2022-2023 Season

CANCELLED IUP Faculty Woodwind Quintet

The concert has been cancelled due to COVID illness in the group.
The Quintet is comprised of faculty members of the IUP Music Department. They have performed at multiple meetings of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, and most recently did a tour of Moscow and St. Petersburgh, Russia, playing at the Moscow Conservatory and the Rimsky Korsakov Conservatory. The members of the quintet are Dr. Therese Wacker, flute; Dr. Stephanie Caulder, oboe; Dr. Rosemary Engelstad, clarinet; Anna Skrupky, horn; and Dr. Jason Worzbyt, bassoon.

Therese Wacker is professor of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a flutist with the Keystone Chamber Players and the Keystone Winds. A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, she received her MM from the University of Wyoming and her DMA from the Ohio State University.

Wacker is an active performer and clinician in the Western Pennsylvania area. She has been a frequent soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Alleghenies and the IUP Wind Ensemble, Orchestra, Concert Band, and Jazz Ensemble and is substitute principal flute with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. Wacker enjoys presenting master classes, especially with emphasis on the piccolo. She has been an artist/clinician for Allegheny College’s Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Allegheny College Adult Band Camp, Western State College (Gunnison, Colo.), Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Dayton, the University of Akron, West Virginia University, and Universidad de las Americas (Puebla, Mexico). As an adjudicator, Wacker has served for the Central Ohio Flute Festival, Pittsburgh Flute Festival, and the Lima Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition and the MTNA Competition (state and regional), among others.

She is a winner or finalist in several competitions, including the Fischoff chamber music competition, MTNA, and the Denver CAS concerto competition. Her doctoral thesis, “The Piccolo in the Chamber Music of the Twentieth CenturyAn Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works,” is a comprehensive guide to chamber music of the twentieth century, which includes piccolo and a history of the instrument. She has also published several articles on this subject in Flute Talk and the Instrumentalist . She is co-author of The Complete Piccolo, which was compiled and edited by Jan Gippo (published by Theodore Presser). She commissioned and premiered Bruce Yurko’s “Concerto for Piccolo/Flute and Wind Ensemble” in February 2003. On October 10, 2010, she performed the world premiere of Eric Ewazen’s “Concerto for Piccolo and Wind Ensemble,” which is the result of three years’ collaboration with the composer and Jan Gippo (former piccoloist with the St. Louis Symphony). She released her first solo compact disc, Impressions… Original Works for Piccolo and Piano, in October 2011.

Wacker is the former principal flute/piccolo of the Air Force Band of Flight. She performed as a frequent soloist with the Band of Flight and taught master classes throughout the United States. She also served as the non-commissioned officer in charge of the Huffman Prairie Windsthe Band of Flight’s Woodwind Quintet. As a member of the Air Force Band, she recorded seven CDs, including one for the Huffman Prairie Winds.

Professor Louise Daniels, oboe. Mrs. Daniels is an active oboe and English horn player throughout Allegheny, Westmoreland and Butler counties. She is a member of the Butler County Symphony Orchestra and also performs with the Seton Hill Sinfonia, Westmoreland Symphonic Winds, and Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. She enjoys performing solo and chamber works and is a member of the Bel Suono Ensemble, a woodwind quartet based in southwestern Pennsylvania. In addition to performing, she is a full-time, K-6 general music and chorus teacher at Homer-Center School District in Indiana County, adjunct faculty at Seton Hill University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania and also maintains a private studio of oboe and piano students of all ages. Louise holds a Bachelor’s degree in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2012) and Master of Music degree in oboe performance from The Ohio State University (2014). Her teachers include Rise’ Kostilnik, Dr. Stephanie Caulder and Robert Sorton.

Rosemary Engelstad, a native of East Tennessee, is associate professor of Music at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Engelstad holds a degree in psychology from the University of Maryland and degrees in clarinet performance from Middle Tennessee State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is dedicated to musicians’ health and wellness, and is currently a body mapping educator trainee (Andover Educators). She is also a massage therapist and has training in natural movement (MovNat).

Engelstad is committed to performing new works for clarinet and has premiered works by Nathan Currier, Laura Schwindenger, Nancy Faber, Chris Thomas, and Theresa Martin. Newer projects include collaborative pieces with artists of other disciplines, particularly dance and the visual arts, performances inDuo LaRowith Milwaukee-based clarinetist Laura McLaughlin, as well as performances of works for the clarinetist-dancer. Engelstad has performed with many orchestras and ensembles in Wisconsin, including the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, Dubuque Symphony Orchestra, and the LaCrosse Symphony Orchestra. In Pennsylvania, Engelstad has performed as a substitute musician with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra. At IUP, she performs regularly as a member of the IUP Faculty Woodwind Quintet and the Keystone Chamber Winds.
Prior to joining the faculty at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Engelstad was lecturer of clarinet at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. She has also served on the faculties of Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, Edgewood College, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Summer teaching activities include the UW Summer Music Clinic, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, and the Dorian Summer Music Camps.

