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Greg Danner is professor of music theory and composition at Tennessee Technological University. He has received annual ASCAP awards for composition since 1989. Danner was awarded the 2000 Delius Composition Contest vocal category and grand prize for his composition “Time” and the 1999 College Band Directors National Association Composition for Young Band prize for his composition “Walls of Zion.” He is also the recipient of the Louisiana Music Teachers Association Composer Commission Award, and has won composition contests sponsored by the Taghkanic Chorale and Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. He has been commissioned to write works for performance at various music conferences, including the International Brass Festival, New York Brass Conference, International Trumpet Guild, National Flute Association, and College Band Directors National Association. Danner participated as a resident composer at the Charles Ives Center for American Music and has been an associate in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts “Performing Arts Centers and Schools” program. His writings on music and music theory have been published in numerous journals, including Music Perception, Interface--Journal for New Music Research, Journal of Musicological Research, and Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy.
Danner’s compositions are represented in the catalogues of C. Alan Publications, the Bourne Company, TRN Music, Daehn Publications, Willis Music, Wimbledon/Trigram Music, Medici Music Press, TUBA Press, Seesaw Music Corporation, and Avanti Publications. An active performer, Dr. Danner is hornist with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, the Cumberland Wind Quintet, and the Brass Arts Quintet. He is also active as a studio and free lance musician in the Nashville area. |
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James Lotz, Professor of Music at TTU, is principal bassoonist with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra, a member of the Cumberland Quintet, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and serves on the faculty of the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. He has been the principal bassoonist of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and the Jaap Schroeder Chamber Orchestra as well as a member of the Bridgeport Symphony, Norwalk Symphony, Connecticut Grand Opera, Knoxville Symphony, Breckenridge Music Festival and the Mexico City Philharmonic.
An active studio musician in Nashville, he has participated in numerous commercial recordings for PDQ Bach, Matchbox 20, Alan Jackson, as well as recordings of classical chamber music, orchestral music and movie soundtracks. Mr. Lotz holds degrees from the University of Tennessee and Yale University. His principal teachers include Keith McClelland, William Winstead, Arthur Weisberg and Stephen Maxym. |
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A member of the music faculty at Tennessee Technological University since 1989, Roger Martin holds degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (BM; Flute Performance) and Florida State University (MM; Woodwinds Performance, DM; Flute Performance).
Martin has concertized extensively, presenting solo recitals in Canada, the Peoples Republic of China, Hong Kong, and throughout the United States. He has been principal flutist with Cookeville, Tennessee’s Bryan Symphony Orchestra (1989-present), the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony (1985-1989), and the Festival Chamber Orchestra of the Breckenridge Music Festival in Colorado (1987-2001). He has also been a featured solo artist with all three of these organizations. In Nashville, Martin has appeared as principal flutist with the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, is a regular sub with the Nashville Symphony (with whom he has appeared as guest principal flutist), and does occasional recording session work. Activities with the Cumberland Quintet (in residence at Tennessee Tech University) include numerous yearly concerts, two compact discs, and performances at national conventions. As a clinician and adjudicator, Martin has been active for the past eighteen years throughout the United States. Previous faculty positions include Minnesota’s Moorhead State University (1984-1989) and the University of Missouri-Columbia (1983-1984). |
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Anne Thurmond, Associate 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 woodwind 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 clarinettist 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 National Flute 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. |
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William Woodworth, 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.
Mr. Woodworth came to Tennessee Tech in 1988. He is the oboist and manager of the Cumberland Quintet, which has released three compact discs and several nationally aired radio and 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 and clinician. Woodworth frequently performs and records with the Nashville String Machine. |
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