Michael Kroth, assistant professor of bassoon, performed in the Milwaukee Symphony and Peninsula Music Festival. He taught master classes and performed at University of  Wisconsin, Eastman School of Music, and Colorado College. He performed and was a clinician at the SUNY Fredonia and Grand Island High School. He performed a “Live from Hochstein” chamber music recital in Rochester (N.Y.) and gave the world premiere performance of New York composer Dana Wilson’s The Avatar: Concerto for Bassoon and Chamber Ensemble with Wesley Broadnax and the MSU Chamber Winds.
Michael Largey, associate professor and area chair of musicology, published the book Vodou Nation: Haitian Art Music and Cultural
 Nationalism with the University of Chicago Press in 2006 and co-authored a second edition of the prize-winning book Caribbean Currents: Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae with Temple University Press in 2006. He presented the paper “Recording the Sonic Flood” at the Rockefeller Foundation Colloquium in
 the Virgin Islands in 2004. Largey published articles titled “Recombinant Mythology and the Alchemy of Memory: Occide Jeanty, Ogou, and Jean-Jacques Dessalines in Haiti” in the Journal of American Folklore in 2005 and “Ethnographic Transcription and Music Ideology in Haiti: The Music of Werner A. Jaegerhuber” in the Latin American Music Review in 2004. He serves on the editorial advisory board of Black Music Research Journal and CR: The New Centennial Review. He hosted a concert of traditional Chinese music in February 2004 by a group of performers from the Chinese Traditional Arts Ensemble of Hunan Art School in Hunan Province.
Marie-France Lefebvre, assistant professor of piano, performed a concert at the National Gallery  with cellist Nathaniel Chaitkin and violinist Claudia Chudacoff. She was a coach and faculty member at the Opera Theatre and Music Festival of Lucca (Italy), guest coach for the preparation of a French opera concert at the Cincinnati Conservatory. She was a coach/assistant conductor for the productions of Samson et Dalila and Das Rheingold at Washington National Opera. She performed and taught a master class at Shenyang Conservatory of Music (China). She performed for the Metropolitan Council Opera Auditions at Wolf Trap (Va.).
Ricardo Lorenz, associate professor of composition, was the recipient of a National Flute Association commission
 to be premiered at the 2007 NFA Conven-tion. He is also a recipient of a commission from the Ravinia Festival to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Robert Schumann’s death and a commission from Music in the Loft for the Pacifica String Quartet and guitarist Rami Vamos. He composed a piece in honor of Gabriela Mistral, the famed Chilean poet and first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize.
Kathryn Lowerre, assistant professor of musicology, organized “London Theater Music during the First Decade of the Eighteenth Century,” a Reader’s Choice Exhibit at Houghton Library, Harvard University. She presented the following papers: “Personalities and Audiences: Song Quotations and Musical Jokes in Comedies c. 1700” at the American Society for 18th-Century Studies Annual Meeting in Montreal; “Stalking Fabulous Beasts: English Dramatick Opera and Musical Tragedies c.1700” at the Musicology Colloquium at School of Music, University of Kentucky (Lexington); “English Heroism, English Opera: John Milton, John Dennis, and John Eccles” at the 11th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester, England); and “Performing ‘Frenchness’ on the London Stage, c. 1700” at the Midwest Center for British Studies 50th Annual Meeting. She published the following articles: “Fallen Woman Redeemed: Eliot, Victorianism, and Opera in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats” in the Journal of Musicological Research; “Dramatick Opera and Theatrical Reform: Dennis’s Rinaldo and Armida and Motteux’s The Island Princess,” which appeared in the journal Theatre Notebook; “Some Uncatalogued Musical Resources in the Harvard Theatre Collection with a Handlist for Bound Music Volumes” in Notes: Quarterly Journal of the Music Library Association; “Gothic Elements in English Theater Music of the Early 18th Century,” which appeared in Eighteenth-Century Music. She also wrote a report for the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Newsletter. She organized and was a panel chair of “Getting and Spending: Applying for and Using Grants and Contracts” at AMS National Meeting, Seattle. She co-edited Studies in Performance in the Long Eighteenth Century: Theatre, Music, Dance with Jane Milling from University of Exeter (England). Lowerre led a workshop, titled “Winning the Vote: The Women’s Suffrage Movement in the United States,” on using music in teaching about the women’s suffrage movement as part of an NEH-sponsored professional development workshop for community college and 8th-12th grade teachers from schools throughout Michigan.
