NORIKO MANABE (Music Studies/Theory) continues to work on her monograph, Revolution Remixed, and her edited volumes, Oxford Handbook of Protest Music and Nuclear Music. She continues to serve as Treasurer and Board Member of the Society for Ethnomusicology and has been newly appointed to serve on the Publication Awards Committee for the Society for Music Theory, the Publication Committee for the American Musicological Society, and the editorial board for the Journal of the American Musicological Society. She also continues to serve on the editorial boards of Twentieth-Century Music, Bloomsbury Popular Music, SOAS Musicology Series, and Music and Politics; the advisory board for the International Council for Hip Hop Studies; and as series editor of the book series, 33-1/3 Japan from Bloomsbury Publishing.
JEFFREY SOLOW (Instrumental Studies/Cello) will perform a recital and give a master class at Texas Tech (other master classes are in the process of being scheduled). Dec. 7: Will perform works by Brahms, Zemlinsky, and Schumann with Sara Davis Buechner and distinguished clarinetist, Michael Webster in Rock Hall.
Publications: “Don’t Be An Urtext Victim” for the Spring issue of The London Cello Society. Solow edited the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré for the International Music Company, and IMC published his edition of 3 duos by J.J.F. Dotzauer, op. 114
SHANA GOLDIN-PERSCHBACHER’S (Music Studies/History) book, Queer Country and Trans Americana: Gender, Genre, and Sincerity in Contemporary Folk Music, the first book to address LGBTQ country and folk musicians, and one of the first book-length studies of transgender musicians of any genre, is under contract with the University of Illinois Press for inclusion in their Music in American Life series. Goldin-Perschbacher will speak about this project at peer institutions. She was the keynote speaker in Westminster Choir College’s 12th Annual Celebration of Student Research and will be delivering a talk in Temple's Dance Studies Colloquium (Sept. 24), “‘Stolen Song’: Appropriation, Essentialism, and Ownership in Transgender and Queer Country and Folk Music.”
As co-chair of the LGBTQ Study Group of the American Musicological Society, Goldin-Perschbacher has been busy organizing the 30th anniversary celebration, to be held at the national conference in November. Highlights include a multi-genre, intersectionally-diverse panel discussion she organized with Dr. Lauron Kehrer of Western Michigan University, “Still Here, Still Queer: Celebrating Three Decades of LGBTQ Scholarship at AMS” as well as her role leading adjudication of the 2019 Philip Brett Award, honoring exceptional musicological work in the field of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender/transsexual studies. She developed a new writing-intensive Music in History Course on the theme of “Current Topics in Music Studies,” developing students' critical thinking skills through key debates of the last thirty years in musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology and popular music studies.
PATRICIA CORNETT (Instrumental Studies/Bands) will present two concerts in TPAC with the Temple Wind Symphony and two concerts in TPAC with the Temple Concert Band. In addition, the Temple Wind Symphony will present a Children’s Concert for third and fourth grade students in the Philadelphia public schools in October. She will present a session entitled A Balanced Diet: Strategies for Creating Successful Concert Programs at the Delaware State Arts Conference in October. In December she will conduct the Baltimore County All Honors Band and begin her work as the conductor of the Philadelphia All-City Band.
LAURA KATZ RIZZO (Dance) will participate in the fall season of Artists in Motion, a new performance series taking place at Peridance in NYC. On November 20, she will lecture at the Pennsylvania Ballet panel event at PAFA's Rhoden Arts Center, discussing the history of The Nutcracker in the United States, particularly within the repertory of the Pennsylvania Ballet.
WENDY MAGEE (Music Therapy)
XXth International Training Institute for the Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness (MATADOC). Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Boston MA, Sept 26-28.
Invited speaker (Grand Round): Neurobiological and neurophysiological perspectives on Music Therapy with medical populations. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, October 2.
Research Masterclass, Center for Performing Arts Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX, October 3.
Peer reviewed publications
Bodine, C., Seu, A., & Magee, W.L. (Submitted for publication). Examining the functionality of the MATADOC with the CRS-R.
Pool, J., Siegert, R., Taylor, S., Dunford, C. & Magee, W.L. (Submitted for publication). Evaluating the Validity, Reliability and Clinical Utility of the Music therapy Sensory Instrument For Cognition, Consciousness and Awareness (MuSICCA)
Magee, W.L. (accepted for publication). Why include music therapy in a neuro-rehabilitation team? Advances in Clinical Neuroscience and Rehabilitation.
