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Board of Directors | Musicians| Openings
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Karen Fannin
has been music director of
LRWS since 2006. Dr. Fannin is also
Director of Bands and
Assistant Professor of Music
at Hendrix College, where she
conducts the wind ensemble
and teaches conducting, low
brass, and courses in
twentieth-century music and
fundamentals of music. In
2008, she founded the
Festival of Winds Honor Band
for high school musicians
held at Hendrix College each
May.
Fannin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting and Literature from the University of Colorado, where she studied with Allan McMurray. She received a Master of Music in Conducting from Northwestern University, where she was a student of Mallory Thompson, and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Northern Iowa, where she studied euphonium with Jeffrey Funderburk. Upon
graduation from UNI, Dr.
Fannin was awarded the Purple
and Old Gold Award for
Conspicuous Achievement in
Music.
Prior to her studies at CU,
Dr. Fannin served as Director
of Bands at Lockport Township
High School in suburban
Chicago, where she instituted
a composer-in-residence
program. A native of Iowa,
Dr. Fannin also held the
position of Director of Bands
in the Lynnville-Sully
Community Schools.
Dr. Fannin maintains an
active schedule as a guest
conductor and clinician. Her
paper “Tracing the Lineage of
Nadia Boulanger through
American Wind Repertoire” was
selected for presentation at
the 2007 National Convention
of the College Band Directors
National Association (CBDNA)
in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She
has also been selected to
present her research in
creating "Behind the Scenes
with Little Rock Wind
Symphony" (a masterworks
concert in 2007-2008), at a
Creativity Across the
Curriculum conference of the
National Institute for
Technology and Liberal
Education (NITLE) in Salem,
Oregon in October 2008. Dr.
Fannin has presented on
topics such as communication
in music as well as parallels
between the ensemble and
business. She will also be a
contributing author to the
seventh volume of the
Teaching Music Through
Performance in Band series
published by GIA.
Dr. Fannin’s professional
affiliations include Pi Kappa
Lambda, College Band
Directors National
Association, World
Association for Symphonic
Bands and Ensembles, Music
Educators National
Conference, Arkansas
Bandmasters Association,
Arkansas Music Educators
Association, and the Arkansas
School Band and Orchestra
Association.
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Each LRWS Concert is brought to life in more detail by the colorful commentary from Brent Walker.
After giving up on piano lessons at 11, Walker spent several years holding down the third-chair clarinet section in his high school band. It didn’t take divine revelation to suggest to him that a music career wasn’t in the offing. He sold the clarinet, ritually burned his box of broken reeds and turned to the microphone.
Walker has navigated the world of professional voice acting for 25 years, and owns and operates Soundscapes — considered one of the most successful media sound production companies in the country. Yet even after enjoying success in the world of voice acting, he readily admits still getting all goosebumpy when the wind symphony’s clarinet section holds forth.
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President -
Brenda Barber
Secretary - Susan
Dodson Hiller
Treasurer - Jack Blackshear, M.D.
Susan Antonetti
Sharon Burrall
Richard Butler, Jr.
Susan Morrow
Elizabeth Plowman
William Randall, Jr.
Terril Zylman
Administrative Positions
Assistant Conductor - Claude Smith
Librarian - Robert Bidewell
Personnel Manager - Brenda Barber
Copy Editor - Joe Riddle
Recording Technician - Tom Shuffield
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- Piccolo
- Jennifer Amox
- Flute
- Sharon Burrall, Principal
Susan Antonetti
- Oboe
- Shannon Clardy, Principal
Elizabeth Mitchell
- English Horn
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- B-Flat Clarinet
- Steven Davis, Principal
Robert Anderson
Tricia Sterling
Jack Blackshear
Beth Lincoln
Jeaneau Batson Julian
Rachel Loretz
- Bass Clarinet
- Bob Bidewell
- Bassoon
- Jeff Byrd, Principal
Chris Vanlandingham-
- Alto Saxophone
- Terril Zylman, Principal
Alan Sharlow
- Tenor Saxophone
- Brian Trubitt
- Baritone Saxophone
- Ron Wise
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- Trumpet
- Brenda Barber, Principal
Amy Anderson Jackson
Wes Hall
Josh Jackson
Mark Tenney
Jay Smith
Micah Fannin, sub
- French Horn
- Darrell Smith, Principal
Claude Smith
Bryan Thomas
Kathy Bruner Schaus
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- Euphonium
- Steve Caver, Principal
Fred Baker
- Trombone
- Mike Chance, Principal
Allen J. Price
Lee Clark
- Bass Trombone
- Janet Sutton Williams
- Tuba
- Greg Lindstrom, Principal
Jeff Jarvis
- Percussion
- Rick Stein, Principal
Sara Rose
Nick Hawthorne
Timothy Show
- Tympani
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TBA
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LRWS Announces
Openings
for the Following Positions
English Horn
Horn IV
All Instruments' Sub Lists
Auditions will be held 9/02/2008 and 9/09/2008.
For audition information, contact us at
ExecDirector@lrwindsymphony.org
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