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From Auburn University...
The Music Department at Auburn University offers exciting opportunities for performance and music education majors, as well as for students majoring in other fields who wish to participate in classes and ensembles. The department strives to achieve and sustain excellent standards of performance, creativity, pedagogy, research and scholarship in music. Many of our talented faculty members have achieved national recognition for their accomplishments. We appreciate the opportunity offered here by AMEA to share information with you.
I am delighted to welcome two new faculty members this academic year. Laurelie Gheesling, pianist, will serve as coordinator of accompanying and teach Alexander
Technique, as well as
accompany a wide variety of recitals and concerts. She holds the Master of Music degree in Accompanying from Florida State University and the Bachelor of Music degree from Mercer University, Atlanta. Formerly, Ms. Gheesling served on the faculties of Louisiana State University and the University of New Orleans.
Benjamin Fairfield joins the Auburn faculty as Instructor of Trumpet. He teaches applied trumpet, coaches brass ensembles, and conducts the Jazz Ensemble. Having completed the Bachelor of Music Education degree at James Madison University and the Master of Music degree at the University of Miami, he is a doctoral candidate in the DMA program at the University of Miami.
In the Auburn Department of Music, we are proud to offer an intimate and nurturing atmosphere that provides opportunities for individual attention and regular performance for students. I invite you to read about our distinguished faculty, major performing ensembles, programs of study, and available
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scholarships, and assistantships on our website at:
www.auburn.edu/music. Contact the Department of Music at 334- 844-4165 if you have questions about our degree programs or offerings.
War Eagle! From Jacksonville State University...
Dr. Sam Lussier, Director of Jazz Studies. Composer, jazz arranger and trumpet player, Dr. Lussier comes to Jacksonville State University from Florida International University in Miami where he was Director of the Jazz Studies program. As an arranger, Lussier wrote and arranged the Big Band Showcase grand finale segment for the 1989 Ottawa International Jazz Festival and he was chief arranger for the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show from 1993-1995. Recent commissions include works for Paul Green, the June Taylor Dance Company and New World School of the Arts’ Dance Connection.
He has
numerous performing and recording credits with major jazz artists in addition to performing with the Florida Philharmonic and Florida Grand Opera. While at FIU he was director of the Arturo Sandoval International
Trumpet
Competition and Festival. His articles have appeared in IAJE Journal and his major publishers are
Alfred Music
Publishing and Walrus Music Publishing. Lussier received the undergraduate degree from the University of Ottawa, M. M. from University of Miami and the doctorate from Florida International University. Dr. Todd Mueller, Visiting Assistant Professor of Percussion. Dr. Mueller joins the faculty at Jacksonville State University this fall, teaching applied percussion, percussion methods and directing one of the percussion ensembles. He is Principal Timpanist for the
Symphony Orchestra and has performed as percussionist with the
Ashville (NC) Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta Opera, Atlanta Ballet Orchestra and Macon Symphony Orchestra. He has extensive
national experience as a drum set performer including performing at the 2007 Peabody Awards at Rockefeller Center, New York. As well as a busy performance schedule, he is also active as an adjudicator, arranger and composer. Mueller received his undergraduate degree from Florida State University, the M.M and D.M.A. degrees from the University of Georgia.
While at UGA he was a
teaching assistant in the Musicology Department in addition to doing applied teaching and ensemble directing in the Hodgson School of Music. He was awarded the University of Georgia, Boyd Graduate School,
Dissertation
Completion Award Prize in 2007 and received the Hodgson School of Music, Director’s Excellence Award in 2005 and in 2008.
From Samford University...
Samford University’s School of the Arts will present a rich program of music events—many free of charge— in late fall and early winter. Events will include Samford ensemble and faculty concerts, opera, choral music, Christmas celebrations and musical theater. The Davis Architects Guest Artist Series will include Godwin-Thompson Duo Nov. 10 and pianist Roberto Plano Feb. 12. For complete Samford School of the Arts event listings and ticket information, visit
www.samford.edu/arts
Samford welcomed new Associate
Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies Cameron “Chip” Crotts this fall. Crotts is a Grammy Award-nominated musician who has toured with Boston Brass, Rhythm and Brass, Ray Charles, The Manhattan
Ferguson. In addition to serving as a Performing
Transfer and Maynard Artist for the Yamaha
Corporation, Crotts performs with the Alabama Symphony, Huntsville Symphony, SuperJazz Big Band, the Night Flight Big Band and The Tuscaloosa Horns.
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