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Dr. Sarah McKoin is the Director of Bands at Texas Tech University and
Associate Professor of Music as well as Director of the Wind Ensemble at
the Brevard Music Center in Brevard, North Carolina. Dr. McKoin conducts
the Texas Tech University Wind Ensemble and teaches all levels of
conducting and wind literature. She just completed her ninth summer in
residence at the Brevard Music Center where she serves on the conducting
faculty and conducts the Transylvania Wind Ensemble comprised of
college-aged musicians from throughout the country.
Prior to her appointment at Texas Tech, Professor McKoin was the
Director of Bands at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory
of Music and held appointments at the State University of New York at
Buffalo and SUNY Fredonia. Her UMKC Wind Symphony was selected as a
featured ensemble and performed for the 2005 Missouri Music Educator’s
National Association Conference. In addition, the Wind Symphony under
Dr. McKoin’s leadership performed for the College Music Society’s
National Conference and for the opening concert of a nationally
recognized month long festival honoring Igor Stravinsky which involved
all of Kansas City’s major arts organizations. While Director of Bands
at the University at Buffalo, the UB Wind Ensemble was invited to
perform for the New York State Band Directors’ National Association, the
first invitation of its kind for that ensemble.
Dr. McKoin maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and
clinician. She served as the 5-A Concert Band All-State Conductor for
the Texas Music Educator’s Association conference and has been
contracted for upcoming Iowa and Florida All-State band festivals. While
in Kansas City, she was frequently called upon to guest conduct NewEar,
a professional chamber ensemble specializing in contemporary music. In
2001 Professor McKoin traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to serve as producer
for the world premiere recording of Roberto Sierra’s Fantasia Correliana
with the Castellani-Andriaccio guitar duo on the Fleurdeson label, Arie
Lipsky conducting.
Committed to performing literature of today’s prominent composers,
ensembles under Dr. McKoin’s leadership have won the praise of local
music critics and guest composers. She has performed several regional
and world premieres including works by Chen Yi, Lukas Foss, James
Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Dan Welcher, Donald Freund, Walter Hartley, David
Maslanka and others. Her position at Brevard has allowed her to
collaborate with a number of soloists which include Charles Vernon of
the Chicago Symphony, Fred Mills, Tim Morrison, Marty Hackleman, Sam
Palafian, Scott Hartmann, Joseph Lulloff, Timothy Northcutt, Rhythm and
Brass and the tuba/euphonium ensemble, Symphonia.
Her publications include Leslie Bassett’s Colors and Contours: An
Analysis for Conductors and Joseph Turrin’s Two Sketches published in
Volumes 3 and 5 of Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Her DMA
research is on the music of Dan Welcher and the ensuing treatise is
entitled, Three Places in the West: A Critical Analysis and Reference
for Conductors.
McKoin holds her Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of
Texas at Austin as well as degrees from Wichita State University and
Michigan State University. She is active in the College Band Director’s
National Association having served as the New York state chairperson and
has taught secondary school in both Michigan and at L.D. Bell High
School in Texas.
To contact Dr. McKoin, email
sarah.McKoin@ttu.edu
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