Highlighting select Spring/Summer 2026 performances, achievements, completed projects and more from the faculty of the Boyer College of Music and Dance

MICAELA BARANELLO (Music Studies)
In June, Micaela Baranello presented a paper on the representation of women’s movements in operetta at the Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music at the University of Toronto. She also continued to work on the Schoenberg roleplaying game she created for her fall 2025 Vienna 1913 class at Temple. This included leading a three-hour workshop on the use of games in music history classes at the American Musicological Society’s Teaching Music History Conference at NYU, where she introduced many musicologists to the joys of embodying grumpy early twentieth-century music critics. She also attended Reacting to the Past’s Game Development Conference in Buffalo and is revising her game for beta testing by colleagues on two different campuses in the spring of 2027. She is also designing a medieval scriptorium game (set in Toulouse in 1235 in the aftermath of the Albigensian Crusade) for her fall survey class. (She is also working on her second book but that one is going to take a while.)

BETH BOLTON (Music Education)
Beth Bolton taught a weekend intensive course in Rome for the Italian early childhood music association Musica in Culla (Music in the Crib) in early April and presented summer interactive Zoom music lectures for two MIC summer courses in Spain and Italy.  Seven of her original compositions appeared in a new book, Let’s Experience Childhood, published in Lithuania by the Lithuanian National Education Agency as part of a European Union project “Change the Content of PreSchool Education.”  Bolton has taught courses, workshops, and presented at conferences in Lithuania many times since 2000, when she was first invited to teach there by A.P.P.L.E. (The American Professional Partnership for Lithuanian Education).

NATHAN BUONVIRI (Music Education)
Nate Buonviri presented two papers at international conferences in Spring 2026, at the International Symposium for Research in Music Behavior in Tallahassee, FL and at the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory in The Hague, Netherlands. In July he finished his 20th season as percussionist with Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater.

DUSTIN CATES (Music Education)
Conducting Engagements

• Music in the Parks Choral Festival - Six Flags Great Adventure (Jackson Township High School, Jackson Township, NJ) Adjudicator (June 5, 2026)
• Music in the Parks Choral Festival - Six Flags Great Adventure (Middletown High School South, Middletown, NJ) Adjudicator (May 30, 2026)
• Music in the Parks Choral Festival - Six Flags Great Adventure (Jackson Township High School, Jackson Township, NJ) Adjudicator (May 29, 2026)
• Music Showcase Choral Festival - Dorney Park (First Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem, PA) Adjudicator (May 24, 2026)
• Music in the Parks Choral Festival - Hershey Park (Lower Dauphin High School, Hummelstown, PA) Adjudicator (May 22, 2026)
• Music Showcase Choral Festival - Dorney Park (First Presbyterian Church, Bethlehem, PA) Adjudicator (May 15, 2026)
• Springfield Township Middle School Choral Clinics (Springfield Township, MO) Conductor/Clinician (May 12, 2026)
• New Jersey Music Educators Association Middle School Choral Festival (Monroe Township Middle School, Monroe Township, NJ) Conductor/Clinician (April 29, 2026)
• North Jersey School Music Association Middle School Choral Festival (Lyndhurst Middle School, Lyndhurst, NJ) Conductor/Clinician (March 6, 2026)
• Lancaster-Lebanon Music Educators Association High School Honor Choir (Hempfield High School, Landisville, PA) Guest Conductor (January 3, 2026)
• Artist-in-Residence/Teaching Residency (University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, Kansas City, MO) Conductor/Guest Lecturer (April 13-14, 2026)

Publications

• Cates, D. S. (2026). Singing for our lives: The rise and significance of the gay men's chorus. In N. R. McBride & C. A. Q. Sears (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of queer and gender studies in music education (pp. 106-119). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197624753.003.0006
• Cates, D. & Covalle, W. (In Press). Every voice belongs: Inclusive vocal development for children’s voices. In S. L. Burton & A. M. Reynolds (Eds.), Engaging musical practices for elementary general music: A sourcebook 2nd edition. Bloomsbury Publishing. 

