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Music

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Erica Burton

Music Instructor

Department: Music
Phone: 651-450-3725
E-mail: erica.burton@inverhills.edu

Education Credentials:

Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) - Majors: Viola Performance - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Master of Music (MM) - Majors: Viola Performance - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Bachelor of Music (BM) - Majors: Viola Performance - Northwestern University

Erica Burton

Linda Chacholiades

Music Instructor

Departments: Music, Music & Band Department
Office: FA-176
Phone: 651-450-3554
E-mail: lchacholiades@inverhills.edu

Education Credentials:

Master of Music (MM) - Majors: Piano/Organ Perform - Cleveland Institute Of Music

Bachelor of Music (BM) - Majors: Music Performance - University Of Georgia

Linda Chacholiades

Nathan Hanson

Music Instructor

Department: Music
E-mail: nathan.hanson@inverhills.edu

Nathan Hanson

Bojan Hoover

Music Instructor

Department: Music
Office: FA-140
Phone: 651-450-3775
E-mail: bojan.hoover@inverhills.edu

Education Credentials:

Master of Arts (MA) - Majors: Scoring for Film & Visual Media - Technological University Dublin

Bachelor of Music (BA) - Majors: Music Teacher Education - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Bojan Hoover

Michael Krajewski

Music Instructor

Departments: Music, Music & Band Department
Office: LA-130
Phone: 651-450-3773
E-mail: michael.krajewski@inverhills.edu

Bio

Dr. Michael J. Krajewski is a highly sought-after educator and guitarist. His performance experience runs the gamut as he is accomplished in commercial, jazz, and classical styles. Michael has presented lectures nationwide for College Music Society, Guitar Foundation of America, Technology in Music Education, Minnesota Music Educators Association, North Dakota Music Educators Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Tennessee Music Educators Association. He has had the honor of teaching at the college level since 2006.

Dr. Krajewski is a published author with Soundboard Magazine, The Journal of the Guitar Foundation of America as well as writing The Complete Beginning Guitarist and The Complete Commercial and Jazz Guitarist. He has coached Guitar, Commercial, and Jazz Combos and as an ensemble director, his students have won top awards at the Eau Claire Jazz Festival.

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Education Credentials:

Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) - Majors: Music Performance, General - Minors: Music Teacher Education - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Master of Music (MM) - Majors: Music - Georgia State University

Bachelor of Music (BM) - Majors: Music, Other - Berklee College Of Music

Associate of Science (AS) - Majors: Business, Management, Marketing, and Rel - Columbia-Greene Community College

Michael Krajewski

Andrew Martin

Music Instructor

Departments: Music, Music & Band Department
Office: F178
Phone: 651-450-3774
E-mail: AMartin@inverhills.edu

Bio

An alumnus of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Andrew Martin has a Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology, an M.A. in Musicology and an M.M. in Percussion Performance. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. In 2011, he served as an academic fellow at the Arbeitskreis Studium Populärer Musik held at the Institute for Musicology and Music Pedagogy, Osnabruck, Germany. At Inver Hills, Dr. Martin teaches courses in music history, music analysis and percussion. He also directs the Inver Hills African Drum and Dance Ensemble and the Inver Hills Steelband Ensemble.

Dr. Martin's extensive research is centered on the theory and analysis of American popular music as well as various aspects of Afro-Caribbean music and its phenomenal dissemination throughout North America and around the globe. His chief focus investigates the development of Trinidadian steelbands and pannists outside of Trinidad and Tobago.

Dr. Martin has lectured and presented all over the world, including the U.S., Canada, Europe, China and the Caribbean. His research has appeared in journals such as American Music, Pan Podium: The Journal of the British Steel Band Society and The Journal of New York Folklore as well as The Grove Dictionary of American Music. His book,Military Might, Melodious Music: The US Navy Steel Band 1957–1999, is set for publication later in 2016.

In addition to scholarship and teaching, Dr. Martin is an accomplished live performer of non-Western and Western music. He has shared the stage with many amateur and professional performing ensembles, including:

  • Petrotrin Hatters Steelband (Trinidad and Tobago)
  • St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
  • Renegade New Music Ensemble
  • PanMN Steelband
  • Sinatra Review Big Band
  • Prague Chamber Symphony
  • Slovak Radio Chorus

Dr. Martin has performed at a number of prestigious events, including:

  • Percussive Arts International Convention
  • Minnesota and Wisconsin Music Educators Conventions
  • SEAMUS (Society of Electro-Acoustic Music) Festival
  • SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
  • Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting

To learn more about steelpan, you can read the following articles by Andrew Martin, Ph.D.:

  • Several great articles in collaboration with Ray Funk featured on Pan Podium
  • "Words of Steel: Pete Seeger and the U.S. Navy Steel Band"
  • "A Voice of Steel through the Iron Curtain: Pete Seeger’s Contributions to the Development of Steel Band in the United States

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Education Credentials:

Doctor of Philosophy (PHD) - Majors: Musicology and Ethnomusicology - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Master of Arts (MA) - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Master of Music (MM) - University Of Minnesota Twin Cities

Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Majors: Music - University Of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Andrew Martin

Jennifer Parker

Music Instructor

Departments: Music, Music & Band Department, Study Skills
Office: FA-177
Phone: 651-450-3730
E-mail: JParker@inverhills.edu

Bio

Jennifer Parker has maintained a varied music career as an educator, performer, arranger, director and songwriter. Past highlights include presentations at the Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota and Washington State Music Education Conventions. Jennifer has been selected to direct All State vocal jazz ensembles in Illinois, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Colorado. Most recently she was commissioned to write and premier her composition and arrangement, This Make Believe, in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Jazz Education Network in Reno, NV. Her song Sign of Life was featured in the documentary My Dream, My Right, a humanitarian awareness documentary focused on Syrian refugee children and premiered in the 2015 Minneapolis film festival. Her composition, Home, will be featured on an upcoming album by the Los Angeles based vocal quartet, True North.

Jennifer is celebrating her 20th year in higher education. She is proud to have shared time with amazing colleagues and students at Washington State University, Concordia University, McNally Smith College of Music, and currently North Central University and Inver Hills Community College.

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Education Credentials:

Master of Music (MM) - Major: Vocal Performance, Jazz Emphasis - Western Michigan University

Bachelor of Arts (BA) - Majors: Jazz/Jazz Studies - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Jennifer Parker

William Richardson

Cello Instructor

Phone: 651-450-3472
E-mail: william.richardson@inverhills.edu

Education Credentials:

Diploma (DIP) - Majors: Violin Repair - MN State College - Southeast Technical

Diploma (DIP) - Majors: Music Performance, Cello - Indiana University-Bloomington

Bachelor of Music (BM) - Majors: Music Performance, Cello - Indiana University

William Richardson
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