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Faculty

       Assembled for their talent, teaching ability, dedication, and enthusiasm for music, distinguished music professionals teach the Gatorland Band Camps. The camp faculty is comprised of university professors as well as outstanding middle school and high school educators.  Carefully selected Graduate Students and Undergraduate Students serve as counselors and mentors throughout camp.  Together, their knowledge and experience support an extraordinary educational opportunity where campers build confidence, develop their musicianship, and have lots of fun!

Camp Directors/Conductors
David Waybright
Jay Watkins
Chip Birkner

 
Instrumental Faculty
Flute - Dr. Kristen Stoner
Clarinet - Dr. Peter Geldrich
Oboe - Dr. Emily Hart
Bassoon - Dr. Shannon Lowe
Saxophone - Dr. Jonathan Helton
Horn - Dr. Paul Basler 
Trumpet - Dr. Chris Scanlon
Trombone - Dr. Jemmie Robertson
Euph/Tuba -Dr. Danielle VanTuinen
Percussion - Dr. Ken Broadway

Meet Our Faculty!

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Dr. David Waybright headshot

Dr. David A. Waybright received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Marshall University and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in orchestral conducting from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He taught initially at Wahama High School in Mason, West Virginia and since that time has served as Director of Bands at Ferrum College, Plymouth State College, and Director of Bands and Orchestra at McNeese State University. Dr. Waybright is currently Director of Bands at the University of Florida, where he holds the rank of professor and is the head of the conducting area.

 

He directs the wind symphony and supervises the band program and the graduate and undergraduate conducting curricula. Dr. Waybright is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician with wind bands, orchestras, and choirs, and has appeared in that capacity in most of the 50 states, throughout Europe, Asia and Australia. He has held residencies at many of the nation's leading music schools. In addition, he is active in the commissioning and performance of new music and has won the praise of composers such as Dana Wilson, Michael Torke, Donald Grantham, John Corigliano and Leslie Bassett for his interpretation of their works. There are many recordings available featuring the University of Florida Wind Symphony under his direction.

 

Dr. Waybright is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association where he serves on the Board of Directors and is a lifetime member of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. He is also a member of the College Band Director\'s National Association, Music Educators National Convention and Florida Music Educators Association. Ensembles under his direction have performed invited concerts at conferences sponsored by all of those organizations. Dr. Waybright is also a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha, Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi. He is a National Arts Associate honorary of Sigma Alpha Iota.

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Mr. John M. “Jay” Watkins, Jr. serves the Gator Nation as the Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Assistant Professor in the School of Music and as the Director of the “Pride of the Sunshine” - The Gator Marching Band. Prior to his appointment at UF, he served as Assistant to the Director of Bands, Assistant Director of the Longhorn Band, and Conductor of the Longhorn Basketball, Volleyball and Concert Bands at The University of Texas at Austin, where he was the principle guest conductor of the Symphony Band and the show designer for the Longhorn Band.

 

In the past, ensembles under his direction have performed and recorded with over 36 Grammy-award winning artists in a program he developed to integrate the academic, athletics and live music communities of Central Texas. Prior to his appointment at Texas, he served as the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at Charleston Southern University (SC), where he was also the Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education. Mr. Watkins has received recognition as the CSU Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year and as a recipient of the National Band Association’s “Citation of Excellence”, and was the founder, Music Director and Conductor of The Lowcountry Winds, a professional wind ensemble based in Charleston, SC. He has also served as the Director of the U.S. Navy Drum & Bugle Corps and the Director of Instrumental Music at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, and as a teacher in the public schools in North Carolina, Maryland and Virginia. Prior to his work in music education, he worked for the US Naval Research Laboratory as a research associate in the areas of liquid fuel propellants and their stability and published over 75 articles in refereed science journals. 

 

Mr. Watkins is a native of Falls Church, VA and earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Music Education degrees from George Mason University and Valdosta State University. He holds professional memberships in numerous organizations, served as South Carolina State Chair and Southern Division Chair for the National Band Association, and is an elected member of Phi Beta Mu, the International Bandmaster’s Fraternity. Mr. Watkins remains very active as a designer, clinician and adjudicator throughout the country. He is married to the former Natalie Kay McLain of Duncan, SC; they have one son, Jacob.

