| 2011 Middle Level State Honors Conductors |
Jayne Glocke of the Penn State School of Music is currently the conductor of the Women's Chorale and Penn State Campus Choir.She holds a bachelor's degree in vocal music education as well as a master's degree in choral conducting and choral literature from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. While at Madison, she studied conducting with Robert Fountain and voice with Ilona Kombrink. During her teaching career, she has been the choral director at Whitefish Bay (Wisconsin) High School and Saline (Michigan) Middle School and High School.
Professor Glocke has also taught elementary music and elementary choirs in Lake Bluff, Illinois, and Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and has instructed music education classes at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point.
Glocke returns to Wisconsin having served as WSMA Middle Level State Honors Choral Conductor in 2006.
E. Daniel Long (Ann Arbor, Michigan) is the Founding Director of the School for the Performing Arts-Ann Arbor Youth Symphony Orchestra. The Youth Symphony Orchestra has performed in Australia, Canada, and at the Midwest Clinic. Long is in demand as a conductor and clinician, has received many music education awards, and is active as an association leader and author. At the 2008 Midwest Clinic, Long served as a Middle School Orchestra Rehearsal Lab technician, sharing his extensive ensemble experience with attendees.
Long began his teaching career in Hay Springs and Sidney, Nebraska. He taught for thirty-five years in the Ann Arbor Public Schools in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is the recipient of the Elizabeth A. H. Green School Educator Award from the American String Teachers Association. He has been recognized as Teacher of the Year from the Michigan American String Teachers Association and the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association. He has been inducted into the Chadron State College Music Hall of Fame and awarded the Chadron State College's Distinguished Service Award. Long has appeared as a conductor/clinician at the Midwest Clinic, Music Educators National Conference and American String Teachers Association conferences. He has served as president of the Michigan chapter of ASTA and has been a member of the editorial board for Music Educators Journal and American String Journal. He has authored articles for The Instrumentalist, Music Educators Journal and American String Journal.
Long returns to Madison having served as WSMA Middle Level Honors Orchestra conductor in 1998, 2002 and 2006.
Dennis Glocke joined the faculty of the Penn State School of Music in 1996 when he was appointed director of concert bands. He has received degrees in conducting from Northwestern University, where he studied with John P. Paynter, and in music education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where his principal teachers were H. Robert Reynolds and Eugene Corporon. Prior to his appointment at Penn State, he served as associate director of bands at The University of Michigan, director of bands at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and as a band director in the Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, public schools.
His extensive knowledge of conducting, repertoire, and rehearsal techniques for wind groups of all ages has brought Glocke invitations to appear as guest conductor and clinician throughout the country, including clinic sessions at the Wisconsin Music Educators Conference, the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association conducting symposium, The Conductor's Art conducting workshop at the University of Michigan, the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Band Association, and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Conference. Glocke has also conducted and taught at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay Summer Music Camp, the Michigan All-State Band program at Interlochen, the Point Music Camp of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater Summer Music Camp, and Summer Music at Penn State. His Penn State ensembles have performed at the Eastern Division Conference of the College Band Directors National Association and the Pennsylvania Music Educators State Conference.
A native of Clintonville, Wisconsin, Glocke returns to the WSMA Middle Level Honors Band after successfully leading the ensemble in 1997 and 2004.