Clinican, and an Educational Recording Artist for Carl Fischer Music. Gainey is the State Representative of Alabama for the International Clarinet Association, and serves as the State Chair Coordinator for the ICA. She came to UAB from a nine-year tenure as Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Coordinator of Music Education at Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, North Carolina, where she was a member of the Asheville, Kingsport, and Hendersonville Symphonies. Gainey is an active clinician and recitalist throughout the United States and performs regularly with the Alabama Symphony. She will be performing at the 2012 ClarinetFest in Lincoln, Nebraska, and has performed as a guest artist at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium in 2003 and 2009. She has been a soloist with several orchestras and wind ensembles throughout the United States, Ireland, Spain, Sweden and Denmark, also performing as a member of the McCracken Woodwind Quintet from 1998-2001. Gainey has compiled and edited a collection of clarinet solos, Solos for Clarinet, published by Carl Fischer in 2001 (as Denise Schmidt), and currently writing a book on the teaching methods of master teacher Kalmen Opperman.
Dr. James Zingara is currently Assistant Professor of Trumpet/Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where his responsibilities include applied trumpet, brass ensembles, conducting the symphony band, and assisting with the Marching Blazers, wind symphony, and Blazer Basketball Band. From 1998 to 2011 Dr. Zingara served as Associate Professor of Music at Troy University in Troy, Alabama where he taught applied trumpet, brass methods, conducted the Troy University Trumpet Ensemble and served as Coordinator of Applied Studies. He has performed in 32 states as well as England, China, Singapore and Denmark. From 1989- 1996 he served as principal cornet/trumpet soloist with the US Air Force Heritage of America Band. As a chamber musician, he has performed with the Chicago Chamber Brass, the University of Illinois Faculty Brass Quintet, Ensemble Screamer, the Heritage Brass and many other regional brass quintets and ensembles. His over 120 solo appearances have included professional, military, university and high school level organizations across the United States. He has recorded on the Telarc, Zephyr, Capstone and Mark labels, including a Grammy Award winning CD in 1994.
Joseph P. Ardovino is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo where he has taught since 1991. Dr. Ardovino’s responsibilities at the University include conducting the University Wind Ensemble, directing the University Jazz Ensemble and Trumpet Ensemble, teaching trumpet, conducting and is head of the instrumental area. Dr. Ardovino received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance from the University of Alabama. He holds the Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from the College- Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and the Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance with teacher certification from the University of Alabama. His principle teachers include Eugene Blee, Marie Speziale, Alan Siebert and Michael Johnson. He has studied conducting with Eugene Corporon, Terrance Milligan, Mallory Thompson and Gerald Welker. As a trumpet player, Dr. Ardovino is an active recitalist as well as a tenured member of the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and performs with the Alabama Symphony. Yearly, Dr. Ardovino conducts various district and county honor bands around the Southeast and was asked to conduct the Blue Band at Alabama All-State in 2009.
He also serves as
coordinator and conductor for the annual UM Honor Band Festival and All-State trumpet clinic. Dr. Ardovino has twice received the College of Fine Arts
Distinguished Teacher Award, in 2000 and 2010.
Lori Ardovino is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at the University of Montevallo. She is clarinetist with the Lebaron Trio, Magnolia Trio and alto saxophonist with the Cahaba Saxophone Quartet. Dr. Ardovino is an active performer in the Birmingham area and is called upon to play clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, bass clarinet with the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra and tenor saxophone with the Joe Giatina Big Band. She is often called upon as a woodwind doubler in the Birmingham area. She is a Artist/Clinician for the Leblanc/Conn-Selmer Company. Dr. Ardovino has been a guest recitalist at a number of colleges and universities including the University of Oklahoma in 1999 and 2009 and was invited to perform at the International ClarinetFest in 2011 and will serve on a panel discussion at the 2012 Clarinetfest in Lincoln, NE. Locally, Dr. Ardovino has performed as a soloist with the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra, the Pelham High School band and the University of Montevallo Wind Ensemble. Additionally, she is an active composer and has had her works performed across the United States, Japan and Canada. She is published by Potenza Music. She is an advocate for new music and is currently a composer/performer member of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance. As a result of her advocacy for new music and support of Alabama composers, she is recording a CD featuring clarinet works by Alabama composers, due out Spring of 2012.
