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Julia Gaines
 Assistant Professor, Percussion
DMA, University of Oklahoma
office: 116 Loeb Hall
phone: 573-882-0345
fax: 573-884-5515
email: GainesJu@missouri.edu
mailing address: 116 Loeb Hall, Columbia, MO 65211
Dr. Julia Gaines joined the faculty of the School of Music at the University of Missouri in 1996 and is currently the Assistant Professor of Percussion. She conducts the University Percussion Ensemble, the World Percussion Ensemble, teaches Percussion Techniques and applied percussion lessons for approximately 16-18 music majors. She is also the Faculty Advisor to the MU Percussion Society a student organization that promotes percussion performance and education on the MU campus and throughout the mid-Missouri region. (Percussion Studies website)
Dr. Gaines received her DMA degree from the University of Oklahoma, her Master's degree as well as a Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music, and her Bachelor's degree from the Lawrence Conservatory of Music in Appleton, Wisconsin. Her primary teachers include Mary Wells, Dan
Bukvich, Dane Richeson, John Beck, and Richard Gipson. While at OU, Dr. Gaines won the concerto competition and performed as a soloist with the OU Wind Ensemble. She also won the Young Artist Concerto Competition, which covered an 8-state region, sponsored by the Oklahoma City Orchestra League. During her time at Eastman, she was selected as a member of the 1992 Eastman Wind Ensemble for a two-week tour of Japan. Prior to entering Lawrence Conservatory of Music for her Bachelor's degree, Dr. Gaines was selected to attend the National Music Camp at Interlochen for eight weeks and studied with Erik Forrester.
As a member of the 1988 Marauders Drum & Bugle Corps, Dr. Gaines met Ralph Hardimon at the S & E Competition and was invited to become a member of the Santa Clara Vanguard (SCV) the next summer. Fortunately, the 1989 SCV went on to win the Drum Corps International World Championships in Kansas City also taking first place in High Drums and Percussion Ensemble. Dr. Gaines did not march her age-out year but instead went on to teach and write for the front ensemble of different drum corps. She worked with the Northmen, a Division III corps out of Green Bay, and then the Marauders, Division 1 from Longview, WA, for several more years.
Dr. Gaines began her involvement with the Percussive Arts Society as a Ludwig scholarship recipient to PASIC 1987. In 1990, Dr. Gaines toured the Soviet Union on a PAS sponsored trip, and performed in Moscow and what was then called Leningrad. She was a member of the University of Oklahoma Percussion Ensemble when they were selected to perform at a Showcase Concert at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) 1994 in Atlanta. She became involved in the leadership of the Missouri Chapter of PAS by being on the MOPAS Advisory Board, serving as Vice-President, hosting a MOPAS Day of Percussion, and then by being President of MOPAS for two years. She has been elected to two terms as a member of the International PAS Board of Directors. Most recently, she was nominated and then elected to serve on the PAS Executive Board as Secretary beginning in January 2009.
Prior to working at MU, Dr. Gaines was a member of the percussion sections in the Oklahoma City Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fox Valley Symphony, the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, and the Idaho/Washington Symphony. Once in Missouri, she performed with the Missouri Chamber Orchestra as percussionist and principal timpanist. Her most recent solo appearances have been at PASIC 2004 in Nashville, the 2005 International Hawaiian Conference on Arts & Humanities held in Honolulu, and the 12th Annual Puerto Rico Percussion Festival held in San Juan in August of 2005. She has also given solo performances in England and Wales. She has arranged several works for marimba, steel band, and percussion ensemble and is published with C.Alan Publications. She was named a Big 12 Faculty Fellow in January of 2007 and participated in an exchange program with a colleague from Kansas State University in March of 2007. She has presented research projects at the National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy in May of 2005 and 2007. Her current research is focuses on the objective grading of marimba literature for which she has received several grants from the University of Missouri. She has been invited through a selection process to present this material at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Austin, Texas this coming November.
Dr. Gaines is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, MENC, MMEA, PAS, CMS, and is a Wakonse Alumni Fellow.
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