JenniferDaffinee

Jennifer M. Daffinee received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Summa Cum Laude (2005), and was the Head Band Director of the Bowie Middle School Band in Irving, Texas from 2005-2007. Ms. Daffinee received her Master of Music degree from Texas A&M University-Commerce, Summa Cum Laude (2009) in Clarinet Performance where she is currently Professor of Woodwind Methods for undergraduate studies.

Ms. Daffinee has taught privately since 2001 and has been an active lesson coach, adjudicator, clinician, guest lecturer and guest artist at many school districts in the coastal bend and north Texas areas including Corpus Christi, Tuloso Midway, Irving, Grand Prairie, Mesquite, Forney, Lewisville, Highland Park, Allen, Gunter, Cooper and Celina ISDs, Region IV and Region XX, and at Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has presented at the 2007 Texas Music Educator's Association and assisted with presentation at the 2008 International Clarinet Association ClarinetFest. In 2008 she performed in Carnegei Hall under the baton of H. Robert Reynolds.

Mrs. Daffinee has also performed in masterclasses for many internationally acclaimed artists such as Dr. Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr (Michigan State University, Ret.), Dr. Howard Klug (Indiana University), Dr. Gary Whitman (TCU), Dr. Richard Shanley (Baylor University), Michael Norsworthy (The Boston Conservatory), Greg Raden (Dallas Symphony Orchestra), the West Point Military Academy Clarinet Quartet (United States Army Band), Jim Logan (United States Navy Band, Washington D.C.), and Dr. Michael Dean (South East Missouri State University).

For more information on Mrs. Daffinee's private clarinet studio, please contact her at jmendez1982@hotmail.com, by phone at 361.779.1555, or on the web at The Lesson Room.

Julee KimWalker

Julee Kim Walker, (BM University of Texas at Austin, MM San Francisco Conservatory of Music) resides near Dallas, TX, where she maintains an active studio and is currently completing her Doctoral studies at the University of North Texas under the tutelage of Terri Sundberg. Ms. Walker is Adjunct Professor of Flute at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, where she performs regulary with fellow faculty and gives recitals and master classes throughout Texas and Oklahoma. She is also Adjunct Instructor of Woodwinds at Eastfield College in Mesquite, TX, and has also been a Doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of North Texas.

She is the Piccoloist of the South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and has also performed with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra, the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra as Principal flutist, the North Texas Wind Symphony, and the American Wind Symphony Orchestra. She can be heard on Klavier Recording Project and GIA WindWorks. She has also performed with many members of the world renowned UNT Jazz 1 o'clock Lab Band, and has had many performances and tours throughout the US and Europe. Her former teachers include September Payne, Christina Jennings, Karl Kraber, and Tim Day.

Contact Julee at (940)595-0378 or juleekimwalker@gmail.com.

CarolMaciel

Carol Maciel is an Adjunct Professor of Clarinet, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, and Private Instructor. Mrs. Maciel has a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University, a Master of Music degree in Performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music , and is currently working towards a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas.

As a private instructor for Lewisville Independent School District, Carol Maciel has taught for the Hebron band middle school cluster for nine years and in the process has continued with her students into Hebron High school where her students have received honors in the Texas All-State band and First division ratings and Outstanding Soloist honors in the Solo and Ensemble competitions. Mrs. Maciel currently performs regularly as a substitute performer with the San Angelo Symphony, and has performed with the UNT Wind Symphony and may be found on the GIA Teaching Music Through Performance in Band recordings for 2004-2006. She has also performed with the American Wind Symphony and the Kansas City Lyric Opera.

Anna MayGhaly

Anna May Ghaly received her Bachelor of Music in Bassoon Performance from the University of Kansas and a Master of Music degree in Bassoon Performance from Wichita State University. She has held positions in the San Angelo Symphony, Texas Wind Symphony, Wichita Symphony, Lawrence Chamber Players, Topeka Symphony, Lone Star Wind Orchestra and the Northland Symphony. She has freelanced in the DFW metroplex for 16 years in addition to teaching in HEB, Coppell, Carrollton-Farmers Branch, Frisco and Lewisville School Districts.

Anna May now performs with the Stonebriar Winds and the All About 5 Woodwind Quintet. She has been a clinician and performer at TX Music Educators Convention for 3 years.

TrevorCulp

Trevor Culp earned his B.M. in Tuba Performance from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, TX, and is currently pursuing a M.M. in Tuba Performance at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX where he is studying under Matt Good - Principal Tubist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Trevor has previously studied with Dr. Jeffrey Schultz, J.D. Salas, and Dave Kirk – Principal Tubist for the Houston Symphony Orchestra. While at SFA Trevor won the Annual Concerto Competition, and as a prize he was selected for a solo performance with the Orchestra of the Pines, a regional orchestra. Upon leaving SFA, Trevor was awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Recitalist of the Year, the first tubist selected to win that award.

Trevor currently resides in University Park, TX, and enjoys mountain biking when he has a little free time.