Curricula
LAWRENCE DALE HARPER
Artistic Director and Founder of I M P
LAWRENCE DALE HARPER is Professor Emeritus of Music of Carroll University, where he enjoyed a 31-year career as conductor of the University Wind Symphony and the Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin. From 1986-97, he was the Music Director and Conductor of the Waukesha Area Symphonic Band and has been the conductor of one of the few professional wind ensembles in the world, the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, since its founding in 1995. He has brought these ensembles to local and regional prominence through innovative programming, CD releases, international touring, commissioning and premiering new works, performing at major concert halls and conferences, and hosting internationally recognized composers and conductors. In a review of the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra’s CD, “Old Wine in New Bottles,” The American Record Guide said, “Listening to these readings of excellent wind band literature is a lovely listening experience,” and called the conductor “a stickler for detail, a motivator, and a first-rate musician who brings nuance and insight to a piece of music.”
Harper has served as a clinician and guest conductor throughout the United States, as well as in Central America, Europe, and the Middle East. He was an invited speaker and guest conductor at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the Eastman Wind Ensemble where he presented his research on the West Point Military Academy Band Commissions of 1952 and guest conducted the West Point Military Band. He has twice appeared as conductor at the famed Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, in concerts and radio broadcasts both with his own Wisconsin Wind Orchestra and with the Holland Wind Players, one of Europe’s leading professional wind ensembles. He has also served as a guest teacher of conducting at several universities around the world—from the University of Wisconsin to the University of Péc, Hungary, and the National Institute of Music of Costa Rica. He has appeared in concert with other distinguished college and university wind ensembles such as those at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst and California State University—Northridge, and in the summer of 2016 appeared as guest conductor with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica.
Dr. Harper is a long-time member of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE), and served as the chair of the Professional Band Network for CBDNA. His national reputation has led to appearances as guest conductor and panelist at CBDNA regional and national conventions at Northwestern University, University of Colorado, and the University of Texas, as well as at the international conference of the WASBE in Jonkoping, Sweden. Along with Maestro Filippo Salemmi of Italy, Harper founded and leads the International Music Project, which facilitates ongoing joint cultural/musical projects between American and Italian musicians, students, and conductors.
Harper is the recipient of the Carroll University Benjamin F. Richardson Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, Research, and Educational Innovation. He was also chosen by his peers as the inaugural speaker for the faculty lecture series at Carroll University and was also an invited speaker at the "Artists Training Artists" Conference at the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point. He is a contributor to the series, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, published by GIA.
Filippo Salemmi
Artistic Director and Founder - Planner of I M P
International Guest Conductor
Responsible and Tutor for the international students
He works as a International guest Conductor with important Italian and international Wind bands.
American universities have also often engaged me for residencies, clinics and concerts, such as a:
Stanford University California (2010 - 2017) ; Carroll University, Wisconsin ( 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017 – 2019 ) ; Drexel University, Philadelphia ( 2013 – 2015 – 2016 - 2019 ); Temple University ( 2019 ) - UWM University of Wisconsin ( 2016 – 2017- 2018 ); Marquette University in Milwaukee ( 2016 -2017- 2018); University of Manoa , Hawaii (2015) ; Royal Hawaian Band, Hawaii (2015) ; the University of Mississippi ( 2014); University of Santiago de Compostela ( 2012- 2013) - Interlochen Arts Academy (2018) - University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain - ( 2012 - 2013)
He holds lectures as a visiting Professor (2018 – 2019 – 2020) at University of Perugia - Metodologia dell’Educazione Musicale --- Scienza delle Formazione.
Filippo Salemmi has been employed in Carroll University WI in Spring Semester 2015 as an Adjunct Professor of Music. In this position, Maestro Salemmi has been responsible for teaching courses within the University's Department of Music, including MUS 181— Wind Symphony Conductor and MUS 156 — Listening to Classical Music and CCE Cultural Cross Experience. Maestro Salemmi has been also evaluate and grade students' work; prepare course materials, such as syllabi and handouts; initiate and facilitate classroom discussions; and maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. Maestro Salemmi has been as a guest conductor of the Wisconsin Youth Wind Orchestra, under a special arrangement between Carroll University and the Orchestra.