Presentations

• Cates, D. (June 2, 2026) Vocal Health for Music Teachers. 1-hour presentation. New Jersey Music Educators Association Professional Development Day. Mountain Lakes, NJ.
• Cates, D. (April 14, 2026) The Life of a High School Music Teacher. 1-hour guest lecture. University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Undergraduate Secondary Methods Class. Kansas City, MO.
• Cates, D. (April 13, 2026) Music Teaching in Higher Education. 2-hour guest lecture. University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Graduate College Teaching Class. Kansas City, MO.
• Cates, D. (April 13, 2026) GALA Choruses and the LGBTQ+ Choral Movement. 1-hour guest lecture. University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory Graduate Choral Literature Class. Kansas City, MO.
• Cates, D. (February 17, 2026). Selecting Diverse, Quality Choral Repertoire for Tenor-Bass Voices. 1-hour virtual presentation. Southwest Baptist University Undergraduate Choral Literature Class. Bolivar, MO.

Other

• ENVISION 2026, American Choral Directors Association Eastern Region Conference (Providence, RI) Conference Chair (February 24-28, 2026)

PATRICIA CORNETT (Instrumental Studies)
In the spring of 2026 Patricia Cornett conducted six honor bands across four states, including the West Virginia All-State Band. She also brought the Temple University Wind Symphony to perform at the College Band Directors National Association Eastern Division Conference, where their performance included a world premiere of a new euphonium concerto by our colleague Jay Krush. She also adjudicated major state festivals in Maryland and Illinois. 

On campus she organized and hosted Temple’s annual Festival of Winds for high school and middle school bands. The Temple University Wind Symphony’s world premiere recording of Emma O’Halloran’s saxophone concerto Only Moments to Live was released in March. The Wind Symphony also completed a recording of Jay Krush’s new euphonium concerto, to be released soon.

In the summer of 2026, Cornett hosted and taught the weeklong Temple Wind Conducting and Teaching Workshop here on campus for 17 attendees from all over the country. She was also the featured guest conductor at the University of Central Arkansas Destination Band Camp.

MARCUS DELOACH (Vocal Arts)

• Opera performance - Seattle Opera Fellow Travelers/ role of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (February), Seattle, WA.
• Opera performance - Portland Opera (debut) Fellow Travelers/ role of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (March), Portland, OR.
• Opera performance - San Diego Opera (debut) Fellow Travelers/ role of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (July) San Diego, CA.
• Opera performance - Opera Delaware Andréa Chéneir/ role of Fléville/ Fouquiér (May 2026), Willington, DE.
• Master class for the national Classical Singer Conference: High School Tenors, Baritones and Basses (May) Boston, MA.
• Master class for the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS: Boston Chapter): Classical Voice Masterclass (May) Boston, MA.
• Solo recital - Marie Stultz Memorial Concert Series - Music at Christ Church Andover (May) Andover, MA.
• Composition premieres - A Box at the Opera (voice and piano) and The Lord Is My Shepherd (SATB and piano).

JILLIAN HARRIS (Dance)

• (2026 January) Presented SHIFT, an interdisciplinary dance technology project in collaboration with Dr. Adam Vidiksis and BEEP, visualist Nora Gibson, and dancer Daniil Zakirzyanov, as part of the Faculty Dance Concert at Conwell Theater, Temple University.
• (2026) Presented the invited talk “R.E.A.L Method: Introducing Strategies for Co-Creation in Chinese Higher Education Dance Programs” at the Contemporary Dance Education in China: China-US International Symposium, Asia Society.
• (2026 March) Presented SHIFT at the SPLICE Festival at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, and attended the full festival March 5–7, 2026.
• (2026 March) Performed in The Chronicles of Kristi's Fantastic ICE Machine by Scott L. Miller as part of the SPLICE Festival at the Gordon Center for the Performing Arts, Colby College.
• (2026 April) Presented SHIFT as part of Cybersounds at the Temple Performing Arts Center.
• (2026 June) Directed, edited, and produced Il Corpo Magnifico, a short dance film created in collaboration with the Rome dance intensive students which was screened as part of the Temple University Rome Dance Intensive Showcase in Rome, Italy. Prof. Harris led the first ever 4-week dance intensive at Temple University Rome during Summer Session I.
• (2026) Delivered the invited talk “Dance Interventions: Responding to Technological Disruptions” as part of Temple University’s Innovation with Impact Series.
• (2026) Delivered the refereed conference presentation “R.E.A.L Method: A Collaborative, Dance-Based Practice” at the Contemplative Practices for Higher Education Conference at Virginia Tech University.
• (2026) Accepted the position of Interim Chair of Temple’s Department of Dance 

