 Music Director Dr. Feldman's research on the wind music of Sergei Prokofiev, Antonin Dvorak, and George Enescu has been presented at the national and international conferences of CBDNA (College Band Directors National Association), WASBE (World Organization of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles), and IGEB (International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music). His arrangements and editions of works by those same composers are published by Tierolff Muziekcentrale (Netherlands). His college textbook, Instrumental Music Education, was recently released by Routledge Publishing. Dr. Feldman is also a contributing author to A Composer's Insight, volume 3 & 4, published by Meredith Music, which includes his chapters on the wind music Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and David Bedford. His chapter on composer Adam Gorb is forthcoming in Volume 5. His writings have also been published in The Instrumentalist, the Iowa Bandmaster Journal, the MENC Music Educators Journal, and the IGEB Alta Musica. Dr. Feldman earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Donald Hunsberger and Mendi Rodan, and served as an assistant conductor for the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He completed his Masters in Music from the Ithaca College School of Music, studying with Rodney Winther, and his undergraduate music degree at Duke University, studying with Michael Votta.  Assistant Director As Director of University Bands, Fuchs directs the 285 member Marching Tar Heels and the men's Basketball Bands, conducts the UNC Symphony Band, and is responsible for the administration of the entire UNC Band program, which includes three concert bands, the Marching Tar Heels, six Olympic Sports Pep Bands, two Basketball Bands and a variety of outreach programs. In addition to his responsibilities with the UNC Bands, he serves as the Chairman of the Wind and Percussion Area, Chairman of the Department of Music Scholarship Committee and sits on a variety of University, Music Department and Athletic Department committees. He served a two-year term (2000-2001) as an elected delegate of the UNC Employee Forum and was active on the University Committee Assignments and Personnel Issues committees. In May 2002, he was selected as a recipient of a C. Knox Massey award, one of the most prestigious honors given by the University to recognize unusual, meritorious or superior contributions by UNC employees.  Assistant Director McClure earned his Master of Music in Conducting and undergraduate degree from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He began his teaching career in the public schools of Russell County, Kentucky, teaching elementary, middle, and high school band. As a graduate teaching assistant for the UT band program, he worked extensively with athletic bands and conducted each of the concert ensembles. McClure has studied conducting with Gary Sousa and has studied saxophone with Jay Romines and Paul Haar. He has performed as the winner of numerous concerto competitions and at the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference.  Professor, Music Theory, Presenting: The Fourth Dimension: Exploring Rhythm, Meter, and Time in Music
(Associate Professor) received a BA in music from Rice University in 1993, an MA from the Eastman School of Music in 1995, and a PhD in music theory from the Eastman School of Music in 2002. Her primary areas of research are commercial country music and American popular music, following on her dissertation (titled "Song Structure Determinants: Poetic Narrative, Phrase Structure, and Hypermeter in the Music of Jimmie Rodgers"). Dr. Neal teaches music theory, analysis, and popular music courses; her research addresses commercial country music, rhythm and meter, and dance/music interactions in popular music. She was a Fellow at the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (2005 and 2008). She has served as chair of the Popular Music Group for the Society of Music Theory and as a member of the editorial board for the academic journal Music Theory Spectrum. She is currently co-editor of Southern Cultures. Dr. Neal regularly presents her research at national conferences on American music, popular music, music theory, and cultural studies.  Professor, Ethnomusicology, Presenting: Music of the Americas and Beyond David Garcia (Assistant Professor) holds degrees in music from the California State University, Long Beach (B.M. in composition, 1995), University of California, Santa Barbara (M.A. in ethnomusicology, 1997), and The City University of New York, The Graduate Center (Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, 2003). His research focuses on the music of Latin America and the United States with an emphasis on black music of the Americas. He teaches undergraduate courses in music of Latin America, world music, and jazz, and graduate seminars in ethnomusicology, music of the African diaspora, and popular music. He is also musical director and arranger for UNC’s Charanga Carolina which specializes in Cuban danzón and salsa from New York City. He has written one book Arsenio Rodríguez and the Transnational Flows of Latin Popular Music (Temple University Press, 2006) which was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the category Best Research in Folk, Ethnic, or World Music by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in 2007. He is currently conducting research on his second book which will focus on the intersection of African American and Afro-Latino music in the mid twentieth century. He has done fieldwork and archival research in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, Havana, and Curaçao. |
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