arranged, performed and produced a children’s album, “ABC” for Showstopper, Inc. With more than 25 years experience as an educational music retailer, a manufacturer’s representative, and product specialist, he uses his wealth of knowledge and experience to help schools nationwide design music technology and piano labs, audio and recording solutions, and computer-based learning and music production systems.
Davis, Thomas
With music degrees from Ithaca College and The Eastman School of Music, Tom Davis has been an educator at the high school level for 28 years. He has studied trumpet with Herb Mueller and Vincent DiMartino and jazz improvisation and composition
with Bill Dobbins, Rayburn White, Ramon Ricker, John LaBarbera, Steve Brown, Samuel Adler, Robert Morris and Dana Wilson.
Dean, Abrianne
Abrianne Dean studied under Dr. Ted Piechocinski at Indiana State University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Music Business Administration in 2009. She has worked for the Indiana State School Music Association as well as the Indiana Music
Educators Association for the past three years. Abrianne is primarily responsible for both organizations’ copyright compliance as well as providing a copyright service for ISSMA member schools.
Deckard, Anne and Carol Lindquist Anne Deckard teaches
vocal music at
Eastwood Middle School. Her achievements include building a strong program of music understanding and performance, as well as incorporating productive reading strategies that help her school meet ISTEP goals. After
35 years in K-12 education as a teacher and administrator, Dr. Carol Lindquist now teaches pre-service teachers and principals at IPFW. Her course in Critical Reading in the Content Areas helps students understand the reading demands of their content areas and become proficient in using research-based methods for enhancing reading skills required to understand that content area. Ms. Deckard is active in community musical theatre for young people in the Indianapolis area and Dr. Lindquist serves as vice- president of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra Board.
Dimmick, Penny
Penny Dimmick is Professor of Music and coordinator of the music education program at Butler University where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in music education. She earned degrees in music education and percussion
performance from Taylor University and Ball State University along with Orff and Kodály cerifications. Her research interests lie in teacher preparation and retention, arts integration and arts technology integration in the K-12 classroom, and the globalization of the undergraduate and graduate music education curriculum. Dr. Dimmick is an assistant
director of the Indianapolis Children’s Choir
where she directs the preparatory choirs, a part of the Early Childhood Division of ICC. She is also director of music and worship at Sunnyside Road Baptist Church in Indianapolis.
Ditmer, Nancy
Nancy Ditmer, NAfME President-Elect, is currently the Director of Bands and Professor of Music Education at the College of Wooster, Ohio, and has been a respected and devoted leader in music education for many years. She is a past President of the
Ohio Music Educators Association, the recipient of the 2006 Distinguished Service Award from the OMEA, and past President of the North Central Division of NAfME. In 2008, she was designated a Lowell Mason Fellow by NAfME. A respected scholar and author, Ms. Ditmer edited the OMEA publication, Triad. She has been a frequent presenter
at state and national music education
conferences over the last 15 years, on such relevant topics as education reform, music education advocacy, and professional development issues for teachers. Nancy is the founder and director of the Wooster Music Camp, which has hosted 450 music students playing in five bands and two orchestras since 1997.
Doebler, Jeff
Jeffrey Doebler serves as Director of Music Education and bands and Valparaiso University. He is editor of The Indiana Musicator, and is a former IMEA president. He
is president-elect Bandmasters Association. of the Indiana
2012 IMEA Professional Development Conference
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