Street, A.J., Fachner, J.C. & Magee, W.L. (2019). Arm rehabilitation in chronic stroke using neurologic music therapy: two contrasting case studies to inform on treatment delivery and patient suitability. Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, published online
Peer reviewed conferences
Magee, W., Wegener, E., & Seu, A. (2019). Music interventions for Disorders of Consciousness: Providing treatment and measuring impact (oral symposium). In Program, American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, November 5-8, Chicago, IL.
Magee, W. & Waldon, E. (2019). Developing Psychometrically Robust Measures for Assessment, Evaluation, and Research. In Programme, 11th European Music Therapy Conference: Fields of Resonance, June 26-30, Aalborg, Denmark (p. 4).
Research Magee will be working with colleagues from Music Education and Therapy, as well as from Tyler, School of Social Work, and Reference and Instructional Services as part of an Interdisciplinary Research Group CHAT grant for the topic: “Meeting Diversity for Inclusive Training of Caring Professionals in the Arts.” All faculty from Boyer are welcome to participate. She will also be working on the first stage of validating the MATADOC into Brazilian Portuguese.
DICK OATTS (Jazz Studies/saxophone)
Ongoing performances with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra at Village Vanguard, NYC. Perform and teach at the Vail Summer Jazz Workshop and Vail Jazz Festival in Colorado; Perform in Barcelona, Spain with the St. Andreu School of Music . Perform and Conduct the Berlin Youth Jazz Orchestra in Berlin, Germany. Rehearse, Performance, and recording with the Mike Holober Sextet at Aaron Davis Hall in NYC; Perform with fellow jazz faculty, Terell Stafford, Bruce Barth, Tim Warfield, David Wong, Byron Landham at the Rite of Swing Jazz Cafe in TPAC / Music of Bruce Barth. Dick Oatts Quartet performance in England; Herbie Hancock Institute --- Artist in Residence series, teaching, masterclasses, private lessons and performance techniques at UCLA campus in Los Angeles. Amsterdam Conservatory Artist in Residence series. Masterclasses, private teaching and performance; Perform at the Kimmel Center with the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia (music of Duke Ellington); Perform/present with Boyer jazz faculty at the JEN Conference
JAN KRZYWICKI’S (Music Studies/Theory) Fantasia for solo harpsichord will be premiered by Joyce Lindorff in November. Krzywicki will conduct Network for New Music in concerts in November.
PHILLIP O’BANION (Instrumental Studies/Percussion) will perform with Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, Chamber Orchestra First Editions, the Delaware Symphony and The Philadelphia Orchestra. O’Banion will direct the Temple University Percussion Ensemble in a program of chamber ensemble works with strings, winds and piano on, November 4 at TPAC. The program features works by Augusta Read Thomas, Steve Reich, George Crumb, Alejandro Vinao, Gabriella Ortiz and Toru Takemitsu.
O’Banion is also preparing a solo marimba recital on March 31, 2020 in the Chapel at TPAC, which will feature two world premieres as well as Jacob Druckman’s “Reflections on the Nature of Water.” He will repeat the program on tour across several states and record for future commercial release.
JOANN MARIE KIRCHNER (Keyboard Studies) will deliver a paper at the National Conference of the College Music Society in Louisville, Kentucky (Oct.) She will also adjudicate for the Dorothy Sutton Piano Festival for the Main Line Music Teachers Association in October.
MARCUS DELOACH (Vocal Arts/Voice and Opera) will appear in recital at the Cincinnati Song Initiative singing songs of Henri Duparc with pianist Marie-France Lefebvre (Sept.). DeLoach makes his debut at Arizona Opera in Gregory Spears' acclaimed Fellow Travelers where he will reprise the roles he created: Sen. Joseph McCarthy/ Interrogator/ Estonian Frank.
JILLIAN HARRIS (Dance) completed a two-month teaching residency at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia as part of work on her current project, Mud: Bodies of History. Currently in post-production, Mud: Bodies of History is a web-based, interactive dance film piece shot in San Antero, Colombia. Using movement footage shot in collaboration with twelve Colombian artists, the experience expands traditional definitions of choreography and will premiere in late October. She will lead three dance film panels as part of the 2019 Women in Dance Leadership Conference at Drexel University (Oct.) and will present at the 2019 National Dance Education Organization Conference in Miami. Harris will also be a presenter for Temple Prof. Coover's VR and Multimodal Media Arts Project: The Virtual City course in collaboration with the Kimmel Center.
SHERRIL DODDS (Dance) published a new book, The Bloomsbury Companion to Dance Studies (2019), and a journal article, "On Watching Screendance" in the International Journal of Screendance. She continues to be an active b-girl in the Philadelphia breaking scene.
