Professor
Flute
Contact Information
Cogswell Hall 309
piccplyr@iup.edu
724-357-2067
Courses
Applied Flute
Flute Ensemble
Theory Skills
Degrees
DMA, The Ohio State University
MM, University of Wyoming
BM, University of Northern Colorado
Biography
Therese Wacker is professor of Music at Indiana University of
Pennsylvania and a flutist with the Keystone Chamber Players and the Keystone Winds. A
graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, she received her MM
from the University of Wyoming and her DMA from the Ohio State
University.
Dr. Wacker is an active performer and clinician in the Western Pennsylvania area.
She has been a frequent soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the
Alleghenies and the IUP Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz
Ensemble and is substitute principal flute with the Johnstown Symphony
Orchestra. Dr. Wacker enjoys presenting master classes, especially with
emphasis on the piccolo. She has been an artist/clinician for Allegheny
College’s Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Allegheny College Adult
Band Camp, Western State College (Gunnison, Colo.), Virginia Commonwealth
University, the University of Dayton, the University of Akron, West
Virginia University, and Universidad de las Americas (Puebla, Mexico). As
an adjudicator, Dr. Wacker has served for the Central Ohio Flute
Festival, Pittsburgh Flute Festival, and the Lima Symphony Orchestra
Young Artist Competition and the MTNA Competition (state and regional),
among others.
She is a winner or finalist in several competitions,
including the Fischoff chamber music competition, MTNA, and the Denver
CAS concerto competition. Her doctoral thesis, “The Piccolo in the
Chamber Music of the Twentieth Century—An Annotated Bibliography of
Selected Works,” is a comprehensive guide to chamber music of the
20th century, which includes piccolo and a history of the
instrument. She has also published several articles on this subject in
Flute Talk and the Instrumentalist. She is co-author of The Complete
Piccolo, which was compiled and edited by Jan Gippo (published by
Theodore Presser). She commissioned and premiered Bruce Yurko’s “Concerto
for Piccolo/Flute and Wind Ensemble” in February 2003. On October 10, 2010,
she performed the world premiere of Eric Ewazen’s “Concerto for Piccolo
and Wind Ensemble,” which is the result of three years’ collaboration
with the composer and Jan Gippo (former piccoloist with the St. Louis
Symphony). She released her first solo compact disc, Impressions...
Original Works for Piccolo and Piano, in October 2011.
Dr. Wacker is the former principal flute/piccolo of the Air Force Band
of Flight. She performed as a frequent soloist with the Band of Flight
and taught master classes throughout the United States. She also served
as the non-commissioned officer in charge of the Huffman Prairie Winds—the Band of Flight’s Woodwind Quintet. As a member of the Air Force Band,
she recorded seven CDs, including one for the Huffman Prairie Winds.
Links
Therese Wacker’s website