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WAYNESBURG - Musicians Dr. Ken Singleton and Andrew Boysen Jr. will serve as guest clinicians at the fourth annual Waynesburg University Conducting Symposium Jan. 22 and 23 in the Goodwin Performing Arts Center.

Ronda DePriest, assistant professor of instrumental music and director of the Waynesburg University music program, said the weekend will include four lecture sessions covering a variety of musical topics. The sessions will offer insight into the worlds of score reading, expressive gesturing, rehearsal techniques and other conducting methods.

In addition to the lecture sessions, two conducting sessions are provided with the university's symphonic band and recommended high school musicians serving as the clinic band. In this laboratory environment, the clinicians will evaluate conducting skills, make subjective recommendations and give the conductors opportunities to practice individual conducting skills.

Boysen currently serves as the assistant professor of music at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and teaches conducting. Prior to his current position, Boysen served as an assistant professor and acting associate director of bands at Indiana State University, where he directed the Marching Sycamores, conducted the symphonic band and taught in the music education department.

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He earned his doctor of musical arts degree in wind conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where he served as conductor of the Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He received his master of music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University and his bachelor's degree in music education and music composition from the University of Iowa.

Boysen won the International Horn Society Composition Contest in 2000, the University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and has twice won the Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in 1991 for I Am and in 1994 for Ovations.

Singleton serves as director of the University of Northern Colorado wind ensemble and concert band and is chairman of the wind conducting program. He has also served as director of concert bands at New Mexico State University, and has directed ensembles at the Hartt School of Music, Albertus Magnus College and Yale University.

Singleton holds a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida, and two master's degrees from the Yale University School of Music. His doctorate in tuba performance was the first awarded by Yale University in that area.

An avid transcriber of brass music and a music editor for the Charles Ives Society, Singleton has nearly 50 publications to his credit. His Ives editions have been recorded by the Chicago Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Concertgebow Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and numerous other ensembles.

He has conducted all-state bands in New York, New Mexico, Tennessee, North Dakota and Colorado. He has been named the College of Performing and Visual Arts Scholar of the Year, and has received the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Award. Dr. Singleton is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association, as well as a member of the Colorado Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame.

Registration information can be found by visiting www.waynesburg.edu. For more information, contact Ronda DePriest at 724-852-3420 or e-mail rdepries@waynesburg.edu.

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