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Applied Music Faculty
Keyboard Faculty
Leslie Tung
Instrument: Piano, Fortepiano
Email: tung@kzoo.edu
"Amiable and engaging, full of verve, energy, and rhythmically both vibrant and elastic... stylistically informed and technically brilliant." - American Record Guide
Leslie Tung has been praised for his "sense of history, combined with skill and heart" (Stereophile) and "artistic courage and conspicuous energy" (Indianapolis Star) for his interpretations on the classic fortepiano, the instrument favored by Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Tung has been recitalist at the First International Festival and Conference on Fortepiano in Antwerp, the Michigan MozartFest, the Connecticut Early Music Festival and Festival Indianapolis. He has also been soloist with the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival orchestra and with the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and duo pianist with his wife Silvia Roederer at the Carinthian Summer Festival in Austria and at the Conservatories of Music at Beijing and Shanghai, China. In addition he has appeared at over 30 colleges and universities, most recently as Distinguished Guest Artist at the University of Memphis School of Music, as soloist at the Conservatoire National de Région Chabrier, and guest artist at the Academy for Performing Arts in Hong Kong.
Ron DiSalvio
Instrument: Jazz Piano
Email: rondisalvio@excite.com
Ron Di Salvio is a Jazz composer/pianist/recording artist with Origin Records. He works with students of all levels of proficiency, individually or in a small group setting called JEE, K's Jazz Ensemble Experience. If your desire is to expand your piano skills beyond the written page Ron can help you achieve your goals. To hear examples of his music go to www.deltadiatonics.com and click on the Myspace link.
Jennifer Drake
Instrument: Piano
Email: hughjen@chartermi.net
Kalamazoo College Department of Music piano instructor Jennifer Drake has taught privately in Kalamazoo for the last 19 years. She is an alum of K-College where she studied with Dr. Leslie Tung. She has studied with Lori Sims at Western Michigan University as well. She is an active member of both Michigan Music Teachers Association (michiganmusicteachers.org) and Kalamazoo Area Music Teachers Association (kamta.org), where she is currently serving as vice-president. She also serves as pianist at Peoples Church in Kalamazoo.
Susan Lawrence
Instrument: Piano / Accompanist
Email: Susan.Lawrence@kzoo.edu
Susan Lawrence currently teaches piano and performs as a staff accompanist for Kalamazoo College. In addition, she is the Music Coordinator for the Music Department at Kalamazoo College. Susan brings 30 years of piano performance and teaching experience, along with 17 years of arts administration experience to this position. Her recent positions included: staff accompanist - coach for Albion College which included all instruments, solo voice and choral groups; ensemble groups; adjunct college piano instruction at Albion and local community colleges; and a nine-year career as Director of Education for The Gilmore Keyboard Festival, with major accomplishments being The Gilmore piano lab program, summer Gilmore Piano Camp and the Festival, Gilmore Elderhostel program. Within the past few years, Lawrence has been a piano accompanist for Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra members, The Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra (principal pianist – 1997-2001), students and professors at Western Michigan University and local Community Music Schools, including The Music Center of South Central Michigan, Battle Creek, Crescendo Academy and Suzuki Strings in Kalamazoo. In addition, she has played for many theater productions in the Kalamazoo area. Lawrence holds BFA in music performance / education from Albion College and a MM in piano performance from Western Michigan University. In addition, Susan has an arts administration certification from The National Guild of Community Music Schools.
Timothy Tikker
Instrument: Organ
Email:tikkertimothy@gmail.com
College Organist Timothy Tikker obtained his Bachelor of Music degree, magna cum laude, in Organ Performance at San Francisco State University, and his Master of Music degree in Organ from the University of Oregon at Eugene, studying repertoire and improvisation with Guy Bovet and through a Ruth Lorraine Close Award from the University of Oregon, he studied with Jean Langlais. He won First Prize in the National Improvisation Competition in the San Anselmo Organ Festival in 1987 (USA), the Holtkamp-AGO Award in Organ Composition in 1993, First Prize in the UNESP Organ Composition Competition (Brazil) in 1997, and won a Finalist award in the Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Competition in 2000 (USA). He has recorded for Arkay, OHS and Raven Records and published numerous articles in various music journals, especially concerning French music and organs.
