AMEA 2013 Clinicians
Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Ian Loeppky has been 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 with Kathy Romey, and finished at the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati with Earl Rivers and Stephen Coker. Loeppky has worked as a singer, scholar, conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and arranger in Canada, the United States, and Portugal. He directs all three choral ensembles at UNA and teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, choral techniques, world music, and graduate choral literature. In addition, he directs the choir at Trinity Episcopal Church in Florence, is founder and artistic director of Florence Camerata, and is in demand as a clinician and adjudicator
throughout the region and internationally. He is a frequent contributor to the Choral Journal and the Alabama Reprise, and this spring appeared as a guest conductor with the Madison Honor Choir Girls Chorus, the Mississippi GirlChoir, and the Huntsville Master Chorale. Most recently, he had the privilege of sharing the podium with Dr. Elroy Friesen in concert with their Alma Mater choir, the University of Manitoba Singers.
Dr. Jefferson Grant currently serves as the Associate Director of Bands and Director of Percussion at Prattville High School in Prattville, Alabama. Dr. Grant holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in performance from The University of Southern Mississippi as well as a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree from Columbus State University and the University of Louisville respectively. Dr. Grant is an active arranger, adjudicator, and clinician. His articles have appeared in Percussive Notes, and he has presented clinics at the University of Louisville Percussion Symposium, National Conference of Percussion Pedagogy, the Mississippi Bandmasters State Convention, AMEA, and this fall at the Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention (PASIC). Dr. Grant is the co-founder of the Southeastern Percussion Festival (SEPF),serves on the Board of Directors for the Southeastern Color Guard Circuit and is the Vice President/President Elect for the Alabama Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society. He is a member of Delta Chi, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, The Percussive Arts Society, MENC, and BMI. Dr. Grant would like to thank Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Sabian cymbals, and Yamaha drums for their continued support of music education and this clinic.
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 various other University Bands. 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. Dr. Zingara holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, East Carolina University, and a Doctor
of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance with a minor in wind conducting from the University of Illinois. His principal teachers include Michael Ewald, John Aley, Britton Theurer, Manny Laureano, Charles Schlueter, and David Baldwin. Dr. Zingara currently represents Edwards Trumpets as a performing artist/clinician and is principal trumpet of the Northwest Florida Symphony and also performs regularly with the Pensacola Symphony. He also serves as a trumpet faculty member at Blue Lake International Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan.
Lenna Harris is a veteran teacher of thirty nine years, twenty-five of which were in Knowlton Township Schools, New Jersey where she taught general, vocal and instrumental music. She is the director of the Nazareth Area Community Chorus which contains 75 members. Lenna received her Bachelor’s Degree from George Peabody College in Nashville and was later named outstanding Woman of the Year. Lenna was a 1995 recipient of the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and has twice been named a Master Teacher by the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In 2007 Lenna was included in the Who’s Who Among American Women and has served the MENC as a National On-line General Music Mentor.
John Flanery is Assistant Choral Director and Associate Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi. His Doctor of Musical Arts and Master’s degrees are both in Choral Conducting from the University of Kentucky. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music Education degree from Briar Cliff University in Sioux City, Iowa.
At Southern Miss, John teaches choral
conducting, choral procedures, and choral literature, directs the Concert Choir, Spirit of Southern, Southern Miss Men’s Chorus, and the Southern Miss Gulf Coast Civic Chorale. His ensembles have been selected to perform at various state and regional conferences and concert series. He founded the Festival of Choirs on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, which comprises the Civic Chorale and area high schools in a non-competitive concert. The Southern Experience Show Choir and Choral Camp was founded under Flanery’s guidance with over 500 junior high and high school students and teachers attending in its first four years. John has served the American Choral Directors Association in various positions, currently serving as the Mississippi Chapter President. John is a regular clinician and judge throughout the Midwest and Southeastern United States. He and his wife, Juliane, have four children, Elias, Cecelia, and Josephine, and Lucinda.
Suzanne Hall is an assistant professor of music education at Augusta State University. She earned her Master’s in Education and her undergraduate Bachelor of Music Education at the University of Central Florida and her Ph.D. from the University of Memphis. She has taught elementary general music (K-5) in Florida and Tennessee and has presented research and professional development workshops on music and literacy in Mississippi, Tennessee, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Florida. She is also co-author of Teaching Elementary Music: Integrative Strategies between Music and Other Subjects (Kendall Hunt).
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