AMEA 2013 Clinicians Trumpet Chops 101: Practical Solutions to Typical Trumpet Embouchure Problems - Thursday, 2:40 - 3:30 pm


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.


Songs for Your Recorder Concert! - Thursday, 2:40 - 3:30 pm


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.


10 Ways to Energize Your Choral Rehearsal Everyday - Thursday, 2:40 - 3:30 pm


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.


Building Better Brass - Thursday, 9:15 - 10:15 am


Dr. John Pursell is retired from his position as the Senior Ceremonial Trumpeter with the United States Air Force Band in Washington DC, after over 21 years of service. In this capacity, he performed throughout the United States and in 11 foreign countries. Today, as a Yamaha Trumpet Artist & Clinician, he performs nationwide as a soloist with high school, college, community and professional groups and has been a featured clinician at music educator conferences throughout the eastern and mid-western United States. Dr. Pursell is the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, PA. He also teaches in the Young Musicians Program at Frederick Community College, as well as adjudicating jazz band festivals for Cavalcade of Bands. Prior to and during his military career, he performed with such groups as the Philly Pops, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Gettysburg Festival Orchestra, and the Wilmington Grand Opera Company. He has also performed for such popular artists as Peter Nero, Lou Rawls, James Earl Jones and Ann Jillian. Dr. Pursell holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland, and Bachelor’s and Masters degrees from West Chester State College. He is a published author, with over a dozen articles on trumpet performance and history in national journals.


The Secrets of Tone Production - Thursday, 1:00 - 1:50 pm Your Students Can Play the Notes…What Next? Friday, 9:15 - 10:15 am


Dr. Lisa Caravan recently joined the faculty in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and the Department of Music at Auburn University where she supervises interns, teaches string skills and applied string lessons, and is the musical director of the Tiger Strings Program. She has presented her research at the 2012 Poster Session at the Alabama Music Educators Conference and a session on “The Musical Bow” at the 2012 Suzuki Association of the Americas Conference. Dr. Caravan received her Master of Music degree in performance and her Doctor of Musical Arts in music education from the Eastman School of Music.


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