UNC School of Music: University Bands

Eugene Migliaro Corporon is the conductor of the Wind Symphony and Regents Professor of Music at the University of North Texas. As Director of Wind Studies he guides all aspects of the program, including the masters and doctoral degrees in Wind Conducting. Mr. Corporon is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach and Claremont Graduate University. His performances have drawn praise from colleagues, composers and critics alike. Mr. Corporon has held positions at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michigan State University, the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and California State University, Fullerton. Having recorded over 600 works, including many premieres and commissions, his groups have released sixty recordings on the Toshiba/EMI, Klavier, Mark, CAFUA, Donemus, Soundmark, GIA, Albany, Naxos, and Centaur labels. These recordings, two of which have appeared on the Grammy nomination ballot, are aired regularly on radio broadcasts throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Mr. Corporon is co-host with Barry Green on The Inner Game of Music video, which focuses on overcoming mental obstacles and achieving one’s full potential as a performer, he also appears with James Jordan on the DVD The Anatomy of Conducting. He is co-author of the book Teaching Music Through Performance in Band that is published in seven volumes by GIA Publications. The Teaching Music Project emphasizes the importance of comprehensive conceptual learning in the music-making process as well as the value of performing music of artistic significance. Professor Corporon is a recipient of the International Grainger Society Distinctive Contribution Medallion as well as the Phi Beta Mu International Band Conductor of the Year Award. He has also received the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Citation for advancing the cause of music in America, the University of North Texas Student Government Association Honor Professor Award for teaching excellence, student rapport, and scholarly publications, the American School Band Directors Association A. A. Harding Award for making significant and lasting contributions to the school band movement, and the California State University, Long Beach, College of Fine Arts and Department of Music Distinguished Alumni Awards.

Widely acknowledged as one of the most influential conductors in America, James Jordan, through his 15 textbooks and recordings has brought about far-reaching pedagogical and philosophical changes, not only in choral music, but in the worlds of orchestral conducting, wind conducting, piano and music education. The Choral Journal has described his writings as “visionary.” One of the country’s leading choral artists, Dr. Jordan is the senior conductor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, and he conducts both the Westminster Williamson Voices and Westminster Schola Cantorum and teaches undergraduate and graduate choral conducting. The Westminster Williamson Voices has premiered over thirty works by Mantyjaarvi, Custer, Ames, Hill, Whitbourn, Henson and Wilberg. Renowned American Composer Morten Lauridsen dedicated the third movement of his Midwinter-Songs to him. He also conducts Anam Cara, a new professional choral ensemble based in Philadelphia (anamcarachoir.com) that has received critical acclaim for its recent recordings. The American Record Review saying that Innisfree “is a choir to please the fussiest choral connoisseur” called their inaugural recording, “skillful and shining,” “glowing,” “supremely accomplished,” and “tone that produces a wide range of effects from vocal transparency to rich, full-throated glory.”

Dr. Jordan is the Executive Editor of the Evoking Sound Choral Series (GIA) which now includes over 70 published works. Dr. Jordan teaches and delivers over 30 workshops and keynote addresses each year in addition to an extensive guest-conducting schedule and conducting schedule. His trilogy of books on the philosophy and spirituality of musicing, The Musician’s Soul, The Musician’s Walk and The Musician’s Spirit have made a deep and profound impact upon musicians and teachers around the world.

Dr. Jordan’s latest publications includes a new text, Inward Bound, which deals with all aspects of score preparation and a DVD, The Anatomy of Conducting with Eugene Migliaro Corporon of The University of North Texas. This DVD will use state-of the art animation to assist musicians in learning anatomically correct conducting technique. His lecture/teaching schedule and writings are detailed on www.Evokingsound.com and www.GIAMUSIC.com