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Faculty

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Ables, Mollie

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Hernandez, Juan

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Yun, Sean

Staff

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Phipps, Julia

  • Academic Administrative Coordinator to the Fine Arts Center

Degrees

B.F.A. Theater - Texas Christian University

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Emeritus Faculty

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Bennett, Lawrence E.

  • Professor of Music Emeritus

    Music

Degrees

B.A., Carleton College; M.A., Ph.D., New York University

Interests

Music History, American Music

Lawrence Bennett came to 91成人短视频 in July, 1995, as Chair of the Music Department. A music historian and tenor, Bennett founded The Western Wind, an a cappella vocal sextet that made numerous recordings and sang many concerts in North America, Europe and Asia. Bennett has edited several collections of music and written often about the music of the Renaissance and the Baroque Era. He spent his sabbatical year, 2001-2002, with his family in Vienna, Austria, where he researched several articles, laid the groundwork for a book on the Italian cantata, and sang in the choir of the Anglican Church of Vienna. During the sabbatical year 2008-09 Bennett prepared an edition of the opera Hypermnestra by Ignaz Holzbauer; the edition will be published in Vienna as volumes 158-60 of the historical series Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (Monuments of Austrian Music). With Indiana University’s Early Music Institute he co-produced performances of this opera at 91成人短视频 and at IU in 2009. Bennett has completed the first of a two-volume study entitled Entertainment in the Age of Absolutism: The Italian Cantata in Vienna, 1658-1740.

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Bowen, Richard

  • Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Glee Club Emeritus

    Music

Degrees

B.A., B.S. Lebanon Valley College; M.M. West Chester University; Ph.D. University of Cincinnati

Interests

Early Music, Choral Conducting, Handbells

Courses

MUS 053 Glee Club

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Hulen, Peter

  • Associate Professor of Music Emeritus

    Music

Degrees

B.M. University of Tulsa, M.M. Southwestern Theological Seminary, Ph.D. Michigan State University.

Interests

Acoustics, liturgy, cognitive development, art glass, multimedia, China, meaning and value of music.

Courses

Brass Ensemble, Fundamentals of Music, Music Theory, Electronic Music, Composition, Senior Seminar, Cultures & Traditions.

Peter Hulen composes acoustic and electronic music and multimedia. Performance venues include the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the Festival Synthèse Bourges (France), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and the Society of Composers, Inc. (SCI). Technical presentations include ICMC, Journees D'Informatique Musicale (France), SCI, and MicroFest (California). Influences include microtonality, various types of Asian music, Medieval and Renaissance polyphony, Impressionism, and minimalism. Dr. Hulen also studied Chinese at the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute.

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Makubuya, James

Degrees

B.A., Makerere University, Uganda; M.Mus., Catholic University; Ph.D., UCLA

Interests

Department Chairman, Ethnomusicology/World Music; Contextual Meaning and Significance in Music; African Music and Dance

Courses

World Music (Ethnomusicology); Instruments & Culture (Designing and Construction); Introduction to Music; Musicianship; East African Folk Instruments; Wamidan World Music Performance Ensemble

On joining the Music Department at 91成人短视频 in July 2000, Dr. Makubuya started the World Music program. A number of new World music courses and a World Music Performance Ensemble, Wamidan became part of the curriculum. In addition to his main musical instrument, the endongo (8-string bowl lyre of the Baganda), Dr. Makubuya is proficient in several other East African traditional musical instruments. It is those instruments including tube fiddles, bow harps, thumb pianos, log xylophones, pan pipes, flutes and drums that form the nucleus of the Wamidan performance ensemble. Dr. Makubuya's geographical area of research is East Africa where he mainly focuses on organology, meaning and context of traditional music. Dr. Makubuya is an active participant in the national and international professional society conferences of the Galpin Society, the International Council for Traditional Music and Society for Ethnomusicology in which he has presented regular research papers.

Adjunct Instructor

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Abel, Alfred

Degrees

B.A. (Classics), University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill; B.A. (Violin Performance), Butler University

Alfred Abel brings a wealth of experience in teaching, conducting and violin performance to 91成人短视频. Concertmaster of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra and Assistant Principal Second Violin of the Indianpolis Chamber Orchestra for the past 20 years, Mr. Abel has performed many of the standard violin concertos with these orchestra and with other Indiana orchestras including the Philharmonic Orchestra of Indianapolis, the Anderson Symphony, the Carmel Symphony and the Butler (University) Symphony Orchestra.
As a student at Butler University and Indiana University Graduate School of Music, he studied violin with Vartan Manoogian, Jackson Wiley, and Franco Gulli. He coached chamber music with members of the American Quartet, the Tokyo Quartet, the Borodin Quartet, the LaSalle Quartet and Quartetto Italiano and now performs chamber music with Trio Amabile along with his wife, Colette, and 'cellist Margot Marlatt.

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Everett, Cheryl

In addition to teaching piano and organ, Cheryl Everett is accompanist for the Glee Club and the Music Department. Ms. Everett is on the Executive Board of the Indiana Music Teachers Association and serves as the Ensemble Concert Chair. In 1999 she was honored by that organization as their "Teacher of the Year." Ms. Everett has performed in recitals and master classes in conjunction with the International Workshops in Canada, England, France, Italy, Switzerland and with the Amalfi Coast Music Festival. In 2005, Ms. Everett was chosen as a performer in the Teacher's Program of the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Ms. Everett is Director of Music Outreach and Competitions for Piano Solutions in Carmel and currently chairs the Young Hoosier State Piano Competition for the Indiana State Fair. She is organist for Christ United Methodist in Crawfordsville. For eleven years she was a student of the distinguished pianist Dorothy Munger who was a student of Guy Maier and Joseph Lhevinne. Further studies have been with Dr. Louis Nagel at the University of Michigan.

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Norton, Diane M.

Degrees

A.B., Knox College; M.M., Northwestern University; M.L.S., Indiana University, Bloomington

Diane Maximovich Norton is an instructor of piano in the Music Department, and Music and Humanities and Collection Development coordinator in the Lilly Library. She was a piano student of Rudolf Ganz and
Mollie Margolies in Chicago, and performed as soloist with orchestras in the metropolitan area. During her undergraduate studies at Knox College, she furthered her interest in contemporary music as both pianist and violinist, participating in ensembles which introduced newly-commissioned works to audiences throughout the Midwest. She received an M.M. and completed her doctoral studies in music history and literature at Northwestern University, where she also taught piano, and began to perform in early music ensembles. She earned her MLS at Indiana University in Bloomington. Diane has been active in the 91成人短视频 music department for over three decades, performing as piano soloist and harpsichordist with the 91成人短视频 chamber orchestra, concert band and percussion ensemble. She has performed in recital with members of the faculty and the student body, and has given world premieres of compositions written for her by such composers as Fredric Enenbach, Bernard Schulz, and Judd Danby.

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