GREG DANNER, horn, performs with the Cumberland Quintet, Brass Arts Quintet, and the Bryan Symphony Orchestra. He is a former hornist with the Baton Rouge and Acadiana orchestras in Louisiana, and he has also performed with the Lake Charles and Rapides orchestras in Louisiana and the Saint Louis, Saint Louis Municipal Opera, and Webster Groves orchestras in Missouri. He is a former member of the Louisiana Brass Quintet and Evangeline Wind Quintet, and he has studied with Verne Reynolds, Milan Yancich, and Roland Pandolfi.

Also a composer, Dr. Danner has received annual ASCAP awards for composition since 1989. He was awarded the 1999 College Band Directors National Association Composition for Young Band prize for his composition "Walls of Zion." The Bourne Company, TRN Music, Daehn Publications, Willis Music, Wimbledon/Trigram Music, Medici Music Press, TUBA Press, and Avanti Publications publish Danner's music.

Trumpet Professor CHARLES DECKER has performed with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Rochester Philharmonic, Berkshire Music Center Orchestra, Austin Symphony, and Knoxville Symphony, and was solo cornet and soloist with the U.S. Army Field Band of Washington, D.C. With the TTU faculty brass quintet he has recorded two albums and appeared on National Public Television concert specials. "Recital and Festival Solos for Trumpet" with Joy Rachor, piano, is his most recent recording. As a performer, clinician, adjudicator, conductor, and arranger, he has appeared at major music conferences in 13 states. His articles on brass pedagogy have appeared in 6 professional journals; his 17 brass publications have sold more than 10,000 copies; musicians in the U.S., Europe and Russia have performed his arrangements. Decker holds degrees from Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, and the University of Texas, and was a fellowship recipient to the Berkshire Music Center.

JOSHUA HAUSER, assistant professor of trombone, has performed extensively in styles ranging from classical to jazz and rock. He holds a bachelor of music degree from Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, a master of music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music, and the doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Georgia.

Dr. Hauser has performed on trombone and euphonium throughout the world, having recently traveled to France and Switzerland to perform at the Vienne and Montreaux jazz festivals. While in Georgia, he was a founding member of the Bulldog Brass Society, a brass quintet lead by former Canadian Brass trumpeter Fred Mills. Travels with this group took him to Narbonne, France, where he was a featured solo artist with the Georgia Brass, and Montevideo, Uruguay, where the quintet did a state-sponsored tour of the country and performed as featured soloists with the Filharmonica de Montevideo. He has performed as featured soloist with numerous classical and jazz artists including the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble (Marching, Ragging, and Mourning: Brass Band Music of New Orleans, 1900-1920) and Widespread Panic (Til the Medicine Takes).

Dr. Hauser has several arrangements for brass quintet published through Music Express Publishing in the Encore Brass Series, and his transcription of Eduard Lassen's Two Fantasy Pieces for solo bass trombone and winds is scheduled to be available through Ensemble Publications.

Coming to TTU in 1989, JOSEPH HERMANN is Professor of Music and Director of Bands, and is responsible for an active and diverse program consisting of the Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, University Marching Band, Concert Band, Pep Band, and the Golden Eagle Brass.

Hermann is sought after as conductor, adjudicator, and speaker and has presented clinics, workshops, and has conducted in over thirty states, in the Netherlands, Canada, and throughout Japan. His symphonic bands have been featured ensembles at state, regional and national conventions; his interpretations have been broadcast on National Public Radio, and recordings of his ensembles have been issued as reference for music educators nationwide. He is a proponent of new music for the ensemble, has premiered numerous works for the band and remains an active participant in commissioning projects.

Hermann is a member of CBDNA, MENC, and NBA, serves as the editor for the New Music Reviews for the Tennessee Musician, and is a board member of the Tennessee Music Educators Association. In 1996, Hermann was elected to the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He is a member of Phi Beta Mu, a past President of the PAC-10 Band Directors Association, a past Province Governor for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and holds honorary memberships in Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.

