Woodwind

Oboe

Mary Ashley Barret is the Oboe Professor at the University of
North Carolina at Greensboro and has been on the faculty since 1998. A native of North Carolina, she holds the principal oboe position with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra in addition to being a frequent performer throughout the southeastern USA. She has appeared as soloist with the Salisbury Symphony, the Florida State Wind Orchestra, the UNCG Orchestra, the Pottstown Symphony Orchestra, and has presented numerous guest recitals and master classes throughout the United States, Caribbean, Central America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. An avid champion of the chamber ensemble, Barret performs regularly with the Cascade Wind Quintet, the EastWind Trio d’Anches, TreVent and has spent several summers playing chamber music in the Adirondacks of New York. In 2003, Barret was co-host for the International Double Reed Society’s 32nd annual Conference. Most recently, in 2005, the EastWind Trio d’Anches made their Carnegie-Hall debut. Barret's degrees include the Doctor of Music from Florida State University, the Master of Music from Baylor University, and the Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music. She can be heard on Live from Luzerne recordings with the Luzerne Chamber Players (NY), Out of the Woods, French reed trio music with TreVent, The Russian Clarinet (with EastWind Trio d’Anches) and Chamber Music of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (pub. by Centaur Records). Barret is an artist/clinician for Buffet-Crampon. 336-334-5879 or email: mabarret@uncg.edu

Clarinet

Kelly Burke(UNCG Clarinet Studio Web Page) joined the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1989. She is currently the principal clarinetist of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and bass clarinetist of the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra. Equally at home playing Baroque to Bebop, she has appeared in recitals and as a soloist with symphony orchestras throughout the United States, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Australia, and Russia. An avid chamber musician, Burke is frequently heard in concert with the Mallarmé Chamber Players, for whom she plays both clarinet and bass clarinet, the East Wind Trio d'Anches, Middle Voices (clarinet, viola and piano), and the Cascade Wind Quintet. Burke's discography includes several recent releases with Centaur Records: The Russian Clarinet, with works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Glinka, Melkikh, and Goedicke; Middle Voices: Chamber Music for Clarinet and Viola, featuring works by several American composers; and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Chamber Music featuring the quintet and nonet. She has also recorded for Telarc, Albany and Arabesque labels. Burke has received several teaching awards, including UNCG's Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, the School of Music Outstanding Teacher Award, has been named several times to Who's Who Among America's Teachers, and was recently honored with the 2004 UNC Board of Governor's Teaching Excellence Award. She is the author of numerous pedagogical articles and the critically acclaimed book Clarinet Warm-Ups: Materials for the Contemporary Clarinetist. She holds the BM and MM degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the DMA. from the University of Michigan. Burke is an artist/clinician for Rico International and Buffet Clarinets336-334-5974 or email: kjburke@uncg.edu, http://www.uncg.edu/~kjburke

Ed Riley joined the faculty at UNCG in 2002. Dr. Riley is a nationally known recitalist, soloist, and clinician. He received his BM and MS degrees from The Juilliard School and his DMA degree from the University of Iowa. His teachers include Bernard Portnoy, Joseph Allard, George Silfies, and Himie Voxman. Riley plays assistant principal/2nd clarinet in the Greensboro Symphony and plays regularly as an extra with the North Carolina Symphony. Most recently, he has performed as principal clarinet with the Carolina Ballet. Formerly, Dr. Riley played in the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski, and was principal clarinet in the Cedar Rapids Symphony and the Columbus Symphony. He also played clarinet in the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Georgia Sinfonia in Atlanta. Dr. Riley plays Selmer (Paris) clarinets and has been a national clinician with the Selmer Company since 1979. He has performed clinics at Midwest in Chicago, National MENC, Texas Bandmasters, and over 30 state and regional MENC conferences. During the past few years, he has presented clinics and master classes at over 100 universities, colleges, and conservatories throughout the United States representing the Selmer Corporation. 336-256-1479 or email: eerily@triad.rr.com

