2019 AMEA Conference Program Book

Alabama Alabama MUSIC MUSIC EDUCATORS EDUCATORS Association Association

2019

January 17-19, 2019

Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex

Professional Development Conference

The University of Alabama Bands

bands.ua.edu

2019 CRIMSON LEADERSHIP & MUSIC CAMPS

CRIMSON LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

June 10-11, 2019

CRIMSON MUSIC CAMPS

Majorette Camp - June 12-15, 2019

Marching Percussion Camp - June 12-15, 2019

Concert Band Camp - June 12-15, 2019

Registration opens online: March 1, 2019 bands.ua.edu/programs/crimsoncamp

Hello AMEA! Welcome to the 2019 Professional Development Conference of the Alabama Music Educators Association. This will be a great time to recharge our musical batteries, renew old relationships, and make new friends. My hope is that each of you will make a special effort to expand your circle of interest while in Birmingham this year. AMEA will become stronger as an organization as our personal relationships grow and expand. Together and unified, we can be a very powerful voice to represent the interests of our students and positively impact their lives.

We are very pleased to have Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser as our Keynote Speaker at the General Session on Friday at 10:30 a.m. Tim has long been a powerful voice for music education advocacy and a dynamic speaker. You will not want to miss Dr. Tim! We will also enjoy a performance by the Alabama Youth Symphony Orchestra at the General Session.

Our Thursday evening concert hours are absolutely full of opportunities to support our colleagues and students as they display their musical efforts. You will be able to see the Thompson High School Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jon Bubbett, The University of Alabama at Birmingham Wind Symphony under the direction of Sean Murray, The Alabama School of Fine Arts Choir under the direction of Cathy Spence, The Vestavia Hills High School Honor Choir under the direction of Megan Rudolph, and The University of North Alabama Chamber Choir under the direction of Ian Loeppky. And if that is not enough for one evening, at 10:00 p.m. Randall Coleman will conduct a concert by the Alabama Winds.

The Friday evening concert hour this year will feature the University of Alabama Women’s Chorus conducted by Marvin Latimer and The Alabama Intercollegiate Band conducted by Dennis Zeisler. We will also be presenting all of the 2019 AMEA Awards on Friday evening during the General Session. Saturday’s concert session will feature the All-State Jazz Bands. In addition to all these concert opportunities, we have a completely full offering of clinics and interest sessions. There is absolutely something for everybody!

The AMEA Leadership Assembly Breakfast will get the conference started Thursday morning. This assembly was started to encourage and promote the cultivation of leadership across our organization. We will hear from Dian Eddelman, President of the NAfME Southern Division during our breakfast. Look for her at several other sessions during the conference as she is excited to experience as much as she can while with us in Alabama. I would like to make a special request that everyone visit the exhibits and support the merchants and vendors who make this conference possible. Please express our gratitude for their attendance and support of our organization.

I want to thank the AMEA Officers and Board Members who have worked so diligently to make this conference one to remember. A very special thank you as well to our Executive Director and Editor Garry Taylor, and our Assistant Executive Director Rusty Logan for all of their efforts to ensure the success of our Professional Development Conference. I would be remiss if I did not also mention the efforts of Dr. Carl Hancock as our webmaster. We have been attacked, hacked, and dismantled several times over the past few months and Carl has worked day and night repairing, rebuilding, and renewing our web presence and process. Thank you, Gentlemen!

Finally…Thank You so much for making a difference in the lives of our students! This conference was designed with you and your students as the number one priority. So learn as much as you can, network with each other, have a great time, take your rejuvenated spirit back to your classrooms, and let your students see your passion for music education.

Respectfully Submitted,

Greg Gumina, AMEA President

AMEA Officers and Governing Board

President ............................Greg Gumina

President-Elect............................... ..............David Raney

Immediate Past President............... ............................................Susan Smith

Treasurer/Registrar........................ ..................Pat Stegall

Recording Secretary........................ ..........Carla Gallahan

Executive Director.......................... ................Garry Taylor

Assistant Executive Director ........................................................Rusty Logan

ABA President.............................. .................................................Doug Farris

AOA President........................... ..............Guy Harrison

AVA President............................ ......................Meg Jones

Elementary/General Pesident.......... ............Phil Wilson

Higher Education President............. .........................................Mildred Lanier

Collegiate Advisor............................ ............................Edward “Ted” Hoffman

Collegiate President............................. ..Jordan Hare

Industry Membership Representative Becky Lightfoot

Editor, Ala Breve Magazine................... ........Garry Taylor

ALSDE, Arts Education Specialist .......................................... Andy Meadows

AMEA President’s Cabinet

Advocacy Chair Rob Lyda

AP Music Theory Chair Mararet Heron

Copyright Compliance Chair ........................................................Franklin Bell

Diversity in Music Education Chair ...........................................Carlton Wright

Emerging Leaders Chair Susan Smith

Grant Writing Chair Craig Cagle

Harmonizing Instruments Chair David Allinder

Health and Wellness Chair .....................................................Stephanie Ezell

Historian Frank Buck

Jazz Education Chair Kim Bain

Media Specialist Carl Hancock

Membership Chair ..........................................................................Pat Stegall

Mission and Vision Chair ............................................................David Raney

Music Reviewer - Band Randall Coleman

Music Reviewer - Choral William Powell

Music Reviewer - ELEM/GEN Deanna Bell and Rob Lyda

Music Reviewer - Jazz Matt Leder

Research Chair ...........................................................................Jane Kuehne

Retired Member Chair Jim Knight

Sexual Harrassment and Safety Chair Deanna Bell

Special Education Chair Ellary Draper

Teacher Education Chair .............................................Edward “Ted” Hoffman

Technology Chair .....................................................................Keith Anderson

DEGREES

BM with Concentration in Music Education (Instrumental or Vocal)

BM with Concentration in Performance (Instrumental or Vocal)

BM with Concentration in Elective Studies (Business)

BM with Concentration in Elective Studies (Speci昀c Outside Fields)

MM in Music Education (General, Instrumental, or Vocal)

MM in Performance (Brass, Percussion, Piano, Voice or Woodwind)

MM in Collaborative Keyboard

Music Minor

ENSEMBLES

INSTRUMENTAL

Wind Ensemble

Symphony Band

University Band

Symphony Orchestra

String Ensemble

Jaguar Marching Band

Jaguar Pep Band

Jazz Ensemble

VOCAL

University Chorale

USA Opera Theatre

USA Concert Choir

CHAMBER

Flute Choir

Clarinet Ensemble

Trumpet Ensemble

Trombone Ensemble

Tuba Euphonium Ensemble

Chamber Brass Ensembles

Chamber Woodwind Ensembles

Percussion Ensemble

USA Steel Band

USA World Music Ensembles

Piano Ensemble

Guitar Ensemble

AUDITION DATES

January 12, 2019

February 9, 2019

March 2, 2019 (vocal only)

March 9, 2019 (instrumental only)

April 6, 2019

For more Information about AUDITION DATES, call 251-460-6136

2019 Conference Featured Speakers

Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, Keynote Speaker

Tim Lautzenheiser began his teaching career at Northern Michigan University. He then moved to the University of Missouri, and from there to New Mexico State University. During that time, Tim developed highly acclaimed groups in both instrumental and vocal music. Following his tenure in the college band directing world, he spent three years with McCormick’s Enterprises working as Executive Director of Bands of America. In 1981, Tim created Attitude Concepts for Today, Inc., an organization designed to manage the many requests for teacher inservice workshops, student leadership seminars, and convention speaking engagements focusing on the area of effective leadership training. After thirty-plus years of clinic presentations, some three million students have experienced one of his popular sessions. Tim presently ser ves as Vice President of Education for Conn-Selmer, Inc. He is a nationally recognized voice touting the importance of arts education for every child. His books, produced by G.I.A. Publications, Inc., continue to be bestsellers in the educational community. He is also co-author of popular band method, Essential Elements, as well as the Senior Educational Consultant for Hal Leonard, Inc. Tim is also the Senior Educational Advisor for Music for All, and NAMM (The National Association of Music Merchants). He holds degrees from Ball State University and the University of Alabama; in 1995 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the VanderCook College of Music. He continues to teach as an adjunct faculty member at Ball State University, Indiana-Purdue/Ft. Wayne University, and Butler University. In addition, he is a member of the Midwest Clinic Board of Directors and the Western International Band Clinic/American Band College Board of Directors. He is presently the Chair of the National Association for Music Education Music Honor Society (Tri-M).

Dian Eddleman, Immediate Past-President of the Tennessee Music Education Association is presently Director of Choral Activities at the University School of Jackson, Jackson, Tennessee. She previously served as President of West Tennessee Vocal Music Education Association and as a longtime board member of TMEA and WTVMEA. An experienced K-12 music teacher, active clinician and adjudicator Mrs. Eddleman holds numerous awards for teaching and leadership from district, regional and state organizations. Her honors include selection to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, National Honor Roll Outstanding America Teachers, Governor’s School for the Arts Outstanding Teacher, and Who’s Who Among Professional Women. She was nominated for “Teacher of the Year with the Jackson Madison County Schools and is a member of NAfME, TMEA, WTVMEA and ACDA. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harding University with post-graduate work at the University of Memphis and the Juilliard School.

2019 Alabama Intercollegiate Band Clinician

Dennis J. Zeisler has been on the faculty of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia for more than three decades, serving as Director of Bands, Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, and Chairman of the Music Department. Under his direction, the Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble has developed into a premier performing ensemble. They have recorded for TRN Music Publishers and Frank Erickson Publications and have been featured in concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. While serving as former Chair for fifteen years, he led the steady growth of the Old Dominion University Music Department at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Professor Zeisler has a B.M., B.M.E., and M.M. from the University of Michigan, where he was solo clarinetist of the Symphony Band, under the direction of Dr. William D. Revelli. He was solo clarinetist of the Detroit Concert Band, under the direction of Dr. Leonard Smith, and clarinet soloist with the United States Military Academy Band at West Point. Mr. Zeisler had his New York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in May 1974 and has performed at three International Clarinet Society Conferences. For 31 years, he was on the faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan where he was principal clarinet in the faculty orchestra and conductor of faculty and staff ensembles, and on the international conducting staff. In 1998, Professor Zeisler was awarded membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. In 1999, he received the Orpheus Award from Phi Mu Alpha for, “significant and lasting contributions to the cause of Music in America,” and the Virginia Music Educator of the Year Award from the Virginia Music Educators Association. In 2004 he received the National Band Association Mentor Award, and in 2009 was awarded a University Professorship at Old Dominion University, for excellence in teaching. He is founder and conductor of the Virginia Wind Symphony, a professional wind group comprised of primarily music educators from throughout the area of southeastern Virginia. The Virginia Wind Symphony has recorded five commercial compact discs, has been featured in concert at conventions for the American Bandmasters Association (2004, 2011), and has appeared in concerts and sessions at The Midwest Clinic (2004, 2012, 2017). Zeisler is past President of the Southern Division of CBDNA, for mer Virginia State Chair of the National Band Association and the International Clarinet Society. He is Past-President of NASM Region VII and is currently chair of the NBA Merrill-Jones Composition Contest, on the Board of Directors of the John Phillip Sousa Foundation and the Midwest Clinic. Zeisler was the 77th President (2014) of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA). Dennis has four children and two grandchildren and resides in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife Carol.

Dian Eddleman, NAfME Southern Division President

Dennis J. Zeisler

2019 All-State Jazz Band Clinicians

Gold Band - Ronald Carter is Distinguished Professor, UNC-Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. He is the former director of the world-renowned Northern Illinois University (NIU) Jazz Ensemble and former Director of Jazz Studies and is continuing to educate students in jazz education and performance on university, high school and performing arts schools and campuses across the country, South America and Canada. He has performed, conducted and presented clinics at regional, national, and international conferences, and directed all-state jazz bands in Illinois, Indiana, Rhode Island, Missouri, Texas, Wisconsin, Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Kentucky, Vermont, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington, Oregon and Massachusetts. Carter conducted the Florida State University

Tri-State All-Star Jazz Band in 2017. An abbreviated list of his honors and awards includes Downbeat Magazine’s Jazz Educators Hall of Fame, The Woody Herman Music Award (Birch Creek Music Center), The 1991 Milken National Distinguished Educator Award, Southern Illinois University Excellence in Teaching Award, and the St. Louis American Newspaper’s Excellence in Teaching Award and Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees Professorship. Recently accepted appointment as Felton J. Capel Distinguished Professor of Performing and Fine Arts UNC – Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC. Carter’s projects include former International Consultant for the Essentially Ellington Jazz Competition sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; former Lead Artist for the Jazz At Lincoln Center Band Director’s Academy; Co-Author for Alfred Publications “Swingin’ On The Bars”, and co-author of GIA Music Publications

“Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz – Book I & II as well as a contributing author to the Beginning Jazz Ensemble Textbook. Carter is currently an artist for Conn-Selmer Inc. and D’Addario Woodwinds –(Rico Reeds)

Silver Band - Jerry Tolson is professor of jazz studies and music education at the University of Louisville, where he is chair of the music education division, directs instrumental and vocal jazz ensembles and teaches jazz pedagogy, jazz style, jazz history, and African American Music classes. He is a clinician for Alfred Music, a consultant for Pearson Educational Publishing, and serves as an adjudicator, guest conductor, and jazz camp instructor internationally. A graduate of Drake University and the University of North Texas, Tolson has made presentations at state, regional, and national Music Education conferences, the International Association for Jazz Education Conference, Jazz Education Network, and the Midwest Clinic. as well as universities in the U.S. and abroad. Tolson’s articles have appeared in Music Educator’s Journal, Jazz Educator’s Journal, The Journal of Jazz Studies, and The Instrumentalist, and he is a contributor to the following publications: Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz, (ed. Carter and Miles), Jazz Pedagogy: The Jazz Educator’s Handbook and Resource Guide (Dunscomb and Hill), and The Jazzer’s Cookbook: Creative Recipes for Players and Teachers. Tolson has been named to “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers”, and has received the Kentucky Music Educators “College Teacher of the Year” award and the University of Louisville Distinguished Faculty Service and Multicultural Teaching Awards. Tolson has served as a board member of the University of Louisville Athletic Association, the University Club of Louisville, and IAJE. His other professional memberships include the American Federation of Musicians, Jazz Education Network, ASCAP, NARAS, College Music Society, National Band Association, Louisville Jazz Society, and National Association for Music Education.

Bronze Band - Dr. Wes Parker has served as the Director of Jazz Studies at North Carolina State University since 2006. He directs the jazz ensembles, coaches jazz combos, teaches jazz history and jazz improvisation, instructs students in the low brass studio, and served as the Assistant Director of the NC State Marching Band from 2006-2010. Dr. Parker holds a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Tennessee Tech University, a Master of Music in Performance from the University of Southern Mississippi and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Trombone Performance and Pedagogy from the same university. Parker’s trombone playing has been heard in jazz ensembles and orchestras throughout the United States. As an active freelance musician, Parker has performed with such artists as Branford Marsalis, Ellis Marsalis, Michael Feinstein, Josh Groban, Aretha Franklin, Regis Philbin, Placido Domingo, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Temptations, and the Pointer Sisters. Under Parker’s direction, the NC State Jazz Ensemble has shared the stage with such great jazz musicians as Wayne Bergeron, Jeff Coffin, Bobby Shew, Chris Vadala, and Harry Watters. An active clinician, Dr. Parker has worked with middle school, high school, and collegiate jazz ensembles, as well as numerous marching bands throughout the Southeast. Prior to his appointment at NC State, he served as the interim professor of trombone at The University of Southern Mississippi and spent time teaching public school in Mississippi and Oklahoma.

Middle School Band - Mr. Earnest Echols is the associate director of bands at Minor High School. He has taught in Alabama, Georgia and Florida since 2002. Mr. Echols attended the University of Alabama and where he earned his BSE and MM. He has taught in several countries including Kenya, Zambia, Italy, Spain, Canada, and England. Mr. Echols is an active performer on piano and trumpet. His most recent recording project, “...For Love, Life and Music” is available on iTunes” and features him on both instruments. Mr. Echols teaches students the knowledge that he has gained over a lifespan performing in the Marching, Concert, and Jazz idioms. Mr. Echols is a former member of Florida Bandmasters Association, Florida Vocal Association, and the Florida Orchestral Association, and a current member of NAfME, ABA, and AEA.

Exhibit Hall Reception

Thursday, January 17

4:30 - 5:30 PM

Sheraton Hotel Birmingham Ballroom (Exhibit Hall)

Hors d'oeuvres and Cash/Coupon Bar Support our Sponsors!

Burns Travel Group Travel Network

Maxx Mailing

Southern Performances

Stanbury Uniforms

Lobby Performances

Thursday, January 17, 2019

11:15 am UNA Contemporary Ensemble

12:30 pm Trinity Brass

1:30 pm UNA Trombone Quartet

2:30 pm Hoover High School Grace Note

3:30 pm Oak Mountain Wind Ensemble Chamber Musicians

4:30 pm ASFA String Ensemble

Friday, January 18, 2019

8:30 am A.H. Parker High School Thundering Herd Chamber Singers

9:30 am UNA Horn Quartet

12:00 pm Paul W. Bryant High School Chamber Ensemble

3:30 pm Troy University Trombone Quartet/Octet

4:30 pm

The University of North Alabama Department of Music offers scholarships to quali昀ed music majors and minors in all instrumental, vocal, and piano programs through auditions. Participants in University Ensembles may be eligible for a Performance Award regardless of academic major.

Concert s

Friday at a Glance

Clinic

Alabama Intercollegiate Band Rehearsal Schedule BJCC East Meeting Rooms N-O (3rd floor)

Wednesday, Jan. 16 6:30-7:00 pm - Directors Meeting (Samford University)

7:00-9:00 pm - Seating Auditions (Samford University)

Thursday, Jan. 17

Rehearsals (BJCC East N-O)

am. - 12:30 pm

- 5:00 pm

- 9:00 pm

Friday, Jan. 18

Rehearsals (BJCC East N-O) 8:30 - 11:30 am

- 3:00 pm

Final Rehearsal 4:30-5:30 pm (BJCC Theater)

Performance Friday, Jan. 18, 8:30 pm (BJCC Theater)

Concert s

Clinic Sessions

Other Events

Rehearsal Schedules at a Glance

All-State Jazz Bands Rehearsal Schedule BJCC East Meeting Rooms D, F, J, and L (3rd floor)

Thursday, Jan. 17

Registration 1:00 - 2:00 pm (East Meeting Room 3rd Floor Lobby) Rehearsals 2:00 - 5:00 pm 7:00 - 9:00

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Saturday, Jan. 19 Final Rehearsal (BJCC Theater) 8:00 -

Performance Saturday, Jan. 19, 10:30 am (BJCC Theater)

5:00‐7:00 PM AMEA Governing Board Meeting ‐ Sheraton MR 407

5:00‐7:00 PM AVA Scholarship Auditions ‐ Sheraton MR 403

7:15‐9:30 PM ABA Governing Board Meeting ‐ Sheraton MR 410

7:15‐9:30 PM AOA Governing Board Meeting ‐ Sheraton MR 405

7:15‐9:30 PM

AVA Governing Board Meeting ‐ Sheraton MR 403

7:15‐9:30 PM Collegiate Division Governing Board Meeting ‐ Sheraton MR 407

7:45‐8:45 AM AMEA Leadership Breakfast ‐ BJCC East A‐B (1st Floor)

2019 Conference Schedule

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

8:00 AM‐5:00 PM Conference Registration Open ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom Lobby

9:00‐10:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Philip Stockton: Creating a Sequential Approach to Musicianship

Thursday, January 17, 2019

The purpose of this session is to give teachers a way to sequence literature selection, vocal technique instruction and sight‐reading to create musicianship as a cohesive unit. This method will promote more efficiency in the rehearsal process and create a more expressive musician.

