Suzanne Shull is
the National Chair of the MENC Guitar Task Force. She taught public school choral and general music in the Atlanta metro area for thirty years, specializing in middle grades. A proponent of hands-on music learning she began teaching class guitar to middle school students for several years before becoming involved with the Task Force. After retiring she taught three more years at Roswell High School helping to expand the guitar program there and learn- ing more about what high school students want to know about playing the guitar. You can find Ms. Shull's philosophy of active music learning in a number of publications including: Strategies in teaching Middle School General Music, (MENC, 1997) and “What are We Doing in General Music?” in Performing with Understanding, Edited by Bennett Reimer and published by MENC in 2000.
AMEA 2008 Clinicians and
Performers
The Chamber Winds
is the most elite wind organization on the JSU campus. The Chamber Winds uti- lizes the practice of flexible instrumenta- tion, which allows performance of many types of wind ensemble writing. Exploring traditional as well as contem- porary works for band, this ensemble is known for its high level performances of quality literature. The Chamber Winds performs both on and off campus, tours annually, and performs regularly at pro- fessional music conferences. Students are selected for membership each fall and spring semester by audition.
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada,
Ian Loeppky has been the Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities at the University of North Alabama since the fall of 2003. His studies began at the University of Manitoba, con- tinued at the University of Minnesota, and finished at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati. He has also studied with Dale Warland, Frieder Bernius, Martin Isepp, Charles Bruffy, and Bobby McFerrin. He is a member of the American Choral Directors Association, the Music Educators National Convention, Alabama Vocal Association, the International Federation for Choral Music, Phi Mu Alpha, 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 vocal ensembles at UNA and teaches choral conducting, choral techniques, graduate choral conducting, and graduate choral literature; under his direc-
tion, the UNA Collegiate Singers were pleased to present a program of modern choral works at the 2006 AMEA Annual Conference. In addition, he directs the choir at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata (a Shoals-based community chorus), and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region. His articles have appeared in the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise.
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