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Ms. Angela Jones-Reus
Flute
Angela Jones-Reus, earned the Bachelor of Music from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1985 and the Master of Music from the Juilliard School in 1986. Her teachers have included Julius Baker, Philip Dunigan, Carol Wincenc, and Murray Panitz. In 1987 she was the sole recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for Music to Italy.
Serving as principal flutist of the Stuttgart Philharmonic from 1992 to 2000, Ms. Jones-Reus has performed extensively throughout Europe, the United Kingdom, Japan, South America, and the United States. Among her numerous compact disc recordings are her solo recording with "I Virtuosi di Prague," the Mozart piano concerti with Keith Jarret and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and a live recording of the Brahms Fourth Symphony with the Stuttgart Philharmonic in the famed Concertgebouw in Amsterdam.
Ms. Jones-Reus performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Claudio Abbado, in Carnegie Hall on their 1999 and 2001 U.S. tours and in Berlin in the televised New Year's Concerts (2000). She joined the faculty of the University of Georgia School of Music in August 2000.
Dr. Dwight Manning
Oboe and English Horn
Dwight Manning has performed throughout the Americas, Europe, and in Australia. He has presented premier performances of new works and his first editions of historical works. He has recorded ?Oboe Music of the Americas? on ACA Digital and can also be heard on the Atlantic, Capricorn, and MSR Classics labels. In Brazil, he toured and recorded with Trio de Madeiras de Porto Alegre. He has performed at the Aspen Music Festival and with the Atlanta, Fort Worth, and Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestras. Manning\'s oboe studies were with Richard Henderson, Richard Killmer, and Charles Veazey. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso (cum laude), the University of Oklahoma, and the University of North Texas (DMA, 1994). As a music educator, he has served as a middle school band director in Texas, Instructor of Flute and Double Reeds at Berry College (Georgia), and is currently Associate Professor and Woodwind Area Chair at the University of Georgia where he teaches oboe, music literature, and chamber music. Manning has taught master classes at many schools in North and South America. His research in the area of woodwind pedagogy and literature has been published internationally in encyclopedia and journal entries.
Dr. D. Ray McClellan, Jr.
Clarinet
Dr. D. Ray McClellan, Jr. earned the Bachelor, Master, and Doctorate of Music from The Juilliard School, where his principal teacher was David Weber. He also studied with Ethan Sloane, Jonathan Lautman, Victor Sawa, and Thomas O'Connell. Dr. McClellan has collaborated with some of the most notable ensembles in the United States, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Continuum at Lincoln Center, Chamber Sound at Carnegie Recital Hall, "The President's Own" United States Marine Band, The Washington Serenade, and Montpelier Winds. While a member of "The President's Own," Dr. McClellan was a frequent soloist with both the Band and the Orchestra. He has also appeared as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra, the Queens Philharmonic, and the Little Rock Wind Symphony. He has concertized in Kenya and Tanzania, as well as throughout the United States.
Dr. McClellan served as principal clarinetist in the Great Woods Festival Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas. He has performed at the the Waterloo Festival under Gerard Schwartz and the Music at Penn's Woods Festival at Penn State University. He has also served as principal clarinetist with the Alexandria Symphony, the Garden State Philharmonic, the National Women's (composers) Symphony and has performed with the Stamford Symphony, the Arkansas Symphony, and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
A performing artist for Buffet Clarinets and Vandoren Reeds, Dr. McClellan gives recitals and master classes at Universities and Conservatories across the country. He was the clarinet professor at James Madison University, Henderson State University, and Nyack College prior to his appointment at the University of Georgia in August of 2001.
Dr. William Davis
Bassoon, Associate Director School of Music
Dr. William Davis has been a faculty member in the University of Georgia School of Music since 1981. He earned Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the University of Kansas, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music. His main bassoon teachers have been David Van Hoesen and Austin Ledwith, and he has studied composition with John Pozdro, Samuel Adler, and Warren Benson. His published compositions include works for soloists, chamber ensembles, chorus, and symphonic band. His works for orchestra have been performed by the San Antonio Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Macon Symphony, and other orchestras. Prior to taking his current position at the University of Georgia, he was an Army Band Officer (1972-74), a bassoonist in the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra (1974-75), and a faculty member at West Texas State University (1975-81). He has served in officer positions in the International Double Reed Society, the Southeastern Composers League, and the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors. He was the President of the latter organization in July 1996.
Dr. Kenneth Fischer
Saxophone & Graduate Coordinator
Dr. Kenneth Fischer, Professor of Saxophone and Graduate Coordinator at the UGA School of Music, was awarded the Doctor of Music Degree with Distinction in Saxophone Performance from Indiana University. He has appeared as a clinician, soloist, and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Japan, and Italy, and has performed as a soloist at several meetings of both the North American Saxophone Alliance and the World Saxophone Congress. Dr. Fischer was invited to present the world premiere performance of the Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Orchestra by Robert Linn at the national meeting of the Music Educators National Conference, held in New Orleans, Louisiana. He performed the European premiere of this concerto at the XI World Saxophone Congress in Valencia, Spain. Fischer has served both the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Comite International de Saxophone in the capacity of president.
