Board Members
*for member biographies scroll to the bottom of this page.
PRESIDENT: Pozzi Escot, New England Conservatory, Boston, Massachusetts
VICE-PRESIDENT: Avis Clendenen, Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Illinois
TREASURER: K. Christian McGuire, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, Minnesota
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY: Frances Flynn, Tryon, NC
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE: Therese
McGuire, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, PA; Bruce
Hozeski, Professor Emeritus, Ball State University.
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Board Member Biographies
Pozzi Escot is co-author of the acclaimed Sonic Design: The Nature of Sound and Music and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Sonus, founded in 1980 and reviewed as the best music journal in the USA.
A graduate of the Juilliard School and the Musikhochschule- Hamburg, Escot is a Professor at the Graduate School, New England Conservatory. A much sought after lecturer in the interdisciplinary studies of music, Escot has recently been invited to speak at Columbia, Princeton, Chicago, Harvard, Illinois-Urbana, University of London, Darmstadt Music Institute, the SIdAM of Italy, Edinburgh, Rice, Carnegie Mellon, University of Oregon-Eugene, Bates, Grinnell, Wabash, Central, Linfield Colleges....
As a composer, the foremost American critic Virgil Thomson regards
her as "the most interesting and original woman composer now functioning."
In 1975 Escot was chosen as one of the five remarkable women composers
of the twentieth century. In that year the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
premiered her Fifth Symphony, Sands (1965). Critics around the world
have praised her compositions:
Avis Clendenen (D.Min., Ph.D.) is Professor at Saint
Xavier University in Chicago, Department of Religious Studies; Sister
Irene Dugan, r.c. Scholar in Spirituality; Sabbatical for 2009-2010
Dr. Clendenen's most recent article is "Hildegard, Jung and the
Dark Side of God" schedueld for publciation in Magistra Journal.
She has been invited to present a lecture on this article this coming
May at Oxford University. She has also been invited to present in Zurich
next on the seven references in Jung's Collected Works to Hildegard
von Bingen. She also has been most recently and has indeed accepted
the position of Director of the Pastoral Minsitry Institute besides
her full position at Xavier ahead when she returns after her Sabbatical.
She continues to be invited to present her work which primarily centers
on Jung and Hildegard. She writes that she also will be in Ireland next
year presenting her writings. Her publications are numerous and her
continued work most significant concerning Hildegard.
Christian McGuire is a musicologist, performer, and pedagogue with a dual specialty in 21st century electric bass and 12th-century liturgical manuscripts of the Rhineland. For the former he is primarily interested in tone and technique as applied to modern symphonic orchestration and musical theatre/opera; for the later, he is known for his work on the Symphonia of Hildegard von Bingen, the development of Cistercian and Premonstratensian liturgies in women’s monastic communities, and medieval music paleography, performance practice and reconstruction.
McGuire is a faculty member at Augsburg College in Mineapolis, MN where he directs the Rock & Improv Ensembles, instructs music theory, music history and is the resident studio artist of Electric Bass. Prior to this, he taught early music and popular music history at the McNally-Smith College of Music where he co-designed the NASM approved curricula for their B.A. programs. In addition to his performances and recordings as electric bassist & vocalist, McGuire has served as musicologist and webmaster for the Minnesota High School Music Listening Contest, guest lecturer on Music paleography at the Hill Monastic Library and Museum in Collegeville, MN, and most recently as organizer and chair of the “Martin Luther in Medieval Context” session at the 45th International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, MI.
He currently serves as Treasurer and webmaster for the International
Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies and volunteers as Latin
language tutor and Fencing coach at Nova
Classical Academy in St. Paul, MN where he resides with his wife,
two children and two cats.
for more information visit http://www.christianmcguire.com