ARTHUR LABAR, Professor of Horn, Director of the Southeast Chamber Music Institute, and Tennessee representative to the International Horn Society, holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Superior and from Indiana University, where he was awarded the Performer's Certificate. LaBar has been a member of the United States Army Band of Washington, D.C., the National and Nashville symphony orchestras, and the Annapolis Brass Quintet, an international touring and recording ensemble. The Annapolis Quintet's performance of the Elliott Carter Quintet won the Munich Critic's Award. He is the author of Horn Player's Audition Handbook, published by Belwin, and Hornist's Opera and Ballet Handbook, a Phoenix Music publication. His teachers include Harold Rutan, Philip Farkas, and Barry Tuckwell. Prof. LaBar has been at TTU since 1979. His students have established themselves as outstanding musicians and teachers at all levels, and have become members in major symphony orchestras on two continents.

JAMES LOTZ is a professor of music at Tennessee Tech University, principal bassoonist of the Cum-berland Quintet and the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, and has been a faculty member of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. His other orchestral experience includes principal bassoon of the Chattanooga Symphony and the Jaap Schroeder Chamber Orchestra. He has also been a member of the Bridgeport Symphony, the Norwalk Symphony, the Knoxville Symphony, the Breck-enridge Music Festival and the Mexico City Philharmonic, and has performed with the Nashville Symphony, the Alabama Symphony, the Stamford Chamber Orchestra, and the Connecticut Grand Opera. Mr. Lotz is also an active studio musician in Nashville. He can be heard on many recordings from P.D.Q. Bach to Matchbox Twenty to Three Dog Night. Mr. Lotz holds degrees from the University of Tennessee and Yale University. His major teachers include Steven Maxym, Keith McClelland, Arthur Weisberg and William Winstead.

A member of the music faculty at Tennessee Technological University since 1989, ROGER MARTIN holds degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (bachelor of music in Flute Performance) and Florida State University (master of music in Woodwinds Performance, doctor of music in Flute Performance). Martin has concertized extensively, presenting solo recitals in Canada, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and throughout the United States. He has been principal flutist with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra (1989-present), the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony (1985-1989), and the Festival Chamber Orchestra of the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado (1988-present). He has also been a featured solo artist with all three of these organizations. Martin does occasional work in Nashville area recording studios and is a regular sub with the Nashville Symphony (with whom he has appeared as guest principal flutist). Activities with the Cumberland Quintet (in residence at Tennessee Tech University) include numerous yearly concerts, two CD's, and performances at national conventions. As a clinician and adjudicator, Martin has been active for the past fifteen years throughout the United States. Previous faculty positions include Minnesota's Moorhead State University (1984-1989) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (1983-1984).

CHRIS MCCORMICK is in his tenth year as the Director of Jazz Studies at Tennessee Technological University. In addition to directing the Troubadours and Trouveres Jazz Ensemble, he teaches jazz improvisation, harmony, ear training, and music technology. Mr. McCormick is also the director of the annual Tennessee Tech Jazz Festival.

Mr. McCormick holds a bachelor of music degree in Performance from Capital University, and a master of music degree in Jazz and Contemporary Media (Performance) from the Eastman School of Music.

As a trumpet player, Mr. McCormick performs in the Tennessee Tech Faculty Brass Quintet and the Bryan Symphony. He has performed and/or recorded professionally with the Top Brass, The Jazz Arts Group, The Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Carnival Cruise Lines, and The Guy Lombardo Orchestra, as well as backing up such performers as The Four Tops, The Temptations, and Suzanna McCorkle. Mr. McCormick has also done recordings and/or television programs with Suzanna McCorkle, the Jazz Arts Group, the Eastman Jazz Ensemble, and the TTU Faculty Brass, as well as hosting a weekly jazz show on WRUB-FM in Rochester, New York. In addition, the Tennessee Tech Troubadours jazz ensemble, under his direction, appeared on "CBS Sunday Morning" with Charles Kuralt, in a story about jazz great Louie Bellson.

R. WINSTON MORRIS has been internationally recognized for the past three decades as one of the leaders in the advancement of the tuba. He is Professor of Music and Instructor of Tuba and Euphonium at Tennessee Technological University, where he has been on the faculty since 1967. Morris is regarded as the leading authority on the literature for the tuba, was one of the founding fathers of the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (T.U.B.A.), and acknowledged worldwide as the major authority on the development of the tuba ensemble. He is the senior editor for the recently published Tuba Source Book; conductor of the large professional tuba/euphonium ensemble, Symphonia; and has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association.

