uky.eduCurrent Graduate Students in Musicology
Marisa Banes
Marisa Banes has called Ohio home all her life and somehow ended up going to Kentucky for school. She completed her B.M. in Performance as well as a Certificate in Piano Pedagogy at Northern Kentucky University. Currently a first year M.A. student in musicology she is investigating potential areas of research. Possible areas include folk music and women in music. Though her primary instrument is piano, she also plays the fiddle at Renaissance fairs and elsewhere.
David Bubsey
David Bubsey is presently in the Ph.D. in musicology program at the University of Kentucky. He also holds the M.M. in Trombone Performance from Butler University (1980), and the B.M.E. from The Ohio State University (1975.) He is presently principal trombone of the Tennessee Brass and the Johnson City Symphony Orchestra. He is the former principal trombone of the Kingsport Symphony Orchestra and a former member of the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C. from 1981-1989. As a member of the premier United States Army Band, he was associate principal trombone of the Concert Band and trombonist with the U.S. Army Brass Quintet while also occasionally performing as a member of the Jazz Ambassadors.
In 2001, David was named to the faculty at East Tennessee State University where his duties include applied trombone, trombone choir, introduction to music, and history of jazz. He has extensive teaching experience in the public school systems of Greene County, Tennessee and Greeneville, Tennessee (1991-2000). In 2003 he returned to graduate school to fulfill a dream to earn his doctorate and chose at this point in his life to pursue his other musical interest, musicology. His scholarly interests include the works of Luciano Berio and the major symphonic works of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Paige Clark
A native of Clay County, Kentucky, Paige holds a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Music in musicology from the University of Memphis, with a thesis on the dissemination of opera in 19th-century America through the medium of transcription. She is currently in her third year of doctoral study in musicology at U.K. Research interests include American concert life, organology, and Eastern Christian liturgical music. An active performer and teacher of low brass, Paige has served since 2004 as euphoniumist for the region’s premier professional large brass ensemble, the Tennessee Brass. In March 2007 she will read a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music entitled “How Can We Sing King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land?: Reggae Music and Rasta Identity.”
Jacob Cook
Jacob Cook, originally from Elizabethton, Tennessee, received his Bachelor of Music in voice performance and Bachelor of Business Administration in Accountancy from East Tennessee State University in 2004. Currently, he is working on concurrent Masters Degrees in voice performance and musicology. His musicological interests include French opéra-comique as it relates to other theatrical genres in Paris from the late 18th century into the 19th century, historic theatre design, and the works of Wagner. He is planning a thesis and performance project on opéra-comique.
Reed David
Reed David, who hails from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania in suburban Pittsburgh, is a third-year Ph.D. student in musicology at U.K. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2002 and a Master of Arts in Musicology degree from U.K. in 2004, completing the latter degree with a thesis on Aaron Copland. Reed’s scholarly interests include Copland, big-band jazz (especially Benny Goodman), and early clarinet. He remains active as a clarinetist and bass clarinetist, performing with the U.K. Symphony Band, Concert Band, and Pep Band, and is an alumnus of the U.K. Wildcat Marching Band.
Dennis Davis
Dennis Davis is Assistant Professor of Guitar and Music Technology at Eastern Kentucky University. He received a B.M. from the University of Kentucky and a Master of Music degree in guitar performance from the University of Louisville, and is now a doctoral candidate in musicology at U.K. His research and proposed dissertation investigates strategies for humor in music by Peter Schickele. Professor Davis performs numerous solo and chamber recitals throughout the region and performs regularly with the Lexington Guitar Trio. He is a member of The Kentucky Jazz Repertoire Orchestra and of the review panel for SoundBoard magazine.
Angela Hammond
A native of Decatur, Alabama, Ms. Hammond holds a Bachelor’s of Music Therapy degree from Loyola University New Orleans and a Master of Arts degree in Music from Jacksonville State University, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology at the University of Kentucky. Ms. Hammond has occupational experience in music therapy working with adult psychiatric populations, and has been a private instructor of saxophone and clarinet. She has taught general music for grades K-9 in the Alabama Public School System, and has been an adjunct instructor of music for the John C. Calhoun Community College and Blue Grass Community and Technical College. Since 1999 she has taught undergraduate music courses at the University of Kentucky.
