Applied Faculty
Composition, Theory
anderso7@email.unc.edu
Allen Anderson (Associate Professor) received a Bachelor of Music (1973) from the University of California at Berkeley, a Masters of Arts (1977) and Doctor of Philosophy (1984) in Theory and Composition from Brandeis University. A composer and Head of the Composition Area, he teaches composition, counterpoint and 20th Century music to undergraduates, along with theory and analysis courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Current composition projects include a work for mixed ensemble and three singers on the subject of the Cherokee Removal and a piece for the UNC Wind Ensemble. [more]
Composition, Jazz Combos, Jazz Studies
anderssr@email.unc.edu
Stephen Anderson (Assistant Professor) is both a composer and a pianist. He earned a Doctorate of Musical Arts (2005), and a Master’s of Music (2000) in composition at the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Music degree in composition at Brigham University in 1997. He studied composition with Cindy McTee, Joseph Klein, Tom Clark, Joseph Butch Rovan, Phil Winsor, and Paris Rutherford at UNT, and Stephen Jones, David Sargent, Michael Hicks, and Murray Boren at BYU. He studied jazz piano with Dan Haerle and Stephan Karlson at UNT, Dan Waldis at BYU, Gary Freeman at Eastfield College, and Wilson Brown at Ricks College. [more]
String Bass
bobbyone@earthlink.net
Robert Keir Anderson (Lecturer) graduated from the Eastman School of Music in 1971 with a B.M. in Performance, where he studied with Oscar Zimmerman. He attended the Chatauqua Summer Institute and Tanglewood Festival, where he studied with Robert Leininger and Henry Portnoi. [more]
Harp
laurasbyrneharpist@yahoo.com
Laura Smithburg Byrne (Lecturer) received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music where she studied with Alice Chalifoux. She began her teaching career while in graduate school in the preparatory division of the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mrs. Byrne taught harp at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter Minnesota, MacPhail Center for the Arts, Minneapolis Minnesota, the Baptist Seminary, Louisville Kentucky, and the University of Louisville. Mrs. Byrne performs extensively throughout the area and teaches the Salzedo method for harp. She began teaching at UNC in 2005. [more]
Conducting, Wind ensemble
evanfeldman@unc.edu
Evan Feldman (Assistant Professor) has joined the faculty at UNC-CH as Wind Ensemble Conductor and Assistant Professor of Music. Previously he was Director of Bands at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His research on the wind music of Sergei Prokofiev, George Enescu, and Anton Dvorak have been presented at the conferences of CBDNA, WASBE, and IGEB, and several of his arrangements of works by those composers are published by Tierolff Muziekcentrale (Netherlands). He earned the Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music, studying conducting with Donald Hunsberger and Mendi Rodan. [more]
Diction, Voice
fischerj@email.unc.edu
A native of North Carolina, Jeanne Fischer received her BA in Music and English from UNC-Chapel Hill. She continued her studies in the United Kingdom on a British Marshall Scholarship, completing an MM and Artist’s Diploma at London’s Royal Academy of Music. She received her DMA from the University of Maryland on a graduate fellowship. She teaches studio voice and French and Italian diction. [more]
Jazz Bass
foureman@gmail.com
Jason Foureman (Lecturer) was born in Durham, NC. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2000. In 2005 he was awarded a teaching assistantship at the University of Louisville where he taught and received his Masters degree in Jazz Studies. While at the University of Louisville, Foureman had the unique opportunity to travel throughout Russia, Finland, Estonia, and Sweden performing and teaching jazz clinics. In 2006, Foureman was awarded a position in the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program and had performances in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center. [more]
University Bands
jfuchs@email.unc.edu
Jeffrey Fuchs(Director of University Bands) joined the faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August, 1995. Mr. Fuchs holds the Bachelor of Music Education (1983) and Master of Arts (1998) from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri where he was a student of Dan Peterson and has completed further study at the University of Kansas where he studied with Robert Foster, Thomas Stidham and James Barnes. [more]
Percussion/Percussion Ensemble/Theory
lynng@email.unc.edu