9:00‐10:00 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Michael Zelenak: Contextual Understanding, Artistic Expression, and Planned Supports: Strategies for Addressing the Challenges of edTPA

Many pre‐service music education candidates are comfortable creating lesson plans that develop knowledge and skills. To be successful on the edTPA, however, lesson plans must also make connections to contextual understandings and artistic expression. In addition, the educator must implement planned supports to facilitate learning among the whole class and specified individuals. In this session, the presenter will provide strategies to incorporate contextual understanding, artistic expression, and planned support into a knowledge and skill‐based lesson.

9:00‐10:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Jason Sulliman: Wellness and Injury Prevention for the Music Teacher and Performing Artist

What we do as musicians and teachers is not conducive to healthy bodies. With no emphasis on preventative wellness or rehabilitation, we open ourselves to injury. Even small issues can cause big problems for our careers. I offer a basic overview of static muscle use, myalgia, repetitive stress, etc. and simple techniques to better balance our ambitious schedules. These techniques can be implemented into our teaching as well as our personal lifestyles and keep our bodies balanced and healthy.

9:00‐10:00 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum Theater (2nd Floor)

Justin White/Michael Chambless: From Fussing to Focused: A Positive Approach to Teaching 6‐12 Grade Band

This session will focus on how to plan a positively productive rehearsal that keeps students engaged on learning musical concepts while accomplishing the rehearsal needs of your musical literature. We will discuss in detail how to organize your plans,utilize rhythm and melody sheets, incorporate various technologies, and how this all yields a positive teaching approach that makes your students feel good about making music! These topics will be demonstrated in various classroom settings from beginner band through senior year and everything in between.

9:00‐10:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Sheraton Forum G (3rd Floor)

Michael Guzman/Michelle Gann: Who’s Line Is It Anyway? A Detailed Approach to Developing and Enhancing Your Band’s Sightreading Skills

Sight‐reading is an integral part of the band curriculum. This session will provide attendees with evidence‐based sight‐reading practices, as well as various other sight‐reading procedures that will help directors further develop their present‐level techniques, as well as valuable tips to apply in the sight reading room at evaluation.

9:00‐10:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Sheraton Forum J (3rd Floor)

Stephanie Porter: Reading in Music and Recording on a Budget

As music educators we are constantly fighting the battle to keep music in the schools. In order to make music more prevalent to education than it already is, we must advocate for ourselves. Enhancing reading instruction through music is one way to do this. In this session we will discuss my Master's research project and how simple, composed, melodies help with retention of story details. We will also be discussing setting up to record your students and track mixing within budget parameters.

9:00 AM‐4:30 PM

10:15‐11:15 AM

FAME ‐ Forum E (2nd Floor)

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Elizabeth Hearn: Dance With The One Who Brought You: A Rationale For Maintaining Choral Ensemble Identity

Due to staffing issues, scheduling challenges, and many other external and internal forces currently impacting choral music programs, there exists a trend nationally toward choral teachers combining individual choir classes to create larger ensembles for performances. This practice appears to be especially prevalent among Alabama choral teachers. Regardless of whether this approach is a result of personal preference or a response to the many real‐world challenges choral teachers face, important pedagogical, artistic, and developmental issues exist that should be considered. This session will examine some of those issues as it presents a rationale for maintaining choral ensemble identity as much as possible. It will include a panel discussion with a cross section of Alabama choral teachers who will discuss, by relating their personal experiences, the positive and negative considerations related to combining ensembles.

10:15‐11:15 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Megan Rudolph: My Journey with Reese: A Student Born a Female Transitioning to Male

Reese is a senior this year who started taking Testosterone Therapy in May of 2018. Come along on a journey through the changes that came along with taking testosterone and how to address them in your performing ensemble. Examples of the voice change will be played, as well as interviews with Reese regarding what was going on emotionally during this process. This case study will hopefully help directors understand how to handle the vocal change as well as the physical changes that take place. Conversations of how best to address these changes in class as well as how to help the student taking Testosterone Therapy will be discussed . This is a great session to bring your questions about this emerging topic in education.

10:15‐11:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Bob Phillips: Beginning Strings ‐ The First Two years are Critical

Learn ideas and tips for teaching technique, aural skills, musicianship, and reading to young players from a master of large group instruction. Areas to be covered include: pedagogy, classroom management, group process, and delivery skills. What are the factors of success that insure your students will play well, be engaged and, most of all, continue in music?

10:15‐11:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum Theater (2nd Floor)

Ted Scalzo: Up Close and Personal with SmartMusic: An Introduction to the Software

Whether you want to teach notes and rhythms more easily, have students learn new repertoire, improve practice, or provide individualized feedback, New SmartMusic can help. The new web‐based SmartMusic will work on any device that uses the Chrome browser and is connected to the internet. This opens the door for thousands of students in 1:1 programs, allowing access to the platform and personalized learning. In this clinic you’ll learn about the features in New SmartMusic and how it’s now accessible to more students. Features include: Immediate feedback in real time, easy looping for practice, automatic reflow of music on screen, importing new content with MusicXML files, a built‐in music notation editor, badges to reward student practice, and more.

10:15‐11:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Viktoria Truesdail: Buckets, Balls and Cans...Oh My!

This hands‐on session will build upon techniques shared in Bucket Drumming and Beyond presented at AMEA in 2018. Participants will review the rhythmic learning and syllabic approach to bucket drumming. This will be followed by an exciting introduction to hand drumming (on coffee cans). The session will close with participants playing rhythmic patterns on cardio balls, while moving to popular music. This new "cardio" craze brings the cross‐curricular connection of physical education into the music classroom, while teaching form and repetition. All of this can then be taken into the classroom and modeled for students, so they can perform, compose and enjoy their own pieces!

10:30‐11:15 AM

11:15 AM

ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC Theater

Liberty Park Middle School 7th and 8th Grade Band ‐ Jody Bryant, Conductor

Lobby Performance: UNA Contemporary Ensemble

11:30 AM

Grand Opening of the Exhibits ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom

11:30 AM‐5:30 PM Exhibits Open ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom

12:00‐1:00 PM HED Luncheon ‐ BJCC East A‐B (1st Floor)

12:00‐1:00 PM Past President’s Luncheon ‐ BJCC East C (1st Floor)

12:00‐1:00 PM

12:30 PM

1:00‐2:00 PM

FAME Luncheon ‐ Forum H‐I (3rd Floor)

Lobby Performance: Trinity Brass

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Benjamin Fraley: Cross Collaborations ‐ Connecting Percussion and Woodwinds

Cross Collaborations: Connecting Percussion and Woodwinds will explore rehearsal techniques and musical considerations that may enhance collaborative performances between woodwind and percussion instruments. Often, musicians do not fully consider the specifics of other instruments they are performing with, which means that rehearsals and performances may not reach their fullest potential. This clinic, presented by Sources Duo, (Dr. Benjamin Fraley, percussion and Dr. Jennifer Fraley, clarinet) will highlight woodwind and percussion collaboration through a variety of repertoire from numerous time periods and genres to demonstrate interpretive and technical elements involved in successful rehearsals and performances.

1:00‐2:00 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Anne Witt: Classroom Management ‐ Systems and Routines

All of us strive to be good managers ‐ of our students and of the environment ‐ and we know the importance of having effective "systems and routines." However, in the fast‐moving pace of teaching, we may inadvertently overlook some significant aspects of classroom dynamics. Be a part of this INTERACTIVE session by sharing successful things you already do ‐ or bring questions you have.

1:00‐2:00 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum Auditorium (2nd Floor)

Franklin Bell: Copyright Law for Music Educators

The Session will include an overview of copyright law specifically addressing the unique concerns faced by music educators. The presenter will explain how to obtain copyrights, what actions are protected by copyrights, and how music educators can work within existing copyright law to accomplish their educational goals. The presenter will also address the evolving relationship between copyright law and the internet.

1:00‐2:00 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Kristi Howze: Let's Put On a Show

Everyone has those times in your school year where you are expected to have your students perform. Whether it is a simple demonstration for a parent group or a fully staged musical these times can interrupt your program and create a tremendous work load. After twenty‐four years of teaching, and having directed over 75 productions, I have developed some tried and true techniques for producing a quality performance. During the session I will share how to audition and select parts for both large and small groups, organization tips that help lessen the workload, and tips for creating sets, props, and costumes easily

1:00‐2:00 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum K (3rd Floor)

Travis Perry: Help! I Teach Guitar and Need More Tricks to Differentiate!

ChordBuddy makes beginning guitar easy and fun for all! Music educators who use ChordBuddy often share that they wish they had found it sooner. Having just one ChordBuddy in your classroom that is reserved for a struggling player, will change the dynamic of your classroom. Come to this session and learn how to use the ChordBuddy to teach, assess, and engage students through technology.

1:00‐2:45 PM

ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC Theater

Oak Mountain High School Symphonic Band ‐ Travis Bender, Conductor

Muscle Shoals High School Wind Ensemble ‐ David Waters, Conductor

1:00‐3:00 PM

AVA Concert Session ‐ BJCC East Ballroom (1st Floor)

Liberty Park Middle School 7th & 8th Grade Boys Choir, Heather Cantwell, Conductor

Bella Voce ‐ Hillcrest Women's Ensemble, Khristina S. Motley, Conductor

Enterprise High School Women's Ensemble, Cameron Johnson Weiler, Conductor

Miles College Choir, Valerie R. Harris, Conductor

1:30 PM

UNA Trombone Quartet

2:15‐3:15 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Bob Phillips: The Art & Science of Motivation

Highly effective music teachers must master the art of motivation. Learn some of the best practices for motivating students to be successful musicians.

2:15‐3:15 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum Theater (2nd Floor)

Jane Kuehe: Facing the Music: Addressing "‐isms" in Our Classrooms

This session focuses on how we address outright and hidden biases in our classrooms. The term "‐isms" refers to the many ways people can be biased (racism, sexism, genderism, and so on). Through personal reflection, role playing, and discussion we will examine ways to directly (and sometimes quickly) address "‐isms" that occur in our classrooms, within ourselves, and in our personal and observed interactions with students and other school personnel.

2:15‐3:15 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Beth Ann Hepburn: Croaking or Singing? Developing Singing Part‐singing in the Upper Elementary Classroom

Come and explore songs and strategies that can help create solid part‐work in the upper elementary classroom. Melodic ostinati, descants, cannons and more! Discover helpful warm‐ups to support part‐work with your upper elementary singers.

2:15‐3:15 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum K (3rd Floor)

Jeremy Howard: Musical Make‐Believe: Weaving Your Way Through the Elementary Years

Embark on a journey! Students are naturally creative, curious, and ready for adventure! Learn how to make every minute of every lesson count through creative planning, weaving of song and story, and a variety of transitions. Through these techniques, students learn and internalize repertoire faster, develop critical thinking and prediction skills, retain musical content, and want to come back next class. A child hard at play is a child hard at work!

2:30 PM Lobby Performance: Hoover High School Grace Note

3:30 PM Lobby Performance: Oak Mountain Wind Ensemble Chamber Musicians

3:30‐4:30 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Damion Womack: Storytelling: Using Text, Phrase, and Forward Motion to Inspire your Choral Ensemble!

Many choral conductors primary goal is to communicate musically through text and phrasing. This presentation will offer a extremely concise look into the subject of how conductors can use poetry, story, word painting, and visual images to be able to properly demonstrate the composer’s intent. In addition, we will discuss how to use forward motion and phrasing elements to create musical creativity in every rehearsal and performance. Many of the following techniques I use have come down through the years from conductor to conductor and the pedagogy I will talk about is consistent with the ideas of many other successful choral conductors.

3:30‐4:30 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Ted Scalzo: Get Started with Finale Basics

Learn how easy it is to compose, arrange, edit, transpose, play, and print your music with Finale. Topics include: Setting up a score; templates; tool palettes; entering notes with or without a MIDI keyboard; adding dynamics, expressions, lyrics, repeats and endings; playing back your score; key and instrument transposition and much more. We’ll also cover page layout, printing parts, exporting to audio, sharing your music with others, and music education resources that are included in the software (worksheets, flash cards and public domain repertoire).

3:30‐4:30 PM Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Joe Brennan: We All Perform on the Same Stage ‐ Improving the Ensemble Skills of your Secondary String Players

“We All Perform On the Same Stage” and "Just because you can play it by yourself, doesn't mean that you can play it with the rest of us”. If these phrases apply to you and your students, then this session is for you. Learn ways to improve rhythmic accuracy, intonation, and artistic expression of string players in secondary ensembles. Give your students the skills necessary to participate more fully in the ensemble. Rehearsal techniques, use of technology, assessments, and chamber groups will be discussed. Skills are given a hierarchy and related to specific musical elements. These skills are then directly related to the playing skills and technique of an orchestral stringed instrument. Musical examples are used to show how these skills are

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developed in each rehearsal. Rehearsal techniques are rooted in the concepts of Music Learning Theory with the goal being that each student has an ownership of the musical content and the skills necessary to perform better by design rather than by chance in any type of ensemble setting. Many of these rehearsal techniques can also be adapted for other types of instrumental, as well as, vocal ensembles. With this session comes a handout containing 30 phrases and analogies that can be used in the rehearsal to help students improve their participation and understanding of what it means to perform in an ensemble.

3:30‐4:30 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum Theater (2nd Floor)

Tim Heath and Cara Morantz: Trading Bands ‐ "Learning from Friends"

Band directors Timothy Heath and Cara Morantz guide instrumental music educators through an effective and affordable professional development opportunity. In their session "Trading Bands" these two discuss the process of conducting each other's ensemble and the takeaways from the directors' and students' perspectives. This session details what directors could potentially learn from each other and the benefits students gain from other directors.

3:30‐4:30 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

Dr.

Tim Lautzenheiser:

The Key to Success With Beginning Band Students

This session will focus on some “teaching techniques” aligned with the “Essential Elements” band method. Recruitment and retention are a key aspect of every program’s foundation. There will be attention given to the importance of integrating current advocacy into those early years of participation. The creation and implementation of safe‐challenging‐encouraging culture for musical excellence.

3:30‐4:30 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Jennifer Canfield: TEAM Works!

Participants in this workshop will create songs for use in the general elementary classroom, develop lesson plans for general elementary classroom teachers, and learn ways to train our cohorts to integrate music in math, science, history, language arts, and social studies. In addition, tactics for working with teaching cohorts, and being a resource will be discussed.

3:30‐4:30 PM HED Recital ‐ BJCC East Ballroom (1st Floor)

4:30 PM

4:30‐5:30 PM

5:30‐6:30 PM

7:00‐9:00 PM

Lobby Performance: Alabama School of Fine Arts String Ensemble

Exhibit Hall Reception ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom

Collegiate/HED Mixer ‐ BJCC East A‐B (1st Floor)

ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC Theater

Thompson High School Wind Ensemble, Jon Bubbett, Conductor University of Alabama at Birmingham Wind Symphony, Sean Murray, Conductor

7:00‐9:00 PM

AVA Concert Session ‐ BJCC East Ballroom (1st Floor)

Alabama School of Fine Arts Choir ‐ Cathy Spence, Conductor

Vestavia Hills High School Honor Choir ‐ Megan Rudolph, Conductor

University of North Alabama Chamber Choir ‐ Ian Loeppky, Conductor

7:30‐8:30 PM

10:00‐11:00 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

ELEM/GEN Evening Session ‐ Lori Hetzel  Music Learning with a Twist

ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC Theater

Alabama Winds, Randall Coleman, Conductor

Friday, January 18, 2018

7:30 AM‐1:00 PM Conference Registration Open ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom Lobby

8:00‐9:00 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Lori Hetzel: Unleashing the Power and Beauty of the Female Voice in a Choral Ensemble

This session will focus on voice building with specific warm‐up exercises suited for treble choirs. Voice placement in a choral ensemble will be examined with examples from the DVD “Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success.” Balance issues in a women’s choir will be addressed by discussion of vocal color verses range.

8:00‐9:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Deanna Bell: Elementary Music Internship ‐ Tips for Success

This session will focus on tips for a successful elementary music internship. Deanna Bell will facilitate a panel discussion with former interns: Cody Ray, Emily Scott, and Katie Boyd.

8:00‐9:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Thomas Bough: Adulting 201 ‐ Stuff Young Educators Need to Know

Young educators have been crammed full of pedagogy in college, but often would benefit from guidance to develop in practical, professional skills. Suggestions to help both connect and compromise with fellow teachers and administration, remaining humble enough to learn while leading, developing both annual and long‐term budgets, as well as negotiating contracts with vendors and supplemental staff will be addressed in an approachable manner, supported by real‐world examples and a good dose of humor.

8:00‐9:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum E (2nd Floor)

Megan Rudolph: Breaking the Mold: How the Traditional Performing Ensemble Classroom has Changed in Order to Retain and Recruit Performers

Have you struggled to create a viable performing program that students want to be a part of? Is your program growing, but you are worried about how to retain the students you have? Do you want to know how to make each student in your program feel needed and important? If you answered “yes” to any of these, or your interest is peaked, then this session is for you! This session will address these issues and many more. Learn ideas on implementing leadership roles that really work, as well as how to implement student driven activities to increase community within your classroom. Practical tips will be talked about in order to make your program appealing to students of this generation.

8:00‐9:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Beth Ann Hepburn: Dancing in the Melting Pot

Enjoy this session of engaging folk dances from many cultures around the world suitable for the elementary music classroom. Ideas for breaking the dances down for students and building community in your music classroom.

8:00‐9:00 AM ABA Business Meeting ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

8:30 AM‐5:30 PM Exhibits Open ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom

8:30 AM Lobby Performance: A.H. Parker High School Thundering Herd Chamber Singers

9:15‐10:15 AM AVA Business Meeting ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

9:15‐10:15 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Rusty Courson: Does Participation in Performance‐Based Music Classes Make Students Smarter?

The session will detail data collected while completing my dissertation, titled, "A Causal‐Comparative Analysis of Performance‐Based Music Classes and ACT Scores." In a nutshell, music students at a suburban school district in East Central Alabama had a mean score of 23.4 on the composite score of the ACT, while non‐music students had a mean score of 16.92. The music students scored higher than the statewide average of 19.2, and the nationwide average of 21. To address potential bias, the researcher grouped students based on sixth grade test results prior to any influence of performance‐based music classes.

9:15‐10:15 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Bob Phillips: The Total Tone Transformation

Teaching shifting, vibrato and scales has never been easier. Specific strategies are presented for teaching students to shift with ease throughout the range of the instrument from early instruction to advanced. This is a must for band/choir directors teaching strings.

9:15‐10:15 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum E (2nd Floor)

Jason Sulliman: More than Just a Game: What Educators can learn from the Gaming Industry

In this presentation, I will give a summary of modern online games (using Clash of Clans, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, etc. as examples) and demonstrate how the multi‐billion dollar industry of gaming has figured out successful ways to cultivate resilience, motivation/delayed gratification, long‐term planning, cost/benefit tradeoff application in practice, etc. along its

members. Designers understand the place for failure as a fun tool for learning among people of all ages and backgrounds. It’s not just a waste of time‐ the gaming industry has done what every music educator has been trying to do with music programs. The carry‐over may surprise you. By the end of this session, you will be armed with understanding how and why people buy into the long‐term dedication of developing their gaming chops and will be better equipped to apply the same concepts to your teaching strategies to increase retention and get your students to dig in to their practice sessions.

