We're at full speed as the semester nears its end, though everyone will gladly enjoy the coming four-day University holiday.
FACULTY AND STAFF BUSINESS
*The UNC system is again holding the BRIDGES Academic Leadership Program, a leadership academy for women faculty and senior administrative staff run by UNC Chapel Hill. The program is organized into 4 weekend sessions that runs from September 8 to November 18, 2017. The website http://fridaycenter.unc.edu/pdep/bridges/#) provides more information. The fee is $1950.00 and Academic Affairs will costs with participants' colleges/units. The fee includes all instruction, educational materials and meals as well as accommodations for 2 overnight weekends. This year's class will consist of thirty-six colleagues, and it is a competitive application process. If you are interested in the program, or if you are interested to nominate someone else, please notify me by Friday, April 22.
*The UNC Undergraduate Research Directors Council and UNC General Administration are pleased to announce the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the UNC Undergraduate Research Award Program, a grant mechanism to provide funding to universities or consortia of universities to support and enhance undergraduate research (UR) in the UNC system. Undergraduate research, defined by the Council on Undergraduate Research as “an inquiry or investigation conducted by an undergraduate student that makes an original intellectual or creative contribution to the discipline,” is widely recognized as a high-impact practice. Proposals should target one or more of the following topical areas: assessment, diversity/inclusion, and/or course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). Multi-institutional collaboration is not required but is strongly encouraged. Proposals are due by 5 pm on May 16th, 2017. The full RFP is attached and includes a link to the application form. Inquiries may be directed to Erin Hopper (edhopper@northcarolina.edu or919-445-0494).
*See another attachment for information about grant applications to the W.T. Grant Foundation.
*The Visual Art Exchange of Raleigh is looking for performers, artists, and performance artists to perform for the duration of the gallery’s open hours one day in July 2017. Deadline: May 28 For more information: http://vaeraleigh.com/exhibitions/2017/3/5/under-pressure-call-for-art
*For members of Pi Kappa Lambda: The Pi Kappa Lambda induction breakfast will take place May 4th at 8:30 A.M. at the Faculty/Staff Dining Hall in the Roess Dining Hall. The cost for the breakfast is $12.50 and annual dues are $20. Payment for both may be put in Andrea Cheeseman's box. The deadline to submit payment for breakfast is April 17th. Checks should be made out to Pi Kappa Lambda.
EVENTS For complete listings of performances, including student degree recitals and details about live audio/video stream availability, please see the HSoM Calendar: https://music.appstate.edu/news-events/performance-calendar and http://music.appstate.edu/news-events/live-streams
Brass Studio Ensembles perform Monday, April 10, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Tuesday, April 11, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Jazz Ensembles I and II perform Wednesday, April 12, at 8 pm, in the Schaefer Center
Percussion Ensemble performs Thursday, April 13, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
April 15-18 is a University holiday.
LOOKING AHEAD
Woodwind Chamber Ensembles perform Wednesday, April 19, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Blazing Bassoons performs Thursday, April 20, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
The 22nd Annual Appalachian GuitarFest and Solo Guitar Competition occurs Friday-Sunday, April 21-23, 2017.
Concert Band performs Monday, April 24, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
Guitar Orchestra performs Tuesday, April 25, at 8 pm, in Rosen.
KUDOS AND OTHER NEWS AND EVENTS
HSoM faculty composer Ben Hjertmann's work Catclaw Mimosa, which won the Third International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest—Category Three, Concert Band Music Grade 5-6. is discussed in the most recent issue (Issue #7) of MBM Times.
HSoM director of bands John Stanley Ross recently guest conducted three performances of the Symphony of the Mountains in programs entitled "A Sound Palette." During the performances, three visual artists created performance-inspired paintings and drawings in front of the audience.
On March 31, director of bands John Stanley Ross led a Conducting Symposium in collaboration with Separk Music for conductors whose students were performing the Piedmont Wind Symphony. Twenty high school wind conductors collaborated in the project.
The Hayes School of Music was well represented at the recent conference of the Southeastern Region of the American Music Therapy Association (SER-AMTA) held in Chapel Hill, NC. Highlights include the following:
- Faculty music therapist Christine Leist, who has served for the past 2 years as president-elect of the region, began her 2-year term as president of the SER-AMTA.
- Music therapy graduate student Reece Jennings was the winner of the regional intern scholarship for an Equivalency student. He will complete his music therapy internship in the Fulton County, GA schools during the 2017-2018 academic year.
- Graduate student Katie Komorek won the intern scholarship offered to an Equivalency student by the Music Therapy Association of North Carolina.
- Faculty music therapist Melody Schwantes with alumni Ezekiel Bautista, BM ’16, Freddy Perkins, BM ’13, and Katie Long Muir, BM ’16, and graduate students Hannah Lingafelt and Jessica Donley presented a 3-hr workshop "Exploring Cultural Humility in Music Therapy: Continuing Courageous Conversations."
- Graduate alumna Carlyn Waller-Wicks, BM ‘13 presented a 3-hr continuing education workshop, "Arts-Based Learning; Applications for Supervision and Higher Education."
- Faculty music therapist Katurah Christenbury with graduate student music therapists Kendra Bodry, Amy Mercier, Chris Spence and undergraduate students Caroline Valitutto and Emily Wills presented "I’ve Got Rhythm! At Least I Think I Do . . ."
- Faculty music therapist Katurah Christenbury and Allison Rayburn, BM ’10, MMT ‘13 presented "I Can Hear Your Privilege from All the Way Over Here: How to Acknowledge Your Privilege to Be a Better Music Therapist."
- Graduate student Hannah Lingafelt ’13 presented "Taking Pains with Music Therapy and Mental Health: Current Trends and Future Directions Concerning Psychological Factors and Music Therapy in the Treatment of Pain."
- Faculty music therapist Christine Leist and graduate students Hannah Lingafelt and Jake Keller presented "Heavy Metal to Hip-Hop: Sounding Authentic Within Your Guitar Skill Set."
- HSoM faculty music therapists Christine Leist and Cathy McKinney will serve as two of eight delegates from SER-AMTA to the AMTA Assembly of Delegates for the 2017–2019 term.
With best wishes for week twelve of the Spring 2017 semester,
Bill
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William L. Pelto, Ph.D.
Dean, Hayes School of Music
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
828-262-3029
**If you'd like to have something included in future iterations of these announcements, please send me an email with "announcements" in the subject line. Please feel free to send me information about artists (HSoM colleagues and others) who will collaborate in faculty recitals. My listings here sometimes miss those details. I'll be happy to add family/personal announcements, too. Please submit announcements as pdf's or in plain text, unformatted (no special spacing, bullets, etc.). Please include hyperlinks as appropriate.
**Please send information about upcoming off-campus performances and presentations by faculty and students. I'll include them in this "HSoM On the Road..." section.