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Retirement Reception Scheduled for Five School of Music Faculty April 25

April 18, 2018

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MACOMB, IL – A retirement celebration for five Western Illinois University School of Music professors will be held from 3:30-5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 25 in the third-floor auditorium of Sherman Hall.
 
The event will honor the WIU careers of Professor of Bassoon Douglas Huff; Director of Choirs James Stegall; Professor of Horn Randall Faust; Professor of Theory/Composition Paul Paccione and Professor of Theory/Composition James Caldwell.

• Huff is a member of the Camerata Woodwind Quintet at WIU. He has had solo appearances including concerto performances with orchestras in the United States, Germany and South Korea. In 2007, Huff received WIU's College of Fine Arts and Communications award for Excellence in Teaching with Technology, and he has given presentations at national conferences of the College Music Society and the Association for Technology in Music Instruction on the use of electronic response devices in teaching large classes of music appreciation. A former Fulbright scholar, Huff's diverse performance background includes orchestral appointments in Germany, South Korea and California. 
 
•  Stegall was named Distinguished Faculty Lecturer at Western Illinois University in 2013. In addition to his role as director of choral activities, he conducts the Western Illinois University Singers, Madrigal Singers and teaches graduate and undergraduate choral conducting and literature. He is member of the College Music Society, Society for American Music, American Choral Directors Association, National Collegiate Choral Organization, National Association for Music Education, the Illinois Music Educators Association and is a founding member of Southwest Liederkranz. An in-demand guest conductor and clinician, Stegall has presented at national and international conferences.

• Faust has been a professor of music at Western since 1997, and hornist of the Camerata Woodwind Quintet and LaMoine Brass Quintet. Since 2002, he has hosted the annual Western Illinois Horn Festival—bringing a variety of outstanding hornists and clinicians to the WIU Campus—and in 2009, he hosted the 41st International Horn Symposium of the International Horn Society. He has performed and presented lecture and clinic sessions many times at the Symposia of the International Horn Society, and he presents solo recitals and clinics throughout the country. Faust taught at Interlochen Arts Camp for over two decades and is a highly successful composer whose works have been performed on the international stage, discussed in several doctoral dissertations, and recorded on five labels.

•  Paccione, who joined the WIU faculty in 1984, is a nationally and internationally-known composer. During his teaching career at Western, he has received six Faculty Excellence Awards and was named the 1988 Outstanding Teacher in the College of Fine Arts. He was named Western Illinois University's Distinguished Faculty Lecturer for 2002 - the first Music faculty member to do so. He is co-founder and co-director of Western's annual New Music Festival. In December 2014 WIU produced his first opera, and earlier this month performed his latest work for orchestra and choir. Paccione is widely published and serves as a pre-concert lecturer for Chicago Symphony Orchestra concerts.
 
• Caldwell joined the WIU faculty in 1985. For 30 years, he has been co-director of the WIU New Music Festival, and curates ElectroAcoustic Music Macomb, an annual concert of electronic music at WIU. In addition to three WIU Faculty Excellence Awards, he was named Outstanding Teacher in the College of Fine Arts and Communication (2005), received the first Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and most recently received the College award for Excellence in Creative/Performing Activity. As the 2009 Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, he delivered the lecture "Musical Space and Musical Expression."
 
All five will retire at the end of the Spring 2018 semester.
 
The retirement celebration will include live music, food and drinks.

For more information, visit wiu.edu/music.

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