Dr. Milton
Allen
serves as both Director of Bands and Instrumental Division Director at Eastern Illinois University, where he conducts the Wind Symphony, Collegiate Band, University Band, teaches undergraduate conducting, guides the graduate wind conducting program and oversees all aspects of Eastern’s band program. Prior to his appointment at EIU, Allen served on the music faculty at Wittenberg University, conducting the symphonic band, chamber orchestra and teaching var- ious courses in music education. In addition to his duties at Wittenberg he served as the Doctoral Conducting Associate for The Ohio State University Bands. A 17-year veteran of the public school rehearsal room, Dr. Allen’s refreshing and practical approach to music education has taken him
AMEA 2008 Clinicians and
Performers
throughout the United States, Canada, and England as a clinician and guest conductor, with clinics at the 2007 BASBWE/Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dance International Wind Festival in Glasgow, Scotland, the 2006 MENC National Biennial Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2005 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Convention in Chicago, Illinois. This year he presented at the IMEA State Conference in Peoria, the MENC North-Central, Northwestern, and Eastern division conferences in Nebraska, Oregon and Connecticut and as a guest conductor/clinician/speaker in various schools. Allen earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree with honors from the University of North Texas, the Masters degree in conducting from the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Diploma of Fine Arts in Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the Doctor of Musical Arts from The Ohio State University.
The Shades Valley Symphonic Band
is an outstanding group of young people committed to the performance of quality literature composed for the band idiom. A majority of these performers attend the Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School, named by Newsweek Magazine as a top five school in the nation the past three years. Shades Valley High School stresses the same high standards for the arts. The Shades Valley Symphonic Band has received first place honors at the All-star Music Festival in Orlando (2002 & 2006), Dixie Classic in St.Louis (2003), Fiesta-Val in Williamsburg (2005) and was named an Honor Group receiving Best Woodwinds and Percussion at the Grand National Adjudicators in Chattanooga (2007). In 2007, 20 seniors in the Shades Valley Band program received 1.5 million dollars in scholarship offers. Seven accepted music scholarships to the universities they now attend.
Dr. Renee L. Baptiste, an associate professor of music education at Jacksonville State University, teaches undergraduate and graduate music education courses, serves as advisor to CMENC, super- vises student teachers and directs Encore! Dr. Baptiste graduated from William Carey College (BM), Eastman School of Music (MM), and the University of Florida (PhD). Her research inter- ests include the male changing voice and the music preferences of adolescents. Her publications include A Study of the Relationships among Voice Timbre Models, Voice Classification Stage, and Pitch-Matching Ability in Male Adolescent Choral Students Illinois Music Educator; Teaching the Male Adolescent Changing Voice through Cooperative Learning Groups, AIMS, and Standards in the Middle School Classroom, AIMS.
Presentations include Kodaly Analyses of AMerican
Folksongs for Use with the Male Adolescent Changing Voice at the Illinois Music Educators Conference; Critical Analysis: the Use of Streaming Video in Class Applied Voice at the 9th International Conference on Technological Directions in Music Learning; Online Reflection and
In-Service Teachers Reflections and the Untold Story: The Cherokee Indians Trail of Tears-A Case for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning at the Mountain Lake Colloquium for Teachers of General Music Methods and Folk Song Preference of Middle and Junior High School General Music Students at the Indiana Music Educators Association Convention, the MENC North Central Division Conference and the national conference of the Organization of American Kodaly Educators.
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