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Connie Glen

Constance Cook Glen, Lecturer and Coordinator
Music in General Studies Program
Jacobs School of Music
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Constance Cook Glen serves as Coordinator and Lecturer for the Music in General Studies program at Indiana University and teaches courses on the Live Performance, the American Musical, Opera Theatre, Music Appreciation and Music Theory—all for non-music majors. She is the recipient of the 2004 "Blue Ribbon Award for Outstanding Instructors" given by the IU Disability Student Services Office. Glen holds degrees in piano, history, musicology and theory from Nebraska Wesleyan University and Indiana University. She has developed courses on her current research interests, which are Opera Appreciation and the aesthetics of the American musical. Prior to teaching for MGS, Glen taught opera courses for the IU Continuing Studies Division for seven years. In addition, Glen previously worked with issues of civility, harassment and academic misconduct at the IU Office of Student Ethics and Anti- Harassment Programs, presenting throughout the university and nationally on these topics. 

Locally, Glen has volunteered her musical skills as a pianist to promote contemporary composers and served as president of a local chamber group (Community Chamber Music Association) for five years. In 2002, her volunteer work included co-chairing the Bloomington Multicultural Festival in association with the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival.  For 15 summers, she was a member of the faculty at Rocky Ridge Music Center in Estes Park, Colorado. She also served as the Center's Music Director and Associate Director for 3 years and directed student programs for junior high, high school, college and adult students. In the summer, Glen can now be found at the University of Denver where she is the Director of the Lamont School of Music Summer Pre-College Academy.

 

Glenn Gass

Glenn Gass, teaches a series of courses that he developed on the history of rock and popular music. D.M., Indiana University, 1985. Gass has been the recipient of the Herman B Wells Lifetime Achievement Award, the Indiana University Sylvia Bowman Distinguished Teaching Award, the IU Student Alumni Association Student Choice Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Brown Derby Award, induction into the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, and other teaching awards and honors. He is the author of "A History of Rock Music: The Rock & Roll Era," a 1994 publication by McGraw-Hill, and a member of the Education Advisory Board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. As a classical composer, Gass has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Indiana Arts Commission.

 

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Andy Hollinden, M.M. (1993), B.M. (1988), Composition, Indiana University. A.S. (1984) Audio Technology, Indiana University. Andrew Hollinden has developed many courses for the Jacobs School of Music: The History of the Blues, Rock Music in the ‘70s and ‘80s, The Music of Frank Zappa, The Music of Jimi Hendrix, and a class called Beach Boys, Beefheart & The Residents. In addition, he teaches Rock History I – Roots of Rock to the British Invasion,  History of Rock Music II – The Sixties, and The Music of the Beatles. He composes and produces music for videos and has performed and recorded with numerous rock bands. Mr. Hollinden has written and produced six CDs: Moving Earth from There to Here (1994), Boot Rouge et Swabs (1996), Heat to Fragrance (2000), Begging’s Not Endearing (2002), Stick It in Your Sound Hole (2004) and Trust Yourself (2006).

 

Mary Goetze

Mary Goetze is a Professor of Music at the Indiana University School of Music where she chairs the Music in General Studies department and conducts the International Vocal Ensemble, a School of Music chorus specializing in the re-creation of music from outside the European and American art traditions. Dr. Goetze is recognized for her work with children's choirs and has served as clinician and guest conductor. Her arrangements and compositions for treble voices are published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Mary Goetze Choral Series. She has published articles on children's singing and children's choirs and served as a coordinating author for Share the Music, a series book for grades K-6 published by Macmillan McGraw Hill. She holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Colorado. Her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Factors Affecting Accuracy in Children's Singing" was named Outstanding Dissertation of 1985 by Music Educators National Conference and Council for Research in Music Education. She has received a Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana University, Distinguished Alumnus Award (1992) from the University of Colorado College of Music, and was named Outstanding Educator of the Year (1993) by the Organization of American Kodaly Educators. In 1996, she was awarded a grant from Indiana University for a project entitled "Multicultural Music Education" which allowed her to do research in Zimbabwe and South Africa in 1997 and 1998. Currently she is co-authoring a series of CD-ROMs that facilitate the oral transmission of vocal music from diverse sources. Refer to the CD-ROM Update.