Lynn Glassock (Professor) is a native of Dallas, Texas and received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Percussion Performance from the University of North Texas. His teachers have included Paul Guerrero, Ron Fink, Kalman Cherry, Ed Soph and Leigh Howard Stevens. Mr. Glassock teaches Percussion, Introduction to Music Technology and conducts the UNC Percussion Ensemble. Professional experiences include performances with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, principal percussionist with the Fresno Philharmonic, musical shows and commercial bands. He has written articles for the Instrumentalist and music reviews for Percussive Notes. He is currently a member of the Composition Committee, the Contest and Auditions Procedures Committee and the Board of Directors for the Percussive Arts Society. In 2004, the Percussive Arts Society presented him with the “Outstanding Service Award.” [more]
Conducting, Men's Glee Club, Music Education
dhuff@email.unc.edu
Daniel M. Huff(Clinical Associate Professor) did his undergraduate work at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois majoring in voice and piano. He holds Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he studied choral conducting with Robert Fountain and music education with Eunice Boardman Meske and Anthony Barresi. He is currently Area Head for Music Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he conducts the Men's Glee Club, a group which tours regularly in the Mid-West, East and Southeast, and teaches choral conducting and undergraduate and graduate courses in music education. Besides his performances with the UNC Men’s Glee Club, over the past 17 years, he has conducted or adjudicated over 120 state and regional festivals and workshops involving public school students in settings from the Mid-West to Southeast, presented 70 choral clinics and another 20 local to national in-service sessions for public school teachers and teacher candidates. In addition, he is Director of UNC’s HS Music Camp, as well as founder and conductor of the All-Carolina Invitational Male Choral Festival. He is a member of the Music Educator's National Conference, Intercollegiate Men’s Choruses, Inc., the American Choral Director’s Association, North Carolina Music Educator's Association and the College Music Society, serving in several leadership positions in the North Carolina chapter. [more]
Conducting, UNC Symphony Orchestra
kalam@mindspring.com
Tonu Kalam (Professor) serves as Music Director and Conductor of the UNC Symphony Orchestra and has taught instrumental conducting at Carolina since 1988. Educated at Harvard University (A.B., 1969), the University of California at Berkeley (M.A., 1971), and the Curtis Institute of Music (Certificate, 1973), he is also Music Director and Conductor of the Longview Symphony Orchestra in Texas, Founder and Music Director of the Chapel Hill Chamber Orchestra, and has guest conducted orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States and in Europe. [more]
Jazz Band, Jazz Studies, Trumpet
jketch@email.unc.edu
James Ketch (Professor)studied music at Indiana State University (B.S. 1974) and at the University of Illinois-Urbana (M.S. 1976). Professor Ketch serves as trumpet instructor and Director of Jazz Studies. He is a Summit Record recording artist, artist-clinician for the Conn-Selmer Corporation and a faculty member of both the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops and the Savannah Music Festival’s Swing Central program. [more]
Piano
wk@unc.edu
Pianist Wonmin Kim (Adjunct Faculty, Piano) started her performance career in the early age of twelve performing Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 as soloist with the Seoul Symphony Orchestra. Since then, the 1st Prize winner of the Korean Daily News Piano Competition and 1st Prize winner of the Yewon Piano Competition was the soloist with major orchestras like the Bern Symphony Orchestra (Switzerland) and the Seoul Symphony Orchestra performing Chopin's Concerto in E minor, Mozart's Concerto No. 20 and Saint Sean’s Concerto No. 2. [more]
Women's Glee Club
sklaus@email.unc.edu
Sue Klausmeyer (Lecturer) received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. She earned a Master of Music degree in conducting from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ, and a Master of Arts in Teaching Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to conducting the UNC Women’s Glee Club, Dr. Klausmeyer conducts the 130-voice Chapel Hill Community Chorus; Cantari, a 24-voice select adult ensemble; the Chapel Hill Community Summer Chorus; and the Carolina International Chorale, a summer touring ensemble.Dr. Klausmeyer has many years of experience conducting in church music programs. She has held positions at Duke University Chapel, the Duke Divinity School, Worthington Presbyterian Church and Binkley Baptist Church. [more]
Carolina Choir, Chamber Singers, Conducting
skleb@email.unc.edu
Susan Klebanow (Professor) holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University and a Master of Music in Choral Conducting from the New England Conservatory of Music. She taught at Brandeis University before joining the Music Department faculty of the University of North Carolina. Director of Choral Activities, she conducts the Carolina Choir and UNC Chamber Singers, and teaches beginning and advanced courses in conducting. [more]