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

Mark Foster: Money Matters: If I Knew Then What I Know Now...

This session is designed to help teachers understand the basics of how the stock market works and how to invest. We will discuss stocks, bonds, funds, traditional and Roth IRAs, along with other retirement vehicles such as RSA‐1, 403b, and 401k plans. Many teachers do not get this information until it is too late, and this session will be designed to provide some basic financial education in order to provide teachers with the knowledge to begin planning for their retirement. v

9:15‐10:15 AM

9:15‐10:15 AM

9:30 AM

10:30 AM‐12:00 PM

ELEM/GEN Business Meeting ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC East Ballroom (1st Floor)

Bob Jones High School Percussion Ensemble, Kevin Smart, Conductor

Lobby Performance: UNA Horn Quartet

AMEA General Session ‐ BJCC Theater

Alabama Youth Symphony Orchestra, Kevin Fitzgerald, Conductor

Keynote Address: Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser

12:00 Noon

12:00‐1:00 PM

12:00‐1:30 PM

1:00‐3:00 PM

1:15‐2:15 PM

Lobby Performance: Paul W. Bryant High School Chamber Ensemble

Phi Beta Mu Luncheon ‐ Forum H‐I (3rd Floor)

Collegiate Luncheon ‐ BJCC East A‐C (1st Floor)

HED Research Poster Session ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom Lobby

Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Ted Scalzo: Easily Create Your Music Assignments with the New SmartMusic Notation Program

The educator version of New SmartMusic now has its own built‐in web‐based notation program, so you can quickly create exercises and assign them out to your students. Learn how easy it is for you to import, compose, arrange, edit, and transpose your music. Topics include: Importing and editing a MusicXML file; setting up a new score; entering notes with or without a MIDI keyboard; adding dynamics, markings, lyrics; and how to send out assignments to your students.

1:15‐2:15 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

David Ragsdale: How to REALLY Succeed at MPA: An Adjudicator's Perspective

This session presents ACTIONABLE strategies for success at MPA from the perspective of a seasoned adjudicator. Topics include: programming and music selection, effective march preparation, sight‐reading strategies, and much, much, more.

1:15‐2:15 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Beth Ann Hepburn: Purposeful Pathways: First Steps on the Path K‐1

Purposeful play is a must in the primary music classroom. Lessons modeled will be sure to be used with ease when you return to your classroom. Explore how to blend eurhythmics, Kodaly, and Orff Schulwerk extensions into your youngest learners in a purposeful manner through play!

1:15‐2:15 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum K (3rd Floor)

Valerie Diaz Leroy: Five Ways to Engage Hard to Reach Students

Explore the intersection of technology and popular music as powerful tools for increasing engagement and retention in upper elementary and middle grade students. Participants will learn strategies for incorporating modern music, songwriting, digital composition, and much more! You’ll walk away ready to meet your students where they are, using the music and devices already in their possession to address age‐appropriate concepts and skills while inspiring a connection to music that will last a lifetime.

1:15‐2:15 PM ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC East Ballroom (1st Floor)

Auburn University Jazz Band ‐ Dr. Michael Pendowski, Conductor

1:15‐3:00 PM

2:00‐3:00 PM

AOA JW Pepper Reading Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Lori Hetzel: Empowering the Treble Chorus with Quality Repertoire

This session will discuss the process of choosing quality repertoire for treble choirs and present specific repertoire ideas. Discussion of subject matter and texts that women’s choir members can connect with on several levels: social, physical, emotional, and spiritual.

2:00‐3:00 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

Matthew Hoch: Vocal Terminology: Finding Common Ground and Synergy between Choral Directors and Teachers of Singing

As teachers of singing, choral directors and applied voice teachers have much in common. Tensions, however, often develop between choral directors and private singing teachers simply due to misunderstandings that occur as a result of using different terminology to describe vocal phenomena. This presentation, based in part on the research published in Dr. Hoch’s book, A Dictionary for the Modern Singer, advocates for a common terminology rooted in current, fact‐based voice pedagogy that can be utilized by both choral directors and teachers of singing. Focusing on common ground that already exists between choral directors and voice teachers, traditional jargon that can be a source of conflict can be replaced by descriptive, evidence‐based language that reflects the most recent advances in voice science and pedagogy. Certain myths (such as "sing from your diaphragm") will be discussed and debunked, and the technique required for good choral singing will be discussed (a "healthy straight tone" is not necessarily an oxymoron). If this terminology is embraced by both parties, a fresh synergy between choral directors and singing can be realized.

2:30‐3:30 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Art Williams: Mister Rogers' Musical Neighborhood ‐ Extending Fred Rogers' Approach to Elementary Music Education

For more than 30 years, Fred Rogers used music as his primary means of educating children on his long‐running public television program, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. Combining his formal training in music composition with his lifelong dedication to the study of child development, Rogers’ contributions to music education were recognized by many prominent musicians as well as the National Association for Music Education (then MENC). This session will highlight the six ways Fred Rogers incorporated music education into his award‐winning television series, as well as eight educational principles that undergirded his philosophy of elementary music education. Numerous practical suggestions for early childhood and elementary music educators, based on Rogers’ approach, will also be shared.

2:45‐4:30 PM ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC Theater

Fairhope Middle School Symphonic Band, Jennifer Salley, Conductor Spain Park High School Symphonic Winds, Chris Neugent, Conductor

3:15‐4:15 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Lori Hetzel: Choral Music Reading Session

Choral reading session to include SATB, SSA, SA, SAB, and 3 pt. mixed Literature.

3:15‐4:15 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Stefanie Cash: Use of Movement to Enhance Choral Rehearsal and Performance

Explore strategic use of movement as a pedagogical tool for improved learning and productivity in the choral rehearsal. Movement is an excellent addition to help energize the body and sound and release tension. Proper implementation can improve breath management, tone, intonation, diction, articulation, phrasing, style and internalization of the beat.

3:15‐4:15 PM

3:15‐4:15 PM

AOA Meeting ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Interest Session ‐ Forum E (2nd Floor)

Ellary Draper: Collaboration: Working with Special Educators to Include Students with Severe Disabilities in Music Classrooms

Often students with severe disabilities who are included in music classes and ensembles are relegated to “watch and listen,” with participation limited to interactions with paraprofessionals. This presentation will provide music educators with strategies to successfully include students with severe disabilities in music classrooms at all levels when collaborating with special educators and related professionals.

Friday, January 18, 2019

3:15‐4:15 PM

Interest Session ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

Dave Lawson: Repair Made Easy. Learn How to Repair Basic Issues with Simple Ingenuity

Attendees will learn how to do professional level repairs without the cost of professional tools. Learn how to un‐stick tuning slides, fix that floppy key, replace the headjoint cork that keeps falling out, plus more. Attendees are welcome to bring their own instruments for repair (if we have time).

3:30 PM

4:30 PM

4:30‐5:30 PM

7:00‐9:30 PM

Lobby Performance: Troy University Trombone Quartet/Octet

Lobby Performance: Jemison High School Brass Quintet

Exclusive Exhibit Hour ‐ Sheraton Birmingham Ballroom

AMEA General Session ‐ BJCC Theater

AMEA Awards

University of Alabama Women's Chorus ‐ Marvin Latimer, Conductor

Alabama Intercollegiate Band ‐ Col. Lowell Graham, Conductor

Saturday, January 19, 2019

8:00‐9:00 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Kyle Weary: Equipping the Versatile Singer ‐ Teaching Vocal Registration

Teachers across the globe face the problem of teaching popular musical styles without performance experience or knowledge of pedagogical methods and resources that are available. In this lecture/demonstration, topics discussed will include Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) pedagogical techniques, safe vs. unsafe vocal production and a short teaching demonstration.

8:00‐9:00 AM Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Gretchen Windt: We're Off to Chez Maxim's: Operetta Arias for the Developing Singer

My session will involve three topics:

1) A brief history of operetta charting its origins in France and subsequent development in Vienna, London, and New York.

2) A brief discussion highlighting the benefits of operetta repertoire for younger singers: technical challenges, character development, and foreign language study often bridging the gap from art song to opera arias.

3) A presentation (audio and video clips and possibly live performances) of recommended arias for study for each fach (soprano, mezzo, tenor, bass) including specifics regarding range, tessitura, and vocal challenges.

8:00‐9:00 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Tracy Wiggins: We CAN Make This Up: Teaching Improvisation in the Concert Ensemble Setting

Improvisation is one of the core tenants of music education standards in the United States. It is currently presented most often to students in jazz idioms and styles. Unfortunately, that tends to keep many students that are not involved in jazz from being involved in improvisation. This session will introduce concepts and approaches that will allow directors to develop improvisational skills in concert ensemble settings.

8:00‐9:00 AM

8:00‐9:00 AM

ABA Business Meeting ‐ Forum Auditorium (2nd Floor)

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Beth Ann Hepburn: Clap Your Hands! Songs and Rhymes Using Body Percussion

You are an instrument! Discover engaging body percussion uses in the elementary music classroom using original Orff Schulwerk resources and folk materials. Use body percussion for student composed works and ensemble building skills.

8:00‐9:00 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum K (3rd Floor)

Valerie Diaz Leroy: Why We Dance: Celebrating Cultures through Movement in the General Music Classroom

Movement activities are a natural ingredient to a successful lesson. But have you ever considered movement as a vehicle for cultural connections? In this workshop, attendees will unpack connections to history, geography, and social and emotional learning (SEL) through movement activities to classical, folk, and contemporary pieces. Movement instruction and analysis will help guide teachers through the steps of teaching traditional and original dances as well as learning to create movement opportunities appropriate for students at all levels!

Saturday,

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

Allison Allerton: It’s Not Rote—It’s Aural Literacy!

In twenty‐first century education reform, the traditional view of “literacy” has been set aside in favor of a more all‐inclusive definition of literacy, comprising digital literacy, information literacy, cultural literacy, political literacy, wellness literacy, media literacy, ethical literacy, and indeed even aural literacy! Choral educators can adopt this broadened view of literacy within their own classrooms by developing aural literacy skills in their singers. Far from what has historically been termed “rote learning,” aural literacy is as essential a skill as notational literacy, resulting in choral students who sing with better intonation, learn music faster, and even sight‐sing with greater accuracy.

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum C (2nd Floor)

Mary McGowan: Tips From the Trenches‐ After You Land That Band Director Job!

“Tips from the Trenches” is designed for those novice teachers just starting their careers, or for the veteran teacher who is going to a new school and/or needs to do things differently. This session is designed to give insight and a firm footing to those teachers, and to assist with accountability and professionalism. The discussion and presentation will include practical classroom procedures and applications, pitfalls to avoid and tools for success. From entering the building to teaching your Band class, “Tips from the Trenches” will help to provide guidance and real‐life do’s and don’ts which will allow you to survive and be successful during your career!

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum D (2nd Floor)

Nancy Barry: Intelligent Practice: The Art and Science of Efficient Practice

Research shows that while music teachers encourage their students to practice, most do not actively teach specific practice techniques. This session draws upon scientific research in neurology and psychology, and interviews with expert music teachers to explain practical strategies to help musicians practice effectively and efficiently. Tips for teaching our students how to practice will be included.

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum G (3rd Floor)

Donna Smith: Bridging the Gap: The Middle School Directors role in the High School Band

This session will explore ways for Middle School and High School Band Directors to build unity and community both professionally and within the band program.

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum Auditorium (2nd Floor)

Kevin Whalen: A Missing First Step: Empowering the Young Improviser

Improvisation is often first presented through an intimidating sequence of theory rules, new vocabulary, and endless scales. By simplifying harmonic environments and shifting focus towards the creation of simple musical phrases through a process of hearing, singing, playing, and interacting, any student can become an empowered improviser!

9:15‐10:15 AM

Interest Session ‐ Forum J (3rd Floor)

Rob Lyda: Everybody Sing, Say, and Play: Happy Birthday, Dear Alabama!

Our state has rich and diverse folk music, stories, and traditions that have been studied and preserved for future generations. In celebration of Alabama’s bicentennial, this session will feature gems from Alabama’s musical past. Participants will sing, say, and play their way through 200 years of Alabama’s history. Suggestions for grade levels, teaching approaches, assessment, and integration will be provided.

10:30‐11:45 AM Lightening Round ‐ Forum Auditorium (2nd Floor)

David Caddell:Simple Solutions to Teaching Heterogenous Beginning Band

Latrice Green: Meeting the Needs of Diverse Learners: A Discussion of Diversity in Music Education

Andrew Lynge: The Six Basic Techniques of the Tambourine

Andrew Minear: Conductor’s Daily Dozen

Brandon Peters: Saving Time with Mail Merge

Leah Seng: Starting off with Success! Strategies for the Beginning Band Instrument Selection Process

Bill Shaltis: “Sick Video, Dude!” Creating Viral Content with Minimal Experience

10:30 AM‐12:30 PM ABA Concert Session ‐ BJCC Theater

All‐State Jazz Bands

1:00‐3:00 PM ABA Adjudicators Clinic ‐ Forum A‐B (2nd Floor)

J oin us in the BJCC Theater Friday at 7:00 PM for the presentation of the

2019 AMEA Awards

FAME Scholarship Recipient: Adrianna Gramalspacher, Thomasville High School/Troy University

Barbara Odom Distinguished Service Award: Dr. Carl Hancock, University of Alabama

AMEA Outstanding Administrator: Dr. Deidra Robinson Principal, Albertville High School

AMEA Hall of Fame: Sharon August, Retired, formerly of Vestavia City Schools

Lacey Powell Outstanding Music Educator Award: Rob Lyda, Cary Woods Elementary School, Auburn

Alabama’s National Board Certified Teachers in Music

AMEA Honor Roll - Members who have 25 years of continuous service and increments of 5 years Young Composers Competition Finalists

Alabama School of Fine Arts Choir

Meet the Alabama School of Fine Arts Music Department… ..talented instrumentalists grades seven through twelve enrolled in a unique curriculum of academics, music instruction and performance. During the past fifty years these dynamic ensembles have given hundreds of performances for thousands in audiences throughout the United States. The ensembles have appeared at the Alabama State Legislature, Alabama State Council on the Arts, the United States Capital in Washington, D.C., New York City, Florida, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Imagination Celebration, to name a few. Each ensemble has successfully competed in national and state-wide festivals and competitions where they’ve consistently achieved superior ratings and special recognition. The ensembles are in constant demand for their polished and professional approach to performance and have been recognized for their varied concert repertoire of Renaissance through Twentieth Century standards, jazz standards, light classics and spirituals. Members of these ensembles have been awarded grants for summer study at Interlochen, Eastern Music Festival, Brevard, Sewanee, Rocky Ridge Music Center, and the Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute. Alumni have distinguished themselves with scholarships to such prestigious institutions as the Juilliard School, Cincinnati College-Conservator y, Boston University, Oberlin, Yale, Harvard and Berklee.

Cathy Spence conducts the ASFA Choir and Concerto Delle Donne (Women’s Ensemble). She also teachers Intermediate Music Theory and Advanced Ear Training. Cathy has taught for several years and her teaching experience includes all ages, from preschool through college age students. Under her direction, choirs have consistently earned Superior ratings throughout the State in district and statewide festivals. Students from her private voice studio have also excelled in solo vocal competitions throughout the region. She is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota, National Association for Music Education, Alabama Music Teachers Association, National Association of Teachers of Singing, and currently serves on the Executive Board of the Alabama Vocal Association. In addition to her teaching career, Cathy has had extensive performance experience in the field of opera. She has performed as soloist with the Alabama Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, and the Kansas City Civic Orchestra. She was a district and regional finalist in the Midwest Metropolitan Opera Auditions and has performed numerous roles with the Kansas City Civic Opera, and the Opera Theater of Kansas City, She may also be heard in solos on various cd recordings of the Grammy award winning Kansas City Chorale. A graduate of Bir minghamSouthern College, she holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Music Education in Vocal Music, as well as a Master of Arts in Education from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Alabama Winds

The Alabama Winds, an all-adult community band based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was organized in the summer of 2013 and is comprised primarily of practicing music educators residing throughout the state of Alabama. Members travel from as far as Huntsville, Auburn and Enterprise to our rehearsals, based at Thompson High School in Alabaster, Alabama. Alabama Winds rehearses for three hours each month and performs two major concerts each year, one in December and one in May. The mission of the Alabama Winds is to foster and promote the appreciation of high-quality wind band music through performances of artistic merit for our audience, the residents of the state of Alabama and the members of the ensemble. Community outreach is very important to Alabama Winds, and the ensemble provides scholarships for middle and high school students to attend summer music camps, and provides a $500.00 scholarship to a high school senior planning to pursue a career in music education. The ensemble also provides a performance opportunity at its December concert for beginning band students to play alongside the members of Alabama Winds during the concert. The Alabama Winds has performed invitational performances at the 2015 Alabama Music Educators’ Association Inservice Conference, the 2016 Alabama Honor Band Festival, and at the 2017 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Randall Coleman is currently the Associate Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama where he serves as the conductor of the Alabama Symphonic Band, the Associate Conductor of the Alabama Wind Ensemble, and the Associate Director of the Million Dollar Band. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and wind band literature classes. In addition, Professor Coleman is the Coordinator of the Crimson Music Camps and the Alabama Honor Band Festivals. Professor Coleman also serves as Conductor and Artistic Director of the Alabama Winds, an all-adult community wind band based in Birmingham, Alabama. Prior to his appointment to the faculty at the University of Alabama in 2007, Mr. Coleman enjoyed a successful 25 year career as a high school band director and supervisor in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, and the Masters of Music Education degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. During his teaching career in Georgia, Mr. Coleman was an active member of the Georgia Music Educators’ Association, where he held the office of President, First Vice-President and State Band Division Chair. He also served as Georgia State Chair for the National Band Association. Professor Coleman has been awarded the Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association on ten occasions and was the 1992 recipient of the American School Band Directors’ Association’s Stanbury Award for the state of Georgia and the southeastern United States. Mr. Coleman was inducted into the John Philip Sousa Foundations’ Legion of Honor in 2004 and is also listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. Under his direction, the Milton High School Wind Ensemble performed at the 2004 GMEA In-Service Conference, the 2004 Bands of America National Concert Band Festival, and the 2006 National Convention of the Music Educators’ National Conference. At the University of Alabama, Professor Coleman has conducted the Alabama Symphonic Band at the 2014 College Band Directors’ National Association Southern Regional Convention, and the 2012 Alabama Music Educators’ Conference. He has also conducted the Alabama Wind Ensemble at the 2014 American Bandmasters’ Association National Conference and at the 2010 College Band Directors’ Association Southern Regional Conference. A strong proponent of new music for wind band, he has personally commissioned four pieces for wind bands. Diamond Fanfare by Samuel R. Hazo, premiered by the Milton Wind Ensemble, Diabolus Ex Machina by Jim Bonney premiered by the Alabama Wind Ensemble, and Alabama Fanfare by Robert W. Smith and The Best of Rooms by Tyler S. Grant, both premiered by the Alabama Winds. He conducted the world premiere of Mutiara by Anthony Barfield with the Alabama Wind Ensemble and the regional premiere of Auto ’66 by James David with the Alabama Symphonic Band. Professor Coleman has served as a guest conductor of the Sabina Wind Orchestra in Rieti, Italy and conducted the Alabama Wind Ensemble as a part of the International Music Meeting in May of 2012 in Padova, Italy. Professor Coleman also recently led the Alabama Winds on a 12-day tour of Italy, performing concerts in Como and Rome. He presented a Rehearsal Lab clinic session at the 2010 Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois and conducted the 2010 Georgia All State Concert Band. Professor Coleman has been published five times as a Research Associate to the “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” book series published by GIA publications. He has conducted the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band in performances at the Southeastern Conference Football Championships, and in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona where the Crimson Tide won the 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015 National Championships. Under his direction, the Alabama Winds has given invitational performances at the 2015 Alabama Music Educators’ Association In-Service Conference, the 2016 University of Alabama Honor Band Festival and the 2017 Alabama Bandmasters’ Association District VI Honor Band Festival.

