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Read on for notes on��accomplishments and accolades for College of Music faculty in 2019.

James Austin
Professor of Music Education

Austin completed his 13th and final year as associate dean for enrollment management and undergraduate studies (in addition to one year as interim dean) on June 30, returning to the music education faculty full time this fall. In Spring 2019, Austin presented research papers at the International Symposium on Assessment in Music Education at the University of Florida and the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Toronto. Austin is also completing his third year as editor of the Journal of Music Teacher Education.

Margaret Berg
Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Education

After being promoted to professor in August 2018, Berg co-authored a book, ASTA String Assessment Guide: Companion to the ASTA String Curriculum. Her article with Associate Professor of Music Education David Rickels on the college’s music mentor plus program was published in the Journal of Music Teacher Education. Berg was a featured clinician at the Oklahoma Music Educators Association’s Beginning Teacher Mentoring Conference and gave presentations at the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Music Research Conference and the Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience meeting. This summer, Berg was appointed associate dean for graduate studies.

James Brody
Director of the Musicians’ Wellness Program

Brody was an invited presenter at two major events: the Freedom to Make Music conference in New York and the Musicians’ Health and Performance conference in Helsinki, where he met with members of the Finnish musicians’ wellness community and enhanced the College of Music’s blossoming relationship with the Sibelius Academy.��

Steven Bruns
Associate Professor of Music Theory

Bruns lectured on the music of George Crumb at the University of Bonn, Germany. He also moderated a panel on George Rochberg with University of Michigan Professor of Violin Andrew Jennings, Christina Jennings and Margaret McDonald. Bruns and Professor Emerita Elissa Guralnick were on a panel exploring Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd in connection with Central City Opera. He also presented with Keith Waters and Philip Chang during CU on the Weekend as part of the CU Bernstein at 100 celebration. In June, Bruns concluded 13 years of service as associate dean for graduate studies.��

Peter Cooper
Senior Instructor of Oboe

Peter Cooper performed Moonlight, a new oboe concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts, with the Colorado Symphony, conducted by Music Director Brett Mitchell and co-commissioned by the Colorado and Baltimore symphonies. He gave master classes at the Manhattan School of Music, Sam Houston State University, the Denver School of the Arts and the International Double Reed Society conference at the University of South Florida, where he also performed a solo concert. He taught at the Rocky Ridge Music Center for his seventh summer and in June, he gave lessons and a master class at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Andrew Cooperstock
Professor of Piano

Cooperstock served as artistic director of the CU Bernstein at 100 festival, which included two dozen concerts across campus. He was also appointed acting assistant director of the Saarburg International Music Festival in Germany and gave concerts and master classes in Hong Kong, the Czech Republic and the Pacific Northwest. Cooperstock served as state convention artist for the music teachers associations of California and New Jersey and was pianist for Off the Hook’s WinterFest series with composer Bruce Adolphe, resident lecturer for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Alejandro Cremaschi
Roser Piano and Keyboard Program Chair and Professor of Piano Pedagogy

Cremaschi presented his research on Latin American music at the Music Teachers National Association conference in Spokane (South American piano duets with Jessica Pacheco), the College Music Society Great Lakes Regional Conference (songs by Joseph Canteloube with Holly Janz), and the College Music Society International Conference in Belgium ["Chronicles of a Belgian Gaucho: Julio (Jules) Perceval, his eclectic piano music, and his influence in Argentina’s music education"]. He performed and taught a master class at the University of Arizona and is on the planning committee for the 2019 National Conference in Keyboard Pedagogy, the largest conference in the field.

Matthew Dockendorf
Associate Director of Bands and Instructor of Conducting and Music Education

Dockendorf was, for the second time, a section coach and guest conductor for the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project and World Adult Wind Orchestra Project in Schladming, Austria, in July 2018. He was a guest clinician for the Longmont Middle School Band Clinic and was a guest conductor for the Mountain Ridge Middle School performance at the Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA) conference, under the direction of alumna Claire Glover (BME ’17). Dockendorf also guest conducted for the Cherry Creek Middle School Honor Band and was guest clinician at several middle school and high schools throughout the Denver area.

Andrew Garland
Assistant Professor of Voice

Garland performed with the Colorado Symphony, Camerata Pacifica, Colorado Bach Ensemble, Moab Music Festival, Opera Louisiane, the Grand Junction Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic orchestras, the Takács Quartet and pianist Warren Jones. He made his jazz debut with tenor saxophonist Stan Killian and sang at Fenway Park in Boston. Garland gave recitals and master classes at Brown University and the University of Texas at Austin and taught master classes at DePaul University, the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago and the Texas regional National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) competition.��

John Gunther
Thompson Jazz Studies Program Director and Associate Professor of Jazz Studies

Gunther was a featured soloist on a Naxos recording by the Kantorei Choir and recorded in New York on the Newvelle record label. He performed and lectured in Buenos Aires and traveled with ���ϳԹ� student Matteo Bassani (BM Jazz) to the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) conference in Croatia.��

Yoshi Ishikawa
Professor of Bassoon

Ishikawa and Senior Instructor of Oboe Peter Cooper will host the 50th anniversary conference of the International Double Reed Society at the College of Music on July 27-31, 2021. The IDRS conference is one of the most important events for oboists and bassoonists worldwide. The hosts anticipate an attendance of more than a thousand delegates. This year, Ishikawa presented a debut recital in Granada, Spain, with his daughter Marisa Ishikawa (BM ’15, DMA Violin) on violin and wife Brenda Ishikawa on piano. Professor Ishikawa also presented master classes in China, South Korea, the Philippines and Thailand.��

Christina Jennings
Associate Professor of Flute

Jennings was featured in season two of the popular podcast Flutes Unscripted. She also recorded an album with pianist Blair McMillan, featuring the music of Laura Elise Schwendinger, and performed a recital with guitarist João Luiz at the Buffet Crampon Showroom in Manhattan.

David Korevaar
Professor of Piano

The release of Korevaar’s Luigi Perrachio album in late 2018 has garnered an impressive number of positive reviews and led to a review and interview in Gramophone magazine. Korevaar also performed the “Trout”