Faculty
Kimberly Cole Luevano
Room: MU128
Office phone: 940.565.3832
Email: kimberly.cole@unt.edu
With reviews such as “breathtaking…”, “virtuosic tone and technique,” and “exceptionally sensitive and introspective rendition,”Kimberly Cole Luevano continually establishes herself as a formidable soloist and chamber musician. Cole joined the University of North Texas faculty in 2011 and is also a member of the clarinet faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp where she has taught since 2003. Dr. Cole has given acclaimed solo and chamber performances, adjudicated, and presented masterclasses throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and in South America. She performed at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest® on numerous occasions including those held in Stockholm, Sweden; Vancouver, Canada; and Austin, Texas. Her former students occupy performing and teaching positions throughout the United States and Canada.
A versatile and active freelance musician, Dr. Cole has performed as a member of the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra, as principal clarinetist of the Ann Arbor, Lansing, Toledo, and Traverse Symphony Orchestras, with the Detroit and Windsor (Canada) Symphony Orchestras, and with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band, among others. She was clarinetist in the contemporary music ensemble Quorum for over ten years. She is featured on a Centaur release of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet with the Arianna String Quartet and with Quorum on an Albany release of composer Evan Chambers' works entitled, "Cold Water, Dry Stone." Her recordings of Anthony Iannaccone’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, Wind Quintets, and Woodwind Trio are also available on the Albany label. An advocate of new music, Dr. Cole has performed as soloist in acclaimed performances of prominent works for clarinet and wind ensemble: Michael Daugherty’s “Brooklyn Bridge” and Scott McAllister’s “X” and “Black Dog.” She also founded the Clarinetists Commissioning Cooperative, a consortium created to commission new works for clarinet from emerging composers including Roshanne Etezady.
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico where she studied with Keith Lemmons, Dr. Cole studied in Paris, France with Guy Deplus and Alain Damiens as the recipient of a U. S. Government Fulbright Grant and Kade Fellowship. She earned her MM and DMA degrees at Michigan State University where she studied with Elsa Ludewig Verdehr and her undergraduate degree at the University of North Texas where she studied with James Gillespie. Prior to her appointment at the University of North Texas, she was Professor of Clarinet at Eastern Michigan University for fifteen years.
John ScottRoom: 223
Office phone: 940-565-3729 Email: john.scott@unt.edu
John Scott is Professor of Music in Clarinet at the University of North Texas. He has performed and taught at the Summer Music Institute founded by the University of North Texas and the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Mr. Scott has performed with such orchestras as the Dallas Symphony and the Ft. Worth Symphony, and as a recitalist and clinician throughout the United States. His performances have included the Victoria Bach Festival in Texas, the New York University Contemporary Music Festival, and at conferences and workshops in Denver, Tempe, Lubbock, Salt Lake City, San Juan, Ostend, Stockholm, London, Paris and Vancouver as well as in recitals throughout Taiwan and Japan. He performs regularly with Chamber Music International. Recordings include "Birdsongs, Romantic Chamber Music of Arthur Bird," and “Equipoise.” He is a member of the Texas Clarinet Consort.
He has been a member of the University of North Texas College of Music faculty since 1981. Prior to joining the UNT faculty he taught at Susquehanna University (PA) and Augusta State University (GA). He earned both the Master of Music and Doctor of Music degree in applied woodwinds and music literature from Indiana University (Bloomington), where he was a clarinet student of Henry Gulick.
His former students have held positions in numerous orchestras, schools, colleges and universities throughout the United States and in premier military bands in Washington, D.C. Several have been semi-finalists and prizewinners in the I.C.A. Young Artist Competition and Orchestral Competition.
He has served as reviewer, Music Review Editor and Advertising Manager for The Clarinet, journal of the International Clarinet Association. In addition to his duties as Professor of Clarinet, he serves as Associate Dean for Admissions in the College of Music at the University of North Texas. He is an artist-clinician for Buffet-Crampon and is a Rico Performing artist who plays exclusively on Reserve Classic reeds.
Daryl Coad
Room: TBA
Email: teamcoad@verizon.net
Daryl Coad is an active performer and teacher in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Formerly a member of the Rochester Philharmonic and the New Orleans Symphony, he has also performed with the Chicago Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic and the Dallas Chamber Orchestra. He has been on the faculties of the Brevard Music Center and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he also served as music director for the University Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared on recordings with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado and Andre Previn and was featured on a recording of William Walton’s Façade with David Zinman conducting members of the Rochester Philharmonic.
His principal clarinet teacher was Robert Marcellus. Other teachers have included Larry Combs, Clark Brody and Robert Listokin. He has studied conducting with David Zinman, and holds a B.M. in clarinet performance and an M.M. in conducting, both from Northwestern University. He frequently performs with the Fort Worth Symphony and has been on the faculty of the University of North Texas since 1999.
Deborah Ungaro Fabian
Room: TBA
Phone: 972-517-5558
Email: dfabian@smu.edu
Deborah Fabian joined the Clarinet faculty at the University of North Texas in the fall of 1990. She is the Principal Clarinetist and has been a featured soloist with the Dallas Wind Symphony, Texas Chamber Orchestra and the Plano Symphony Orchestra.