Concert Program

Thursday, 10:00 PM BJCC Theater

unpublished manuscript Wild Nights! (2007)...............................................................Frank Ticheli ..........................................................Manhattan Beach Music

Alabama Fanfare (2014)......................................................Robert W. Smith

Pineapple Poll (1952/2005).....................Sir Arthur Sullivan, arranged by Charles Mackerras .......................................................Belwin

I. Opening Number

II. Jasper’s Dance

III. Poll’s Dance

IV. Finale

Musica Propria featuring the 16th Street Baptist Church Choir Amazing Grace (1984)…………………..………..arranged by William Himes

In My Father’s Eyes (2017)....................................................Julie Giroux

Rosehill Music Professor Dennis Zeisler, guest conductor Circus Bee (1935/2003).......................................Henry Fillmore, edited by Robert Foster ....................................................Carl Fischer Sound and Smoke (2011)……………………………………..Viet Cuong Viet Cuong

Alabama Youth Symphony Orchestra

The official youth orchestra of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra is an ensemble dedicated to nurturing talent, building community, and empowering young lives in the state of Alabama. The group consists of 70 of the brightest young musicians from throughout the state of Alabama.

American conductor Kevin Fitzgerald is the recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and the Music Director of the Alabama Symphony Youth Orchestra. Additionally, Kevin holds the position of Music Director of ÆPEX Contemporary Performance, a new music organization based in Michigan. A fierce advocate for contemporary music, Kevin founded ÆPEX Contemporary Performance in 2015 to promote the music of underrepresented and underperformed composers to audiences in Michigan. In 2015, Kevin made his European debut with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in the culminating performance of their annual masterclass with Matthias Pintscher. Kevin has also appeared as a conductor at the Eastern Music Festival as a conducting fellow and participated in a masterclass with Marin Also at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music. Kevin believes that music is a vehicle for social change. In 2016, Kevin conducted an impromptu performance of Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor, K.626 dedicated to the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. Planned in under 48 hours, the event that became known as “Requiem for Orlando” attracted over 400 performing musicians and a full capacity audience in Ann Arbor’s Hill Auditorium: over 2,500 people. Kevin has conducted numerous other concerts benefiting humanitarian causes such as the International Rescue Committee, the refugee aid organization Freedom House Detroit, Physicians for the Prevention of Gun Violence and the Houston Area Women’s Shelter.

Kevin has guest conducted the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Oak Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Music Michigan. Kevin earned his BM in trumpet performance and music theory from the Eastman School of Music and his MM in orchestral conducting from the University of Michigan. His conducting teachers are Dr. Mark Scatterday, Brad Lubman and Kenneth Kiesler.

This summer, Kevin will participate in the Tanglewood Music Center Conducting Seminar and recently conducted in a masterclass with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony.

Concert Program

Auburn University Jazz Band

The Auburn University Jazz Ensemble is one of the new exciting sounds of Auburn University. The 19 member group is selected from the entire student body, and includes students from many different majors. The group features the best in big band Jazz, with contemporary compositions from artists such as Gordon Goodwin, Lyle Mayes, Maria Schneider, Bob Mintzer and Tom Kubis, as well as music from the libraries of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Wood Herman, Stan Kenton and Buddy Rich and original compositions. The band performs on campus and throughout the region. The Auburn University Jazz Ensemble is directed by Dr. Michael Pendowski.

Dr. Michael Pendowski is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music with a doctorate in Jazz and Contemporary Media and Northwestern University with degrees in Conducting and Music Education. His career has encompassed a wide variety of musical styles and venues. He is a prominent composer in the educational field, writing for the full spectrum of ensembles available in today's schools and universities. His film projects have included the restoration of Orson Welles Othello, Dead Presidents, Our Father, and Groundhog Day. In addition, he has composed, arranged, and produced over a dozen albums and has scored for off-Broadway productions, as well as animated features including the "Getting to Know the Artist" Series. This video collection (Rembrandt, DaVinci, & Michelangelo) won the American Library Video award. Dr. Pendowski has scored works for The Four Freshmen, Peter Cetera, Doc Severinsen, and most recently for Jake Shimabukuro. He has written and produced music for hundreds of TV and radio commercials, and his work has won numerous national. He also wrote original soundtracks to the John Madden Football and NCAA Football and Basketball games created by Electronic Arts. He has worked extensively as a freelance performer, appearing with Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, Aretha Franklin, Carol Lawrence, Louis Bellson, George Shearing, Ray Charles, The Four Freshmen, and The Jazz Orchestra of America. and produced the music for Topps’ Walking Dead video game. Dr. Pendowski is currently Assistant Professor of Saxophone and Director of the Jazz Program at Auburn University.

Hillcrest High School Bella Voce - Women’s Ensemble

Bella Voce is a sixty member non-auditioned women’s ensemble. Under the direction of Dr. Khristina Motley, the group has consistently received superior ratings at the Alabama State Performance Assessment. The purpose of Bella Voce is to achieve the highest possible standard of musical excellence, a heightened understanding of the composers and lyricists, while instilling a lifelong appreciation of choral music. Members of the ensemble will perform, by invitation, a concert at Carnegie Hall in the spring of 2019. Last year, the choral department had twenty-three members participate in All-State Choir, three members in All-State Show Choir, the District II OCS winner, and two participants in the FAME Scholarship Program. Additionally, Hillcrest choral students participated in the Disney Candlelight Processional for the past three years. Finally, members of the women’s ensemble collaborate with HHS multi-disability students, a group called our Adaptive Ensemble, which performs annually at The University of Alabama.

Khristina Motley is a twenty-two-year teaching veteran and product of the Tuscaloosa County School System. Under her directorship at Hillcrest High School, the program numbers have grown exponentially and all large choral groups and small ensembles have received superior State Choral Performance Assessment ratings. Prior to teaching at Hillcrest, Dr. Motley taught at Brookwood High School, Taylorville Primary School, Hillcrest Middle School, Duncanville Middle School, Holt High School, Davis Emerson Middle School, and Englewood Elementary School, all in the Tuscaloosa County system. Five of the eight teaching assignments were schools that had no active choral program. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Music Education from The University of Alabama, where she was the recipient of the Most Outstanding Music Education Student award. She received a Master of Arts in Music Education, Curriculum and Instruction, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and University, and her PhD in Music Education, Curriculum and Instruction, from The University of Alabama. It has always been her goal to promote music education in areas that are underserved.

Dr. Motley has served as an adjudicator for solo/ensemble and sight-reading at SCPA as well as for show choir festivals. Currently, she is a faculty member of The University of Alabama where she teaches the music component for Elementary Education students as well as the Children’s Music Director at the First United Methodist Church, Tuscaloosa. Dr. Motley holds membership in several professional organizations, including AVA, ACDA and NAfME.

Concert Program

Bob Jones Percussion Ensemble

The Bob Jones High School Percussion Ensemble has a rich tradition of excellence and is considered one of the premier high school percussion ensembles in the state of Alabama. Whether it is on the football field, indoor arena, or concert stage, the percussion ensemble always excels at the highest of levels. The Bob Jones High School Percussion Ensemble prides itself on developing well rounded percussionists and strives to expose its members to a variety of different percussive settings and demands. Past members of this great organization have gone on to excel in both outdoor and indoor percussion activities as well as pursued percussion opportunities at the collegiate level. On the football field, The Bob Jones High School Battery and Front ensemble are well known for pushing the envelope and have been honored at many local and regional competitions, receiving numerous high percussion awards. In the indoor arena, the ensemble has been a constant innovative force in not only the region but also on the national stage. The Bob Jones Winter Drumline have medaled at the South Eastern Color Guard Championships numerous times as well as are twotime open class finalists at the Winter Guard International World Championships. Not only has the ensemble repeatedly raised the bar in both the outdoor and indoor activities, they have also represented their band program well at local and regional concert festivals, contributing to the band’s numerous superior awards. The concert percussion ensemble is also a main stage in the program’s repertoire. Members are exposed to a variety of different styles and explore both classic and modern percussion music. The students do a tremendous job balancing all aspects of the program to include a Fall Football marching show, a Fall Competition marching show, a Spring competitive indoor dr umline program, 2 concert band programs, 2 jazz bands, and a concert percussion ensemble; all the while constantly seeking out new oppor tunities and striving to achieve at the highest of levels in every ensemble.

The percussion program is directed by Mr. Kevin Smart. Mr. Smart received his degree in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University, where he studied under Dr. Eric Willie. Over the years, Mr. Smart has worked with several Middle Tennessee area band programs, including the award winning Mt. Juliet High School Band of Gold and Winter Drum line. There he served in several capacities, including percussion arranger, percussion caption head, and instructor. Upon graduation, Mr. Smart became the Assistant Band Director at Fulton High School in Knoxville, TN. There, he headed up both the marching band program as well as percussion studies for the band, including the creation of an indoor drumline program.

As a performer, Mr. Smart was a member of the world renowned Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps from 2002-2003, and Music City Mystique Winter Drum line from 2001- 2002. As a student at Tennessee Technological University, Mr. Smart was an active member of the Tennessee Tech. Concert band and Percussion Ensemble, and served as both instr uctor and arranger for the TTU drum line.

Kevin is a native of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. He currently lives with his wife, April, in Madison, AL where he is the Assistant Director of Bands at Bob Jones High School. Here he co-directs the marching band, directs the concert band, and oversees the instruction of the percussion department. Kevin is an Innovative Percussion endorsed educator and currently serves on the executive board for the Southeastern Colorguard Circuit.

Enterprise High School Women’s Ensemble

The Enterprise High School Women’s Ensemble is a combined extracurricular ensemble made up of the women enrolled in daily choir classes. They received the Best in Festival Award at the Cultural Arts Center Choral Festival in 2017, and First Place in the Women’s Division at the Cultural Arts Center Choral Festival in 2016. They are under the direction of Cameron Johnson Weiler, and accompanied by Lis Donaldson.

Cameron Johnson Weiler is the Director of Choral Music at Enterprise High School in Enterprise, Alabama. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Choral Music Education from Samford University, and her Master’s Degree in Choral Music Education from Troy University. Cameron is in her eighth year of teaching choral music. Prior to her time at Enterprise High School, she spent three years as their junior high Choral Director. Cameron is married to Sean Weiler, Director of Bands at Enterprise High School.

Thursday, 1:00 PM

BJCC East Ballroom

Concert Program

Lis Donaldson, accompanist

Cantate Domino.........................................................arr. Terre Johnson .................................................................manuscript

Esto Les Digo................................................................Kinley Lange.........................................Alliance Music Publications

Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep.........................Laura Farnell

Alliance Music Publications

Las Amarillas..............................................................Stephen Hatfield Boosey and Hawkes

Lux Aeterna...............................................................Z. Randall Stroope ....................................Alliance Music Publications

Letter From A Girl To The World...............................Andrea Ramsey .......................................Alliance Music Publications

Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down.............arr. Caldwell;Ivory earthsongs

Visit the exhibits! Show our industry partners your appreciation of their support of our conference by visiting each booth. Let them know you’re glad they’re here.

Grand Opening - Thursday, 11:30 AM

Exhibit Hall Reception - Thursday, 4:30-5:30 PM

Exhibit Hours:

Thursday, 11:30 AM - 5:30 PM and Friday, 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Fairhope Middle School Symphonic Band

Fairhope Middle School is located in Fairhope, Alabama and is a part of the Baldwin County School System. The Fairhope Middle School band has a long and rich tradition of musical excellence and is an integral part of the school. The band program is composed of approximately 150 students in the 7th and 8th grade, with a 7th grade Concert Band, a 7th and 8th grade Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, and 7th and 8th grade Percussion Ensembles. The Concert and Symphonic Bands consistently receive superior ratings at the yearly Alabama Bandmasters State Music Performance Assessment. The band program also consistently has students selected for the Alabama All-State Band, the Alabama All-State Jazz Band, and has one of the highest numbers of students in the District VII Honor Band and Baldwin County Honor Band. The band is under the direction of Ms. Jennifer Salley who is a native of Fairhope, Alabama and is a graduate of Fairhope High School.

Jennifer Salley is in her 12th year as Band Director at Fairhope Middle School in Fairhope, Alabama. Prior to her years at Fairhope Middle School, she served as Director of Bands at Ocean Springs Middle School in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Ms. Salley teaches both concert and jazz to her 7th and 8th grade students and also teaches private flute lessons. Her bands consistently receive superior ratings at State Band Assessment, and she consistently has students make the Alabama All-State Band and the Alabama All-State Jazz Band. Her bands also perform annually at Fairhope’s Lighting of the Trees and Fairhope’s annual Arts and Crafts Festival.

Ms. Salley is a graduate of Fairhope High School. In 2005 she received her Bachelor of Music Education and Bachelor of Music Performance degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi. During her years at the University of Southern Mississippi, she worked under the direction of Dr. Thomas Fraschillo, Dr. Gary Adam, Dr. Steven Moser, Ms. Sharon Lebsack, and Dr. Danillo Mezzadri. Ms. Salley is a member of the Alabama Music Educators Association(AMEA), the Alabama Bandmasters Association(ABA), The National Association for Music Education(NAfME), and the American School Band Director’s Association(ASBDA). She is currently serving as the State Chairman for the American School Band Director’s Association. Ms. Salley resides in Fairhope, Alabama with her husband, Brad Salley, and her 3 young daughters- Amelia(6), Hadley(4), and Claire(2).

Liberty Park Middle School 7th & 8th Grade Band

LIBERTY PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in Vestavia Hills, Alabama and is part of the Vestavia Hills City School System. Built in 2008, the school has a total population of five hundred and thirty students in grades six through eight. Currently, one hundred and twenty-six of those students are enrolled in the band program at Liberty Park. The Liberty Park Band is an integral part of the Fine Arts Department at Liberty Park Middle School. The instrumental program consists of Beginning Band, Concert Band, Jazz Band, and Percussion Ensemble.

The LIBERTY PARK MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCERT BAND is made up of seventy-two seventh and eighth graders at Liberty Park Middle School. The ensemble is split into a winds class and percussion class. Each class meets daily for fifty-three minutes. We combine the classes as needed before school to prepare for upcoming performances. The Liberty Park Middle School Band has consistently received a Superior rating at the Alabama Bandmaster’s Association District IV Music Performance Assessment since its inception in 2008. Several of the students are active participants in district level events, honor bands, etc. Approximately ten percent of the ensemble is enrolled in private lessons outside of their regular band class. Since the school opened its doors, the band has traveled annually on a multi-day Spring trip to take part in an out-of-state music festival, competition, or workshop.

Jody Bryant is currently in his 15th year as an educator and band director. He became the band director at Liberty Park Middle School in June of 2013. While at Liberty Park, the bands have received a Superior rating at ABA Music Performance Assessment every year. Before coming to Liberty Park, Jody served as band director of West Point High School in Cullman, Alabama. While at West Point, the band saw tremendous growth in enrollment and musicianship. Prior to West Point, he was the assistant director and percussion instructor at Cullman High School for five years. He was conductor of the concert band at Cullman High as well as the 8th grade concert band at Cullman Middle. The high school concert band participated in the ABA Music Performance Assessment yearly and consistently received excellent and superior ratings. In addition to teaching the concert bands and assisting with all facets of the band program, he also served as percussion instructor for the marching band and indoor drumline. The indoor drumline competed annually on the SCGC and WGI circuits. In 2011, the Cullman Indoor Drumline placed first in music performance at the 2011 WGI Mid-South Percussion Championships. They were also the silver medalist for Scholastic A Class at the 2011 SCGC Championship Finals His additional teaching experience includes assistant band director and percussion instructor at Spain Park High School, Hoover, Alabama from 2004-2006. His first teaching job was band director at Cordova High School, Cordova, Alabama, from 2003-2004. Jody holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Education from the University of North Alabama. His professional affiliations include the National Association for Music Education and the Alabama Bandmaster’s Association. He has been married to his wife, Michele, for 17 years. She is a pharmacist at Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. They have two daughters, Allyson (Ally) who is 9 years old, and Ella who is 7 years old. Jody’s hobbies include hunting, fishing, tennis, and spending time with family.

Concert Program

Clave

S. Grant Tyler S. Grant Music Works

Barnum and Bailey's Favorite .....................Karl King, arr. by Jerry Brubaker Alfred Publishing Belwin Division

The Liberty Park Middle School Choral Department consists of 160 singers in 6th through 8th grades. 7th and 8th Grade Boys Choir is made up of 51 non-auditioned singers. These boys rehearse everyday in two separate 53 minute long classes. They only rehearse together one or two times before a performance.

Liberty Park Middle School 7th & 8th Grade Boys Choir

Heather Cantwell is currently in her 20th year of teaching choral music in the state of Alabama and her 10th at Liberty Park Middle School. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education and a Master of Music from the University of Montevallo. Mrs. Cantwell served on the Alabama ACDA Young Voices Committee and the Alabama Vocal Association’s Board of Directors as State Secretary, District Chair, and Co-Chair. Choirs under her direction have consistently received superior ratings at state choral performance assessment and have performed all over the United States. Mrs. Cantwell lives in Trussville with her husband, Bard, and their three children Connor (16), Cameron (13) and Kate (5).

The Miles College Choir is a choral ensemble consisting of auditioned students who have a devotion and appreciation for music. The students who are a part of the Choir strive to present a high quality choral experience by performing all genres of music with excellence. To continually nurture the smaller ensemble which evolves from the Choir, The Golden Voices is a smaller group comprised of elite singers selected from the Choir and chosen by the Director to present an equally excellent performance in the ensemble arrangement. Both choral ensembles perform on and off campus throughout the year and present repertoire of diverse musical styles and various historical periods. The Miles College Choir and The Golden Voices serve as the College Choir and as the Presidents Choir and is the official choral representative of the institution. Membership is by audition only and scholarships are available. Under the leadership of our President, Dr. George T. French, we exude the message of Culture, Class and Civility through song. The Miles College Choir has journeyed to many places displaying outstanding performances and garnering great accolades as they travel throughout the country. The Choir is presently under the direction of Mrs. Valerie R. Harris and she is assisted by Mr. Patrick J. Whitehead.

Valerie R. Harris began her career in music at the early age and was quickly recognized as having something special by her music mentor. Growing up the second of five children in a musical family to Civil Rights Activist and Pastor, Frederick D. & Alline C. Reese, Valerie was well on her way to becoming a gifted pianist.