Ms. Hammond’s research interests include the expression of race in American musics and popular culture; music in nineteenth century New Orleans; early jazz music and musicians in New Orleans with regard to race, ethnicity, and geography; and, Haitian folk music. Ms. Hammond has presented her research at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, and the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Her dissertation in progress is titled “Color Me Country: Whiteness and Commercial Country Music” (see abstract) and should be completed in 2007. Her interests outside of academia include raising her two children, gardening, home canning and brewing, home improvement, antiques, record collecting, and cinema.
Greta Hicks
Greta Hicks holds a B.A. degree in music from Transylvania University, and has completed the coursework for the M.A. in musicology at U.K.
Jeffrey Jones
Jeffrey Daniel Jones, a first-year M.A. student, is moving into musicology as a discipline after twenty years employment in the hi-tech realm. His interest in the musical corpus is broad; in the classical realm he has special interest in the Baroque and Modern eras, in jazz he is very interested in swing era performers, and in rock he is most drawn to the older, weirder acts. Recently, he has been seated on the board of Musica Toscana, a group devoted to the preparation of scholarly/performance editions of works from the Ricasoli collection, now housed at the University of Louisville. He is currently working on the transcriptions of the works for a volume of eighteenth-century Italian arias from that collection.
Kevin Kehrberg
Kevin Kehrberg holds a B.A. in Music from Bethel College (Kansas) and received an M.A. in Musicology from the University of Kentucky with a thesis entitled “Original Gospel Quartet Music Recorded by Bill Monroe.” He has presented papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society for American Music, the Music of the South Symposium, and the Bluegrass Music Symposium, and at the U.K. History Department’s Bluegrass Symposium. He has also recently contributed to a book chapter on bluegrass vocal style that will appear in The Rounder Book of Bluegrass (Cambridge, MA: Rounder Books, forthcoming in May 2007).
Kevin’s research interests currently involve popular and vernacular forms of American music, including gospel music, bluegrass music and its antecedents, and jazz. He is planning a dissertation on the white gospel (now known as Southern Gospel) music industry of the early twentieth century. An active bassist, he has performed widely and appeared on several recordings. In 2004, he helped found the first University of Kentucky String Band (The Red State Ramblers) who released their first album in April 2006. For the 2004-2005 academic year, Kevin was the recipient of a Presidential Fellowship from the Graduate School at the University of Kentucky.
César Leal
César Leal was born in Bogotá (Colombia). Currently he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Musicology. His interest in both research on and performance of contemporary music has led him to work as the Music Director of the LACNM (Latin American Center of New Music) for the last two years. He has participated in the Contemporary Music Festival in Nanterre Conservatoire (France) in January 2006, and was a finalist in the Second International Conducting Workshop of the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra in August 2006. César was also invited to the International Contemporary Music Festival of Lima (Perú) in November 2006. He is presently working on the CD Project “Lexico Series,” a compendium of contemporary pieces by representative composers from Latin America. He has a B.M. in performance from Javeriana University in Bogotá and an M.M. in Instrumental Conducting from Florida International University.
Tedrin Blair Lindsay
Tedrin Blair Lindsay was raised in Rome, Italy, then earned a B.A. in Piano Performance at Asbury College and an M.A. in Communications from Regent University. After ten years devoted solely to performing in concert and theatre work, careers he still actively maintains, Tedrin began pursuit of a Ph.D. in Musicology at U.K. in 1997. In 1999, he won the Longyear Award for Best Student Paper in the South-Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society for his study of mythology as a unifying agent in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and wrote the liner notes for Albany Records’ 2002 recording of Copland’s The Tender Land, a production for which he was also musical director.
Tedrin is currently midway through his dissertation “The Development of a Core Repertoire of American Operas at New York City Opera under Julius Rudel, 1957-1979” (see abstract), to be completed by spring 2008. He is in demand as a lecturer on musical and theatrical topics, including a popular course on opera for the Lexington Opera Society he has taught for the last three years. In addition to his work as a vocal coach and musical director on the faculty of UK Opera Theatre, Tedrin also tours internationally twice a year as pianist for The American Spiritual Ensemble.
