Robert Duff

Lecturer

D.M.A., University of Southern California

M.A., Temple University

B.A., University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Robert Duff, conductor, is the director of the Handel Society of Dartmouth College and the Dartmouth Chamber Singers, and teaches courses in music theory in the Music Department. Before coming to Dartmouth in 2004, Dr. Duff served on the faculties of Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University, and Mount St. Mary’s College, and as the Director of Music for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, where he directed the music programs for nearly 300 parishes. He holds degrees in conducting, piano and voice from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Temple University, and the University of Southern California, where he earned a doctorate of musical arts in 2000. An active commissioner of new music, Dr. Duff has given several world premieres of works for both orchestral and choral forces. He has been appointed by Governor John Lynch as Councilor to the New Hampshire Council on the Arts, and he is the President of the American Choral Directors Association Eastern Division.

Jody Diamond

Senior Lecturer

Director, Performance Lab in Indonesian Gamelan

B.A., University of California, Berkeley

M.A., San Francisco State University

Jody Diamond is a composer, scholar, teacher, performer, and publisher who has been involved in Indonesian arts since 1970. She is an internationally recognized expert on Indonesian music, and has received a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Fellowship and two National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars. She has taught courses in the music of Asia and Indonesia at universities in the U.S. and Australia, and her compositions for gamelan, voice and other instruments have been performed internationally. Ms. Diamond is a Senior Lecturer in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and director of the Gamelan Performance Lab at Dartmouth College, Director of the American Gamelan Institute (www.gamelan.org), and an Artist-in-Residence at Harvard University, where she is initiating a new program in gamelan and composition with Gamelan Si Betty, built by Lou Harrison and William Colvig.

Edward Carroll

Lecturer, Trumpet

B.M., M.M., Juilliard School of Music

A native of Chicago, Edward Carroll was appointed lecturer in music in the spring of 2005. He also serves on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) as instructor of trumpet and coordinator of brass studies and has enjoyed appointments as the International Chair of Brass Studies at London's Royal Academy of Music and Professor of Trumpet at the Rotterdam (NL) Conservatory, as well as having a distinguished career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. He is the Director of the newly-formed Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale and Head of Brass at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.

Louis Burkot

Senior Lecturer, Voice

Director, Dartmouth College Glee Club

M.M., Yale School of Music

B. A., University of Virginia

Louis Burkot conductor received Dartmouth College's Distinguished Lecturer award in the spring of 2000 for his work in vocal instruction in the Department of Music. As an operatic conductor, Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe has praised Mr. Burkot's work as "first-rate, capable, and stylish" and Opera North News has noted that his conducting "sparkles with verve and sensitivity to the needs of singers." Under Mr. Burkot's tutelage, many Dartmouth students have continued their musical studies at New England Conservatory, Boston University, Indiana University, Cincinnati Conservatory and others. Mr. Burkot's conducting studies included the Yale School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival and the Houston Grand Opera. He is also Artistic Director of Opera North, which recently celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.    In addition he is on the faculty of both the Westchester Summer Vocal Institute at Sarah Lawerence College and the Atlanta Academy of Vocal Arts.

Neil Boyer

Senior Lecturer, Oboe

M.M., SUNY at Stony Brook

B.M., Mannes College of Music.

Neil Boyer is principal oboist of the Portland (Maine) Symphony Orchestra and teaches at the University of Southern Maine and at Dartmouth College. He also teaches privately and is an active chamber music player.

Don Baldini

Lecturer, Double Bass

B.M., Indiana University

University of California

Don Baldini received his B.M. from Indiana University and did graduate studies at the University of California. In addition to teaching at Dartmouth, he is on the faculty of Keene State College where he conducts the orchestra and jazz ensembles and teaches classes in theory, string methods, jazz history and sight-singing. He performs regularly with the Vermont Symphony, Opera North, Keene Chamber Orchestra, Dartmouth Wind Symphony and Dartmouth Glee Club. He has also performed on television on the Tonight Show, St. Elsewhere, Winds of War, Love Boat, Bob Newhart Show, Matlock, Perry Como Holiday Specials, Charlie’s Angels, and in the films Little Mermaid, Fantasia, Benji the Hunted, Being There, and The Jazz Singer. Baldini can be heard on two newly released Frank Sinatra recordings, "Live at the Meadowlands" and the "Carnegie Hall 1984" collection, and a newly released DVD "Frank Sinatra Live from Tokyo" recorded at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.

Tim Atherton

Senior Lecturer, Trombone, Tuba and Euphonium

B.M., University of Massachusetts

Tim Atherton is a freelance trombonist and educator.  He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts and has studied privately with Per Brevig, of the Metropolitan Opera and John Swallow, of the New York Brass Quintet.   Mr. Atherton is a regular member of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra, Massachusetts Wind Orchestra, New England Jazz Ensemble and the Amherst Jazz Orchestra. He is a Senior Lecturer in Low Brass at Dartmouth College, Studio Instructor and Director of the Brass Ensembles at Williams College, and an Adjunct Professor in Low Brass and Jazz History at Westfield State College where, for seventeen years he served as director of the acclaimed W.S.C. Jazz Ensemble.  For twenty-five years, he has mentored numerous students who have become highly regarded professional instrumentalists and teachers.  He has served as an adjudicator and guest conductor for festival jazz ensembles throughout New England. He has performed, recorded and toured nationally and internationally. Mr. Atherton is featured on four recent CD publications:  The New England Jazz Ensemble Live, A Cookin’ Christmas with The New England Jazz Ensemble, An Imperfect Storm -The Large Ensemble Compositions of Andy Jaffe, and Chilling Winds with The Massachusetts Wind Orchestra. In August of 2004 Mr. Atherton was featured with the Danbury Brass Band on a tour of Australia. In 2001 Mr. Atherton traveled to China where he performed and gave workshops at the conservatories of Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang and Beijing. His article, “Playing Together: A Journal on Workshops in China” was published in the January 2002 issue of the International Trombone Association Journal.