Euphonium, Trombone, Tuba
mkris@email.unc.edu
Michael Kris (Lecturer) is the instructor of low brass and director of brass chamber music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also on the performance faculty at Duke University and the Eastern Music Festival. Mr. Kris is a regular performer with the North Carolina Symphony, North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra, North Carolina Theater, North Carolina Opera and a variety of chamber music ensembles. [more]
Diction, Voice
vl@unc.edu
Valentin Lanzrein (Lecturer), baritone, a native of Switzerland, came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill after nearly ten years of performing, teaching and training in New York City. Lanzrein is an active performer with broad repertoire covering nine languages and a large versatility of styles ranging from baroque to the avant-garde. He was the winner of the Association des Suisse Musiciens & Kiefer Hablitzel Stiftung Competition and has since toured Europe, Asia, and the US. His passion for the art song has led him to appearances at the Rheingau Musikfestival (Germany), the Aimez Vous Brahms festival (Switzerland), the Verbier Festival (Switzerland) and in the Wednesday at One series at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York. [more]
Chamber Music, Composition, Contemporary Music
stefanlitwin@gmx.com
Stefan Litwin (George Kennedy Distinguished Professor), was born 1960 in Mexico City. Studied piano, interpretation and composition in the United States and Switzerland. Among his teachers were Jürg Wyttenbach, Walter Levin and Charles Rosen. Important input also from Herbert Brün. [more]
Chamber Music, Violin
rluby@unc.edu
Richard Luby (Professor) holds a D.M.A. from the Yale School of Music, an M.M. from the Juilliard School of Music, and a B.M. from the Curtis Institute of Music. His career extends from Baroque and Classical music on historical instruments through the newest repertoire for modern violin. Formerly on the faculty of the Eastman School of Music and a 1991 Visiting Professor at the New England Conservatory of Music, at UNC he teaches violin, is co-founder and co-director of the original instrument Ensemble Courant, and performs with the resident contemporary music ensemble 27514. [more]
Voice
melissa_martin@unc.edu
Melissa Martin (Lecturer) received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she was a recipient of the David Reeves Scholarship and the Naumberg Scholarship. [more]
Carolina Wind Quintet, Horn
amcafeerr@nc.rr.com
Andrew M. McAfee (Lecturer) is the Music Director/Conductor of the Triangle Youth Ballet in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he has conducted performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker in December 2008 and Sleeping Beauty in May 2008 and March 2009. He is currently a finalist for the Durham Symphony Music Director position with whom he conducted the 2008 Durham Symphony Pops summer series. He also conducted a benefit concert premiering the Symphony No. 1 by Ari Picker in November 2008. Mr. McAfee has twice been the Interim Music Director/Conductor of the Chapel Hill Philharmonia and was the founding Conductor of the Triangle Youth Orchestra. [more]
Trumpet
dmcchesney@ravenscroft.org
David McChesney (Lecturer) joined the faculty as a studio trumpet instructor in 1996. Professor McChesney holds a Doctor of Music from the School of Music at Indiana University. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Music in Education. His Master of Science in Education is from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Dr. McChesney is a student of John Harding, Jim Ketch, Ray Sasaki, David Hickman and Charles Gorham. [more]
Matthew McClure
Assistant Director of Bands, Saxophone
mcclure@unc.edu
(Lecturer) is the assistant director of Athletic Bands, works with the University Band, and teaches Saxophone. [more]
Organ
susan_moeser@unc.edu
Dr. Moeser is a well known organ recitalist and teacher. She is a past winner of the prestigious Fort Wayne National Competition, and has concertized throughout the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, and South Korea. Her CD, titled “Susan Moeser plays Bedient Opus 59,” features the concert she performed at the 1999 Regional American Guild of Organists convention in Omaha, Nebraska. She has served in the American Guild of Organists as Director of the AGO Regional Competitions for Young Organists and as AGO National Councillor. Dr. Moeser has had faculty appointments teaching organ, music history, and music theory at the universities of Nebraska, South Carolina, and The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to her university appointments, she was Organist/Choirmaster at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. [more]
Voice
andreame@email.unc.edu