I have a wide-ranging knowledge of American public school band programs and their operation through many clinics offered for young players in high schools throughout Wisconsin. Sun Prairie School in Madison –Wisconsin; Wisconsin Lutherian College H. School; Hamilton High School – Wisconsin; Youth Wind Symphony of Wisconsin;, Mukwonago High School, Waukesha North High School; Waukesha south High School , other )
He has conducted several concerts in different European countries such as France, Luxembourg, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Spain, and outside Europe.
Among the most significant experiences, the recording of a piece for the movie "Something to Believe" (Something to believe in) by John Hougues broadcasted by RAI and Mediaset.
He has directed the recording of the piece "Royal March" of G.Gabetti, performed by the Symphonic Wind Band of Bevagna, in the soundtrack of the film by Roberto Benigni, "Life is Beautiful", winner of three Academy Awards.
M. Filippo Salemmi is the Artistic Director and Planner Responsible, Consultant, of
IMP International Music Program Project ITALY -USA
Study Music Abroad
IWE International Wind Ensemble
He organized and directed multiple international activities with American universities and Italian conservatories involved in the study program in USA and in Europe
I M P has held events (among in USA and ltaly) and been associated with American universities such as
Marquette University of Milwaukee
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wind Ensemble
Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan
Mississippi State University
Drexel University, Philadelphia
Stanford University California
Manoa University of Hawaii
University of Georgia
Cleveland Institute of Music
High Schools Involved in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Wind Orchestra
Holland Winds Players – Camerata Amsterdam
Segni Barocchi Festival in Foligno
Referent, Artistic consultant, and tutor for the students for many italian Conservatories of Music involved in the Program of study , like:
Conservatorio di Musica Maderna di Cesena
Conservatorio di Musica Martucci di Salerno
Conservatorio di Musica Morlacchi di Perugia ( Academic Year 2015)
Conservatorio di Musica Rossini di Pesaro
Conservatorio di Terni
Conservatorio di Fermo
UNESCO Venezia Aquileia Gorizia Foligno
Filippo Salemmi has graduated in Clarinet at the Conservatory "F.Morlacchi" of Perugia under the guidance of Ciro Scarponi and has further graduated in Instrumentation for Symphonic Band at the Conservatory "G. Rossini" of Pesaro under the direction of Luigi Livi.
He has achieved a Higher Diploma in Wind Orchestra Conducting at the ISEB (High European Band Institute) of Trento. He has directed the final concert of the Conservatory Band of Lalin (Spain) and has studied with internationally renowned teachers such as Jan Cober (Netherlands), Felix Hauswirt (Austria), Carlo Pirola (Italy).
He has attended the Postgraduate Course in Music, earning the Conducting of Wind Band Postgraduate Course at the prestigious Conservatory of Maastricht - Zuyd University Nederlandse Hogeschool voor Muziek- (Netherlands) with M. Jan Cober in July 2010.
He has studied Composition with F.Sulpizi and F. Maria Caramazza, he has attended Organ and Gregorian Chant with G.Gravagna in Conservatory "G. Rossini" of Pesaro and has studied Choral singing and Choral Conducting with P.Rossi and P.Caraba.
Thereafter, Mr. Salemmi was licensed to teach Music Education by the Interregional School Office for Lazio and Umbria of the Ministry of Public Education, in Italy. Licensure to teach Music Education in Italy is based on the fulfillment of a bachelor's-level academic requirements, professional examinations, and professional teaching rotations.
I have also worked for extended periods of time with the Youth Wind Orchestra of Wisconsin, and have been an invited guest conductor of the Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, one of the few professional wind ensembles in the world.
And in venues in important Italian festivals in Lecco, Palermo, Comiso, Rome, Milan, Salerno, Bergamo and Siena.
