Frank Clark, Director and Professor of Music, received his Bachelor of Music Education at the Conservatory of Music, University of the Pacific. He was awarded a Masters in Horn Performance from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Music Theory/Composition from the University of Arizona, Tucson.
Previously, he was Chair of the Department of Music and Coordinator of Music Theory at the University of South Alabama, Coordinator of Music at Lewis Clark State College, and an Assistant Professor at Pacific University and the University of Northern Iowa.
He is a sought-after consultant and a published multimediaist and composer. He has received numerous awards and honors and presents regularly at the Technology Institute for Music Educators, the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, and the College Music Society.
Philip Donner emphasizes the need for a multi-disciplinary approach in promoting net education. He combines skills of ethnomusicology, development research and software engineering. Donner is currently working as a researcher at the Net Communication Department of the International Centre of Chamber Music in Kuhmo. His work focuses on developing methods of music net education in the contexts of regional development, information society and virtual university construction.
Recent research and development efforts include all branches of real-time collaborative teaching: Video conferences, netcasting, net collaboration, telematics. For him net communication is an enabling method of teaching, which can provide services of music pedagogy where they wouldn't otherwise be available. Working in tandem with Matti Ruippo in Kuopio, Donner has created systems for saxophone, kantele and MIDI piano pedagogy in video conferences. He has authored tools of content production for netcasted pedagogical content.
Matti Ruippo is a music teacher, he has graduated from Sibelius Academy 1987. He has taught at Orivesi College 1985-2001 and at Sibelius Academy from 1990. His main interests are music theory, Afro-American, Afro-Cuban music and music technology. He is currently pursuing doctoral studies in the field of music distance learning.
Ruippo is working as a senior planning officer at Sibelius Academy Kuopio Department where he developes and researches the pedagogy of information and communication technology supported music studies. He has read a paper on this topic in following international conferences: Berlin, Bergen, Bhopal, Bologna, Dublin, Edmonton, Helsinki, Jyväskylä, Turku.
Dr. Jennifer Sterling has most recently joined the music faculty at IUPUI in the fall of 2002 where she teaches courses in music theory, music technology, and voice. She has earned both a B.M. in vocal performance from Meredith College and a M.M. in music theory technology from the University of Tennessee. Dr. Sterling completed her Ph.D. in music theory at the University of Maryland where her dissertation focused on the design and use of a CAI program in musical form.
Dr. Sterling's work on the inForm program at the University of Maryland earned her the Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award. She has presented at numerous conferences including the Society for Music Theory, The College Music Society, TI:ME, and TDML. Her main areas of research interest include computer assisted instruction, music software design, and music theory pedagogy.