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Dr. Birkner serves the University of Florida as Assistant Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Bands, where he directs the University Concert Bands, the Contemporary Music Ensemble, Gator Pep Bands, and is Associate Director of the ‘Pride of the Sunshine’ Marching Band.  Additionally, he serves the UF School of Music teaching courses in conducting and music education, as well as observing student teachers.  Prior to his appointment at the University of Florida, Dr. Birkner taught in the public schools of The Woodlands, TX, Tomball, TX, and La Porte, TX.

 

He received his Bachelor of Music Education with Performer’s Certificate, Master of Music in Percussion Performance, and Ph.D. in Music Education/Instrumental Conducting from the University of Florida.

 

Dr. Birkner has conducted ensembles across the United States, Europe, and South America.  He is the Assistant Conductor of the Ocala Symphony Orchestra, where he also serves as Principal Timpanist.  He remains active as a guest conductor, performer, and clinician throughout the southeastern United States.  He holds professional memberships with the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the College Band Directors National Association, the Florida Music Educators Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Professional Music Fraternity.  In addition, Dr. Birkner holds honorary memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. 

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Dr. Kristen Stoner, an active recitalist and masterclass teacher, is enjoying her eighteenth year as the flute professor at UF. She has performed as a soloist, a chamber musician, and an orchestra member across the United States, South America, Australia, Asia, and Europe. She received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her MM and DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She studied flute with Karl Kraber, Bradley Garner, Jacqueline Hofto, and William Montgomery. She has performed in masterclasses for Julius Baker, Carol Wincenc, Randy Bowman, Jill Felber, Jim Walker, and others.

An active member of the Florida Flute Association, Dr. Stoner has served that organization as Chair of the Board, Program Chair, Vice-President, President, and Board Member. Recently, she served as Assistant Program Chair for the National Flute Association 2018 Convention in Orlando, and has served on several NFA committees and as a judge for multiple competitions. Dr. Stoner has performed at the NFA Conventions in Salt Lake City, (2019), Minneapolis (2017), San Diego (2016), Washington D.C. (2015), New Orleans (2013), Las Vegas (2012), Anaheim (2010), Albuquerque (2007), Pittsburgh (2006), San Diego (2005), Nashville (2004), Washington, D.C. (2002), Dallas (2001), and Atlanta (1999). Completing her seventeenth year as principal flutist of the Ocala Symphony Orchestra, she has also served as principal of the Florida Lakes Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Stoner has performed in prestigious competitions around the country, including the NFA's Young Artist Competition, the Flute Talk Magazine Competition in Chicago, and the Myrna Brown Competition in Dallas. She has also performed in the Opera Theatre of Lucca in Italy, the Lancaster Festival Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, and the Victoria Bach Festival.

In the summer of 2019, Dr. Stoner performed at Lully Hall in the Ghent Opera House, Ghent, Belgium as part of the College Music Society International Conference. Dr. Stoner was invited to perform in 2017 at the Christchurch Cathedral in Newcastle and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, both in Australia, as well as at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. With Duo Anno 1647 (a flute and piano duo with Dr. Manabu Takasawa, piano, of the University of Rhode Island), she toured Europe in 2016, performing in Paris at the American Cathedral and in Dublin at the DIT Conservatory of Music and Dance. In 2015, Dr. Stoner completed a solo European tour, including recitals and masterclasses in Lucca, Italy; Paris, France; and London, England. She was also a featured performer at the College Music Society International Conference in Stockholm, Sweden and Helsinki, Finland. 