Vocal Faculty
Jim Turner
Instrument: Voice
Email: jturner@kzoo.edu
James Turner has been President of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. His voice students have won top prizes at the Detroit District Leontyne Price Competition and the Great Lakes Region Artist Awards for N.A.T.S. In addition they have been finalists at both the Detroit District and Great Lakes Region Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. Previous to assuming his post at "K" as Professor of Voice and Director of Choral Activities, Prof. Turner was voted Outstanding Teacher at Marygrove College, where he led its choirs on international tours to the Soviet Union and British Isles. Prof. Turner is a popular choral and vocal clinician throughout Michigan.
Corlyn Schreck
Instrument: Voice
Email: clongerschreck@live.com
Corlyn Longer-Schreck, Soprano, has a B.A. in Vocal Music from the University of Northern Iowa, a M.M. in Vocal Performance from Western Michigan University and also studied opera and recital music at the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria on full scholarship.
She is a Metropolitan Opera Vocal Competition Regional Finalist and District Winner, a two-time Finalist of the Bel Canto Regional Vocal Competition in Milwaukee, and has won several competitions in Michigan. She has appeared as a soloist in opera, major choral works and musical theater with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Choir of Men & Boys, the Battle Creek Symphony, the Kalamazoo Bach Festival The Cedar Falls/Waterloo Metropolitan Chorale (IA) and the Kalamazoo Civic Theater. She is a member of the professional vocal quartet, Aspire Ensemble, which performs classical, sacred, music theater and contemporary music throughout the region. She adjudicates many voice competitions including the Michigan Music Association Competition and the National Association of Teachers of Singing Auditions, of which she is also a member, and in 2006 was awarded the Significant Educator Award by the Excellence in Education of Kalamazoo County.
Janice Lakers
Instrument: Jazz Voice
Email: janicelakers@yahoo.com
Janice Lakers has many years' experience both singing jazz with various top notch European musicians and teaching jazz vocals. She lived in The Netherlands for 22 years and taught in the University Conservatory system there for 18 years. She also gave many workshops, giving practical help and advice to those wanting more experience in singing jazz. Since returning to the States in 2005, she teaches part time and is music director at Unity of Kalamazoo church.
String Faculty
Andrew Koehler
Instrument: Violin
Email: akoehler@kzoo.edu
Andrew Koehler is currently the music director of the Kalamazoo Philharmonia, which he leads as part of his position as an assistant professor of music at Kalamazoo College. He holds a concurrent post as music director of the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra, and is a frequent guest at the West Michigan Symphony Orchestra, where he covers rehearsals for music director Scott Speck. This season, guest conducting appearances will take Andrew to destinations as diverse as Vermont and Kyiv, Ukraine.
Karin Loberg Code
Instrument: Viola
Email: lobergcode@gmail.com
Karin Loberg Code has been teaching strings in Kalamazoo for nearly twenty years. During that time, she has built a private studio of twenty-five students, and continues on the faculties at Portage Northern High School, Maple Street Middle School and West Michigan Homeschool Fine Arts. In addition to her teaching duties, Karin is a free-lance violist who regularly plays with several area orchestras including the Kalamazoo Symphony. She is also a respected soloist on the Norwegian folk violin, the Hardanger fiddle and often is traveling around the country to perform. In 2010 Karin was awarded the PRISM Award for Excellence in Music Education from the Kalamazoo Chapter of SAI at Western Michigan University.
David Peshlakai
Instrument: Cello
Email: peshcello@hotmail.com
Kalamazoo College Cello Instructor David Peshlakai is the Principal Cellist of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. As such, he is also a member of the Burdick-Thorne String Quartet. David has also performed as a section cellist, principal or guest soloist of many orchestras in Michigan and the Mid-West, including Grand Rapids, Jackson, Battle Creek and Lansing. He also teaches at Hillsdale College.
Douglas Ferreira
Instrument: Double Bass
Email: Douglas.Ferreira@kzoo.edu
Kalamazoo College Department of Music appoints NEW double bass instructor Douglas Ferreira to the applied string applied faculty. Ferreira holds a BM at Sao Paulo State university, Brazil and a MM from Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida and is currently a DMA candidate in string bass performance at Michigan State University(MSU). Douglas has performed widely with orchestras in Brazil and the United States.
Douglas has collaborated, toured and recorded as solo bassist with International Chamber Soloists under the direction of Dmitri Berlinsky and in a similar capacity with The Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra directed by Sergiu Schwartz.
Douglas has studied principally with Dr. Valerie Albright (Principal Bass of Orquestra Municipal de Sao Paulo), Shigeru Ishikawa (Principal Bass at Berner Symphonie Orchester in Bern, Switzerland), Dr. Mark Morton (Principal Bass of Columbus Symphony), and Timothy Cobb (Principal Bass of Metropolitan Orchestra and teacher of Julliard/ Manhatan school of music).
