2nd Annual Millersville University Single Reed Symposium
Clinicians and Guest Artists
March 30, 2007
James Campbell, Clarinet Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington
Called “Canada’s pre-eminent clarinetist and wind soloist", by the Toronto Star, James Campbell has performed in most of the world's major concert halls. Campbell has also collaborated and performed with many of the world’s great musicians including the late Glenn Gould, Aaron Copland, Elly Ameling, Janos Starker, as well as the Borodin Trio, Penderecki, Amadeus, Guarneri, Fine Arts, Allegri, Manhattan, and Colorado String Quartets. James Campbell also tours with Classical Jazz and Da Camera and is artistic director of Festival of the Sound. Since 1989, James Campbell makes Bloomington his base during the academic year as Professor of Music at the prestigious Music School of Indiana University.
Curt Sipe, Jazz Artist/Teacher
Curt Sipe enjoys a career as a jazz saxophonist, composer, author, and teacher. He has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Bob Mintzer, Lew Morello, Dave Stahl and others, and toured the east coast with Tino Gonzales, an opening act for B.B. King, and recorded national and regional television and radio commercials. He produced I Hear a Rhapsody, a recording by the Curt Sipe Quartet, and authored, Major Scale Project for Saxophone CD/Book, a step by step method for teaching all twelve major scales to beginning students. The Saxophone Journal published a series of articles Curt co-authored with David Liebman on jazz pedagogy entitled “A Conversation about Jazz Education.” Curt earned a BS in Music Education from Lebanon Valley College and completed graduate studies in saxophone performance at Western Michigan University. His teachers include David Liebman, Trent Kynaston and Tom Strohman. In January 2007, Curt Sipe and Cindy Steele founded Inspire! Studio of the arts LLC. Inspire offers studies in music, art, dance and drama to the Central Pennsylvania Community. Curt's area of expertise is jazz studies, there are 160+ students involved in jazz bands, piano and guitar classes and private lessons at Inspire! Curt's students have been awarded over 30 state and national jazz band chairs in the past 14 years. Inspire! is located at 53 N. Main Street in Jacobus, PA.
Dr. Christy Banks, Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, Millersville University
Prior to her appointment on the Millersville University Faculty, Dr. Christy Banks previously taught clarinet, saxophone, and related music courses at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Concordia University, Doane College, Union College, and Peru State College. She has been a member many professional ensembles such as the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, the Nebraska Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the Third Chair Chamber Players, the Lincoln Municipal Band, and the Huntington Trio. Interested in newly composed music, Dr. Banks is a founding member of Lincoln's New Music Agency and Bent Indigenous, an Alabama-based contemporary music ensemble. She has appeared as a soloist in Germany and Austria, and she can be heard on Living Artist Recordings. In Pennsylvania Banks has appeared with the Harrisburg Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, and the Reading Symphony. Banks received her DMA (2005) and BM (1996) in clarinet from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an MM in clarinet from Florida State University (1998). Banks is currently the Pennsylvania State Chair of the International Clarinet Association.
Faith Shiffer, Instructor of Clarinet and Saxophone, Elizabethtown College
Faith Shiffer graduated Summa cum Laude with a B.M. in Clarinet Performance from Millikin University, Decatur, IL, and a M.M. in Clarinet Performance from the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley. She has performed with various regional theaters throughout Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Montana. Faith toured Nationally with productions of Sunday In the Park With George, Chicago, and South Pacific. Locally, she has performed with Harrisburg Symphony, Theatre Harrisburg, Reading Civic Opera, The Buzz Jones Big Band, and Mount Gretna Playhouse. Faith is currently Adjunct Professor of clarinet and saxophone at Elizabethtown College, and continues to perform throughout Central Pennsylvania. She also maintains a private teaching practice in Ephrata.
Jonathan Pinkerton, Saxophonist and Music Educator
Born in Harrisburg, PA, Jonathan Pinkerton is currently director of bands at Lower Dauphin High School. He holds a BS in Music Education from Millersville University and a MM in Saxophone Performance from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. As a performer, Jonathan has had the wonderful opportunity to play with musicians such as Jamey Aebersold, Chip McNeill, the Peter Duchin Orchestra, and Greg Hopkins. He has been a featured soloist with the Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra in Omaha, and the UNO Wind Ensemble for performances in Dublin, London, Paris, and Normandy for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Dr. Maria Thompson Corley, Concert Pianist and Collaborative Artist
Jamaican-born Canadian pianist Maria Thompson Corley gave her first public performance at the age of eight. Since then, she has appeared on radio, television, and concert stages in Canada, the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, Bermuda and Europe, both as a solo and collaborative artist, including performances in Budapest at the Liszt Academy, and in Carnegie Recital Hall, Aaron Davis Hall and Alice Tully Hall, all in New York City.
She has collaborated with such artists as Metropolitan Opera soprano Priscilla Baskerville, and internationally renowned clarinetist James Campbell. Her performances as soloist with orchestra include engagements with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gunther Schuller, the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser, and the Allegro Chamber Orchestra, with Brian Norcross.
Born in Harrisburg, PA, Jonathan Pinkerton is currently director of bands at Lower Dauphin High School. He holds a BS in Music Education from Millersville University and a MM in Saxophone Performance from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. As a performer, Jonathan has had the wonderful opportunity to play with musicians such as Jamey Aebersold, Chip McNeill, the Peter Duchin Orchestra, and Greg Hopkins. He has been a featured soloist with the Heartland Philharmonic Orchestra in Omaha, and the UNO Wind Ensemble for performances in Dublin, London, Paris, and Normandy for the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Dr. Maria Thompson Corley, Concert Pianist and Collaborative Artist
Jamaican-born Canadian pianist Maria Thompson Corley gave her first public performance at the age of eight. Since then, she has appeared on radio, television, and concert stages in Canada, the United States, Central America, the Caribbean, Bermuda and Europe, both as a solo and collaborative artist, including performances in Budapest at the Liszt Academy, and in Carnegie Recital Hall, Aaron Davis Hall and Alice Tully Hall, all in New York City.
She has collaborated with such artists as Metropolitan Opera soprano Priscilla Baskerville, and internationally renowned clarinetist James Campbell. Her performances as soloist with orchestra include engagements with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Gunther Schuller, the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Stephen Gunzenhauser, and the Allegro Chamber Orchestra, with Brian Norcross.