061 THREE FULL-TIME MUSIC FACULTY JOIN MTSU’S MUSIC SCHOOL RANKS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 28, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, (615) 898-2493

THREE FULL-TIME MUSIC FACULTY JOIN MTSU’S MUSIC SCHOOL RANKS

(MURFREESBORO)—Representatives of the McLean School of Music at MTSU are pleased to announce that three new full-time professors—Angela DeBoer, professor of horn; Andrea Dawson, professor of violin; and Leopoldo Erice, professor of collaborative piano—have been added the to faculty’s ranks for fall 2007..
DeBoer comes to MTSU from Oklahoma, where she has been a member of the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra and worked with the Tulsa Ballet and Tulsa Opera. Prior to her work in Oklahoma, DeBoer was active in the freelance community in and around Chicago, performing with ensembles such as the Milwaukee, Grant Park, Elgin, South Bend, Northwest Indiana, Duluth-Superior and Illinois Symphonie, as well as with Symphony II, Chicago Sinfonietta, Millar Brass Ensemble, Chicago Opera Theatre and the Illinois and Fort Wayne Philharmonics. She also spent several seasons as a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a group with which she also appeared as soloist.
DeBoer received her bachelor’s degree in music from DePaul University in Chicago, studied in the Orchestral Performance Program at the Manhattan School of Music and received her Master of Music from Northwestern University. Her primary teachers include Gail Williams, David Krehbiel, Jerome Ashby and Jonathan Boen.
Violinist Dawson has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States and Mexico. Before moving to Tennessee, she was an assistant professor of music at the University of Texas – Pan American and Associate Concertmaster of the Valley Symphony Orchestra in south Texas.
Dawson received her Masters in Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the coveted Performer’s Certificate. She also received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology, with a minor in French, and a Bachelor of Music in violin performance from Oberlin College. Her principal teachers include Lynn Blakeslee, Camilla Wicks, Taras Gabora, Kathleen Winkler and Robert Koff, respectively.
Pianist Erice received his piano and chamber music degree from Real Conservatorio Superior de Musica in Madrid and his artist diploma and Master of Music in piano from Indiana University. He recently has finished his coursework for a Doctorate of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University in New York.
Erice has performed throughout Europe and the United States and won many awards and honors as a pianist, including first prize in the Royale National Piano Competition in Madrid Spain.
For more information these and or other current faculty in the McLean School of Music at MTSU, please visit its Web site at www.mtsumusic.com.

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