In 2004 Douglas was winner of the Orquestra Experimental de Repertório Competition. He has appeared as soloist with the Karkoarko Chamber Orchestra (2004) as well as the Sao Paulo State University Experimental Orchestra (2003).
He is currently a Concert Double Bassist & Double Bass teacher assistant at MSU and studying with Professor Jack Budrow. In addition to MSU, Doug taught string bass at the preparatory division of LU for four years.
Ellen Grafius
Instrument: Harp
Email: egrafius@albion.edu
Ellen Grafius began her harp studies with Velma Froude at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, Michigan. She received a B. Mus. Ed. degree from the Honor's College at Michigan State University and has done additional harp study with Miss Froude, Patricia Terry Ross (instructor, Wayne State University), Joan Holland (instructor, University of Michigan) and Alice Chalifoux (Salzedo School).
Ms. Grafius has taught at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and Michigan State University. She has private students in the Kalamazoo and East Lansing areas and is on the faculty at Kalamazoo College and Albion College. She has performed with orchestras in Lansing, Midland, Kalamazoo, Owosso, Grand Rapids, and Corvallis, Oregon. A busy free-lance harpist in the Lansing area, she plays numerous weddings and receptions and did a 10 year stint for the Kellogg Center's Sunday brunch. She has performed at the Michigan Governor's Mansion and is the featured artist in the Capitol Dome each year for Lansing's Silver Bells in the City.
Adam Schumaker
Instrument: Guitar and Composition
Email: Adam.Schumaker@kzoo.edu
Adam Schumaker holds a B.A. in Music from Principia College, and an M.M. in Composition from Western Michigan University. He currently teaches at Western Michigan, the Gagie School, K-College, and Crescendo. As a composer he has written for Stryker Medical, WMU's Theater and Dance Departments, and the KSO. His compositions range from contemporary acoustic art music to popular song, academic electronic, acoustimatic music, new age relaxation, and music for stage.
Wind/Percussion/Brass Facultly
Tom Evans
Instrument: Trombone and Euphonium
Email: tevans@kzoo.edu
Tom Evans oversees all aspects of the band program (Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, and Pep Band). In addition to conducting, he teaches courses in Music History, Jazz, Music Education, Trombone and Euphonium. In 2002 he became the conductor of the Kalamazoo Concert Band, a highly-regarded community band of nearly 100 musicians. His jazz bands have toured internationally as well as nationally. In 2004, Tom took a 7-piece jazz combo from Kalamazoo College to Numazu, Japan. Additionally, Tom is a freelance trombonist and performs extensively throughout the region. As a soloist, Tom appeared as a trombone soloist with the Kalamazoo Concert Band in spring 2010. In addition to his performing, Tom is a frequent clinician, guest conductor, adjudicator, and, has written for The Instrumentalist.
"No profession, other than music, combines the two aspects of life that are most important to me: helping people and being creative. My genuine concern for the growth of others coupled with my undying passion to create music gives me the opportunity to enrich the musical lives of my students. The pleasure of helping students experience the joys of music is immeasurable. Those moments provide me with endless satisfaction and great happiness."
Betsy Wong
Instrument: Flute
Email: flutewong@yahoo.com
In addition to her duties as flute instructor at K, Betsy Bogner Wong is active throughout West Michigan as performer, teacher, chamber music coach, and arts administrator. Principal flutist of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Betsy has also performed as flutist in the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet for the last thirteen seasons, making educational presentations in approximately twenty-five Kalamazoo-area schools each year for students K-12. She has made solo appearances with pianists Christopher O'Riley and Gilbert Kalish in recent Gilmore Keyboard Festivals. Betsy is also a teaching artist in the Aesthetic Education Program of Education for the Arts, a program arm of the Kalamazoo Regional Educational Service Agency and affiliate of the Lincoln Center Institute for Arts in Education.
Dawn Garrett
Instrument: Clarinet
Email: garret5710@aol.com
Dawn Garrett has a BM and MM in Clarinet Performance from Western Michigan University, with additional studies from Arizona State University. She currently performs with the Southwest Michigan Symphony and is a member of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Woodwind Quintet. She also has a private studio where she has been teaching clarinet for 28 years.
