Edwin V. Lacy, Professor Emeritus
D.Mus., Indiana University; Bassoon
Office: Room 36, Fine Arts; Telephone: 812-488-2227
e-mail: el2@evansville.edu

In 2008, after a teaching career of 48 years, including 41 years at the University of Evansville, Dr. Lacy retired from full-time teaching and continues as adjunct instructor of bassoon. His primary duties included teaching bassoon, saxophone, oboe, jazz, and music theory. He founded the jazz program at UE and directed it for the first 40 years of its existence. He held the position of Oramay Cluthe Eades Distinguished Professor of Music and served as chair of the Department of Music on three occasions for a total of seven and one-half years. A native of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, he holds the bachelor of music education degree from Murray State University and the master of music in bassoon and doctor of music in woodwinds from Indiana University.
                   Lacy serves as principal bassoonist and saxophone soloist of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, of which he has been a member for 39 seasons. He was also principal bassoonist of the Owensboro (KY) Symphony Orchestra for nineteen seasons and has served as principal bassoonist of the Indianapolis Festival Music Society Orchestra and the Harlaxton Quintet. He has performed solo recitals at the University of Colorado, the University of Georgia, Western Michigan University and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. His chamber music performances have included appearances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Interlochen Arts Academy and on the Wisconsin Public Radio Network.
                   He has been a member of the International Double Reed Society since the inception of the organization in 1972. He was secretary of the IDRS for four terms and has been program chairman and host of two of the Society's annual conventions, in Evansville in 1977 and at Indiana University in 1994. He has been featured seven times as a performer or presenter at IDRS conferences, including an appearance with the Harlaxton Quintet which was the opening event of the 1989 annual conference at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. His articles regularly appear in the Double Reed, the journal of the IDRS.
                   Lacy is a member of the International Association of Jazz Educators, Pi Kappa Lambda music honorary society, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, which has made him a recipient of their Orpheus Award. He is also an honorary member of Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity. At the University of Evansville, he served as faculty advisor to SAI for 25 years and was also advisor to Phi Mu Alpha for over 30 years. In 2002, the Office of the Dean of Students at UE named him "Advisor of the Year" for his work as advisor to the Beta Epsilon Chapter of SAI.
                   His teaching experience has included six years in the public schools of Indiana and Illinois and one year at the University of Charleston in West Virginia, in addition to his 40 years at the University of Evansville. He has also served as visiting professor of music at the University of Louisville (1977) and at Indiana University (1986). From 1989 to 1991 he was instructor of bassoon and saxophone at the New England Music Camp in Oakland, Maine. In 2002, he received the "Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching" from the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at UE and was named co-winner of the national "Advisor of the Year" by Sigma Alpha Iota.

Thomas Josenhans, Assistant Professor
D.M.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook; Clarinet, Saxophone
Office: Room 34, Fine Arts; Telephone: 812-488-2245
e-mail: tj38@evansville.edu

Thomas Josenhans is assistant professor of music and a member of the Harlaxton Quintet, the woodwind quintet in residence, at the University of Evansville. His duties include teaching clarinet and saxophone as well as courses in music theory, music business and technology. His prior appointments included positions at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas, and Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. His studies and degrees are from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and State University of New York at Stony Brook. Charles Neidich, Franklin Cohen, Theodore Johnson, and Lawrence McDonald are among his primary teachers.
             Since the fall of 2006 Josenhans has been prinicpal clarinetist of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. He is also principal clarinetist and a member of the Artist Faculty at the Wintergreen Music Festival in Virginia, performing in orchestral concerts and chamber performances, including the clarinet quintets of Brahms and Mozart and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time. He has served as guest principal clarinetist with the Charleston Symphony during the Piccolo Spoleto Festival. He was principal clarinetist with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, a regional orchestra serving southwest Virginia, from 1992-2007, and has also performed with the Owensboro, Abilene, Springfield, Champaign-Urbana, Akron, Youngstown, and Greenville Orchestras.
             Josenhans is an active performer and chamber musician, appearing as soloist with groups as diverse as the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Abilene Community Band. In 2008 he was soloist with the UE Wind Ensemble for a performance of Dana Wilson's Liquid Ebony, and he has been featured as a soloist in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante at the Wintergreen Festival, and in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Roanoke Symphony. Recent performances also include appearances at James Madison, Capital, Texas Tech, Abilene Christian and Hardin-Simmons Universities, and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He has played at conferences of the International Clarinet Association (2008) and the International Double Reed Society (2006) and performed a recital at the University of Oklahoma Clarinet Symposium (2006). He is an active clinician in area schools and has presented clinics at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention and Texas Tech Clarinet Symposium. Josenhans will be a presenter at the 2009 Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA) convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. He has also been heard at the Aspen, Blossom, Sarasota, and Chautauqua Music Festivals.
             Josenhans is a member of the International Clarinet Association, North American Saxophone Alliance, Music Educators National Conference, and the Phi Beta Kappa and Pi Kappa Lambda honor societies. He is on the CD review staff for The Clarinet, a publication of the International Clarinet Association.

Elizabeth Robertson, Consortium Instructor
D.Mus., Indiana University; Oboe
Office: Room 41, Fine Arts; Telephone: 812-488-1004
e-mail: er33@evansville.edu

Dr. Robertson grew up in East Lansing, Michigan, and began her musical training at age 6 on piano and at age 9 on oboe. She attended the Eastman School of Music and Michigan State University, earning a Bachelor of Music in oboe performance and a Bachelor of Arts in applied mathematics, both with high honors. She continued her studies at Indiana University where she earned a Master of Music in oboe and a Doctor of Music in oboe literature and performance. Her primary teachers were Richard Killmer, Daniel Stolper, Marc Lifschey and Theodore Baskin.
                   Robertson is an active member of the International Double Reed Society and performed at the 2003 Conference in Greensboro, North Carolina. As the youngest of five finalists, she won second place in the IDRS Fernand Gillet Performance Competition in 1991. She has published several articles on the oboe works of Antal Dorati in the IDRS Double Reed journal. Robertson is also a member of the College Music Society and is the CMS campus representative for the University of Evansville.
                   Robertson has been principal oboe of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra since 1995 and principal oboe of the Lancaster Festival in Ohio since 2001. She has performed as principal oboe of the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra and has substituted with the Louisville Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. She currently serves as consortium instructor of oboe at the University of Evansville and as a member of the Harlaxton Quintet.

Kelly Sulick, Consortium Instructor
MM, University of Southern California; Flute
Office: Room 25, Fine Arts, Telephone: 812-488-2349
email: ks309@evansville.edu

Kelly Sulick earned her Master of Music degree in flute performance from the University of Southern California and recently completed her third season as principal flute with the Young Musicians Foundation Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles, California. Prior to her graduate studies, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree in flute performance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan, where she graduated with highest honors and was named a James B. Angell Scholar for her academic achievements.
                   She has performed as principal flute with the USC Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, the University of Michigan Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Band, and the Livingston Symphony Orchestra. A finalist in several national competitions, Ms. Sulick has recorded several compact discs, including William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience under Leonard Slatkin, a Naxos release that received four Grammy awards including Best Classical Album. Her principal teachers include Jim Walker and Amy Porter.