As a musicologist, Dane Heuchemer is an active scholar of sixteenth-century Germany (with a particular emphasis on Electoral Saxony), issues in early music performance practice, and jazz. His current primary scholarly project focuses on the extant sixteenth-century print and manuscript collections of a number of Saxon towns and smaller cities, for which he received, in 2001, a Whiting Summer Scholarship Stipend. In recent years, he has also been exploring the patronage of music by nobles, with a particular emphasis on the impact of inter-court rivalry. Prof. Heuchemer's scholarship includes articles published in the Reader's Guide to Music: History Theory and Criticism, and entries for the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. An article on the influence of American popular music on select operas composed by Ernst Krenek and Kurt Weill was recently published by the College Music Society, in Jazz and the Germans: Essays on the Influence of Hot American Idioms in Twentieth-Century German Music. He has also presented papers at numerous national and regional conferences and has chaired sessions for the Ohio Medieval Colloquium and the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society.

As a conductor, Prof. Heuchemer assumed directorship of the Kenyon Symphonic Wind Ensemble (the College's concert band) in its second year of existence and has developed the group into an ensemble of approximately sixty members. In addition, he founded (in January, 1996) the school's Early Music Ensemble. He has also served as conductor for the Mt. Vernon Players in their productions of Hello Dolly!, Grease, South Pacific, Cinderella, and Anything Goes, and is the conductor for a new Mt. Vernon community theater company, Bruce Jacklin Productions. President of the Ohio Private College Instrumental Conductors Association (OPCICA), Prof. Heuchemer guest conducted that organization's annual Honor Concert Band in 1998, 2001, and 2004. Since 2001, he has also served on the faculty for the North Central Ohio Adult Music Camp, an annual event affiliated with Ashland University. An active performer on natural trumpet and cornetto, his most recent private study was with Edward Tarr of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Prof. Heuchemer was named Kenyon College student organization Advisor of the Year for 1998-99.

An avid supporter of efforts to aid homeless cats and dogs, Prof. Heuchemer worked, for the past three years, as a volunteer for the Knox County Humane Society Canine Rescue Program. From 2003 to 2004, he served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Knox County Humane Society.

Areas of Expertise

Musicology (the study of music history) - the Renaissance, historical performance techniques, music as a tool of court politics, 20th-century music, jazz; Conducting - wind ensemble, early music, opera/musical theater; Performance - modern trumpet, natural (valveless) trumpet, cornetto

Education

University of Cincinnati Ph.D.
Ithaca College M.M.
University of Northern Colorado B.M.

Courses Taught

MUSC 102 Introduction to Musical Style
MUSC 202 Music History: Middle Ages and Renaissance
MUSC 205 20th-Century Music
MUSC 302 History of Jazz
MUSC 305 Court Musical Patronage
MUSC 479 Symphonic Wind Ensemble
MUSC 481 Early Music Ensemble