POSITIONS HELD OR HONORS RECEIVED BY OHIO UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF MUSIC GRADUATES
Alumni of the School of Music hold numerous prominent positions as composers, conductors, music therapists, professional performers, and music educators from the kindergarten through university levels across the nation. The following is a brief listing of School of Music alumni who have particularly distinguished themselves.
Jerome Begin - Commissioned by the Julliard School of Music to compose a work for the School of Dance’s centennial celebration.
Donna Brink Fox - Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs and Eisenhart Professor of Music Education, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY
George Brozak - Director of Athletic Bands/Associate Director of Bands, University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
Karen Becker - Associate Professor of Cello, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Marie Boette - Associate Professor of Music, West Virginia Wesleyan College, former director of music, First Presbyterian Church, Parkersburg, PA [deceased]
Matthew Brunner - Asst. Director of Bands, Temple University
Steven Calantropio - Education Director of the American Orff-Schulwerk association, internationally recognized educator and clinician.
Deborah Campana - Music Librarian for the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, OH
Eugene Carinci - CEO, Macon Symphony Orchestra, Macon, GA
Kent Cleland - Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Theory Department, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, Berea, OH
Scott Cossu - Composer, pianist and recording artist in jazz, classical and world music
John Creachbaum - Vice President for Marketing, Conn-Selmer Company. Elkhart, IN
Jeffrey Daubenmire - Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Logan-Hocking School District, Logan, OH
Jack DeLaney - Director of Bands; Meadows Foundation Distinguished Teaching Professor, Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX
John Devol - Founder, ARTS HORIZONS, metropolitan New York City
Lalene Dyshere Kay - Director of the Cleveland Therapy Consortium, Baldwin Wallace College, Berea, OH
Kay Edwards - Associate Professor of Music Education, Miami University of Ohio
Raymond Feener - Assistant Professor of Voice, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music
Charles Frank - Professor Emeritus, Lakeland Community College, Director, Lakeland Community Concert Band, Mentor, OH
Nancy Galbraith - Professor and Chair of Composition, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Compositions have been performed by the Pittsburgh Symphony
Lisa Gallagher - Music Therapy-Practicum Instructor and Supervisor, Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music, Berea, OH
Laura Geier - Violinist with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Good - Chair of the School of Music, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Edwin Gordon - Noted teacher, lecturer, and author in music education and the psychology of music
Carleen Graham - Professor of Voice and Director of Opera, SUNY-Potsdam
Walter Halen - Composer, conductor, and violinist, professor of music [deceased], University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
Weilun He - Professor of clarinet at Shanghai Normal University in Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Marcia Henry Liebenow - Concertmaster, Peoria Symphony, violin professor, Bradley University
David Holland - Professor of Viola and chamber orchestra conductor, Interlochen Fine Arts Academy
Valerie Huffman - Director of Bands, Fairmont State University, West Virginia
Christine M. Ims - Violist and educator, metropolitan New York, performer with Kansas City Symphony, the New York Pops, the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the orchestras of the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater, She is Principal Viola of both the Glimmerglass Opera and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic.
Arthur Jarvinen - Professor of Composition, California Institute of the Arts, with commissions, grants, awards and fellowships from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Koussevitzky Foundation, Fromm Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts,
Jamie Kazak - Private Practice, Music Therapy, Cleveland, OH
David Kayser - Trombonist with Bridgeport, CT Symphony, instructor at the University of Hartford
Marshall Kimball - Director of Instrumental Studies, Marietta College, Ohio
David Kosmyna - Trumpet Professor, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH
Linda Laderach - Professor of Violin, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Rebecca Lanning - Coordinator of Music, Soprano Soloist, Macon College, GA
Timothy Leasure - Associate Professor of Trumpet, Ohio State University, Columbus
Paul Lehman - Associate Dean, The University of Michigan (Emeritus) Former National President, Music Educator’s National Conference
Daniel Lentz - Internationally known composer/performer, Fulbright and Tanglewood fellow, commissions for LA Philharmonic and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
Roger Lewis - Tuba-Euphonium Specialist, Woodwind-Brasswind, South Bend IN
Raymond Lowther - Public School Supervisor of Music, Lincoln, NE
Linda Lukas - Flutist with San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Patrick Madden - Executive Director, Sister Cities International, Washington, D.C.
