Music Faculty & Staff
The Music Faculty is made up of over fifty full- and part-time instructors, each of whom is a specialist within a particular area of music. The Department also makes extensive use of the abundant commercial music resources found in Nashville, one of the recording and music industry capitals of the world.
All music offices are located in the Performing Arts Center unless otherwise indicated.
Faculty:
- Lisa Bradley, Music Appreciation
- Dr. Robert Bryant, Coordinator of Music Education
- Ashley Crawford, Flute
- Dr. Mark Crawford, Coordinator of Commercial Music, Music Business
- William Crimm, Voice, Music Appreciation
- Patrick Dailey, Big Blue Opera Initiative, Applied Voice I-IV, Vocal Techniques for Instrumentalists, Opera Tigre
- Veronica Edwards Douglas, Piano
- Deidre Emerson, Cello
- William "Tiger" Fitzhugh, Guitar, Music Appreciation
- Derrick Greene, Percussion
- Dr. Olga Harris, Music Composition
- Elijah Holt, Percussion, Commercial Music Ensemble, Music Appreciation
- Dr. Lucas Hopkins, Saxophone, Music Appreciation
- Thomas Hurst , Percussion, Drum Set, Music Appreciation
- Emily Verschoor-Kirss, Saxophone
- Jennifer Kummer, Horn, Music Appreciation
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Dr. Kowoon Lee, Piano
- Dr. Darryl Glenn Nettles, Voice, Music Theory, Jr./Sr. Recital
- Dr. Ljerka Rasmussen, Music History, Ethnomusicology, Music Appreciation
- James Sexton, Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combo
- Robert Shankle, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone
- Phyllis Sparks, Harp, Piano
- Dr. Tolga Tem, Music Appreciation Coordinator, Music Theory, Music Appreciation, Aural Skills, Music for Video Games, Audio for Video, Web Master
- Dr. Richard Todd, Interim Department Chair, Applied Guitar, Music Freshman Theory II, Freshman Aural Skills II, Form and Analysis, Orchestration, Commercial Music Ensemble, Music Appreciation, Guitar Ensemble, Class Guitar for Non-Majors, Graduate Course: Survey/Pedagogy of Music Theory, The Symphony
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Dr. Stephen Davis Turner, Applied tuba-euphonium
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Dr. Joseph Van Dyke,
Music Theory Coordinator, Piano, Music Theory
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Dr. Jack Wengrosky
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Katja Yeager
, Applied Violin, Viola, and Music Appreciation
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