CCM Announces 2010-11 Faculty

With the onset of the 2010-11 academic year, the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music ("CCM") proudly welcomes the following new faculty members:

Gwendolyn Coleman Detwiler

Associate Professor of Voice

Education: BM and BA, Northwestern University; MM and DMA, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Soprano, Gwendolyn Coleman Detwiler is a teacher and artist of national and international reputation. She has been featured in solo concert work with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Bangor Symphony Orchestra, Western New York Chamber Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony Orchestra. She made her European debut as the soprano soloist for the Klassiche Musikfest's performance of Haydn's Die Jahreszeiten and Beethoven's Mass in C at the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria. Detwiler recorded Concordia by Randol Alan Bass with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. She can also be heard on the Newport Classic CD recording of Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe and as the lead role, Suleika, on Centaur Record's world-premier recording of Schubert's Der Graf von Gleichen.

Detwiler has sung principal opera roles on the stages of the San Francisco Opera-Merola, San Francisco Western Opera Theatre, Central City Opera, Kentucky Opera and Mercury Opera Rochester. Her role repertoire includes Gilda in Rigoletto, Adele in Die Fledermaus, Blonde in Die Entführung aus dem Serail, the Governess in Turn of the Screw, Monica in The Medium and the title role in Cendrillon. She has presented professional recitals at the Château de Vianden in Luxembourg, the Chautauqua Institute (NY), the Summerfest Chamber Music Festival (MO), the Grandin Chamber Music Festival and Fitton Center for the Performing Arts (OH), the Central City Summer Recital Series (CO) and she has sung live recital broadcast for Classical99 LIVE from the Garden in St. Louis (MO).

Detwiler has been recognized as an award-winning professor of voice and opera. She taught at the State University of New York at Fredonia from 1999 until 2010. Her students have performed in a broad range of elite training programs and professional engagements, including the Chautauqua Opera Program, Aspen Opera Program, San Francisco-Merola Program, as well as on the stages of the New York Metropolitan Opera and Broadway. Detwiler is also a member of the faculty of the Vianden International Music Festival in Luxembourg and is a frequent clinician and adjudicator.

Stefan Fiol

Assistant Professor of Musicology

Education: BA, Lewis and Clark College; MM and Ph.D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Stefan Fiol received his PhD in musicology in 2008 after conducting three years of ethnomusicological research in India, and shorter fieldwork projects in Chile, Paraguay and Zimbabwe. His current research investigates the development of regional music industries in the central Himalayas, and the ways that this music both sustains and undermines attempts to delineate regional political and cultural movements within India. His research has been funded by fellowships from Fulbright-Hayes, the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the American Institute of Indian Studies. Dr. Fiol is currently a visiting scholar in the South Asia programme at Cornell University, and has previously taught at the University of Illinois (2002-04), the University of Notre Dame (2005-06) and the Eastman School of Music (2008-10). His publications appear and are forthcoming in the Journal of Ethnomusicology, Asian Music, Ethnomusicology Forum and the Journal of Asian Studies. Trained in classical piano, Dr. Fiol currently studies and performs on the sitar, the mbira dzavadzimu and a range of Himalayan instruments.

Scott Belck

Associate Professor and Director of Jazz Studies (Trumpet)

Education: BM, University of Tennessee in Knoxville; MM, University of North Texas; DMA, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Scott Belck has been featured as lead trumpet with the Manhattan Transfer, Woody Herman Orchestra, Steve Allee Big Band, Aretha Franklin, John Pizzarelli, Linda Ronstadt, John Lithgow, Donna Summer, the Van Dells and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. His current performance credits include The Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, The Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Tromba Mundi Contemporary Trumpet Ensemble, Capital Brass Quintet, Spectrum, UpBeat Brass and Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra (Lead) as well as prior performances with U.S. Air Force Band of Flight and Glenn Miller Orchestra. Belck's principal trumpet include performances with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Pops, Minnesota Ballet's Festival Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Lexington Philharmonic, Richmond Symphony Orchestra and Top Brass. He has served as artistic director and conductor for many ensembles such as The Dayton Jazz Orchestra, The Cincinnati Cotemporary Jazz Orchestra, Miami University One O'clock Lab Band, Night Flight Jazz Ensemble (United States Air Force), Jazz Central Big Band and The Fraze Jazz Orchestra. Belck frequently appears as a guest soloist, conductor and adjudicator, and has arranged and commissioned works such as Luck Be a Lady Tonight, Play That Funky Music, Back in U.S.S.R., Funky Nassau, Again I Say Rejoice, Lift Up, Days Gone By, and Endless Stars. His recordings include The Movement, Revisited with Christian McBride and The Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, At the Cannibal's Prayer Breakfast and Tromba Mundi: Music for Trumpet Ensemble. Belck's most recent grants include Visual and Digital Instructional Laboratory Technology Grant for a technology-based research project and Chancellor's Small Grant awarded jointly for Faculty Jazz Combo at the University of Minnesota. His previous teaching appointments include Capital University, University of Minnesota Duluth, Miami University, Sinclair Community College, University of Dayton, Marshall University and Saint Francis Xavier University (Canada).

Raul Barcelona Alvarez

Visiting Assistant Professor of Electronic Media

Education: BS (Electrical Engineering; Electronic Arts Minor), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; MS (Digital Imaging and Design), New York University

Raul Barcelona, a documentary filmmaker, will teach Digital Sight Sound and Motion and one section of Digital Core this fall. He will also teach sections of New Media 1 winter and spring quarters. Barcelona comes to UC from New York City. His 2009 documentary, The Promise of New York, earned the Best Documentary Audience Choice Award at the Big Muddy Film Festival. The Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival have also recognized Barcelona's recent work. Barcelona's bachelor's degree is in electrical engineering from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute; his master's degree is in digital imaging and design from New York University. He has taught multimedia, video production and graphic design at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division and at the Art Institute of Houston.

Jane Friedman

Assistant Professor of Electronic Media

Education: BFA, University of Evensville; MA (English), Xavier University.

Jane Friedman joined the Electronic Media faculty in September after a career as an editor and publisher for F+W Media in Cincinnati. Ms. Friedman worked most recently as publisher of Writer's Digest, a multimedia brand with a 90-year history. In her role at F+W, Ms. Friedman used social media to drive new business and launched an online seminar series. She built her first website in 1998 and has been an online writer and blogger since 2001. Though she has taught as an adjunct professor of English at UC and as an instructor at Beckfield College, most of Friedman's teaching has happened in the field, online, or through live webinars, with writers and other creative professionals.

Friedman's bachelor of fine arts degree in creative writing is from the University of Evansville and her master's degree in English is from Xavier University. She has published articles and poetry as well as material for Writer's Digest and F+W Media.

Eva G. Floyd

Assistant Professor of Music Education

Education: BM, Campbellsville University; MM, PhD, University of Kentucky; Choral Conducting Diploma, Liszt Academy Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music

Floyd taught high school choral music in Kentucky before joining the music faculty of Western Kentucky University where she was the conductor of the WKU Women's Choir and co-founder of the Bowling Green-Western Children's Choir. She studied and worked as a teaching assistant at the Liszt Academy's Kodály Pedagogical Institute of Music in Kecskemét, Hungary. Floyd's former teachers include Cecelia Wang, David Sogin, Jefferson Johnson and Peter Erdei. Her research interest is choral music education with specific focus on music literacy/musicianship training. Floyd is active as an adjudicator, guest conductor and clinician. She has given research presentations for the Kentucky Music Educators Association, the American Choral Directors' regional convention and the International Kodály Society Symposium in Katowice, Poland.

 

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