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Music Department Faculty
RESIDENTIAL FACULTY
Music Theory & Composition, Music Humanities, Commercial Music
Christopher Scinto's compositions have been featured on music festivals and conferences in Germany, Italy, Spain, and throughout the United States. His works, performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble, the ASU Symphony Orchestra, and by soloists Corrado Canonici, Marco Albonetti, and George Wolfe, have received awards and grants from Arizona State University, Bowling Green State University, the Composers Guild, the Long Island Composer's Alliance, Meet the Composer, the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, the National Association of Composers, USA, and ProMusica. He holds degrees from Arizona State University and Bowling Green State University and has studied composition with Samuel Adler, Burton Beerman, James DeMars, Wallace DePue, Glenn Hackbarth, Robert Kaplan, Rodney Rogers, Jody Rockmaker, Robert Rowe, Randall Shinn, Marilyn Shrude, and Chinary Ung.
Scinto also maintains an active performing career as a saxophonist, pianist, and conductor of contemporary music. He regularly performs contemporary works for saxophone, has been a member of numerous award-winning saxophone quartets, has served as the director of the ASU New Music Ensemble, and is currently the director of the new music ensemble Crossing 32nd Street.
He
has held
teaching positions at ASU, Grand Canyon University (Phoenix, AZ),
Chandler-Gilbert
Community College, and is currently the director of the music
department
and the division chair of Fine & Performing Arts at Paradise Valley
Community College.
Brett Reed, Music Humanities, Commercial Music, Music Performance - Evening Music Supervisor
Brett Reed is a
performer, composer,
and educator specializing in contemporary and improvised music. He
regularly
performs as a solo percussionist, as a member of several ensembles,
including
Skin & Bones, a percussion duo he co-founded with Terry Longshore,
and as a jazz vibraphonist in solo and ensemble settings. He has
performed
at numerous festivals, including the Bang On A Can Marathon in New York
City and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella Series. Reed has
also produced and performed on numerous recordings including Skin &
Bones critically acclaimed first release “Boom” and their upcoming
release
“Mixmaster”. Other recording credits include the music of composers
Anthony
Davis, Peter Garland, and Iannis Xenakis. In addition, Reed has had
performances
of his own compositions "that's what it is, grape!" for septet, "Five
Loops",
for marimba and electronics, and "Translucent Divide" for solo
vibraphone.
Brett holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of
California,
San Diego where he studied with renowned percussionist Steven Schick.
As
an educator at PVCC, Dr. Reed teaches courses in the history of rock
music,
music business, studio recording, and jazz performance.
Carolyn Broe, Private Viola Instruction
Dr. Carolyn Waters Broe, American violist, conductor and composer received her Bachelors of Music Performance from Chapman University in 1979, and her Masters in Fine Arts in Music from California State University, in Long Beach in 1984. Broe earned her Doctorate in Music from Arizona State University in 2001. Her viola teachers include William Magers, Adriana Chirilov, and Louis Kievman. She has been the featured soloist with orchestras in California and Arizona.
Carolyn Broe conducts the Four Seasons Orchestra of Scottsdale, which was nominated in two Grammy categories for 2000. She has made several CD recordings and performed with numerous celebrities. She is the violist with the Four Seasons String Quartet. Broe was the founder and conductor of the Paradise Valley Community College Orchestra for ten years. She has written two books including “J.S. Bach’s Treatment of the Viola” and “The String Literature of Louise L. Kerr”. Carolyn holds several awards including: Woman of the Year from American Biographical in 1993; The Dream Catcher Award of 1995; and Marquis’ Who’s Who of Women 2001. Carolyn Broe is currently teaching violin and viola at Paradise Valley Community College and viola and chamber music at Mesa Community College.
Dan Delaney, Private Jazz Piano Instruction
Matt Gould, Music Theory & Ear Training, Music Humanities, Private and Group Guitar Instruction
Guitarist Dr. Matt Gould (B.M. Peabody Conservatory, M.M. University of Arizona, D.M.A. Arizona State University) has been described as a "guitarist capable of giving performances of great beauty, enthusiasm and control" by EMI recording artist and his teacher, Manuel Barrueco. Equally versed in the traditional and modern literature, he has performed on three continents as both soloist and with his violin and guitar ensemble Duo46. With over 100 works composed for him and several critically acclaimed recordings, Dr. Gould has established himself as a leading force in contemporary art music for guitar. He has performed with many contemporary ensembles such as the Peabody Camerata under the baton of Gene Young, the New Music Ensemble with composer Dan Welcher, and the Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble under Dan Asia; premiering new chamber works by such notable composers as Tania Leon, Ollie Wilson, Mario Davidovsky, and Luigi Nono. He is a recipient of many awards and honors such as a Rotary Scholarship, a Peabody Fellowship Award, the Hos Award for Excellence in Guitar Performance from the guitar faculty at the Peabody Conservatory, a Barlow Commissioning Grant, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Commission Grant, and an ENCORE grant from The American Composers Forum. In addition to recording and performing concerts worldwide, he has excelled in many international competitions including the Stotsenberg, Sholin, Great Lakes International and the Guitar Foundation of America International. He has taught at Eastern Mediterranean University on the island of Cyprus from 2000-2005 introducing a complete curriculum of courses in Fingerboard Harmony, Guitar History and Guitar Pedagogy within a balanced program of solo and mixed chamber music for guitar, Guitar Ensemble and Guitar Orchestra.
Jacob Harrison, North Valley Chamber Orchestra, director
In demand as a conductor and an educator, Jacob Harrison is also a passionate supporter of composers and the arts of our time. He has premiered numerous new works for orchestras and chamber ensembles. In 2007, Mr. Harrison was appointed Resident Conductor of the Chapparal Music Fest, a new music festival in Prescott, Arizona. In addition, he is a regular guest conductor with the Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble.