Valerie pursued higher education and excelled as a classical pianist at the esteemed University of Montevallo, where her gifting was recognized and she was offered an accompanist position after graduation. Increasing lineages of musical partnerships have been formed in the area of instruction and accompaniment with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Tuskegee University, Alabama A & M University, and other collegiate and professional music forums. After serving many years in the music arena, Valerie made the decision to further her education by attending Liberty University and receiving the Master of Arts with Distinction in Music and Worship.

Until recently Mrs. Harris served as Choir Director of One-Of-A-Chord Gospel Choir at Birmingham-Southern College and accompanist for the UAB Concert Choir and Chamber Singers. In 2016, after working many years as choir director in the church arena, Mrs. Harris brings her expertise into the academic world as the Director of Choirs at Miles College.

Thursday, 1:00 PM

BJCC East Ballroom Concert Program

Muscle Shoals High School is located in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. The Muscle Shoals area is considered to be “The Hit Recording Capitol of the World” thanks to Fame and Muscle Shoals Sound Studios famous hit recordings from the 70’s and 80’s. Today these two studios still exist and the area is considered a hot bed for young and rising musical talent. The Muscle Shoals High School Wind Ensemble has existed for only one year due to the growth of the concert program at Muscle Shoals High school. The high school symphonic band has received superior ratings at MPA for 24 consecutive years. This trend began under past director Pat Stegall. The Wind Ensemble is now under the direction of Mr. David Waters along with assistant directors Jessica Hood and Daniel Seay. These three directors team teach all grades 6-12 on two different campuses.

Muscle Shoals High School Wind Ensemble

David Waters received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of North Alabama. He was named Director of Bands at Muscle Shoals High School in the spring of 2012 after serving as Assistant Director since 1998. In the past five years, the high school symphonic band has received all superior ratings “with Distinction” and was recently selected to perform at the prestigious University of Alabama Honor Band Festival. The marching band has enjoyed success competitively as well, earning best overall in eight marching contests in the past three years, including 2second place finish at the USBANDS Southeastern Championship in Chattanooga, TN. Under his instruction, the percussion section enjoyed competitive success in WGI winning two gold medals, one silver medal, and four bronze medals in a seven-year span at World Championships. The ensemble medaled all seven years they attended. David was a six-year member of the WGI national advisory board where he helped guide the direction of the indoor percussion activity. He also received the Outstanding Percussion Educator award, voted on by his peers throughout the Southeastern United States in 2010. David was recently honored as the University of North Alabama Alumni Educator of the Year. He is also the Muscle Shoals High School Teacher of the Year in 2016-2017. He is currently serving as District III Chairman of the Alabama Bandmasters Association. He is past chairman of the Shoals Area Band Directors Association. He is also a member of NAfME and PASIC. Mr. Waters is married to Christy Waters and they have an 8-year-old daughter Emmie Beth.

Oak Mountain High School Symphonic Band

The Oak Mountain Symphonic Band is the second of three wind bands at Oak Mountain High School. It consists of seventy-one ninth through twelfth grade students at Oak Mountain High School. Membership in the band is determined by individual audition. Under the direction of Dr. Travis Bender, the ensemble performs a wide variety of genres in the high school wind band repertoire. Notably, this ensemble frequently performs newly published compositions for wind band. Under the baton of Dr. Bender, this ensemble has only received adjudicated ratings of superior at all contests and festivals. Since the school’s inception, the Oak Mountain Symphonic Band has twice been invited to perform at the National Band and Orchestra Festival at Carnegie Hall in New York City. In the spring of 2016, the Symphonic Band was invited to perform at the Music for All National Band Festival in Indianapolis. A performance at AMEA would be a first for this ensemble, and allow attendees to hear new band literature graded 3.5 to 5 at our state’s music conference.

Dr. Travis Bender is the Fine Arts Department Chair and Associate Director of Bands at Oak Mountain High School. Prior to joining the OMHS faculty, he served as Director of Bands at Liberty Park Middle School, where he was named “Teacher of the Year” in 2011. His duties at OMHS include teaching the Symphonic Band, Jazz Band B, Marching Band, Chamber Music, and Band Techniques.

Dr. Bender is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in music education. While attending UA, he served as a drum major of the “Million Dollar Band” and as conductor of The Tuscaloosa Winds, a community band for the western Alabama region. In addition to his conducting capacities, Dr. Bender also performed extensively as the pianist for the Alabama Wind Ensemble for six years and as trombonist for the Symphonic Band and various pep bands. His professional affiliations include NAfME, ABA, NBA, and the music honorary, Pi Kappa Lambda.

Under his leadership, Dr. Bender’s bands have received only superior ratings at contests or festivals. In January 2012, his Symphonic Band was invited to perform at the Alabama Music Educators’ Conference in Montgomery.

In addition to music instruction, Dr. Bender has a strong interest in student and teacher leadership. He holds a second Masters deg ree, an Educational Specialist degree, and a doctorate of education in Educational Leadership from Samford University. Besides teaching, Dr. Bender is also interested in technology, home improvement projects, and pinball machines. He currently resides in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife, Krista, an assistant principal in the Vestavia Hills City School system. They have one precious daughter, Madison, a lovable Sheltie named Haley, and a lazy cat named Prince.

Thursday 1:00 PM

BJCC Theater

Concert Program

Second Suite in F for Military Band Op. 28 (1911)....Gustav Holst Boosey & Hawkes

Walking Into History – The Clinton 12 (2009) ......Richard L. Saucedo .............................................................MusicWorks

Aurora Borealis (2016) .............................................Rossano Galante .......................................................HAFABRA Music

O Magnum Mysterium (2003) ...Morten Lauridsen, transcribed by H. Robert Reynolds Peer Music

The Washington Post (1889) ...........John Philip Sousa, edited by Frederick Fennell Carl Fischer, Inc.

The Spain Park High School Symphonic Winds have most recently performed as part of the 2018 Music For All Southeastern Regional Concert Band Festival in Atlanta, GA, the 2016 University of Alabama-Birmingham Concert Band Invitational in Birmingham, AL and the 2015 University of Alabama Honor Band Festival in Tuscaloosa, AL. They have consistently earned Superior Ratings at the Alabama Bandmasters Association Music Performance Assessment.

Spain Park High School Symphonic Winds

Chris Neugent has held the Band Director position at Spain Park High School since the spring of 2011. Prior to his appointment as Band Director, he served as Associate Band Director at Spain Park, Band Director at Simmons Middle School, and Associate Band Director at Oak Grove High School. His duties at SPHS include teaching The Pride of the Park Marching Band and both Symphonic Winds and Concert Band. He also assists Mr. Brian Wilson at Berry Middle School with the Beginning, Concert and Symphonic Bands. Mr. Neugent is a graduate of the University of Alabama where he received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Music Education. He is a National Board Certified teacher. While attending UA, he served as the principal clarinetist of the UA Wind Ensemble and Huxford Symphony Orchestra and performed in several other ensembles including the Million Dollar Band. His professional affiliations include NAfME and ABA. Outside of his teaching capacities at Spain Park, Mr. Neugent also enjoys serving as the Orchestra Director at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, AL. Mr. Neugent and his wife, Angie, currently reside in Helena, Alabama with their six children.

Concert Program

Friday, 3:45 PM BJCC Theater

Thompson High School Wind Ensemble

The Thompson High School Wind Ensemble was formed in 2001, the result of tremendous growth in the Thompson High School Band program that allowed for the creation of another performing ensemble. The Wind Ensemble is 65 members strong with the majority being juniors and seniors. Since the inception of the Wind Ensemble they have earned straight superior ratings at all Alabama Bandmasters Association District and State Evaluations. The Thompson Wind Ensemble is also a five time recipient of the National Band Association’s Citation of Excellence Award as well as a recipient of the NBA Programs of Excellence “Blue Ribbon” Award for 2013/2014 In addition, they have also earned straight superior ratings from other regional competitions throughout the southeast, most recently Festivals of Music in South Carolina, Smoky Mountain Music Festival in Tennessee, the Alamo Music Festival in San Antonio, Texas, and the Dixie Classic National Adjudicators Invitational in St. Louis, MO. Most notably, the Wind Ensemble was selected as a guest performer for the Southeaster n United States Concert Band Clinic held on the campus of Troy University, Troy, AL in February 2007, the Alabama Music Educators Association inService Conference in 1997, 2009 and 2014, the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in 2011 and 2015, the 2012 CBDNA / NBA Southern Division Conference at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA , the 2014 JanFest at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA , UAB Honor Band Festival in 2015 and the Alabama Honor Band Festival in February of 2010 and 2018 Membership into the Wind Ensemble is through an audition / selection process. While the members are serious and dedicated to the performance of outstanding symphonic wind literature, few students actually study privately. The Wind Ensemble consistently has members selected for the Alabama Bandmasters Associations All State Music Festival and for the many university sponsored honor band festivals throughout Alabama. Other perfor ming ensembles at Thompson High School include the 200 member “Marching Southern Sounds”, the 65 member Symphonic Band, the 60 member Concert Band, various chamber ensembles and the 19 member Thompson Jazz Band.

Jon Bubbett is a native of Dothan, AL. He attended Dothan High School, graduating in 1977. He also attended Troy State University, graduating with a BMEd. in 1981. Mr. Bubbett received the MMEd. from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, IL in 1989. Mr. Bubbett is in his 38th year of teaching. Mr. Bubbett has served as band director at Thompson High School since 1993. Mr. Bubbett’s bands have performed in a variety of venues across the southeast. Most recently the Thompson Wind Ensemble performed for the Music for All National Concert Band Festival in 2015 and the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2017. Mr. Bubbett is also a six time recipient of the NBA Citation of Excellence Award. In addition the Thompson Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Mr. Bubbett, is one of the recipients of the National Band Association Programs of Excellence “Blue Ribbon” Award for 2014. Mr. Bubbett is also the recipient of the Phi Beta Mu, Rho Chapter 2015 “Bandmaster of the Year” Award. Mr. Bubbett has also served as a guest clinician and adjudicator in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi as well as having served as clinician / panelist participant for both the Alabama Music Educators Association In-Service Conference and the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Mr. Bubbett is a member of National Association for Music Education, Alabama Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, National Band Association, Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity, Celebration Winds Community Concert Band, and the Alabama Winds Community Concert Band.

Thursday, 7:00 PM BJCC Theater

Concert Program

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Wind Symphony is the premier performing ensemble for wind, brass and percussion students at the university. Members are selected through audition each semester and comprise the best musicians on campus. Over twenty unique majors are represented in the group from music education to biomedical engineering. The primary objective of this ensemble is to perform literature of the highest musical value with emphasis on works originally written for band and wind ensemble. High expectations for individual musicianship and advanced technical attainment provide members with a musically enriching and artistic performance experience.

Dr. Sean P. Murray is an Associate Professor of Music and director of bands at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His responsibilities include directing the UAB “Marching Blazers”, University Wind Symphony, teaching undergraduate classes in conducting and music education, and coordinating all aspects of UAB’s comprehensive university bands program. Prior to his appointment at UAB, he was associate director of bands at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Murray is a native of Milwaukee Wisconsin, and earned a Ph.D. in music education with an emphasis in instrumental conducting from The Florida State University. His primary conducting teachers were James Croft, Patrick Dunnigan and Richard Clary. He also earned his Master of Music Education and Bachelor of Music Education degree from The Florida State University College of Music. Dr. Murray is very active as a guest clinician, conductor, and adjudicator throughout the country. He has presented at numerous national and state conferences. He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the National Association for Music Education, the National Band Association the Florida Music Educators Association, and the Florida Bandmasters Association. He is also a member of Phi Mu Alpha, Pi Kappa Lambda, and holds honorary memberships in Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. He was appointed to the faculty at UAB in 2017.

University of Alabama Women’s Chorus

The mission of the UA Women’s Chorus is to provide students, both majors and non-majors, with a choral experience that will be rewarding and life enriching. The Women’s Chorus is committed to the performance of choral music repertoire at its highest level. It is designed to provide the background, training, and experience, when coupled with prerequisite coursework in other areas needed for those wishing to enter the choral, voice, or music education fields. The ensemble experience may become a forum for the synthesis of component parts of a complete music education. The choral art is a medium for communication between people, and it is the development of this expressive communication that is at the heart of the philosophy that guides this ensemble.

Conceptual Framework - University of Alabama Women’s Chorus

Choral music at the University of Alabama is committed to the performance of choral music repertoire at its highest level. The purpose of the Women’s Chorus is to provide students, both majors and non-majors, with a choral experience that will be rewarding and life enriching. It is designed to provide the background, training, and experience, when coupled with prerequisite coursework in other areas needed for those wishing to enter the choral, voice or music education field. The ensemble experience may become a forum for the synthesis of component parts of a complete music education. The choral art is a medium for communication between people, and it is the development of this expressive communication that is at the heart of this philosophy.

Marvin E. Latimer Jr. is currently Associate Professor, Head of the Music Education Department, and Assistant Director of the School of Music at the University of Alabama. He received a BME and MME from Wichita State University and a PhD in Music Education from the University of Kansas. Dr. Latimer taught secondary choral music in Wichita, Kansas and served as Assistant Professor of Music Education at Wichita State University prior to his appointment at Alabama. In addition to his work in education, he has been active as Church Choir Director, Community Choir Director, Performer, Music Theater Director and Producer, Technical Director, and Scenic Designer. He has published research in numerous journals and is a frequent presenter at state, national, and international music conferences and symposia. Dr. Latimer is Past President of the Alabama Choral Directors Association and Chair of the Organizational History Subcommittee of the ACDA Research and Publications Committee.

Friday, 7:30 PM BJCC Theater

Lasciate i monti, from L’Orfeo

Concert Program

Monteverdi (1586–1643)

Minear, arr. Manuscript

Michael Haydn (1737–1806) Martin Banner, ed.

Lorenz Corporation

Romance Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Raines, arr. Alliance Music Publications, Inc. Ständchen (Op. 135)

Schubert (1797–1828) Ryan Kelly, ed.

Choral Public Domain Library

There Will Come Soft Rains Kevin Memley (b. 1971)

Pavane Publishing The Thing with Feathers ...................................................................................................................... Amir Zaheri (b. 1979)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Wind Symphony is the premier performing ensemble for wind, brass and percussion students at the university. Members are selected through audition each semester and comprise the best musicians on campus. Over twenty unique majors are represented in the group from music education to biomedical engineering. The primary objective of this ensemble is to perform literature of the highest musical value with emphasis on works originally written for band and wind ensemble. High expectations for individual musicianship and advanced technical attainment provide members with a musically enriching and artistic performance experience.

University of North Alabama Chamber Choir

Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky has been Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Alabama since the fall of 2003. His studies began at the University of Manitoba, continued at the University of Minnesota with Kathy Romey, and finished at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati with Earl Rivers and Stephen Coker. He has also studied with Helmuth Rilling, Dale Warland, Frieder Bernius, Martin Isepp, Charles Bruffy, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Convention, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the Alabama Vocal Association, the International Federation for Choral Music, Choral Canada, Phi Mu Alpha, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He is a member of the editorial board for Anacrusis, the journal of Choral Canada. Loeppky has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs the two elite choral ensembles at UNA and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, world music, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he is founder of the Florence Camerata, Associate Artistic Director of the Huntsville Community Chorus Association, Artistic Director of KIConcerts biennial Voices United international festival (next in Costa Rica in 2019), a frequent contributor to the ACDA Choral Journal and Anacrusis. and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. His works are published by Kelman Music Press, Santa Barbara Music Publishing, UNC Jazz Press, and Carl Fischer. Under his direction, the UNA Chamber Choir and Vocal Jazz Ensemble sing regularly at local and regional concerts, festivals, and conferences.

Tiffany Bostic-Brown currently serves on the faculty at the University of North Alabama as Assistant Professor of Voice/Director of Vocal Studies and Opera Theater Stage Director. She was awarded a Bachelor of Music degree from Virginia Commonwealth University and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees with emphasis in Vocal Performance and Music History from Louisiana State University. She also serves as Vice President for the non-profit Walk with Me Foundation, Inc., and maintains an active career as a soprano soloist throughout the region and nationally. Recent presentations include  The craft behind the art: foundational techniques for healthy singing and Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle: Resources and Ideas for Pronunciation, Comprehension, and Memorization of Sung Texts  with Dr. Ian Loeppky and Taming the Intemperate classroom with Dr. Terrance Brown.

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Thursday, 7:00 PM BJCC East Ballroom

Vestavia Hills High School Honor Choir

The Vestavia Hills High School Honor Choir, under the direction of Dr. Megan Rudolph, is one of eight ensembles at Vestavia Hills High School. This group of 10-12th graders work hard all year to make sure that they have a strong understanding of music theory, musicianship, and sight-reading skills. The Honor Choir consistently receives superior ratings at State, Regional, and National adjudicated events. They have served as host choirs for many collegiate honor choirs including Mississippi State, University of Alabama, and the University of Alabama Birmingham. Additionally they have participated in the Choir Nationals in New York City (2015 and 2017). The students in the choir come from a wide variety of backgrounds in the school, and make it a point to continually try to represent themselves, their families, and Vestavia Hills High School with the utmost character, kindness, and morality.

Dr. Megan Wicks-Rudolph began her teaching career in 1994 in Decatur, AL. She is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Vestavia Hills High School. At Vestavia Hills High School she oversees eight performing ensembles with over 300 students taught daily, an assistant choral director, part-time voice coach, and a part-time accompanist. Choirs under her direction consistently receive superior ratings at local, regional, and national adjudicated events. Dr. Rudolph is Nationally Board Certified (2003, 2013) and Orff Level I Certified. Her choral music experience includes directing children’s choir, middle school choir, high school choir, church choir, and teaching collegiate methods classes. She currently serves as the ACDA Southern Division R&R for Vocal Jazz and Past President for Alabama ACDA. Additionally, she is an active lecturer and adjudicator throughout the United States. Megan is married to her husband Brian, and they are the proud parents of Alexis (10), Austin (8), Zach (6), and Max (4).

Thursday, 7:00 PM BJCC East Ballroom

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Alison Allerton is Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education at University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, where she conducts the Women’s Chorale and Men’s Chorus and teaches courses in choral methods, secondary general methods, and aural skills. Prior to her collegiate career, Dr. Allerton spent twelve years as a public school choral music educator at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in the Greenwich Public Schools in Greenwich, CT. She was named a recipient of the Greenwich Public Schools Distinguished Teacher Award in 2010 and the Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award in 2007. In 2011, her 50-voice middle school boys select choir gave an invitational performance at the Connecticut Music Educators Association State Conference. Dr. Allerton holds a Bachelor of Music Education from James Madison University, a Master of Music in Music Education with an emphasis in Choral Conducting from the Eastman School of Music, and a DMA in Choral Conducting from Louisiana State University.

Nancy H. Barry is Professor and Program Coordinator of Music Education in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Auburn University. She earned the Master's degree and Ph.D. in music education, and certificates in Electronic Music and Computers in Music from Florida State University. Barry has published in such journals as Arts and Learning, Psychology of Music, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Contributions to Music Education, UPDATE, and Bulletin of Research in Music Education, and is a frequent presenter at national and international professional conferences. Barry is an active member of professional organizations such as NAfME and the College Music Society. She served as National College Music Society Secretary from 2016 – 2018, and currently chairs the CMS Committee on Academic Careers.

