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ensemble/band conducting and guides all aspects of
the University of Minnesota band program. Born and
educated in Wisconsin, Kirchhoff brings to his position a
wide knowledge of both traditional and contemporary
literature.
He has won critical acclaim from composers Henry
Brant, Michael Colgrass, Warren Benson, Karel Husa,
George Perle, Vincent Persichetti, Verne Reynolds,
Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Elliott Schwartz
and others. Kirchhoff was the director of bands at
The Ohio State University for 14 years, where he was
the recipient of The Ohio State University Alumni
Distinguished Teaching Award and The Ohio State
University School of Music Distinguished Teaching
Award. He has appeared as guest conductor, clinician and
lecturer throughout the United States, Australia, Canada,
Europe, Japan, Norway and Taiwan. He is a frequent
guest conductor of the Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and
has recorded with that ensemble on the Kosei Publishing
Company label.
Joseph Missal
Dr. Joseph P. Missal is Director
of Bands and Professor of
Music at Oklahoma State
University. In this capacity, he
conducts the Wind Ensemble
and Symphonic Band and
guides all aspects of the OSU
Band Program. Dr. Missal also
teaches conducting and trumpet and serves as Chairman
of the Wind and Percussion Division. His ensembles
have performed for national and regional conventions
of the College Band Directors National Association, the
National Band Association, Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta
Sigma (national band fraternity and sorority), Oklahoma
Music Educators Association, the Percussive Arts Society,
and the Western States Collegiate Conference of the
World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles
in Schladming, Austria in July 1997. He has received
praise from composers David Maslanka, Karel Husa,
Cindy McTee, David Gillingham, James Fry, Michael
Daugherty, Daniel Bukvich, Stephen Rush, and others for
his expressive interpretations of their music. Dr. Missal is
a past president of the Southwest Division of the College
Band Directors National Association and the Big Twelve
Band Directors Association. In 1989, the University
of Colorado Alumni Association selected him for the
Outstanding Recent Graduate Award.
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James Campbell
James Campbell has received
worldwide recognition as a
performer, teacher, composer,
author and is a respected
figure in the development of
the contemporary percussion
ensemble. He has toured
extensively throughout
North and Central America, Europe and Asia. Currently
Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at
the University of Kentucky in Lexington, he also holds the
positions of Principal Percussionist with the Lexington
Philharmonic, drummer with the Kentucky Jazz
Repertory Orchestra and Past-President of the Percussive
Arts Society.
Well known for his long past association with the
internationally renowned Rosemont Cavaliers Drum and
Bugle Corps, Jim has served as their principal instructor,
arranger and Program Coordinator. He was Percussion
Director for the McDonald’s All-American High School
Band and has performed at the International Society
of Music Education World Conference, Journèes de la
Percussion, PercuSonidos Percussion Festival, MENC
National In-Service Conference, Midwest Band &
Orchestra Clinic, MusicFest Canada, All-Japan Band Clinic,
Texas Bandmasters Association, Music for All National
Percussion Symposium and at several Percussive Arts
Society International Conventions.
Among his works for concert and marching
percussion, Jim has published with Hal Leonard
Publishing, C.L. Barnhouse Co., C. Alan Publications,
Innovative Percussion, Row-Loff Productions, Meredith
Music and Alfred Publications with whom he serves
as Percussion Team Author for the Expressions
Music Curriculum. Jim is an endorsee for Innovative
Percussion, Evans Drumheads, and is a member of the
Latin Percussion Educational Advisory Board. He is a
Performing Artist for Yamaha Corporation of America,
Band & Orchestral Division.
Tom Gauger
Tom Gauger is percussionist
with the Boston Symphony
and Boston Pops. He was
born in Wheaton, Illinois
and studied Percussion at
the University of Illinois
with Paul Price and Jack
McKenzie getting a degree
in Applied Music. During that time he played with Harry
Partch, an experimental contemporary composer at
the time who created his own instruments and wrote
in a 43 tone octave. While still in school, he attended
the Tanglewood Music Center summer program and
after graduating was asked to be the Percussionist at a
music festival in Saskatoon. Following that he went to
Oklahoma City where he was Principal Percussionist of
the Oklahoma City Symphony for four years. In addition
to his duties with the Orchestra he taught at Oklahoma
University and Oklahoma City University and had a wide
range of playing opportunities, including nightclubs,
rodeos, and a tour with Ray Eberly. He has played in the
Boston Symphony since 1963 and with many conductors
from Pierre Monteux, and Charles Munch to Leonard
Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. In the Pops he has played
with Arthur Fiedler, John Williams, Keith Lockhart and
more. He has made from 300 to 500 recordings and
television shows with both Symphony and Pops and has
recorded background music for several movies including
the Temple of Doom, Schindler’s List, and Saving Private
Ryan. From 1965 until 1997 he was also on the faculty at
Boston University and the Boston University Tanglewood
Institute.
Frank Kumor
Dr. Frank Kumor is currently
on the music faculty at
Kutztown University where
he is the Assistant Director
of Percussion Studies
and conducts the world
percussion ensemble. His
new book, co-authored with
Chalo Eduardo, Drum Circle, A Guide To World Percussion,
features twenty-eight world percussion instruments
from five continents and an interactive CD-ROM.
As a performer, Dr. Kumor presents recitals and
workshops throughout the United States, including
PMEA, TMEA and PASIC. Committed to new music
composition and performance, his repertoire features
many late works by active composers. Dr. Kumor has
performed at the Patagonia International Percussion
Festival, Rio Negro, Argentina, at the Polish International
Percussion Festival, Wroclaw and Opole, Poland and at
PASIC 2003 in Louisville, KY.
Dr. Kumor’s marching percussion activities include
teaching and arranging for award winning high school
and university percussion sections in Pennsylvania,
Kentucky, and Ohio. Additionally, he annually accepts
teaching invitations at marching percussion workshops
and his marching percussion compositions are published
in the annual Yamaha “Sounds of Summer” instructional
handbook.
Dr. Kumor completed the Bachelor of Arts degree
from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, the Master
of Music in Music Theory from Duquesne University in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Doctor of Musical
Arts from the University of Kentucky. Dr. Kumor is a
Performing Artist and Clinician for Paiste Cymbals,
Yamaha Percussion, Remo Percussion, Mike Balter
Mallets and Alfred Publishing Company.