Engelstad is a member of Music Teacher’s National Association, the International Clarinet Association, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, Andover Educators (trainee), the Massage Therapy Association, Pi Kappa Lambda honor society in music, and Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity for women.

Anna Skrupky is a horn teacher and performer currently located IUP. She has taught horn at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music, University of Wisconsin-Rock County, The Music School of Delaware, Rowan Prep, UW-Madison Community Music Lesson Program, Lawrence Academy of Music, and in her own home studio.

She is also an active freelancer, Anna is a founding member of Triumph Brass and has recently performed with the Centre Brass Quintet, Nittany Valley Symphony, Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra, Delaware Brass Trio, and Wilmington Wind Quintet. She has performed with as a soloist with the Newark (DE) Symphony and Wilmington Community Orchestras, as well as on many recitals at The Music School of Delaware. Before moving east, she performed regularly with the Madison Symphony, Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Beloit-Janesville Symphony Orchestra, Waukesha Symphony, Dubuque Symphony, Oakwood Chamber Players, Madison Savyorards, and Con Vivo Chamber Ensemble.

Skrupky has also been active as an arts administrator as the director of Rowan Prep at Rowan University, adult programming coordinator at the Music School of Delaware, and as the assistant director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music.

Anna Skrupky received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master’s degree in horn performance and literature from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree in horn performance and general music education from Lawrence University. Her teachers have included Douglas Hill, Gail Williams, William Barnewitz, and James DeCorsey.

Jason Worzbyt is professor of Bassoon and associate director of Bands at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He holds a BS in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a master of music in wind conducting from the University of North Texas, and a doctor of musical arts degree in bassoon performance from the University of North Texas. Worzbyt has studied bassoon with Kathleen Reynolds, principal bassoon of the Dallas Opera Orchestra and professor of bassoon at the University of North Texas; Kristen Wolfe Jensen, professor of bassoon at the University of Texas; and David Borst, professor emeritus of bassoon at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His conducting teachers include Jack Stamp, director of band studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Eugene Migliaro Corporon, director of wind studies at the University of North Texas.

Worzbyt has performed, recorded, and been featured as a soloist with wind ensembles and orchestras all across the country. These ensembles include the Keystone Wind Ensemble, IUP Wind Ensemble, North Texas Wind Symphony, North Texas New Music Ensemble, Lexington Philharmonic Orchestra, Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Highland Wind Quintet, and the IUP Faculty Woodwind Quintet. In 2001, Worzbyt gave the world premiere of Bruce Yurko’s “Concerto for Bassoon and Wind Ensemble” with the Keystone Wind Ensemble at the College Band Directors National Association conference. From 2006 to 2009, he was a member of the artist-faculty at the Western Chamber Music Institute hosted by Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. Additional performances include several recitals at meetings of the International Double Reed Society. In March 2013, Klavier Records released a compact disc recording (Five in the Sun) by the Keystone Chamber Players, of which Worzbyt is a member.

As a guest conductor, Worzbyt has worked with elementary, junior high, senior high, and professional ensembles in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Indiana, and Kentucky. Highlights of these appearances include the Indiana Junior High All State Band, New Jersey All State Symphonic Band, PMEA All State Orchestra, PMEA Western Region State Orchestra, PMEA Region III Band, PMEA Region IV Band, PMEA Region V Band, PMEA District 4 and 6 Orchestras in Johnstown and Westmont, PMEA District 2,3,5 Orchestras in Indiana and Purchase Line, and PMEA District Bands in Pittsburgh, York, Berlin, Johnstown, Punxsutawney, and Philadelphia. From 2007 through 2013, he was music director and conductor of the Westmoreland Symphonic Winds, a professional wind ensemble in residence at Seton Hill University. Committed to music education in the state of Pennsylvania, Worzbyt served as president of District 3 of the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and continues to serve that organization as an adjudicator, guest conductor, and clinician. He has also authored several study guides for the series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Middle School Band, and Beginning Band, published by GIA.

Worzbyt lives in Indiana, Pennsylvania, with his lovely wife, Michelle, and very active four-year-old Christian James.

 

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