Rodney Winther
Rodney Winther is currently in his eleventh year as Director of Wind Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His duties at CCM include conducting the Wind Symphony, Chamber Winds and the CCM Chamber Players, while also teaching Masters and Doctoral students in Wind Conducting. Mr. Winther’s frequent appearances as guest conductor and clinician have taken him across the United States and abroad, including England, Ireland, the Republic of Malaysia, Taiwan, Venezuela and Canada. He has been invited to conduct many of the world’s finest ensembles, including the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Summit Brass, The U.S. Navy Band, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble, Kent Youth Wind Orchestra (England) and the Taller para Bandas del Tachira (Venezuela). His conducting workshops, both in the United States and abroad, have been critically acclaimed, helping young conductors around the world for the past twenty years. His workshops and concerts in Venezuela over the past two years were recognized this last June, when he was awarded the Otorga Botón Honor al Mérito by the Governor of the State of Tachira – the first American to receive this honor. He has been a leader in the commissioning and performing of new works for the wind band, including premiere performances and recordings by such distinguished composers as Karel Husa, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, Dana Wilson, David Amram and Adam Gorb, among numerous others. He has been invited to conduct at numerous conventions, including several times at the MidWest Band and Orchestra Clinic, as well as the International Women’s Brass Conference, the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, the International Saxophone Convention (Montreal), the International Saxophone Symposium of the U.S. Navy Band, the National Saxophone Alliance, the National Trumpet Guild, the Eastern Trombone Workshop of the U.S. Army Band and the 1995 and 1997 BASBWE conventions in England. His book - An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music - has already been hailed as a much needed and valuable resource in this ever-growing area. A second volume – An Annotated Guide to Mixed Wind, String and Percussion Chamber Music – will be completed shortly. His reputation and experience recently resulted in his being selected for inclusion in “Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Education”.
Terence Milligan
Terence Milligan is currently in his twenty-sixth year at the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati where he is Professor of Music and Assistant Director of Wind Studies. Dr. Milligan currently serves as the conductor of the Symphony Band, the director of graduate cognate program in wind conducting, and is the former director of the University of Cincinnati Bearcat Bands. In addition, he is integrally involved with the music education programs at CCM. Dr. Milligan holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin as well as the Master and Baccalaureate degrees from West Texas State University. He has undertaken additional research at the John Herrick Jackson Music Library at Yale University on the music of Charles Ives and has published several articles on Ives and his chamber music. More recently, he spent five months on sabbatical leave in Montreal, Canada, and in Paris, France, where he conducted research on current Canadian and French wind band music. Dr. Milligan brings to his position a wide variety of experience and expertise as a musician, educator and scholar, and he is in continuous demand as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and Canada. He also has appeared as a performer clinician, and lecturer at numerous state conferences of the Ohio and Kentucky Music Educators Association; at the national conferences of the College Band Directors National Association, the American Society of University Composers, the Music Teachers National Association, and the American Choral Directors Association; in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan R.O.C., as a visiting professor at Tunghai University; and on the National Public Radio program "Windworks" which was aired throughout North America. Dr. Milligan has been selected for inclusion in "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universitites," "Outstanding Young Men of America," "Who's Who in Fine Arts Higher Education," and most recently in the fifty-ninth edition of "Who's Who in America." In June 1996 the College-Conservatory of Music presented him with the Outstanding Music Teacher Award, and in May 2003 Dr. Milligan was named the Outstanding Teacher for the University of Cincinnati Honors Scholars Program.
Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion Faculty
This page last updated 02/14/2008. Please send comments to Keith N. Phillips