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LESLAE DENNISON
• RIPS, RUNS, AND REALITIES - BUILDING AND MAINTAINING HORN PLAYERS AT ALL LEVELS! Leslae Dennison is a graduate of West Georgia College, now University of West Georgia. She studied French horn with Dr. David McCullough, Ed Ferguson, and the late Dr. J. Russell Laib. Mrs. Dennison is a National Board Certified Teacher. She has 28 years of teaching experience at the high school and middle school levels. She is the band director and guitar instructor at Rehoboth Road Middle School (formerly Taylor Street Middle School) where she has taught for the last 20 years. Mrs. Dennison was a member of the Tara Winds Community Band for 24 years and has had the privilege of performing in many church, college, and community concerts and productions. She is also involved in several leadership positions and ministries in her church including the student ministry and student music ministry.
GREGORY DENSON
• DIAGNOSING THE PROBLEM, FINDING THE SOULTION: TEACHING IN A TITLE 1 SCHOOL!
Gregory L. Denson is presently the Director of Bands at Sutton Middle School in Atlanta, GA. He is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia having received a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance. After Morehouse, Denson attended The Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida where he received a Master of Music Education with teacher certification. Mr. Denson began his teaching career at D. M. Therrell High School in Atlanta. While at Therrell students participated in GMEA LGPE, performed in numerous college homecoming parades, the University of Georgia JanFest Clinic, and a host of community and civic events. Mr. Denson also served as the Co-Director of the Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Jazz Ensemble. At Sutton, the band program has tripled under Mr. Denson’s tutelage. Students participate in Symphonic Band I, Symphonic Band II, Concert Band, woodwind ensemble, and brass ensemble. Students have been selected to participate in All-State, District Honor Band, All-County, UGA MidFest, Domecoming, Conn-Selmer Youth Band, and the APS Youth Symphony Orchestra. Most recently the Sutton Middle School Symphonic Band was selected to participate in the WorldStrides National Band and Orchestra Festival at Carnegie Hall. Sutton bands consistently earn superior ratings at GMEA District V LGPE and have established a tradition of musical excellence. Mr. Denson is currently completing a Ph.D. in Music Education with a focus in urban music teacher preparation at Georgia State University.
NICOLAS DEUSON
• REPERTOIRE FOR THE GUITAR CLASSROOM: TEACHING ERAS, COMPOSERS AND STYLE • WITH PLUCK: TONE PRODUCTION FOR GUITAR ORCHESTRA
First prize winner in the 2010 Pacific Guitar Competition, and semifinalist in the 2009 Tokyo International Guitar Competition, Nicolas Deuson is enjoying a burgeoning concert career both as a solo performer and chamber musician. Nic has performed for the American Guitar Society, The G.Roger Bailey Classical Scholarship Concert series, The Ventura Guitar Society, Young Harris College, Western Carolina University, Wayfarer Chapel Concerts series, CSU Bakersfield concert series, and as a soloist with the Channel Islands Chamber Orchestra, among many others.
DR. ROBERT DUNHAM
• HEARING WITH YOUR EYES - SCORE STUDY TIPS TO HELP YOU HEAR WHAT YOU SEE Dr. Robert Dunham is Director of Bands at Georgia Southern University, where he coordinates the instrumental music program, conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and teaches undergraduate and graduate instrumental conducting, and music education and literature courses. Dr. Dunham received his DMA in instrumental conducting from the University of Missouri – Kansas City Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Professor Gary Hill. He received the MM in trumpet performance and music education from the University of Wyoming, where he studied with Robert Mayse and Carlyle Weiss, and received the BM in trumpet performance, and BME in music education from the University of Northern Colorado, where he studied with Eugene Corporon, and William Pfund. Dr. Dunham has also had additional conducting training with Elizabeth A. H. Green, Larry Rachleff, Nurhan Arman, Virginia Allen, David Effron, Raffaele Ponti, and Col. Timothy Foley.
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