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Music Education

Patricia S. Foy

Professor of Music Education

Susana Lalama

Director of the Petrie School of Music; Associate Professor of Music Education

Vern Weygandt

Adjunct Instructor of Music Education

Voice and Opera

Anne Denbow

Adjunct Instructor of Voice

Keith Jones

Professor of Music

Susan Lyle

Associate Professor of Voice

Valerie MacPhail

Assistant Director of the PSOM, Associate Professor of Voice

Emalie Savoy

Instructor of Practice in Voice

Strings


Patrick Flynn

Adjunct Instructor of Guitar

Kathleen Foster

Adjunct Instructor of Cello

Courtney LeBauer

Assistant Professor of Violin and Viola

Eric Scheider

Interim Director of the Converse Symphony Orchestra

John Wickey

Adjunct Instructor of Harp

Aaron Yackley

Adjunct Instructor of Double Bass

Keyboard

Steven Graff

Assistant Professor of Piano

Erica Pauly

Adjunct Instructor of Piano Pedagogy

Mildred Roche

Instructor of Accompanying

Brennan Szafron

Adjunct Instructor of Organ

Winds, Brass and Percussion

Ericka Tyner Grodrian

School of the Arts Philanthropy Officer, Adjunct Instructor of Horn

Arthur Haecker

Director of Converse Wind Ensemble, Adjunct Instructor of Trombone

Karen Hill

Adjunct Instructor of Clarinet and Saxophone, and Special Assistant to the Provost for International Programs

John Holloway

Adjunct Instructor of Low Brass

Craig King

Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet

Adena Shoemake McDaniel

Adjunct Instructor of Percussion

Kelly McElrath Vaneman

Mary Babcock Reynolds Professor of Oboe and Music History

Christopher Vaneman

Dean of the School of the Arts; Associate Professor of Flute

Frank Watson

Adjunct Instructor of Bassoon

Music Therapy

Liz Eggerding

Assistant Professor of Music Therapy

Carol Shultis

Associate Professor of Music Therapy

Musicology and Composition

Rachel Bani

Visiting Instructor of Music History

David Berry

Professor of Musicology and Composition

John Jeter

Adjunct Instructor of Music Business

Peter Kay

Adjunct Instructor of Music

Madeleine McEntire

Adjunct Instructor of Music Theory

Scott Robbins

Professor of Musicology and Composition

Kelly McElrath Vaneman

Mary Babcock Reynolds Professor of Oboe and Music History

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Lance Bastian

Adjunct Accompanist

Anne Graff

Adjunct Accompanist

Mildred Roche

Instructor of Accompanying

Julie Smith

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Glen Chaddock

Head Piano Technician

Ericka Tyner Grodrian

School of the Arts Philanthropy Officer, Adjunct Instructor of Horn

Christopher Vaneman

Dean of the School of the Arts; Associate Professor of Flute

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