Soprano Andrea Edith Moore has sung numerous leading roles with the Hamburger Kammeroper, Long Leaf Opera Festival, Opera Company of North Carolina, Aspen Music Festival, Central City Opera, Yale Opera, and Peabody Opera Theater. In concert, Ms. Moore has sung in New York, Denver, Aspen, Munich, Hamburg, Slovenia, throughout North Carolina and on tour in South America appearing with the Orquesta Filarmonica de Buenos Aires at the prestigious Teatro Colon, the Orquesta Sinfonica Brasileira at Rio de Janeiro’s Teatro Municipal, Orquesta Sinfonica da Bahia and the Orquesta Clasica de Santiago. In demand as a teacher of classical singing Ms. Moore is currently on faculty at UNC Chapel Hill and is the head voice teacher at the International Opera and Lieder Academy in Gornja Radgona, Slovenia in conjunction with the Hamburg Conservatory of Music. Moore is the President of the Board of the Legacy Repertory Company and instructs at the Legacy Studio for the Performing Arts of Durham, NC. Ms. Moore holds a Master of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale University as well as a Bachelor of Music from the Peabody Conservatory of Music at The Johns Hopkins University. [more]
Clarinet, Music Education
mnegrete@email.unc.edu
Mérida Negrete (Clinical Assistant Professor) holds a Master of Music in Music Education degree from Southern Methodist University, where she developed materials for incorporating music appreciation into performance-based courses in public schools. She received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from the University of Michigan, where she graduated with distinction. [more]
Carolina Wind Quintet, Chamber Music, Clarinet
dloehler@email.unc.edu
Donald L. Oehler (Professor), clarinetist and Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has drawn high praise as a soloist, chamber musician, and conductor. His performing activities have taken him throughout the United States, Central America, Canada, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He began his career as principal clarinetist of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Teheran in Teheran, Iran before moving to North Carolina to join the University of North Carolina music faculty. Mr. Oehler was a charter member of the St. Stephen’s Chamber Orchestra and has been performing for over 30 years with the Carolina Wind Quintet. He is principal clarinet of the Opera Company of North Carolina and performs with the Trio Sonsa, the Mallarmé Chamber Players and the chamber ensemble “27514.” On numerous occasions he has been a featured artist in the Encounter Series - Music of Our Times at Duke University. Additionally, Mr. Oehler has appeared with the North Carolina Symphony, the Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), Banchetto Musicale (Boston), the 18th Century Players (New York), and Ensemble Courant. For 14 years Mr. Oehler was principal clarinet with the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts Faculty Wind Ensemble in Canada. [more]
Collaborative Piano, Piano
totten@email.unc.edu
Thomas Otten (Associate Professor), a California native born of German-American parents, has been hailed by the New York Times as “an extremely original player who puts a formidable technique at the service of his ideas.” He has appeared in recital and as orchestral soloist in such venues as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the National Press Club, the German Embassy, and the Chautauqua and Brevard Summer Festivals; he has also performed at Severance Hall with the Miami String Quartet. His performances have been broadcast on both coasts, including WQXR New York, WGMS Washington, and KUSC Los Angeles. He has concertized in Germany numerous times, including a television performance and a debut at the Gasteig in Munich. [more]
Jazz Combos, Jazz Piano
paolo@email.unc.edu
Ed Paolantonio (Lecturer), pianist, is from New York City but lives now in Durham, NC. In addition to earning a B.S. in Music Education from S.U.N.Y. and an M.M. in performance from U.N.C.-Chapel Hill, he studied 3 1/2 years with world famous jazz pianist, teacher and composer Lennie Tristano. He has been composing, arranging and performing jazz professionally since 1971 and has accompanied many jazz giants including Dizzie Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Lee Konitz, Curtis Fuller, Jimmy Heath, and Emily Remler. [more]
Hugh Partridge
Viola
mhpart@bellsouth.net
Hugh Partridge (Lecturer) has taught viola at UNC-CH since 1996. He holds a BM degree from Indiana University, Bloomington and a MM from Butler University. He has been the principal violist of the North Carolina Symphony since 1976. [more]
John Pederson
Bassoon, Carolina Wind Quintet
pederson@bellsouth.net
John Pederson (Lecturer), bassoon, has been teaching at UNC-CH since 1988. He is Principal Bassoonist with the North Carolina Symphony and is a founding member of the North Carolina Symphony Woodwind Quintet. He received a BM from Northwestern University. [more]
Matt Savage
Percussion
MSavage198@aol.com