Ken Morgan
Instrument: Improvisation, Jazz Arranging, Saxophone
Email: changeworks@aol.com
Ken Morgan has been performing professionally since he was 14 years old (since 1952). Ken is primarily known as a jazz saxophonist, flutist, and band leader. He currently leads the Ken Morgan Jazz Unit, a quartet that performs in jazz club and concert venues in the Michigan region. Ken has appeared with Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Henry Mancini, Pearl Bailey, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and many other well-known jazz artists. Ken also has a live jazz team-building presentation, JazzWorks, which has presented to Visteon, Kellogg Foundation, State of Michigan, Pharmacia, and several other organizations. This presentation demonstrates teamwork, creativity, communication, conflict resolution, and risk taking, using live jazz music as the learning model. Ken has also served more than 300 organizations as a Consultant in the areas of team building, conflict management, change management, and management coaching.
Ken is also a part-time Music Faculty member at Kalamazoo College and teaches saxophone, improvisation, and jazz arranging/composition.
Jason Kramer
Instrument: Bassoon
Email: jkramer@kzoo.edu
Over the past decade, bassoonist Jason Kramer has been an active artist in symphonies, chamber ensembles, and new music collaborations.
He has performed with numerous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago, Northbrook Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic, Traverse Symphony Orchestra, and the Battle Creek Symphony. Jason is currently Associate Principal Bassoon of the South Bend Symphony and Assistant Principal Bassoon of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra.
As a chamber musician, Jason made his Carnegie Hall debut as a guest artist with the Western Wind Quintet, and currently performs with International Chamber Artists. He has worked with other diverse musicians including DJ Cyborg_K, Paul Hartsaw's Socio-Cybernetic Music Machine, and Chicago's Fifth House Ensemble.
Keith Geiman
Instrument: Trumpet
Email: keith_geiman@hotmail.com
Kalamazoo College's Applied Trumpet instructor Keith Geiman is currently Principal Trumpet of the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, Second Trumpet of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra, and a member of Kalamazoo Brass and the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras Brass Quintet. Since moving to Kalamazoo in 2001 Keith has become a highly sought after private instructor and freelance trumpeter in the southwest Michigan area.
Mark Guthrie
Instrument: Percussion
Email: mguthrie@pctimpani.com
Mark Guthrie is the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's Principal Timpani as well as an Artist in Residence. His education comes from the University of Toledo. As soloist with the Kalamazoo Symphony, Mr. Guthrie has performed the Russell Peck, Glory and The Grandeur and William Kraft, Concerto for Four Percussionists. At the College level, Mr. Guthrie serves on the faculty of Kalamazoo College. He has presented several Master classes and Clinics for various organizations around the country (i.e. Michigan Percussive Arts Society, The TAP Seminar in Atlanta). As Timpanist and Percussionist, Mr. Guthrie has performed with I Musici de Montreal at the Gilmore Festival, Michigan Bach Collegium, Bach Festival Orchestra, Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, Indiana Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra, South Bend Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Opera Association Orchestra, and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. During his tenure with the Kalamazoo Symphony, he has helped to establish the Kalamazoo Percussion Duo. This group tours, educates, and performs concerts throughout the year for school age children and audiences around the Kalamazoo area.
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Chris Garrett
Instrument: Horn
Email: ASLer@aol.com
Chris Garrett is currently the coordinator of music at Kalamazoo Valley Community College where he also teaches Music Theory, Music Appreciation, Piano, and founded the Kalamazoo Campus band. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Bowling Green State University (OH) and a Master of Music in Brass Pedagogy from Western Michigan University (MI). As a hornist, he has performed with the North American Brass Company Quintet and the Elkhart County Symphony where he has also served as guest conductor. In his spare time he performs on Alphorn and is the director/pianist for the St. Augustine Cathedral Contemporary Music Ensemble. Chris Garrett is a member of the College Band Directors National Association and the International Horn Society.
Global Rhythmic Drumming - KCollege International Percussion Ensemble
Carolyn Koebel, percussionist Email: carolyn.koebel@gmail.com
http://www.carolynkoebel.com/index.html
Carolyn has been exploring rhythm and vibration for the past thirty years. Her early studies are rooted in the Western traditions, while the past 18 years have found her slowly traversing the globe in search of indigenous musics and traditional rhythmic materials from Latin & South America, West Africa and the Middle East, and all points in-between. The result is a compelling recombination in a musical palette that compliments a variety of styles and genres in groups from Fonn Mor & An Dro to Dunuya Drum & Dance, Blue Dahlia, and a host of singer-songwriters and traditional musical ensembles throughout the region.
