Highlighting select Fall 2025 performances, achievements, completed projects and more from the faculty of the Boyer College of Music and Dance

BETH BOLTON (Music Education)
Beth Bolton’s narrative “Magical Reflections from the Grandma Lab” was published in Unleashing the Power of Musical Play, Julie Wylie and Susan Foster-Cohen, Eds. (Routledge 2026).

In April 2026, Bolton will teach a 10-hour intensive weekend course in Rome, Italy for Italian students participating in Musica in Culla Level 1 early childhood music training.  She has enjoyed annual visits to Italy for the past 20 years to make music with teachers, musicians, children, and parents.

DUSTIN CATES (Music Education)
Conducting Engagements

• North Jersey School Music Association High School Choral Festival (Lyndhurst, NJ and Mount Olive, NJ), Conductor/Clinician (December 4 and 5, 2025)
• Strategies for Working with Tenor-Bass Choirs Conducting Master Class/Demonstration Choir (Ledyard, CT), Conductor/Clinician, Connecticut Music Educators Association Eastern Region Professional Development Day (November 4, 2025)
• Missouri All-State Festival Choir (Springfield, MO) Guest Conductor/Clinician (July 21-22, 2025)
• Kansas Choral Directors Association Summer Convention (Lawrence, KS) Conductor/Clinician/Convention Headliner (July 9-11, 2025)

Publications

• Cates, D. (August, 2025). Tears, laughs, and chill bumps: An interview with Dr. Tim Seelig. The Choral Journal.

Presentations

• Cates, D. (November, 2025). Boys2Them: Welcoming all singers in your tenor-bass choirs. 1-hour presentation. Connecticut Music Educators Association Eastern Region Professional Development Day. Ledyard, CT.
• Cates, D. (July, 2025). Choral Conducting Masterclass. 1-hour masterclass. Missouri Choral Directors Association Summer Convention. Springfield, MO.
• Cates, D. (July, 2025). Boys2Them: Welcoming all singers in your tenor-bass choirs. 1-hour presentation. Missouri Choral Directors Association Summer Convention. Springfield, MO.
• Cates, D. (July, 2025). Chasing the Dream: Living your best (choral director) life. 1-hour presentation. Missouri Choral Directors Association Summer Convention. Springfield, MO.

Other

• Student Experience Project (SEP) - Campus-wide cohort at Temple University through the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT) focusing on evidence‑based practices to enhance student belonging and academic success (Fall 2025).

PATRICIA CORNETT (Instrumental Studies)
In the fall Dr. Patricia Cornett was a guest conductor at the Tri-State Honor Band at Florida State University. In addition, she was an invited guest clinician for a special session and conducting workshop at the Virginia Music Educators Association Fall Conference.

She also traveled to New York City with the Diamond Marching Band to support their fantastic performance in the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

MARCUS DELOACH (Vocal Arts)
Marcus DeLoach sang the premiere performances of his new song set on texts of Robert Bly, Morning Poems, with Opera Philadelphia's head of music staff, Grant Loehnig, on two solo recitals in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Lawrence Indik and Charles Abramovic premiered DeLoach's new song, "An Old Man's Winter Night," based on the poem by Robert Frost. DeLoach gave a master class at Messiah University and several local area high schools.

JILLIAN HARRIS (Dance)

• (2025 October) “Dancing Dialogues,” Invited presentation with Assistant Prof. Xiang Xu for Temple University Department of Dance undergraduate course (“Ways of Knowing”), Philadelphia, PA
• (2025 September) “The Mind-Body, Dance, and Public Health,” Invited presentation for Temple University Public Health course
• Acceptance of “SHIFT” (an interdisciplinary live performance piece in collaboration with Prof. Adam Vidiksis and Temple’s BEEP, visualist Nora Gibson, and dancer Daniil Zakirzyanov) to the 2026 SPLICE festival (Colby College, Waterville, Maine, March 2026). This project was funded by a Vice Provost for the Arts Grant from the Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. The piece will premiere at the Temple Dance Faculty Concert, January 30-31 in Conwell Theater. 
• Acceptance of “R.E.A.L. Method: A Collaborative Dance-Based Practice” to the 2026 Contemplative Practices for Higher Education Conference (Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA) scheduled for March 2026
• (January 2026) Invited keynote presenter with Assistant Prof. Xiang Xu, “Contemporary Dance Education in China and the United States,” Asia Society, New York, NY

JOYCE LINDORFF (Keyboard Studies)
Dr. Joyce Zankel Lindorff performed a concert, “Music and Missionaries in the Forbidden City,” and a public lecture, “Musicking Missionaries in the Chinese Court,” at the University of Warsaw, Poland. Both were jointly presented by the Faculty of Asian and African Cultures at the University of Warsaw and the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College.