KENDALL JOPLIN (Music Therapy)
In the past year, Kendall Joplin completed her dissertation titled Using Zines to Explore Oppression and Musical Gatekeeping in Music Therapy and graduated with her PhD in May 2026. Additionally, she published an article titled Sociocultural Trends in Music Therapists' Clinical Music Choices in Arts in Psychotherapy and co-authored a chapter in The Competency Restoration Handbook: A Guide and Resources for Clinicians published by Oxford University Press. Joplin also presented at the London Arts-Based Research Center's Women Who Create: The Feminine and the Arts conference about clinicians' experiences of sexual harassment perpetuated by clients, and at the Kennedy Krieger Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress conference about harm-reduction and trauma-informed strategies within inpatient psychiatric settings. She also led a continuing education course for music therapists on harm-reduction and trauma-informed strategies.

Additionally, over the past year Joplin served on the board of the American Music Therapy Association as an Assembly Representative and as an assembly member. She also served as Treasurer of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the American Music Therapy Association. However, most importantly in the past year, Kendall Joplin was hired at Temple University to serve as an assistant professor of music therapy! Go, Owls!

MICHAEL KLEIN (Music Studies)

• In May, Michael Klein had a week-long residency at Yonsei University in Korea, during which time he gave classes in performance and analysis, herrmeneutics, and research methods, in addition to which, he met with doctoral students about their research.
• During his trip to Korea, Klein gave the keynote address for the Musicological Society of Korea. The title of his talk was "How Interpretation Guides Analysis for Performance."
• In June, Klein gave the keynote address for an international conference called Philosophical Hermeneutics and Musical Interpretation at the Conservatorio di Musica "Luigi Boccherini" in Lucca, Italy. The title of his keynote was "Awakening the Hermeneutic Circle for Musical Understanding."
• Klein published an essay titled "Toward a Non-Methodology for Walking in the Musical Narrative Woods" in a collection titled Musical Narrative, Theory and Analysis.
• He published an essay titled "Sounding the Polish Subject in Stanisław Lem's Solaris" in the collection Constructing Polish Musical Identities.
• Klein published the foreword to Joan Grimalt's book Analysing Musical Signification. 

EDWARD LATHAM (Music Studies)
During the Spring 2026 semester, Ted Latham directed the Villanova Singers in their international performance at the World Baseball Classic in Clearwater, FL. His a cappella group, the Tonics, was featured on the front page of the Philadelphia Inquirer after reaching 100,000 followers and 10 million views on Instagram, gave a televised interview and performance on Good Morning Australia, and received multiple offers from national news outlets in the U.S. He gave a talk for CPCA's Arts Interdisciplinary Research forum and chaired the search that resulted in the hiring of Assistant Professor of Instruction in Music Theory Dr. Mark Micchelli.

Over the summer, Latham was a principal cantor and sang as part of a family octet for his daughter Elizabeth's wedding to fellow Princeton PhD student Andrew Sontag at Princeton Chapel. In August, he composed a setting of "Faith," a poem by the late Augustinian quadriplegic priest Fr. Bill Atkinson, who is on the path to sainthood, which will be performed in St. Thomas of Villanova province.

KATHRYN LEEMHUIS (Vocal Arts)
Kathryn Leemhuis continued an active national performing career as a mezzo-soprano, with engagements spanning art song, oratorio and concert repertoire. She appeared as a recitalist with the nationally recognized Cincinnati Song Initiative in its Liebeslieder Salon, a performance broadcast live on 90.9 WGUC Cincinnati Public Radio. Her spring concert season also included Handel’s Messiah with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra and Chorale in Annapolis, Maryland, and Bach’s St. Matthew Passion on Cape Cod with Creare Symphonia and Gloriae Dei Cantores, performing alongside professional Baroque specialists and instrumentalists.

Beyond the concert stage, Leemhuis contributed her expertise to adjudication and educational outreach. She served as an adjudicator for the Indiana Region of Schmidt Vocal Arts Competition at Butler University in Indianapolis, evaluating young singers as part of the organization’s national voice competition program. In Philadelphia, she also appeared as a guest lecture-recitalist at The Philadelphia School, presenting Art Song for Children, an outreach program designed to introduce primary school-aged students to classical singing and art song through live performance and discussion. She is finalizing the editing of her second BCM&D album, Inheritance, which will be released this fall.

