH State Arts Council Individual
Artist Fellowship, NHMTA Composer of the Year (2002 & 07), KSC
Distinguished Research Award, and a Fulbright Award to Ecuador where
he performed as orchestral soloist and pursued research on indigenous
guitar traditions. Most recently, three of his works received New
York premieres (his guitar and viola concerti, and Tango-Overture)
by orchestras North-South Consonance and the Astoria Symphony with
soloist Brett Deubner.
Craig Sylvern
Professor, B.M., B.M.E., M.M., Florida State University;
D.M.A.,
Ohio State University.
Saxophone, Music Technology, Saxophone Ensemble, Woodwind
Methods
tel: (603) 358-2185 • email:
Craig Sylvern came to Keene State in 1998 from Plattsburgh
State University, where he served as Visiting Assistant Professor. He holds
a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in composition from The Ohio State University,
Master of Music degree in performance (multiple winds) and Bachelor of
Music degrees in composition and music education from The Florida State
University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
As a professional saxophonist, he has performed with symphony orchestras
in Florida, South Carolina, Ohio, California, New York, Connecticut, and
New Hampshire. He has also toured for many years as tenor saxophonist with
Keith Brion and his New Sousa Band. He can be heard on recordings with
the New Sousa Band, the New Hudson Saxophone Quartet, and the Ohio State
University Concert Band. In addition to his work as a classical saxophonist,
he has performed with professional big bands in Florida, Ohio, Massachusetts,
and New Hampshire. His other performance credits include the Off-Broadway
production of Nunsense and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Currently he performs
as a member of the Keene Jazz Orchestra.
His compositions have had premieres throughout North America. His work Roku, for tenor saxophone and percussion, received
its world premiere at the 12th World Saxophone Congress, in Montreal. At
Keene State, he established, and coordinates, the annual Faculty Composers
Concert, now in its 11th year. An active presenter, he has spoken at
state and regional conferences throughout New England and the Eastern United States and also at the 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference
on Arts and Humanities.
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