Joseph Lulloff, professor of saxophone and area chair of woodwinds, received the 2006 Michigan State University Distinguished Faculty Award. He presented master classes and recitals with Jun Okada (Lulloff~Okada Duo) at the Thailand International Saxophone Conference at Mahidol University (Bangkok), the
 Lulloff performing the “Concerto for Alto Saxophone” by Ingolf Dahl with the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Franz Welser Möst, in May 2005.
U.S. Navy Band Saxophone Symposium, Indiana University, the University of North Texas, Baylor University, Texas State University (at the College Music Society South Central Chapter Conference), and Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He also performed and taught master classes at the Faenza Saxophone Institute (Italy), University of California at Stanislaus, and the Brevard Music Center Summer Institute (NC). He performed as guest soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra at Severance Hall (Cleveland) and on its West Coast tour. He also appeared as guest soloist with the Duquesne University Wind Ensemble in Pittsburgh, the University of New Mexico Wind Ensemble, the Walnut Creek Community Band (Calif.), and with the Basic High School Wind Ensemble in Las Vegas. He intermittently performs as principal saxophonist with the following orchestras: Cleveland Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Lansing Symphony, and the Brevard Music Center Orchestra, and Portland Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of Capitol Quartet, with performances in Maryland, Maine, Kansas, Kentucky, Oregon, California, Connecticut, North Carolina, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New York City.
Panayis Lyras, professor of piano and artist-in-residence, performed Tchaikovsky’s Concerto No. 1 with the
 Idaho State Civic Orchestra. At the invitation of the Indianapolis Symphony, he performed a solo recital and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet at the Circle Theater in Indianapolis. He gave solo recitals at Indiana-Purdue University at Fort Wayne (Ind.), Columbus State University (Ga.), Interlochen Arts Academy (Mich.), Mackinac Island (Mich.), Schoolcraft College (Mich.) and McKinney (Texas). He taught master classes at the Brevard Music Center (N.C.), Dallas Piano Teachers’ Guild (Texas), Indiana Piano Teachers’ Guild, Idaho State University and Schoolcraft College, and adjudicated the Brevard Music Center Piano Competition, Fort Wayne Symphony Young Artists’ Competition, and Wysong-Joplin Young Artist Competition (Texas). He is a member of the artistic advisory board of the American Pianists’ Association.
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John T. Madden, associate professor of music, associate director of bands, and director of the Spartan Marching Band, is
 the state of Michigan chair for the College Band Directors National Association. He was a clinician at Butler University for the state of Indiana Band Conductor In-Service Conference and at University of Illinois for the Third Annual National Collegiate Athletic Band Symposium. He published the article “From Carnegie Hall to the 50 Yard Line – The Peaceful Co-existence of Concert and Marching Ensembles” in Marshall Music Quarterly Educational Newsletter. He served as clinician at the Mackinaw City Band Clinic, Battle Creek Lakeview Middle School, Okemos and Williamston High School Bands, and at the Midwest Clinic (Chicago). He held the workshop “Marching Band Techniques Summer Workshop” at the University of Akron (Ohio). He is a national board member of the Purdue University Bands.
Ray McLellan, university carillonneur,
 performed in Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece with Kol Halev choir from Temple Beth Emeth, Ann Arbor (Mich.). He was an invited guest recitalist at the annual congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America at Grand Valley State University. He performed recitals in France and was the delegate representing MSU at the World Carillon Federation Congress in Gdansk, Poland.
Deborah Moriarty, professor of piano and area chair of keyboard, performed with the Fontana Ensemble,  the Dohnanyi Sextet, and at Western Mich igan University, Eastern Ken tucky Univer sity and Banff Centre. She taught a master class for St. Cecilia Society. She performed at the National Horn Conference (Las Vegas) and was a chamber music pianist with the Grand Teton Music Festival. She, along with co-investigators, was awarded MSU Intramural Research Grant Proposal funding for “Explora tions in Musical and Linguistic Con sciousness: the Tone Project.”
Ronald Newman, professor of music theory, performed at jazz clubs/venues/festivals in Michigan and
 Toledo, primarily with the Sunny Wilkinson Duo and the Sunny Wilkinson Quartet, and also with Rob Killips and Joe Lulloff. He composed Three Miniatures for Piano; If I Only Had A Porsche (I Would Wile Away the Hours); Indian Summer; and Possibilities. His work was also reviewed in Jazz Educators Journal. He wrote three reviews of new music for jazz band in International Association of Jazz Educators Journal. He performed a benefit concert for Court Appointed Special Advocates.
