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Graduates
Successful Careers
Combining the flexibility of a liberal arts degree with the
strength of the B.M. and B.A. music programs, our graduates
have left Coe to pursue diverse and exciting careers.
- Matthew Adamson directs instrumental
music at Eisenhower 9th Grade School and is an associate
director at Eisenhower Senior High School in Houston, Texas.
- Angelyn
Fullarton Benson is
a professional keyboardist and theatrical music director.
Angie has conducted and played shows in New York City and
other cities on the East Coast, as well as on the National
Tour of Barry Manilow's "Copacabana" and the
Hawaiian Tour of "A
Chorus Line". As a composer/lyricist, her original
score of "A Christmas
Carol" will be performed again in its sixth full production
in the Washington, D.C. area this winter. She currently
serves as a voice coach and musical director/pianist on
the faculty of Karen Prunzik's Broadway Dance Studio
in Pittsburgh. Visit Angie at www.keysandhammers.com.
- Soprano Miriam Browning-Nance is a founding
partner of Project Opera of Manhattan, a summer program
designed to give performance opportunities to all types
of young artists involved in operatic production. During POM's
2006 and 2007 seasons, she performed the roles of Countess
Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Berta in Il
Barbiere di Siviglia, and Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, while
also serving as the Managing Director of the
company. You can learn more about Miriam and Project
Opera of Manhattan at http://projectopera.org.
- Katie Rowe Burnes is Director of Orchestras
at Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Twice voted best singer of the season in the Neues
Rhineland critics poll, tenor Jeffrey Dowd continues
his singing career in Europe. Learn more about
his upcoming performances by visiting his website: www.jeffreydowd.com.
- Andrea Deal Drinkall is the Personnel
Manager of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
- Andrew Drinkall is Director of Choral
Activities at Troy Buchanan High School in Troy, Missouri.
- Jackie Edwards is a music therapist at
Bridge View School in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- Cindy Egger teaches guitar at Rockhurst
University in Kansas City and is the music director/guitarist
at St. Andrew Christian Church in Olathe, Kansas. Her
CD, Fingerpicken’Good! is available through
her website www.cindyegger.com. A
bit of her life is captured in Kathryn Sommer's A
Power of Her Own, portraits of 60 notable women in
the Kansas City area.
- Dr. Holly Hart is a public radio classical
music broadcaster. She maintains her keyboard skills
by accompanying opera workshops and musical theater productions.
- Luke Johnson is the choral director at
Atlantic High School, Atlantic, Iowa.
- Jodi Jetson is the Outreach Coordinator
for McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, Minnesota.
- In addition to maintaining a large successful private
voice studio in Las Vegas, Nevada, Heather Knowles sings
with the Las Vegas Philharmonic Chorus. Visit her
website at www.heatherknowles.net.
- Laura
Kutscher-Dankler is
the choral music editor at GIA Publications, Inc. in Chicago.
She maintains an active career as a piano soloist, accompanist,
and composer. Laura also conducts the choir at St.
James Catholic Church in Arlington Heights.
- Brooke Lyons is a member of the Old Guard
Fife and Drum Corps of the United States Army, based in
Ft. Meyer, Virginia.
- Lisa Moore Marner maintains a private
clarinet studio and performs with the Cedar Rapids Symphony
and the Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre.
- Satoshi Matsumoto is a Managing Director
Quality Control Division at Pioneer Corporation in Tokyo,
Japan. This division includes the Environmental Preservation
Group.
- As a student, David Meindl won Mu Phi
Epsilon's International Original Composition Award
for his composition, Winter. He continues
to use his composer skills of creativity and analysis while
running a small Search Engine Marketing Company in Barcelona,
Spain. In addition to specializing in promoting websites
that target multiple languages, he helps companies obtain
top rankings in the search engines as well as develop their
online advertising and publicity campaigns. You can
visit David's company at www.Promocioning.com.
- Tricia Ostermann is an Assistant Music
Buyer at the Barnes & Noble corporate headquarters
in New York City, where she provides service for B&N
music departments nationwide, previews new music and
films, helps handpick new artists to spotlight,
and serves as the resident classical and musical guru. She is
also pursuing a career in theater and
film and has garnered rave reviews for her self-produced
and directed cabaret shows around the NYC area.