 

Luke Gillespie

Luke Gillespie Assistant Professor of Music, an active performer of jazz and classical piano music, Luke Gillespie is the recipient of numerous awards, including best performance from Indianapolis Star in 1993; the 1990 Copland Piano Concerto Competition at Indiana University; and the 1994 Indianapolis Jazz Festival Competition.

He has recorded with the Arts Center Jazz Collective, David Baker, Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, James Campbell, Eugene Rousseau, Dominic Spera, and Wanda Stafford. He has performed with Steve Davis, Bunky Green, Steve Houghton, Ingrid Jensen, Pat LaBarbara, David Liebman, James Moody, Chris Potter, Rufus Reid, and Jim Snidero.

Professor Gillespie is included in Jazz Play-Along, Vol. 76, "How to Learn Tunes," by David Baker (Aebersold). He has published articles on the aesthetics of jazz and classical music, and a recent book, Stylistic II/V7/I Voicings for Keyboardists (Aebersold, 2000). His recent solo jazz piano CD, Footprints, was released on RIAX records.

Professor Gillespie is in demand as performer, teacher, and clinician, including summer jazz camps in Shell Lake, Wisconsin.

 

Visiting Faculty

 

Kristen Bellisario

Kristen Bellisario Lecturer, IU School of Music, Music in General Studies teaches Music in Multimedia, B. Mus. California State University, Long Beach and M.F.A. University of California, Irvine, Flute Performance. Bellisario is a new music enthusiast, performer, composer and freelance media artist specializing in media development for interactive composition, innovative music education and non-profit needs. She was the recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Indiana Arts Commission to produce a media-rich recital series for the underprivileged population of southern Indiana. She produced and recorded "Quadrivium", an interactive CD-ROM exploring Indiana soundscapes and has produced multiple classical music/topical DVDs. She is currently producing a DVD of the Music and Culture of Azerbaijan.

Her personal philosophy is to incorporate new media with meaning, and for a purpose that benefits specific populations and communities. Her experience has included live performances in halls throughout the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and media design and production for over 15 years.

 

Katherine Domingo has developed and taught classes in conducting, choral music, and music theory. Prior to joining the Jacobs School of Music faculty, she was in the Philippines on a Fulbright fellowship researching her birth country's music and giving lectures and master classes at the University of the Philippines College of Music. During her residency, she also served as national and regional adjudicator in chorus and voice for the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA). She is a Contributing Writer for Macmillan/McGraw- Hill's K-8 series textbook Spotlight on Music, and she produces educational DVDs that use music to help classrooms and choirs learn about the cultures of the world published through the Global Voices Interactive series. Dr. Domingo received her B.A. with a major in orchestral conducting and clarinet from Dartmouth College, and received her M.M. and D.M. degrees in choral conducting and musicology from Indiana University.

 

David Ward-Steinman

David Ward-Steinman is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Indiana University, Bloomington, and Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus  at San Diego State University, where he was Composer-in-Residence and director of the Comprehensive Musicianship Program and New Music Ensembles.  

He has received many national awards and commissions for his compositions. Recently he was cited in Heintze and Saffle's "Reflections on American Music The Twentieth Century and The New Millennium"  as one "of five representative global, cultural, and/or transcultural American composers for the twenty-first century"  in Dale A. Olsen's chapter on "Globalization, Culturation, and Transculturation in American Music" (Pendragon Press, 2000).

In 1968 he received the Outstanding Professor Award from the California State Universities and Colleges, and in 1992 an Outstanding Faculty Award from San Diego State University.  In 1970-72 he was the Ford Foundation Composer-in-Residence for the Tampa Bay area of Florida.  In the summer of 1982 he was Artist-in-Residence and curriculum consultant for the Univ. of North Sumatra, and made a concert/lecture tour of Indonesia under the auspices of the U.S. Information Agency.  In the summer of 1986 he served as Composer-in-Residence at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina; in 1986-87 he  was appointed University Research Lecturer at San Diego State University, and spent 1989-90 in Australia under a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, with residencies at the Victorian Centre for the Arts  and La Trobe University in Melbourne,
returning in 1997 for a concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. He has been a featured guest composer and lecturer at over 75 campuses here and abroad, with performances in over a dozen different countries.

He is the author of "Toward a Comparative Structural Theory of the Arts" and over fifty published compositions, and co-author of the two-volume "Comparative Anthology of Musical Forms."



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