VICKI CURRY, Assistant Professor
Vicki Curry is an Assistant Professor of Music in General Studies and Music Theory at James Madison University. Dr. Curry holds a B.M. degree in music education from Butler University (Indianapolis), an M.A. degree in music theory and composition from the University of Denver, and Ph.D. in music composition from the University of Utah. Prior to coming to James Madison, she taught at Westminster College (Salt Lake City) and, most recently, the University of Utah.
During her years at the University of Utah, Vicki Curry taught the whole gamut of undergraduate music theory for majors in addition to miscellaneous music history and appreciation courses for nonmajors. Twice, she offered short study-abroad courses that traveled to European cities such as London, Paris, Rome and Vienna.
Dr. Curry’s awards in teaching include Delta Gamma, "Anchor" Award for Teaching, 1997 and the “Student Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching,” University of Utah, 1999.
Over the years, Dr. Curry has reviewed numerous textbook manuscripts for publishers, written extended syllabi for correspondence courses in music theory and music appreciation, and published two workbooks to accompany textbooks used in general education. In addition, she created all the listening charts and musical analyses for Music: The Art of Listening, 5th edition by Jean Ferris. In 2005 she published Introduction to Music Theory--an interactive, multimedia textbook/workbook on CD-ROM. Currently, Vicki Curry is creating online tutorials for Joseph Kerman’s text Listen.
Emailto: curryvl@jmu.edu
B.A., Austin College; M.M. in composition, Indiana University; currently a doctoral candidate in composition at Indiana University. He was chosen as a National Merit Scholar in 1992. His music has been performed in the United States and Canada -- including at the Scotia Festival in Halifax, New Music Miami, Music2000 in Cincinnati, the Staunton Music Festival, Carnegie Hall, Richmond's ChamberFest and the Composers Inc. concert series in San Francisco -- and he has won awards and honors from the National Association of Composers USA, ASCAP, the Music Teachers' National Association, first prize in the Washington International Competition, top honors in the University of Oregon's international Waging Peace Through Singing competition and a Dean's Prize from the Indiana University School of Music. He has performed frequently as both a solo and chamber pianist and as a violist. He has taught at Indiana University, Pittsburg State University and the Walden School for young composers, and in the summer of 1998 he was a composer-in-residence at the Deer Valley Institute in Park City, Utah. He has also earned residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Ragdale Foundation. Haney has received commissions from the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the chamber group Colloquy and many solo performers. His music will be featured on a forthcoming release from Capstone Records. For a list of his works and to download audio samples, please visit his website.
B.A., Trinity College; M.M., Ph.D., Indiana University. As a theorist and pianist, he has presented papers at meetings of the College of Music Society and published piano transcriptions. He has also done professional accompanying in many areas of the eastern United States. He is a former faculty member of the State University of New York at Fredonia.
D.M.A. in composition, Cornell University. His works have had wide international performances in Austria, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, the Netherlands, South America, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States including performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Merkin Hall NYC and at over 20 new music festivals. His works have also been performed by the St. Louis Symphony and the Richmond Symphony. His piano concerto Okeanos was premiered by the JMU School of Music in 2000 in honor of the 20th-year celebration of the Contemporary Music Festival. Recent awards include an annual ASCAP Award, a commission from the International Horn Society and the first-place award in the Virginia Music Teachers Association's commissioned composer contest for 1992. In 1995, Hilliard was given a six-month residency grant to be an Artistic Fellow for the Japan Foundation in Tokyo. He has previously taught at the National Music Camp, Cornell University and Washington State University. Dr. Hilliard's teachers include Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Karel Husa, Donald Erb, W. Francis McBeth, George B. Wilson, William Grant Still and Ned Rorem. In addition, he has attended masterclasses with Erza Laderman, Alan Hovhaness, Wlodzimierz Kotonski, George Crumb, Milton Babbitt, Ben Johnston, and Olivier Messiaen.
J. RANDALL WHEATON, Assistant Professor