Dr. Jean Martin-Williams
Horn
Dr. Jean Martin-Williams teaches horn, directs the UGA Horn Choir, coaches chamber music, and is a member of the Georgia Woodwind Quintet, the Georgia Brass Quintet, and the Artrazann Trio. Dr. Martin is the recipient of a 1992-93 Lilly Teaching Fellowship. Before joining The University of Georgia faculty in 1990, she was a full time performer in New York City, performing in a variety of chamber and orchestral settings, including The Metropolitan Opera, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and the New York Chamber Symphony. She continues to be an active performer.
Recent performances have included the International Double Reed Symposium in Rotterdam, the summer season of the New York City Ballet, and a tour of Japan and Korea with The New York Pops. She has also made presentations at various national conferences on ways of utilizing technology in applied music instruction. A native of Decatur, GA, Dr. Martin attended the Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Lawrence University in Wisconsin and the Manhattan School of Music, from which she received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in 1985. Her horn teachers include Brice Andrus, Clarendon Van Norman, and Paul Ingraham; her chamber music coaches include Steven Maxym, Robert Nagel, and Judith Blegen.
Mr. W. Fred Mills
Trumpet
W. Fred Mills, was born in Guelph, Canada and began his brass studies on a coronet purchased from a traveling salesman. He studied at The Juilliard School in New York City and went on to play with the American Symphony Orchestra, Symphony of the Air, New York City Ballet Orchestra, Musica Aeterna Orchestra of the Metropolitan Museum, Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Casals Festival Orchestra, and the New York City Opera Orchestra.
A founding member of The Canadian Brass, he joined the University of Georgia School of Music brass faculty in September of 1996. The Canadian Brass originally began by working for the board of education in Toronto by performing for young people in the schools and establishing a brass chamber music program at the Banff School of Music in the Canadian Rockies. As a Professor of Trumpet and Brass Chamber Music, Mills is continuing that long-standing commitment to music education. He remains active in faculty and student brass chamber ensembles at UGA, as performer, arranger, and coach.
Mr. Mills has enjoyed 25 years of performances in the great concert halls of Europe, North America, and Asia and made over 40 recordings as a member of The Canadian Brass on ACA, RCA, Sony, BMG, and Philips labels. He has been instrumental in changing the standard repertoire for brass chamber music with over fifty arrangements and transcriptions for the quintet, including the highly acclaimed "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by J. S. Bach. Over his 25 years with the quintet, The Canadian Brass has been recognized as the world's premier brass ensemble.
Mills also coaches a graduate brass quintet, The Bulldog Brass Society, that is comprised of graduate assistants specifically selected in a national competition. The brass faculty of the University of Georgia School of Music plans to produce chamber music concerts and international festivals that comprehensively explore the literature of brass instruments.
Dr. Edward P. Sandor
Trumpet
Dr. Edward P. Sandor is Professor of Trumpet at the School of Music where he has taught since 1979. He performs with the Georgia Brass Quintet, which has toured nationally in Canada, Europe, Brazil, and Southeast Asia. As a soloist and clinician, Dr. Sandor has performed with regional orchestras and bands, and has presented at the national and international conventions of MENC, MTNA, The International Trumpet Guild, and other similar events. He has published articles in The Instrumentalist, Dialogue in Music Education, ITG Journal, Digital Audio Magazine, NACWPI Journal, Chinese Music Digest, and other regional journals. Dr. Sandor has been a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships for performance, research, and teaching in Taiwan in 1985 and in 1990, where he also performed as principal trumpet of the National Symphony Orchestra.
He holds bachelor's and doctoral degrees from The Ohio State University and a master's degree from the University of Illinois. He has also studied brass performance and trumpet with Arnold Jacobs of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and with Frank Kaderabek of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Edward Sandor can be heard on recent compact disc recordings: "The Art of the Trumpet and Percussion" (ACA Digital Recordings, #20042) and "Trumpet in the Winds" (Musicians Showcase Recordings, #MS1020). An audio sampler is available at Musicians Showcase Recordings.
Dr. Philip Jameson
Trombone
Dr. Philip Jameson is Professor of Trombone, Brass Pedagogue, and director of the UGA Trombone Choir at the University of Georgia. He holds BM and MS degrees from the Juilliard School, and MME and EdD degrees from Columbia University in New York City. Dr. Jameson was principal trombone for five years with the Juilliard Orchestra and was a charter member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra and the Mostly Mozart Orchestra at New York's Lincoln Center. He was principal trombone of the American Wind Symphony under the direction of Robert Boudreau and solo trombone with the Band of America under Paul Lavalle. He performed with the New York City Ballet, the Musica Aeterna Orchestra at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. He has received a Fromm Foundation Fellowship at Tanglewood, the Juilliard School Naumburg Prize, the Sarah Moss Fellowship for doctoral study at Columbia University, and a Senior Fulbright Professorship with the National Symphony Orchestra of Korea.
