Faculty & Staff

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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).

Teresa Radomski is Professor of Voice at Wake Forest University, where she has taught in the Department of Music since 1977. She has successfully trained numerous undergraduates, many of whom have achieved professional careers in opera, musical theatre, popular music, voice teaching, and choral conducting.

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Admired by Opera News as “a superb singing actor with a clear, ringing instrument and peerless diction,” tenor Bryon Grohman has received international recognition for his performances of opera, oratorio, and ensemble repertoire, most notably with Seraphic Fire, one of America’s leading professional vocal ensembles.

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Born in Los Angeles, Peter Kairoff received Master’s and Doctoral degrees in music performance from the University of Southern California and studied in Italy for two years as a Fulbright Scholar and Rotary International Fellow. He joined the faculty of Wake Forest University in 1988 and is currently Professor and Chair.

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Dr. Goldstein’s faculty recitals at Wake Forest present an absorbing blend of past masters such as Haydn, Beethoven, and Debussy, 20th-century giants such as Copland and Stockhausen, and the latest innovations of today.  He has also received the Jon Reinhardt Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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Associate Teaching Professor of Piano, Joanne Inkman, received her early music training in piano, viola and theory in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

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Violinist Jacqui Carrasco has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico and Russia, and in styles as diverse as Argentine tango, jazz, and avant-garde new music.

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Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Marco Sartor is a top prize winner in numerous international competitions, and has performed solo and chamber music recitals in three continents to critical and public acclaim. He has appeared with orchestras such as the Allentown Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Ann Arbor Symphony, and SODRE in Uruguay.

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Kathryn Levy serves as Professor of the Practice in Flute at WFU. In addition to her studio teaching, she has developed flute choir and wind chamber music programs.

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John Sadak, Assistant Professor of the Practice at Wake Forest University, teaches individual clarinet instruction, chamber music and clarinet choir. Mr. Sadak’s diverse performance career in symphonic, opera, ballet, chamber and Broadway show performances translate directly into his teaching pedagogy.

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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.

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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.

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Stewart Carter teaches music history and co-directs the Collegium Musicum. He is Past-President of both the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music and the American Musical Instrument Society. Recent publications include The Trombone in the Renaissance (Pendragon) and, with Jeffery Kite-Powell, A Performer’s Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music (Indiana).

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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.

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David Geary is an Assistant Professor of Music at Wake Forest University and teaches courses in music theory and music history. He earned his PhD in Music Theory from Indiana University where his dissertation analyzes rhythm, meter, and the evolution of the drumset in American popular music.

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Dr. David Levy is the author of Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony and has taught at Wake Forest University since 1976.

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The music of Dan Locklair is widely performed throughout the United States and around the world. His prolific output includes symphonic works, a ballet, an opera and numerous solo, chamber, vocal and choral compositions.

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