Dr. Jack Stamp, 2008–2009 University Professor and chair of the IUP Department of Music, was recently invited to present conducting workshops at Great Britain’s Royal Military School of Music. He will present sessions for their student bandmasters and many of the conductors in the field starting November 20, 2009.

Chris Wengert, of “drumset and bucket” fame, is on tour with a Coca-Cola-sponsored musical group with the Olympic Torch as it makes its way all over Canada in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

IUP Music Department faculty member Zach Collins recently performed and taught at West Texas A&M University on October 28 and 29, 2009.

The fifty-voice IUP Chorus, directed by James Dearing, will be featured at the National Collegiate Choral Conference this Thursday night, November 5, 2009, at Yale University. Only nine out of forty-one college/university choral ensembles were accepted nationwide.

IUP's Chamber Singers will offer a concert of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masterworks this Sunday afternoon, October 18, 2009, at 3:00 in Gorell Recital Hall. This performance is free and open to the public. Highlights of this sacred music program will be double chorus music from Italy, Germany, and England.

IUP Music Librarian Carl Rahkonen and Music Professor Matt Baumer will host the fall meeting of the Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society on Saturday, October 17, 2009.

Christopher Thompson, a senior Music Education major (trumpet), has just had his first work accepted for publication.