Joe Malesick - School Principal, Nelsonville School System, OH
William Meckley - Director, Empire Jazz Orchestra, Chair, Music Department, Schenectady County Community College, New York.
Sandra Moon - Principal Soprano, Aachen Opera. Has sung at the Metropolitan, Chicago Lyric and Cleveland Opera houses
Julie Morton Hepler - Adjunct Instructor of Music History and Woodwinds Coordinator, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
David Moskowitz - Associate Professor of Music History, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D.
Lorena Musicari - Education Program Coordinator, Playhouse Square, Cleveland OH
Bradley Nevin - Superintendent, Eaton Community Schools, Eaton, OH
Gary J. Olmstead - Professor Emeritus-Percussion, Indiana University of Pennsylvania and past president of the Percussive Arts Society
Douglas Overmeier - Director of Bands, West Georgia State University, Carrollton, GA
Mark Palkovic - Head Librarian College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Douglas Patti - Arts Leadership Executive, former director of management services for the American Symphony Orchestra League, and manager or director of operations for major American orchestras
Marko Petricic - Assistant Professor of Organ, University of Indianapolis, Indiana
Gary Platt - Founder and President of The Ex’pression Center for New Media, San Francisco, CA. Nationally recognized trombonist and audio engineer and producer
Yvonne Powers Peterson - Associate Principal Oboe, Atlanta Symphony
Dan Presgrave - Director of Instrumental Ensembles, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Gerilyn Presti - Attorney at Law and Chief Counsel, Forest Enterprises, Cleveland, OH
Albert Rometo - Professor of Percussion and Vice Director of the School of Music, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Mark Rider - Professor of Music Therapy, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Stephen Sachs - Professor of Piano and Music Department Chair, Belhaven College, Jackson, Mississippi
John Sant’ Ambrogio - Principal Cello, Saint Louis Symphony (retired); musical director, Generations Trio, founder and director of Arts for the Soul
Marshall Scott - Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Thomas Sharp - Award winning film and television composer, Los Angeles
Patricia Shehan Campbell - Donald E. Petersen Professor of Music Education, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Sue Shockey - Flute-Piccolo Specialist for Woodwind-Brasswind, South Bend, IN
Robert Simon - Member, Board of Directors, International Martinu Society
Ryan Smith - Tenor [deceased] with Lyric Opera of Chicago's Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center and Grand Finals winner in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Michael Spray - Trombonist, U.S Army Band, “Pershing’s Own”
Natalie Steele - Assistant Director of Bands, Iowa State University
Lacy Stokes - Clarinetist with the Lackland Air Force Band, San Antonio, TX
Joseph Thayer - Dean [emeritus], Colburn School of Performing Arts, Los Angeles
Gene Thrailkill - Director of Bands, University of Oklahoma
James Warrick - Director of the award winning Jazz Studies Program, New Trier High School, Chicago, Illinois
Alan Wagner - Assistant Director for Student Affairs, Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas, TX
Beth Wagstrom - Director of Choral Activities, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
Walter Watson - Professor Emeritus of Composition, Kent State University, former faculty member of Stephen F. Austin State University. ASCAP award winning composer, works published by Ludwig Music and Black Squirrel Music.
Dennis Winter - Professor of Euphonium and Trombone, University of Central Arkansas
Tim Zifer - Associate Professor of Trumpet and Director of Wind Ensemble, University of Evansville, IN
Representative institutions where Ohio University music graduates have earned advanced degrees:
- Arizona State University
- Florida State University
- Indiana University
- Julliard School of Music
- Louisiana State University
- Manhattan School of Music
- Michigan State University
- New England Conservatory of Music
- Northwestern University
- Notre Dame University
- Ohio State University
- University of Cincinnati
- University of Illinois
- University of Iowa
- University of Kansas
- University of Kentucky
- University of Michigan
- University of Nebraska
- University of North Carolina-Greensboro
- University of North Texas
- University of Texas
- Yale University