Intrigued by Latin American flute music, Dr. Stoner has done research on the flute music of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Her doctoral thesis on flute music of Brazil won the National Flute Association Thesis and Dissertation Competition in 2002. She presented further related research at the College Music Society International Conference in Belgium in 2019. In 2003, she was invited to Chile to perform and give masterclasses at the Conservatorio Nacional in Santiago and at the Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso. In 2005, she was invited to perform and teach at the XV Internacional Festival de Flautistas in Quito, Ecuador. In the summer of 2011, she performed at the Festival Internacional de Inverno de Campos do Jordao and taught a masterclass at the Conservatorio de Tatui, both in Brazil. She performed an invited solo recital and concerto at the Festival Internacional de Flautistas in Lima, Peru, in May of 2013.

Dr. Stoner is an advocate of new flute compositions by women composers, and she has performed many new compositions at ten major national and international music festivals since 2001, and on recitals across the globe. Her flute orchestra arrangement of Charles Gounod’s Petite Symphonie, published by Megido Press/ALRY Publications, has been performed countless times across the United States, including at multiple NFA Conventions. The University of Florida Flute Ensemble, which Dr. Stoner conducts, was a featured group at the NFA Conventions in 2006 and 2011.
Her latest CD, Colors for Solo Flute, was released by Memnon Arts in September of 2013. This album of unaccompanied flute compositions by American composers has received glowing reviews from the National Flute Association's periodical, The Flutist Quarterly. Images for Solo Flute, Dr. Stoner's debut solo CD, was released on the Meyer Media label in 2010 and was positively reviewed by the Flutist Quarterly (NFA) and Flute Talk Magazine. The CD includes music by Katherine Hoover, Shulamit Ran, Shafer Mahoney, Claude Debussy, Arthur Honegger, Victoria Bond, Ivana Loudova, Kristen Stoner, Cesar Vivanco Sanchez, Eugene Bozza, and Libby Larsen. Five of the works are world premiere recordings. Please visit http://kristenstoner.com  for more information.

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Dr. Shannon Lowe served as the Associate Professor of Bassoon at Valdosta State University. She has also served as adjunct Assistant Professor of Bassoon at the University of Florida. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Bassoon Performance at SUNY Stony Brook, where she studied with the renowned performer and pedagogue Dr. Frank Morelli. She received her Bachelor of Music Education degree with a Performance Certificate as well as her Master of Music in Bassoon Performance degree from the University of Florida, under both Dr. Arnold Irchai and Dr. Kim Woolly.

Currently, Dr. Lowe is the principal bassoonist of the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra, 2014 recipient of the American Prize for Best Community Orchestra. Judges of this competition stated "The individual wind and brass players are of high quality and play with lovely tone." She is also principal bassoonist of the Albany (GA) Symphony Orchestra. She actively performs with preeminent orchestras in the southeast such as the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Florida Orchestra, Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, Columbus Symphony, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, and Macon Symphony. For six seasons, she was principal bassoonist of the Gainesville Chamber Orchestra (now known as the Gainesville Orchestra).

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An avid chamber musician, Dr. Lowe performs in several chamber groups in the southeast. Recently, she became bassoonist for the Anon Ensemble, a group consisting of flute, viola, and bassoon. In April 2015, the ensemble was featured in an online premiere of Eva Kendrick's Juntos at the 20th Anniversary Congress of the International Alliance of Women in Music (IAWM). Kendrick's Juntos was the recipient of the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize for the IAWM 2014 New Music Search. She is a founding member of the Scirocco Quartet which has performed to high acclaim throughout the southeast and southwest. The group has been a featured performance ensemble at the National Flute Association Conference, Florida Flute Convention, and Symphony at the Museum Series in Albany, Georgia.

Dr. Lowe has frequently performed at International Double Reed Society Conferences as a member of chamber music ensembles comprised of colleagues and alumni from the University of Florida. Her most recent performance was with the Ragin’ Reeds Quartet at the 2015 IDRS Conference in Tokyo, Japan. Along with VSU’s Azalea String Quartet, she looks forward to presenting a recital of works for bassoon and strings at the 2016 IDRS Conference in Columbus (GA) State University.

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Dr. Lowe has participated in the Sarasota Music Festival and International Music Festival in Burgos, Spain. Also, she has performed at the prestigious Campos do Jordão International Music Festival (Brazil). She has premiered contemporary works for the bassoon at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival as well as the Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival in Richmond, Virginia. Additionally, in November 2013, Dr. Lowe was the featured soloist with the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra on Mozart's Bassoon Concerto.

