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Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI, USA 48197
Dr. David O. Woike
Department Head
emu.music@emich.edu
Phone: 734.487.4380
Fax: 734.487.6939
Mary K. Schneider serves as Director of Bands at Eastern Michigan University, where she conducts the Wind Symphony, teaches conducting and music education courses, and oversees and guides all aspects of EMU’s comprehensive band program. Prior to this appointment in the fall of 2008, Dr. Schneider was a faculty member at the School of Music of the University of Minnesota.
Dr. Schneider brings a diverse background to the podium and to her students in the classroom. Her teaching experience includes numerous years as a public school music educator in her native state of New Jersey, where she taught all grade levels of instrumental music and maintained a busy performing schedule as a hornist. Active nationally and internationally as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, Dr. Schneider is a strong advocate for new wind music and maintains an active interest in that area of research. In addition to published articles in the series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, she has engaged in extensive research and writings surrounding Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano and his Symphony No. 3 for large wind ensemble, “Circus Maximus.”
Professor Schneider holds a doctor of musical arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin, where she studied conducting with Jerry Junkin. She has also earned degrees in both horn performance and music education from the University of Connecticut and the New England Conservatory of Music, having graduated with Distinction in Performance honors from the latter. In addition to honorary memberships in Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma, Dr. Schneider maintains professional affiliations in the College Band Directors National Association, for which she currently serves as Chair of the Gender and Ethnic Issues Committee, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the Music Educators National Conference.
Mary K. Schneider
103 Alexander
734.487.8007
mary.schneider@emich.edu