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. Meg Jackson
John M. Long School of Music
Troy University
Troy, AL 36082
A singer, voice instructor, and musicologist, Margaret Jackson holds the Doctor of Music in voice performance from Florida State University where she is also a Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology. She holds the Master of Music and Performer’s Certificate in voice performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music, and the Bachelor of Arts in German and philosophy from Birmingham-Southern College. She completed additional studies in German history and literature at Ruprecht-Karls Universität in Heidelberg, Germany and language training at the Goethe Institut in Bad Godesberg, Germany.
Dr. Jackson was recently named a 2006-2007 American Fellow, a prestigious distinction awarded by the American Association of University Women which includes a grant to support her dissertation research and writing. She is also the recipient of the 2006 Florida State University Graduate Research and Creativity Award for her ethnomusicological work. During 2005, Dr. Jackson served as a Deutsch Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) visiting scholar to the University of Cologne, Germany, where she continued her research on musical production among Turkish immigrant youths in the industrial northern Rhine region. She is a former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and was awarded the 2005 Dale Olsen prize by the Society for Ethnomusicology for her work. Among her study interests are hip-hop music and culture, U.S. popular musics, minstrelsy, global popular music trends, agitpropaganda theater, music politics in contemporary German culture, and economic anthropology.
Jackson’s stage experience includes performances with operatic, symphonic, and chamber ensembles throughout Germany, Italy, South America, and the United States. Past concert and oratorio solo engagements have included Handel’s Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and C Minor Mass, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Brückner’s F Minor Mass, Saint-Säens’ Weihnachtsoratorium, Brahms’ Requiem, Britten’s War Requiem, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, Ober’s Die Klage, Soma’s Gloria a Díos - Trés Canciones and Das Lied eines Liebenden by Kurt Nelson. Her broad performing background in opera and musical theater is reflected in performances with the Folkwang Theater, the Pforzheim Stadttheater, the Rome Festival, Stella AG, Opera Theatre of Rochester, Eastman Opera Theater, Summerfest, and Florida State Opera, among others. A sought-after recitalist and interpreter of new music, Dr. Jackson has more than thirty-five world and U.S. premieres to her credit. She has also sought to champion not only new but neglected vocal repertoire, particularly the works of German composer Hanns Eisler, which she has presented in recitals across the Southeast.
Dr. Jackson teaches both applied voice and courses in popular music and music history at Troy University. Prior to joining the Long School of Music faculty she taught courses in American roots music in Florida State University’s College of Music and beginning and intermediate German in FSU’s Department of Modern Languages. Jackson is an active member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, the College Music Society, the Society for American Music, the Internationale Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, the Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft, and the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
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