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Faculty
Full Time - Part Time and Adjunct benamma@earlham.eduAssistant Professor of Music, Fine Arts Convener Marc Benamou is an ethnomusicologist whose principal area of research is the music of Indonesia, where he conducted fieldwork for three years on a Fulbright grant. He hols a B.A. in music from Oberlin College, an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Michigan, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, also from Michigan. He has also studied at the Université de Paris X, where he earned a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies in philosophy (but with a focus on Indonesian music). He has taught English as a foreign language, has interpreted for the U.S. State Department (Indonesian), and has worked as a professional cook in Ann Arbor, Milwaukee, and Paris. Before coming to Earlham he taught at the University of Alberta, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Oberlin Conservatory, and The Ohio State University. Marc's principal interests within musicology include æsthetics (emotion, evaluation, ethics), music and language (language about music, semantics), universals, notational systems, comparative music theory, and music and gender. While in Java he studied gamelan performance, specializing in the singing that is an integral part of the tradition. As a performer he has been invited to sing with various Javanese music ensembles in Java and throughout the eastern United States. He has directed gamelan groupsat the University of Michigan, St. Mary's College, and Oberlin Conservatory. He has presented papers and participated in round-table discussions regionally, nationally, and internationally (Paris, Newfoundland, Buenos Aires). His publications have focused on the way Javanese musicians talk about music - the metaphors they use and the categories they have created.
 Dan
Graves
Professor of Music, Department Convener Primary areas of interest: Western Music History, Jazz History, Choral Conducting, Vienna Choral Program Dan Graves came to Earlham College in 1984 after thirteen years of high school teaching in Connecticut. His responsibilities at Earlham include conducting the Concert Choir, Madrigal Singers, A Cappella Singers, and the Richmond Chorale. In addition, he teaches Western music history courses, jazz history, and choral conducting; serves frequently as music director for music theater productions; and has led the Vienna Choral Program six times.Under his direction, Earlham choirs have performed at two American Choral Directors' Association Central Division conventions, toured the East Coast on alternate years, produced five CDs, and built a reputaion for performance excellence and eclectic programming. Founded and edited by Dan, the Earlham College Choral Series has published the works of several Quaker composers. He is an active member of the Indiana Choral Directors' Association, having recently served as the organization's president.
Associate Professor of Music Music Director of the Earlham College Orchestra and Instructor of Music Theory and Music Technology. Dr. Forrest Tobey began teaching at Earlham in the fall of 2003, bringing with him a love for musical eclecticism. A pianist and conductor trained in both classical and jazz performance and composition, he enjoys the opportunity to work with students within these two musical worlds. In addition, he is developing a state-of-the art computer music studio on campus to provide students with an opportunity to work with the computer both as an aid for composition and as a musical instrument in its own right, capable of live interactive performance. He also brings to his teaching a love of and experience with world music, most notably the music of India, which found expression in his work with the jazz/world music ensemble Off Chants. During his years in Washington D.C., Forrest founded the 21st Century Ensemble, a chamber orchestra that performed classical works alongside works for live musicians and interactive computer-music systems, using software of his own design. As a solo performer, he uses the infrared wands of the Buchla lightning as an interface for his gesture-following software, performing electronic music through gestural interaction. He performed solo during the Times Square New Year’s Eve Millenium celebration in New York, and regularly gives solo Lightning performances under the title “Something Magical.” His most recent performance was at Earlham College in January of 2004. Recently, Forrest has been composing for the Earlham Orchestra. In January of 2007, the Earlham Orchestra and the Chanticleer String Quartet performed the premiere of his Four Conversations for String Quartet and Orchestra and in the spring of the same year, they premiered Joyous Spring, Radiant Mountain. He is currently working on a piece for choir and orchestra, based on the Pablo Neruda poem Keeping Still.
Bill Culverhouse serves as director of the choral music program at Earlham and teaches courses in Western music history and conducting. He was educated at Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Maryland, and his conducting teachers include Edward Maclary and Herbert Henke. He comes to Earlham College having directed choirs at all age levels and in a wide variety on contexts. Most recently he has served as the director of the Schola Cantorum, the resident professional choir of St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington, D.C., and the Maryland Chorus, the resident symphonic choir of the University of Maryland. Under his direction, the Schola performed several times for President Bush, and sang at the funeral of Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The Schola sings every year at the Red Mass marking the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court session. During Bill’s tenure, the Schola developed a reputation for excellence in the performance of Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony, and for championing the work of living composers. They have also recorded numerous CDs. While at the University of Maryland, he taught conducting and directed the Women’s Chorus, Chapel Choir, and Men’s Chorus. He also continued the Maryland Chorus’s traditional specialization in historically-informed performances of Baroque music, and his performances of Handel’s complete Messiah were greeted with wide acclaim. Bill has also directed choirs and taught general music, music history and music theory in the public school systems of Ohio, Illinois, and Virginia, and has directed community children’s choirs and adult chamber choirs. An enthusiastic collaborator, his high school choirs have joined with other local high school choirs for large-scale performances of major works by Benjamin Britten, Morten Lauridsen, and Carl Orff. He is also an active guest conductor and adjudicator, and has served as a clinician in Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. Bill is also active as a composer and performer. He has studied composition with Adolphus Hailstork, Robert Sirota, and Kathryn Alexander, and his compositions have been performed by a wide variety of ensembles. His Requiem for chorus and harp was premiered in May 2008. A lyric baritone with a specialization in early and contemporary art music, he has given solo vocal performances in Norfolk, Cleveland, Chicago, and the D.C. area, and has been featured as a member of the professional vocal ensemble Icarus in the Chorworks summer early music conferences led by founding Tallis Scholar Philip Cave.