JOYCE LINDORFF (Instrumental Studies)
In February, Keyboard Professor Joyce Lindorff was both speaker and respondent in a panel presentation at the Renaissance Society of America’s annual conference in San Francisco, “Melodies Across Cultures: Early Modern Musical Encounters Between China, Japan, and Europe,” sponsored by The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, Boston College. Lindorff spent Easter term at the University of Cambridge as a Life Member of Clare Hall. On May 14, she taught a Faculty of Music Advanced Keyboard seminar on 18th-century figured bass accompaniment. On June 3, she presented a talk on the Cambridge Faculty of Music Colloquium Series, “The ‘Art’ and the ‘Easy’: Niccolo Pasquali's Keyboard World.” On June 12 she presented a talk, “Pasquali’s Keyboard Tutors,” at the Museo San Colombano, Bologna, Italy, as part of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America conference, “Keyboard Pedagogy: From the Renaissance through the First Viennese School.” On June 24, she performed “Counterpoint Counterparts,” a solo harpsichord recital at Robinson College, University of Cambridge, pairing baroque pieces with new compositions, including the premiere of Jeremy Thurlow’s Les tardigrades miraculeuses, composed in 2024 and dedicated to Lindorff. On July 31 and Aug 1, at the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Arts, she performed a solo recital and taught a master class as part of the Philadelphia Young Pianists’ Academy Festival, directed by Boyer College Artist-in-Residence Charlotte Hu. Lindorff wrote the Guest Editorial for the most recent issue of the journal, Early Music (Oxford University Press, Vol. 53). “1000 years of Music in China,” her review of Yuanzheng Yang’s “Chinese Music in Print: from the Great Sage to the Lady Literata” also appears in that issue.

WENDY MAGEE (Music Therapy)
Wendy Magee had a busy spring and summer, delivering lectures and a MATADOC training in China, including at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, the Shenzhen Brain Science Society/WHO Rehabilitation Collaboration Center, and Xinhua College in Guangzhou. In spring, Magee gave two online three-day MATADOC trainings, including one funded by the European Union. In summer, she gave four oral and workshop presentations at the 18th World Congress of Music Therapy in Bologna, Italy. Lastly, she has been participating in a pilot project exploring Adapted Tango for Stroke with the Tango Therapy Project in the late summer in collaboration with the Dept of Communication Sciences at Temple.

Publications during the spring/summer included four articles in international peer-reviewed journals, all in collaboration with former Temple doctoral students:

Lee, M-S., Yang, T.F., Shoemark, H., & Magee, W.L. (2026). The effect of listening to music and singing alone on mood states for people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) and their caregiver dyads. Journal of Music Therapy, 63(1), thag010. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thag010

Magee, W.L., Bhana-Pema, V.M.,  Carr, C.E. Ettenberger, M., Fancourt, D., Garrido, S., Kwan, M., Lichtensztejn, M., Marinho, V., Särkämö, T., Sundar, S., Yoo, G.E., & Zhang, J. (2026). An international interdisciplinary commentary on the Revised Guidelines for Music-Based Interventions checklist, elaboration guide and validation study. Journal of Music Therapy, 63(1), thaf019. https://doi.org/10.1093/jmt/thaf019

Wang, B. & Magee, W.L. (2026). The PERMA-Based Group Music Therapy: An Intervention Protocol for Enhancing Well-being in Adults. Music and Medicine, 18(2) 47-55. DOI: https://doi.org/10.47513/mmd.v18i2.1090

Zhang, J., DeDe, G., Magee, W., & Shoemark, H. (2026). A feasibility study for an improvised singing and language-based protocol for people with aphasia: music Enriched verb network strengthening treatment (MeVNest). Aphasiology, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2026.2647138

MARK MICCHELLI (Music Studies)

• February: Premiere of opera cooking show, The Immigrant Vegetable, at West Virginia University
• April: Album release of Five Years in Exile on Ropeadope, featuring original songs co-written with Vietnamese singer-activist Mai Khôi
• March–April: Album release tour at venues including National Sawdust (NYC), the Bop Stop (Cleveland, OH), and City of Asylum (Pittsburgh, PA)
• May: Performance of string quartet A Difference of Sixty-Eight Days at the International Society for Contemporary Music World Music Days in Bucharest, Romania

