Theory / Composition / Music History Faculty

Jefferson Campbell – Bassoon, Music History, Music Technology
Office: 243 Humanities
Office Phone: 726-8119
E-mail: jcampbel@d.umn.edu

Jefferson Campbell has distinguished himself over recent years as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician on the bassoon throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Campbell has appeared as a soloist in California, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, South Carolina and overseas in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France. As an orchestral musician, Dr. Campbell has held positions with orchestras in Kentucky, North Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington. In the summer of 2006, Jefferson Campbell was guest principal bassoon of the Chengdu Philharmonic Orchestra in Chengdu, China, where he was also invited to teach master classes on bassoon at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Recently he was invited to present master classes in bassoon at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional Boulogne-Billancourt, France in January of 2009.

His current chamber music projects include the Third Chair Chamber Players (NE) and the UMD Faculty Woodwind Quintet. Dr. Campbell is prominently featured as both a soloist and chamber musician on the recently released compact disc Nostalgia on the Innova label, featuring all of the music for bassoon by composer Justin Henry Rubin. He has recently completed a performance project featuring the commission and performance of three new works for bassoon premiered in Miami (FL), San Francisco (CA), and Duluth (MN), in 2010 as a result of funding received by an Imagine Grant from the McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment of the University of Minnesota. His upcoming projects include a New York recital featuring new works for bassoon by American composers in 2011 and master classes and recitals with pianist Tracy Lipke-Perry and percussionist Gene Koshinski at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional Lyon in January of 2011.

Dr. Campbell is the Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Music History at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and has served on the artist faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. Dr. Campbell been published in the Journal of the International Double Reed Society and presented and performed at the National Conference of the IDRS in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Jefferson Campbell holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Western Kentucky University, a Master of Music in Bassoon Performance and Chamber Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His primary teachers have been Cynthia Estill, C. Larry Long, Mark Popkin, Gary Echols and Dr. Albie Micklich. Dr. Campbell's website

Betsy Husby – Cello, Aural Skills
Office: 27 Bohannon
Office Phone: 726-7784
E-mail: bhusby@d.umn.edu

Dr. Husby earned her DMA, MM, and BA degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, L.I., N.Y. where she studied with Bernard Greenhouse, former student of Pablo Casals, and cellist of the internationally renowned Beaux Arts Trio, and Timothy Eddy, cellist of the Orion String Quartet and faculty at Julliard School of Music. Highlights of her career have included performing in the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, a live Minnesota Public Radio Broadcast of the technically demanding Prokofieff Sinfonie Concertante with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra, and Minnesota State Arts Board grants to tour the United States and Russia. Dr. Husby began her extensive solo, chamber music, and orchestral experience in New York where she was winner of the DMA concerto competition, a member of the Poulenc Chamber Players on Long Island, and principal cello of the Stony Brook graduate orchestra.

Dr. Husby has been principal cello with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra for 25 years, has performed on Minnesota Public radio with the Highland String Quartet, and has been featured artist with the DSSO, Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra, Itasca Symphony Orchestra, Petrozavodsk, Russia Symphony Orchestra, and the Ashland Chequamegon Symphonette. In 2005, she and UMD faculty pianist Dr. Alexander Chernyshev were featured artists on the Schubert Club Courtroom Concert Series in St. Paul, and at the Bernard Greenhouse 90th Birthday Celebration in Greensboro, N.C. She also has a solid pedagogical background, having completed the Suzuki Association of America's teacher training coursework from Book 1 through 10. She has taught and co-directed the Lake Superior Suzuki Talent Education Program at UMD for 25 years.

Justin Rubin – Theory, Composition, Organ, Piano, Music Technology
Office: 25A Bohannon
Office Phone: 726-8218
E-mail: jrubin1@d.umn.edu

Dr. Justin Rubin is Professor of Music and Chair of the Composition/Theory Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth and Artistic Director of the annual New Music Festival. Rubin's first solo CD release, Nostalgia (Innova 738), which includes his chamber works featuring the bassoon, received high critical acclaim. In 2009 he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Teachers and honored with the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education that represents the highest recognition by the University of its most distinguished scholar-teachers. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, Purchase College (New York), and the University of Arizona, Rubin is also active as a performer on organ and piano. His diverse concert repertoire and musicological concerns (ranging from Buxtehude and Schubert to Sorabji and Xenakis) has informed an eclectic compositional style, fusing a renewed perspective on traditional tonal structures with a command of contemporary technique. His works have been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra as well as numerous chamber ensembles throughout the United States and internationally. In addition Rubin's collaborative efforts in the realm of multimedia/music and video have been recognized through presentations by the Visual Music Marathon series at Northeastern University and grants from the Institute for Advanced Study and the McKnight Foundation. Justin Rubin's Website

Lorie Scott – Flute, Music Theory
Office: 221 Humanities
Office Phone: 726-7543
E-mail: lscott@d.umn.edu

Lorie Scott is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In addition to flute studio activities, she teaches music theory and performs with the faculty woodwind quintet. Dr. Scott was recently named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster in American Studies (music). Her edition of the Karg-Elert Caprices (Urmusik Edition) was a winner of the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition and was listed as ‘Editor's Choice' in Flute Talk Magazine. She will present a series of performances featuring her collection of arrangements of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces in the upcoming school year. This project has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board (Artist Initiative Grant) and through the University of Minnesota's Imagine Fund. Other projects and performances, including at the Banff Centre (2011), have been supported through various grants of the National Endowment for the Arts, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and the Iowa Arts Council. Dr. Scott is active in the Upper Midwest Flute Association and has adjudicated for the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Flute Association, and MidSouth Flute Society. She teaches and performs at the Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival in the summer and previously taught at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She serves as a reviewer for National Council on Undergraduate Research proposals and enjoys advising UMD students on UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) and NCUR independent projects. Her flute teachers include Mary Karen Clardy, Carol Hester, and Jan Boland. She holds DMA and MM degrees (flute performance/theory minors) from the University of North Texas and a BA from Luther College in music and business management, summa cum laude. Business aside, she loves experimenting with food and f-stops and wandering around Northern Minnesota's land, lakes, and skies in various forms of season-appropriate transportation, often accompanied by her cocker spaniel, Dolce. Flute Studio Website