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MSU College of Music Faculty: Topic Specialties
(Updated 11/30/06)

| Bands | Composition | Jazz | Music Education | Music Theory | Music Therapy |

| Musicology | Strings | Vocal Arts | Woodwinds |

Bands
1. John Madden, Associate Professor Music Education, Associate Director of Bands, and 

                       Director of MSU Marching Band

Phone: (517) 355-7650

Email: madden@msu.edu

Topics:

• Spartan Marching Band
• Spartan Brass (Basketball and hockey bands)
• Any Athletic Bands issue
• MSU Concert Bands

Composition
1. Jere Hutcheson, Professor of Composition

Phone: (517) 355-7664

Email: hutcheso@msu.edu
Topics:

• Contemporary music
• The Contemporary Composer
• Compositional Procedures

2. Mark Sullivan, Associate Professor and Chair of the Composition Area, Director of

                       MSU Computer Music Studio

Phone: (517) 355-7653
Email: sullivan@msu.edu
Topics:

• Electronic/Computer Music
• Composition
• Contemporary Music
• Music as it relates to other arts and society
  
  
  
  

Jazz
1. Rodney Whitaker, Associate Professor of Double Bass and Director of Jazz Studies

Phone: (517) 432-2194
Email: whitak22@msu.edu
Topics:

• Anything related to jazz or about famous jazz performers

2. Sunny Wilkinson, Assistant Professor of Vocal Jazz

Phone: (517) 355-0216

Email: wilkin68@msu.edu

Topics:

• Jazz Vocals, especially solo or group vocal jazz
  
  
  
  
  

Music Education
1. John Kratus, Professor of Music Education

Phone: (517) 432-1813

Email: kratus@msu.edu
Topics:

• Children's Musical Compositions and Musical Creativity
• Garage Bands/informal music compared to formal ensembles, such as band, orchestra and choir
• Music and Mood

2. Cindy Taggart, Professor and Area Chair of Music Education

Phone: (517) 432-9678
Email: taggartc@msu.edu
Topics:

• Early Childhood Music Expert
• Suzuki Violin
• Elementary General Music Methods and Materials
• Psychology of Music

3. Judy Palac, Associate Professor of Music Education

Phone: (517) 355-7665
Email: palac@msu.edu
Topics:

• Music Education
• Suzuki Violin
• Musical Wellness in Adolescence
• String Education
• Performing Arts Medicine
  
  
  
  
  

Music Theory
1. Bruce Taggart, Instructor of Music Theory

Phone: (517) 353-8988
Email: taggartb@msu.edu
Topics:

• Music Perception
• Musical Development
• Music Theory Pedagogy
  
  
  
  
  

Music Therapy

1. Frederick (Ted) Tims, Professor and Area Chiar of Music Therapy

Phone: (517) 353-9856
Email: tims@msu.edu
Topics:

• Music Therapy
• Music Therapy and Disease, such as Alzheimer's, Cancer, Aging. etc.
• Music Psycho-neuroimmunology
• Music Therapy Wellness

2. Roger Smeltekop, Associate Professor of Music Therapy

Phone: (517) 355-6753
Email: smeltek3@msu.edu
Topics:

• Music Therapy Education
• Music Therapy Clinical Practice
• Special Education
• Music Therapy Professional Organizations
• Music Therapy Board Certification
  
  
  
  
  

Musicology
1. Michael Largey, Associate Professor and Area Chair of Musicology

Phone: (517) 353-9013
Email: largey@msu.edu
Topics:

• Haiti, especially music and culture
  
  
  
  
  

Strings
1. Suren Bagratuni, Professor of Cello and Co-Chair of the String Area

Phone: (517) 432-9793
Email: bagratun@msu.edu
Topics:

• Cello
• Chamber Music
  
  
  
  
  

Vocal Arts

1. David Rayl, Professor of Music, Director of Choral Activities and Associate Director for

                   Graduate Studies

Phone: (517) 355-7667
Email: rayld@msu.edu
Topics:

• Choral-Orchestral Music of Mozart and Haydn
• Community Choral Ensembles
• Choral Conducting
• History and Development of Choral Music

2. Mary Alice Stollak, Director, MSU Children’s Choir

Phone: 517-353-5340
Email: stollakm@msu.edu
Topic:

• Children’s Choir
  
  
  
  
  

Woodwinds
1. Richard Illman, Associate Professor of Trumpet

Phone: (517) 355-7669
Email: illman@msu.edu
Topics:

• Yoga for Wind Players
• Music and Technology

2. Joseph Lulloff, Professor of Saxophone and Area Chair of Woodwinds

Phone: (517) 353-5002
Email: lulloff@msu.edu
Topics:

• Anything related to saxophone - classical or jazz
• Anything related to jazz
• Alumni issues in the music department
• Saxophone quartet with orchestra performances
• Developing marketing skills for the solo artist

3. John Martin, Director of Admissions, Student Services and Non-Academic Affairs

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

• Business of Music