While on sabbaticals, he has taught at the Juilliard School, the Horace Mann School(NYC), the Queensland Conservatorium of Music (Australia), and Seoul National University. He is actively engaged in acoustical research, and has presented many papers in this area at national symposiums. He is a founding member of the Georgia Brass Quintet, a life member of the International Trombone Association, founder of the UGA Trombone Choir, and was on the summer faculty of the Interlochen Arts Camp for 20 summers.
University of Georgia trombone students have earned places in major performing organizations as well as highly respected teaching positions in public schools, colleges, and universities. Former UGA trombonists have substituted in orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic to the San Francisco Symphony, and have attained through competitive auditions positions with over 60 different musical organizations worldwide.
Dr. David Zerkel
Tuba/Euphonium
David Zerkel began the study of the tuba at the age of twelve in his hometown of Frederick, Maryland. He subsequently attained degrees in tuba performance from the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Maryland. David began his performance career as a member of the United States Army Field Band and later as a member of The United States Army Band, both located in Washington, DC.
As an active freelance player, David has toured and recorded with both the Baltimore and National Symphony Orchestras and has performed frequrently at the Kennedy Center with groups such as the Washington Opera, New York City Opera, and the Joffrey Ballet. He has held teaching positions at Illinois State University, the American University, Georgia Washington University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Zerkel presides over the school's tuba-euphonium studio.
Dr. Thomas McCutchen
Percussion
Dr. Thomas W. (Tony) McCutchen is the Percussion Coordinator at the University of Georgia School of Music since 1979. Prior to his appointment at UGA, he served as Assistant Band Director / Percussion Instructor at Auburn University and as Associate Director of Bands at the University of Mississippi. His professional experience includes performances with the Fort Worth Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Augusta Symphony, Augusta Opera, and the National Opera Company (North Carolina). He plays drumset regularly with the Jim McKillip Trio and annually with the Directors' All-Star Jazz Band at the Georgia Music Educators Association In-Service Conference. He also performs on vibes in Jazz / Latin combo settings as well as on pan with his "Tropical Breeze" Steel Band which is based at the University of Georgia. He has performed at PASlC, IAJE, MENC and GMEA conventions as well as various PAS "Days of Percussion".
Dr. McCutchen is a Fulbright Scholar, having taught and done research for a period of six months in Brazil . He is on the faculty of the annual International Music Festival of the Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil). He has presented clinics and performed in various parts of Brazil and in Uruguay. As an arranger, Tony has various scores published by Arrangers' Publishing Company, Hal Leonard Publishing Company and Band Music Press. He is an Artist - Clinician for Ludwig / Musser Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals, endorses mallets by Innovative Percussion and Regal Tip/Calato drumsticks, and is currently involved with KAT MIDI percussion instruments, serving on the newly-formed P.A.S. MIDI Committee. He has served as an adjudicator for various festivals in several states, and as a performer is equally at home behind a number of instruments ranging from drum set and Latin percussion to jazz vibes, steel drums, marimba, timpani and orchestral percussion.
As a pedagogue, Dr. Thomas McCutchen has a successful record of teaching, having several former students in college teaching positions and as professional performers. He recently hosted the 1994 Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia, which set an attendance record of over 4,500. Tony has degrees from Auburn University (B.S.), East Carolina University (M.M.), and the University of North Texas (D.M.A.). He and his wife Susie have four children.
Mr. Steve Dancz
Jazz Studies
Steve Dancz began his professional career in 1972 at the age of fifteen. By his twenty-first birthday he had begun performing extensively in Europe, the Soviet Union, Japan, The People's Republic of China, Africa, and South America. He has studied piano with Harold Danko, Tom Ferguson, and Monty Alexander. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts grant, he has performed and or recorded with Eddie Harris, Bill Cosby, Dizzy Gillespie, Clint Holmes, Don Menza, Allen Vizutti, Willie Thomas, Rich Matteson, Gus Mancusco, Martin Taylor, John Pattitucci, Paulino de Costa, and Clark Terry. Steve has worked as a record producer and A&R director during the years he was based in Los Angeles and composed and conducted orchestral scores for television ("Designing Women") and motion pictures ("Grim Prarie Tales" starring James Earl Jones). He has composed and produced original scores to numerous National Geographic projects. His CD "Promised Land" is available on the Three Lion Records label. Mr. Dancz has taught Jazz Studies at the University of Georgia since 1992.
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