THEODORE NASH (Jazz Studies)

• Ted Nash was in residence with the Jazz at Lincoln Center summer camp in July, the Summer Jazz Academy. A few of the students who attended will be coming to Temple this year, and he is excited to continue to work with them over the next few months. 
• Nash has been playing lead alto in the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, taking over for Dick Oatts when he retired a few months ago. It’s been great seeing many of the Temple students coming down to check out the band. 
• His trio, Allison, Cardenas & Nash, released a new album in the spring and they did a few tours and appearances at clubs like Dizzy’s, Birdland and Philly’s own Chris’ Jazz Cafe.
• He produced and directed a documentary called Resonancia and the film has been featured in several film festivals and has won a few awards.
• Nash is starting to work on a new short film, that he will be directing. It’s a narrative short with a powerful story and he is very excited about it.

PHILLIP O’BANION (Instrumental Studies)
Creative

• With The Philadelphia Orchestra, Phillip O’Banion played 74 concerts over 25 different weeks this season. Highlights of this work included Rite of Spring, a new premiere by John Adams in Carnegie Hall and on tour, five performances of Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony at Kimmel and Carnegie, Strauss Alpensinfonie, Mason Bates Silicon Hymnal, and the world premiere of A Hundred Years On for the 50th anniversary of the Highmark Mann Center.
• Over 20 additional performances with Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, the orchestras in Princeton, Delaware, Reading, and Lancaster, and the Dolce Suono chamber music series.
• East coast premiere (and recording) of Shy Creatures by Princeton faculty Dmitri Tymoczko for mixed chamber quartet (flute, cello, piano, percussion) at Princeton Sound Kitchen.
• Two performances of Carla Kihlstedt’s 26 little deaths on February 20 and March 14, 2026.
• Collaborated with BalletX on a world premiere for their 20th anniversary season. O’Banion arranged and prepared Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood for a new full company dance work titled Resilire by choreographer Keelan Whitmore.

Teaching

• Boyer students and alumni won a dozen auditions and competitions this past year.
• Student Tristan Bouyer (BM junior) auditioned and won the principal percussion job with Symphony in C. Tristan also performed Viet Cuong’s percussion quartet concerto Renewal with the Columbia (MD) Symphony Orchestra and performed as percussionist with the Inscape Chamber Orchestra for two concert series. He was also a semi-finalist in the principal percussion audition for the New Jersey Symphony. 
• Alum Livi Keenan performed as assistant timpanist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra on a week of subscription concerts (Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique). She gave a tremendous senior recital of very challenging repertoire, received a TA position at the Brevard Music Festival this summer, and is attending the Cleveland Institute of Music on scholarship for graduate studies with a timpani focus next year. 
• DMA student Cameron Schreiber has been instructing for both Widener University and United Percussion (WGI ensemble) and performing throughout the region with various professional ensembles including the Princeton Symphony, Lancaster Symphony, Reading Symphony, Pennsylvania Philharmonic, NEPA Philharmonic, Network for New Music, and other local ensembles. He was on the percussion staff for the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps this summer. 
• In June 2026, alum Elijah Nice (BM May 2025) won the audition for principal percussion of the Indianapolis symphony. Just two months prior in April, he won a percussion position with the New World Symphony (he was a finalist for NWS last April as a senior). This past year, he was also runner-up in the New Jersey Symphony’s audition for principal percussion and a semi-finalist for the Pittsburgh Symphony’s principal percussion audition.  
• Mason McDonald, MM student, performed with Symphony in C, Ballet X and the Lancaster Symphony, and the NEPA Philharmonic.
• Alum Jason Yoder (MM 13’) is the newly minted principal percussionist of the Pittsburgh Symphony. Alum Caleb Breidenbaugh (BM 2020, MM 2022) was runner-up for the Pittsburgh Symphony principal percussion audition.
• Jaewon Lee (MM 2025 and Prof Studies 2026) was just appointed, by audition, the new principal percussionist of the Korean Broadcasting Symphony in August of 2026. He makes the third Temple percussion alum to hold this position in a row. (Jiye Oh, Jason Yoder, Jaewon Lee). In March of 2026, Jaewon also earned a spot on The Philadelphia Orchestra’s substitute pool list by audition.  
• Dr. Micheal Barnes (DMA May 2026) received the Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for American Music (third prize) for recordings of solo keyboard percussion works he has commissioned since beginning studies here at Temple University. 
• Coached an incoming freshmen student (Ryan Agamalian, from West Chester) who won first place in the high school division of the Penn State marimba competition after coaching.  
• May 2026 - Alum Griffin Harrison (BM 2021, MM 2025) won the timpani audition for the New World Symphony May 2026 (in May 2025 he won a percussion fellowship position by audition). 
• May 2026 - Student Ethan Marshall (BME sophomore) won first place in the collegiate division of the Black Swamp Solo & Ensemble Showcase Competition (college snare drum category). He returns this summer to the Spartans Corps, where he held down the Drumset chair last summer when they won first place in their competitive division. 
• Members of the TU Percussion Ensemble provided music for seven performances with BalletX at the Suzanne Roberts Theater on Resilire, a world premiere choreography by Keelan Whitmore celebrating the company’s 20-year history in Philadelphia.

