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Faculty Duties
Omar al-Musfi Applied Artist
World Music
Orna Arania Voice
Diction
Yuko Asada Musical Instrument Technician
Assistant with the NIU Steelband
Director of Community School of the Arts Steelpan
Jeremy Attanaseo Classical Double Bass instruction
Strings
Gregory Barrett Clarinet
Woodwind Techniques
Gregory Beyer Director of Percussion Studies
New Music
Tom Bough Wind Symphony
Huskie Bands
Geof Bradfield Saxophone
Jazz Studies
Bobby Broom Guitar
Jazz Studies
Kerri Chandler Recording Arts
Robert Chappell Distiguished Teaching Professor and Professor Emeritus
Percussion
Suwan Choi Instructor of World Music
Christine D'Alexander Instrumental Music Education
Anthony Devroye Viola
Chamber Music
Mary Lynn Doherty Assistant Director of the School of Music
Music Education
Emily Fagan Oboe
Double Reed Techniques
Brigid Findley Academic Advisor
Tom Garling Trombone
Jazz Studies
Matthew Gaunt Tuba
Euphonium
Andrew Glendening Director of the School of Music
Trombone
William Goldenberg Piano, Chamber Music
Accompanying
David Graham Piano Technology
Sam Handley Voice
Brian Hart Music History
Silas Huff NIU Philharmonic
Conducting
Eric Johnson Choral Activities
JeongSoo Kim Piano, Piano Pedagogy
Piano Literature
Marianne Kim Organ
Harpsichord
Ed Klonoski Music Theory
Bret Kuhn Adjunct Faculty
Percussion
Cheng-Hou Lee Violoncello
Chamber Music
Blaise Magniere Violin
Chamber Music
David Maki Music Theory, Aural Skills
Composition
Scott Metlicka Flute
Lucia Matos Conducting
Music Theory
Austyn Menk Admissions Coordinator
John Novak Music Theory
Aural Skills
Elinor Olin Music History
Brian Penkrot Music Theory, Composition
Aural Skills
Timothy Riordan Trombone
Carol Rosing Bassoon
Contrabassoon
Marlene Rosenberg Double Bass
Jazz Studies
Christopher Scanlon Trumpet
Banda NIU
Brass Chamber Music
Brass Techniques
Faye Seeman Harp
Tom Snydacker Saxophone
Mark Snyder Recording Arts
Chamni Sripraram Instructor of World Music
Thai Music Ensemble
Mathias Tacke Violin
Chamber Music
String Pedagogy
Liam Teague NIU Board of Trustees Professor, Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor
Head of Steelpan Studies
Reggie Thomas Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Combos
Jazz Studies
Piano and Keyboard
Matt Todd Coordinator of Music Education Licensure
An Tran Classical Guitar
Rodrigo Villanueva Jazz Ensemble
Jazz Studies
Renée Vogen Horn
Brass
Ben Wahlund Instructor of Percussion
Percussion Pedagogy
Jui-Ching Wang World Music
Music Education
Marie Wang Violin
Chamber Music
A.J. Wester Opera Theatre
Pharez Whitted Trumpet
Jazz Studies
Wei Yang World Music
Alex Yoffe Javanese Gamelan
World Music
Tina Zemzemi Office Administrator

Emeritus Faculty

  • Shmuel Dov Ashkenasi
  • Jan Bach
  • Paul Bauer
  • Charles T. Blickhan
  • James R. Brown
  • Ronald Carter
  • Robert Chappell
  • Glenda L. Cosenza
  • Stephen R. Duke
  • John Fairfield
  • Robert Fleisher
  • Robert A. Green
  • Kuo-Huang Han
  • Fareed Haque
  • Marc T. Johnson
  • William Koehler
  • Peter C. Middleton
  • Myron Myers
  • George Allan O'Connor
  • Willie Pickens
  • Mark Ponzo
  • Ronald D. Price
  • Diane Ragains-Slawin
  • Robert Reeves
  • Charles Schuchat
  • Robert Sims
  • Ronnie Wooten
  • Edna C. Williams
  • Richard Young

Contact Us

Music Building
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - noon
1 - 4:30 p.m.
815-753-1551
music@niu.edu

Austyn V. Menk
Music Admissions Coordinator
815-753-6306
avmenk@niu.edu

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