Matt Savage (Lecturer) is Director of Percussion for the Marching Tar Heels. He also gives private percussion lessons. His degrees are from the Crane School of Music (BME) and University of Southern California (MM). He has taught at UNC-CH since 1990. [more]
Michael Schultz
Carolina Wind Quintet, Oboe
ross.gull@verizon.net
Michael Schultz (Lecturer) has taught oboe at UNC since 1997. He is Associate Principal Oboe and Solo English horn with the North Carolina Symphony. He is also the oboist of the Carolina Woodwind Quintet. [more]
Carolina Wind Quintet, Flute, Jazz Studies
brooks@email.unc.edu
Brooks de Wetter-Smith (Jmaes Gordon Hanes Distinguished Professor) received a Bachelor of Science (1964) from the University of New Hampshire, a Master of Music (1970) from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts (1979) from the Eastman School of Music. He teaches flute and Introduction to Jazz. [more]
Voice
tsparks@email.unc.edu
Timothy W. Sparks (Lecturer) a North Carolina native, received his BM in Vocal Performance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and MM with the Performer's Certificate in Voice from the Eastman School of Music. Mr. Sparks has appeared with The Israel Vocal Arts Institute, Operafestival di Roma, The Opera Company of North Carolina, The Greensboro Opera Company, The Triangle Opera, The National Opera Company (A. J. Fletcher Opera Institute), The Brevard Music Center, Capital Opera, and The Durham Savoyards, Limited. His representative operatic roles include Rodolfo, Nemorino, Don Ottavio, Jaquino, Alfred, Don Basilio, Goro, Remendado, Spoletta, Borsa, Kaspar, Ralph Rackstraw, and Enoch Snow. As a part of The Opera Company of North Carolina’s recent performances of Starbird, a children’s opera by Henry Mollicone, the production was videotaped and rebroadcast on PBS in April of 2005. This fall, Mr. Sparks will sing the role of Sebastian in Long Leaf Opera’s premiere production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, by Joel Feigin.In October of 2006, Mr. Sparks sang the role of Anatol in Long Leaf Opera’s production of Vanessa by Samuel Barber. This fall, Mr. Sparks will record the Arnold Schönberg chamber transcription of Gustav Mahler's final symphonic work, Das Lied von der Erde, on the Centaur Records label. [more]
Guitar, Guitar Ensemble
wstewart@email.unc.edu
William (Billy) Stewart (Lecturer) was born in Sanford, North Carolina and has been playing guitar since he was eight years old. He was self-taught until be entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a freshman music major. There he commenced studies in guitar and composition. Upon receiving his degree in music (Bachelor of Music in Education), he extended his studies of the guitar by attending Master Classes with classical guitarist Pepe Romero and with jazz artists Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie. [more]
Jazz Drumset
Thomasdrum@aol.com
Thomas Taylor (Lecturer) born in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Thomas Taylor Jr. got his start early. Being the only boy of 6 children to Thomas Sr. and Mazel, Thomas had to beat on things to keep himself entertained. It all started with pots and pans, shoeboxes and suitcases. Soon he started playing with the children's' choirs at his church (Samuel's Chapel Baptist). By the time he was 15 he was playing for all the choirs and even playing with men twice his age in a Gospel Vocal Quartet. [more]
Piano, Theory
mtsong@email.unc.edu
Mayron Tsong (Associate Professor), Steinway Artist, has been taken by her performances around the globe to almost every state in the continental United States, as well as Canada, Russia, Sweden, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. After her solo recital Debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Harris Goldsmith of The New York Concert Review praised it as "an enlivening, truly outstanding recital.” Fanfare Magazine called her “a genius, pure and simple… perhaps, a wizard.” [more]
Cello, Gamba/Early Music
bswissic@email.unc.edu
Brent Wissick is the Zachary Taylor Smith Distinguished Term Professor in the Department of Music at UNC-CH, where he has taught cello, viola da gamba and chamber music since 1982. A member of Ensemble Chanterelle and principal cellist of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, he is also a frequent guest with American Bach Soloists, Folger Consort, Boston Early Music Festival, Concert Royal, Dallas Bach Society, Vancouver Early Music Festival and Collegio di Musica Sacra in Poland. With these ensembles has recorded for the Centaur, Albany, Koch, Radio Bremen, Bard and Dux labels as well as in the soundtrack for the Touchstone film "Casanova". His online video article titled "The Cello Music of Bononcini" can be viewed in the peer-reviewed Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music" and several of his teaching videos are posted on the website of the Viola da Gamba Society of America. He served as president of that society from 2000 through 2004 and chaired its international Pan-Pacific Gamba Gathering in Hawaii during the summer of 2007. [more]