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Woodwinds Faculty

Shelley Binder
 

Shelley Binder is Associate Professor of Music. She joined the University of Tennessee in the fall of 1994.

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Dr. Binder attended North Carolina School for the Arts; the Cincinnati Conservatory; Virginia Commonwealth; and Florida State University, where she earned her D.M. She has played with the Virginia Symphony, Virginia Opera and Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared as a recitalist and clinician throughout the United States. She is a student of Louis Moyse, and recently finished writing his biography. Flute

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Gary Sperl
 

Gary Sperl is Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Woodwind Area.
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He received the B.M.E. degree from University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI and the M.M. degree from Indiana University. He is principal clarinetist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, and performs with the Knoxville Symphony Woodwind Quintet, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and Music from Bear Valley in California. He has performed as clarinetist with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and has coordinated the UT Clarinet Choir. Clarinet

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Keith McClelland
 

Keith McClelland is Professor of Music. He received the B.M. degree from the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, N.Y. and the M.A. degree from Columbia University.

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He was principal bassoonist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra for 36 years, from 1972 until 2008. Chamber music associations have been with Windstrum, a bassoon/guitar duo; Lyric Chamberwinds, a clarinet, bassoon, and piano trio that performed at the International Double Reed Society Conference in Manchester, England as well as Southeastern United States; Mozart on a Summers Eve, an wind octet in Spokane, Washington; and the Tennessee Bassoon Quartet, which performed on the Grammy Award winning PDQ Bach CD, An Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion. McClelland is also the bassoon teacher at the Tennessee Governors School For The Arts.  Bassoon, Music Theory.

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Phylis Secrist
 

Phylis Secrist is Lecturer of Music. She received the B.M. degree from the University of Tennessee and the M.M. from Yale University.

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She received the B.M. degree from the University of Tennessee and the M.M. from Yale University. Her teachers include Robert Bloom and John Mack. She is principal oboist with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and a member of the Knoxville Symphony Woodwind Quintet. She has held faculty positions at Radford College and East Tennessee State University, Tennessee Governors School for the Arts, and has performed with Spoleto Festival Orchestra. She has recorded for Benson Music Group, John Purifoy Productions, and is featured on Kenneth Jacob's Sandcastles CD.

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Jay Romines is Professor of Saxophone. He received the B.M. degree from the University of Tennessee and a Master of Music Degree in Saxophone Performance from Indiana University.

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He holds a BM degree from the University of Tennessee, and a Master of Music Degree in Saxophone Performance from Indiana University. From 1991-1993, he was an Associate Instructor in the Department of Bands at Indiana University, while working on a Doctoral Degree in Saxophone Performance.

He currently conducts the Band and Choral Ensembles at Knoxville Catholic High School, a position he  has held since 2001. Prior to his work in the Catholic Schools, Mr. Romines served as Associate Director of Bands and Saxophone Professor at the University of Tennessee School of Music.

He has also taught Saxophone at the University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, and been Associate Instructor of Saxophone at Indiana University. He has studied Saxophone with Doug Masek, Gary Sperl, Eugene Rousseau, Larry Teal, Iwan Roth, and  attended the Master Classes of Jean-Yves Fourmeau, and Otis Murphy.