David McCullough is a native of Montgomery, Alabama and holds the B.S. and M.Ed. degrees in music education from Auburn University (1974, 1975), the M.M. degree in music performance (horn) from Florida State University (1980), and the D.M.A. degree in music performance (horn) from the University of Georgia (1990). Prior to joining the University of North Alabama faculty as Chair of the music department in 2008, Dr. McCullough served as Director of Bands at Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, KY (1991-2008), Director of Bands at West Georgia College, now the State University of West Georgia, in Carrollton, GA (1981-1986) and as Band Director at Madison County High School in Gurley, AL (1975-1978). Dr. McCullough has the distinction of having founded the marching bands at Campbellsville University (1992) and at West Georgia (1982). He is founder of the National Civil War Band Festival and directed the 2000 and 2003 sessions of the NCWBF held on the campus of Campbellsville University. Dr. McCullough’s honors include his selection by the Campbellsville University Board of Advisors as the University’s 1994 Distinguished Professor for Academic Excellence, his selection by the Kentucky Music Educators Association as the 1996 College/University “Teacher of the Year” and his selection in 2000 to the Robert E. Lee High School (Montgomery) Hall of Fame.
Dr. Yasmin A. Flores has performed as a soloist and chamber musician around the United States, and has premiered many new works that include clarinet. She received her Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance from West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, in 2003. While at West Texas A&M, she studied clarinet with Mr. Douglas Storey, and also studied oboe with Dr. Robert J. Krause, flute with Dr. Sally Turk, saxophone with Mr. Donald Lefevre, and bassoon with Dr. Tina Carpenter.
In 2005, she
received her Master of Music in Multiple Winds from Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. In the fall of 2005, Flores began work on a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance and Pedagogy and was granted a teaching assistantship in clarinet at the University of Iowa under Dr. Maurita Murphy Mead. Through the Center for New Music at the University of Iowa she was able to tour the Midwest performing new
works from composers around the country. In December 2009, Flores completed her DMA essay "The Clarinet Works of Gustav Adolph Heinze" and was graduated from the University of Iowa with a DMA. She joined the faculty of the University of North Alabama in 2010 where she teaches freshman music theory, clarinet, saxophone and bassoon. Dr. Flores also performs on clarinet as a member of the Shoals Symphony at UNA.
Lara Wilmot Lay, adjunct oboe instructor, earned her B.A. in 1989 in music performance with a minor in education from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Her major teachers were Elizabeth Camus and John Mack of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She continued her modern oboe studies as a graduate assistant at Florida State University, studying with Eric Ohlsson, earning her M.M. in oboe performance in 1991, and continuing into the doctoral program at FSU. While at FSU, she also pursued an M.M. in musicology and became enamored of early music on original instruments. As a result, she now plays shawms, recorders, crumhorns, and baroque oboe. She was also involved with the Early Music Institute at Indiana University, playing with the IU Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Stanley Ritchie. She has studied with baroque oboists Stephen Hammer, Gonzalo Ruiz, Washington McLain, John Abberger, and George Riordan. Professionally, she has played baroque oboe with the St. Clements Baroque Orchestra in Chicago, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and the Orchestra of the 17th Century in Washington D.C, and currently plays with the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra and Nashville’s Music City Baroque. She has also maintained a professional free- lance modern oboe career, playing with regional orchestras and chamber groups, including the Huntsville Symphony, Shoals Symphony, Gadsden Symphony, Valley Conservatory, Huntsville Chamber Winds, Grace Notes, and many local theater, opera and church productions.
Whitney Farris O’Neal is a Doctor of Musical Arts student at the University of Alabama where she is a member of the Huxford Symphony Orchestra and a student of Diane Boyd Schultz. She holds a BME from Arkansas State University and the Master of Music in flute performance from the University of Alabama, and she was recognized for her academic achievements at both institutions.
perform in the National Flute
She was selected to Association’s
Whitney was
previously the Instructor of Woodwinds at Stillman College and a faculty sabbatical replacement at Mississippi State University.
Professional Flute Choir in Charlotte, NC in August 2011. She has performed in masterclasses for Mary Karen Clardy, Maxim Rubtsov, and Christine Earlander Beard. She is a member of the Delta Duo with harpist Sarah Crocker and she has previously been a member of the Delta Symphony Orchestra, Arkansas State University Wind Ensemble, and the Memphis Area Youth Wind Ensemble.
Johnna Jones Stafford received the Bachelor of Science in Instrumental Music Education in 2000 from the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) and a Master of Arts in Education Administration from the University of North Alabama in 2006 and is currently pursuing an additional master's in Music Education at
UNA.Prior to moving to the Shoals area, Mrs. Stafford was the assistant band director at Oak Mountain Middle School in Shelby County, AL. Currently, she is the Band Director at Colbert County High School and is responsible for teaching numerous ensembles including beginner band, marching band and concert band. Mrs. Stafford is an active freelance bassoonist and has performed with numerous regional orchestras including the Meridian Symphony, Tupelo Symphony, Corinth Symphony, Shoals Symphony and the Tuscaloosa Symphony.
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