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From The John M. Long School of Music, Troy University
As a new school year begins, we are reminded that Alabama is fortunate to have many fine colleges and uni- versities, each with talented students and faculty and exciting music education opportunities. What follows is an update on selected "happenings" in the School of Music at Troy University.
New Faculty: Dr. Michael Hix, Coordinator of Choral Music. Dr. Meg Jackson, Assistant Professor of Voice/ Ethnomusicology. Dr. Hui-Ting Yang, Instructor of Piano/Accompanist.
Southeastern United States (SEUS) Festival Dates: SEUS Middle School Honor Bands Clinic - Nov. 29-30, Dec. 1, 2007. NEW THIS YEAR - SEUS High School Honor Choral Clinic - Jan. 18-19, 2008.
SEUS High School Honor Bands Clinic - Jan. 31, Feb. 1- 2, 2008.
Scholarship Information and Audition Dates are posted on our website.
We invite you to "visit" us at
music.troy.edu or in person soon.
From The University of Alabama
New Faculty: Randall Coleman is currently the Associate Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama where he serves as the conductor of the Alabama Symphonic Band, the Associate Conductor of the Alabama Wind Ensemble and the "Million Dollar Band." He also teaches graduate and undergraduate con- ducting and wind band literature classes. Mr. Coleman joins the faculty at the University of Alabama after a suc- cessful 25 year career as a high school band director and supervisor in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, and his Masters of Music Education degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Coleman has been an active member of the Georgia Music Educators' Association, where he has held the office of President,
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First Vice-President and State Band Division Chair. Mr. Coleman has also served as Georgia State Chair for the National Band Association.
He was
awarded the Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association on eight occasions and was the 1992 recipient of the American School Band Directors Association's Stanbury Award for the state of Georgia and the southeastern United States. Mr. Coleman was inducted into the John Philip Sousa Foundations' "Legion of Honor" in 2004 and is also listed in "Who's Who Among America's Teachers." Eric Yates comes to The University of Alabama from Chicago, where he worked as a professional trumpet performer and teacher for twelve years. He holds a Doctor of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from the trumpet studio at Northwestern University's School of Music in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois. While in the Chicago area, Dr. Yates was Principal Trumpet of the Northbrook Symphony in the suburb of Northbrook, and also a mem- ber of professional brass ensembles including the Chicago Brass Choir, the Lakeside Brass of Chicago, of which he is a founding member, the Cathedral Brass, and the Prairie Brass Band in Arlington Heights, Illinois in which he held the position of Principal Solo Cornet. Originally from New York, Dr. Yates began his trumpet playing career upon graduation from the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he performed with many groups including the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Yates joins the faculty of the School of Music at The University of Alabama in fall 2007 as Assistant Professor of Trumpet. Dr. Marvin E. Latimer Jr. attended Wichita State University where he earned a BME in 1976 and an MME in 1985, and the University of Kansas where he earned a Ph. D. in Music Education in 2007. In addition to twenty
Eric Yates
Randall Coleman Marvin Latimer
August 2007
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