Teaching

Current Position:
Director of the World Music Performance Center
Associate Professor of Music

College of Creative Arts
West Virginia University
Morgantown, West Virginia

Ensemble Conducting:

  •             Steel Band
  •             Brazilian Ensemble
  •             African Music and Dance
  •             Balinese and Javanese Gamelan
  •             Taiko
  •             Gyil Ensemble

Instructor:

  •             Music 116: Music in World Cultures
  •             Music 283: Percussion Methods, World Percussion Module
  •             Music 477: Music of Africa
  •             Music 500T: Secondary Applied Lessons (Ethnic Percussion)
  •             Music 737:  Applied Lessons (Ethnic Percussion- Graduate)
  •             Independent Study

Summer Study Abroad:

  •             Music 499:  Faculty-led Summer Study Abroad – Ghana
  •             Music 499:  Faculty-led Summer Study Abroad – Brazil
  •             Music 499:  Faculty-led Summer Study Abroad  – Belize

 

Featured Student Performances:

WVU World Music Showcase Concert

WVU Steel Band at 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (audio)

WVU Steel Band at 2012 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (video)

Zane Cupec’s Student Mentored Research Project “Velkpele”

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