AMEA 2012 Clinicians Free AND Fantastic, Cheap AND Classic: the world of Choral Public Domain Library - Friday, 9:00-9:50 a.m.
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.
All-State Jazz Gold Band Clinician - Shane Porter, a Lawler instruments clinician and performer, received his undergraduate degree in 1999 from the University of Alabama in Composition/Jazz Arranging under Tom Wolfe and continued his compositional studies with Robert W. Smith and Ralph Ford while receiving his MS degree in Music Education from Troy State University 2002. He is currently going back to the University of Alabama to complete his DMA in Trumpet Performance with Dr. Eric Yates. In 2005, Shane founded the “New South Jazz Orchestra” which put together some of the South’s finest Jazz Musicians for the purpose of spreading Jazz Education. As a writer, Shane has found himself with diverse projects from doing arrangements and compositions for Hallmark “Music Box” collections to music for Television and independent short film. He is the staff arranger for Dr. Corey Spurlin and the Auburn University Marching band and has also done arrangements for Troy State University “Sound of The South”, the Symphonic Band, and Jazz Ensemble. Clemson University Jazz Ensemble, The University of South Carolina. The University of Illinois, and the University of Hawaii. As a member of the Tuscaloosa Horns, Shane has been inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and received the “Druid Arts Award - Musician of the Year” in 2009. I would like to personally thank Tom Wolfe, Robert W. Smith, and Ralph Ford for being supportive and encouraging while my career as an arranger/composer developed and to Chris Gordon, Mart Avant, Jerry Ball, Demondrae Thurman and the Tuscaloosa Horns for being as equally supportive and encouraging with the performing career. These people have been among my greatest musical influences. I would also like to say a special thanks to Mr. Randall Key for asking me to be a part of this event. It is a great honor!
All-State Jazz Silver Band Clinician - Steve Sims music career began after graduating from the University of South Alabama with a bachelor’s degree in music education. After two years at Excel High School he earned his master’s degree in music education from the University of Southern Mississippi. He started teaching at Geneva High from 1982-86 and Fairhope High from 1986-94. Mr. Sims then taught at Elberta and Foley Middle schools for two years. He then returned to Fairhope High School where he taught until his retirement in 2005. Steve taught three years at McGill-Toolen High School and is now in his third year in the McGill-Toolen Prep Band program. His bands were active in marching band, symphonic band and jazz band as they competed and performed throughout the south. Mr. Sims has also performed on trumpet with bands throughout the Gulf Coast region.
All-State Jazz Middle School Band Clinician - Saxophonist Jerry Ball is a well known professional musician on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. With a Masters degree in music education with an emphasis in jazz, a three year tour of duty in the Navy Show Band, twenty-five years of teaching, and over 40 years as a professional musician, Jerry has established himself as a jazz clinician/educator as well as a sensational sax player. He has been the guest jazz soloist and clinician at MS State University, University of Tennessee, Southeastern Louisiana University, MS Gulf Coast Jazz Band Clinic, and numerous high schools across the region. Jerry’s Jazz Quintet has performed in the ‘Mobile Jazz Festival’, ‘Jazz in the Grove’ in Bay Springs, MS, and the ‘University of Southern Mississippi Jazz and Blues Festival’ in Long Beach, MS. He has also recorded four Christian music CDs and performed with many big name artists, such as: Natalie Cole, The Temptations, Four Tops, Toni Braxton, The O’Jays, The Spinners, Aretha Franklin, Lou Marini-Blues Brothers, and many others. Jerry has been a member of the famed Tuscaloosa Horns for 25 years. Jerry believes that creating spontaneous musical art through the medium of jazz improvisation is the ultimate musical experience.
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