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 David Gresham
Concert Choir, Chamber Chorale, Applied Voice, Music Appreciation, Music Technology
828-884-8139
Email: greshada@brevard.edu
B.M., Wingate University
M.M., Choral Conducting, University of Colorado at Boulder
M.M., Vocal Pedagogy and Performance, University of Colorado at Boulder
D.M.A., Vocal Performance (minor in conducting), University of Georgia
As a soloist, David Gresham has been most active as an oratorio soloist and recitalist, performing with several churches, college choruses, and professional organizations, such as the Colorado Music Festival and the Brevard Philharmonic. Having a keen interest in performing works by living composers, he has collaborated with a number of composers for concerts and recording projects. As a conductor, he has worked with elementary school through college choirs, adult community choirs, and church choirs. He is a frequent guest clinician at high schools and for church choir retreats. As a scholar and editor, he has published a work for double chorus with a realized continuo by 16th-century composer Peter Phillips, and is currently working to publish a set of six solo romances from the Spanish Renaissance by vihuelists Luys Milán and Luys de Narváez.
 Kathryn Gresham
Applied Voice, Vocal Diction, Opera/Musical Theater Workshop
828.884.8324
Email: greshakb@brevard.edu
Website
A.B., Children and the Arts, Stanford University
Mus.M., Voice Performance, Boston University
D.M.A., Voice Performance and Pedagogy, University of Colorado at Boulder
Has performed as soloist with the Colorado Symphony Chamber Players, the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and the Pendulum New Music Ensemble; also performed with ensembles including the Washington Bach Consort, the Washington Chamber Symphony, and the Mark Morris Dance Troupe. Is a specialist in contemporary music and has premiered several song cycles and chamber pieces written especially for her. Other performances include Papagena in The Magic Flute, Giannetta in L'Elisir d'Amore, and the soprano solos in Carmina Burana and Mozart's Requiem. Has presented at regional and national conventions on the subject of contemporary music performance.
 Rita Hayes
Applied Flute
Email: rita@braidstreammusic.com
B.M., University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
M.A., Western Carolina University
Tours the southeastern United States extensively and has recorded three compact discs with Braidstream, an acclaimed classical/jazz/Celtic/World music ensemble. Member of several chamber orchestras in North Carolina and South Carolina, and the Asheville Symphony Orchestra.
 Janet Kelly
Staff Accompanist
A.B., M.S. Catawba College
B.A., Brevard College
Was the first student soloist to perform with the Salisbury Symphony. Presently serves as organist at the Fletcher United Methodist Church in Hendersonville, NC, and conducts the Hendersonville Community Handbell Choir, the Blue Ridge Ringers. Formerly served as staff accompanist in the music department at Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina.
 Frederick Lemmons
Applied Woodwinds, Instrumental Chamber Ensemble
Email: lemmonfd@brevard.edu
B.S., Music Education, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
M.M., Clarinet Performance, Louisiana State University
Frederick Lemmonsmoved to Asheville in 2009 after serving 21 years with “The President’s Own”, United States Marine Band in Washington, DC. He performed at the White House for five U.S. Presidents and traveled the United States and Europe in hundreds of concert performances with the band. He also performed several solos with the band as well as many chamber music performances. He has been the Woodwinds Professor at Brevard College since August, 2010.
 Kristine Fink McCreery
Applied Violin
Email: mccreekf@brevard.edu
B.M., Violin Performance, Eastman School of Music
Performs regularly with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, Hendersonville Symphony, Brevard Philharmonic and Flat Rock Playhouse. She has been an artist faculty member at the Brevard Music Center and served as Director of Communications of the Music Center. Trained at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Eastman School of Music, she recently relocated to Brevard after 23 years of leading a private violin studio as a Suzuki specialist. Additionally, she directed three youth orchestras and coordinated the pre-college string program at the University of Alabama. Ms. McCreery has also played with the New Orleans Philharmonic and the Alabama Symphony, and served as concertmaster of the Tupelo (MS) Symphony, Meridian (MS) Symphony, and Tuscaloosa (AL) Symphony Orchestras.
 Laura Pollie McDowell
Music History and Literature, Secondary Piano
828.884.8154
Email: mcdowell@brevard.edu
Website
B.M., Music History, Converse College
M.A., Historical Musicology, Columbia University
Ph.D., Historical Musicology, Florida State University
Zertificat Deutsche als Fremdsprache, Goethe Institute, Salzburg, Austria
Certificate in Early Music, Florida State University.
Has performed on harpsichord and recorder for the Colonial Williamsburg Restoration. Performs regularly with the Cullowhee Consort, an early music ensemble active in western North Carolina. Contributor to Carl Maria Von Weber: A Guide to Research, and editor of Nicolas Payen: Motets and Chansons. Music critic for Classical Voice of North Carolina.