He conducted with Teatro Lirico Sperimentale A. Belli di Spoleto “Cenerentola” of Gioachino Rossini in May 2018 and was performed in Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Teatro Romano, July 2018 ( Maestro Coordinatore dei Fiati)
He also conducted with Teatro Lirico Sperimentale A. Belli di Spoleto “Elisir D’amore” Donizetti in May 2019.
He also edited the staging and conducting of a major version of the opera "Prima la Musica, poi le Parole" by Antonio Salieri, staged at the Teatro "Salieri" Legnago in 2002, as guest conductor of the “Festival Salieri” and the running in the course of a project . In December 2002 as part of "Christmas in solidarity with Prague and its Theaters" with the extraordinary collaboration of Rome Opera House and the Embassy of the Czech Republic
As director of Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, he has conducted various pieces performed in World premiere, some of which have been expressly dedicated to him:
“Bevagna”, loosely based on the Kyrie “Alme Pater” by Giancarlo Aquilanti (Stanford University);
“Episodi Francescani” for Symphonic Band by Carlo Pirola, commissioned by the Symphonic Wind Band of Bevagna on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Wind Band of Bevagna,
Word Premiere in USA and European Premiere in Italy of
Eclipse (2015) by Dr. Joel Matthys (b.1974) residence composer in Carroll University
(to Larry Harper, Filippo Salemmi and the joint musicians of Carroll University, Perugia Conservatory, Wind Symphony Bevagna and Norcia )
“Homage” (2016) to Filippo Salemmi for Wind Ensemble by Luigi Zaninelli
and: “Laudate” (2015) Luigi Zaninelli, Ottobeuren Basilika, July 2016
“Symphony n 3” for winds II. Movement (2016) Giancarlo Aquilanti, Ottobeuren Basilika
July 2016
“Lauda” (2010) Steve Danyew - ( First European Premiere) Ottobeuren 2016
“Il Cantico” Oliver Waespi ( :::. ) First American Premiere ( Drexel University,
Philadelphia 2015)
Le Mani di Cyrano by Paolo Giri, Festival Segni Barocchi 2017.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Elab. Filippo Salemmi
Variazioni da Goldberg Variations
Elab. Per Ensemble da Camera
( Prima Esecuzione in U W M University in Milwaukee April 2018 )
and :
“Bhar” di P.Giri (1998);
“Mediterraneo” di A.Sormani (2002);
“Prisma” di A.Sormani (2003) ;
“Cantos Ceremonial” for Sax Quartet and Wind Ensemble di A. Sormani ( 2006) commissioned by the Symphonic Wind Band of Bevagna;
“Terra Pacis” di Nicolò Gullì ( 2004)
“Viaggio in Umbria” G. Mariotti (2005);
“The Cantica of Saint Benedicto” by Jacob de Haan, and expressly dedicated to his holiness Pope, Benedict XVI.(2007)
“Nursia, eterna sei” by Mauro Marani arranged for Wind Band by Filippo Salemmi ( 2014)
Filippo Salemmi , Giancarlo Aquilanti recorded in July 2013, a cd “The Golden Trumpet ” with Marco Pierobon, international soloist at Trumpet , with Wind Ensemble “Giovani Fiati Umbri”. Firts Italian premiere.
Between the pieces recorded in the CD appears the track "The Golden Horn" of composer Luigi Zaninelli, among the most successful and important in America.
M. Zaninelli wrotes : “My compliments to Maestro Salemmi and the Giovani Fiati Umbri.
………… . Your courage in exploring this aspect of my personality is so
refreshing.”
He has elaborated the manual of Composer Luigi Zaninelli on his behalf :
“An introduction to non – functional 20th Century Harmony” by Luigi Zaninelli
He was member of the National Artistic Commission of Anbima (National Association of Italian Bands) and of the Artistic Commission of Umbria Bands which coordinates all cultural activities of Conductors and bands in Italy and Umbria, taking in the course of activities under the projects, seminars and conferences on the repertoire and on gesture, study workshops with various bands Umbrian and national.
He is member of the Festival of Umbrian Wind Bands, was commissioned by the office in charge of the Umbria Region as a coordinator and creator of several musical projects since 2003, built and dedicated throughout the region, to young musicians and the Project, Youth Wind Orchestra of Umbria -- I GIOVANI FIATI UMBRI which, since 2004, has been Conductor and coordinator.
