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Associate Professor of Music
Lissa Fleming May, Associate Professor and Chair of Music Education, joined the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1999. Her duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in music education, and placing and supervising music student teachers.
A noted jazz educator, Lissa served as the Jazz Band Director at Oakland University, during her tenure as Supervisor of Fine Arts for the Waterford School District. Prior to that, she was Associate Professor of Bands, Jazz Studies at Purdue University. Under her direction, the Purdue Jazz Band toured the Far East, presenting concerts in Japan and China. Lissa is a past president of Indiana Bandmasters Association and the current president of Indiana Music Educators Association.
Dr. May holds DME, MS, and BME degrees from Indiana University. Her publications include a book for music educators entitled Getting Started with Jazz, numerous compositions for concert band and jazz ensemble, as well as music education research articles in JRME and JHRME and the IAJE Jazz Research Proceedings. She has served as a clinician and/or guest conductor throughout the United States and in Brazil, and China.
Courses Taught:
M344 Methods and Materials for Teaching Instrumental Music
M471 Undergraduate Seminar In Music Education
M482 Student Teaching
E516 Instructional Programs and Learning in Music
E520 Seminar in Music Education for Masters Degree Students
E527 Advanced Instrumental Methods
E659 Doctoral Seminar in Music Education II
Publications:
Book:
Getting Started with Jazz, January 1994, Music Educators National
Conference, Reston, VA, 1994
Dissertation:
Relationships among jazz theory achievement, jazz aural skills,
aural imitation and achievement in instrumental jazz improvisation
(Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, 1998).
Compositions:
Reflezaõ e Dança, FJH Music Company, Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL (In
press).
El Gato Gordo, 1995, EEP Publications, Lebanon, IN 1994
Ray' Tune, 1994 EEP Houston Publications, Lebanon, IN 1994
Articles:
The development of valid objective evaluation criteria for
instrumental jazz improvisation achievement. In Jazz Research
Proceedings, Yearbook of the International Association of Jazz
Educators, 31, (2001): 46-55.
The history of the Indiana Bandmasters Association, The Musicator,
Spring, 1990
Guest Conducting:
Wisconsin School Music Association All State Honors Jazz Project,
June 20-23, 2001
Connersville High School Jazz Band, Connersville, IN; March 16, 2000
University of Nebraska-Omaha Honor Band, Omaha, NB; February 25-28,
1999
CMEA, Colorado All State Jazz Band, Colorado Springs, Colorado,
January 22-25, 1997
Indianhead Arts Center, University of Wisconsin, Shell Lake
Extension, Summer Concert Band Conductor, 1996-1998
Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra, Winter Festival Pops Concert Porto
Alegre, Brasil, July 1996
Illinois Summer Youth Music. Junior Concert Band, July 1993
Jazz Ensemble I Conductor, Indiana University Summer Music Clinics,
1986-Present
Huntington Area Honor Band, Huntington, West Virginia, May 1-4, 1992
Eastern Kentucky University Honor Band, Richmond, Kentucky, February
22-25, 1991.
Clinics, lectures and workshops:
Concert Band and Conducting Workshop, Lawrence Central High School,
Indianapolis, IN; March 29, 2001
Concert Band Workshop for Indiana Music Educators Association,
Carmel, IN; March 10, 2001
Jazz Workshop, Rolling Meadows Jazz Festival, Rolling Meadows, IL;
February 24, 2001
Jazz Directors Workshop, Intersections Jazz Festival, Indianapolis,
IN, February 10, 2001
Research Paper Presentation International Association of Jazz
Educators Conference, New York, NY, January 13, 2001
Jazz Workshop, Lawrence Central High School, Indianapolis, IN;
December 3, 2000
Artist in Residence, Collins Living and Learning Center,
"Introduction to Jazz," Bloomington, IN; April 16-27, 2000
Concert Band Workshop, Concord High School, Elkhart, IN; March 16,
2000
Concert Band Workshop, Penn High School, Mishawaka, IN; March 14,
2000
Lecturer in Jazz History and Improvisation Porto Alegre, Brasil;
July 10-August 4, 1996
Conductor of Purdue Jazz Band Orient Tour Itako, Japan; Beijing and
Shanghai, China May 15-25, 1995
Invited Performance, Notre Dame Jazz Festival Purdue University Jazz
Band; 1996, 1994 and 1993
Jazz Seminar for the Military Band of China, Beijing, China: January
22-29, 1994
Clinician, Marshall University Wind and Percussion Festival,
Lectures on Band Conducting, Jazz Pedagogy and Interdisciplinary
Arts Curriculum June19-23, 1988
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