 Lou Mowad
Applied Guitar
Email: mowadlf@brevard.edu
Website
M.M., University of Arizona
B.F.A.M, Florida International University
A.A., Miami-Dade Community College
Formerly taught at Florida International University, Barry University, Miami Dade Community College, Broward College in Ft. Lauderdale, and the New England Music Camp in Maine during the summers. Has adjudicated competitions for the Music Teachers National Association, The Norman Sholin Guitar Competition and the Guitar Foundation of America. Together with his Wife and duo partner Yasmin Berkson, has toured throughout the world with performances in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and a five city tour of South Korea. The duo has also performed on television, radio, and premiered many new works for the guitar, including the Concerto in D Minor by Francis Kleynjans, dedicated to the duo. They have also been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts and have received numerous grants and awards. Former students have gone on to complete degrees at some of the nation’s top music schools; including, Indiana University, Florida State University, and Boston Conservatory.
Bruce Murray
Applied Piano, Coordinator for Accompanying
Email: bmurray@murrayweb.com
B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellon University
M.M., D.M.A., Yale University
Principal teachers: Ward Davenny, Claude Frank, Nelson Whitaker, Leonard Shure. Since 2003 Artistic Administrator and Dean of the Brevard Music Center. Previously served as Director of the School of Music at the University of Alabama, where he taught piano and allied courses. Recitalist at many American colleges and universities, especially throughout the southeastern United States. Concerto appearances with the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Connecticut Philharmonic, the University of Florida Symphony, the Centenary College Symphony, and, most frequently, the Alabama Symphony. Chamber and collaborative performances with Frederica Von Stade, Phyllis Curtin, Raphael Hillyer, Ransom Wilson, Eliot Fisk, Elmar Oliveira, Roberto Diaz, the Audubon Quartet. Solo and chamber recordings for the Opus One and Centaur labels.
 Janice Murray
Class Piano, Accompanist for Concert Choir, Accompanying
Email: jmurray@murrayweb.com
B.M., Hartt School of Music
M.M., Yale University
Member of the Brevard Music Center faculty since 1999, teaching music theory and keyboard skills. Appeared as soloist with the National Symphony and Alabama Symphony, and has performed as a collaborative pianist in concerts throughout the Southeast.
B.M., University of Tennessee
M.M., Indiana University
Was an Artist/Faculty member at the Brevard Music Center from 1993-2000. Has performed numerous recitals with soloists such as Joseph Robinson, principal oboist of the New York Philharmonic; Charles Vernon, bass trombonist in the Chicago Symphony, and tenor saxophonist James Houlik. Having a particular interest in contemporary music, she has collaborated with many living composers, including Timothy Crist, Juilliard professors Samuel Adler and Eric Ewazen, and her husband, Robert Glenn Palmer. Since 1998, she has been pianist with the Mountain Chamber Players.
 Robert Glenn Palmer
Music Theory, Composition
Email: palmerrg@brevard.edu
Website
B.A., Davidson College
D.M., Composition, Florida State University
Member of the Brevard Music Center faculty since 1988. His compositions have been performed by the Raleigh Oratorio Society, the Milano Classica Chamber Orchestra, Mario Abril, James Houlik, Vahan Sargsyan, the Helios Saxophone Quartet and the Mountain Chamber Players, among others. His works are published by Shawnee Press, C.L. Barnhouse, Carl Fischer and C. Alan Music. While teaching in the public schools, his high school bands performed at the NCMEA Convention and the Mid-East Instrumental Music Conference. Has appeared as guest conductor, presented clinics, and completed residencies at institutions from the southeast to Anchorage, Alaska. He was elected to the Hall of Fame of the band section of the North Carolina Music Educators Association in 2004.
 Jason Posnock
Applied Violin, Viola
Email: posnocjc@brevard.edu
AB, Princton University
ARCM(PG), Royal College of Music
PRC, Carnegie Mellon University
Jason Posnock is Concertmaster of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and Associate Artistic Administrator at the Brevard Music Center. He has appeared as soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral principal throughout the United States, UK, and Asia, and has performed with prominent American ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra and Pittsburgh Symphony. Mr. Posnock is currently on the faculty of Brevard College and the Brevard Music Center, and formerly served as Artist Lecturer in Violin at Carnegie Mellon University.
 Kyle Ritter
Staff Accompanist and Organist
Email: kyle@allsoulscathedral.org
B.M., M.M., Indiana University; studied with Robert Rayfield and Marilyn Keiser.
Serves as Organist and Choirmaster of The Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville, North Carolina and chair of the Liturgy and Music Commission of the Diocese of Western North Carolina. Prior positions include Minister of Music at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Arlington, VA; various positions of leadership in the American Guild of Organists, including dean of the Bloomington, IN chapter and registrar for the District of Columbia chapter; and past regional officer for the Association of Anglican Musicians (AAM). Served several years on the editorial board for the AAM Journal and is currently the National Placement Advisor for the AAM membership. Previous teaching appointments include Adjunct Instructor in Liturgics at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, VA and teaching in the Episcopal Dioceses of Washington and Virginia for the Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Congregations.
