Music Department
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Out of the Ground, Into the Sky" (2011) for English Horn was performed at the 2011 Suoni Inauditi Festival, Livorno, Italy, and at the 2011 International Double Reed Society Convention, in Tempe, Arizona.
Assistant Director of Bands Corey Francis is completing his DMA in Conducting from The University of Southern Mississippi with his dissertation on composer Jonathan Newman's Symphony No. 1: My Hands are a City.
Paul Johnston has two collections of solo piano arrangements published in Alfred's Jazz Performer Series.
In 2012, Katherine McBain performed at the International Horn Symposium 43, the International Women's Brass Conference, and the Mid-South Horn Workshop.
Alicia Neal has been appointed Director of Bands at Eastern Illinois University. Her article, "Traveling of the Mind: An Interview with Michael Colgrass" was recently published in the National Band Association Journal.
Department News
The 2013 Eastern Music Camp online application is now open. More information can be found through the menu on the left..