Chairperson,
Professor, Department
of Music, Towson
University
Former President, International Double Reed Society
B.
M. University of Washington; Bassoon Performance, magna cum lauda
M.
A. University of Washington, Music Theory
Ph.D. University of
Washington,
Music Theory
Terry
Ewell is Chairperson of the Department of Music and bassoon professor
at Towson
University. In his 25 years as a
professional musician he
has received recognition as a performer, teacher, scholar, and
administrator.
For
seven years he served as Principal Bassoon of the Hong Kong
Philharmonic under
music director Kenneth Schermerhorn and visiting directors Gerard
Schwartz,
Kenneth Jean, Maxim Shostakovich, and Jahja Ling.
Later he was Principal Bassoon of the
Wheeling Symphony and Acting Principal Bassoon of the West Virginia
Symphony. He has
performed with the
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and
the
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. As
a
soloist he has performed with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Hong
Kong
Philharmonic, the IDRS 2004 Conference Orchestra (Melbourne,
Australia),
and with several
regional orchestras in the state of Washington. His performances as a
chamber musician have
been heard in Germany,
Hong
Kong, and throughout the United States.
He has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Hong Kong
Records,
Pickwick Records, and Cambria Records. He recently recorded with the
Baltimore Chamber Orchestra for Naxos.
Dr.
Ewell has gained a reputation for his innovative approaches to bassoon
teaching. He is a
pioneer in the application
of MIDI and MP3
files to bassoon
instruction. His
articles on various
aspects of bassoon pedagogy have received international attention with
publication in American, Dutch, and British journals.
He has taught at the Hong Kong Conservatory
of Music, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pacific Lutheran
University
(Washington State), West Virginia University, and Towson University. He is a returning faculty
member at the MasterWorks Music
Festival and has
given master classes or lectures at Trinity
College in Greenwich, England; the University of Colorado; and at
several
International Double Reed Society conferences.
His
writings appear in over a dozen journals principally The
Double Reed, the International
Double Reed Journal, and Scrapes. In addition he is the
author and editor of
several publications at the International Double Reed Society World
Wide Web
Site: the Bassoon-Family
Fingering Companion, the IDRS Reed
Project, the IDRS MIDI
site, IDRS
Who’s
Who, IDRS
Podcast, and IDRS
Conference Program Archive.
Dr.
Ewell is in his thirteenth year of service as an administrator. He was Chairperson of the
Division of Music
at West
Virginia University
for five years. Afterwards
he was chosen through a national
search to assume the duties of Chairperson of the Department of Music
at Towson
University. From 2002 to 2005 he served as In President of
the International Double Reed Society, which has a worldwide membership
of over
4,000. Dr. Ewell is
also an officer and
evaluator with the National Association of Schools of
Music. During
his tenure as Chairperson funding for scholarships has almost tripled,
and he has been principal author or organizer for grants, requests, or
conferences
bringing
over $300,000 in additional funding to the Department of Music and
other
organizations.
