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NOTE: Meals are not included in your fee. A suggested
restaurant guide will be in your registration packet.
There will be one (1) Staff Development Unit
available (extra $10 processing fee) and can be obtained by
attending the entire workshop or just all of Saturday. This
workshop meets national standards.
Faculty
James F. Keene
is Director
of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of
Illinois. Appointed in 1985, he is only the fourth person to
hold that position since 1905. During his 21-year tenure at
Illinois, the Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony, under his
direction, have been selected to perform for every major
music conference in the U.S., have toured throughout the
country, as well as Great Britain, and have performed in
several of the America’s prestigious concert halls. In
addition to producing an extensive recording series for Mark
Recordings, the Symphonic Band was featured on the
Masterpiece Series distributed by EMI-Toshiba of Japan.
These recordings have been broadcast on National Public
Radio in the U. S., as well as radio programs in Asia,
Australia, and several European countries. Mr. Keene is a
Past-President of the prestigious American Bandmasters
Association and recently completed a term as chairman of the
Board of Directors. He is also a Past-President of the
National Band Association, and The Big Ten Band Directors
Association. For several years he served as chairman of the
ABA/Ostwald Composition Contest, and is currently a member
of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Band Research.
In addition to membership in several professional and
honorary societies, Mr. Keene is an Evans Scholar, a
Past-President of the Champaign Rotary Club, and a Paul
Harris Fellow of the Rotary International Foundation. In
1993 Professor Keene was named as an honorary member of the
Board of Directors of the International Percy Grainger
Society in recognition of his devotion to the music of
Grainger; he also serves on the Board of Directors of the
John Philip Sousa Foundation and the historic Goldman
Memorial Band of New York City. Recently, Professor Keene
was named Honorary Life Member of the Texas Bandmasters
Association, becoming only the sixth person to be so honored
in the 55-year history of that organization. He has served
as clinician, conductor, and adjudicator throughout the
United States and around the world, with appearances most
recently in Australia, Singapore, Japan and Europe.
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Jack Delaney is Director of Bands
at the Meadows School of the Arts of Southern Methodist
University, where he conducts the Meadows Wind Ensemble and
teaches courses in conducting and wind literature. Under his
guidance, the Meadows Wind Ensemble has established itself
as one of the leading ensembles of its kind, as evidenced by
performances at significant regional, national, and
international music festivals and conferences throughout the
United States and Europe. Numerous national radio networks
around the world, including the BBC in London, have
broadcast performances and recordings by the Meadows Wind
Ensemble. Delaney has conducted professional and student
ensembles throughout Israel, Europe, South America and the
United States, including performances with the New World
Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Wind Symphony, as well as
performances in Boston's Symphony Hall, New York's Town
Hall, and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. In
addition, Delaney has commissioned some 50 major works by
leading composers, a partial listing of which includes
Augusta Read Thomas, Stephen Paulus, Warren Benson, Stephen
Jones, Samuel Adler, Akira Miyoshi, John Mackey, Simon
Sargon, Timothy Broege, David Sargent, Cindy McTee, Kevin
Hanlon, John Gibson, Robert Frank, Eric Stokes, Charles
Rochester Young, and Vicente Moncho. He has collaborated
with a number of choreographers to create, and in some
instances recreate, original works for dancers, wind
ensembles, and chamber orchestras. These commissions include
works to accompany the music of Norman Dello Joio, Stephen
Montague, Joseph Schwantner, Igor Stravinsky and Carlos
Surinach. The recipient of numerous awards and
distinctions, Delaney was recently awarded the Algur H.
Meadows Distinguished Teaching Professorship at the Meadows
School of the Arts. He also received the Achievement in
Music Award from the Ohio University School of Music Alumni
Association and was honored by the Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music at the first alumni concert by
the Cincinnati Wind Symphony.
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 Robert
W. Rumbelow is in his
twelfth year as Conductor and Director of Wind Ensemble
Activities at the Schwob School of Music of Columbus State
University. In addition to teaching classes in conducting
and literature, he is the conductor of the faculty Camerata
chamber orchestra and frequent conductor of opera
productions. Dr. Rumbelow previously served as the
associate conductor of the famed Eastman Wind Ensemble and
Eastman Wind Orchestra. He also worked with the Eastman
Studio Orchestra, Kilbourn Orchestra, Musica Nova, and the
independent Rochester Chamber Players. Rumbelow received
his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting from Eastman
and primarily studied with Donald Hunsberger. Prior to his
doctoral studies at Eastman, he successfully served as a
director of bands in the Texas public schools. Rumbelow
maintains a very active schedule as a guest conductor,
clinician, arranger, composer, and lecturer. He is the
recipient of several notable accolades, including being a
two-time winner of the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize, the
first prize winner in the Sir Georg Solti International
Conducting Competition sponsored by the Sousa Foundation,
and winner of the North American round and finalist in the
Tokyo International Conducting Competition. Dr. Rumbelow is
in demand throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, and
Europe as a conductor for both wind bands and orchestras.
His Russian debut conducting the Hermitage State Chamber
Orchestra in April of 2003 received critical praise.
Outstanding performances of the CSU Wind Ensemble under his
baton have been recorded and broadcast on NPR and Georgia
Public Broadcasting. Recordings on the Summit label as well
as performances by the ensemble at statewide and national
conferences have brought widespread praise for the wind
ensemble program. Commissions and consortia spearheaded by
Rumbelow have met with great success and have included
premieres of works by Christopher Theofanidis, Shafer
Mahoney, J.M. David, Dorothy Chang, and many others. Dr.
Rumbelow’s own compositions and arrangements are
internationally performed and published by Kjos, Ludwig,
Warner Brothers, and Alfred Music Publishers. Broadcasts of
Dr. Rumbelow's music have been heard on NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS,
NPR, BBC, and NHK Japan. He has received numerous ASCAP
Awards for his writing, multiple selections to Who’s Who
listings, several citations from the National Band
Association, and election to Phi Beta Mu.
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