2018
CLINICIANS
DANIEL WELBORN
•STANDOUT STUDENT TEACHING: MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR PRE-SERVICE TEACHING EXPERIENCE Daniel Welborn is Assistant Professor in instrumental music education at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He holds a Ph.D. in music education from the University of Southern Mississippi, a Masters of Education in educational leadership and administration from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Welborn has been involved with music education at the collegiate, secondary and elementary levels for over 20 years. Thirteen of these years involved teaching and growing the band program at Mabry Middle School in Marietta, Georgia. The Mabry Band is a feeder program for the Lassiter High School Band program. Under his direction, the Mabry Middle School Band program achieved great success. Most notably, the band enjoyed an invitational performance at the internationally-renowned Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois in 2007. The band also performed at the Georgia Music Educators Association Convention in Savannah, Georgia that same year. Prior to his appointment as Visiting Lecturer at Georgia State University in 2011, he spent two years as a doctoral conducting assistant with the University of Southern Mississippi Wind Ensemble where he studied with Dr. Thomas Fraschillo. Dr. Welborn’s research interests include instrumental music pedagogy, music psychology and adult musicians as lifelong learners. Dr. Welborn has performed as a hornist with both the Cobb Wind Symphony in Marietta and the Tara Winds in Atlanta. Both ensembles have established a fine reputation, having performed at numerous national conventions and conferences including the Midwest Clinic, American Bandmasters Association and the College Band Directors National Association.
BRIAN WESOLOWSKI
•SKYROCKETING YOUR MUSIC PROGRAM WITH MEANINGFUL ASSESSMENT
Dr. Brian Wesolowski is an Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Georgia, Hugh Hodgson School of Music where his teaching focuses on quantitative research design, assessment and policy in music, and psychometrics. He earned his Ph.D. in music education from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Dr. Wesolowski's research interests include rater behavior, scale development, and policy of educational assessment. He has published over 40 research articles, manuscripts, and chapters on music assessment that can be found in The Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Educational Assessment, PLOS ONE, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Measurement, and Evaluation, The Oxford Handbook of Assessment Policy and Practice in Music Education, Music Perception, Musicae Scientiae, International Journal of Music Education, Psychology of Music, Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, Research Perspectives in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Saxophone Symposium, Florida Music Director, and Georgia Music News. He has worked closely with the Georgia Department of Education, the National Coalition for Core Arts Standards (NCCAS), the State Education Agency Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE), NAfME's Model Cornerstone Assessment Pilot Study, and the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards on music assessment-related matters. Dr. Wesolowski currently serves as chair of NAfME's Assessment Special Research Interest Group (SRIG) and serves on the editorial review committees of Music Educators Journal and the Journal of Research in Music Performance.
LAUREN WHITHAM
•MUSIC LITERACY: USING CPDL TO PROMOTE SIGHT-SINGING IN THE CHORAL CLASSROOM
Lauren Elizabeth Whitham is a DMA student at the University of Georgia, where she studies conducting with Dr. Daniel Bara and Dr. J.D. Burnett. She is currently finishing her dissertation and plans to graduate in December 2017. Under her direction, Ms. Whitham’s choirs have performed at NAfME Conferences in Washington State in 2010 and 2014, and have been recognized at contests and festivals for their superior work. In addition to her K-12 work in the public schools, Ms. Whitham has directed university choirs at Western Washington University, Pacific Lutheran University, and the University of Georgia, and has taught undergraduate courses in aural skills, keyboarding, conducting, secondary choral methods, and choral literature. As an active member of NAfME, Ms. Whitham’s previous conference presentations include “Music Literacy: Finding the Key to Independent Learning in the Choral Classroom,” and “Creative Classroom Management: Stop Disciplining and Start Teaching.” Ms. Whitham earned her master’s degree in choral conducting from Western Washington University with Dr. Leslie Guelker-Cone, and her bachelor’s degree in music education, from Pacific Lutheran University with Dr. Richard Nance.
CECIL WILDER
•A CONVERSATION WITH CECIL WILDER
Cecil Wilder has had a 51 year career in music education. During that time he has taught jr. high school and high school band, high school orchestra and holds bachelors and masters degrees from Auburn University and has done additional graduate work at Columbus State University, The University of West Georgia, and Northwestern University, where he was a member of the 1991 Summer Fellows Program. He taught in Muscogee County, GA at Rothschild Jr. High School and Kendrick High School, in Clayton County, GA where he taught band at Jonesboro Sr. High School and was conductor of the Clayton County Youth Symphony and served as instrumental music lead teacher. He also was adjunct professor of brass at Auburn University and Columbus College. As a professional musician, he was principal trombonist of the Columbus, GA Symphony orchestra, served as music director, conductor, and arranger for the Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant and for the past twenty years has with the Atlanta 17 Orchestra, a well known jazz band. He has been executive director of GMEA for the past 21 years.
50
georgia music news // winter 2017