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MPB: Music Practice Building

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Name: A-D  E-I  J-L  M-P  Q-T  U-Z

A-D
Kathleen Adams, communications director

Room: 115 Music Building
Email: adamsk10@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-9958
Fax: (517) 432-6269

Publicity/media relations; advertising; Web site management and maintenance; creates and distributes publicity materials: posters, flyers, brochures, invitations, Music Notes magazine, etc.

 

Dak Aldrich, network administrator

Room: 216 Music Practice Building
Email: dak@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 432-5045

Website: http://comit.music.msu.edu

 

Sarah Blanck, budget and personnel director

Room: 149 Music Building
Email: blancks@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-1811
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Budget; academic and support staff personnel administration; office supervision.

 

Rhonda Buckley, associate dean for outreach and engagement and executive director, Community Music School

Room: 101 Music Practice Building (517) 432-7371

          101 Community Music School (517) 355-7661 x17
Email: rbuckley@msu.edu
Fax: (517) 432-1053

Provides College of Music and MSU Community Music School (CMS) leadership to further develop instructional services and programs on-site and in other communities; leads development efforts to provide funding to expand services and access to CMS; provides leadership for students and faculty including the scholarship of outreach; develops collaborations with partners on and off campus.

 

Amanda Darche, grant writer/communication coordinator, Community Music School

Email: adarche@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7661 x16

 

Karen Deford, secretary
Room: 102 Music Building
Email: defordk@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-5340
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Maintains, distributes and collects building and locker keys; student and on-call payroll; performance program production; maintains copy and fax machines (repair, stock supplies, issue copy cards, etc.); maintains office supply inventory; supervises front office student staff; compiles monthly account summaries for postage, University Stores, copier charges, and handles audio visual equipment rentals.

 

Jaime DeMott, registrar and camp coordinator

Email: jdemott@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7661 x11

 

E-I

Viki Gietzel, assistant director of admissions and student services
Room: 253 Music Building
Email: gietzel@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-1288
Fax: (517) 432-8209

Admissions; student services; named scholarships.

 

J-L

D. Bryan Jao, alumni relations and special events coordinator

Room: 150 Wharton Center
Email: bryanjao@hotmail.com
Phone: (517) 353-1982 x102
Fax: (517) 353-5329

 

Mary Black Junttonen, music librarian

Email: blackma@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 432-6123, ext.282

The Fine Arts-Music Library is located on the fourth floor, west wing, Main Library. Phone: 517-353-4593. Mailing address: Fine Arts Library, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1048.

Responsible for music collections, services and facilities within the Fine Arts--Music Library.

 

Christine Kaye, operations manager/assistant director of undergraduate student affairs

Room: 253 Music Building
Email: kaye@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 432-8344
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Schedules student, faculty and guest artist recitals, rehearsals and studios; manages web scheduling program; College of Music liaison with Wharton Center; manages building operations; undergraduate advising.

 

Patricia Kroth, associate director

Email: krothp@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7661 x12

 

M-P

John Martin, director of admissions and student services

Room: 251 Music Building

Email: martinjo@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-2140

Fax: (517) 432-8209

Website: http://www.music.msu.edu/admissions

Admissions, student services: information on jobs, workshops, and master classes; named scholarships; some advising.

 

Jeanette Minkel, orchestra secretary

Room: 221 Music Building
Email: minkelj@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7670
Fax: (517) 432-2880

 

Shawn Myrda Mahorney, assistant to the dean
Room: 105 Music Building
Email: myrdasha@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-4583
Fax: (517) 432-7081

Provides secretarial support to James Forger, dean of the College of Music; manages travel and master class proposal process; manages reappointment/promotion/tenure process; coordinates teaching observations; distributes and collects Faculty Information Forms and Professional Accomplishments forms for further reporting; accumulates the data for the Indicators of Quality report to the College.

