AMEA 2019 Clinicians


Kevin Whalen is Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Music in the Schwob School of Music at Columbus State University. Whalen has served as the jazz trumpet chair of The Glenn Miller Orchestra and held a jazz trumpet chair with the Grammy-nominated University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band. Dr. Whalen has presented at the Jazz Education Network Annual Conference, the Annual Conference of the International Trumpet Guild, the International Conference on the Blues and at universities throughout the country, including the Eastman School of Music, Ithaca College, the University of North Texas, and Virginia Tech.


Dr. Meghan Merciers is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Alabama (UNA) with an applied focus in larinet and saxophone. Dr. Merciers has given numerous masterclasses throughout the United States and held performer and lecturer residencies at the Conservatoire de Musique de Courbevoie near Paris, and the Conservatoire de Limonest in Lyon, France. Prior to joining UNA in August 2013, Dr. Merciers taught at Albion College and the Flint School of Performing Arts in Michigan.


Mr. Sam Merciers is a visiting assistant professor in Theory and Composition at the University of North Alabama.


Dr. Whitney Farris O’Neal, a native of Jonesboro, Arkansas, is Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of North Alabama. Prior to her appointment as flute instructor at UNA, O’Neal was Instructor of Woodwinds at Stillman College from 2010-2011, and served as Instructor of Flute at Mississippi State University in the fall of 2010.


Dr. Tracy Wiggins is Assistant Director of Bands and coordinator of the percussion program at the University of North Alabama. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the HARTT School, University of Hartford, the Master’s Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of New Mexico, and the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Oklahoma State University, as well as post-master’s work at The Ohio State University.


Justin White is a native of Russellville, AL, USA. After graduating from Russellville High School in 2007, he attended the University of Alabama where he graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.Ed. Mr. White was a Master’s Conducting Associate at the University of North Texas, where he earned a M.M. in Wind Conducting with a related field in Music Education in 2014. While at UNT, he was a conducting student of Nicholas Enrico Williams, Dennis Fisher and Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Mr. In Summer 2017, Mr. White was the winner of the North American regional for the Wolrd Music conducting competition and traveled to represent the US in Kerkrade, Netherlands. His professional memberships include Phi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, National Association for Music Education and the Alabama Music Educators Association.


Art Williams is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Music at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education and M.S. in Education degree from Troy University as well as a Ph.D. degree in music education from Indiana University. With experience teaching at the elementary, secondary, and collegiate levels, Williams is a specialist in elementary general music education. He is also actively involved in the field of music education, where he appears as host of “Mr. Art’s Music Room,” the DVD component of Warner Brothers’ and Alfred Publications’ nationally released Music Expressions curriculum.


Gretchen Windt, mezzo soprano, was an Apprentice Artist with Sarasota Opera, Sugar Creek Symphony and Song Festival, and Utah Symphony & Opera. She has performed with Cincinnati Opera, Opera Southwest, Chesapeake Chamber Opera, Opera Idaho, Bowen Park Opera, OperaModa, and DuPage Opera Theatre. She has performed with the Ohio Light Opera for five seasons in works by composers including Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Franz Lehar, and Jacques Offenbach. She graduated from the University of Utah (D. M. A. in vocal performance), the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (M.M. in voice/opera), and North Park University (B.M.E. in music education/voice). She currently is an Assistant Professor in voice at the University of North Alabama.


Dr. Damion Womack currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music, Chair of the Fine Arts Department and Director of Choral Activities and Huntingdon College. His duties include conducting all choral ensembles, teaching choral methods, conducting, and supervising the music and art faculty. Choral ensembles under the direction of Dr. Womack have performed by juried invitation for regional and national conventions of The American Choral Directors Association, and The National Association for Music Education. Prior to his appointment at Huntingdon College, Dr. Womack served as Director of Arts at The Montgomery Academy, where he received the McLemore Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dr. Womack currently erves as the American Choral Director’s Association National Chairman for High School Choirs and has served on planning committees for the 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2018 ACDA Southern Region Conventions. He is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician in the Southeast and has served in this capacity in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Illinois. Dr. Womack holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC and holds Music Education degrees from Alabama A&M University and Alabama State University.


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