Administration
William Ballenger, Director, School of Music
William Ballenger can be contacted through email at: william.ballenger@ttu.edu |
William L. Ballenger has served as Director of the School of Music at Texas Tech University since fall 2004. Prior to his appointment at Texas Tech,
he served for twelve years as Department Head of Music at Oklahoma State University. Professor Ballenger's previous academic appointments include
Associate Director of Bands at Oklahoma State University, Associate Director of Bands at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and public school teaching
positions in Ankeny and Oskaloosa school districts in Iowa. Professor Ballenger has composed more than seventy original compositions and arranged more
than six hundred works for various ensembles. In 2010 Professor Ballenger was elected President-elect of the Texas Association of Music Schools (TAMS).
Previous appointments include TAMS Director of the four-year state-supported schools (2009). Professor Ballenger remains active in the National Association
of Schools of Music (NASM). Previous NASM appointments include Chair and Vice Chair of Region 9, Chair of the Ethics Committee, and member of the
Nominating Committee. Professor Ballenger serves as an on-site evaluator for institutional NASM accreditation reviews.
Michael Stoune, Associate Director, Graduate Studies
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Michael C. Stoune is Associate Director of the School of Music for Graduate
Curriculum. He holds Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music
(Music History) degrees from The University of Texas (Austin), and the
Doctor of Music Arts from the University of Michigan. He is the flutist
in the Devienne Trio, which has played twice for the National Flute
Association, at Music Teacher National Association (Spokane) and the
International Double Reed Society in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dr. Stoune
also performs in the Lubbock Symphony and Roswell (NW) Symphony
orchestras. He chaired the Special Publications Committee of the
National Flute Association for eleven years and supervised and edited
five books. He has been president of the National Association of College
Wind and Percussion Instructors. A student of flute bands in Northern
Ireland, he has conducted their music at the NFA in 1989, and is
preparing a paper on flute bands for presentation. Music Theory, Ph.D in
Fine Arts.
Alan Shinn, Associate Director, Undergraduate Studies
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Alan D. Shinn is Professor of Percussion and Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies at Texas Tech University. He holds the Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Missouri and the Master of Music degree from Texas Tech University. His primary teachers were Tim Lautzenheiser and Ron Dyer. He served as Chair of the Winds/Percussion Area from 2004-2007. Shinn was the Director of Jazz Studies at Tech from 1985-2005 and continues to lead the summer jazz program. Prior to coming to Texas Tech in 1982 as faculty percussionist, he served as Instructor of Percussion and Jazz at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Over 120 percussion students have graduated with music degrees at TTU since 1982 and are enjoying careers in education (all levels) and performance as well as music business and industry. Shinn is Principal Timpanist with the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra and a former member of the Austin Symphony Orchestra. He has also served as Principal Timpanist/Percussionist with the Roswell, NM Symphony and has performed a number of times with the chamber orchestras of Santa Fe Pro Musica and 20th Century Unlimited. Alan Shinn is also a busy drum set artist as well as an active clinician and adjudicator throughout the Southwest and Midwest and has served as an
Eric Fried, Assistant to the Director
Dr. Fried has published articles in American String Teacher, California
Music Educator, and Upbeat (publication of the American Symphony
Orchestra League).
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Eric Fried, Associate Professor of Music and Assistant to the Director of the
School of Music, earned music degrees from Indiana University, the
University of Denver, and the University of Arizona. He served for
fifteen years as music director/conductor of the Lubbock Youth Symphony
Orchestra. Prior to coming to Texas Tech, he served as orchestra
director and professor of violin on the music faculties of Oklahoma
State University and Hendrix College (AR). During the summers of 1997
and 1998 he was assistant concertmaster of the Classical Music Festival
Orchestra based in the Schloss Esterhazy in Eisenstadt, Austria, and
performing in numerous locations throughout Austria and Hungary. He also
has served as concertmaster of the Arkansas Symphony Chamber Orchestra,
the Little Rock Chamber Orchestra, and the Arkansas Ballet and Opera
orchestras. He was president-elect of the Oklahoma String Teachers
Association immediately before accepting his position at Texas Tech.