Wolodymyr Smishkewych has specialized in medieval solo song and chant and contemporary classical music since the mid –1990s. His broad repertory also spans baroque opera, oratorio and lieder. He has sung throughout Europe, North and South America, and Israel, and appeared at acclaimed festivals such as BBC Proms, Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, Musikfest Berlin, the Edinburgh Festival, Sacrum Profanum Krákow, and the Early Music Festivals of Barcelona, Utrecht, Bloomington, and Boston. As a member of Sequentia and Theatre of Voices, he has recorded for the Sony/BMG –Classical and Harmonia Mundi labels, most recently on the Grammy-nominated recording of Stockhausen’s Stimmung with Theatre of Voices. Radio and film credits include Antena 3 National Spanish Radio, National Public Radio/PRI, Radio Suisse Romande, Danmark Radio, MDR –German Radio and Universal Pictures. His current performance research includes reconstructions of early Kievan-Rus epic repertoire and an online digital facsimile of the Lugo Breviary from Galicia, Spain. He has been a guest lecturer of early music, world music, and contemporary music at universities in Europe and North America, and recently returned to the United States with his partner, harpsichordist and pianist Dr. Yonit Kosovske, after holding a 2005 –2006 Fulbright fellowship in Spain researching the history of the zanfona (vielle à roue) on the Iberian Peninsula. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Music degree in voice performance at Indiana University, where he is on adjunct faculty as director of the Indiana University International Vocal Ensemble.
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Katherine Domingo has developed and taught classes in conducting, choral music, and music theory. Prior to joining the Jacobs School of Music faculty, she was in the Philippines on a Fulbright fellowship researching her birth country's music and giving lectures and master classes at the University of the Philippines College of Music. During her residency, she also served as national and regional adjudicator in chorus and voice for the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA). She is a Contributing Writer for Macmillan/McGraw-Hill's K-8 series textbook Spotlight on Music, and she produces educational DVDs that use music to help classrooms and choirs learn about the cultures of the world published through the Global Voices Interactive series.
Dr. Domingo received her B.A. with a major in orchestral conducting and clarinet from Dartmouth College, and received her M.M. and D.M. degrees in choral conducting and musicology from Indiana University.
Mary Goetze is a music educator committed to multiculturalism, teacher education and children’s singing. She challenges the profession to promote cultural understanding through the way diverse musics are presented and performed--an innovative approach she developed with the International Vocal Ensemble at Indiana University. Her initiative, for which she has been awarded numerous grants, resulted in an on-going series of DVDs and CD ROMs, entitled Global Voices, featuring native musical models presented in context with pronunciation, movements, translations and extensive cultural information. As a clinician, author and conductor, she has educated teachers about children’s voices, and through her synthesis of research, musical composition and teaching practice, she paved the way for the recent surge of children’s choirs across the country. She also served as a coordinating author of Share the Music and Spotlight on Music, series books for grades K-8.
Dr. Goetze holds degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Indiana University, and the University of Colorado. Her dissertation entitled "Factors Affecting Accuracy in Children's Singing" was named Outstanding Dissertation of 1985 by Music Educators National Conference and Council for Research in Music Education. She was named Outstanding Hoosier Musician by the Indiana Music Educators Association and Outstanding Educator of the Year by the Organization of American Kodály Educators. She has received a Distinguished Teaching Award from Indiana University as well as a Distinguished Alumnus Awards from the University of Colorado College of Music and Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and awarded the R. L. Jones Distinguished Professorship at East Carolina University School of Music, Fall 2005.
