Speaker Biographies

John Anderies is Music Librarian at Haverford College [http://www.haverford.edu/library/music/] outside of Philadelphia, PA. He holds a Bachelor of Music in flute performance from Baldwin-Wallace College, a Master of Arts in early music performance practices from Case Western Reserve University, a Master of Library Science from Indiana University and has completed Ph.D. coursework in musicology from Indiana University. Before coming to Haverford, John worked at the William and Gayle Cook Music Library at IU as Circulation Supervisor/Reserves Coordinator and as Acting Head of User Services, where among other responsibilities he managed audio digitizing for the Variations [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/] digital music library. John is the 2002 recipient of the Music Library Association’s Gerboth Award for his project, “Tri-College Digital Music Initiative: Developing a Core Integrated Collection.” He is the co-curator of an exhibit on Music and Quakerism [http://www.haverford.edu/library/quakermusic/] and has published in Notes: Journal of the Music Library Association.

Dick Bulterman is head of the Convergent Media Interfaces group at CWI [http://www.cwi.nl], the Dutch national center for mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam. He was one of the main architects of the SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0 standards and headed the development of various SMIL-compliant players. Currently, Bulterman's group provides support for the Ambulant [http://www.cwi.nl/projects/Ambulant/distPlayer.html] open-source SMIL player for Windows, PocketPC, Mac and Linux. Together with Lloyd Rutledge, Bulterman is author of SMIL 2.0: Interactive Multimedia for Web and Mobile Devices [http://www.xmediasmil.net/]. This book was published in May 2004 by Springer-Verlag (Berlin/New York). Before joining CWI, Bulterman was professor of computer engineering at Brown University from 1980-1989. From 1996-2002, he was managing director and CTO of Oratrix, a company specialized in providing full-feature SMIL editing tools. He has published widely on SMIL and multimedia issues. He has held numerous academic and consulting appointments.

Charles Cronin is Head of Public Services at Columbia Law Library [http://www.law.columbia.edu/library]. He earned his undergraduate degree in music at Oberlin College, received a JD at American University Law School, an MA and PhD in musicology at Stanford, and a Masters of Information Management and Systems at Berkeley's new School of Information Management. He worked in Washington, DC as a lawyer in the area of intellectual property and, after graduate school, as a lecturer in music at Stanford. Charles has published articles in the areas of nineteenth century opera and in copyright issues involving music. His current musicological interest is in the preparation of a catalog of the complete works of Jacques Offenbach. He’s the project director for the Music Plagiarism Digital Archive [http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/law/library/entrance.html].

J. Stephen Downie is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science [http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/], University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign. He is Director of the International Music Information Retrieval System Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL), also at UIUC. Stephen holds a B.A. in Music Theory and Composition, a Masters of Library and Information Science, and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science, all earned at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He has been very active in the establishment of the Music Information Retrieval (or MIR) community through his ongoing work with the ISMIR [http://ismir2004.ismir.net/] series of MIR conferences. He is also project leader on the Music Information Retrieval Bibliography Project [http://music-ir.org/research_home.html] (MIRBIB).

Amy Harrell is Music and Performing Arts Librarian at Trinity College [http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/library/mms/], Hartford, CT, where she oversees the Media collections, as well as music, theater, and dance monographs. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the College of Wooster, and a Master's in Library and Information Studies and a Master’s in Music Theory from University of Wisconsin—Madison.

Linda Laderach, violinist, combines a performing career on both the Baroque and modern violins with her teaching career at Mount Holyoke College [http://www.mtholyoke.edu/], where she is Professor of Music and chair of the department. Since her solo debut with the Toledo Symphony at the age of 16, she has performed as soloist and chamber musician in North America, Asia and Europe. Ms. Laderach has collaborated in duo recitals and radio concerts with Larry Schipull, Mount Holyoke College Organist and Associate Professor of Music. They have toured Western Europe, Asia and the United States with recitals on the early violin with harpsichord and fortepiano and modern violin with piano and organ since 1989. Ms. Laderach is also a member of the Mount Holyoke Faculty Baroque Ensemble.

Samuel Pellman received his Bachelor's degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and his Master's degree and doctorate from Cornell University. His teachers of composition have included David Cope, Karel Husa and Robert Palmer. His most recent project is the release, on the Innova label, of his "Selected Planets," [http://www.borg.com/~spellman/Selected.html] a set of nine electroacoustic works inspired by the exploration of the planets of the solar system. His music is frequently presented at national and international events, including recent presentations in Australia, Hong Kong, and France. Besides the Innova release, many of his works may be heard on recordings by the Musical Heritage Society, the Cornell University Wind Ensemble, and Move Records, and much of his music is published by the Continental Music Press and Wesleyan Music Press. Prof. Pellman is also the author of An Introduction to the Creation of Electroacoustic Music [http://www.borg.com/~spellman/book.html], the leading textbook in the field. Currently a full Professor of Music at Hamilton, he teaches theory and composition and is director of the Studio for Contemporary Music [http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/music/facilities/studio.html].