SARA DAVIS BUECHNER (Keyboard Studies) will perform Piano Concertos by Beethoven, Chopin and Schumann (Robert and Clara) on the west coast and in Hawaii; and perform a Trio Recital with fellow Boyer faculty member, Jeffrey Solow and guest clarinetist Michael Webster at in Rock Hall on December 7.
ALISON REYNOLDS (Music Education) will give a keynote speech at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for the National Music Education Conference in China in October.
CYNTHIA FOLIO’S (Music Studies/Theory) The PANdemonium4 Flute Quartet will be performing her composition, Four ‘Scapes, on a tour this fall beginning at Bowling Green State University, the University of Akron and Oberlin College (all in September) and ending at Ashland University (in November). Her composition, When the Spirit Catches You… (on the topic of seizures), will be performed by the Rêlache Ensemble on December 1 at the American Epilepsy Society Conference in Baltimore. She has written two essays that are due for release in books this fall: (1) an article about incorporating improvisation into the theory classroom in the Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, ed. by Leigh VanHandel (Routledge) and (2) a personal statement in Visions: The Inspirational Journeys of Epilepsy Advocates (Oxford University Press), ed. by Steven Schachter, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and a true leader in advocacy for the quality of life of people with epilepsy.
MARK FRANKO (Dance) His book Danzar el Modernismo/Actuar la Política (Buenos Aires y Madrid: Miño y Dávila) will appear in September. This revised version of Dancing Modernism/Performing Politics (1995) will be Franko’s first publication in Spanish. The book contains a critical introduction by the translator, Argentinian dance scholar Juan Ignazio Vallejos. Franko will participate in the book launch in Buenos Aires in September and has been invited to lecture at the University of Madrid and the University of Salamanca in November. He is co-editor with Kate Van Orden (Music, Harvard) of a ‘virtual debate’ to appear in Perspective: actualité en histoire de l'art published by the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA, Paris) on “The Musical and Choreographic Score” (forthcoming in December). He has also been working on two articles: “Parade as a Critical Concept in Interwar French Dance Theory” for Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics and “The Choreographic Imagination of Sophie Taeuber-Arp” for Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the exhibition catalogue for the Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective that MoMA, the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Tate Modern are organizing for 2020-2021. Franko will continue to review this year. He edited and wrote the Editor’s Foreword for two books in the Oxford Studies in Dance Theory series, Lucia Ruprecht, Gestural Imaginaries and Rebekah Kowal, Dancing the World Smaller.
BETH BOLTON (Music Education) began a series of early childhood music program observations last spring for the Musica early childhood music program, which operates throughout Belgium. She will continue observations this fall and next spring (2020), creating opportunities for future research collaboration and faculty/student exchange. In November, Bolton will present her work in Cyprus, Italy ad Germany. In Cyprus she will present theoretical frameworks of early childhood music learning at a two-day intensive course at the European University Cyprus and she will provide music education lectures for students at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. In Italy, she will teach the intensive weekend Level 1 early childhood music course for Musica in Culla. In Germany, she will provide an intensive two-day course for musicians and music educators at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.
NATHAN BUONVIRI'S (Music Education) f. His second book, The Subtle Side of Teaching, will be published in December by Rowman & Littlefield Education, and his article, “Tips for Tempo Maintenance,” will be published in The Instrumentalist in October. Buonviri will present two invited sessions this fall, at the PMEA District 12 Conference in Malvern, PA in November and at the Delaware Music Educators Association conference in October.
LAMBERT ORKIS (Keyboard Studies) Jury Chairman, 10th Trondheim (Norway) International Chamber Music Competition 2019 for Piano Trios. Performing Artist: Trondheim Chamber Music Festival. Works: Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano in e minor, Op. 38 with cellist Tanja Tetzlaff; George Crumb: A Little Suite for Christmas for solo piano and written for Lambert Orkis.
Master Class: Department of Music, Trondheim University, Trondheim, Norway. Performance: Kennedy Center Chamber Players, Washington, D.C. (Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts). Works: Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin in F Major, Op. 24, "Spring"; Sonata for Piano and Cello in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1; Stephen Jaffe, Sonata in four parts for Cello and Piano (2007) - written for David Hardy and Lambert Orkis. Tour of Asia with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, recitals in Hong Kong; Seoul, South Korea; Kaohsiung and Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China. Works by Beethoven. Also in Beijing, concert including Beethoven's Triple Concerto, performed with Ms. Mutter and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott with the NCPA Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, conductor. Private Concert with cellist David Hardy at the Cosmos Club, Washington, DC. Works by Beethoven, Stephen Jaffe, Shostakovich. In addition, Orkis performs in concerts as principal keyboard of the National Symphony Orchestra in November at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., and in May, also at the The Basilica of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. and in Carnegie Hall, New York, New York.