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She is passionate about presenting clinics for music educators and bassoonists with the intent of sharing tips, techniques, and triumphs for successful bassoon playing. In January 2015, Dr. Lowe was co-presenter with colleague Dr. Susan Eischeid in a session called “Be Not Afraid! Double Reeds Made Accessible: A Quick Start Session for Music Educators” at the Georgia Music Educators Association Conference held in Savannah, Georgia. Recently, her article “Venting on the Bassoon” was published in The Instrumentalist Magazine.

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headshot Jonathan Helton saxophone professor

Concert saxophonist Jonathan Helton has been heard in performance throughout the United States, Canada, in Europe and the Far East, appearing with orchestras and wind ensembles, in recital, and in numerous chamber concerts. He has performed in Paris, London, Athens, Beijing, Tianjin, Singapore, Bangkok, Taipei, Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Johannesberg, Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Brasilia, Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Santiago, Bogota, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Miami, and at New York City’s Lincoln Center. His performance credits include concerto appearances with the New Philharmonia of Riverside in New York City, the Zagreb Festival Orchestra, Chicago Arts Orchestra, the Winston-Salem (NC) Symphony, the Northwestern University Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Center for New Music (Iowa), the Harper Symphony Orchestra, the United States Air Force Tactical Air Command Band, and the Twelfth and Fifteenth World Saxophone Congress Wind Orchestras. His orchestral experience includes performances with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the Grant Park Symphony, the Lake Forest Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, the Savannah Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Indiana Symphony Orchestra, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra. Dr.  Helton is featured in solo and chamber music performances on compact discs from Centaur, Navona, Elf, Windlass, Innova, Mark Records, and Music from Northwestern labels.

Dr. Helton holds degrees from the North Carolina School of the Arts and Northwestern University. His teachers include James Houlik, Frederick Hemke, Daniel Deffayet, and Jean-Marie Londeix. From 1992 to 1999 he served on the faculty at Northwestern University teaching saxophone and chamber music and held an administrative position coordinating the Wind and Percussion Programs. Helton is currently Professor and Woodwind Area Head at the University of Florida School of Music. Jonathan Helton is a Selmer Paris Artist/Clinician, a Conn-Selmer Artist/Clinician, and a former President of the North American Saxophone Alliance.

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Paul Basler headshot, UF Horn professor

 

Paul Basler is Professor of Music at the University of Florida, where he has taught since 1993. Before joining the UF faculty, he served as the Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Music at Kenyatta University (Nairobi, Kenya), taught at Western Carolina University, and was the North Carolina Visiting Artist in Residence at Caldwell Community College. A frequent guest performer, lecturer, and composer at national and international festivals, horn society workshops, he has performed with the Brevard, Charleston, Valdosta, Greenville, and Asheville Symphonies and maintains an active performing schedule throughout the United States and abroad. He has been awarded American Cultural Affairs Specialist Grants from the U.S. Department of State and spent ten years as Visiting Artist with the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture and National Conservatory of Music.

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Basler’s compositions are performed worldwide, with notable appearances at Carnegie Hall, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Sydney Opera House, the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod, and the Festival Internacional de Música de Cantonigròs, as well as by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. His music is published by Carl Fischer, Colla Voce Music, jamesnaigus.com, Walton Music, Hinshaw Music, Canorous Music Publishing, WaveFront Music, ALRY Publications, Veritas Musica Publications, and the International Horn Society Press.

