**** CREATED WITH DEMO COPY OF TABLOOM ***

Full Time Faculty

  • collage image title

    Robert Provencio

    Choral & Vocal Studies

    Department Chair • Director of Choral/Vocal Studies • Conducting • Music Literature • Music Education • D.M.A. Literature and Performance of Choral Music University of Colorado • M.M. Choral Music, Texas State University • B.M. Choral Music Education, University of Arizona
  • collage image title

    Doug Davis

    Theory & Composition

    Theory/Composition • CSUB Jazz and Concert Band • Ph.D. and M.A. in Music Composition, Harvard University • B.M in Composition, summa cum laude, University of Tennessee • Woodrow Wilson Fellow • Contemporary Recording Society Award • CSUB Outstanding Professor • Wang Award Winner • Director of the Bakersfield Jazz Festival
  • collage image title

    Rene Ferrell

    Music Education

    Director, Music Education • Elementary and Kodály Methods • Women’s Choir Ph.D., Univ. of North Texas College of Music • B.A,, M.A., Univ. of Texas at Tyler • ‘09 Kern County Music Educators Assoc. “College-University Professor Award.” KCMEA Vice-president • National Kodály Organization Board of Directors
  • collage image title

    Jerome Kleinsasser

    Music History and Film

    Music History and Film Music Ph.D., M.A., B.S. University of Minnesota Biography of Lawrence Tibbett • Artistic Advisor and Program Annotator for the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra • Music Program Coordinator for Academic Decathlon CSUB Faculty Leadership and Service Award
  • collage image title

    Joel Haney

    Music History

    Music History • Music Appreciation • Chamber Music Ph.D., M.Phil, Yale University • M.A., M.M., University of Minnesota B.M., summa cum laude, Saint Olaf College •  Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Scholarship • Interests in Early twentieth-century music and Music and meaning
  • collage image title

    Peggy Sears

    Vocal Studies

    Voice Studies • Jazz Singers • Opera Theatre • Diction for Singers M.M. in Voice Performance, University of Arizona • B.A. in Music, summa cum laude, Arizona State University • Regional Winner of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions and San Francisco Opera Former adjunct voice faculty at University of Southern California
  • collage image title

    Jim Scully

    Jazz Studies

    Music Theory • Music Technology • Jazz Studies M.F.A. in Composition and Jazz, University of California, Irvine • B.A. in Music, California State University Bakersfield Compositions recorded on Beauport Classical Assistant Director of the Bakersfield Jazz Festival
  • collage image title

    Soo-Yeon Park Chang

    Piano Studies

    Accompanist • Chamber Music • D.M.A. Keyboard Collaborative Arts, University of Southern California • M.M. Piano: Ensemble Arts, Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins • B.M. Piano, Seoul National University • Koldofsky Memorial Endowed Scholar • Pi Kappa Lambda • Former faculty/vocal coach and pianist at California Institute of the Arts








Applied Faculty

  • collage image title

    Norma Sexton

    Cello

    Pharm.D. University of the Pacific, School of Pharmacy • Cello studies at Mannes College of Music and San Francisco Conservatory • Violoncello, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra
  • collage image title

    Kristi Van Kopp

    Clarinet

    B.A in Music, B.S. in Geology from Stanford University • Principal Clarinet, CSUB Concert Band • Musica da Camera Orchestra
  • collage image title

    Roger Cope

    Guitar

    BA/M Florida State U. College of Music w/Performance Certificate • study w/Parkening, Fisk, Ghiglia, Lorimer• Dir. Of Guitar Studes, Brevard College, nine years • artist faculty for New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes School of Music, NY, Fellow NEA Institute in Classical Music and Opera, Columbia University 2005 • SONARE recording artist
  • collage image title

    Julia Lawson Haney

    Violin, String Pedagogy

    M.M. in Violin, Indiana University-Bloomington • B.M., Violin Performance, Magna cum laude, St. Olaf College • uAssistant Concertmaster, Greater Bridgeport Symphony and New Haven Symphony • Violin, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra
  • collage image title

    Ernest Cervantes

    Percussion, Perc. Pedagogy

    M.A. in Education; B.A. in Music, CSUB • Principal Timpanist/Perc., Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra • Flagstaff Summer Festival Orchestra • Musica da Camera • Sanctuary
  • collage image title

    Charles Brady

    Trumpet

    M.M. Catholic University, studies at Julliard • B.M. University of Southern California • Principal trumpet, National Symphony Orchestra • Trumpeter on Stravinsky’s recording of “L’Histoire du Soldat” • Principal trumpet, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra
  • collage image title

    Peter Scaffidi

    Double Bass

    B.A. in Music Performance, CSU Fresno • Double Bass, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Fresno Symphony • Jazz Studies with John Clayton at University of Southern California
  • collage image title

    Paul Perez

    Saxophones, Jazz Combos

    B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, CSUB • Sax soloist for Tower of Power, Smokey Robinson, and Donna Summers • Studio work for Showtime and Lifetime Networks • Cannonball sax endorser
  • collage image title

    Ron Christian

    Trombone, Euphonium

    B.A. in Music, CSUB • Diploma from the Dick Grove School of Music • Principal Trombone, New Orleans Symphony • Performed in the big bands of: Ray Charles, Woody Herman, and Stan Kenton
  • collage image title

    Brett Clausen

    Oboe, Woodwind Pedagogy

    M.M and B.M. from University of Southern California • Principal Oboe, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra & Musica da Camera
  • collage image title

    Audrey Boyle

    Flute, Woodwind Pedagogy

    Master of Education, UCLA • B.A. Music Ed. & Performance, UCLA • Flute/Piccolo, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra
  • collage image title

    Melvin Baldwin

    French Horn

    M.M. in Horn performance from University of Arkansas • B.Mus. Ed., Atlantic Union College • Principal horn, CSUB Concert Band

Adjunct Faculty

  • collage image title

    John Farrer

    Conducting

    M.M. Michigan University • Music Director, Bakersfield Symphony • Director of the California Conducting Institute • Senior Guest Conductor of the English Sinfonia • Music Mentor of Singapore • nine recordings
  • collage image title

    Sal Panella

    Brass Pedagogy

    B.A. in Music, California State University Bakersfield • Kern County Music Educators Outstanding Band Director • CSUB Alumnus of the Year • Trumpet, Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra
  • collage image title

    Kris Tiner

    Gen. Music, Lib. Studies, Jazz

    M.F.A., Performer-Composer: California Institute of the Arts • B.A., Music, Cum Laude, California State University, Bakersfield • Director, Bakersfield College Jazz Program • International touring trumpeter • Awards from ASCAP, IAJE, Chamber Music America, American Composers Forum, The Kennedy Center
  • collage image title

    Michael D. Stone

    Secondary Inst. Music Methods

    B.A. in Music and M.Ed. University of California, Los Angeles • Fellow, Music Education, Northwestern University • President, California Band Directors Association • c California Assoc. for Music Education, “Outstanding Music Educator” • Coordinator, Visual and Performing Arts, Bakersfield City Schools