
C. Kevin Bowen
Director of Bands
M105a Scales Fine Arts Center
336.758.5365
bowenck@wfu.edu
Dr. C. Kevin Bowen, Director of Bands, earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University, the Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from the University of Louisville, and the Doctor of Philosophy in Music Education from the Florida State University.

Christopher Gilliam
Assistant Professor and Director of Choral Activities
gilliac@wfu.edu
A conductor praised for his “precision and clarity,” and performances hailed as “enlightened,” Christopher Gilliam is the Director of Choral Activities at Wake Forest University, the artistic director for the pro chorus Vox Humana, director of the Winston-Salem Symphony Chorus, and Director of Music at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlotte.

David Hagy
Teaching Professor and Orchestra Director
M105C Scales Fine Arts Center
dhagy@wfu.edu
This is David Hagy’s 26th season as the WFU Orchestra Director. The Orchestra’s Halloween concert begins at midnight with the orchestra in full costume. The Orchestra also plays many classical masterworks, concertos with student soloists, and musical theater productions. He also teaches courses about American Musical Theater.

Elizabeth Clendinning
Associate Professor and Director of Gamelan Giri Murti
M315 Scales Fine Arts Center
336.758.6176
clendiea@wfu.edu
Elizabeth Clendinning is an Associate Professor of Music specializing in ethnomusicology and director of Wake Forest University’s Gamelan Giri Murti Balinese gamelan ensemble. Her research concerns concepts of space, time, cultural representation, and pedagogy within international Asian performance communities and in film and television music. At Wake Forest, she teaches courses in world, popular, and Asian musics, and is the director of the WFU performing arts study abroad program in Bali.

Tim Heath
Director of Athletic Bands
M105B Scales Fine Arts Center
heatht@wfu.edu
As Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Teaching Professor of Music at Wake Forest, Dr. Tim Heath oversees all aspects of the athletic band program and serves as a member of the conducting faculty assisting the concert bands.

Lu Lu
Director of the Chinese Music Ensemble
027A Carswell Hall
336.758.4865
lulu@wfu.edu
Lu Lu joined Wake Forest in 2019. She earned her PhD in Chinese linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary interests include an interface between language and music, teaching Chinese as a second language, prosodic phonology, language assessment, second language acquisition. Prior to Wake, she has taught at the College of William and Mary, University of Iowa and Luther College. At Wake, she teaches first-year and third-year Chinese.

Barbara Trautwein
Advisor to Athletic Bands
M214 Scales Fine Arts Center
336.758.4225
mzeztee@wfu.edu
BS Ed (Ohio State), MME (Florida State). Studied oboe with William Poland, Marc Lifschey, Laila Storch, Rhadames Angelucci; English horn with Thomas Stacy; clarinet with Frank Lucas; bassoon with Harold Andrews, baroque oboe at B.P.I., Oberlin. Former member of Camerata Academica, Oklahoma City, Dallas, St. Paul Opera, Savannah, and Tucson Symphonies. Performed with Mozarteum, Bombay Chamber and Apollo’s Fire orchestras. St. Paul Chamber, Minnesota, Piedmont Chamber, North Carolina Symphony and Bombay Chamber orchestras. English horn in Salisbury, NC Symphony. Taught in Euclid, OH schools, Salem College, Kala Academy, Goa, India and Catawba College. Director of Bands, Wake Forest (1985-87). Directed pep band for women’s basketball. (1985-2005). Assistant Director of the Athletic Bands.(1957-2005).