AMEA 2007
Clinicians and Performers
The Meridianville Middle School Band
Gary L. Arnold
has served as the Music Curriculum Specialist for Scott Foresman/Silver Burdett for the past 18 years. He has been a presenter at both state, national, and international conferences. He received the "Consultant of the Year" award with Scott Foresman in 2003. Prior to serving as a consultant with Scott Foresman, Mr. Arnold taught K-8 music in the Knox County schools in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he was awarded the Master Teacher level in the Career Ladder program for educators. Mr. Arnold received his Bachelor of Music Education from Carson-Newman College and his Master of Science in Music Education from the University of Tennessee. He also has Level I and II Orff cer- tification as well as Level I Kodaly certification. Mr. Arnold served as Director of Music at church- es in the Knoxville area where he conducted choral and instrumental ensembles. He also traveled as a singer and dancer with the " Up with People" show during the Bicentennial year. Mr. Arnold holds membership in MENC, AOSA, and OAKE.
Ian Loeppky, originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 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, continued 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, and the International Federation for Choral Music. 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 choral literature; under his direction, the UNA Collegiate Singers were pleased to present a program of modern choral works at the 2006 AMEAAnnual Conference. In addition, he directs the choirs at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal and Westminster Presbyterian in Florence, as well as the newly-founded Florence Camerata (a Shoals-based community chorus), and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region. His article concerning the music of Winnipeg composer Sid Robinovitch appeared in the December 2004 issue of the Choral Journal, America's largest choral music publication.
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