Nikki Reynoldsis Director of Instructional Technology Support Services [http://www.hamilton.edu/college/its/itsst/] at Hamilton College [http://www.hamilton.edu]. As a member of the Information Technology Services department at Hamilton, she is responsible for the planning and management of facilities and services that support the use of technology for teaching and learning across the curriculum. Nikki has served as a member of the EDUCAUSE Advisory Council on Teaching and Learning, and a co-leader of the EDUCAUSE Teaching and Learning Constituent Group. Nikki received her B.S in Architectural Studies from Washington State University, and her M.S. in Systems Science and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Binghamton University. The one constant theme throughout the years of study and work has been Nikki’s interest in creating systems that accommodate human factors in all their diversity. While not a musician herself, Nikki is a lover of all musical forms, especially jazz.

Jenn Riley is the Digital Media Specialist for the Indiana University Digital Library Program [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/], where she is responsible for planning and overseeing digitization operations for the wide variety of digital library projects produced at IU. Most recently, she supervised digitization of sheet music for the Indiana University Sheet Music [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/sheetmusic/] web site. She has given multiple presentations on the subject of digitization of printed musical materials and is the primary author of "Recommended Best Practices for Digital Image Capture of Musical Scores" [http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/oclc/oss.pdf] published in 2003 in OCLC Systems & Services, which was recently awarded a Literati Award for Excellence as the best paper published in this journal in 2003. She holds Master's degrees in Library & Information Science and Musicology from Indiana University, and a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of Miami (FL). Her research interests include access to musical materials in the online environment, metadata, and the creation of high-quality, sustainable digital objects.

Monk Rowe Rowe has carved an interesting niche for himself in the Central New York area as a performer, composer and educator. Monk, a native of Irondequoit, NY, earned his music degree from SUNY Fredonia and has taught jazz and improvised music throughout Central New York State. He has been a member of Hamilton College’s adjunct faculty for twelve years and in 1995 took on additional duties as The Joe Williams Director of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive [http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/music/jazzarchive/]. The Jazz Archive was the created in 1995 by Milt Fillius Jr. ’44, H ‘04. The mission of the archive has been to gather videotaped interviews with renowned jazz personalities, saving their stories and experiences for researchers, authors and interested jazz lovers. To date, he has conducted or coordinated over 240 interview sessions in numerous locations across the country. He presented excerpts from these interviews at numerous venues, including the 2001 and 2003 conventions of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Audio excerpts from these interviews are being extensively employed in NPR documentaries airing this summer on Count Basie. Monk is also active in the field of aesthetic education. He is the Artistic Director and a music teaching artist for the Utica Arts in Education Institute. He is an active pianist, saxophonist and composer and has produced two CDs of original jazz. Monk’s website is monkrowe.com [http://www.monkrowe.com].

Adam Soroka works in the Robertson Media Center [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/clemons/RMC/] of Clemons Library at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he specializes in audio technology (both old and new). Recent concerns include work on UVA’s Digital Library effort as part of the Fedora Project [http://www.lib.virginia.edu/digital/resndev/fedora.html], engagement on the Library's Tape and Film Working Group, and consulting to faculty and students at the University about individual projects using digital and analog audio for academic purposes.

Brian Walker attends Haverford College [http://www.haverford.edu/] as a member of the Class of ’05, where he is pursuing a major in Mathematics and a minor in English. He has served on Haverford's Educational Policy Committee and is a Hurford Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow, co-president of the college’s student computing group, and captain of the Haverford College Debate Society. In his spare time, Brian likes to explain to his friends why he's right and they're not, and he hopes to turn this hobby into a career.

Rob Whelan graduated from Hamilton College with a B.A. in Music (composition and voice) and a minor in Computer Science, and promptly found a job as a software engineer in Rochester, NY, thanks to the music theory training software he developed while still a Hamilton student. While his new wife (another Hamilton grad) worked on a Musicology Ph.D. at the Eastman School, Rob continued relegating his musical interests to his spare time while developing software professionally, notably working as technical lead and lead architect on a project that won an IBM Beacon award in 2002. Rob now works as an independent contractor, and finally brought music back into his professional life when he built the eMusicTheory.com [http://www.emusictheory.com] website, incorporating updated versions of the same music theory training applets he developed for Hamilton in the late '90s. eMusicTheory.com is a unique training tool that lets subscribing teachers customize music theory assignments and track student scores, all online.