AMEA 2006
Clinicians and Performers
Charles "Skip" Snead currently serves as the Director of the Music School and the professor of horn at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where along with administrative duties, he teach- es applied horn and brass pedagogy. Skip performs widely as a soloist and chamber musician, with recent appearances including, solo performances at both the Southeast and Mid-West Regional horn Workshops and the International Horn Society Summer Symposium. He has also performed as guest soloist with many ensembles, including the State Orchestra of Romania, Monroe Symphony, Macon Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, and Shreveport Summer Music Festival Orchestras. In addition to the above named ensembles, Skip performs with the internationally recognized ensemble, The TransAtlantic Horn Quartet, with colleagues, Michael Thompson, Richard Watkins, and David
Ohanian. The TAHQ has performed throughout the United States and Europe and tours extensively several times a year. The TAHQ has been a featured ensemble at many important events and venues including the Britten-Pears Festival in Aldebrough, England, The Royal Wigmore Hall in London, England, and the International Horn Society Summer Symposium. He has recorded with the TransAtlantic Horn Quartet, the Classic Brass, and the Kentuckiana Brass and Percussion Ensemble, and has a solo recording on compact disc issued by Centaur records. In addition to his work as a performer, he is internationally recognized as a teacher and clinician. He has given masterclasses throughout the United States and Europe and serves on the executive board of The International Horn Competition of America. In March 2004, he was invited to be a Housewright Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair Holder at Florida State University and was recently appointed to the Fulbright Center for the International Exchange of Scholars Peer Review Committee. The University of Alabama awarded him The Burnam Distinguished Faculty Award in March 2005. His principal teachers have included Merwin Crisman, Karen Thornton, and John Dressler, with additional studies with Dale Clevenger, Philip Farkas, and William Capps.
Chip Crotts is
in his 4th year as Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Jacksonville State University. Chip has been an on-call trumpet artist for the Disney Company and has performed and recorded for them throughout the US and Europe. In addition, he has performed or toured with artists such as Ray Charles, Manhattan Transfer, Rhythm & Brass and Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau and can be heard on several Grammy nominated albums. He is a first call session player for many national tours and shows throughout the Southeast and can be heard on recent albums with the Third Coast Jazz Orchestra, Bob Meyer's Concept Orchestra and the New South Jazz Orchestra.Dr Crotts is also an associate member of the Tuscaloosa Horns with whom he performs regularly with The Temptations,Four Tops, The OJ's and Mary Wilson and the Supremes. As a clinician and soloist, Chip has worked and performed with numerous high school and college ensembles throughout the US, and is an adjudicator for Bands of America and Drum Corps International. Dr. Chip Crotts is a Yamaha Trumpet Performing Artist.
Rhonda Tucker is the music specialist for grades K-5 at Shades Cahaba Elementary School in Homewood. She received her National Board Certification this year and is Immediate Past President of the Alabama Music Educator's Association Elementary/General Division. Rhonda is the author of Words to Play By-fifteen kid-tested activities using the Orff Approach published by Warner Brothers. She presents workshops and clinics for school systems, conferences and churches throughout the United States.
Conductor, clinician and performer. Robert W. Smith
is one of the most popular and prolific composers of concert band and orchestral literature in America today, with more than 400 compositions to his credit. His compositions and arrangements have been used in a variety of situations, from opening day at Dodger Stadium to the Olympic Games.
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