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He earned his B.M. degree from Florida State University and M.M., M.A., and D.M.A. degrees from Stony Brook University. His teaching has been recognized with awards from the University of Florida, Western Carolina University, the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Culture, and the Kenyan Office of the President’s Permanent Music Commission. His principal horn teachers were William Purvis, William Capps, Barry Benjamin, and Wayne Fraederich, and his composition teachers included John Boda, John Downey, and Bülent Arel.

headshot Jemmie Robertson trombone professor

Jemmie Robertson is currently Associate Professor of Trombone at the University of Florida and Principal Trombone of the Gainesville Orchestra and the Ocala Symphony. Jemmie studied at Northwestern University, DM, 2006, with Michael Mulcahy and Randall Hawes; Yale University, MM, 2003, with Scott Hartman and John Swallow; and the University of Northern Colorado, BM, 1997, with Buddy Baker. Jemmie grew up in Billings, Montana, where he studied with his father, Dr. James D. Robertson.

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In the summer of 2026, Jemmie will perform at festivals in Santa Catarina, Brazil; Riga, Latvia; and Columbia, South Carolina, and will teach at the UF Gatorland Band Camp. Recent international performances include the International Trombone Festival in London, Ontario, Canada (July 2025); Queensland Conservatorium, Brisbane, Australia (May 2025); Melbourne Conservatorium, (May 2025); Australian National Academy of Music (May 2025); Sydney Conservatorium (April 2025);  Tourbon Low Brass Festival, La Serena, Chile, January 2025; Brazilian Trombone Festival, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, August 2024; Semana de Trombones, Conservatorio de Música, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile, September 2023 and August 2022; Trombonanza, Santa Fe, Argentina, August 2023; Urubrass Festival and Tour in Uruguay, Jan. 2023; Alessi Seminar, Fossano, Italy, April 2022; Solo Recital Tour with Yoko Yamada in Japan (July 2019; Fête de la musique at la Êglise de la Madeleine, Paris, France, July 2019; Les Anches d'Azur Music Festival, La Croix- Valmer, France, June 2019; ATPB Trombone Festival, João Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil, May 2019; and the Lille Trombone Festival, Lille, France, April 2019. Jemmie will appear as a featured artist at the 2025 International Trombone Festival in Canada, where he will also conduct the University of Florida Trombone Ensemble in a performance featuring newly commissioned works written for the ensemble. Dr. Robertson has also appeared as a featured artist and performer at several recent ITFs, including, most recently, Fort Worth, Texas, 2024; Salt Lake City, Utah, 2023; Conway, Arkansas, 2022; and Columbus, Georgia, 2021. Jemmie performed with the Breckenridge Music Festival from 2000 to 2019, and as Principal Trombone of the Santo Domingo Festival in the Dominican Republic from 2011 to 2015. Jemmie is an avid chamber musician who currently performs with the Brews Brothers Duo and the University of Florida Faculty Brass Quintet. Previously, he was a founding member and bass trombonist with the American Trombone Quartet, which released the recording project Premiere! on the Mark Custom label in 2020.

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Jemmie is an active orchestral musician, having recently performed with The Florida Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Jacksonville Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra and ensembleNEWSRQ. While living in the Midwest, he had the opportunity to perform with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Music of the Baroque, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Chicago Civic Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and many others.

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Jemmie was a member of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in 2000 and prior to that was a member and frequent soloist with the U.S. Air Force Heritage of America at Langley Air Force Base from 1996-1999.

 

Jemmie has published four solo recordings: Red Dragonfly (2021), Mark Custom; Collaborations (2017), Conditions of a Solitary Bird (2014), and A New Day Dawning (2008), MSR Classics. Jemmie is an Edwards Artist and Clinician and actively performs on his Edwards T396-AR and B454-E.

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Dr. Danielle VanTuinen is a low brass performer, educator, and entrepreneur from Rochester, New Hampshire.  She recently served as low brass faculty at the Portland Conservatory of Music, adjunct staff for the marching band at the University of New Hampshire, Educational Representative with Music and Arts, and a private lessons instructor at Timberlane High School and throughout northern New England. From 2013-2017, she served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Tuba and Euphonium at Arizona State University where she instructed low brass methods and taught private lessons to tuba/euphonium majors. Danielle is the co-founder of the Moreau | VanTuinen Duo and an active presenter, clinician, and performing artist throughout the United States and Europe. 

