Faculty

Dr. Jong H. Kim

Professor, director of graduate studies in music

• Teaching area: choral conducting, choral literature, choral method, performance and analysis
• D.MA in choral conducting from Michigan State University; M.M. in choral conducting from Eastman School of Music

Dr. Oeida Hatcher

Associate professor, dean of the School of Communication and the Arts

• Teaching area: instrumental literature and instrumental methods
• D.MA and M.M.E. in music education/instrumental conducting from Shenandoah Conservatory

Dr. Cynthia Ramsey

Associate professor, chair of the music department

• Teaching Area: Instrumental conducting, research methods, music history, and applied piano
• D.M.A in music education/musicology from Shenandoah Conservatory; M.M.E. from Shenandoah Conservatory

Applied Instructors

Alycia Hugo

Instructor

• Teaching area: applied flute
• M.M. from the New England Conservatory

William P. Parrish Jr.

Instructor

• Teaching area: applied oboe
• D.MA (incomplete) from the University of Michigan; M.M. in oboe from the University of the Arts; Artist Diploma from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music; B.F.A. in oboe from Carnegie Mellon University

Brian Smith

Instructor

• Teaching area: applied percussion
• M.M. from Rice University; B.M. from the University of Cincinnati College‐Conservatory of Music

Dr. Chris Swanson

Visiting instructor (associate professor at Longwood University)

• Teaching area: applied voice
• D.MA in voice from Florida State University; M.M. in voice from the University of Tennessee