Laura L. Joss, M.M., Loyola University, B.M., Baldwin-Wallace College. Mrs. Joss is currently an Assistant Professor at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music in Berea, Ohio where she serves as the Chair of the Music Education Department and teaches middle school and high school music education method classes, brass, woodwind and string methods and conducts the B-W Concert Wind Ensemble. She is also a doctoral candidate at Case Western Reserve University. This past fall, Mrs. Joss traveled a second time to South America as part of an Artists in Residency program sponsored through the Ohio Arts Council and the Santiago Chilean Northamerican Cultural Institute. She conducted both bands and orchestras at the Liceo Experimental de Musica Copiapo in Copiapo, Chile and facilitated teacher work sessions to begin to write the National Chilean Artistic School Music Education Curriculum. Mrs. Joss then traveled to the La Serena, Chile to present a week long band clinic for all of the band directors in the north of Chile at the Universidad de La Serena Escuela Experimental de Music “Jorge Pena Hen’ and facilitated the formation of the first Chilean Music Education Association. Mrs. Joss is active both nationally and internationally as an adjudicator, music education consultant and clinician. In 1997, while directing both bands and orchestras in Strongsville City Schools, Mrs. Joss was selected as “Master Teacher of the Year” by the Martha Holden Jennings Foundation. She is a member of the Ohio String Teachers Association, American String Teachers Association, Ohio Music Education Association, and the Music Educators National Conference. Email: ljoss@bw.edu
Frank Bianchi, M.M. Cleveland Institute of Music, B.A., Cleveland State University. Mr. Bianchi is an Assistant Professor in Music Education at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. He serves as the Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. A choral music teacher in the public schools for more than twenty years, Mr. Bianchi has been choral director at Medina High School for nineteen years, and during the 2005-2006 season he served as Assistant Director of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus. Choirs under his direction have performed at Riverside Church in New York, NY, Cathedral of St. John in Cleveland, and with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, and have appeared with choirs from Ohio State University, Bowling Green State University and Ashland University. Mr. Bianchi has conducted County, Regional and All-State honors choirs in Ohio and has taught student and teacher workshops throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts. He has taught voice privately, and conducted the Women's Chorus at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Mr. Bianchi also serves as choral director at Holy Martyrs Church in Medina. Email: fbianchi@bw.edu
Herbert David Marshall Ph.D., Temple University, M.M., Syracuse University, B.A., Michigan State University. Dr. Marshall is an Associate Professor in Music Education at Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music. He taught general and instrumental music for eleven years in public schools in upstate New York. In addition, he has taught music classes for children from birth to preschool age in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Michigan. Previous university interests include music acquisition, general and instrumental music methodology, multi-cultural music, measurement and evaluation, reflective teaching practice, and urban education. Dr. Marshall writes a regular column for General Music Today and serves on the board of editors of Teaching Music and Research and Issues in Music Education. He maintains an active schedule as a clinician, consultant, adjudicator, and conductor, and teaches workshops for the Gordon Institute of Music Learning. His musical and educational activities on five continents have prompted a lifelong interest in studying and sharing diverse musical styles and means of transmission throughout the world. Email: hmarshal@bw.edu
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