Franklin Bell is a practicing attorney in Birmingham, Alabama. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alabama and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Vanderbilt University, School of Law. He is also an active musician in the Birmingham area performing with multiple ensembles and as a soloist. His practice frequently involves representing musicians in dealing with a variety of legal issues. Mr. Bell has been a presenter on legal issues for music educators at The University of Alabama, Samford University, and The University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Deanna Bell is the music teacher at Vestavia Hills Elementary East, conductor of the Birmingham Wind Ensemble, and an adjunct music professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has worked in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia teaching elementary music, choir, and band in all grade levels from kindergarten to college. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Music Education from The University of Alabama and her Master of Music Education from Samford University. In 2010, Deanna was awarded National Board Certification in Early and Middle Childhood Music. Deanna received Orff Levels I, II, and III Certification from Samford University and Kodály Levels I, II, and III Certification from The University of Montevallo. She serves on the Alabama Kodály Educators Board, the Executive Board for the Alabama Chapter of the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, and is a District 3 Chair for the Alabama Music Educators Association. Deanna is the 2016-2017 Elementary Teacher of the Year for Vestavia Hills City Schools, and a 2019 Quarterfinalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award.

Joe Brennan received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Education from Temple University studying violin and trumpet. Joe works in the Haverford Township School District located in suburban Philadelphia. He is the Co-Chair of the Music Department, and is the director of the string program at Haverford Middle and High Schools, a position he has held for the past 32 years. He has presented sessions for NAfME, ASTA, MidWest, and state conferences. Joe continues to be a guest conductor and clinician for string festivals. He has twice been chosen to attend the Juiliard School’s “Conductors Workshop for Music Educators”

Jennifer Canfield is a graduate of Troy University (BME and MS in Education) and Auburn University (PhD in Choral Music Education). Her teaching experience spans over 17 years in grades K-12, both in public and private schools. Dr. Canfield has recently retired from Huntingdon College, where she served as Department Chair, and Director of Choral Activities and Music Education. Since her “retirement”, she is an adjunct professor at Auburn University, where she enjoys teaching elementary education majors how to incorporate music in their general classroom.

Dr. Stefanie Cash is Director of Music Education at Berry College. Dr. Cash is responsible for teaching methods and techniques classes, conducting the Berry Women’s Choir as well as supervising student teachers. She has previous experience conducting multiple collegiate choirs and also taught classes in conducting, choral techniques, choral pedagogy and choral methods. Dr. Cash also frequently serves as a guest clinician for various district and All-State honor choirs. Prior to joining Berry College, Dr. Cash served at the collegiate level as both Director of Music Education and Director of Choral Activities. Cash taught at the middle school level in Kentucky and both the high school and collegiate level in Georgia. Choirs under her direction have performed for KMEA and GMEA in-service conferences as well as the 2008 ACDA Southern Division Convention. Dr. Cash’s research interests include world music usage in choral ensembles, partnerships between music education programs and public schools and performance practice techniques.

Michael Chambless is in his fourth year teaching at Thompson Middle School, and in his third year as Director of Bands. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Alabama in the spring of 2014. In college he was an active performer in the UA Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, Saxophone Quartet, and Million Dollar Band. Prior to teaching at Thompson Middle School, Mr. Chambless was the band director at Hillcrest and Duncanville Middle Schools. Bands under his direction have consistently received superior ratings at Alabama's Music Performance Assessment.

Rusty Courson (b. 1963) is a native of Phenix City, Alabama. Dr. Courson earned the BME (1989), MSE – Music Education (1996), and MSE – Educational Administration (2007) from Troy University, and the Ed.S. (2010) and Ed.D. (2018) in Educational Leadership from Liberty University. Mr. Courson retired at the end of the 2015-16 school year after 27 years as a music educator in the State of Alabama, and is currently serving as an adjunct instructor at Troy University in a part-time capacity. He taught at Russell County High School, South Girard School (Phenix City), Eufaula High School, and Smiths Station High School. His marching, jazz, and concert bands consistently earned Superior Ratings throughout his career, along with numerous Best In Class awards and Grand Championships. After taking a two-year sabbatical to complete his doctorate, he has returned to the classroom as Director of Bands at W.H. Shaw High School in Columbus, Georgia. Dr. Courson has held leadership roles within AMEA, most recently as Past-President of ABA.

Valerie Diaz Leroy joined QuaverMusic.com as a lead trainer in 2015. Before putting on the green Q, she served as a dedicated music educator for 13 years at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida. Valerie received her B.A. in Vocal Performance from Boston College, holds Orff Levels I & II, and Kodály Levels I & II Certifications. As part of her professional preparation, Valerie has been researching the historical evolution of musical instruments with particular emphasis on ethnomusicology and the trajectory of the banjo.  This has added value and dimension to her studies of folk music . Valerie currently lives a very music-inspired life in Maryville, Tennessee!

Ellary Draper is Assistant Professor of Music Therapy at The University of Alabama. Dr. Draper has worked as a music therapist with a variety of ages and populations and as an elementary general music teacher. Currently she serves as the Special Education Chair for the Alabama Music Educators Association. Her research is published in the Journal of Music Therapy, Journal of Research in Music Education, General Music Today, and Update: Applications of Research in Music Education. She holds degrees in music education and music therapy from Westminster Choir College, Florida State University, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Mark Foster is the band director at John Carroll Catholic High School in Birmingham and has been teaching band for 29 years. He has previously taught band Mountain Brook Junior High School, Gardendale High School, and Hueytown High School. He holds the bachelor of science, master of arts, and doctor of education degrees from the University of Alabama, as well as National Board Certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He is a frequent guest conductor at honor bands throughout the Southeast, and he maintains an active schedule of performing as a trombone player

Percussionist Benjamin Fraley and clarinetist Jennifer Fraley formed the Sources Duo in 2014, and have since performed and given clinics at music schools throughout the United States. Focusing on newly written or rarely performed works, their ever-increasing repertoire is influenced by a variety of musical styles and cultures, and reflects both performers’ versatility on several instruments. The duo’s current commissions explore the sound of the E-flat clarinet and percussion with works by composers Jamie Whitmarsh, Jerod Sommerfeldt, and Danny Clay. Both Jennifer and Benjamin Fraley maintain active performance schedules in addition to serving as faculty at Troy University.

Michelle Gann received her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Education from Mississippi State University. While there, she was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Gamma Beta Phi honor societies. In addition, she graduated Summa Cum Laude, was inducted into the MSU Hall of Fame and was recognized as MSU’s Graduate Woman of the Year. Ms. Gann has taught high school in Alabama for twenty-six years. During that time, her bands have received numerous superior ratings at both marching and concert competitions including the Alabama State Band Festival and the Music Performance Assessment. She has adjudicated competitions and conducted honor bands at various locations across Alabama and Georgia. She is currently in her 20th year as the director of bands at Gordo High School in Gordo, Alabama.

Michael Guzman is Director of Bands at Tuscaloosa County High School and also serves as Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Black Warrior Winds, an adult community band serving the West Alabama. He holds degrees from the University of Miami and Florida International University, in Music Education and Wind Conducting, respectively. For much of the last decade, Guzman has been a sought out musician and teacher in Florida and Alabama. Bands under his director in both have been consistently rated superior and he has served as an adjudicator and conductor throughout the Southeast.

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Libby Hearn is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Education at the University of Alabama where she serves as a graduate teaching assistant working in music education, teacher education, choral conducting, and as a research assistant. She is also ser ves as the accompanist and show choir director at Tuscaloosa County High School. Before moving back to Alabama in 2016, Ms. Hearn was the founder and director of Knight Fusion Singers at Marian University in Indianapolis. As an assistant professor of music, she taught courses in music theory, aural skills, vocal pedagogy, and choral/vocal music education. She also conducted the University Choir. Ms. Hearn taught for seven years as a choral educator at Hueytown High School in Hueytown, Alabama. While at Hueytown, her choirs consistently received superior ratings at state assessment and earned numerous awards and honors at contests and festivals across the southeast, including a memorable performance at the 2010 AMEA State Conference. She is the proud mother of two beautiful children, Catherine and Andrew.

Dr. Tim Heath is the Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Samford University, where he also serves as the Assistant Director of the Samford Wind Ensemble and serves as a conducting faculty member.

BethAnn Hepburn teaches general music and elementary and junior high choirs in Streetsboro, Ohio and Ph. D. Candidate at Kent State University in Music Education. She has the distinction of Master Teacher from the Ohio Department of Education. She is a teacher education instructor for the American Orff-Schulwerk Association and is on faculty for orff certification courses at Trinity University in Texas, The University of Hawai’i, The University of the Arts Pennsylvania at Villanova, and New York City ETM. BethAnn is a frequent presenter for Orff chapters throughout the United States, and has trained teachers in China, Scotland, Singapore, and India. She is the past PD chair for AOSA, and current PD chair for General Music for OMEA. BethAnn is on the Board of Trustees for the American Center for Elemental Music and Movement. She is the co-author of Purposeful Pathways, Possibilities for the Elementary Music Classroom Books I-III.

Lori Hetzel is the Associate Director of the School of Music, Associate Director of Choral Activities and Full Professor of Choral Music Education at the University of Kentucky where she conducts the UK Women’s Choir and the ever-popular a cappella group “Paws and Listen”. In addition to her conducting duties, Dr. Hetzel supervises student teachers and teaches undergraduate methods and choral conducting courses where she has pioneered a unique partnership program with area high schools and middle schools allowing undergraduate students to begin classroom teaching early in their curriculum and gain true ‘hands on’ experience. Hetzel is a contributing author to the new textbook Conducting Women’s Choirs: Strategies for Success. Among her many academic accomplishments, she was the recipient of the University of Kentucky “Great Teacher of the Year” award in 2000, a finalist for the Provost Awards for Outstanding Teaching in both 2009 and 2010, and the winner of the Robert K. Baar Choral Award in 2011 “given to one choral director in the state who exhibits outstanding leadership in choral music and promotes music education in the state of Kentucky.” Lori Hetzel received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Wisconsin/Green Bay, the Master of Music from the University of Missouri/Kansas City and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Michigan State University.

Matthew Hoch is Associate Professor of Voice and Coordinator of Voice Studies at Auburn University, where he teaches applied voice, diction, and vocal literature courses. Prior to coming to Auburn in 2012, he spent six years as Assistant Professor of Voice at Shorter College, where he taught applied voice, vocal literature, and served as Coordinator of Voice Studies. Dr. Hoch is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and NATS. He is the author of three books, including  A Dictionary for the Modern Singer (2014),  Welcome to Church Music & The Hymnal 1982 (2015), and  Voice Secrets: 100 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Singer (2016), coauthored with Linda Lister. He holds the BM (summa cum laude) from Ithaca College with a triple major in vocal performance, music education, and music theory; MM from the Hartt School with a double major in vocal performance and music history; DMA from the New England Conservatory in vocal performance; and the Certificate in Vocology from the National Center for Voice and Speech. In addition to his academic life, Dr. Hoch is also Choirmaster and Minister of Music at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Auburn, Alabama, where he lives with his wife, Theresa, and three children: Hannah, Sofie, and Zachary.

Jeremy Howard received a BME in vocal music education and an MM with an emphasis in the Kodály philosophy from Morehead State University. He holds certification in all three levels of the Kodály teaching method. Additionally, he studied at the Kodály Institute in Kecskemet, Hungary during the summer of 2011. Mr. Howard currently serves as the 3 Year-Old through 8th Grade General Music Teacher and Choir Director at Christ the King Cathedral School in Lexington, Kentucky. He is active as a conductor for Honor and Festival Choirs, a clinician for several music educator workshops and conferences, and teaches Kodály certification courses in Alabama and Kentucky. He is the president of the Kentucky Association of Kodály Educators (KAKE), and a member of Organization of American Kodály Educators (OAKE).Jeremy resides in Lexington with his wife, Laura, also a music educator, and their son,Michael Rhys.

Kristi Howze has been teaching for the past twenty-four years. Mrs. Howze earned her Bachelor of Music degree from Samford University and her Masters in Education at Auburn University. During Mrs. Howze’s twenty-four years of teaching she has not only taught elementary music, but has also had experience teaching 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades as well as high school chorus. She is currently the Lower School Music teacher at UMS-Wright Preparatory School in Mobile, Alabama. During Mrs. Howze’s fourteen years at UMS-Wright she has directed over 75 fully staged musicals with elementary and middle school students.

Jane Kuehne (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor of Music Education at Auburn University where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, and supervises graduate research. Her primary research and study areas include teaching sight-singing, pre-service music educator biases, string/orchestra music education access and opportunity (with Dr. Guy Harrison), and most recently critical race theory (theories) self-study and effects of bias in education.

Dave Lawson  is a highly trained woodwind clinician that has been teaching woodwinds for over 13 years. He earned his Bachelor’s in Clarinet performance and Music Education from Reinhardt College (University). He has taught clinics from elementary school beginners to high school seniors auditioning at the college level. He has learned from and taught next to such esteemed directors as Mrs. Mary Land, while she was the director at Pickens Middle School, and Daniel Gray, while he was at River Ridge High school. Dave is a professional clarinet and alto sax player, recently performing with Tara Winds at their GMEA Performance in January of 2014 and again at Midwest in December of 2015. Dave regularly performs with The DaltonWhitfield Community band in Dalton, GA, the Alpharetta City Band in Alpharetta, GA, and the American Patriot Winds in Woodstock, GA. Dave has studied clarinet with Andrea Strauss, Mariano Pacetti, John Warren, and both clarinet and sax with Mitchel Henson. Dave maintains a busy private studio that ranges from beginners to retired beginners from 7-67. All of Dave’s middle and high school students are required to audition for All-state. Dave’s studio is fast paced, intense and filled to the brink with fun. Dave also runs a woodwind repair shop where he fixes instruments for schools and private students. Currently, we have three apprentice woodwind techs and nearly 150 instruments that our shops owns that we are fixing, renting, or selling. Dave has also taught numerous repair courses throughout the southeast. In 2017, Dave taught sessions at the Alabama Music Educators Convention (AMEA), the Georgia MEA, the Tennessee MEA, West Georgia, and Reinhardt University.

Rob Lyda is the music teacher at Cary Woods Elementary School in Auburn, Alabama. Throughout his career he has taught music classes for students in grades K - undergraduate. He earned the BME at Troy University and the MEd and PhD in Music Education from Auburn University. In addition to his academic degrees, he completed studies in in Kodaly, World Music Drumming, TI:ME, is an Orff-Schulwerk (Levels I-III & Master Class) certified teacher. Rob regularly presents sessions on technology integration and general music education at state, regional, and national conferences. He contributes curriculum materials for NAfME publications, the Alabama Symphony’s children’s concerts, and other state and national groups. He holds memberships in Alabama Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education, American Orff Schulwerk Association, Phi Kappa Phi, and the National Band Association. Currently, he serves as the National Chair of the NAfME Council for General Music Education and Secretary of the Elementary Division of AMEA.

Mary McGowan is in her 25th year of teaching instrumental music and her 3rd year as the Director of Bands at Adamson Middle School in Rex, GA. Her Bands have consistently earned Superior Ratings at performance evaluations and music festivals in Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, Tennessee, Louisiana and Florida. Her students have participated in GMEA District 5 and 6 Honor Bands. Students under her direction have also been accepted as fellows with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program. She has served as a clinician/session presenter for Atlanta Public Schools, Clayton County Schools, Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia (2017) and the Alabama Music Educators Association In –Service Conference. (2018) Previous teaching experiences include New Orleans Public Schools, Atlanta Public Schools. Clayton County Public Schools and Spelman/Morehouse Colleges. She is also a Volunteer Family Mentor on the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Talent Development Program committee. Ms. McGowan is a graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music, and received a Master of Secondary Education Degree from Southeastern Louisiana University, and is pursuing an Educational Specialist Degree in Music Education at Piedmont College. She also is a private instructor in clarinet and oboe.

Dr. Cara Morantz joined the faculty at UAB as Assistant Director of Bands in the fall of 2014. She is a part of the instructional team for the Marching Blazers, the Wind Symphony, the Symphony Band, and the Blazer Bands. In addition, she provides instruction in music classes including courses in music education.

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Originally from Kinston, Ala., Travis Perry has been a music teacher for more than 36 years. From experience, he learned that keeping his students excited and interested in playing was key to their success. Perry noticed that 7 out of 10 of new guitar students, including Bradi, his own daughter, quit taking lessons within 60 days. While teaching, Travis continued working on his idea of a simple “magical” device that students could easily mount on the guitar, press down a button and work on the right hand rhythm patterns until they learned how to play guitar chords on their own. In October, 2010, Perry introduced ChordBuddy to the market. Two years later, he appeared on the hit ABC show “Shark Tank,” to reach out for more funding to grow his business. Today, guided by the motto “you make the music, ChordBuddy makes it easy,” Travis is spreading the love of music to guitar players around the world.

Bob Phillips (b. 1953), pedagogue, composer, teacher trainer, and conductor, is renowned as an innovator in string education. Bob brings a wealth of knowledge and a sense of humor to his clinics, drawn from his 27 years as a public school string teacher. He is an expert in large group pedagogy and in the development of alternative styles for strings. He is one of today’s leading educational authors and composers, and his books and pieces are performed by thousands of string students each year. Bob is currently the Director of String Publications for Alfred Music and is Past-President of the American String Teachers Association. Bob and his wife, Pam are also part of the creative team for Barrage 8. Bob has authored over 19 book series that include 130 books for use in the classroom, including the ground breaking series Fiddlers Philharmonic, Fiddlers Philharmonic Encore!, Jazz Philharmonic, Jazz Philharmonic: Second Set and Latin Philharmonic, the String Explorer method, and the revolutionary Sound Innovations method, all published by Alfred Music. He has been elected “Teacher of the Year” nine times by national, state, and regional associations and has been invited to present clinics in more than forty states and eight foreign countries. Recognized as “Citizens of the Year” by the City of Saline for their work in arts education, Bob and Pam were also honored in special ceremonies by both the House and the Senate of the State of Michigan for their work with the Saline Fiddlers. In 2013, Bob was inducted into the University of Michigan School of Music’s Hall of Fame.

Stephanie Porter has been an elementary music teacher for sixteen years. In that time, she has taught in several systems at three levels. Since landing in Hartselle three years ago she has composed a school song and started two elementary choirs that tour the area. She completed her masters in elementary reading specialty in May of 2018. She remains an advocate for music education in her area and routinely advises regular education teachers on how music enhances their standards. Stephanie currently teaches general music and reading intervention at one elementary school in Hartselle and conducts an after-school choir at the intermediate school in order to ensure those students receive some music enrichment since it is not offered during the school day. She also recently composed a SATB choir piece for her high school choir director’s retirement.

Dr. C. David Ragsdale is Professor and Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Ragsdale teaches courses in music education and conducting. Additionally, Dr Ragsdale conducts the University’s Wind Ensemble, the Huntsville Chamber Winds, and the Tennessee Valley Music Festival Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. In 2015, Dr. Ragsdale was named the UAH College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of the Year. Dr. Ragsdale has conducted All-State Bands in Alabama and North Carolina and is slated to conduct the Florida All-State Band in 2020. Other recent conducting engagements include numerous regional and district honor bands as well as the honor bands at Florida Atlantic University, Winthrop University, Wake Forest University, University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Georgia. He is a frequent contributor to the “Teaching Music Through Performance” textbook series and his research on Stravinsky’s neoclassic era was twice selected for presentation at the College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference in 2016 and 2018. Prior to UAH, Dr. Ragsdale served as Associate Director of Bands and Director of the internationally acclaimed “Band of the Hour” marching band for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami where he was also inducted into the Iron Arrow Society, this highest honor attainable at the University of Miami for students, faculty, or alumni. Dr. Ragsdale holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Appalachian State University (NC), a Master of Music degree from Winthrop University (SC), and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Miami (FL). A disaster responder for the American Red Cross, he and his wife Jennifer, Middle School Dean at Randolph School, currently reside in Huntsville, Alabama along with their daughters, Ella and Anna.