Service

• International: Began a three year-term serving on the Percussive Arts Society’s Percussion Ensemble Committee.
• University: Served as member of university committee by request of the Provost’s Office. 
• University: Continued service as a Marshall for university ceremonies.
• College: Boyer Curriculum/Policy committee.
• College: Boyer Technology committee.
• Regional: Taught multiple master classes with the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. 
• Regional: Clinics at Pennsbury HS, Garnet Valley HS, and West Chester East HS. 

LAMBERT ORKIS (Instrumental Studies)
January 2026
Kennedy Center Chamber Players concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Performed with long-term recital partner David Hardy, principal cello of the National Symphony Orchestra, were sonatas by Beethoven, Prokofiev and Grieg.

March 2026
Kennedy Center Chamber Players concert at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Performed were Previn: Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano (2011); Brahms: Trio for violin, cello, and piano in c minor, Op. 101; Richard Strauss: Quartet for violin, viola, cello, and piano in c minor, Op. 13.

June 2026
Judge, final round of the inaugural Lloyd Piano Competition presented by The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; Rock Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Performance with David Hardy, principal cello of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) for members of the NSO Board of Directors (private event), McLean, Virginia

August 2026
Recording released on August 21, 2026, by Alpha Classics: Anne-Sophie Mutter, American Tunes #1. On this recording, Orkis joins Mutter and cellist Daniel Müller-Schott in a performance of Previn’s Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (2009).

National Symphony Orchestra Concerts
Concerts as principal keyboard of the National Symphony Orchestra in February 2026 at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C.

DAVID PASBRIG (Music Studies)

Opera Philadelphia

• Complications in Sue, BCM+D RECORDS – First collaboration between Temple and Opera Philadelphia, world premiere performances recorded live at the Academy of Music
• Sleepers Awake, BCM+D RECORDS – world premiere performance recorded live at the Academy of Music

Temple University Jazz Band, Live from Japan, volume II, recorded at Billboard Live! In Tokyo, Japan

Parliament Sextet – Live from Kyoto, recorded live at the RagSpot in Kyoto, Japan

Temple University Wind Symphony

• Only Moments to Live – Temple University Wind Ensemble with Matt Levy, tenor saxophone, world premiere
• Baby Face Nelson and the Femme Fatale with Joseph Thalken, piano, world premiere

Danzando Para Los Oidos 
Longings
On Wings of Peace: Live from Los Angeles
BCM+D Competition Album, 2026
Voyages – Temple Music Prep

Outside recordings:

• Regenlied – Fifth House Records
• Dichterliebe, Op. 48 – independent release
• Walter Benedict: A Voice Reclaimed (Robert Cart, flute, and David Pasbrig, piano)
• Pas de Trio – Philadelphia Chamber Ensemble

MEGAN SARNO (Music Studies)

• Elected to the National Council of the American Musicological Society, the leading professional organization for musicologists in North America.
• Submitted book manuscript, Mystery in French Music of the Early Twentieth Century: Aesthetics from Bergson to Jankélévitch, for peer review.
• Submitted an article (about Disney's film Fantasia) for peer review.
• Had a proposal accepted for presentation at the 2026 annual meeting of the American Musicological Society.

TIMOTHY WARFIELD (Jazz Studies)

April 17
Tim Warfield Quartet w/pianist Neil Podgursky, bassist Eric Wheeler and drummer Chris Beck
Philly Artcinia
Philadelphia, PA

April 25
w/Terell Stafford Quintet
Germantown Jazz Festival
Germantown, PA

May 5
w/Terell Stafford Quintet
Blues Alley
Washington, D.C.