 

Prior to her work in New England, Danielle was the low brass instructor for the Phoenix Youth Symphony. Her responsibilities included small group and ensemble coaching for middle and high school students participating in the organization’s bands and orchestras. During the 2016-2017 academic year, she coached the Arizona State University concert band low brass section, comprised of first-year and non-major performers. Danielle has been invited to adjudicate at a variety of festivals, including the New Hampshire MEA Solo & Ensemble Competition, the Paul l. Willwerth Brass Competition at Central Michigan University, the Maine and Arizona All-State Festivals, and the AETYB Young Artist Competition in Spain. As a strong proponent of new music, she has actively participated as a member and coordinator of several commissioning projects for both solo euphonium/tuba and percussion/euphonium repertoire. This passion has resulted in over 15 new works from 2016-2018, three of which will be premiered by her in 2019. 

 

Dr. VanTuinen has performed with several ensembles throughout Arizona, Michigan and the New England areas, including the Phoenix Ballet, West Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Rapids Symphony, the Salt River Brass Band, and the New England Brass Band. As a co-founder of the Moreau | VanTuinen Duo, she has been invited to perform at the Spanish Association of Tubas and Euphoniums, Northern Arizona University, Ithaca College, the Miraphone Academy of the Southwest, the United States Pershing’s Own Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Workshop, and the International Women’s Brass Conference as a guest artist and educational presenter.

 

Danielle earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Music Performance from Arizona State University. Her culminating doctoral project, “Euphonium and Live Interactive Electronics: A Performer’s Examination of Three New Works”, sought to provide historical context and expand the electroacoustic repertoire for low brass. She holds a Master of Music degree in Music Performance from Arizona State University and a Bachelors of Music degree in Music Performance from Central Michigan University. Her principal mentors include Dr. Deanna Swoboda, Professor Douglas Yeo, Dr. Mark Cox, and Professor Scott Hanson. Danielle is an active member of the International Tuba Euphonium Association and the International Women’s Brass Conference. 

headshot Kenneth Broadway percussion professor

Equally at home behind timpani, steel pan, or the drumset, Dr. Kenneth Broadway has a passion for training the next generation of teachers, performers, and leaders in the field of music.  He has served as Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Florida since 1997, and served in similar capacities at the University of South Dakota and Augusta State University.  Students from UF have gone on to careers in music education, assistantships at graduate schools throughout the US, college teaching positions, and performance and teaching posts as far off as Scotland and Australia.  Ensembles from UF have performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (1998, 2003) and numerous “Day of Percussion” state meetings.  

 

Dr. Broadway has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Spoleto Festival, and with symphonies in Florida, Georgia, Iowa, South Carolina, and South Dakota.  He has also traveled to Spain and Kenya as part of the World Music Mission, a multi-national network of musicians, writers, worship leaders, engineers and ethno-musicologists.  As a performer, composer, and presenter, Dr. Broadway has appeared at various conferences and symposiums throughout North America, Europe and Australia. Among these are the Midwest Clinic, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the Symposium of the International Musicological Society, the College Music Society International Convention, the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, the World Saxophone Congress, The Music Educators National Conference, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors National Conference, and the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference.

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His compact disc with the LYNX Duo (Music for Saxophone and Percussion) is available on the Mark Custom Recording label, and he is featured on other recordings on the Mark and Capstone labels. Dr. Broadway is active in the Percussive Arts Society, the College Music Society, and NACWPI.  He is the Past President of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (2010-12), and is the Past President of the Florida Chapter (2005-08) and Past President of the South Dakota Chapter (1994-97) of the Percussive Arts Society.  He is a Performing Artist for the Yamaha Corporation of America, and educational endorser for Remo Drumheads, Sabian Cymbals and Promark Mallets. Dr. Broadway received the BM, MM, and DMA degrees from the University of Georgia. 

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 Dr. David Waybright, Director of Bands

Prof. Jay Watkins, Associate Director of Bands

Dr. Chip Birkner, Assistant Director of Bands

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Elise Kashmiry, Administrative Assistant

Phone: 352-273-3146

E-Mail: ekashmiry@arts.ufl.edu

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