Dr. Megan Wicks-Rudolph began her teaching career in 1994 in Decatur, AL. She is currently the Director of Choral Activities at Vestavia Hills High School. At Vestavia Hills High School she oversees eight performing ensembles with over 300 students taught daily, an assistant choral director, part-time voice coach, and a part-time accompanist. Choirs under her direction consistently receive superior ratings at local, regional, and national adjudicated events. Dr. Rudolph is Nationally Board Certified (2003, 2013) and Orff Level I Certified. Her choral music experience includes directing children’s choir, middle school choir, high school choir, church choir, and teaching collegiate methods classes. She currently serves as the ACDA Southern Division R&R for Vocal Jazz and Past President for Alabama ACDA. Additionally, she is an active lecturer and adjudicator throughout the United States. Megan is married to her husband Brian, and they are the proud parents of Alexis (10), Austin (8), Zach (6), and Max (4).

AMEA 2019 Clinicians

Ted Scalzo has taught Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Advanced Music Theory & Composition, and Multimedia for 36 years at Bay Shore High School, NY. In addition he has taught classes at SUNY Fredonia, SUNY Potsdam, C.W. Post and Hofstra University. Ted is a current member of Suffolk County Music Educators Association, NYSSMA, TMEA, TBA, TI:ME and NAFME. Ted also served on the New York State School Music Association Technology committee and has been an Apple Distinguished Educator since 2005. Since retiring from teaching Ted is working with MakeMusic as a trainer, clinician and higher ed consultant.

Donna Smith is in her seventh year of teaching as the current Band and Choir Director at Fayette Middle School in Fayette, Alabama. She has previously taught 6-12 as well as 6-8 grade band programs in Thomasville and Tuscaloosa. Donna received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Instrumental Music Education from Troy University in Troy, AL.  Outside of her professional achievements, she also connects with music through service as a Province Officer for Sigma Alpha Iota and a member of the Black Warrior Winds Community Band. Donna is the proud wife of Kenny and mother of Cooper, their son.

Dr. Phillip Stockton, Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of Choral Activities at Mississippi University for Women, received his Bachelors of Music Education from Auburn University, Masters of Music Education from Florida State University, and Ph.D in Music Education from the University of Mississippi. Before coming to MUW, Dr. Stockton was Director of Choral Activities at Mandarin High School in Jacksonville, Florida where his choirs consistently received superior ratings at performance assessment. Dr. Stockton is in his fifth year at The W and has seen the program grow during that time. He remains an active clinician and judge for choirs throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida. He is an active member of American Choral Director’s Association (ACDA) and the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and is currently the R&R for Student Activities for the Southern Region ACDA. His research focuses on the historical adolescent voice change as well as best practices for the choral classroom. Dr. Stockton is married to his lovely wife Amy and together have a son Lee and a daughter Molly.

Dr. Jason Sulliman is the assistant professor of trombone at Troy University in Troy, Alabama. He teaches applied trombone lessons, brass methods, and coaches various trombone ensembles. He has previously taught at the University of North Alabama as well as Vincennes University in Vincennes Indiana. Jason has performed with several professional orchestras throughout the United States including the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the New Mexico Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, the Anderson Symphony Orchestra, and the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra. In addition to orchestral paying, Jason has shown versatility in chamber music as a performer with the Dallas Brass Quintet, the River City Brass Band, and the Spark Brass Quintet. Throughout the past fifteen years Jason has been involved with the Tony and Emmy award-winning Broadway show “Blast!” and has performed as a soloist on trombone, euphonium, and tuba during several national and international tours. From 2008-2014, Jason served as the company's music manager and conductor.

Viktoria Truesdail is currently in her sixth year teaching grades PreK- 6th in the Madison County School System.  She holds degrees from Cleveland State University and University of Florida.  Prior to teaching in the elementary classroom, Mrs. Truesdail has held various music positions including having her own private woodwind studio, Pre-K director, adjunct collegiate instructor and Assistant Director of Continuing Education at Georgia College. She currently instructs four extra-curricular clubs at her schools including: The Bucketing Blue Thunder, the Bucketeers, the Monrovia Music Makers and the Singing Cubs. In 2018, she received the “Super Citizen” award from Endeavor Elementary School for her dedication to always helping others and for excellence in leadership. Mrs. Truesdail also enjoys being a busy band, guard and track mom for her three children.

Kyle J. Weary is recognized as a leader in teaching music literacy and contemporary commercial music. Kyle has been invited to present educational sessions at the State, Regional, and National levels. Kyle has presented in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Texas. Kyle’s articles on teaching music literacy and vocal pedagogy in the choral rehearsal have appeared in Choral Director Magazine. Kyle has earned nominations for the GRAMMY music educator award in 2018 and 2016 where he advanced as a quarterfinalist both times. In 2015, Kyle was nominated for Washington County’s Teacher of the Year. As guest conductor, Kyle has conducted honor choirs in Allegany County (MD) Washington County (MD), Vermont ACDA, Cumberland County Honors Choir (PA), and with The Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Kyle currently teaches in West Shore School District as an Elementary Music Specialist and is the Director of Music at Silver Spring Presbyterian Church in Mechanicsburg. Currently, a PhD Music Education student at Auburn University, Kyle attained a Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Conducting from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music where he was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award for Young Career Achievement.. Kyle is also a graduate of the Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute.

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Kevin Whalen is Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Music in the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. Whalen has served as the jazz trumpet chair of The Glenn Miller Orchestra and held a jazz trumpet chair with the Grammy-nominated University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band. Dr. Whalen has presented at the Jazz Education Network Annual Conference, the Annual Conference of the International Trumpet Guild, the International Conference on the Blues and at universities throughout the country, including the Eastman School of Music, Ithaca College, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech.

Dr. Meghan Merciers is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Alabama (UNA) with an applied focus in larinet and saxophone. Dr. Merciers has given numerous masterclasses throughout the United States and held performer and lecturer residencies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Courbevoie near Paris, and the Conservatoire de Limonest in Lyon, France. Prior to joining UNA in August 2013, Dr. Merciers taught at Albion College and the Flint School of Performing Arts in Michigan.

Mr. Sam Merciers is a visiting assistant professor in Theory and Composition at the University of North Alabama.

Dr. Whitney Farris O’Neal, a native of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of North Alabama. Prior to her appointment as flute instructor at UNA, O’Neal was Instructor of Woodwinds at Stillman College from 2010-2011, and served as Instructor of Flute at Mississippi State University in the fall of 2010.

Dr. Tracy Wiggins is Assistant Director of Bands and coordinator of the percussion program at the University of North Alabama. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the HARTT School, University of Hartford, the Master’s Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of New Mexico, and the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Oklahoma State University, as well as post-master’s work at The Ohio State University.

Art Williams is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Music at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education and M.S. in Education degree from Troy University as well as a Ph.D. degree in music education from Indiana University. With experience teaching at the elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels, Williams is a specialist in elementary general music education. He is also actively involved in the field of music education, where he appears as host of “Mr. Art’s Music Room,” the DVD component of Warner Brothers’ and Alfred Publications’ nationally released Music Expressions curriculum.

Gretchen Windt, mezzo soprano, was an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera, Sugar Creek Symphony and Song Festival, and Utah Symphony & Opera. She has performed with Cincinnati Opera, Opera Southwest, Chesapeake Chamber Opera, Opera Idaho, Bowen Park Opera, OperaModa, and DuPage Opera Theatre. She has performed with the Ohio Light Opera for five seasons in works by composers including Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Franz Lehar, and Jacques Offenbach. She graduated from the University of Utah (D. M. A. in vocal performance), the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (M.M. in voice/opera), and North Park University (B.M.E. in music education/voice). She currently is an Assistant Professor in voice at the University of North Alabama.

Dr. Anne C. Witt teaches Music Education, String Pedagogy and String Literature at the University of Alabama. She taught middle school and high school strings/orchestra in Austin for 15 years and played cello in the Austin Symphony; she was also Director of the University of Texas String Project. Dr. Witt has served as President of the Texas Orchestra Directors Association, President of the Alabama ASTA chapter, and National President of ASTA. Her degrees were earned at the University of Alabama and the University of Texas at Austin. She founded the Adult Strings program in which she teaches classes for adult beginners, cello lessons and the annual Adult Strings Weekend. Dr. Witt has presented educational sessions in many states, at all ASTA national conferences and at the Midwest Clinic. She enjoys guest conducting All State and regional festival orchestras, and is a frequent presenter at AMEA. Dr. Witt is author of A Rhythm a Week, used by school band and orchestra classes nationwide. In 2005, she organized a community initiative to fund the start-up of Strings in Schools – a string program in the Tuscaloosa City Schools. After 13 years, over 1000 students have participated, and groups have won top honors in competitions. Five full time teachers teach daily classes in all the middle schools and high schools. Three graduates of the program have become certified music teachers. She further served the community as President of the Tuscaloosa String Quartet Society. She continues to play cello professionally in a quartet called “Four Strings Attached.” She was an adjudicator for the ASTA National Orchestra Festival and for the first Alabama Orchestra MPA in 2016.

AMEA 2019 Clinicians

Dr. Damion Womack currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music, Chair of the Fine Arts Department and Director of Choral Activities and Huntingdon College. His duties include conducting all choral ensembles, teaching choral methods, conducting, and supervising the music and art faculty. Choral ensembles under the direction of Dr. Womack have performed by juried invitation for regional and national conventions of The American Choral Directors Association, and The National Association for Music Education. Prior to his appointment at Huntingdon College, Dr. Womack served as Director of Arts at The Montgomery Academy, where he received the McLemore Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Womack currently erves as the American Choral Director’s Association National Chairman for High School Choirs and has served on planning committees for the 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2018 ACDA Southern Region Conventions. He is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician in the Southeast and has served in this capacity in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nor th Carolina, and Illinois. Dr. Womack holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC and holds Music Education degrees from Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University.

Michael S. Zelenak, Ph.D., is the Assistant Professor of Music Education at Alabama State University where he teaches graduate and undergraduate methods courses and supervises students as they matriculate through the music education program. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, and completed the masters and doctoral programs in music education at the University of South Florida. He earned National Board Certification while teaching chorus, strings, keyboard, guitar, and general music in Pinellas County, FL. He is a member of the advisory committee for NAfME’s Music Educators Journal and on the editorial board for the Florida Music Educators Association’s Research Perspectives in Music Education.

MUSIC EDUCATION

THREE TRACKS: Choral Elementary Instrumental

THREE SUMMERS: Complete the MME with a Combination of Summer and Online Courses

MSU’s Master of Music Education program is both unique and practical, designed to 昀t into the busy lives of current music teachers. It is a hybrid program (a combination of summer and online courses) designed to support music professionals in the advancement of both their pedagogical and musical skills. Included in the degree is performance practice, conducting, pedagogy, curriculum, music theory, history, and the essentials of research in music education.

Posters to be presented at the HED Research Poster Session, Friday, January 18, 2019, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, Exhibit Hall Lobby

Including the other 80%: Developing a More Relevant and Inclusive Music Curriculum

Brittny A. Kempfer, Auburn University

Hidden Figures: A Case for Equity and Opportunity in the American Symphony Orchestra

Renée L. Baptiste and Jeremy L. Stovall, Jacksonville State University

The Incorporation of Error Detection Methods in Undergraduate Instrumental Conducting Courses:A Mixed Methods Investigation

Chapel J. McCullough, Auburn University

Supporting English Language Learners in the College Music Class

Nancy H. Barry, Auburn University

The It Factor: Qualities and Practices which Produce Exceptional and Aesthetically Pleasing Choral Performances

Brenda Shuford, Auburn University

Bringing the Spinning Wheel to Life: The use of Faust and the spinning wheel in Franz Schubert's Gretchen am Spinnrade

Grace Ashley, The University of North Alabama

Developing Successful Conductors: A Survey of Feedback Methods for Undergraduate Conducting Courses

LaToya Webb, Auburn University

Breaking Through the Glass: A Pilot Study on Perceptions of Bias Experienced by Women Composers

Brittney Elizabeth Boykin, Georgia State University

Communication Corridors: Deciphering Methodology for Expediting Encoding for Classroom Ease and Performance Preparation

Tiffany Bostic-Brown, University of North Alabama

Student Perceptions of Graduate Teaching Assistants in a Music Education Methods Class

Melissa R. Life, University of Florida

A Longitudinal Analysis of Literature Selections for MEA Concert Band Adjudications in Florida and South Carolina (2014-2018)

Patrick K. Carney, Limestone College

Giving Alabama a Voice: The Development Process of a Nonprofit State Choir

Brady McNeil, Auburn University

A Survey of the Attitudes of Marching Band Directors Toward Student Injuries

Robert E. Glasscock, Auburn University

Are All White People Rich and All Black People Poor?: Experiences of Choral Music Teachers Teaching Social Justice

Deborah Kay Dick and Nancy H. Barry, Auburn University

Reflections of Undergraduate Music Education and Music Therapy Students Working with Students with Severe Disabilities in an Inclusive Choral Setting

Ellary Draper, The University of Alabama

The Music Educator's Unique Sphere of Influence: Social Justice and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy in Music Education

Jane M. Kuehne, Auburn University

AMEA Industry/Institutional Membership

AMEA would like to express appreciation to the following partners who have joined AMEA in our efforts to promote music education in Alabama. Please support these industry/institutional members who support you as music educators!

The Exhibitors

This directory is compiled from information supplied by the exhibiting firms or institutions. This list may not include vendors who registered after the publication deadline.

313th Army Band

The 313th Army Band is made up of 40 Army Reserve musicians from all over the Southeast. Formerly stationed in Birmingham, the 313th has a new home at Redstone Arsenal in Hunstville, AL. Our ensembles include the Stage Band, Jazz Combo, Brass Quintet and Ceremonial Band. Booth 221

Alabama Education Association, P.O. Box 4177, Montgomery, AL 36103

Showcasing the benefits of being a member of the Alabama Education Association. Booth 315

Alabama Percussive Arts Society

The Alabama chapter of the Percussive Arts Society is a nonprofit organization that educates and supports the art of percussion throughout the state of Alabama. Booth 519

Alabama Symphony Orchestra, 3621 6th Ave. S., Birmingham, AL 35222

The ASO inspires, entertains, and provides vital programming to the residents of the state, serving nearly 100,000 people yearly throughout Alabama through concert series, youth programs, and educational and community engagement efforts to fulfill our mission of changing lives through music. The ASO works to produce creative, dynamic programming and to be recognized as an artistically innovative leader in the field. Booth 317

All in a Note

Seller of music t-shirts and sweatshirts, tote bags, mugs, stationery, jewelry, coasters, and briefcases all with music themed prints. Booth 223

American Travel Consulting, P.O. Box 941033, Plano, TX 75094

Student Group Travel. Booth 116 & 118

Antigua Winds, Inc., 5806 La Colonia, San Antonio, TX 78218

Manufacturer of woodwind and brass musical instruments designed to meet the fundamental requirements of both the music education and professional markets with excellent quality at a sensible price. Learn more about Antigua and see why we are proud to offer our Antigua Power Bell and Antigua Pro-One lines of professional saxophones. Booth 215

Art’s Music Shop, Inc., 3030 East Boulevard, Montgomery, AL 36116

Serving the musical needs of the Southeast since 1905; convention exhibit features extensive stock of educational/instrumental music for today's school band. Booth 103

Auburn University Department of Music, 101 Goodwin Music Building, Auburn, AL 36849

Music at Auburn offers opportunities for musicians as majors or non-majors. Ours is an intimate and nurturing atmosphere with opportunities for individual attention and performance for students. Visit us for information about music at Auburn. Booth 117

AWB Apparel/Wayne Broom, 206 Potomac Ct., Woodstock, GA 30188

Music Apparel: Screenprinting And Embroidery. Serving The Southeast Since 1995. Booth 114

Bailey Brothers Music Company, 4673 Highway 280 E Suite 7, Birmingham, AL 35242

For 30 years in Alabama, Bailey Brothers has always provided the top selection of products and customer service at the lowest prices in the southeast. Bailey Brothers' knowledgeable staff have consistently received only the highest accolade from our customers, our vendors, and our peers and are here to help you select the right product to suit your musical or educational needs. Booth 213

Bocal Majority Double Reed Camp, 420 N. Coit Road, Suite 2015, Richardson, TX 75080

We run double reed camps nationwide including our newest location in Mobile, Alabama. We sell high quality handmade oboe and bassoon reeds, bassoons, oboes, clarinet, accessories, supplies and tools. Booth 512

Buffet Crampon, 7255 Salisbury Road, ste 4, Jacksonville, FL 32256

Buffet Crampon USA is the global reference in wind instruments and North American distributor of Buffet Crampon, Besson, B&S, Antoine Courtois Paris, Hans Hoyer, Keilwerth, Melton Meinl Weston, Verne Q. Powell, J. Scherzer and Schreiber. Booth 316 & 318

Burns Tours, LLC, 5744 Greenbriar Road, Franklin, TN 37064

Travel arrangement for large or small groups. Twenty-Seven years experience. References can be furnished. Booth 211

CG3 Battery Fundraising, 12400 Deer Ridge Dr, Wilmer, AL36587

CG3 Battery Fundraising is a unique fundraising solution that helps schools, churches and other non profit groups raise significant funds. Our branded battery packs are a big hit, providing your donors with a product every household needs, wants and uses. Booth 323

Conn-Selmer, Inc., P.O. Box 310, Elkhart, IN 46515

Conn-Selmer, Inc. is the leading manufacturer and distributor of a full line of American made band and orchestra instruments for professional, amateur and student use. The company manufactures and distributes its products under a variety of well-known brand names including Selmer, Bach, Ludwig, Leblanc, King, Armstrong and C. G. Conn. Booth 312 & 314

Custom Fundraising Solutions, 757 Chestnut Park Lane, Hoover, AL 35226

Mattress Fundraiser that has helped Bands in Alabama raise over $1,000,000. Booth 612

The Exhibitors

DeMoulin Brothers & Company, 1025 South 4th Street, Greenville, IL 62246

DeMoulin Brothers & Company - now in its 127th year continues to serve the world's quality apparel needs offering fulltime representation and complete uniform and accessory lines. Booth 100

Didgeridoo Down Under: Australian Musical Shows, Concerts & Workshops!, 14650 Bournemouth Rd., Tampa, FL 33626

G’day! Didgeridoo Down Under is one of the most popular cultural arts enrichment programs in the U.S. We specialize in weaving Australia-themed music, culture, motivational speaking and audience participation into high-energy shows, concerts, workshops and residencies for all ages. Since 2004, we’ve presented more than 7,000 programs at K-12 schools, colleges, festivals and other venues nationwide. Booth 417

Disney Performing Arts

There's nothing more magical than performing on a Disney stage in front of an international audience. Disney Performing Arts Performance and Workshops sets the standard for which all other performance opportunities are measured. With Festival Disney, achieve performance excellence at a competitive music festival produced by Disney. Expose your group to the highest level of performance excellence while reinforcing lifelong lessons in teamwork, discipline and artistic growth at one of the most sought-after venues in the world. When you own the Disney stage, you own the world. Booth 319

