School
of Music Faculty
Dr.
Catherine Allard
Voice
Music History
Director of Collegiate Singers
Bryden
Atwater
Percussion
Dr.
Larry Blocher
Director
Music Education
Bands
Dovie Cutchen
Strings
Piano
Dr. William Denison
Piano
Organ
Matt Dunlap
Guitar
Carol
Franks
Flute
Music
Theory
Sam Fredrick
Music Appreciation
Ralph
Ford
Director of Bands
Coordinator of Winds and
Percussion
Carla Gallahan
Horn
Music Education
Bands
Dr. Michael Hix
Coordinator of Choral Music
Voice
Dr. Meg Jackson
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Voice/Ethnomusicology
Dr. John Jinright
Double Reeds
Piano
Music Industry
Tori Lee
Show Choir
Dr. Diane Orlofsky
Director of Concert Chorale
Music Education
Choir
Piano
Dr. Timothy Phillips
Music History
Clarinet
James
Smith
Coordinator of Undergraduate
Music Studies
Trombone
Ray
Smith
Saxophone
Music Technology
Bands
Robert W. Smith
Coordinator of Music Industry
Gwen Threadgill
Class Piano
Music Eduation
Carl Vollrath
Composition
Music Appreciation
Dr. Mark
Walker
Associate Director of Bands
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Low Brass
Lewis Webb, Jr.
Gospel Choir
Choir
Class Voice
Piano
Voice
Andy Williamson
Guitar
Dr. Hui-Ting Yang
Instructor of Piano
Accompanist
Dr. James Zingara
Coordinator of Applied Studies
Trumpet
Brass Ensembles
Ginger Zingara
Music Appreciation
Theory
Orchestra
School of Music Staff
Jo
Williamson-Adcock
Administrative
Assistant
School of Music
Monique Crawley
Administrative Assistant
University
Bands
Graduate Assistants
Tori Lee
University Chorus
Music Education
Tony Hawthorne
University Bands
Dawn Parkinson
University Chorus /
Music Education
David Samuel
University Bands
Eric Ward
Music Industry
Sean Weiler
University Bands
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Dr. Catherine Allard
callard@troy.edu
John M. Long School of Music
Troy University
Troy, AL 36082
http://spectrum.troy.edu/~allard
Catherine Allard joined the John M. Long School of Music faculty in the fall of 1989. She is the principal voice teacher at Troy and conducts the Troy University Opera Ensemble, Women’s Madrigal Ensemble and the Collegiate Singers. Dr. Allard also teaches the first two legs of the music history sequence and shepherds reluctant instrumentalists through Class Voice.
Prior to joining the ranks of academe, Dr. Allard spent eleven years as a professional musician, primarily in opera and recital, but also as a well-regarded conductor and stage director. She is a lyrico-spinto soprano, singing such roles as Mimi (La Boheme), Fiordiligi (Cosi fan tutte), Leonora (Il Trovatore), Marguerite (Faust), Cio Cio San (Madama Butterfly), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), and Amelia (Un Ballo in Maschera), Dr. Allard has also premiered three operas: Ezra Laderman’s Galileo Galilei, Myron Fink’s Jeremiah, and the critically acclaimed From Winter Darkness by Elaine Erickson. She has appeared with numerous opera companies and symphony orchestras and served for twelve years as artistic director and conductor of the Summer Savoyards, a repertory group devoted exclusively to the works of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Dr. Allard received a B.S. in Performance and Music Education and an M.S. in Music from the Crane School of Music at the State University College of Potsdam, NY. She received her Doctorate in Musical Arts from the prestigious Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, where she studied voice with Elaine Bonazzi.
Dr. Allard maintains an active performing schedule in the southeast, appearing most recently as soloist in Handel’s Messiah and the Fauré Requiem. She hosts Opus 3, a classical music radio program (Sundays at noon) on Troy University Public Radio reaching more than 30,000 listeners weekly, and is the front-line director of the Alabama Jubilee Chorus, a prospective chorus in the Sweet Adelines International organization and a frequent guest clinician for other choral organizations.
In the spring of 2005 she joined fellow School of Music faculty members Carol Franks and John Jinright for a joint faculty recital. In addition to her professional appearances, Dr. Allard has had many guest solo experiences with Collegiate Singers, the Symphony Band and Chamber Winds but is probably best known for singing her “hit”, the National Anthem, throughout lower Alabama.
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