Ava Ordman, associate professor of trombone, area chair of brass and percussion, and a member of the faculty  quintet Beaumont Brass, performed with the Monarch Brass at the International Trumpet Guild Conference at Rowan University and at the International Women’s Brass Festival at Illinois State University. She performed as principal trombone with the Cabrillo Music Festival Orchestra (Calif.). She presented the paper “The Psychobiology of Love and Martial Arts and Psychotherapy” at the Bar-Levav Educational Association, Tuesday Seminar Series, in Southfield (Mich.). She taught master classes for Mackinac Island Public Schools. She performed with the Galliard Brass Ensemble and the Michigan Opera Theatre Orchestra. She performed in the national tours of The Producers and Chicago.
Judy Palac, associate professor of music education, presented or co-presented workshop sessions on musicians’ wellness at the University of Montana High School
 Orchestra Festival, Oklahoma City University, the Oklahoma Music Educators conference, pre-conference session of the 2004 MENC Biennial In-Service, the 2005 national ASTA conference, a 2005 Illinois ASTA Workshop, and the 2006 Michigan Music Educators Conference. With co-researcher David Sogin of the University of Kentucky, she presented the paper “Hand Asymmetry: A Study of Young String Players’ Finger Dexterity” at the 2004 International Society of Music Education Research Seminar in Las Palmas, Canary Islands, published in The Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education. She presented a related study at the 2006 Performing Arts Medicine Association Seminar. She was featured in the article “Staying Healthy” in Strings Magazine. In 2004, she chaired the Music Education Neuromusculoskeletal Subcommittee at the national Health Promotion in Schools of Music Conference in Ft. Worth (Texas). In the music education area, she co-presented “Admissions Procedures for Undergraduate Instrumental Music Education and Performance Majors” at the first Instrumental Methods Teacher Education Retreat, Deer Creek (Ohio); “Collaboration Between a Community Music School and a Music Education Program” at the first national Society for Music Teacher Education Symposium, UNC-Greensboro. She and Jack Budrow, professor of bass, co-authored the article “Listening: Something Old, Yet Something New?” in American String Teacher magazine. She also served on the editorial board of the American String Teacher until 2004.
David Rayl, professor of music and director of choral activities, has served as guest conductor for the Missouri High School All-
 State Choir, the SATB State Honors Choir for the MSVMA, two district choirs in the suburban Chicago area, and the Techny Choral Festival, also in the Chicago area. Under his direction, the MSU Chorale sang for the Central Division Convention of the ACDA and for the annual convention of the Michigan chapter of ACDA in Grand Rapids. He also prepared the ensemble to sing Handel’s Messiah with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra led by Robert King. During the summers of 2005 and 2006 he returned to VanderCook College in Chicago to teach a graduate conducting course. He presented a paper at the international symposium The Phenomenon of Singing in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and served as an adjudicator for the semi-final round of the undergraduate conducting awards at the national convention of the ACDA in Los Angeles and for the Indiana State School Music Associations’ State Finals for Choral Organizations.
Jonathan Reed, associate professor of music and associate director of choral activities, was the Choral Clinician at the Michigan School Vocal Music Association fall
 adjudication clinic (Mich.). He co-presented with Sandra Snow, “For Him about Her; For Her about Him: Voice Building for Men’s and Women’s Choirs” at the National ACDA Conference in Los Angeles in 2005. He conducted the Wisconsin Women’s All-State Choir and the Illinois Music Education Association District 1 Choir. He published the article “TMEA: An Outsider’s Look from the Inside” in Southwestern Musician. He conducted high school choirs at the Missouri Choral Directors Association Summer Conference and presented the following papers: “Inviting the Muse to Rehearsal: Getting Choristers to Take Ownership of the Interpretive Process,” “Warm-ups to Energize and Invigorate the Rehearsal Process,” and “Musical Form as Feeling.” He presented the paper “Form as Feeling” at the University of Michigan Choral Conducting Symposium. He was a headline clinician for the 50th anniversary conference of the Texas Choral Directors Association held in San Antonio in the summer of 2005. He conducted the New York Young Men Singing Festival held at Ithaca College and Cornell University. He conducted the TMEA Region 19 Mixed Honor Choir in Deer Park (Texas). He conducted the prestigious Texas TMEA Mixed All State Choir, becoming the youngest conductor to conduct that festival chorus. He also conducted the Western Division Senior High Men’s Honor Choir for the Western Division Conference of the American Choral Directors Association held in Salt Lake City, and the Tennessee Men’s Honor Choir for TMEA, the Virginia Mixed Honor Chorus, and the North Carolina Junior High School Mixed Honor Choir. Reed and Snow were headline clinicians for Perspectives 2006, a choral symposium in Santa Fe (N.M.). Reed is on the board of directors for Intercollegiate Male Choruses, INC. He is also the series editor for In Low Voice, a male chorus series for Boosey and Hawkes.
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