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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.

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