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.

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

IUP Music Department faculty member Dr. Linda Jennings will perform with the Arcadia Piano Trio on September 8, 2009, at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmund, Okla.

As part of the IUP College of Fine Arts International Exchange Program, Nela Saric, a vocal performance major, and Antonia Mimica, majoring in Music Theory, have come from the Music Academy in Zagreb, Croatia, to study at IUP in the Music Department in Fall 2009.

Zach Collins, an assistant professor of tuba and euphonium in the Department of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, is featured on a new compact disk release by Southwest Chamber Music. The three-disk set catalogs all of composer William Kraft’s “Encounters.”

The Keystone Wind Ensemble, directed by Dr. Jack Stamp of the Music Department, recently performed at the annual conference of the International Trumpet Guild in Harrisburg.