Deborah has performed with numerous ensembles in the United States including Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic and the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra. She performs frequently with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Ft. Worth Symphony and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Ms Fabian can be heard on all of the recordings of the Dallas Wind Symphony and has also recorded with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She feels very fortunate to have been invited to perform with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on a number of their tours, including their 2003 European tour, 1999 Carnegie Hall performance, “Bravo Vail Valley Music Festival” in Vail, Colorado and most recently in Napa Valley California at the “Festival de Sole”.
Ms Fabian is also on the clarinet faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington and Collin County Community College. Many of her students have gained international recognition for their high honor achievements in Music competitions such as “From the Top”, The International Clarinet Association, and the “National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts”.
Deborah earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance and Music Education from the University of Buffalo and a Master of Music degree in Clarinet Performance/Woodwinds from Michigan State University. Her principal teachers were James Pyne, Stanley Hasty, Fred Ormand and Andrew Crisanti.
James Gillespie
Email: james.gillespie@unt.edu
James Gillespie is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of North Texas in Denton. Prior to joining the U. N. T. faculty in 1978, he served as a faculty member at Concord College, Indiana State University (adjunct), University of Redlands and Northeast Louisiana University (Monroe). He holds the master’s and doctorate degrees in clarinet/woodwinds from Indiana University where he studied clarinet with Henry Gulick. He has also studied with Mitchell Lurie. His reference books on works for reed trio and solos for unaccompanied clarinet have become standard references in the field, and he has edited works for Musica Rara, Southern Music Company and Billaudot.
For the past 30 years he has been the editor of The Clarinet, the quarterly journal of the International Clarinet Association. He has performed at clarinet conferences in Denver, Oberlin, Quebec, Cincinnati, Tempe, Columbus, Lubbock, Oklahoma, Fresno, Ostend, Stockholm, Changchun, Salt Lake City, Paris, Vancouver, Beijing and Tokyo and has given solo and chamber music recitals in England, Scotland, Japan, Hong Kong, Hungary, Germany, Puerto Rico and Taiwan. Composers from France, England, Belgium and the United States have dedicated works to him, and he has premiered several new works for clarinet.
In 1994, 1995 and 1997 he served on the jury for the Dos Hermanas International Clarinet Competition in Spain, and during the summer of 1997 he performed at the I. C. A. ClarinetFest at Texas Tech, the Cracow Clarinet Festival in Cracow, Poland and the first-ever European Clarinet & Saxophone Conference in Budapest, Hungary. He performs as a member of the Texas Clarinet Consort. His former students hold positions in numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States and in major military bands in Washington, D.C. Several have been semi-finalists and prizewinners in the I.C.A. Young Artist Competition and on two occasions winners in the clarinet category of the Yamaha Young Performing Artist program. In 2005 he was honored by the International Clarinet Association with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the I.C.A. ClarinetFest in Japan. He is an artist-clinician for Buffet Crampon and Rico International.
“. . . super clarinet playing.” Clarinet and Saxophone (England)
“ . . . truly a pleasure to listen to, with all the smoothness and control that really mark the musician at the instrument.” Mitchell Lurie
“. . . Beautiful sound, admirable dynamic range, sensitive phrasing, and, perhaps the most impressive facet of his artistry: his impeccable intonation. . . should his next British recital take place in the Outer Hebrides, anybody who appreciates fine clarinet playing should make every attempt to hear him.” Crescendo (England)
“ . . . would have been a sensation at even the most prestigious festivals in the world . . . excellent . . . particularly outstanding." Gazeta Wyborcza (Cracow, Poland)
Teaching Fellows
Jennifer M. Daffinee
Room: Bain 306
Phone: 361-779-1555
Email: jmendez1982@hotmail.com
Jennifer M. Daffinee is currently pursuing her DMA degree at the University of North Texas with Dr. Cole. She received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Summa Cum Laude (2005) and her Master of Music degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, Summa Cum Laude (2009) in Clarinet Performance where she has also held the position of Adjunct Professor of Woodwind Methods for Undergraduate Studies. Ms. Daffinee has taught privately since 2001 and has been an active performer, lesson coach, adjudicator, clinician, guest lecturer and guest artist at many school districts in the coastal bend and north Texas areas. She has presented at the 2007 Texas Music Educator's Association and assisted with presentation at the 2008 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest. Her former teachers include Ron Scott, Mary Alice Druhan, and James Gillespie.
Lin Sheng-hsin
Room: Bain 306
Phone: 940-595-9900
Email: sheng-hsinlin@my.unt.edu
Originally from Tainan, Taiwan, Lin Sheng-hsin is a doctoral clarinet student at University of North Texas where she is a student of John Scott. Lin holds her Bachelor of Arts in Music from National Kaohsiung Normal University ( Taiwan ), and a Master of Music in Clarinet Performance from Indiana University-Bloomington where she studied with James Campbell. She also studied jazz as her minor with David Baker. Lin’s interests include teaching, performing and participating in various music performances such as new music, jazz and world music. She has performed in the United States, Mexico and Taiwan.