Eric M. Daub, who holds a doctorate in Piano Performance from the University of Texas at Austin, is an associate professor of piano and music theory at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas, where he holds the Baenziger Professorship in Music. Born in Kyoto, Japan, he grew up in Lawrence, KS, and Madison, WI. He received a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the University of Wisconsin in 1982, studying the piano with Tait Barrows and Leo Stephens, and jazz piano with Ted Jackson and Richard Davis. He then moved to Austin, Texas in 1985 to pursue a Master of Music and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance at the University of Texas at Austin, studying piano and accompanying with Dr. William Race, Anton Nel, David Garvey, and Gerard Souzay. His doctoral treatise is entitled “The Mùsica Callada of Federico Mompou” and the Mompou Foundation, located in Barcelona in the apartment that the composer and his wife shared at the end of his life, requested a bound copy for their library. Dr. Daub has a wide range of experience as a solo recitalist, chamber musician, recording artist, collaborative pianist, church musician, arranger, jazz, blues and gospel pianist, and rock keyboardist. He has worked repeatedly with various singer-song writers in the Austin area co-writing, arranging, and recording music in a variety of styles. His musical collaborations have brought him into contact with musicians from many stylistic genres including bassists Kristin Korb, and Roscoe Beck, guitarists Van Wilks, Dave Sebree, and Bobby Zinner, drummer Shelley Scott Hamilton, singers Babbie Mason and Diane Schurr, and composer Jake Heggie.

Dr. Eliza Thomason is the Director of Strings and Assistant-Professor at Texas Lutheran University, holding the Anita Windecker Endowed Chair. A sought after performer, Dr. Thomason is an active recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral violist. She currently plays with the San Antonio, Mid-Texas, and Corpus Christi Symphonies, and has won positions with the Spokane Symphony, New Haven Symphony, and New World Symphony. Her orchestral solos as principle violist with the Aspen Concert Orchestra have been featured on The Classical Station of New York City and NPR's show, Performance Today.
 

 

An advocate of new music, Dr. Thomason has premiered several works for solo viola, chamber ensemble, and orchestra, most recently recording new chamber music for the MSR Classics recording label; "Winning Works of the 2010 Bassoon Chamber Music Composition Competition." She has studied at Vanderbilt and Indiana Universities, and recently earned her Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). At CCM she served as a teaching assistant to Masao Kawasaki and Catharine Carroll, as well as holding several other teaching appointments. Principal mentors and teachers have included Masao Kawasaki, Catharine Carroll, Atar Arad, Mimi Zweig, and Kathryn Plummer.

Mary Ellen Cavitt, assistant professor; B.M., M.M., The Juilliard School; D.M.Ed., The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Cavitt serves as Assistant Professor of Horn at Texas Lutheran University and Professor of Music Education and Associate Director of the School of Music at Texas State University. She is an active performer and has played with orchestras in Texas, New York, and Arizona. Dr. Cavitt has served as horn professor at the University of Texas at Arlington and Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and on the music education faculties of Michigan State University, The University of Arizona, and The University of Texas at San Antonio. As administrator of instrumental music for North East ISD in San Antonio, Texas, she coordinated the band and orchestra programs in secondary schools. She is an active clinician and adjudicator, and her research has been presented at regional, national, and international conferences. She currently serves as editor for the Texas Music Education Research Journal and TMEA Region 18 College Division Chair, and is past Chair for the Instructional Strategies Research Interest Group for the National Association for Music Education. 

Laura Jenschke, instructor; A.A., SMU-Perkins School of Theology; B.M., The University of Texas at Austin; M.M., University of Texas at San Antonio. Ms. Jenschke serves as instructor of voice, general music, and music education classes. She has been a choral director and singer for the past 30 years. She was the founder of the Fredericksburg Children’s Chorale, which she directed for 22 years, she started the Eastman Children’s Choir and the Eastman Youth Choir at the Eastman School of Music’s Community Music School in Rochester, New York. Ms. Jenschke has been a church choir director for 25 years teaching adult, youth and children’s choirs. She founded the TLU/ Mid-Texas Symphony Community Youth Choir program for the Community Music Academy and serves as the CMA director since August 2010. As a singer, Ms. Jenschke has performed in opera, oratorio, recitals and professional choirs throughout her career. Laurie is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin with an undergraduate degree in music education and a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio with a master’s degree in conducting. Ms. Jenschke also serves as director of the Mid-Texas Symphony Chorus.

Edwin A. Rieke, assistant professor; B.M., M.M., University of Oklahoma; D.M.A., The Eastman School of Music.   Dr. Rieke serves as assistant professor of organ. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Organ Performance, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance and Literature. Dr. Rieke has served as church organist, choirmaster and director of music at several churches, most recently St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in San Antonio. His teaching experience includes tenures at Trinity University, Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, and Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, among others. In addition to being an active recitalist and guest clinician, Dr. Rieke is a member of several professional organizations, including Phi Kappa Lambda Honorary Music Society, the American Guild of Organists and the Association of Anglican Musicians.