Anthony Taylor (UNCG Clarinet Studio Web Page) joined the UNCG School of Music faculty in 2007, and was also recently appointed as Principal Clarinet of the Winston-Salem Symphony. He is also an active solo, chamber, and jazz musician. This fall, he presented a paper on his research into John Adams’s clarinet concerto Gnarly Buttons in Bangor, Wales at the International Conference on Music and Minimalism. Recent performance highlights include the world premiere of Seattle composer Gail Gross’s Bossa Velha at the Washington State Music Teacher’s Association convention, solo performances with jazz piano master Dick Hyman, and the world premiere recording of Gregory Yasinitsky’s solo clarinet work For All That Has Been Given. He has been a member of the Spokane Symphony, the Boise Philharmonic, Spokane Opera and professional contemporary music ensemble Zephyr. He has been on the faculties of Washington State University, Eastern Washington University, Whitman College and Gonzaga University. Each August, Taylor also teaches at the Midsummer Musical Retreat, a week-long camp for adult amateur musicians. In summer 2007, he completed his doctorate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and also holds degrees from The Florida State University and Washington State University. 336-256-0464 or email: a_taylo2@uncg.edu

Bassoon

Michael Burns (click on web site) holds the BM degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, the MM from the New England Conservatory, and the DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Burns has performed in numerous professional orchestras including the Cincinnati and the New Zealand Symphonies and played Principal in the Midland/Odessa, Richmond and Abilene Symphonies; and the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Prior to UNCG he taught at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory, Indiana State University, and Midland College. He remains active as a solo and chamber performer with numerous performances at International Double Reed Society conventions, recitals and master classes throughout North America and the South Pacific, and is bassoonist in the EastWind Ensemble and the Cascade Quintet. He has recorded for the Centaur, CAP, Telarc, EMI, Klavier, and Mark labels. In summers, Burns is associated with the Eastern Music Festival and the Bands of America Summer Symposium. He is also an active composer with many of his pieces being published by BOCAL Music and frequently performed. His mentors include William Winstead, Sherman Walt, Leonard Sharrow, and Colin Hemmingsen. He is archivist for the International Double Reed Society and was co-host for the IDRS 2003 Conference in Greensboro, NC. Burns is a Yamaha Performing Artist. 336-334-5970 or email: mjburns@uncg.edu, www.uncg.edu/~mjburns

Flute

Deborah Egekvist earned the BM from Lawrence University, the MM at the Eastman School of Music, and the DM at Florida State University. She has taught at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, and at the University of Oklahoma at Norman. Active as a soloist and chamber musician, Egekvist has performed throughout the United States, Germany, Canada, and the Asian South Pacific. She has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra, the Green Bay Symphony, the West Virginia Symphonette, the Aurora Symphony, and the Huntington Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed as principal flute of the Huntington Chamber Orchestra, the Greensboro Symphony, and the EastWind Quintet at UNCG. In June 1989, Egekvist made her New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall. 336-334-3189 or e-mail: daegekvi@uncg.edu

Saxophone

Steve Stusek (click for web site) has earned an international reputation for virtuosic performances of standard and new works for the saxophone as well as for his engaging master classes and clinics. A founding member of both the acclaimed Red Clay Sax Quartet and the UNCG Quatuor d’Anches, he has won the prestigious Dutch Chamber Music Competition as part of the saxophone-accordion duo 2Track with Dutch accordion player Otine van Erp. Along with degrees from Indiana University (BM, DM) and Arizona State University (MM), Stusek has studied at the Paris Conservatoire and the Conservatoire de la Region de Paris, where he earned the Prix d'Or à l'Unanimité in saxophone performance. He is also founder and host of the Carolina Saxophone Symposium, a day-long conference held at UNCG each Fall, and dedicated to the highest level of saxophone performance and education. The CSS is open to all saxophonists at no charge. In addition to being performing artist for the Vandoren and Selmer companies, Stusek is on the faculty of the Blue Lake Fine Arts Academy. 336-303-1513 or email: scstusek@uncg.edu