THE IU SOUTHEAST MUSIC DEPARTMENT
WELCOMES NEW FACULTY

As the Music Department at Indiana University Southeast continues to experience steady and impressive growth, several professional musicians, composers, and educators have joined the music faculty for the Fall 2010 semester.

Cory Barnfield (saxophone), has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe. He has also been featured as a soloist with numerous bands and orchestras throughout Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. He is the founding member and soprano saxophonist of the Louisville Saxophone Quartet, and serves as the saxophonist on call for the Louisville Orchestra. Mr. Barnfield can be heard on Mark Custom Recordings, Amos Recordings in Switzerland and New Dynamic Records. He will be releasing his first solo album, entitled Journey, in the Fall of 2010 on the New Dynamic Records label.

As an educator, Mr. Barnfield has also given numerous clinics at middle schools, high schools, and colleges throughout Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana. He currently teaches in the Jefferson County School system and has regularly served as the saxophone instructor for the annual Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts program. Mr. Barnfield received his B.M.E degree from Murray State University and his M.S. degree from Indiana University. His artistic influences come from Scott Erickson, Otis Murphy, John Moore, Paul Bro and Dale Underwood.

Tyson Knight (electronic studio resources) has a deep passion both music and new technology, so when these two obsessions met it created a beautiful collision that has fueled his journey unto this point. Tyson studied here at IUS for his undergraduate degree and went on to Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis to finish a Master of Science in Music Technology degree. He serves as Music and Education Pastor at Central Baptist Church in Paoli, Indiana. Tyson also teaches private guitar lessons and runs a small production company focusing on digital audio, web-design, and video media. Throughout his life and career Tyson has had the opportunity to work with and produce numerous albums for many talented musicians in the southern Indiana region.

An advocate for pioneering art and music, multi-media collaborations and cross-cultural partnerships, electro-acoustic composer Allison Ogden (rudiments of music) began studying composition at age 13 with Andrew Waggoner of Syracuse University. In 1997 she entered the Eastman School of Music as a double major, where she studied clarinet and composition. It was during her time at Eastman that she became passionate about computer/electro-acoustic/multi-media works, after studying at the Eastman Computer Music Center. In 2001 she moved to Chicago and entered the doctoral program at the University of Chicago, receiving her PhD in composition and computer music from that institution in June, 2008. Dr. Ogden is the cofounder of the Chicago-based new music group the FireWire Ensemble, which is dedicated to presenting acoustic, electro-acoustic and multi-media works by young and contemporary composers. Her music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe, most recently at the International Computer Music Conference in Belfast, the 2009 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, SEAMUS 2009, The University of Iowa, the New Music Miami Festival and The University of Louisville's New Music Festival. She currently lives in Louisville and teaches music and composition at Jefferson Community and Technical College, The University of Louisville and Indiana University Southeast. Dr. Ogden recently celebrated the birth of her daughter with her husband and fellow composer Dr. Krzysztof Wolek.

Andrew Rhinehart (guitar) holds a Bachelors of Music Performance degree with an emphasis on classical guitar from the University of Louisville. He has studied extensively with teachers such as Daniel Boring and jazz guitarist Craig Wagner. While studying at UofL, Andrew performed in master classes for classical guitar greats such as Matteo Mela, Dr. Steven Thachuk, and Manuel Barrueco. Also, he has participated in summer programs with the Cincinnati Conservatory and the National Pastoral Musicians Association. He enjoys playing several different styles of music including jazz, classical, blues, country, and rock. Since graduation he has been teaching and performing in the Louisville area and all over the U.S. As a guitarist Andrew would like to share his music performance philosophy and instruction methods to anyone who would like to achieve technical discipline and overall mastery of the guitar. Currently he is studying with Dr. Stephen Mattingly at the University of Louisville for a Masters in Music Performance.

Jon Silpayamanant (cello) is a cellist, composer and multi-instrumentalist based in the greater Louisville metropolitan area. Born in Udon Thani, Thailand and a citizen of Thailand, he began playing the cello at the age of six after playing the violin for nearly a year. He has toured or performed as a soloist and with ensembles throughout the US, Canada, Great Britain and Wales.

An extremely versatile performer, Silpayamanant has worked, or currently works with numerous ensembles including the IUS Chamber Orchestra, DePauw Contemporary Music Ensemble, T.E.C. (Turntables, Electronics, and Cello), the Terre Haute Symphony and Ahel El Nagam (classical Arabic ensemble). He is one of the founding members of il Troubadore, a world music ensemble based in Indianapolis, which gives regular performances throughout the Midwest and he tours regularly with the Cherokee Cowboys, the back-up Country/Western Swing band of multi-Grammy Award winner and Country Music Hall of Fame inductee, Ray Price. His most recent ensemble, the duet Raks Makam, focuses on music and dance of Central Asia with dancer and musician, Taletha al Badr.

As a four year recipient of the DePauw Performance Merit Scholarship, Silpayamanant completed a Bachelors of Music in Cello performance at DePauw University School of Music (DPU) in May 1996, where he was a two time winner of the Concerto Competition. As a student he acted on numerous occasions as principal cellist of the Chamber, Opera and Symphony Orchestras. Silpayamanant has also attended numerous chamber festivals including the IU String Academy, Point Counterpoint, and the Kentuckiana Summer Music Institute. As a World Music performer Silpayamanant has appeared with Badal Roy and his World Jazz Combo, Carmine Guida, Kevin Hartnell, George Wakim and Firas Madbak, Raquy Danziger, Keni Washington and his OMniverse World Jazz Sinfonia. He has given and taken many workshops and private lessons on improvisation techniques and world music styles including Arabic Taqasim, Indian Hindustani music, West African drumming and dance, and Brazilian Capoeira.

Silpayamanant is also a cello coach to local school ensembles including the Floyd County Youth Symphony and the Floyd Central High School Orchestra. In 1993-1994 he was the assistant to Eric Edberg at DePauw University School of Music, giving lessons to majors in cello and also taught as a guest and substitute instructor for the Music Theory, Wagner Topics course, and 20th Century Music literature course. Silpayamanant's cello teachers and chamber music coaches have included Eric Edberg, Rostislav Dubinsky, Lawrence Zoernig, Claude Cymermann, Julia Preston, Susanna Onwood, Megumi Ohkubo, Deborah Caruso and Nancy Snustad. He has performed in masterclasses for Janos Starker, Eleanore Shoenfeld, Steven Kates, Fritz Maag, Owen Carmen, the Borromeo String Quartet, Gary Karr, Janet Anthony, the American String Quartet, and Stephen Schumway.

Silpayamanant also plays Arabic percussion (Egyptian tabla, riq and daf), Thai Saw U and Saw Duang, the Chinese erhu, Uzbek doira, and sings in over a dozen languages regularly with il Troubadore.

Lynn Steeves (horn), received her doctorate in horn performance from Stony Brook University where she studied with Ann Ellsworth and Bill Purvis. She earned her bachelors in horn performance from the University of Kentucky, studying with David Elliott, and her masters in horn performance from Florida State University where she studied with Michelle Stebleton and served as the horn studio's teaching assistant. Dr. Steeves has performed around the country with such groups as the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, Penn's Woods Music Festival, Brass Initiative, and the Long Island Concert Pops. She also performed at the 2008 and 2009 Southeast Horn Workshops, 2010 Northeast Horn Workshop, 2010 International Women's Brass Conference and helped to lead a warm-up session at the 2008 International Horn Workshop in Denver, Colorado.