AMEA 2009 Clinicians and Performers Elva Kaye Lance
is Director of Bands at Mississippi State University, and with her appointment in 2002, she became only the eighth person in the band’s one hundred and seven year history to hold that position. Her current responsibilities include conducting theWind Ensemble, providing leadership for the FamousMaroon Band and administering all aspects of the band program. Now in her seventeenth year atMississippi State, Ms. Lance teaches methods classes within the Music Department and assists with supervision of the student teachers. Prior to joining the faculty at MSU, Ms. Lance served as a director at the junior high and high school levels in the state of Mississippi where her bands consistently received superior ratings in all categories.
Ms. Lance maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator for both concert and marching band events throughout the country. The MSU Wind Ensemble recently completed a concert tour of Ireland and England inMay, 2008. Professionally, she is amember of theNational BandAssociation,Mississippi Bandmaster’sAssociation, Kappa Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Music Educator’s National Conference, College Music Society and the College Band Director‘s National Association.
The Discovery Middle School Wind Ensemble is the premier performance group of
the instrumental Music Program.
Discovery is a part of the Madison City School System located in Madison, AL. The program consists of the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and Cadet Band, close to 300 udents. There is also an awardwinning jazz
ensemble that was featured at the summer conference of the ABA in 2003 at Gulf Shores. The school is in its 12th
year and the
bands have consistently scored superior ratings at the District, State, and National vels of competition. The Wind Ensemble
has scored a superior rating for the last 9 years at the state band contest. The jazz ensemble andwind ensemble have taken best class honors at the prestigious Festival
Disney Competition in concert, jazz, parade, auxiliaries, and drum majors. These groups
have won 8 Grand National festival awards competing against high school and middle schools from all over the country. The band averages 45 students in the district honor band and 10 students selected to the all-state band each year. This is the second time the wind ensemble has performed at theAlabama Music Educators State Conference.
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky
has been theAssistant Professor andDirector of ChoralActivities at theUniversity ofNorthAlabama since the fall of 2003.His studies began at theUniversity ofManitoba, continued at theUniversity ofMinnesota, and finished at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He has also studied with DaleWarland, Frieder Bernius, Martin Isepp, Charles Bruffy, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Convention, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, theAlabamaVocalAssociation, the International Federation for ChoralMusic, PhiMuAlpha, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He is currently the Repertoire and Standards Chair for Multicultural Choral Music for the Alabama chapter of ACDA. He has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs all four choral ensembles at UNAand teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he directs the choir at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. He is a frequent contributor to the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise.
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