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Music in Motion is a fun-filled weekend of music-making and interactive learning for both students and educators. For two days, the music community comes together to perform, listen to concerts, workshop ideas, and observe clinics to advance one's music making and build life-long relationships. All educators, and high school instrumentalists and vocalists are welcome! Please plan to join us in 2012 for this festival Friday, February 3 at 2pm through Saturday, February 4 at 7pm. Register now! Check out the MiM events page and the festival accommodations.
Featured Guest Clinicians for 2012:
James Curnow, Band Clinician/Band Composer and Director of Music in Motion Festival Band
James Curnow was born in Port Huron, Michigan and raised in Royal Oak, Michigan. He lives in Nicholasville, Kentucky where he is president, composer, and educational consultant for Curnow Music Press, Inc. of Nicholasville, Kentucky, publishers of significant music for concert band and brass band. He also serves as Composer-in-residence Emeritus on the faculty of Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, and is editor of all music publications for The Salvation Army in Atlanta, Georgia.
His formal training was received at Wayne State University (Detroit, Michigan) and at Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan), where he was a euphonium student of Leonard Falcone, and a conducting student of Dr. Harry Begian. His studies in composition and arranging were with F. Maxwell Wood, James Gibb and Irwin Fischer.
James Curnow has taught in all areas of instrumental music, both in the public schools (five years), and on the college and university level (thirty years). He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles and the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP).
As a conductor, composer and clinician, Curnow has traveled throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan and Europe where his music has received wide acclaim. Curnow has been commissioned to write over three hundred works for concert band, brass band, orchestra, choir and various vocal and instrumental ensembles. His published works now number well over five hundred.
Curnow was most recently honored with a listing in the Grove Dictionary of American Musicians.
Robert Gillespie, Strings Clinician and Director of Music in Motion Festival Orchestra
Robert Gillespie, violinist and professor of music, is responsible for string teacher training at The Ohio State University, which has one of the largest and most extensive string pedagogy degree programs in the nation. Dr. Gillespie is a past national President of the American String Teachers Association. He is a frequent guest conductor of All-State, region, and festival orchestras. Dr. Gillespie has appeared in 46 states, Canada, and throughout Europe. He is co-author of the Hal Leonard string method book series, Essential Elements for Strings, the leading string instrument teaching series in the country. Also he is co-author of the college text Strategies for Teaching Strings: Building A Successful School Orchestra Program, the String Clinics to Go DVD series, and the Teaching Music Through Performance in Orchestra texts for GIA publications. He received the Distinguished Scholar award for 2002-2003 in the School of Music at Ohio State University, and he is a member of the editorial committee of the Journal of Research in Music Education.
Eric Barnum, Choral Clinician/Choral Composer and Director of Music in Motion Festival Choir
A choral conductor and composer, Eric William Barnum is currently a DMA candidate in choral conducting at the University of Washington under the direction of Dr. Geoffrey Boers. He holds a BA in Music with emphases in Composition and Vocal Performance from Bemidji State University. He also has an advanced degree in Choral Conducting from Minnesota State University, Mankato under the direction of Dr. David Dickau.
Eric William Barnum's compositions have been performed throughout North America as well as Europe and Asia. He has been a recipient of numerous composition awards and grants, including a Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship (2005) and a McKnight Foundation Grant (2005), as well as winning the 2006 VocalEssence Essentially Choral Competition, recieving the 2006 Nathan Davis Prize in Composition, and winning the 2003 Chanticleer Composer Competition. He has served as composer in residence for ensembles such as the The Rose Ensemble (2004-2005), Kantorei (2005-2006), CORO Vocal Artists (2009-2010), and has had frequent premiere performances at national and regional choral conventions.
Click here for a complete list of Music in Motion Faculty participating in the event!
