| Full-time Faculty | Strings |
Winds |
| Laurel Thomas, Chair, Voice | Jae Sung Lee , violin | Korin Schilling, flute |
| Jeffrey Jacob, Piano | Carrie Cimildoro-Beem, cello | Dawn Barrier, oboe |
| Nancy Menk, Choirs, Acting Chair | Darrel Tidaback, bass | Chris French, clarinet |
| Zae Munn, Theory, Composition | Suzann Young-Davids, harp | Eric Kuehner, bassoon |
| Daniel Party, Music History | Dean Wachs , guitar | Deanna Emmons, saxophone |
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| Voice | Piano and other keyboards | Music Education |
| Laurel Thomas | Beverly Butler, piano | Jason Glashauser, brass/percussion |
| Michele Dachtler Warner | Darlene Catello, harpsichord | Paulina Hayden, elementary methods |
| Betty Woodland | Jeffrey Jacob, piano | Denise Kuehner, string techniques |
| Karen Schneider-Kirner, organ | Michael Wade, vocal techniques | |
| Staff | Marjorie Rusche, class piano | |
| Maureen Goddard, Music Library | Brass | Percussion |
| Sherry Klindedinst, Accompanist | Stephen Allen, trumpet | Samuel L. Sanchez |
| Lynn Timmons, Secretary | Scott Russell, horn |
Associate Professor, Department Chair (Fall'08 Sabbatical)
Voice, Vocal Diction, Opera Workshop, Stagecraft for Singers
B.A. Occidental College
M.M. University of Illinois
D.M.A. University of Texas at Austin
e-mail: lthomas@saintmarys.edu
Soprano Laurel Thomas grew up in northern California, land of giant redwoods and craggy beaches. While an undergraduate in music at Occidental College, she studied voice, piano and cello. Her vocal studies led her to the realization that a passion for music could be linked, throughout life, to a deep love of literature and poetry.
She continued her education at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana (Master of Music in vocal performance) and, while teaching full in time in San Antonio, earned her D.M.A. from the University of Texas in Austin. She attended the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria and lived in Mauer, near Heidelberg, Germany for five months.
Before arriving at Saint Mary's Collge in 2001, Thomas lived and taught in San Antonio, Texas where she soloed with major choral groups, chamber music organizations, and orchestras of the region. Thomas has performed with the South Bend Chamber Singers, the South Bend Symphony, Fleur de Lys, the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, and sings frequent recitals on this campus and others.
Jeffrey JacobProfessor
Piano, Piano Pedagogy
B.M. University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
M.M., Juilliard School of Music
D.M.A., Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University
Performer’s Certificate, Salzburg Mozarteum
e-mail: jjacob@saintmarys.edu
Described by the Warsaw Music Journal as "unquestionably one of the greatest performers of 20th-century music," and the New York Times as "an artist of intense concentration and conviction," Jeffrey Jacob counts as his principal teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Carlo Zecchi, and Leon Fleisher. Since his debut with the London Philharmonic in Royal Festival Hall, he has appeared as piano soloist with over 20 orchestras internationally including the Moscow, St. Petersburg, Seattle, Portland, Indianapolis, Charleston, Sao Paulo and Brazil National Symphonies, the Silesian, Moravian, North Czech, and Royal Queenstown Philharmonics.
A noted proponent of contemporary music, he has performed the world premieres of works written for him by George Crumb, Vincent Persichetti, Gunther Schuller, Samuel Adler, Francis Routh, and many others. He has performed solo recitals in London, Dublin, Glasgow, Berlin, Cologne, Munich, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Prague, Warsaw, Bucharest, Milan, Madrid, Helsinki, Rio de Janeiro, Saõ Paulo, Havana, Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, Ottawa, and throughout the U.S.
Nancy MenkProfessor, Mary Lou and Judd Leighton Chair in Music
Acting Department Chair
Choral Organizations, Conducting
B.S., M.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania
M.M., D.M.A., College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
e-mail: nmenk@saintmarys.edu
Nancy Menk conducts the Women’s and Collegiate Choirs at Saint Mary’s and teaches courses in conducting techniques. She loves working with women’s voices and is constantly on the lookout for interesting new music and unique performing opportunities for her choirs. An outgrowth of this interest is the publication of the Saint Mary’s College Choral Series.
She is also the founder and conductor of the South Bend Chamber Singers and serves as conductor of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Chorus. Avid proponents of interesting and unusual programming, the Chamber Singers won the 2004 ASCAP/Chorus America Award for Adventurous Programming, and were finalists for the prestigious Margaret Hillis Award, given annually by Chorus America, in 2000.