After being appointed Music Director of the North Valley Chamber Orchestra in 2006, Jacob has increased the ensemble's visibility in the valley through the development of the ensemble's programming and by reaching out to the community of North Phoenix. In addition, Mr. Harrison has worked regularly with other orchestras throughout the Phoenix area such as the Phoenix Youth Orchestra, the Scottsdale Community Orchestra, and the Arizona Repertory Orchestra.
Kevin Kriegel, PVCC Community Chorus, director, & Music Theory
Snezana Krstic, Private and Group Piano Instruction
Daniel Kurek, Private Voice Instruction, Opera Workshop, Musical Theatre Workshop
Kristen Napoleon, Music Theory & Ear Training
Jesse Parker, Music Theory
Bill Sallak, Music Humanities, Electronic Music, African Drum Ensemble
Bill Sallak's career is a diverse mix of performance, technology, pedagogy, and research. Currently a percussionist with the Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble and Crossing 32nd Street, he has also performed with the Music on the Edge Chamber Orchestra (Pittsburgh, PA), the ambient/noise collective barely.audible, New Music Group/Daedalus, the Phoenix, Akron, and Ohio Valley Symphonies, Ohio Ballet, Nadeen O'Connor Dance Theater, Verlezza Dance, Kent Dance Ensemble, and the dance departments at Arizona State University, Ohio University, Slippery Rock University, Cleveland State University, Kent State University, and SUNY-Fredonia. Bill has performed at the Phoenix Experimental Arts Festival, Tempe/Phoenix SoundRave, the American New Arts Festival, Percussive Arts Society International Conferences in 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2006, and a three-week tour of South Korea as part of Je-Chun Park's Drum on Drum Project in the spring of 2005. He has given over thirty world and regional premiere performances.
In addition to PVCC, Bill has taught at SUNY-Fredonia, the University of Akron, Kent State University, Ohio University, and Arizona State University. He has taught courses in percussion, contemporary music, music history and literature, jazz and rock history, audio engineering, electronic music, acoustics, and world music. He holds degrees from SUNY-Fredonia and the University of Akron.
Dennis Saloky, PUMA Jazz Ensemble & PVCC Big Band, director
Beth Ilana Schneider, Private Violin Instruction
Violinist Beth Schneider-Gould (B.M. Indiana University Bloomington, M.M. University of Arizona) made her soloist debut at the age of 16 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. She has performed throughout the United States including the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, and has toured Europe with Sir George Solti and the Schleswig Holstein Festival Orchestra. She has performed chamber music with many renowned artists including Lynn Harrell and Yefim Bronfman, has worked under conductors such as David Zinman, Neeme Jarvi, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin and Christoph Dohnanyi, and has participated in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, the Meadowmount School of Music, ENCORE, Music '98, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Hermopoulis International Guitar Festival in Greece, the Styrian Chamber Music Festival in Austria, the 2005 Guitar Foundation of America Conference and Competition, and the Cortona Contemporary Music Festival in Italy, among others. Her primary teachers have included Linda Cerone, Victor Danchenko, Eugene Gratovich, Conny Kiradjieff, Andreas Reiner, Mark Rush, and Nelli Shkolnikova and her chamber coaches have included Henry Meyer from the Lasalle Quartet, Paul Katz from the Cleveland Quartet and Phillip Setzer from the Emerson Quartet. Beth has collaborated with composers from around the world including Karl Korte, Dan Asia and Jorge Liderman, in the creation of new duos for violin and guitar and mixed trios with cello, viola and piano. As a member of duo46, Beth has recorded two critically acclaimed discs featuring 20th/21st century music, including commissioned works by American composers, has performed in England, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Turkey, the U.S. and Austria, and has conducted residencies at Harvard, UC Berkely and CSU Fresno, Wellesley, University of Florida at Gainesville, Nebraska, and Minnesota. Beth is a former member of the Tuscon Symphony, San Antonio Symphony and Principle Scond Violin for the Arizona Opera, and is a former Professor of Violin, Viola and Chamber Music at Eastern Mediterranean University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Ted Sistrunk, Private Electric Bass & Contra Bass Instruction
Eric Schultz, Music Theory & Composition, Music Humanities
Christina Steffen, Private Flute Instruction, Flute Choir, Music Humanities
Scott Zimmer, Music Humanities, Private Saxophone Instruction
As a saxophonist and woodwind player, Scott Zimmer has performed and recorded in a variety of musical styles ranging from commercial to jazz to classical. Recent performances include a West Coast in April 2001 tour with the brass and percussion group Proteus 7, and a jazz performance in July 2000 at the World Saxophone Congress in Montreal, Quebec.
As an educator, he currently teaches courses in jazz and rock history at Paradise Valley Community College. Previously, he has served on the faculty at Glendale Community College, Arizona School for the Arts, Eastern New Mexico University, and the University of Oregon. He is also a freelance musician and educator in the Phoenix area.
Dr. Zimmer has appeared on a number of recordings including Jazz with the Marohnic, Pilafian, Hopkins Jazz Nonet (Summit Records DCD-227), and Meltdown with The Pilafian Project (Summit Records DCD-229). Currently, he performs locally with the Phoenix Jazz Workshop, the Azz Izz Band, the Desert Wind Saxophone Quartet, the Prizefighting Kangaroos Saxophone Quartet, and the jazz quartet Jiggle while teaching and performing as a freelance saxophonist and woodwind player.
Dr. Zimmer holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree in Saxophone Performance from Arizona State University. He also holds a Masters degree in Saxophone Performance from the University of Oregon and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of Northern Iowa where he performed with the award-winning UNI Jazz Band I.
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