May 7
w/bassist Rodney Whitaker & the Gathering Orchestra
Midtown Jazz Crawl
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Detroit, MI

May 8
w/bassist Rodney Whitaker
Midtown Jazz Crawl Detroit-Chicago-Philly Group
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Detroit, MI

May 15
Miles Davis Tribute
From Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew
The Jazz Kitchen
Indianapolis, IN

May 26-29
Happy Birthday Miles!
featuring Terell Stafford & Tim Warfield
Miles Davis Birthday Celebration
Jazz St. Louis
St. Louis, MO

June 10-13
Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz Camp
Messiah University
Harrisburg, PA

June 23-28
w/Terell Stafford Quintet
Village Vanguard
NYC

July 7-8
Recording w/Rodney Whitaker
Ann Arbor, MI

July 9
Tim Warfield and the Temple All-Stars, featuring Terell Stafford
Private Engagement
Cherry Hill, NJ

July 19-26
Jazz at Lincoln Center -BARD Jazz Academy
BARD College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

European Tour
July 29
Guest w/Temple Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Terell Stafford
Piazza della Rocca, Comune di Nazzano
Rome, Italy

July 30
Guest w/Temple Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Terell Stafford
Concert at Casa del Jazz
Rome, Italy

July 31
Guest w/Temple Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Terell Stafford
Jazz in Marciac performance at Chapiteau
Marciac, France

August 1
Guest w/Temple Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Terell Stafford
Jazz Santander performance at Escenario Santander
Santander, Spain

August 3
Guest w/Temple Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Terell Stafford
Festival Internacional de Jazz de Xàbia performance at Plaça de la Constitució
Denia, Spain

August 20-23
Tim Warfield Quartet
The Jazz Showcase (In Honor of Charlie Parker Month)
Chicago, IL

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ADAM VIDIKSIS (Music Studies)
Adam Vidiksis maintained an active schedule of international creative work, performances, recordings, and professional leadership throughout the spring and summer. As a featured artist at the Ouarzazate International Film Festival in Morocco, he performed a live score for The Floods, created with TFMA filmmaker Rod Coover and MIT Media Lab poet Nick Montfort, alongside local traditional musicians; premiered Echo in the Channel, a new film collaboration with Coover; and presented on agency and technology in the performing arts. SPLICE Ensemble released its debut album, Ansible, on New Focus Recordings in July, featuring Vidiksis on drum set, percussion and electronics. He also performed with the ensemble at SPLICE Festival VII and the SPLICE Institute, directed the SPLICE Electronic Improv Ensemble, and moderated a panel on music and artificial intelligence.

Vidiksis began his term as President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States at its National Conference, where he presented Reflections on the Brandywine: The Ancient Leaning Tree. He conducted Carla Kihlstedt’s 26 Little Deaths with Network for New Music and performed with Gene Coleman’s Ensemble Conjure in Experiments in Neuroaesthetics: Evoking Voices from Biological Systems. At Boyer, he directed BEEP in Shift, an interdisciplinary collaboration with dance faculty Jillian Harris and projection artist Nora Gibson that included live performances and a short film; hosted violinist Mari Kimura and co-curated CyberSounds with Sam Wells; and presented “Systems of Musical Agency” for the CPCA Arts Interdisciplinary Research Colloquium. His recent work also includes a score for Closer, a short film by Sonali Gulati.

SAMUEL WELLS (Music Studies)
In July, Sam Wells released Ansible with the SPLICE Ensemble on New Focus Recordings, celebrated with release concerts in Michigan this June (listen at https://www.newfocusrecordings.com/catalogue/splice-ensemble-ansible/). He also premiered Pillars and Strata, an hour-long work for trumpet and seventh-order ambisonic electronics, while serving as Artist in Residence and commissioned composer with Wesleyan University's Toneburst Laptop and Electronic Arts Ensemble. His piece Seething Field: Imprint was featured at two major international venues: the Spatial Audio Gathering in Leeds and the International Computer Music Conference in Hamburg. He also premiered another new seventh-order ambisonic work, Strata, at the SEAMUS National Conference in San Antonio. Wells led a five-day workshop on GPU-accelerated visual programming in Max at SPLICE Institute 2026.