In November 2005 she made her fourth appearance at Carnegie Hall, conducting music of Gwyneth Walker for women's voices and orchestra. Dr. Menk serves regularly as a guest conductor and choral adjudicator throughout the United States. She has conducted All-State Choirs in Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North Dakota, Delaware, and Indiana.
Zae MunnProfessor
Theory, Composition, Orchestration, Form, Senior Seminar
B.M., Chicago Musical College, Roosevelt University
M.M., D.M.A., University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
e-mail: zmunn@saintmarys.edu
Zae Munn teaches most of the theory-related courses in the Music Department, and has done so since 1990. She teaches at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan in the summers. Born in 1953, her early musical training was as a cellist, with additonal studies in piano, voice, and conducting.
She is an active composer of instrumental and vocal works, and over 30 are published by Arsis Press, Earthsongs, Frank E. Warren Music, HoneyRock, JOMAR Press, and Yelton Rhodes Music. Recordings are available from, Capstone Records, Centaur Records, and a number of independent, local labels.
Munn's most recent works include an opera titled Witness (premiered at Saint Mary's in April 2006), an orchestra work for students at Interlochen Arts Camp (premiered in August 2007), and Kali, She Who Devours Time, for violin and piano. She is currently working on Broken Tulip, a piece for a chamber ensemble featuring the Wolf contrabasson, to premiere next summer.
Daniel Party
Assistant Professor
Music History, Music Appreciation, Popular Music, Senior Seminar
B.S., B.M. Universidad Católica de Chile
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
e-mail: dparty@saintmarys.edu
A native of Chile, Daniel Party is a musicologist specializing in music of Latin America and the Latino communities in the United States, with a secondary interest in contemporary classical music. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania with a dissertation titled “Bolero and Balada as the Guilty Pleasures of Latin American Pop”. Party has presented his research at the annual conferences of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, the Society for Ethnomusicology, the Latin American Studies Association, and the Chilean Musicological Society.
At the University of Pennsylvania, Party taught music history, critical writing and classical guitar. In 2005 he received the “Most Promising Teacher of Writing Award” of the Critical Writing Program at Penn. At Saint Mary’s College he teaches Music History, Music Appreciation and Writing.
Trumpet
Horn
B.A., Music, Butler University
M.M., Horn Performance, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
D.A., Horn Performance, Ball State University
Scott Russell is the Assistant Principal Horn of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Quintessence Brass Quintet. He teaches horn at Saint Mary's College and the University of Notre Dame. He has performed with orchestras in Indiana and Michigan, and has served as Principal Horn of the Lucca (Italy) Opera Festival Orchestra and Principal Horn of the Western Nebraska Chamber Players. He has previously taught at Lake Michigan College, Southwestern Michigan College, Andrews University, Bethel College, Taylor University, and Ball State University.
Dr. Russell presented a lecture-recital at the College Music Society Great Lakes Regional Conference in 2003 and read a paper at the Indiana Music Educators Association in 2002. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda (a national music honor society) and was a Doctoral Fellow at Ball State University.
Brass and Percussion Techniques
Elementary Methods
String Techniques
B.M.E., Valparaiso University
M.M. Music and Literature, University of Notre Dame
Denise has been a string specialist with the South Bend Community School Corporation since 1984 and is currently orchestra director at Clay High School. She works with the South Bend Youth Symphony and directs the Academy Youth Honors Orchestra in South Bend. She has maintained a private studio since 1977. Denise has been a member of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra and Pops Orchestra since 1981. She is a founding member of the Carlson String Quartet and directs the choir at St. Paul Lutheran Church in South Bend. She has taught at the Great Lake Music Camp for nine years and has performed with the Boarderline Philharmonic in Minnesota for the past eight summers.
Vocal Techniques
Piano, Accompanying
B.A., Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana
M.A., Indiana University South Bend
Beverly Butler is Adjunct Piano Instructor at St. Mary’s College, where she teaches private piano and coaches music majors for their piano proficiency exams. She has also accompanied vocal students at student recitals, competitions, and senior comprehensive exams. Beverly has been accompanying the St. Mary’s Women’s Choir and the Collegiate Choir since 2001 and has traveled with Women’s Choir on several tours, including a performance at American Choral Directors National Convention in Los Angeles in 2005. She also serves as organist at South Bend Christian Reformed Church and is a member of St. Joseph Valley Chapter of American Guild of Organists, South Bend/Michiana Music Teacher Association and Music Teachers National Association.
