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Name
  
Maurita Mead


Role
  
Musical Artist

Maurita Murphy Mead Off Center a song by Richard Hervig Maurita Murphy Mead Charles

Albums
  
Hervig: Off Center / Hibbard: Handwork / Ziolek: Nocturnes / No. 16 (The University of Iowa Center for New Music 25Th Anniversary, 1966-1991)

Education
  
Eastman School of Music, Michigan State University

Off Center


Maurita Murphy Mead (née Ellen Murphy) is an American clarinetist and music professor, the professor of clarinet at the University of Iowa. Mead has been secretary of the International Clarinet Association.

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Education

Mead received her undergraduate degree and performer's certificate from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied clarinet with the D. Stanley Hasty. She was awarded her master's degree by Michigan State University, where she studied with Elsa Ludwig-Verdehr, and she earned her doctorate there in 1989.

Teaching

Mead taught middle school in Rochester, NY, and on the advanced level at Western Michigan University.

She has been a tenured professor at the University of Iowa since 1989 and was a recipient of the Collegiate Teaching Award from the university. She and nine of her students were chosen to perform at a conference honoring D. Stanley Hasty at Ohio State University.

Choro

Among other genres, Mead performs the classical Brazilian style of music, choro, and has performed on three continents. She has worked with composer Michael Eckert (also of the University of Iowa) to premiere some of the first choros ever written with full notation for both the clarinet and the piano. Mead has released two CDs in this genre, Over the Fence and Red Hot and Brazilian. Both albums feature Mead on the clarinet and Rafael Dos Santos on the piano.

Mead is one of the artists participating in the Daniel Pearl World Music Days.

References

Maurita Murphy Mead Wikipedia