National Association of Schools of Music faculty record report

Chien-Kwan Lin

1. Assistant Professor of Saxophone

ECMS Collegiate Instructor in Saxophone

Chien-Kwan Lin (b. 1972, Singapore) has appeared as soloist and guest artist with the New England Conservatory and Eastman Wind Ensembles, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Tanglewood Music Center Festival Orchestra, the New World Symphony, the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Eastman Philharmonia, as well as the Boston and Rochester Philharmonic Orchestras.

Mr. Lin’s performances have garnered tremendous praise from critics in New York and Boston. His critically-acclaimed Carnegie Hall debut recital prompted New York Concert Review to portray him as a performer “who has the passion and restraint and beautiful sense of line to take melody where it wants to go, fully and generously,” while the Boston Globe has lauded him for “displaying chops,” and has described his playing as “polished,” “charismatic,” and “appealing.”

Recent appearances by Mr. Lin have included recitals at the World Saxophone Congress, U.S. Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium, Saxorama Festival (Canada), Emerging Artists Series (Taiwan), as well as performances with the Fromm Players of Harvard University and the Formosa Chamber Music Society of New York. His recent six-cities concert/master class tour took him to some of Asia’s top conservatories, including National Taipei University for the Arts, Mahidol University (Thailand), as well as the Shenyang, Sichuan and Central (Beijing) Conservatories in China. In 2004, Mr. Lin was profiled on the cover of Saxophone Journal. His recording of Eastman colleague, David Liptak’s Serenade for Alto Sax & String Orchestra, which John Pitcher of the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle called “brilliantly recorded,” is available on Bridge Records.

Since winning top prizes in Singapore’s National Music Competition four consecutive times (violin category), Chien-Kwan Lin has enjoyed a multi-faceted career. He won a Best Conductor Award at Singapore’s National Band Leaders Festival, and also worked for several years as a jazz violinist. In addition, Mr. Lin has appeared as orchestral violinist with northeastern groups including the New Hampshire Symphony, the Indian Hill Symphony, and the Hannover (NH) Chamber Orchestra.

Chien-Kwan Lin is currently Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music. He is an artist/clinician for Vandoren and Conn-Selmer instrument companies. Mr. Lin received his education from the New England Conservatory and Eastman. His teachers have included Ken Radnofsky and Ramon Ricker. He resides with his wife, pianist Pi-Lin Ni, in Rochester, New York.

Mr. Lin performs exclusively on Selmer instruments.

National Association of Schools of Music

FACULTY RECORD REPORT

(Required for each full-time and part-time faculty member)

Institution Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
Name Mackin, Glenn Date June 30, 2012

Rank (check one): None Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor

Instructor Teaching Assistant Other (check “None” if no rank system exists)

Associate Baccalaureate Masters Doctoral

1. 
   Education and Training
   

Please supply the following for lecture or ensemble courses you teach regularly over a three-year period. Include non-credit courses.

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   Biography and Curriculum Vitae
   
4. 
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NASM Faculty Record Report Eastman School of Music 2012

Glenn Mackin

1. Assistant Professor of Political Science

Professor Mackin’s current research examines the dynamics by which some are interpreted as incapable of participating in social and political life and the means by which people contest such designations. His most recent publications and presentations explore this issue as it operates in recent political controversies in the United states about the provision of social welfare benefits to the poor. His book length manuscript on this subject, currently titled The Politics of Social Welfare in the U.S., is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Professor Mackin has also published related articles in Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, and in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society.

At Eastman, Professor Mackin has developed the curriculum in Political Science, and has taught a variety of courses across several subfields in the discipline. These include Freshman Writing Seminars, which are designed to teach students the basics of college writing, courses about the nature and value of democratic modes of governance, the concept of power, the politics of forgiveness, issues of poverty in the U.S., and the history of political thought. He also worked as a full time adjunct professor at the University of Washington, where he also received his PhD in 2005, and taught courses in the philosophy of logic at Ohio University, where he received awards for his teaching. He also studied at the Cornell School for Criticism and Theory in the summer of 2010.

National Association of Schools of Music

FACULTY RECORD REPORT

(Required for each full-time and part-time faculty member)

Institution Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Name Martins, José Oliveira Date June 30, 2012

Rank (check one): None Professor Associate Professor Assistant Professor

Instructor Teaching Assistant Other (check “None” if no rank system exists)

Associate Baccalaureate Masters Doctoral

1. 
   Education and Training
   

Please supply the following for lecture or ensemble courses you teach regularly over a three-year period. Include non-credit courses.

3. 
   Biography and Curriculum Vitae
   
4. 
   Biography on reverse side of this sheet.
   
5. 
   Curriculum Vitae available on site.
   

NASM Faculty Record Report Eastman School of Music 2012