Eastman Music Company, 2158 Pamona Blvd., Pomona, CA 91768

The Eastman family of Strings, Winds, Guitars, as well as S. E. Shires, Wm. S. Haynes, and Backun Musical, proudly makes handcrafted instruments for players of all levels. Booth 217 & 219

Elvis Presley Enterprises, 3734 Elvis Presley Blvd., Memphis, TN 38116

Thank you for choosing Memphis for your upcoming meeting or event. We at Graceland are excited to welcome you to Memphis, “Home of Blues, Soul and Rock ‘n Roll.” Booth 619

Firehouse Barbecue, 3555 Lakefront Trl, Helena, AL 35022

Firehouse Barbecue has been helping schools and organizations raise funds throughout Alabama for over 22 years. We offer smoked Boston butts, hams, turkeys, chickens, and even complete family meals. Our customers have had great success selling our products that parents are eager to buy for their families. Booth 422

First Class Charter LLC, 721 Buffalo Road, PO Box 768, Lawrenceburg, TN 38464

Charter bus company. Booth 108

Fund Raising Services, Inc., PO Box 43215, Birmingham, AL 35243

Publish the Express Discount Card, Peeler Express, and Fundraising Ticket. Booth 313

Fundraising With Simply Sheets, 7900 Bullitt Dr.., Mobile, AL 36619

Simply Sheets of Mobile is a fundraising company located in Mobile, Alabama. We are the only Bath Towel and Bed Sheet Fundraising Company We offer both Traditional and Online programs. Our programs offer your organization no upfront costs, no hidden fees and no minimums. Give your supporters a product they will use and enjoy for years to come. Booth 601

Gadsden Music Company, 607 Broad St. PO Box 132, Gadsden, AL 35901 Musical instrument sales. Booth 403 & 503

Group Travel Network, Inc., 7485 Conroy Windermere Road, Suite D, Orlando, FL 32835

AMEA Preferred Travel Planner, with 20+ years of continuous experience, specializing in performance group travel to destinations such as Orlando, Hawaii, San Antonio, Atlanta, New York, Washington DC, Europe and more. One Call - One Source! We do it ALL....so YOU don't have to! Booth 609

Guardian Music Travel, 1008 Frances Pkwy, Park Ridge, IL 60068

We are a group travel run by teachers. We focus on creating unique itineraries at great prices that all programs can afford. We would love to have the opportunity to create a proposal to show you why Guardian is becoming the best option for travel for Alabama! Booth 209

Hawaii State Tours, 1178 Byrnwyck Way, Atlanta, GA 30319

Custom Group Travel to Hawaii and Performance at Pearl Harbor. Booth 423

Huntingdon College Bands, 1500 East Fairview Ave., Montgomery, AL 36106 College/University. Booth 119

Jacksonville State University, David L. Walters Department of Music, 700 Pelham Road, North, 201 Mason Hall, Jacksonville, AL 36265

A comprehensive department preparing music educators and performers for leadership positions. JSU Music: A Proud Tradition in Sound Education Booth 515

J W Pepper, 9053 Riverside Pkwy, Lithia Springs, GA 30122

For over 140 years, Pepper has being serving the needs of the music community. Visit us at our Regional Sales Center in Atlanta or online at www.jwpepper.com. Experience the Pepper difference. Booth 409, 411, & 510

Kaleidoscope Adventures, 7081 Grand National Drive, Suite 110, Orlando, FL 32819

Kaleidoscope Adventures is a full service tour company specializing in student group travel. Our primary emphasis is developing festival and

performance tours for middle and high school bands, choirs, and orchestras. We work closely with educators to create a unique and enriching travel experience that will enhance the classroom curriculum and bring your classroom to life. Booth 413

KHS America, 12020 Volunteer Blvd, Mount Juliet, TN 37122

KHS America is dedicated to the advancement of music performance and education through the distribution of high quality musical instruments and accessories of exceptional value and is committed to the support of musicians and educators across the globe. Booth 511 & 513

Landmark Tour & Travel, 704 37th Street South, Birmingham, AL 35222 perator providing complete custom travel packages for bands, choirs, and orchestras to the destinations and music festivals/performance venues of your choice. Contact Connie Burleson @ 800-681-4188 or 205-714-7888. Booth 310

Marchmaster Inc./Fruhauf Uniformsv., P.O. Box 73379, Ne wnan, GA 30271

Marchmaster is the premier southeastern leader in supplying footwear, guard equipment, custom designed uniforms & outfits, head gear, concert performance wear, podiums, field equipment, banners, electronics and other accessories for bands, orchestras, choral groups, and performing ensembles. Booth 309

Mouchette Enterprises, Inc., P.O. Box 394, Northport, AL 35476 School Fundraising. Booth 516

Music For All, Inc., 39 W. Jackson Place, Suite 150, Indianapolis, IN 46225

Music for All’s mission is to create, provide and expand positively life-changing experiences through music for all. We believe that music and arts education is a core to students’ education and must be available to all students. Music for All is an advocate for music and arts education. Our educational programs support the efforts of instrumental music teachers on the high school and middle school levels, as well as provide positively life-changing experiences for students. Booth 414

Music is Elementary, 5228 Mayfield Rd., Lyndhurst, OH 44124

Elementary music catalog and online store. A-Z all elementary music products and print. MIE Publications, Purposeful Pathways, Meaningful Movement, One Accord, Percussive Play, etc. Booth 214 & 216

Musical Destinations, PO box 771060, Winter Garden, FL 34777

Specializing in student music group tours. We are experts in Orlando, New York, Washington, Atlanta, San Antonio, California, Chicago, Cruises and more! Booth 320 & 322

National Band Association

The National Band Association, founded on September 11, 1960, is the largest professional organization for bands in the world. It was organized for the purpose of promoting the musical and educational significance of bands and is dedicated to the attainment of a high level of excellence for bands and band music. The NBA is an organization open to anyone and everyone interested in bands, regardless of the length of experience, type of position held, or the specific level at which one works. The membership roster includes professionals and students from every facet of the band world. NBA is today’s professional organization for band directors, and it stands ready to serve all members of the association through a variety of projects and initiatives. Booth 610

OrlandoFest, P.O. Box 690096, Orlando, FL 32869

OrlandoFest is firmly committed to providing quality music festivals for elementary, middle school, junior high school and senior high school student musicians and generating positive educational growth through performance. All of our Festival Packages include admission to Universal Orlando Resort™. Festival weekends conclude with a spectacular Awards Ceremony at Universal’s Islands of Adventure™. Booth 311

Ozark Delight

Fundraising Lollipops. Booth 419

Pool National Band Portraits, 2176 Montreat Dr., Vestavia Hills, AL 35216

Portrait studio specializing in composites. Booth 614

QuaverMusic.com, 1706 Grand Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212

QuaverMusic.com offers a fully-digital, comprehensive program for today's PreK-8 music classroom, plus an engaging student website. Cloudbased and highly interactive, Quaver's Curriculum also includes a suite of administrative tools for training and customer support, gradebook, supervisor-level reporting, and a mobile app for student assessments. Advanced Technology. Teacher-Friendly. Seriously Fun! Booth 303

Redemption Marketing Service, 594 Watsonwood Dr., Nashville, TN 37211

Fundraising. Booth 421

Salyers Percussion, 16310 Sapling Ridge Dr, Sugar Land, TX 77498

Makers of high quality sticks and mallets . 416 & 418

The Exhibitors

Samford University - Division of Music, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229

With programs in performance, music education, composition, and music and worship, you’ll find our students and faculty engaging with creativity and commitment whether they’re in the practice room, performance hall, classroom, or the mission field. Our Catalyst program allows students new opportunities and flexibility to explore their talents and prepare for the ever changing musical landscape of today. Take some time to browse these pages. You’ll get a glimpse of the creative work we are doing but there is so much more. To really see, hear, and experience music study at Samford, you have to hear it for yourself. Booth 220

ScreenTech and Mattress Fundraising Solutions, 383 Kelly Drive, Dothan, AL 36302

ScreenTech specializes in fundraising solutions for band and chorus groups throughout Alabama, north Florida and south Georgia. Our Stadium Collection program is the only one of it's kind that offers a large selection of Alabama and Auburn merchandise as well as "Iron Bowl" and Christmas spirit tee shirt fundraisers. We are also the Tri-State distributor for Mattress Fundraising Solutions which features Tempur Pedic, Sealy, Stearns and Foster and MBA mattresses exclusively to the school and Not For Profit markets. Booth 521 & 523

Sheridan Brass Shires Trombones, 945 Mountain Branch Drive, Birmingham, AL 35226

Specializing in Custom S ECustom Shires Trombones at reasonable prices. If you try a Shires trombone, it will change the way you think about trombones. American made near Boston Ma. Booth 623

Simply Sheets Fundraising, 700 Churchill Court, Suite 126-325, Canton, GA 30114

Established in 2010, Simply Sheets Fundraising leads the bed sheet fundraising marketplace in a class of its own. To date we’ve distributed over a 1M sheet sets, across the US; and raised over $18,000,000 for organizations who reached their community with needed, quality product. Simply Sheets Fundraising invests in America’s future with state of the art technology for its fundraising chairpersons and members of their organizations. Professionalism, ethics, longevity, consistency, and community growth reflect our company and mission. Let Simply Sheets Fundraising help you reach your financial goals. With our product and program, you will reach your goals with speed and integrity, allowing you to pursue your organizations’ mission. Booth 622

Snap!Raise, 939 Westlake Avenue North, Seattle, WA 98109

At Snap! Raise, our mission is to empower coaches and group leaders to devote more time to mentoring their students and less time on administrative tasks like fundraising. Booth 522

Southern Performances, Inc., 6037 Andhurst Dr., Gulf Shores, AL 36547

Southern Performances is a company dedicated to providing quality products to performing ensembles throughout the Southeast. They have a lengthy vendor list, including the top names in the business. Whether you need costumes and flags for your color guard, formal wear for your band or choir, band shoes and gloves or a drum major podium--David and his skilled team is ready to help! Booth 509

Southern Sportswear, 5024 Bent River Trace, Birmingham, AL 35216

Quality products at reasonable prices with dependable delivery. Booth 517

Stanbury Uniforms, Inc., 108 Stanbury Industrial Dr., Brookfield, MO 64628

Manufacturer of Superior Band Uniforms for over 100 years! Booth 113

Super Holiday Tours, 116 Gatlin Ave., Orlando, FL 32806

For over 40 years, Super Holiday Tours has provided memorable travel experiences for students all over the world, specializing in performance based tours for bands, choirs and orchestras. We are committed to providing our clients a positive travel experience by dedicating ourselves to the highest quality of service. We achieve this by listening to our client's needs and through out attention to detail. Let us take you where you want to go! Booth 112

Taylor Sports & Souvenirs, 2814 Citizens Parkway, Selma, AL 36701

Custom screen printing on apparel and fundraising. Booth 616

Tempest Musical Instruments, 18847 Redland Road, Suite 105, San Antonio, TX 78259

Manufacturer of Woodwind, Brass and Marching Brass Musical Instruments. Booth 415 & 514

Thomas Tours, 2405 12th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37204

Tour and Travel. Booth 106

Troy University, 109 Long Hall University Avenue, Troy, AL 36082

The John M. Long School of Music invites alumni, friends, family, and guests to visit our booth and explore the music opportunities available at Troy University. Booth 115

UAB Department of Music/ College of Arts and Science, 701 20th Street So AB 620, Birmingham, AL35233

UAB Music Department/ College of Arts and Science. Booth 222

UAH Department of Music, 301 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35899

UAH's Department of Music prepares musicians for careers as performers, educators, composers, church musicians, and music industry professionals. We enable all students, regardless of major, to pursue the art and beauty of music while honing the interpersonal and communication skills vital to every career. Booth 218

University of Alabama Bands, 2007 Moody Music Building, Box 870368, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0368

Regardless of major, there is a place for you in one of our many ensembles! The University of Alabama Bands...where you could be ONE in a million! Booth 203

University of Montevallo, 75 College Drive, Station 6670, Montevallo, Alabama 35115

The Department of Music is one of the most highly regarded music programs in the state and region. Continuously accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music since 1931, we have remained a competitive force in Alabama's collegiate music education. We are proud of the success and the achievement of our students, alumni, and faculty. Booth 110

University of North Alabama Department of Music, 1 Harrison Plaza, UNA Box 5040, Florence, AL 35632

Bolstered by superior performance ensembles and outstanding music faculty, the University of North Alabama Department of Music provides students an outlet to ignite their passion for the arts with numerous opportunities to perform and connect with their fellow students and community

The Department of Music remains a consistent resource of excellence for the University of North Alabama, the Shoals Region, and beyond with its competitive scholarships, performance awards, and its status as a leader in the music education field. Booth 121

University of North Alabama University Bands, 1 Harrison Plaza, UNA Box 5040, Florence, AL 35632

The University of North Alabama Band program is the largest student organization on the UNA campus. Since its inception in 1949, the band program has had many talented members march through its ranks. It is exciting as each new season begins to see a group of band members practicing on Pride Field, but it is equally as exciting to witness our alumni enjoying the band’s performances since they are the ones upon whom the current program has been built. Booth 123

University of South Alabama, 5751 USA Drive South, Mobile, AL 36688

University of South Alabama Department of Music. Booth 615 & 617

Warburton Music Products, 22633 Quarter Lane, Hampton Cove, AL 35763

We manufacture a complete line of mouthpieces for Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet, Cornet, French Horn, Trombone, and Tuba - plus our growing line of top quality accessories for both brass and woodwind instruments. The Warburton system flexibility gives you the most efficient mouthpiece or saxophone neck components for performing in any playing situation. Warburton also manufactures a professional line of Bb Trumpets, C Trumpets, Cornets, and Flugelhorns! Booth 122

Yamaha Corporation of America, 6600 Orangethorpe Avenue, Buena Park, CA 90620

Yamaha offers a full line of musical instruments and accessories. With a focus on consistently high quality products and services combined with innovative methods, Yamaha is dedicated to providing fantastic music making experiences for the next generation. Booth 410 & 412

Sharon McCann August - Class of 2019

Theresa McKibben - Class of 2016

Vicki Portis - Class of 2016

John Bradley - Class of 2015

Bill Brunner - Class of 2015

Jim Duren - Class of 2015

Curtis Hollinger - Class of 2013

Billy R. (Rip) Reagan - Class of 2012

Joseph C. Riemer, Jr. - Class of 2010

Roland Lister - Class of 2009

Pat Morrow - Class of 2009

David Walters - Class of 2009

Gerald Welker - Class of 2009

Gene Black - Inaugural Class of 2008

Carleton Butler - Inaugural Class of 2008

Ed Cleino - Inaugural Class of 2008

William Dawson - Inaugural Class of 2008

William Denison - Inaugural Class of 2008

Gene Gooch - Inaugural Class of 2008

Wilbur Hinton - Inaugural Class of 2008

Johnny Jacobs - Inaugural Class of 2008

Dianne Johnson - Inaugural Class of 2008

John M. Long - Inaugural Class of 2008

Floyd McClure - Inaugural Class of 2008

Frances Moss - Inaugural Class of 2008

Eleanor Nation - Inaugural Class of 2008

Lacey Powell - Inaugural Class of 2008

James Simpson - Inaugural Class of 2008

Thomas Smith - Inaugural Class of 2008

Hugh Thomas - Inaugural Class of 2008

Orland Thomas - Inaugural Class of 2008

Johnnie Vinson - Inaugural Class of 2008

Truman Welch - Inaugural Class of 2008

AMEA Membership Honor Roll

The Alabama Music Educators Association is proud to recognize those AMEA members having 25 or more years of continuous membership in NAfME. This year, each person attaining 25 years and those reaching increments of five years beyond that will be honored. The following music educators will be honored during the Friday evening General Session.

James Champion - 50 years

Ted Mann - 45 years

Christopher Rowe - 45 years

Sarah Lee Weeks - 45 years

Harry McAfee - 45 years

Rebecca Walker - 40 years

Roger Lawley - 40 years

Bonnie Lipscomb - 40 years

Frederick Stroup - 40 years

Stephen Fowler - 40 years

Robert Sheehan - 40 years

John Clarke - 35 years

Connie Hammond - 35 years

Erwin Reynolds - 35 years

Debora Mayes - 35 years

John Lambert - 30 years

Larry Batchelor - 30 years

James Simpson - 30 years

Jeff Burnside - 30 years

Mary Hughes - 30 years

Steve Price - 30 years

Richard White - 30 kyears

Rhonda Tucker - 25 years

Chris Cooper - 25 years

AMEA Hall of Fame

Certified In 2018:

Veronica Crawford, Tuscaloosa City Schools

Erin Lyon, Jefferson County Schools

Jed Smart, Tuscaloosa County Schools

Complete List: Music/Early Adolescence Through Young Adulthood

David Allinder, Jefferson Co School District

Darwin Anderson, Madison City Schools

Kimberly Bain, Vestavia Hills City Sch Dist

Kristi Bowers, Huntsville City School Dist

Jonathan Cagle, Jefferson Co School District

Jeff Calvert, Jefferson Co School District

John Cooper, Decatur City School District

Laura Doss, Birmingham, Alabama

Donald Dowdy, Madison Co School District

Gary Foster, Mountain Brook City Sch Dist

Traci Fuller, Montgomery Co School District

Gregory Gumina, Jefferson Co School District

Joel Henson, Jefferson Co School District

Margaret Heron, Jefferson Co School District

Sandra Hill, Jefferson Co School District

Daniel Hornstein, Huntsville City School Dist

Edward Horton, Vestavia Hills City Sch Dist

John Kincaid, Hoover City School District

Lee Mason, Birmingham City School Dist

Brian Neugent, Hoover City School District

Regina Raney, Decatur City School District

James Schaeffer, Hoover City School District

Jed Smart, Tuscaloosa County School District

Rachel Smith, Hoover City School District

Elizabeth Stephenson, Huntsville City Schools

Kimberly Strickland, Birmingham, Alabama

Jamie Thomas, Piedmont City School District

Renee Thomas, Baldwin Co School District

Adam Truesdale, Leeds City School District

John Vernon, Huntsville City School Dist

Christopher Walker, Jefferson Co Schools

Jennifer Walsh, Jefferson Co School District

Megan Wicks, Vestavia Hills City Sch Dist

Early And Middle Childhood Music Education

Sharon August, Vestavia Hills City Sch Dist

Deanna Bell, Jefferson Co School District

Donna Blethen, Birmingham City School Dist

Laura Butler, Mountain Brook City Sch Dist

Emily Cagle, Jefferson Co School District

Brian Cocke, Tr ussville City Sch District

John Cook, Trussville City Sch District

Veronica Crawford, Tuscaloosa City Schools

Carrie Cruz, Jefferson Co School District

Beth Davis, Decatur City School District

Katherine Donaldson, Vestavia Hills Schools

Brooke Dunham, Shelby Co School District

William Goff, Jefferson Co School District

Carlee Green, Hoover City School District

Leslie Jones, Jefferson Co School District

Erin Lyon, Jefferson County Schools

Alicia Moreno Mulloy, Huntsville City Schools

Clarence Myrick, Jefferson Co Schools

Janet Nelson, Mountain Brook City Sch Dist

Vicki Lynn Portis, Hoover City School District

Melinda Pruitt, Birmingham City School Dist

Jeanette Shorey, Shelby Co School District

Joy Smith, Birmingham City School Dist

Tiffani Stricklin, Jefferson Co School District

Phil Wilson, Auburn City School District

Walter Wren, Leeds City School District

Musical Destinations