April & May 2016 College News

Faculty Accolades In April, Craig Aamot served as the guest artist and clinician for the Anchorage Choral Festival, serving a school district of 48,000 students. Craig worked with the top three most diverse high schools in the nation as part of this visit. In five days Craig visited all eighteen high schools and middle schools, gave eighteen clinics, three evening concerts, heard over 1,000 singers, climbed part of a mountain, saw two moose, and drank 45 cups of coffee. Dr. Lynn Brinckmeyer’s new book entitled Advocate for Music provides guidance and strategies for different levels of involvement in music advocacy. As a comprehensive document that includes a broad range of issues about music advocacy, it offers numerous strategies, materials and models to advocate for music education. It was published by Oxford University Press in January, 2016. Hank Hehmsoth will be a Fulbright Specialist this summer in Chile. While there, he will perform at the Projazz Institute with Keith Winking , Russell Haight , and Utah Hamrick . Dr. Martin McCain was recently an artist in residence at the University of Kentucky. On April 17th, he performed a concert for the Central Kentucky Chamber Music Society. The following day McCain coached the University of Kentucky Trombone Choir and taught lessons throughout the week. On April 19th he was a guest soloist with the UK Repertory Jazz Band in addition to giving a masterclass to the studio the following day. McCain was also recently invited to join the faculty at the 2016 International Trombone Festival at the Juilliard School where he will present a masterclass, conduct a participant trombone choir, perform in the Cramer Choir comprised of American university trombone professors and serve on the jury panel for the George Roberts International Bass Trombone Solo Competition. MUSIC Texas State’s world premiere of the opera Lady Bird: First Lady of the Land