ALEXANDAR deVARON (Music Studies/Theory) is looking forward to performances of his work in September at Sky Lake retreat center in Rosendale New York, and then in October by the New England Conservatory Chamber Singers in Boston. Here in Philadelphia he will co-lead the workshop "Creativity and the Five Elements" in September, and will lead another, "The Cultivation of Panoramic Awareness" in October.
EDUARD SCHMIEDER (Instrumental Studies/Violin)
Conductor-in-residence, Kazakh National University of Arts. October 11, Concert: State Performing Arts Center Samuel Nebyu, his student at Boyer is a featued soloist in Shor’s Violin Concerto. Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. October 14 -19: Conductor, east coast tour of Eurasia Symphony Orchestra/Schlomo Mintz, soloist. October 14: Symphony Space, New York. October 16: Carnegie Zankel Hall, New York. October 17: Kraushaar Auditorium, Baltimore, MD. October 19: Temple Performing Arts Center. October 29: Master class, LSU School of Music, Baton Rouge, LA
PAUL RARDIN (Vocal Arts) In November he will lead the Concert Choir in a performance of music by Ted Hearne, Ruthie Foster, and Derrick Spiva at the 8th National Conference of the National Collegiate Choral Organization.
ELIZABETH CASSIDY PARKER (Music Education)
Research Presentations and Projects: Graduate poster session and Editorial Board meetings at Society for Music Teacher Education (September); Scholar in Residence at Case Western Reserve University (November 2019); Solo monograph to be released February 2020, Adolescents on Music [Oxford University Press]. Projects in preparation: A Multiple Case Study of Two Inclusive Choirs with Dr. Bridget Sweet of University of Illinois, and A Choral World Without Hierarchy: A Case Study of Eisenhower High School with Dr. Marci Major of West Chester University. Data analysis ongoing: “Safe Space” within a Comprehensive and Inclusive Music Program with Dr. Bridget Sweet.
Conducting Engagements: Upcoming Winter Concerts with Pennsylvania Girlchoir and Commonwealth Youthchoir, December including commission from Evelyn Curenton Simpson.
Editorial Board: Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, International Journal of Research in Choral Singing.
ADAM VIDIKSIS (Music Studies/Music Technology) has been appointed by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission as a Director of Arts Technology for a performance during the 2020 Olympics in Japan celebrating the first inclusion of karate in the games. He will be working with composer Gene Coleman to lead a team of American and Japanese artists and musicians to capture movement using sensors and generate original music and visuals. Later this fall, Vidiksis will be exploring the Mammoth Cave National Park with his electroacoustic trio, SPLICE Ensemble, and composer Paula Matthusen of Wesleyan University. With special permission of the National Park Service, they will hike instruments and gear over two miles into the caves for a recording session that captures the cave’s unique sonic characteristics through a technique of recursive processing. This research will culminate in a new work composed by Matthusen to be premiered by SPLICE. In early September, Vidiksis’s work will be seen on campus in a series of interdisciplinary performances, workshops, and an installation in the Tyler Lounge Gallery. This project, entitled kNots & Nests, is directed by choreographer Marion Ramirez in close collaboration with Vidiksis and Tyler faculty and glass artist Kris Rumman, as well as other faculty contributors and a host of student researchers.
Vidiksis is currently completing the score for two short films, one with director Tetsuki Ijichi, as well as a VR film with CPCA’s own Rod Coover. Coover and Vidiksis’s work, Tidal Impacts, will be presented in a series of VR installations on the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in November, as well as in a live music performance with the film at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts.
A new theatrical work by Vidiksis and director Mike Durkin of the Renegade Company, called That Time We Talked About Spaceships While Recreating Matisse’s ‘Le Bonheur De Vivre’, will premiere this fall at the Barnes Foundation.
Quanta, Vidiksis’s recent new work for voice and electronics, will be performed this fall by bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood at Warsaw Autumn, the largest international Polish festival of contemporary music, Amsterdam’s STEIM, and the University of Birmingham, UK.
Vidiksis’s student music tech ensemble, BEEP, was invited by the American Composers Forum and Mural Arts Philadelphia to perform three concerts this fall on their upcoming music festival celebrating the opening of the new Rail Park, which will showcase newly commissioned sound art installations at sites throughout the park. At this festival, which features professional musicians from Philadelphia and across the world, BEEP is the only student ensemble to be invited to perform and is the only group to perform each night. Also, BEEP will premiere a new work based on commuter data released by SEPTA by Boyer PhD candidate Andrew Litts in two public performances in Suburban Station this fall.
KATHRYN LEEMHUIS (Vocal Arts/Voice and Opera) will make her debut with Opera Delaware in Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea this coming opera season