M.Salemmi is Artistic Director of the "European Wind Band Festival" held annually in Bevagna, involving Italian Wind Bands and foreign Symphonic Bands.
Wesley Broadnax UNC Director of Bands UNC University Northern of Colorado
Founder and Artistic Consultant of I M P
Conductor o f I W E
Wesley Broadnax as UNC's Director of Bands beginning in Fall 2019.
Wesley J. Broadnax is in his seventh year as Assistant Teaching Professor of Music & Director of Bands at Drexel University. His duties include conducting the Concert Band, Pep Band, Instrumental Conducting, and Chamber Winds. Prior to Drexel, Dr. Broadnax served as Director of Bands/Instrumental Music Education on the faculties of the University of Delaware, California State University East Bay, and Michigan State University. He is also Assistant Conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra (Delaware).
A native of Texas, Dr. Broadnax received his bachelor’s degree in music education from Stephen F. Austin State University and taught for several years in the Texas Public Schools. He received both the master’s and doctoral degrees in Wind Conducting from Michigan State University. While at Michigan State University, he was a regular performer on bass trombone and euphonium, where he was a member of the West Shore Symphony, Greater Lansing Symphony, Grand Rapids Symphony, Jackson Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony, and Midland Symphony, in addition to various chamber ensembles that included both the West Shore Symphony Brass Trio and Capitol Brass Quartet in Lansing. In California, he performed as bass trombonist with the Silicon Valley Symphony and Mission Chamber Orchestra. His conducting teachers include John L. Whitwell and Frank L. Battisti; his bass trombone/euphonium teachers have included Nathaniel Brickens, Curtis R. Olson, Philip Sinder, J. Mark Thompson, and William Young.
Dr. Broadnax maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. He has conducted several All-State and honor bands both nationally and internationally, and has presented resident conducting seminars at Michigan State University, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Indiana State University, Bemidji State University, St. Ambrose University, and Mansfield University. Guest conducting engagements include the 56th Annual Stanislaus County Junior High School Music Festival in Modesto, Calif., and the Fresno-Madera Counties Music Educators Association in Reedley, Calif. As adjudicator, he has adjudicated the Central Jersey Concert Band Festival (CJMEA)--South Brunswick, NJ, Western Band Association Concert Band Festival in Atherton, Calif., and conducted the Rocky Mountain Honour Band in Calgary, Alberta (Canada), 2nd Honor Band Invitational (Savannah State University), All-South Honor Band (University of Southern Mississippi), and the Michigan Intercollegiate Honor Band (Grand Rapids, MI). Most recently, he served as guest conductor for the Temple Wind Symphony (Temple University), Philadelphia All City Concert Band, and is a frequent guest conductor of the Philadelphia Wind Symphony. He is a strong advocate of new music and has won the praises of several composers, including Joseph Schwantner, David Maslanka, Michael Weinstein, Dana Wilson, Jere Hutcheson, Paul Barsom, Davide Zannoni, Lawrence Singer, Joel Puckett, Nicholas Vasallo, Stephen Rush, Marko Bajzer, Angelo Sormani, Raphael Fusco, Drew Michael McWeeney, and Eric Sessler. He participated in the Pierre Boulez Symposium on 20th Century Contemporary Music at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the focal work being the composer’s Le Marteau Sans Matre, with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain. In the summer of 2002, Dr. Broadnax completed a four-week residency as a conducting fellow at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, where he co-conducted the Young Artists Wind Ensemble and Chamber Music Program with master teacher Frank L. Battisti. In addition, Dr. Broadnax served as guest conductor for the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra Children’s concert series in Spring 2005 titled The Circle of Life, as part of its Black History Celebration. He also served for three years as music director/conductor for the Lansing Concert Band, and two seasons for the Oakland Municipal Band (California). Scholarship & Research activities include presentations at the Conductors Guild National Conference (Chicago), Delaware Music Educators Association (Smyrna, DE), Schwantner Music Festival (Newark, DE), and published articles on a variety of topics related to music education—including a recent article titled Ensemble Intonation: Five Strategies for Long—Term Improvement for the School Band & Orchestra Magazine (SBO). He continues guest conducting engagements throughout Italy each summer, as part of the International Music Project (IMP), and will be presenting concerts in both Italy and Spain during 2019.
