News & Events

Faculty Successes

Spring 2008

The Department of Music participated in the DeKalb County Public Library’s Summer Reading Club program. Continuing lecturers David Cooke, Alan Severs, and Jennifer Robinson, along with limited-term lecturer Steve Walley, presented an introduction to orchestral instruments, classical music, and composers for 150 children at the
Eckhart Public Library in June 2007.

Associate Professor Barbara Resch presented a paper, “Songs from Childhood: What Makes Them Memorable?,” at the International Kodály Symposium at Capitol University in August 2007.

Associate Professor and Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA) president-elect Barbara Resch and IMEA president Lissa May met with the staffs of U.S. Senators Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh and U.S.
Representatives Mark Souder and Baron Hill at their Washington, D.C., offices in February 2007. Among the topics presented was the National Association for Music Education’s National Anthem Project. As a result of this visit, Bayh introduced Senate Resolution No. 236 to support the National Anthem and the work of music teachers.

Assistant Professor Nancy Jackson taught Continuing Music Therapy Education (CMTE) sessions at the annual conference of the Great Lakes Region of the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) in Cleveland, at the Ohio Association for Music Therapy annual conference in Cincinnati, and at the AMTA annual conference in Louisville, Ky. She was also chosen to present clinical sessions at all
three conferences.

Continuing lecturer Melissa Reinhardt presented the benefits of music therapy to a class of nursing students at Indiana University–Kokomo. She also conducted a presentation titled “Sing, Sing a Song: Incorporating the Use of Music in the Home for Children with Special Needs” to the Center for Neurobehavioral Services (CNS) family support group in Fort Wayne.

Assistant Professor Robert Saunders performed with the Viola da Gamba Dojo of New York in November 2007. The ensemble is led by John Mark Rozendaal. Saunders sang arias by Bach and the bass solos in a cantata by Thomas Tomkins. Saunders also presented a paper at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities titled “A Rhetorical Approach to the Performance of Handel’s Bass Arias” in January.

Assistant Professor and new Director of Keyboard Studies Hamilton
Tescarollo presented at the World Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las
Vegas in November 2007. He also gave a lecture on piano technique for the Phoenix Music Teachers Association. In addition, he performed a program of Brazilian music with commentary for the
Northeast Indiana Music Teachers Association (NIMTA).

Associate faculty Marcy Trentacosti is pursuing a master’s degree in violin performance at Bowling Green State University during the 2007–08 academic year.