- Aaron Parry was the executive producer
of Barnyard: The Original Party Animals at
Paramount Studios in Hollywood, California. He is now President/CEO
of Main Street Pictures, Inc., as well as Producer for
Paramount Pictures. Learn more about Aaron at www.aaronparry.com.
- Ramona Pansegrau is the Music Director
and Principal Conductor for the Kansas City Ballet. Each
summer she serves as Music Director for the Ballet School
at Jacob's Pillow, and every four years she is the
Music Director for the International Ballet Competitions
held in Jackson, Mississippi. In June 2008 she will
be conducting at the Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts;
July and August she'll be performing in Ascoli, Italy.
- Kristin Patch is the Artistic Coordinator
for the Omaha Symphony Orchestra.
- Malcolm Ruhl's music direction
credits include Oklahoma! at ATC
(earning him a Jeff nomination) and Woody Guthrie’s
American Song (a Jeff award) at Northlight Theatre.
He also received Jeff nominations for Blues in the
Night at
Northlight and Pump Boys and Dinettes at
the Forum Theatre. Malcolm appeared as "Jackson" in
the Broadway production of Pump Boys and Dinettes and
as "Jackson" and Musical Director for the record-breaking
run at Chicago's Apollo Theatre. Composer credits
include Holiday Memories at Northlight (and more
than 30 subsequent productions nationwide) and Cicada
Dance, for which he received Kennedy Center/ACTF awards
for original play, music and lyrics. He has performed
with Big Joe Turner, Harry Chapin, The Osmond Brothers,
Vassar Clements and Jason Robert Brown. Malcolm teaches
voice and composition, and writes choral and band arrangements
for several schools in the Chicago area.
- Kathy Rundus, Coordinator of Vocal Studies
at Fullerton College in Fullerton, California, teaches
voice and conducts the Fullerton College Chamber Singers.
She also maintains a voice studio at California State University,
Long Beach, and is a member of the John Alexander Singers,
a 24 voice professional choral ensemble. Kathy serves
as an adjudicator, clinician, and workshop leader in high
schools, churches, and universities. Her book Cantabile, combining
voice science and pedagogy with practical applications
for both individual voice training and choral voice training,
will be available from Pavane Publishing in 2008.
- Julie Gummert Scrivener is the administrator
in charge of graduate awards at Western Michigan University.
She is also the music director at Gull Lake United Methodist
Church where she has been on the music staff for 21 years.
- Travis Shepherd teaches instrumental
music at Wayzata High School, Plymouth, Minnesota.
- Works by composer Scott Shoemaker have
been performed throughout the US as well as in Europe and
Africa. His sonata for saxophone and piano, Sanctuary!, was
recently included on a CD recording featured by the Society
of Composers, Inc. Several of his works have been
published by Cimarron Music of Salem, Connecticut. He
currently teaches music at Kirkwood Community College in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Sara Sweeney teaches elementary music
grades 1-6 at C.E. Jacobson Elementary School in Rush City,
Minnesota.
- Jeff Weiler, curator of the organ for
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, serves as consultant and
project manager for numerous church, university, and symphony
orchestra organ projects. He recently edited The Wurlitzer
Pipe Organ: An Illustrated History, published by the
American Theatre Organ Society. In addition, Jeff
presents organ-related lectures, his articles have appeared
in many major newspapers, and his commentaries have been
broadcast on National Public Radio. As an organist,
he has composed and performed more than 30 silent film
scores, including performing on the Mighty Wurlitzer for
the grand reopening of the Chicago Theatre. Learn
more about Jeff at www.jlweilerpipeorgans.com.
- Ben Work is the Director of Bands at
St. Joseph's School in Marion, Iowa. In 2004
he was selected as one of five recipients of the Mr. Holland's
Opus Foundation Outstanding Teacher Awards.
- Kelly Workman is a high school band director
at Muscatine High School, Muscatine, Iowa.
- Emily Wall is a high school choral director
at Davenport Central High School, Davenport, Iowa.
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