Yawen Ludden
Yawen Ludden, a second-year Ph.D. student, is a native of Shanghai China. She holds a B.A. degree from Shanghai Normal University, majoring in accordion performance, and an M.A. in Music from Campbellsville University in Campbellsville, Kentucky. She presented a version of her masters thesis, “Musicians in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)” at the 2005 meeting of CHIME (European Foundation for Chinese Music Research) held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In the summer of 2006, she participated in ethnomusicology fieldwork in Yulin, China, sponsored by CHIME and several Chinese music research institutes. Her research focuses on the role of music and musicians in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Alicia Massie-Legg
Alicia R. Massie-Legg is a second-year musicology student. She holds a masters degree in music history and a masters degree in vocal performance with an emphasis in vocal pedagogy from Ohio University/Athens. Before joining the musicology program at U.K., she taught voice at University of Tennessee/Knoxville for two years and voice and vocal pedagogy at Maryville College, Tennessee for four years. She also has taught private voice for 15 years. She has extensive experience as lead singer for two jazz bands and as singer/songwriter for JAM 513, a contemporary Christian band which was active for three years in Tennessee. Alicia lives in Maryville, Tennessee with her husband, Bob, and her two daughters, Dagan and Bradley.
Jennifer King Matthews
Jennifer has been appointed Music Librarian at Oklahoma City University. She has a B.M. in violin performance from Ball State University, and two masters degrees from the University of Kentucky: the M.A. in Musicology, with a thesis entitled “A Fantasia of Sound: A Study of the Musical Editing and Animation in Walt Disney’s 1940 Film,” and the Master of Library Science. She has completed coursework and exams for the Ph.D., and is planning to write a dissertation on the film music of Randy Newman.
Dean McCleese
Dean McCleese is a master's student in musicology at the University of Kentucky. His research focus as a musicologist is on the organ and more specifically, the theatre pipe organ. His organ interests also extend into the realm of the concert artist, specifically the legendary Virgil Fox. Outside of music his hobbies are model railroading and railfanning. He holds a bachelor of music degree in tuba performance from Ohio University and a Master of Music degree in this same area from U.K.
Hayward Mickens
Hayward Mickens is a graduate of Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Balitmore, Maryland. He received his B.M. in piano performance in 1976 and M.M. in piano performance in 1983. He has taught at Fisk University in Nashville Tennessee, Voorhees College, Denmark, South Carolina, Tennessee State University, and the University of the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas Campus). Hayward was also a public school educator for six years in St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, and served as organist/choirmaster of historic Frederick Evangelical Lutheran Church in St. Thomas. He is currently on the faculty of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, Kentucky, and is organist of Second Presbyterian Church in Lexington, Kentucky. Hayward is a long standing student of Musicology at the University of Kentucky.
Larry Nelson
Larry Nelson, a doctoral student in musicology, is assistant professor of Saxophone, Jazz Studies, and Music History at Eastern Kentucky University. He teaches applied lessons, directs the E.K.U. Jazz Ensemble as well as the E.K.U. Saxophone ensembles, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in symphonic literature, American popular music, jazz improvisation, and music appreciation.
Larry holds the M.M. in Saxophone performance, and is an active performer on both saxophone and bass. He is a member of the E.K.U. Faculty Jazz Quintet, the Osland Saxophone Quartet, the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, the Dimartino-Osland Jazz Orchestra, and appears frequently with the Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also performed with Ray Charles, Manhattan Transfer, the Temptations, the Four Tops, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, Lou Rawls, the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra, Ben Vereen, and many others artists of note. He is beginning work on a dissertation on the social construction of the jam session in jazz.
Ann Niren
Ann Niren is currently completing her coursework for the Ph.D. in musicology. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in composition with a piano concentration from Indiana University and her Master of Music degree in theory from Northwestern University. Her research interests include the music of Leonard Bernstein and Jewish music.
In addition to her studies, Ms. Niren teaches the four music history courses for music majors at Indiana University Southeast. In 1998, she was the recipient of an I.U. Southeast Teaching Excellence Recognition Award, and in 2005 she won the I.U.S. Distinguished Teaching Award for part-time faculty. She also serves as the music director for Temple Shalom in Louisville.
