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Mentors - February


Band - Lorie Enloe

Lorie Enloe is the Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at the University of Idaho. She has taught both junior high and high school bands in both Kentucky and North Carolina and maintained an active woodwind studio. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in clarinet performance and music education at Transylvania University in Lexington, KY and earned both her Master of Music and PhD in music education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her mentors include Peter J, Martin, University of Southern Maine and John R. Locke, Kelly Burke, and Michael Burns from University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Lorie teaches undergraduate Woodwind Methods, Secondary Instrumental Methods, and Band Literature and Rehearsal Techniques. She leads the new hybrid music education master’s program at the University of Idaho where she teaches Advanced Instrumental Methods, Technology in the Music Classroom, Psychology of Music, Assessment in the Music Classroom, Music for Special Learners, and Introduction to Research in Music Education. She is active as a clinician in the Northwest and presented at the 2007 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic on teaching beginning woodwind students. Her research expertise is woodwind pedagogy, professional development for music teachers, and technology in the music classroom.



Chorus - Patricia Conover

Patricia Conover received her Bachelors of Music (piano concentration) and Masters in Music Education (conducting and voice concentration) from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ. She has taught all levels of children…elementary, middle and high school. Trish has taught for 18 years and is currently employed as a vocal music teacher in the West Windsor Plainsboro Regional School District in Plainsboro, NJ. She has worked with the following choral conductors in both the classroom and rehearsal: Joseph Flummerfelt, Riccardo Muti, Robert Shaw, Donald Dumpson, Leonard Bernstein and Gian Carlo Menotti. She has an extensive performance background, having spent several years singing with the Westminster Choir in the U.S. and Spoleto, Italy. Trish is married, the mother of three little girls, and resides in Holland, PA.



General Music - Jennifer Langlotz

Jennifer Cook Langlotz has a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Westminster College (PA) where oboe was her major instrument. She also has a Master of Music in Music Education from Kent State University focusing on Choral education. She completed Pathwise Mentor Training from Ashland University. Her fifteen years of teaching experience includes general, vocal and instrumental music and dance with students of all grade levels PreK-12. She currently teaches elementary general, choral and instrumental music at Trails West Elementary in the Cherry Creek School District, Centennial, Colorado. Her students put on a wide variety of grade level musicals and performances throughout the year.

Jennifer has been involved in many school and district wide activities as well as a number of professional organizations. She has given workshops on arts integration and folk dance to fellow teachers and staff. She has been chairperson of her school’s Caring Community committee that provides character education to students. Jennifer has been active in many other school organizations including staff development, differentiation and levy committees.

Jennifer has a strong belief in utilizing movement and dance activities in the music classroom. She conducted research for her masters thesis entitled “The Effects of Specific Folk Dance Instruction on Students’ Recorder Performance Achievement.” Jennifer hopes to conduct more research on dance and movement as well as special education and music listening.



Guitar - Travis Perry



Jazz - Mike Titlebaum

Saxophonist/composer/arranger Mike Titlebaum is Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College, where he directs the IC jazz ensembles, coaches small combos, teaches jazz saxophone and courses in jazz improvisation, arranging, pedagogy and history. He is the creator of the Ithaca College Jazz Composition Contest and the Ithaca All-Star Jazz Invitational for aspiring high school jazz musicians. Before teaching at IC, Titlebaum lived in the New York City region where he enjoyed a diverse career. He played in many of New York’s world famous musical venues, including the Blue Note, Smalls, Augies, Fez/Time Café and the infamous CBGB's as well as the pit orchestra of the Broadway musical "Cats." Titlebaum has published numerous compositions and arrangements through Lorenz (Heritage Jazz Works), Advance Music, and GIA Publications.

Titlebaum earned his BM in Saxophone Performance from the Eastman School of Music in 1991, as well as the coveted Performer's Certificate in Saxophone. He received his MM in 1992 from Eastman in Jazz and Contemporary Media.



Orchestra - Bart Medlicott

Bart Medlicott was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and is a proud product of the Indianapolis Public Schools. It was there that his love of the performing arts and music began and was nurtured by exceptional teachers.

Mr. Medlicott has been a professional music educator and orchestra director for 30 years. He has a B.S. in Music Education, 1980, from Ball State University, and is continuing studies toward a Masters in music education at Vandercook College in Chicago.

He has been fortunate to be able to teach instrumental music, as an orchestral specialist, for his entire career. He has taught elementary students using the Suzuki Method, and has now been a middle school and high school orchestra director for the past 20 years. Bart also maintains a successful private studio.

Bart teaches success in life through the discipline and confidence which comes from an understanding of, and love for music study and performance.


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