Keyboard instruments
M.M. in organ, University of Notre Dame
M.M. in harpsichord, University of Michigan
Darlene Catello performs solo and ensemble music on the harpsichord and organ and teaches keyboard instruments at the University of Notre Dame as well as at Saint Mary’s College. She is a founding member of Fleur de Lys, an early music ensemble, and serves as organist and choir director at Hilltop Lutheran Church in South Bend. While at the University of Michigan, she studied with Penelope Crawford and Edward Parmentier. In 1987 Ms. Catello won the Audience Prize in the Magnum Opus Harpsichord Competition in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Organ
B.M., Organ Performance, Ball State University
M.M., Organ Performance, Yale School of Music
M.A., Religion, Yale Divinity School
Karen also studied at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria. At the University of Notre Dame, she directs the Handbell Choir and Celebration Choir, serves as Assistant Director and Accompanist for the Notre Dame Folk Choir, and is an Organist for Sacred Heart Parish. She is current Dean of the South Bend chapter of the American Guild of Organists. In May 2001 she performed the Saint-Saëns Organ Symphony in New York’s Alice Tully Hall.
Class Piano
Music Librarian
B.A. University of Notre Dame
Maureen worked for 6 years as an Audiovisual Reference Assistant for the Saint Joseph County Public Library. She also served as an instructor of English as a Second Language for the South Bend Community School Corporation, and as the Assistant Publicity and Administratve Manager for the University of Notre Dame Department of Music
Staff Accompanist
B.M. Piano Performance, Indiana University--Bloomington
Website: http://www.sherryk.com
e-mail: sherry@sherryk.com
Pianist/Composer/Recording Artist Sherry Klinedinst (Sherry K) performs in concert halls, festivals, schools and various organizations across the country. Her most recent appearances have been at the Chicago Music Mart, Nashville’s Opry Mills, and the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend. Sherry’s eclectic style includes everything from light jazz and new age to gospel, classical and blues. Recording projects include, “Westbound”, “A Whole New Woman” and “Sunday Best: Hymns and Spirituals Freshly Pressed."
Music Department Secretary
Violin
A.D, North Carolina School of the Arts
A.D., Indiana University South Bend
M.M, Indiana University South Bend
Currently pursuing a Performance Diploma at IU South Bend under direction of Jameson Cooper. Major teachers include, Blaise Magniere, Marie Wang, Aaron Berofsky, and Elaine Richey.
He performs with a various ensembles in the area such as South Bend Symphony and Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestras. He also teaches at the Culver Academy, Clay High School and serves as section coach for the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Cello
Bass
Harp
B.M., M.M., M.F.A., Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Suzann Young-Davids is the adjunct professor of harp for the Siant Mary's Music Dept. She is a graduate of the Oberlin Conservatory and received an M.A. and an M.F.A. in harp performance from Iowa State University, under the tutelage of Carlos Salzedo of the Curtis Institute of Music. She also holds a juris doctorate from Valparaiso University School of Law.
Davids serves on the studio faculties of the University of Notre Dame, Valparaiso University, Lake Michigan College, Grace College and Goshen College. Formerly, she was a member of the faculty at University of Denver, Colorado State University, University of Northern Colorado, University of Iowa and University of Wyoming. Davids has directed master classes internationally, including in Germany, Costa Rica, Austrailia and in Bangkok, Thailand. She has appeared as soloist with orchestras nationally and internationally and has toured with orchestras supporting the American Ballet Theatre, the Joeffrey Ballet Company, Frank Sinatra and Barry Manilow. She has also held harp positions with the orchestras of the Santa Fe Opera, Central City (Colorado) Opera,Denver Symphony, Denver Opera and Denver Ballet, the South Bend Symphony and Midwest Pops Orchestra.
In 1976, Davids and her daughter, Deborah Davids Holzworth, were presented in recital at the Kennedy Performing Arts Center as the performing representatives for the state of Colorado in celebration of the nation's bicentennial. Davids has served as a music reviewer for MLA Notes and she has recorded on the Musical Heritage Society label. She was awarded an honorary membership from Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity for her outstanding pedagogy and performance of contemporary American composers.
Guitar
Studied at Purdue and Indiana Universities
Master Classes with Liona Boyd, Andrea Menchuoff, and Eduardo Fernandez
Dean Wachs studied classical guitar with Richard Wisner and has played guitar for 44 years. He has taught at Mendoza's Guitars for 30 years, and IUSB for 20 years.He teaches approximately 70 students each week.
Dean is currently performing as part of the Mendoza's Guitar Duo.