Nikos Pappas
Nikos Pappas, (B.M. in Viola Performance, Ohio University; M.M. in Music History, Ohio University) a Ph.D. candidate originally from Columbus Ohio, has a wide range of musical interests both as a performer and as a scholar. He is working on his dissertation, “Patterns in the Sacred Musical Culture of the American South and West (1760-1860).” He has presented papers at several conferences including the Society for American Music, Music of the South Symposium at the University of Mississippi, Dynamic Legacies Symposium at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Society for Ethnomusicology both at the national convention and at the Southeastern and Caribbean Regional Chapter Meeting, and the Great Lakes American Studies Association Conference, with several book reviews published in American Music.
While at Ohio University, Pappas created the Appalachian Digital Sound Archive, a series of archival, commercial, and home recordings of Ohio Appalachian traditional musicians; and provided the musical score to a PBS documentary “Opening the Door West: The Ohio Company” produced by Shelburne Films. Currently, his activities include an edition of the complete orchestral works of Federalist composer John Christopher Moller (New Artaria), a CD and research project for the James Monroe Museum and Presidential Center, a field study of English double action and Viennese action square pianos of the Ohio River Valley (1790-1830) with Dwight Newton (www.mewzik.com) and a research project and recording for the Bale Boone Symposium sponsored by the Gaines Center at the University of Kentucky.
Pappas is also active as an old-time fiddle player, performing with The Red State Ramblers (the official string band of the University of Kentucky) with fellow musicologist Kevin Kehrberg, and has won fiddle awards at the Ed Haley Fiddle Festival, Appalachian String Band Music Festival, Uncle Dave Macon Days, Seedtime on the Cumberland, and Caesar’s Creek Old-Time Festival. Pappas is also active as a harpsichordist and keyboard player, and plays Baroque violin, rebec, and gamba with Musick’s Company in Lexington. His research interests include American sacred music, band music, keyboard music, and orchestral music of the Colonial, Federalist, and Jacksonian periods, old-time and early country music, 18th-century British theater music, and psychedelic rock and pop of the 1960s. His dissertation subject is "Patterns in the Sacred Musical Culture of the American South and West (1760-1860)" (see abstract).
Marshal Pinto
Marshal Gaioso Pinto was born in in Ceres, Goiás, Brazil and began his musical studies at the age of nine. He has a Bachelor’s degree in clarinet (Federal University of Goiás) and a Masters degree in musicology (University of São Paulo), and has studied with Estércio Cunha (composition), Régis Duprat (musicology), and Emílio de César and Aylton Escobar (conducting). Marshal Gaioso Pinto was Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Symphonic Orchestra of Goiânia and the Chamber Orchestra of Goiânia, and Assistant Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Goiás. He is the editor of Danças Para Banda (2006), and Da Missa ao Divino Espírito Santo ao Credo de São José do Tocantins (2004), collections of unpublished 18th- and 19th-century music from the state of Goiás, as well as conductor and artistic director of several CDs, among them Danças de Outros Tempos (2006), and Música Colonial de Goiás (2004). Marshal G. Pinto is professor at the Federal Center of Technological Education of Goiás, and in 2005 received a scholarship from the Fulbright Foundation and the Ministry of Education of Brazil in order to study for the Ph.D. in Musicology at University of Kentucky.
Laura Pita
Laura Pita is a Ph.D. student in musicology at the University of Kentucky. For the past several years she has been researching piano salon music of the late nineteenth century with special emphasis on Latin American composers and salon genres. She has done extensive archival research on the renowned Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño (1853-1917). Also, she has been researching Teresa Carreño’s involvement in the creation and diffusion of Edward MacDowell’s piano compositions. Her work in the area includes an edition of Carreño’s piano and chamber compositions. She has presented her research in Venezuela and the United States, at venues including the Congreso Venezolano de Musicología (Caracas, 2000), Museo de Teresa Carreño (Caracas, 2001), Universidad Central de Venezuela (Caracas, 2002), and the Annual Meeting of the South-Central Chapter of the American Musicological Society (Memphis, 2006).
Before moving to the United States, Laura worked as a faculty member at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (where she earned her Masters degree), the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Juan José Landaeta, and the Escuela de Música Pedro Nolasco Colón, teaching History of Music, Music Aesthetics, and Latin American Music. She also participated as researcher and secretary for a comprehensive musicological project that culminated in the publication of the Encyclopedia of Venezuelan Music (Caracas, 1998).
