Rodney Winther
Rodney Winther is currently in his thirteenth year as Director of Wind Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His duties at CCM include conducting the Wind Symphony, Chamber Winds and the CCM Chamber Players, while also teaching Masters and Doctoral students in Wind Conducting. Mr. Winther’s frequent appearances as guest conductor and clinician have taken him across the United States and abroad, including England, Ireland, the Republic of Malaysia, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Venezuela and Canada. He has been invited to conduct many of the world’s finest ensembles, including the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Summit Brass, The U.S. Navy Band, The U.S. Naval Academy Band, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra Wind Ensemble, the Taipei Symphony Orchestra’s Symphonic Winds, Kent Youth Wind Orchestra (England), World Youth Wind Symphony (Interlochen) and the Taller para Bandas del Tachira (Venezuela). His conducting workshops, both in the United States and abroad, have been critically acclaimed, helping young conductors around the world for the past twenty-five years. His workshops and concerts in Venezuela were recently recognized when he was awarded the Otorga Botón Honor al Mérito by the Governor of the State of Tachira – the first American to receive this honor. In the summer of 2005, he and CCM were awarded the 14th WASBE Convention, which will be held in Cincinnati in July of 2009. In addition, he was elected to the International Board of Directors of WASBE, whom he will serve for the next six years. He has been a leader in the commissioning and performing of new works for the wind band, including premiere performances and recordings by such distinguished composers as Karel Husa, Joseph Schwantner, Warren Benson, Samuel Adler, Dana Wilson, David Amram and Adam Gorb, among numerous others. His two recordings with the CCM Wind Symphony on the NAXOS label feature world premieres of works by Bruce Adolphe and Samuel Adler, with the Adolphe recording being awarded a Grammy for “Producer of the Year”. Equally impressive reviews have been written about his two CD set of Karel Husa’s works on Mark Records with the Ithaca College Wind Ensemble. He has been invited to conduct at numerous conventions, including the 2009 Midwest Clinic, as well as the 2007 National CBDNA Convention (University of Michigan), 2007 International WASBE Convention (Ireland), 2008 International Tuba/Euphonium Conference, International Women’s Brass Conference, 2002 50th Anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble (Rochester), 2000 National MENC Convention (Washington D.C.), the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute, the International Saxophone Convention (Montreal), the International Saxophone Symposium of the U.S. Navy Band, the National Saxophone Alliance, the National Trumpet Guild, the Eastern Trombone Workshop of the U.S. Army Band and the 1995 and 1997 BASBWE conventions in England. His book - An Annotated Guide to Wind Chamber Music - has been hailed as a much needed and valuable resource in this ever-growing area. Both this book and his new edition of Ruth Gipps Seascape have been published by Warner Brothers Publications as part of the Donald Hunsberger Wind Band Library. His reputation and experience recently resulted in his being selected for inclusion in “Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Education”.
Terence Milligan
Professor of Music and Associate Director of Wind Studies. Dr. Milligan currently serves as the conductor of the Wind Ensemble, director of the Graduate Cognate Program in Wind Conducting, faculty advisor for the Eta-Omicron chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity, and is the former Director of the U. of Cincinnati Bearcat Bands. In addition, he is integrally involved with the Music Education programs at CCM. Dr. Milligan holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from The U. of Texas at Austin as well as the Master of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees from West Texas State U. He has undertaken additional research at the John Herrick Jackson Music Library at Yale U. on the music of Charles Ives and has published several articles on Ives and his chamber music. More recently, he spent five months on sabbatical leave in Montreal, Canada, and in Paris, France, where he conducted research on current Canadian and French wind band music. Dr. Milligan brings to his position a wide variety of experience and expertise as a musician, educator and scholar, and he is in continuous demand as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States and Canada. He also has appeared as a performer, clinician and lecturer at numerous regional and state conferences of the Ohio and Kentucky Music Educators Association; at the international conference of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Killarney, Ireland; at the national conferences of the college Band Directors National Association, the American Society of University Composers, the Music Teachers National Association, and the American Choral Directors Association; in Taipei and Taichung, Taiwan R.O.C., as a visiting professor at Tunghai University; and on National Public Radio program Windworks which was aired throughout North America. Dr. Milligan has been selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, Outstanding Young Men of America, Who’s Who in Fine Arts Higher Education, and most recently in the fifty-ninth edition of Who’s Who in America. In June 1996 and again in 2006 the College-Conservatory of Music presented him with the Outstanding Teacher Award; in May 2003 Dr. Milligan was named the Outstanding Teacher for the U. of Cincinnati Honors Scholars Program; in May 2009 the U. of Cincinnati awarded him the George Barbour Award “for outstanding contributions and excellence in faculty-student relations.” CCM since 1979.
Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion Faculty
This page last updated 02/14/2008. Please send comments to Keith N. Phillips