UTM Treble Honor Choir 2024

UTM Fine Arts Building

8:30- 8:50 Registration – Fine Arts Building Lobby*
9:00-11:30 3-5 Choir Rehearsal # 1 – Fulton Theatre
6-8 Choir Rehearsal # 1 – Blankenship Recital Hall 

11:30-12:50 Lunch+

1:00-1:30 UTM New Pacer Singers Mini-Concert – Fulton Theatre 

1:30-3:00 3-5 Choir Rehearsal # 2 – Fulton Theatre
6-8 Choir Rehearsal # 2 – Blankenship Recital Hall 

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-5:30 3-5 Choir Rehearsal # 3 – Fulton Theatre
6-8 Choir Rehearsal # 3 – Blankenship Recital Hall

5:30-6:00  Break (Prepare for concert)

6:00  Honor Choir Concert – Fulton Theatre

Notes:

*Registration will take place in the Fine Arts Building lobby. Buses may drop students off in Fine Arts parking lot, then proceed to Elam Center (Lot 2) for parking.

Please do not park in the Fine Arts parking lot.

+You are welcome to eat on-campus or at a local restaurant.

Please see attached campus map.

https://runway.utm.edu/event/10188556

Roberto Mancusi, Ph.D., is a Professor of Music at the University of Tennesee at Martin where he has taught since 2008. Prior to his arrival at UTM, he was an assistant professor at Eastern New Mexico University (Portales, New Mexico). He was also an adjunct professor at Avila College (Kansas City, Missouri), Baker University (Baldwin City, Kansas), and Graceland College (Lamoni, Iowa). 

Dr. Mancusi is an accomplished clinician, adjudicator, and author. He has given numerous master  classes for singers of all levels, throughout the Midwest, South, and Southwest. He has served as an adjudicator and author for district and regional auditions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, West Tennessee Vocal Music Educators Association Solo & Ensemble Festivals and New Mexico All-State auditions, as well as a number of local and regional talent competitions. As an author, Dr. Mancusi's first textbook,  Voice for Non-Majors, was published in 2008 by Pearson/Prentice Hall and is in use around the world. His most recent publications were a pair of articles for Classical Singer Magazine. 

Dr. Mancusi holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance from Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa) where he studied with Dr. Wayne Carnnell/ He holds a Master of Music in Performance and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from the University of Missouri at Kansas City- Conservatory of Music and Dance where he studied with Dr. Anne Delaunay.

Dr. Elaine Atkins Harriss, Professor of Music at the University of Tennessee at Martin, is a pianist, flutist, and early childhood music specialist. She received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University and her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Dr. Harriss has been at UTM since 2001 and served the Department of Music as chair for six years.Dr. Harriss as a pianist is well-known for her solo and collaborative playing and has extensive piano duo, duet, and eight-hand experience with her partner Allison Nelson. Recent performances included Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with the UTM wind ensemble at the Canon Center in Memphis and “Piano Music of Poulenc,” featuring L’Histoire de Babar with narrator Interim Chancellor Dr. Robert Smith and Sonata for Two Pianos assisted by Dr. Johnathan Vest. She is currently a pianist with the University Trio. Elaine's flute performing included 25 years as principal flutist with area orchestras, 18 years of chamber work as flutist with the University Trio, many solo recitals, and the premier of Sam Ewell's Ramble for Flute and String Orchestra.

Dr. Chan Mi Jean is Lecturer in Music at the University of Tennessee at Martin, where she specializes in Collaborative Piano. Jean is an emerging chamber musician, vocal pianist, and opera coach who has performed internationally in Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Thailand, and the U.S. A native of Seoul, Korea, Dr. Jean received her D.M.A. in Collaborative Piano from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.M. and P.D. in Piano Performance from Indiana University, and B.A. in Music Performance from Asbury University. Jean’s teachers include Donald Zent, Jean Louis- Haguenauer, and Martha Fischer. As an active chamber musician, Jean has performed with various instrumentalists on a wide range of repertoire and appeared in venues such as Aspen Music Festival and the pianist for the prestigious Perlman Trio in 2016-17.