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AMEA Election 2016 Meet the Candidates... for President-Elect


Lori F. Ardovino is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at the University of Montevallo. Dr. Ardovino is an active performer in the Birmingham area and performs occasionally with the Alabama and Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestras and tenor saxophone with the Joe Giattina Big Band. She is an active woodwind doubler and has played for numerous performances and theater productions in the


Birmingham area. She is a clinician, adjudicator, and writes CD reviews for the Clarinet, official journal of the International Clarinet Association and for the Journal of the International Association for Women in Music.


Dr. Ardovino has been a guest recitalist at a number of colleges and universities and international and national festivals including the International Clarinetfest, The International Alliance for Women in Music Congress, NACWPI Conference, NACUSA Conference, Southeastern Composers League, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference and the Alabama Music Educators Conference. Dr. Ardovino received the 2013-14 Alabama State Council for the Arts Artist Fellowship was chosen the University of Montevallo University Scholar for 2013. She has received the Creative and Scholarly Projects Grant from the University of Montevallo in 2013 and 2014 and was the 2012 recipient of the Escape to Create artist residency in Seaside, FL.


She is an active composer and has had her works performed across the United States, Japan, Italy and Canada. She is an Artist/Clinician with the Conn-Selmer Company and D’Addario Woodwinds. She was recently recommended to be on the roster for the Fulbright Specialist by U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and the Institute of International Education’s Council for International Exchange of Scholars


Dr. Ardovino is a member of many professional organizations including the Music Teachers National Association,, Birmingham Music Teachers Association, National Association of Music Educators, Alabama Music Educators Association, Alabama Bandmasters Association, International Clarinet Association, North American Saxophone Alliance, Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Sigma Alpha Iota, International Alliance of Women in Music, National Association of Composers, USA, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.


She is currently President-Elect for the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors, Composition Chair, Alabama Music Teachers Association and was President for the Higher Education Division, Alabama Music Educators from 2011-2013


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Mr. Gregory L. Gumina earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from West Virginia University with a Minor in Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Music Education degree from the University of Alabama. He was a graduate assistant in the University Bands Department and was the Arranger/Instructor for the percussion section of the Million Dollar Band. He is currently serving his 19th


School, and his 21st


year as Assistant Band Director at Shades Valley High year as a music educator in Alabama. His


ensembles have performed at the 2001 NASPAAM International Convention, the 2006 Alabama Music Educators Association Conference, the 2011 Music for All Sandy Feldstein National Percussion Festival, the 2013 Southeastern United States Band Festival, the 2013 Alabama Music Educators Association Conference, and more than 10 Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion throughout the Southeast. He conducts the Concert Band, Percussion Ensemble, and teaches AP Music Theory at Shades Valley in addition to being the Music Arranger and Marching Band Coordinator.


Mr. Gumina has extensive experience as an adjudicator and clinician for bands and percussion groups. He is also an active composer and arranger with over 40 published compositions and arrangements that have been performed by middle school, high school, and collegiate level bands and ensembles across the country. Mr. Gumina’s compositions for both middle school band and percussion ensemble have been premiered at the AMEA Conference on 4 occasions.


Mr. Gumina is the Director of Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps from Mobile, Alabama, and since its return in 2014 the corps has doubled in size and expanded its summer touring schedule. Mr. Gumina has served on the Arts Advisory Board and the Curriculum Writing Committee for the Jefferson County School System, and in 2010 Mr. Gumina achieved National Board Certification.


Mr. Gumina is a member of AMEA, ABA, NAfME, NBA, PAS, and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. Greg resides in Trussville with his wife Gina and their daughters Noelle and Giada, and he is an avid HO scale model railroader in his spare time.


On-line voting in the 2016 AMEA election will begin April 1 and end April 30. A link to the election portal will be emailed to members and accessible on the AMEA website during the month of April. Candidate bios and photos are on the website now.


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