Part-Time and Adjunct Faculty
In addition to her job as Director of Multicultural Affairs at Earlham, Shenita also directs the Gospel Revelations Choir.
Director, Gospel Revelations Patrick Piper serves as musical director for Gospel Revelations and is also an assistant coach with the Earlham Football team (running back coach). Patrick also teaches jazz piano and improvisation. Professor Emerita of Music Eleanor Vail, Professor Emirita of Music, was Professor of Music at Earlham Collegefrom 1976 to 1994, when she retired from active teaching. Prior to her years at Earlham she was a member of the faculty at Western College in Oxford, Ohio. She is a graduate of Eastman School of Music, from which she earned both Bachelor and Master's degrees. For many years she performed in the area as a chamber musician and accompanist, a role that she continues to enjoy in retirement. In 1975 she established the Meetinghouse Series of chamber music concerts and in 1979 started a series of informal Friday noon concerts in Leeds Gallery (now in the Orchard Room) known as the Brown Bag Concerts. She continues to manage both series, in addition to a similar series at Holy Trinity Church in Oxford, Ohio.
Rex teaches guitar at Earlham,
and students interested more interested in classical guitar (rather
than popular styles) are encouraged to select him as their instructor.
 Keith
Cozart received his B.A. in music (percussion), with a minor
in business from the University of Northern Colorado. He is a
freelance musician throughout Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, specializing
in drum set, hand percussion and marimba. At Earlham, he teaches
applied percussion and coaches the Hand Drum Ensemble and Rhythm
Project. Keith is also a faculty member at Indiana University
East instructing the online music history courses An Introduction
to Popular Music, The History of Rock and Roll and The
History of Country Music. He travels regularly to Salvador,
Brazil, to study the roots of Afro Brazilian music as well as
crafting his own hand drums under the name Cozmann Hand Drums.
(ISSMA adjudicator and PAS member)
Charlie teaches guitar at Earlham, and students wishing to learn more about jazz and popular guitar styles are encouraged to select him as their instructor.
Galyon actively performs as a member of the piano-duo, Daly &
Galyon. The duo For 10 years, Dr. Galyon has been Director of Music and Organist
at Church of Galyon has been on the piano faculty at Earlham since 2002.
During that time, he Jessica Madsen, Piano 
Jessica Madsen received her Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), her Master of Music degree from the Kansas City Conservatory (UMKC), and her Bachelor of Music degree from the Millikin University College of Fine Arts. An active soloist and chamber musician, Dr. Madsen has performed as soloist with orchestras in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin. She was a featured artist at the 2001 Music Teachers National Association National Convention in Washington, D.C. performing distinguished American composer Frederic Rzewski's signature piece, 36 Variations on "El pueblo unido jamas sera vencido!" (The People United Will Never Be Defeated!), a Chilean New Song by Sergio Ortega, which she has also recorded. A new music specialist, Dr. Madsen has worked with several composers including Frederic Rzewski, George Crumb (featured guest artist at Earlham in 2005), and Emma Lou Diemer, and has lectured on modern piano literature and technique. She completed a concert tour of Japan with the Lakeshore Wind Ensemble in 1995, and since 2001, her cello-piano duo has performed in New York, Budapest, Hungary, and throughout the Midwest. Jessica Madsen served as the Program Director of the American Qualifying Round of the Second International Competition for Young Pianists in Memory of Vladimir Horowitz in 1996. She was Chair of the Music Theory and Musicianship Program and member of the Piano Faculty in the Preparatory Department of CCM for six years before joining the piano faculty at Earlham College in 2004. She is currently Curator, member of the Board, and a guest artist for the 2008 William Grant Still International Music Festival at Wilberforce University, in Xenia, Ohio. Dr. Madsen also owns and operates the Rookwood Piano Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Anton teaches both string bass and electric bass guitar at Earlham College. He received his B.A. from Milliken University and his M.A. from the University of Cincinnati. He is an active performer in the Cincinnati area. Connie is a native Hoosier, born
and raised in Connersville, IN. She is married to Jon and has
two children, Brian and April, and four Grandchildren whom
she adores. Connie is a singer and loves music, art, and theatre,
and truly enjoys working with the students at Earlham one on
one. The door to the Fine Arts office at Earlham is inviting,
and Connie is always open to students who want to ask for help
and voice their concerns, or who simply want to drop by for
some candy. If you have any questions about Fine Arts at Earlham,
Connie is often your best first contact.
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Ellen
Denham, voice instuctor, received her B.M. in vocal performance
from the North Carolina School of the Arts. She holds an M.M.
from the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied
with Mark Pearson and has continued her vocal training with
William Shriner. Ellen previously taught voice at Taylor University,
Fairview Studios in Indianapolis, and The Arts Center in Carrboro,
NC, among other places. She has performed extensively in Indianapois,
Boston, and North Carolina. She has presented master classes
and lectures at such places as Duke University and the Hong
Kong Academy for Performing Arts. 
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