The
Music
Education Department is the recent recipient of a generous endowed
gift in the memory of Professor Jean Sinor, who passed away suddenly
in 1999. Her husband, IU Distinguished Professor Emeritus Denis
Sinor has made the gift possible. The endowment makes possible
the Jean Sinor Memorial Lecture Series, designed to invite
renowned guest scholars to the Bloomington campus for several days
each year, to meet, speak and interact with Jacobs School students.
For more information on Jean Sinor or the Memorial
Lecture Series,
click here.This year, our distinguished guest for the Sinor Memorial Lecture Series was Dr. Patricia Shehan Campbell.
Faculty, alumni,guests, and students from the Music Education Department enjoyed the IU reception at this year's Biennial National Music Educators Conference in Milwaukee!
 
Pictured at the left are Kevin Watson, Pete Miksza, Brent Gault, Carla Aguilar, Rachel Nardo, and Kristen Allegood. At the right, Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman, Barbara Resch, Estelle Jorgensen, and Carlotta Parr. Below, Chuck Schmidt and Patrice Madura Ward-Steinman discuss research issues.
Professor Estelle Jorgensen was the keynote speaker this spring a the Narrative Soundings: NIME2 conference in Tempe Arizona Feb 7-8, 2008. Also at NIME2, Assistant Professor Katy Strand and Kathryn Heise presented a paper titled Listening to the Voices of Those Left Behind: Children's Reflections as the Learn About Creativity.
Congratulations to Dr. Brenda Brenner, recently
named National Solo Competition Coordinator for ASTA.
Lissa May is the president of our state Music Educators Assoctiation, IMEA
in January of 2007.
Other events
Middle school band students
are welcome to participate in
IU
Young Winds! This exciting and challenging musical
experience. For more information on the Young Winds program, contact the music education office.
The 2007-2008 Indiana Directory of Music Teachers
has been wildly popular and has sold out. To pre-order your copy of
the 2006-2007 Directory (due in November of 2006) , contact Linda Bucklin,
lbbuckli@indiana.edu.
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