 Steve Wilson
Director of Jazz Studies, Director of Pep Band, Applied Brass
828.884-8181
Email: wilsonsk@brevard.edu
B.A., California State University at Hayward
M.M., University of South Carolina
Extensive career as professional trombonist, including appearances with Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, George Benson, Rosemary Clooney, and Jay Leno. Has performed with national companies of A Chorus Line, Annie Get Your Gun, 42nd Street, The Producers, and Chicago. Has served as clinician and soloist at workshops and festivals around the country and has performed with numerous chamber groups and orchestras in the Southeast, including the Augusta Symphony and the Emerald City Brass Quintet. Currently plays trombone for the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and is the front man for the GSO Jazz Quartet.
Larry Huntley
884-8211
B.S. Music Education, Mansfield University
M.M. Music Education, East Carolina University
Doctor of Music, Brass Pedagogy and Music Literature, Indiana University
Larry Huntley served on faculty at Western Connecticut State University for over 30 years, serving as Music Department Chair for 12 years. A horn player, Huntley has been an active performer for over 40 years, performing in such notable venues as the Temple Square Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center (NYC debut). Huntley has presented at numerous professional conferences and received several awards, including being named to the Music Alumni Honor Roll at Mansfield University; receiving a Fulbright Lecture Award Nomination; winning a Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellowship; and receiving a NDEA Title V “Prospective Teacher” Fellowship. Huntley maintains professional memberships in Music Educators National Conference, American Federation of Musicians, American Association of University Professors, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia of America. Huntley has served on the Music Education faculty at Brevard College since 2009.
Jamie Hafner
828-884-8122
hafnerj@brevard.edu
Bachelor of Science in Education, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati (1965)
Master of Music, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati (1966)
Jamie Hafner is Director Emeritus of Bands and The university of Toledo and director Emeritus of Education at the Brevard Music Center. He has served as president of the Mid American Conference Band Directors Association and earned degrees from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. He has been as Honorary Fellow in Conducting at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan. Hafner has been honored with memberships in many honorary music fraternities, including Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and Kappa Kappa Psi. As a tubist, Hafner has performed with the United States Military Band at West Point, the Savannah Symphony, the Toledo Symphony, The University of Toledo Faculty Brass Quintet. As a conductor, Hafner has earned the praises of Ulysses Kay, Vincent Persichetti, Ron Nelson, and others for the interpretation of their music. In 1974, Hafner received University of Toledo’s Outstanding Teaching Awards, an honor he holds in high esteem. Hafner has served on the Brevard College music faculty since 2009.
Master of Music in Performance and Education, Appalachian State University, in progress
Bachelor of Music in Performance, Eastman School of Music, 2004
Franklin Keel began playing the cello when he was six years old. His formal training as a professional musician began when he was fifteen years old under the cellist and composer Ron Clearfield in Asheville. His studies continued with Pamela Frame and David Ying at the Eastman School of Music, and Kenneth Lurie at Appalachian State University. He has appeared as a soloist with the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, and with the Symphony of the United Nations in Asheville. He was also a finalist in the Brevard Music Center's Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition and the Concerto-Aria Competition at Appalachian State University.
Mr. Keel performs actively as a solist and with a variety of other ensembles. He is the Associate Principal Cellist in the Asheville Symphony Orchestra and the Principal Cellist in the Brevard Philharmonic Orchestra. He is the cellist in the Opal String Quartet, who have given classes and recitals across western North Carolina. In 2009, he joined the Absurdist-Gypsy-Folk-Funk-Punk band, Sirius.B, and has since released an album and performed in Asheville's top festivals such as Bele Chere, Leaf, LAAFF, and Downtown After 5.
Mr. Keel is the Orchestra Director at Hendersonville High School, and the Assistant Conductor with the Hendersonville Symphony Youth Orchestras, and he maintains an active private schedule as a private cello and chamber music instructor.
Sarah Moser
Indiana University Bloomington, IN Master of Music Education 1995
Potsdam College Potsdam, NY Bachelor of Music Education 1986
Sarah Moser has taught elementary general music at Brevard Elementary School since 1996 and has been teaching in Transylvania County Schools since 1991. She has been awarded Teacher of the Year for Rosman Elementary (1994) and Brevard Elementary (2000), and was selected Teacher of the Year for Transylvania County Schools in 1994 and 2000. Moser received her National Board Certification for Early Childhood Music in 2004. She is the Chair of the Elementary Music Section of North Carolina Music Educators Association and directs the Children’s Choir at First United Methodist Church in Brevard. A versatile musician, Moser began her career as a strings teacher in New York state, and has in recent years served as the Pit Orchestra conductor for musicals at Brevard High School. Moser has served on the Brevard College faculty since 2007.
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