As a performer on the tuba, Morris has toured throughout the United States, Australia, Europe, and Japan. He is a member of the acclaimed Tubajazz Consort, has performed and toured with the Original Jack Daniel's Silver Cornet Band and is the tubist with the Tennessee Tech University Faculty Brass Quintet.

Morris is also very active as a soloist and presenter of tuba clinics and master classes. He has been the featured clinician at state conventions throughout the United States; at regional, national, and international tuba workshops; and appeared as soloist with such ensembles as the United States Army Band, the Sapporo Wind Ensemble, the SL's Musikkar Concert Band of Stockholm, and the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra.

Percussion Instructor JOSEPH RASMUSSEN hails from Freeport, Long Island, where he studied percussion with Glenn Brown, marimbist with the Xavier Cugat Orchestra. Mr. Rasmussen performed under Ray Dvorak at the University of Wisconsin, where he received a bachelor's degree in Music Education. After three years in the Army Band at Ft. Monroe, Virginia, he returned to the New York area where he studied with Elden C. "Buster" Bailey at The Juilliard School and received a master's degree in Percussion Performance. Before coming to Tennessee Tech he toured the U.S. and Europe as a percussionist with Steve Reich and Musicians. Mr. Rasmussen has studied West African drumming and dance. He not only teaches classes in both, but also has led students from these classes on summer field trips to Ghana, West Africa. Under his direction, student groups from Tennessee Tech have performed from Orlando to Cincinnati at state, regional and national conferences of T.M.E.A., M.E.N.C. and P.A.S. A past president of the Tennessee Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society, he is currently a percussionist with the Nashville Symphony.

JAMES SPINAZZOLA is the Associate Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Saxophone. He is responsible for the direction of the Golden Eagle Marching Band, the University Concert Band, and the Golden Eagle Brass. The saxophone studio currently consists of twelve majors and features three saxophone quartets. These chamber ensembles perform frequently on campus and throughout the state, and the Sonore Quartet has been honored with an invitation to perform at the 2001 Tennessee Music Educators' Conference.

Spinazzola received a bachelor of music degree in Music Education from Duquesne University, where he was a saxophone student of Eric Kloss and Marino Galluzzo. His master's degree in Wind Conducting is from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied conducting with Allan McMurray. He has taught at the high school level, and is continually active throughout the Southeast as a conductor, performer, and adjudicator. He will soon be recording a compact disc for the Mark label in collaboration with the Tennessee Tech University Symphony Band entitled "Music for Saxophone and Symphonic Winds."

Spinazzola is a member of MENC, CBDNA, MTSBOA, and Mu Phi Epsilon. He also serves on the faculty of the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts.

ANNE THURMOND, assistant professor of clarinet, holds degrees from Indiana University at South Bend (Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Music Education) the University of Illinois (Master of Music in clarinet performance) and the University of Georgia (Doctor of Musical Arts in woodwinds performance and literature). In addition to teaching clarinet and directing the TTU clarinet choir, Dr. Thurmond performs with the Cumberland Quintet and is the principal clarinetist with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra. She has presented solo and chamber recitals on all five of the woodwind instruments throughout the United States and the Caribbean, including performances at the conferences of the International Clarinet Association, the Society for American Music and the Center for Black Music Research. She has also performed with the Cedar Rapids Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Elkhart Symphony, Macon Symphony and Sinfonia da camera. Dr. Thurmond is an active clinician, providing clarinet master classes and clinics throughout the region.

WILLIAM WOODWORTH, Associate Professor of Oboe, holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Eastern Washington University. His major teacher at the Eastman School was internationally acclaimed pedagogue and performer Robert Sprenkle. Previous to his tenure at Tennessee Tech University, Mr. Woodworth taught instrumental music for ten years at Fairport (NY) Central Schools and taught and performed oboe at the State University of New York at Geneseo. He has also performed with the Rochester (NY) Philharmonic Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, the Breck-enridge (CO) Festival Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, and was principal oboist with the Rochester Festival Orchestra. Mr. Woodworth came to Tennessee Tech in 1988. He is currently the oboist and manager of the Cumberland Quintet, which has released three compact discs and several nationally aired TV shows for PBS since 1988. Mr. Woodworth is the principal oboist in the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, teaches theory and aural techniques, and coaches several woodwind quintets. He is an active teacher, recitalist, adjudicator, clinician and studio musician in Nashville.