News & Events
Faculty Successes
Spring 2009
Invited to be the first guest lecturer for the
International Encounters in Clinical Music Therapy
lecture series, Assistant Professor of Music Therapy
Nancy Jackson presented in Torino, Italy, in
June 2008. In addition, she was selected to
present at the XII World Congress of Music
Therapy in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Music Department Chair Robert Bean was
recognized for "distinguished membership”
by the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music
Fraternity for Women, as a Friend of the Arts.
Continuing lecturer and Fort Wayne
Philharmonic mentor Eric Schweikert toured
Scandinavia with the Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra during November and December
2008. The percussionist performed with the
orchestra in Copenhagen, Oslo; Hamburg, Germany;
Gothenburg, Sweden; and Stockholm, Sweden.
Assistant Professor and pianist Hamilton
Tescarollo and cellist Carlos Audi conducted a
performance tour of Brazil in June and July. Their
tour was repeated in South Carolina, Florida, and
at IPFW in October 2008. Performances in Brazil
included venues in three state capitals: Sao Paulo,
Rio de Janeiro, and Goiania. Tecarollo also
performed piano duo and solo recitals with
Alexander Tentser at IPFW for the Music and
Medicine Conference in September, which
was sponsored by the Alliance for Research
in Music Medicine.
Associate Professor Rosalie Haritun’s review
comments appear on the cover of Prentice Hall’s
recent textbook Tunes and Grooves for Music
Education: Music for Classroom Use by Patricia
Shehan Campbell. Haritun has been a field reviewer
for the Educational and Professional Division of
Prentice Hall Inc. since 1998.
Continuing lecturer of Music Therapy Peggy Farlow was selected to present at the American Music
Therapy Association national conference in
St. Louis in November 2008.
Jumi Kim, soprano, presented the recital “Korean
Arts Songs of Dong-Jin Kim: Embracing the Korean
Spirit” at the annual national meeting of the College
Music Society in Atlanta on September 25.
Carol Hahn had 23 entrants in the National Guild
of Piano Teachers Auditions in 2008, including Alec
Rojcany, who has been awarded the National Guild
of Piano Teachers Paderewski Gold Medal.