She spent seven years in the classical symphony world before 'retiring' to do original music where she could create and express her own musical vision. More recently, she has begun to re-focus on her solo materials, encompassing guitar, lyrics & vocals, and world percussion. In addition, she has recently decided to immerse herself in the world of Japanese taiko drumming.
She holds degrees of distinction in music therapy and percussion studies from Western Michigan University and Michigan State University. Much of her work focuses on rhythm-based music therapy and music for self-healing and Spiritual connection. Audience members appreciate her raw energy in performances, commenting that she seems to literally "feel" her way through the music....helping them to enter the same visceral sphere.
Tom Evans
Instrument: Trombone and Euphonium
Email: tevans@kzoo.edu
Tom Evans oversees all aspects of the band program (Symphonic Band, Jazz Band, and Pep Band). In addition to conducting, he teaches courses in Music History, Jazz, Music Education, Trombone and Euphonium. In 2002 he became the conductor of the Kalamazoo Concert Band, a highly-regarded community band of nearly 100 musicians. His jazz bands have toured internationally as well as nationally. In 2004, Tom took a 7-piece jazz combo from Kalamazoo College to Numazu, Japan. Additionally, Tom is a freelance trombonist and performs extensively throughout the region. As a soloist, Tom appeared as a trombone soloist with the Kalamazoo Concert Band in spring 2010. In addition to his performing, Tom is a frequent clinician, guest conductor, adjudicator, and, has written for The Instrumentalist.
'No profession, other than music, combines the two aspects of life that are most important to me: helping people and being creative. My genuine concern for the growth of others coupled with my undying passion to create music gives me the opportunity to enrich the musical lives of my students. The pleasure of helping students experience the joys of music is immeasurable. Those moments provide me with endless satisfaction and great happiness.'
Jazz Studies
Janice Lakers
Instrument: Jazz Voice
Email: janicelakers@yahoo.com
Janice Lakers has many years' experience both singing jazz with various top notch European musicians and teaching jazz vocals. She lived in The Netherlands for 22 years and taught in the University Conservatory system there for 18 years. She also gave many workshops, giving practical help and advice to those wanting more experience in singing jazz. Since returning to the States in 2005, she teaches part time and is music director at Unity of Kalamazoo church.
Ken Morgan
Instrument: Improvisation, Jazz Arranging, Saxophone
Email: changeworks@aol.com
Ken Morgan has been performing professionally since he was 14 years old (since 1952). Ken is primarily known as a jazz saxophonist, flutist, and band leader. He currently leads the Ken Morgan Jazz Unit, a quartet that performs in jazz club and concert venues in the Michigan region. Ken has appeared with Louis Armstrong, Aretha Franklin, the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Henry Mancini, Pearl Bailey, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and many other well-known jazz artists. Ken also has a live jazz team-building presentation, JazzWorks, which has presented to Visteon, Kellogg Foundation, State of Michigan, Pharmacia, and several other organizations. This presentation demonstrates teamwork, creativity, communication, conflict resolution, and risk taking, using live jazz music as the learning model. Ken has also served more than 300 organizations as a Consultant in the areas of team building, conflict management, change management, and management coaching.
Ken is also a part-time Music Faculty member at Kalamazoo College and teaches saxophone, improvisation, and jazz arranging/composition.
Micaela Kingslight
Instrument: Jazz Guitar
Email: Micaela@micaelakingslight.com
Micaela Kingslight has been playing guitar for over 16 years and teaching for 9. She has taught at a variety of music stores in Kalamazoo and has taught at Crecendo Academy of Music for 3 years and Kalamazoo College for 2. Micaela recently began teaching for the Kalamazoo Academy of Rock. She has taught summer workshops in songwriting at South Western University for youth. In 2009 she taught a class for special education students at KRESA on guitar making and the baritone ukulele. In addition to teaching, Micaela has performed at hundreds of venues thoughout the country with her original rock, blues, jazz trio and other music groups. She was awarded first place in the Indiegrrl International Songwriting Competition in 2009, and the Emerging Artist Grant from the Gilmore Foundation in 2008. She recently began working with TBC Records and has recorded with Music Plant Records as a studio musician.
Ron Di Salvio
Instrument: Jazz Piano
Email: rondisalvio@excite.com
Ron Di Salvio is a Jazz composer/pianist/recording artist with Origin Records. He works with students of all levels of proficiency, individually or in a small group setting called JEE, K's Jazz Ensemble Experience. If your desire is to expand your piano skills beyond the written page Ron can help you achieve your goals. To hear examples of his music go to www.deltadiatonics.com and click on the Myspace link.
