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From Jacksonville State University... New Faculty
Dr. ThomasW. (Tony)McCutchen
Tony McCutchen is Professor of Percussion at
Jacksonville State
University and Professor Emeritus from the University of Georgia, where he served as Professor of Percussion formore than 30 years.He also taught percussion and band at AuburnUniversity and at the University of Mississippi. He is director of the JSU Percussion Ensemble and Steel Band. He has performed at PASIC, IAJE, Mid-West Band
and
Orchestra Clinic, MENC, MTNA, CMS and GMEA conventions aswell as various PAS “Days of Percussion”. His professional experience includes performanceswith the Fort Worth Symphony, Savannah Symphony, Augusta Symphony, Augusta Opera, Macon Symphony (featured on drum set), the National Opera Company (North Carolina) and at the Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, South Carolina.He has performed concerti with the Santa Fe Orchestra (Argentina), the Symphony Orchestra of PortoAlegre (Brazil) and the University of Georgia Symphony Orchestra. Tony performedwith the RBTT Redemption Sound Setters for the Panorama Steel Band finals in Trinidad& Tobago in 2005 and 2008.Dr.McCutchen is a Fulbright Scholar, having taught and done research in Brazil.He has frequently served on the faculty of the annual InternationalMusic Festival of the Federal University of Santa Maria (Brazil) and taught at the Taipei International Summer Percussion Camp in 2006, 2007 and 2009. He has presented clinics and performances in various parts of Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Trinidad & Tobago, Italy, Taiwan and The United States.
Tony performs regularlywith: Prime Time Jazz (drum set), Tropical Breeze (pan,
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drumset, bass/leader),Guadalajara (leader - Salsa/Latin Jazz Ensemble) and the Athens Jazz Trio (vibes). During his tenure at UGA, he performed and worked withmany artists, including John Clayton (Diana Krall, Jeff Hamilton Trio, etc.), John Lee (DizzyGillespie), Chuck Leavel (Rolling Stones), CecilWelch (long-time trumpeter for Henry Mancini), Otis Redding, Jr.,Derek Redding,Dave Samuels, Tommy Newsom and David Friedman.
As an arranger/composer, Tony has co-authored (with Tom Wallace) well over 200 marching band arrangements through Arrangers’ Publishing Company. He also has arrangements/compositions
for
Steel Band published by Panyard, Coyle Drums and Row-Loff
Productions. His arrangement of Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Marimba and Wind Ensemble (MalletWorksMusic) has been performed in the U.S. and internationally more than any other marimba concerto in the world. He is an Artist-Clinician for Ludwig/Musser Percussion, Zildjian Cymbals, and Innovative Percussion.He hosted the 1994 Percussive Arts Society International Convention inAtlanta,Georgia and served as the Georgia chapter president of PAS for many years. Tony has degrees from Auburn University (B.S.), East Carolina University (M.M.), and the University of North Texas (D.M.A.). He and his wife Susie have four children.
From Troy University...
On March 26 and 27, 2010, the Third Annual Troy University Clarinet Day was held at the JohnM. Long School ofMusic in Troy, Alabama. The event was hosted by Dr. Timothy Phillips, Assistant Professor of Clarinet, with the help of Dr. Katrina Phillips, Adjunct Clarinet Instructor. The festivities were sponsored by Buffet Crampon, Rico Reeds, Vandoren, Troy Arts Council, Troy University, and TroyUniversity’s chapters of SigmaAlpha Iota and PhiMuAlpha.
The event began on Friday,March 26with a ClarinetDay Faculty Recital on the Troy University campus in Hawkins-Adams- LongHall ofHonor, home of theNational Band Association’s Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Conductors. The concert opened with Dr. Timothy and Dr. Katrina
Phillips performing
Mendelssohn’s Concert Piece No. 2, Op. 114 with pianist Nathan Brandwein. The opening work featured an outstanding performance by all three players and was a great opening to the event. New Jersey based Polish clarinet performer and repairmanWojtekKomsta next performed Quasi Kwazi III, composed for him by Marcel Chyrzyński. Guest artist Gene Ramsbottom, clarinet professor at the University of British Columbia, Douglas College, and Capilano University and former principal clarinetist of the CBC RadioOrchestra performed a collection of Mozart’s Notturni which also featured Dr. Timothy Phillips, Useon Choi, and three members of the vocal department at Troy University: Dr. Catherine Allard, Dr. Margaret Jackson, and Dr. Michael Hix. This rarely heard collection of Notturni, including K. 346, 436, 437, 438, 439, and 549 featured lovely basset horn playing by Ramsbottom, Phillips, and Choi.After an intermission, the Proha Clarinet Quartet, comprised of Useon Choi, Lesley Hastings, Lars Heemskerk, and this author,
Pamela Kennedy-Shuler,
performed works by Patrick Hiketick and Mike Curtis. The Clarinet Day Faculty Recital closed with a performance by Dr. David Etheridge, the David Ross Boyd Professor of Clarinet at the University of Oklahoma. Sensitively accompanied by Nathan Brandwein, Dr. Etheridge performed Lutoslawski’sDance Preludes, Tailleferre’s gentle Arabesque, and Arne Running’s Daley’s Arc, which brought the concert to a spirited conclusion.
The second day of the festival welcomed the largest group of high school students in the short history of the event. In attendance were forty-three students from schools throughoutAlabama,Georgia, and
October 2010
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