ALISHA NYPAVER (Music Studies)
This year, Alisha Nypaver designed an interactive role-playing/escape room game based on the War of the Romantics. She ran this game in her class to increase student engagement and presented it as part of an interactive workshop at the March 2025 College Music Society Northeast Regional Conference and as a featured workshop at the June 2025 Teaching Music History Conference, organized by the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society. 

Nypaver was very involved in the leadership of the College Music Society (CMS), serving on the Northeast Regional Board as the Immediate Past President. She was an invited member of the CMS National Council on Music in General Studies, which involved contributing to national workshops and participating in monthly meetings to plan and implement new initiatives (which include two new book projects). Nypaver was also the CMS Chair of the Scholarship, Research, & Pedagogy Subcommittee for the 2025 National Conference and served on the Special Presidential Task Force to reauthor the society's mission, vision, and values.

DAVID PASBRIG (Music Studies)
BCM+D Releases

Live from Japan, Vol I

Temple University Jazz Band

February, 2026

Longings 

Rick Barrantes Aguero with Glenn Einschlag, Daniel Matsukawa and William Short

January 2026

Voyages

Temple Music Prep

December 2025

Baby Face Nelson and the Femme Fatale

Temple University Wind Symphony, Patricia Cornett, Joseph Thalken, piano

October 2025

On Wings of Peace

IPalpiti: Orchestral Ensemble of International Laureates

August 2025

Listen to the Earth

Temple University Concert Choir, Commonwealth Youth Choir Trebles, Chamber Orchestra, Marcus DeLoach, Paul Rardin

June 2025

StarSongs

Temple University Concert Choir, Hirono Oka, Helen Gerhold and Paul Rardin

May 2025

ALISON REYNOLDS (Music Education)
In December 2025, the Early Childhood Music + Movement Association (ECMMA) selected Dr. Alison Reynolds for induction into their Hall of Honors. The induction will occur at The ECMMA 2026 Convention, to be held at University of North Dakota, June 28-30. ECMMA President Christina Svec described Dr. Reynolds' contributions to music education, early childhood music, and the ECMMA organization as a whole as unparalleled.

JEFFREY SOLOW (Instrumental Studies)

• String Trio recital with Philadelphia Orchestra members Philip Kates and Jason DePue on the Music at the Pavilion series at University of Pennsylvania’s Kislak Center (October 17)
• Competitively selected session: “Comfortable Cello Setup” at the Violin Society of America’s National Conference in Minneapolis (November 2)
• Solo recital in Rock Hall with Temple alumna Candice Chien (student of Harvey Wedeen); Solow also wrote program notes (Dec. 6) https://www.youtube.com/live/1lrAqP_QdOI?si=NysnU4gL-NfUbBG2
• Adjudicated solo competition at the Nelly Berman School (January 17)
• Adjudicated virtual semifinals and live final round for the Ruth P. Cogen Concerto Competition at the Levine Music School in Washington D.C. (week of January 12 and February 9)
• Solow’s commissioned review for Early Music America of Edward Klorman's new book Bach: The Cello Suites (Cambridge University Press) was published online in January and in print in February.
• Solow is continuing several ongoing editing/publishing projects for the prestigious International Music Company in NYC.

MAURICE WRIGHT (Music Studies)
In September, Philadelphia Orchestra members Hirono Oka and Don Liuzzi performed Maurice Wright’s Grand Duo at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. A few days later, Larry Indik and Charles Abramovic premiered Broken Flutes in a program by Temple faculty composers.

In October, Wright took himself to a 76^th birthday concert in Rock Hall. Chelsea Meynig and Daniel Espie performed Wright’s Flute Sonata, then colleague Charles Abramovic premiered Sonata Series, a 12-movement collection of four short sonatas. After intermission, colleague Joyce Lindorff premiered Six Pieces for Harpsichord. The concert closed with the premiere of Four Modern Scenes performed by four Boyer alums: Chelsea Meynig, Sean Bailey, Chen Chen and Daniel Espie.

November saw Wright in Harlem at Mise-en_Place for a concert by the Association for the Promotion of New Music that included his Six Studies for computer sound and video.