Dr. Broadnax holds professional membership with the Conductors Guild, College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), International Music Project (IMP), Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) California Music Educators Association (CMEA), the International Trombone Association (ITA), and he is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Phi Mu Alpha and Pi Kappa Lambda organizations.
John Climer is Director of University Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts.
Biography
John Climer is Director of University Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. At UW-Milwaukee, John oversees all aspects of the band program, guides the graduate wind conducting area, and serves as conductor of the Wind Ensemble, the University’s premiere wind band. Before his appointment in Milwaukee, he served for fourteen years as Director of Bands at Ohio University, where he served as conductor of the Wind Ensemble and New Music Ensemble. As a guest conductor and clinician, Dr. Climer has led performances at festivals, universities, and concert venues nationally and internationally including the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Eastman School of Music, and the Conservatorio di Musica in Salerno, Italy. Ensembles under his direction have performed for four conferences of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), including the 2013 National Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina, five conferences of the Ohio Music Educators Association, the North Dakota Music Educators Association, the Wisconsin State Music Conference, and the Society of Composers Inc. In July of 2015, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Wind Ensemble performed for the 16th International Conference of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) in San Jose, CA.
John is the recipient of three university teaching awards including the Ohio University College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award, the Ohio University School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award, and the Outstanding Music Educator Alumni Award from the University of Akron. He is Past-President of the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association and the former Editor of the CBDNA Report. He is a contributing author for the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series and his biography is published in the third edition of Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers. In the spring of 2019, he was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association.
Dr. Climer earned degrees from the University of Akron, the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He has held teaching appointments at Ohio University, the University of North Dakota, Ohio Northern University, and Emory University where he also served as the conductor of the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony
Luigi Zaninelli
Guest Composer
Artistic Consultant of I M P
B i o g r a p h y
The music of Luigi Zaninelli is known to performers and audiences around the world for work that excites the senses and stimulates the mind. He has become known as a composer of great craft and powerful emotional statement.
Mr. Zaninelli was born in Raritan, New Jersey in 1932. At the age of 17, he played his music for renowned composer Gian Carlo Menotti who then accepted him as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. Two years later the Curtis Institute sent Mr. Zaninelli to study composition with the legendary Rosario Scalero, the teacher of Menotti and Samuel Barber. Upon graduation, he joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute.
Zaninelli returned to Rome, Italy in 1964 to compose film music for RCA Victor Italiana. In 1968, he was appointed Composer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Returning to the United States in 1973, he became Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Mr. Zaninelli's honors include a Steinway Prize and numerous ASCAP awards. He is a five-time recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Music Award. With over 300 published works to his credit, he has received commissions to compose for virtually all mediums including opera, ballet, chamber music, orchestra, band, chorus, and solo voice. He has created several movie and television scores, including the major Italian motion picture, Una moglie Americana (An American Wife), and PBS documentaries, The Islander and The Last Confederates. His opera Snow-White recently received its European premier at the world famous Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence, Italy, where it was received with enthusiastic acclaim. As his music evolves, Zaninelli continues to find an ever-enlarging audience for his work.
Dr. Matthew Schlomer
Conductor, Wind Symphony, Interlochen Arts Academy;
Consultant of I M P
Conductor of I W E
Conductor, Wind Symphony, Interlochen Arts Academy; Instructor of Classical Saxophone, Interlochen Arts Academy; Instructor of Saxophone, Interlochen Arts Camp; Conductor, Interlochen Symphony Orchestra; Guest Director, World Youth Wind Symphony
D.M.A., Instrumental Conducting, University of Wisconsin; M.M., Instrumental Conducting, University of Wisconsin; B.M., Music Education, University of Colorado
Dr. Matthew Schlomer is the conductor of the Interlochen Arts Academy Wind Symphony and teaches conducting and classical saxophone at Interlochen Arts Academy.
