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FACULTYHeather Buchman, M.M., Associate Professor of Music(hbuchman@hamilton.edu) Heather R. Buchman is music director of the Hamilton College Orchestra, Brass Ensemble, and the chamber music program. She has guest conducted the Syracuse Society for New Music, Monarch Brass, and the U.S. Coast Guard Band, and is founder of the KAIROS Chamber Orchestra. She was among the first recipients of a Women Conductors Grant from the League of American Orchestras. With the Hamilton College Orchestra she has instituted the annual Brainstorm! educational concert series. Lydia Hamessley, Ph.D., Professor of Music(lhamessl@hamilton.edu) Hamessley received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota before coming to Hamilton in 1991. She teaches courses in Medieval and Renaissance music history, world music, American folk and traditional music and opera, and she was awarded a Kirkland Endowment Grant from Hamilton to develop courses about or concerned with women. She received the Class of 1962 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2007. Her current area of research is in old-time and bluegrass music, with a particular focus on Southern Appalachian music and women. She was the coordinator for the conference Feminist Theory and Music: Toward a Common Language, in Minneapolis, held in 1991. Hamessley has published articles in Music & Letters; Queering The Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology; Menacing Virgins: Images of Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Women & Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture; Ruth Crawford Seeger's Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-Century American Music; and 19th-Century Music. She is the co-editor, with Elaine Barkin, of Audible Traces: Gender, Identity, and Music. Hamessley is compiling a reader of primary sources focusing on American folk and traditional music as well as working on a project about the use of folk music in Dow Chemical's "Human Element" advertising campaign. She is also a clawhammer banjo player. Robert Hopkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music(rhopkins@hamilton.edu) Hopkins earned his master's degree and Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Pennsylvania. His dissertation provided the basis for his book, titled Closure and Mahler's Music (1990). Hopkins' research interests include the evolution of the barbershop quartet style of singing, analysis of codas in the works of 19th-century composers, and changes in sonata form in instrumental works during the nineteenth century. At Hamilton he teaches courses in music history, theory and the psychology of music. Hopkins is also very active in the Barbershop Harmony Society (SPEBSQSA, Inc.), which he served as president in 2004-2005. He performs in his barbershop quartet and directs a barbershop chorus. Several of his arrangements have been published by the Barbershop Harmony Society.
Rob Kolb, D.M.A., Professor of Music(gkolb@hamilton.edu) A member of the Hamilton faculty since 1981, Kolb earned a master's at California State University at Fullerton and a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kolb is director of choral activities at Hamilton and is conductor of the Hamilton College and Community Oratorio Society, as well as past conductor of the Syracuse Vocal Ensemble and Cayuga Vocal Ensemble. He is a contributing author to Up Front: Becoming the Complete Choral Conductor. Kolb is a former holder of the Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Chair at Hamilton.
Sam Pellman, D.M.A., Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Music(spellman@hamilton.edu) Pellman received his master's degree and doctorate from Cornell University. Many of his works may be heard on recordings by the Musical Heritage Society, Move Records, and innova recordings (including his October 2003 release titled "Selected Planets"), and much of his music is published by the Continental Music Press and Wesleyan Music Press. Recently his music has been presented at the International Symposium of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology in Melbourne, Australia, and the Electric Rainbow Coalition festival at Dartmouth College, and the Musicacoustica Festival at the Central Conservatory for Music in Beijing. Pellman is also the author of An Introduction to the Creation of Electroacoustic Music, a widely-adopted textbook published by Cengage. At Hamilton he teaches theory and composition and is co-director of the Studio for Transmedia Arts and Related Studies. Pelllman is also the organist and the director of instrumental music at the Clinton United Methodist Church. Further information about his music can be found on the web at: http://www.musicfromspace.comMichael Woods, D.M.A., Professor of Music(mwoods@hamilton.edu) "Doctuh" Michael Woods majored in composition and minored in string bass at Indiana University (M.M.), and the University of Oklahoma (D.M.A.). Woods was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in composition from Oklahoma University. He also received a M.M. degree in jazz studies from Indiana University. Woods has written more than 450 compositions in various styles including choral, orchestral, and chamber works, as well as jazz combo and big band charts. Recently, the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra performed his work titled "War, Peace, Anger, Love." Woods is also director and bassist for the Zoe Jazz Band, and bassist for the Omniverse jazz ensemble. Both groups often perform his compositions. At Hamilton, Woods teaches courses in jazz history, jazz arranging and jazz improvization. He also directs the College's Jazz Ensemble.
Paul Charbonneau, B.Mus., Lecturer in Music (Classical Guitar)Mike Cirmo, M.A., Lecturer in Music (Percussion)Don Crafton, Lecturer in Music (Trombone/Low brass)Jim Johns, Lecturer in Music (Jazz Drums)Ursula Kwasnieka, M.Mus., Lecturer in Music (Harp)Rick Montalbano, Lecturer in Music (Jazz Piano)Monk Rowe, B.Mus., Lecturer in Music (Saxophone) and Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive(mrowe@hamilton.edu) Rowe frequently performs as a solo pianist and saxophonist with area groups. He released a CD, Jazz Life, which is a tribute to an older style of jazz, recorded live. He is director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive, which holds a collection of some 190 videotaped interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics. Rowe has conducted most of the interviews of artists in the archive. More about Monk Rowe ...
Sar Strong, M.Mus., Lecturer in Music (Piano) and Coordinator of staff Pianists(sstrong@hamilton.edu)Jon Frederic West, Lecturer in Music (Voice)Back to Music overview. |
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