Michael Rintamaa
Michael Rintamaa is in his 13th year the full-time director of music at Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in downtown Lexington. As organist and director, he leads voice and handbell choirs for children, youth, and adults. In 2003, Michael helped to found the Central Music Academy, providing free lessons to inner city children from underprivileged families. Michael has a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Northwestern University, and a master of music degree in organ performance from Emory University.
Michael is working on his dissertation for a Ph.D. in music history from the University of Kentucky on the sacred music of Edmund Hooper (1553-1621) (see abstract). He is the founding director of the auditioned community handbell ensemble, Alluring, begun in 2002. Michael has also served as organist for Temple Adath Israel since 1998. Michael was the organist for Lexington Theological Seminary (1998-2004), and directed the Donovan Scholars Chorus at the University of Kentucky (2000-2004). He has served as the Dean of the Lexington Chapter of the American Guild of Organists (2001-2002).
Erica Rumbley
Erica Rumbley graduated from Olivet Nazarene University in May 2006 with a degree in piano performance and received a fellowship to attend the University of Kentucky. She is currently beginning her M.A. in musicology. Miss Rumbley has a deep love of music history and recently completed a lecture recital on the life and works of L.M. Gottschalk, incorporating the performance of some of his piano pieces into her recital. She has not chosen an area of specialization yet, though nineteenth-century music is a great interest. She continues to play the piano and also performs on the violin.
Eric Strother
Eric Strother, originally from Parkersburg, West Virginia, holds a B.A. in music education (K-12) from Marshall University and an M.A. in music theory from the University of Kentucky. His master’s thesis was entitled “The Development of Duke Ellington’s Compositional Style: A Comparative Analysis of Three Selected Works.” His research interests include music and religion, music in Appalachia, music as an expression of culture, gender and music, popular music, and jazz. Eric has contributed articles for The Appalachian Encyclopedia and Women and Music in America Since 1900 and reviews for Computer Music Journal and American Music. He also serves as a peer-reviewer for the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
Eric has taught Introduction to Music, History of Jazz, and Symphonic Literature while at U.K. and has also taught Introduction to Music and American Music at Bluegrass Community and Technical College (formerly Lexington Community College). He is currently working on a dissertation on the contemporary Christian music industry.
Abbye Tackett
Abigail Marie Tackett was born in Kentucky, where she still resides. In her earliest years, Abbye’s mother was a ballet dancer. Her mother’s short dancing experience contributed greatly to her early appreciation of classical music. Abbye began playing the cello in elementary school after spending several years persuading her parents to allow her to join the orchestra. In her teenage years she stopped playing the cello to study painting, but returned to her instrument after a five-year absence. Abbye holds a Bachelor’s in Music Performance from the University of Kentucky where she is currently seeking a Master’s in Musicology. She prefers to spend her time practicing her archery, playing her cello, and reading.
Erin Walker
Erin Walker is a first-year Ph.D. candidate in Musicology and a third-year D.M.A. student in percussion. Erin’s undergraduate and graduate degrees are from Northern Illinois University and DePaul University respectively. As a percussionist with an extensive background in world music, many of Erin’s interests lie in the field of ethnomusicology. She assists Dr. Han with the U.K. gamelan ensemble and is particularly intrigued by Indian, African, and Irish music. She intends to focus much of her musicological research on 20th-century music in both the classical and popular genres.
Ross Whitaker
Ross M. Whitaker is a native Lexingtonian and first year M.A. student in musicology. He holds a B.A. in Music with a minor in Spanish from the University of Kentucky. Ross’s areas of interest include jazz and the music of Frank Zappa. He is also an electric guitarist.
Heidy Ximenes
Heidy Ximenes is a native of Brazil. She holds a B.A. in violin performance from the Escola de Música do Estado do Espírito Santo, Brazil, and a B.A. in Church Music from Campbellsville University, as well as an M.M. in Violin Performance from the University of Louisville. She is currently writing a doctoral dissertation entitled “The Carnivals of Salvador” (see abstract) for the University of Kentucky. Her research interests involve aspects related to Latin American music, especially those that include African-Brazilian traditions, such as noticed in religion, music, and folklore. She is presently working as an Assistant Professor of Music for Campbellsville University.
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