Voice
B.A. College of William and Mary
M.M. Webster University--St. Louis
email: mwarner@saintmarys.edu
Growing up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, PA, Michele began studying piano in first grade, singing solos at the age of 10, and was the first cantor for her parish when she was 14. One beloved mentor predicted that someday Michele would be a teacher….and time obviously proved him to be rather prophetic.
For over ten years now, Michele has been active in teaching voice and training cantors in the South Bend area. On weekends, she can be found at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, serving as a cantor and soloist for liturgies and singing with the Notre Dame Folk Choir. In addition to participating fully as a member of the choir, she also works as a vocal coach for the ensemble, training the young men and women in the group to minister as cantors for mass, vespers, and other liturgical celebrations. As both vocal coach and soloist, Michele has assisted on four recordings with the choir, most recently “Witness of the Saints” and “Psalms of the Notre Dame Folk Choir.”
Michele is one of the primary vocalists for NDPrayercast, an “online service of prayer in the faith tradition of Notre Dame.” Along with her husband, composer Steven C. Warner, she edited and assembled the revised Notre Dame Hymnal Supplement (2007) for use in the dorm chapels and around campus at the University. Michele and Steve are also clinicians for World Library Publications in Chicago, and for SummerSong, a renewal program for church musicians, sponsored by the Center for Liturgy, Notre Dame.
Voice, Vocal Pedagogy, Applied Music Literature
M.M. University of Montana
D.Mus. Indiana University, Bloomington
Dr. Woodland studied voice with Dale Moore and Jean Deis, and organ with Larry Smith and Marilyn Keiser at Indiana University, Bloomington, where she completed her doctorate in Organ and Church Music, with a minor in Song Literature in 2001. She is Organist at First United Methodist Church in South Bend. She has taught at McGill University, Montreal, Lake Michigan College, Andrews University and Southwestern Michigan College. She has performed as soloist in various states and provinces in the U.S.A., Canada and Europe. In the Michiana area, performances have included vocal solos with Vesper Chorale, Lakeland Choral Society and ProMusica with whom she toured in Scotland, England, Belgium and France. Operatic roles in which she has appeared are: Gretel in Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck, and the Mother in The Singing Child by Menotti. Other major works in which she has appeared as soloist include, Handel's Messiah, Mass in C, Beethoven and Mozart; B Minor Mass, Bach; German Requiem, Brahms; Missa in Tempora Belli, Haydn; and most recently the Bach Cantata #51 for soprano and trumpet, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen.
Dr. Woodland has received state and regional first place awards in the National Association of Teachers of Singing and National Federated Music Clubs Artist Award Contests and has been inducted into Pi Kappa Lamda and Mu Phi Epsilon
Flute
B.A. music performance, Carleton College
Independent study with Sidney Zeitlin, Minnesota Orchestra
Korin has been a member of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra since 1975, is a past member of the Elkhart County Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with the Michiana New Music Ensemble, Indiana Opera North and other local organizations. He is also a flute instructor at University of Notre Dame.
Oboe
B.M., M.F.A. Oboe Performance, Bob Jones University
Currently teaching Music, Art, and French at Community Baptist School and conducting the Church Orchestra at Community Baptist Church. Performs with various area ensembles and orchestras. Private instructor of woodwinds and reed-making.
Clarinet
Bassoon
B.M.E. Valparaiso University
Further Study at Northwestern University
Eric is third and contra-bassoonist for the South Bend Symphony and Pops Orchestra. He also teaches bassoon in the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University, South Bend. He is the bassoon coach for the South Bend Youth Symphony and has an extensive private studio, teaching students from beginners through high school.
Eric has performed with many orchestras in the area, including principal bassoon with the Southwest Michigan Symphony, Elkhart Symphony, LaPorte Symphony, and the Chicago Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and second bassoon with the Northwest Indiana Symphony and the Kalamazoo Symphony. He continues to sub with these and other orchestras in the area.
Saxophone
B.A., Bluffton University
M.M., Saxophone Performance, Indiana University South Bend
e-mail: saxophone8@verizon.net
Deanna recently performed at the North American Saxophone Alliance conference in Chicago. She performs in recitals, jazz ensembles, wind ensembles and private venues. She earned the Performer's Certificate in 2005 from IUSB for her performance excellence on saxophone. Currently, she is on the faculty at St. Mary's College and Indiana University South Bend as well as maintaining a private saxophone studio. She has studied with Trent Kynaston, Angela Space, Phil Barham and Amanda McCandless. She served as the saxophone specialist at Goshen College for their saxophone class and has instructed students for summer band camps at Concord High School and Northridge High School.