Schlomer has previously taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Luther College, Edgewood College, Kettle Moraine Lutheran High School, and Sheboygan High School. He is resident conductor of the experimental percussion group Clocks in Motion and has served as a clinician around the Midwest. He is a strong advocate for integrating all the arts into music education and has led 14 arts exploration tours across the United States and Canada.
Schlomer holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting with a minor concentration in dance from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor of Music in Education from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a gold medal in saxophone from Bordeaux Regional Conservatory in France. While at UW-Madison he twice received the Richard Church Memorial Conducting Award.
Schlomer studied wind conducting with Scott Teeple and Allan McMurray, saxophone with Jean-Marie Londeix and Tom Myer, and dance with Kate Corby. Further conducting studies have been with Bob Reynolds, Craig Kirchhoff, Michael Haithcock, Mallory Thompson, Jerry Junkin, John Whitwell, Frank Wickes, and Glen Ads
Erik Janners
Director of Music at
Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Dr. Erik Janners
Erik Janners,
Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Knightwind Ensemble
, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is internationally recognized as a conductor, scholar and performer. He
holds degrees in percussion and conducting from Alma College, the University of Utah, and the
University of Alabama.
In addition to his duties with Knightwind, Dr. Janners serves as the Director of Music at
Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Prior to his arrival at Marquette University in the fall of
2007, Dr. Janners served as Director of Bands at Saint Xavier University in Chicago, Illinois, as well as at
the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada. His achievements in these positions included the
founding of the Marquette University Wind Ensemble and the University of Regina Wind Ensemble, as
well as the creation of the Saint Xavier University Conducting Workshop. He also served as Director of the University of Regina Honor Band, the University of Regina Conducting Symposium, and the Saint
Xavier University Conducting Workshop.
As Director of Music at Marquette University, Dr. Janners conducts the wind ensemble, orchestra,
and pep bands. He also supervises the overall music program at Marquette. Dr. Janners was the recipient
of the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award from Saint Xavier University and has received the National
Band Association’s “Award of Excellence” three times. He is in high demand as a guest conductor,
clinician and adjudicator, and has presented a series of clinics on performance psychology at the State
Music Conferences of Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, New Jersey, and Alabama, and the
Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. He presented a major scholarly paper on Performance Psychology in
July 2012 at the conference of the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music in
Coimbra, Portugal, which was published by the Society in July 2014. Dr. Janners has served as conductor
of the National Band Association College All-Star Band on three different occasions, and has served on
the conducting staff at the Blue Lake Fine Arts camp in the summers. He has also served as a pre-concert
lecturer for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.
In 2016 he entered into a collaboration with the Italian conductor Filippo Salemmi as a part of the
International Music Project, and in July 2016 Dr. Janners conducted on a series of concerts in Italy,
Germany and Austria. He led a study abroad program from Marquette University performing in Cesena,
Pesaro and Salerno, Italy in Summer 2017 and taught a masterclass at the Conservatorio Bruno Maderna
in Cesena, Italy in December 2017. In the summer of 2018 he conducted Schubert’s
Deutche Messe
for winds and choir in the Basilica of Montecassino, Italy, and at the Basilica Superiore in Assisi, Italy.
Finally, Dr. Janners was most recently a featured clinician and guest conductor at the XI Forum of the
Baltic States Wind Orchestra Conductors in Riga, Latvia, which took place November 2 and 3, 2019.
As a scholar, Dr. Janners has had numerous articles published in the
Instrumentalist magazine, as well as in Canadian Winds , the national periodical of the Canadian Band Association, and Alta Musica
, the publication of the IGEB wind music conference. His research interests include wind band literature,
conducting pedagogy and technique, and performance psychology in its application to the field of music.
He is a member of the National Band Association, College Music Society, The World Association of
Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE), the College Band Director’s National Association
(CBDNA), the Conductor’s Guild, and the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind
Music (IGEB).