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AMEA 2012 Clinicians


Marvin E. Latimer Jr. is currently Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the University Chorus at the University of Alabama. He received a BME and MME from Wichita State University and a PhD in Music Education with honors from the University of Kansas. Dr. Latimer taught secondary choral music in Wichita, Kansas and served as Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the Women’s Ensemble at Wichita State University prior to his appointment at Alabama. In addition to his work in education, he has been active as Church Choir Director, Community Choir Director, Performer, Music Theater Director and Producer, Technical Director, and Scenic Designer. Dr. Latimer has published research in Choral Journal, Contributions to Music Education, International Journal for Research in Choral Singing, Journal of Research in Music Education, and Journal of


Historical Research in Music Education. His professional distinctions consist of numerous state, national, and international choral convention presentations and performances. He currently serves as the ACDA President Elect and is the Organizational History Subcommittee Chair of the ACDA Research and Publications Committee. Dr. Latimer is the founding editor of a Choral Journal column focused on the ACDA International Archives for Choral Music.


Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky


is an Associate 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 Helmuth Rilling, 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, the National Collegiate Choral Organization, the Alabama Vocal Association, the International Federation for Choral Music, Phi Mu Alpha, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs all four choral ensembles at UNA and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting, choral techniques, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he directs the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the region and internationally. He conducted the premiere performance of Haydn’s The Creation in Varna, Bulgaria. He is a frequent contributor to the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise.


Diane Orlofsky is an experienced choral conductor and music educator who is best known in the state of Alabama for her work with pre-service music educators. As a music education methods specialist at TROY University, she has published many articles on teacher education, and her book, REDEFINING TEACHER EDUCATION: The Theories of Jerome Bruner and the Practice of Training Teachers, was published by Peter Lang Publishing in May, 2002. Orlofsky is an active clinician, conductor, and researcher and has held numerous national and regional positions of leadership within MENC and ACDA. She was named an American Fellow in 1997 by the American Association of University Women. She is also the recipient of numerous teaching and research awards while at TROY, including the Ingalls Award for Excellence in Classroom Teaching, The Phi Kappa Phi Distinguished Scholar award, Outstanding Music Alumni award for Wright State University, and the A.A.T.E. Outstanding Teacher Education award.


Terry Ownby


is in his twentieth year of teaching instrumental music in the Muscle Shoals School system. He holds both a Bachelor of Music in Music Education and a Master of Arts in Education from the University of North Alabama. The Muscle Shoals Middle School Symphonic Band was a featured performer at the Alabama Music Educators Associations 2001 convention. He was a guest conductor with the Muscle Shoals High School Symphonic band at the Alabama Music Educators Associations 2003 convention. Mr. Ownby is also active as an adjudicator, clinician, arranger, as a marching band drill designer throughout the Southeast, and served as the camp coordinator for the W.C. Jazz Music Camp from 1999-2007. Mr. Ownby currently serves as the Recording Secretary for the Alabama Bandmasters Association and is the past Chairman of ABA District III. He is a five time member of Who’s Who Among Americas Teachers, listed in Who’s Who in America for 2005, and was nominated for the 2004 Disney Hand Teacher Awards for creativity in teaching. He is the recipient of the National Band Associations “Citation of Excellence” for his contribution to bands and band music. Terry and his wife, Laura, have two children; Emily Lee and Elizabeth Lauren.


Sean Powell is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. He received the Doctor of Education in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign and has taught in the public schools of Tennessee. His research specialty is music teacher education. Articles by Dr. Powell have been published in the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, the Journal of Music Teacher Education, and the Journal of Band Research. He has presented research and clinics in several states, and is an active guest conductor and clinician.


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