 

Curtis Olson, associate dean for undergraduate studies and scholarships

Room: 155 Music Building

Email: olsonc@msu.edu

Phone: (517) 355-4585
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Undergraduate advising; certifies all College of Music undergraduate degrees for graduation; coordinates College of Music scholarships; schedules courses; assigns spaces in/manages Music buildings; supervises maintenance of student records; mediator between undergraduate students and faculty as needed; College of Music liaison with Honors College; administers summer school for the College of Music; answers curricular questions from prospective students; guides curricular changes.

 

Patti Pakkala, assistant to development director
Room: 105 Music Building
Email: pakkalap@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-9872
Fax: (517) 432-7081

Provides secretarial support to College of Music director of development.

 

Q-T

David Rayl, associate dean for graduate studies and research, director of choral programs

Room: 211 Music Practice Building

Email: musgrad@msu.edu

Phone: (517) 353-9122
Fax: (517) 432-2880

For graduate-related questions, issues and information, please send an e-mail to the address listed above.

Graduate advising; certifies all College of Music graduate degrees for graduation; mediator between graduate students and faculty as needed; answers curricular questions from prospective students.

 

Jen Shangraw, recording engineer

Room: 226 Music Building
Email: recserv@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7674
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Website: http://www.music.msu.edu/recordingservices/

Records, edits, provides CD mastering, and can provide minimal sound reinforcement for College of Music ensemble concerts, and many faculty and student recitals and sessions.

 

Anne Simon, assistant to the associate dean for graduate studies and research

Room: 207 Music Practice Building

Email: musgrad@msu.edu

Phone: (517) 353-9122
Fax: (517) 432-2880

For graduate-related questions, issues and information, please send an e-mail to the address listed above.

Maintains calendar and provides secretarial support for David Rayl, associate dean for graduate studies; processes paperwork to enroll graduate students and hire graduate assistants; monitors graduate assistant budget; monitors and enters overrides for graduate students.

 

Bonnie Stewart, assistant to the associate dean for undergraduate studies and scholarships
Room: 153 Music Building
Email: stewar27@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-4585
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Monitors and inputs overrides for undergraduate students; administers grade reporting; completes paperwork for College of Music scholarships and undergraduate assistants; inputs CLIFMS data; maintains calendar for Curtis Olson, associate director of undergraduate studies; manages the distribution and collection of SIRS and SOCT forms for the College of Music.

 

Rebecca D. Surian, development director

Room: 103 Music Building
Email: surian@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-9872
Fax: (517) 432-7081

Endowment fundraising in support of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, performance and outreach needs; annual support for the director performance areas; fundraising for new music building; alumni activities and fundraising events.

 

Sharon Tyree, band secretary
Room: 116 Music Building
Email: tyree@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7654
Fax: (517) 432-0726

Maintains calendars for Kevin Sedatole, director of bands, and John Madden, director of the Spartan Marching Band and associate director of bands; coordinates band student staff; supervises College instrument inventory; reconciles and tracks band accounts; assists with the coordination of band travel; assists with the coordination of MSU band camps.

 

U-Z

Charlene Wagner, budget assistant

Room: 102 Music Building
Email: reha@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 353-5340
Fax: (517) 432-2880

Supervises box office, processes vouchers (direct payment, reimbursement and travel); makes deposits.

 

Victoria Walker, music library assistant

Email: walkerv1@msu.edu
Phone:
(517) 432-6123, ext.280

The Fine Arts-Music Library is located on the fourth floor, west wing, Main Library. Phone: 517-353-4593. Mailing address: Fine Arts Library, 100 Library, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1048.

Supervises student employment, collection maintenance and music assigned reading/listening in the Music Library.

 

Beverly Wallace, administrative assistant, Community Music School

Email: wallaceb@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 355-7661 x11

 

Cookey Whitaker, assistant to director of jazz studies

Room: 101 Music Practice Building
Email: jazz@msu.edu or whitak48@msu.edu
Phone: (517) 432-6449
Fax: (517) 432-2880

 

 

 

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