Judith A. Coe

is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of the Commercial Voice program in the Music & Entertainment Industry Studies Department at the University of Colorado at Denver, where she teaches applied voice and improvisation, commercial singing pedagogy, pop songwriting, women in contemporary music, Irish music and directs the  singer/songwriter ensemble. The 2003 CU-Denver campus winner of the President's Faculty Excellence Award for Advancing Teaching and Learning Through Technology, her Cyberspace Music Resources site has won international awards. An eclectic singer/songwriter, composer, and keyboardist/synthesist, Coe specializes in classical, pop and jazz, and music of our time which utilizes extended vocal techniques and technology.  She has performed, composed, taught, and recorded in traditional classical, avant, and commercial genres, and has performed and given scholarly presentations and world premiere performances throughout North America, Western and Central Europe, the British Isles, and in the Caribbean. Coe has just returned from a jazz tour in Eastern Europe with Dr. Keith Waters (CU-Boulder) and is working on three new projects - a "Place as Identity" sonic and visual exploration, an Afro-Celt crossover concert, and a multimedia collaboration for digital art and light, dancers, DJ, and rock/hip hop nonet.

Ingo Titze

is is the Executive Director of the National Center for Voice and Speech. He also is a Distinguished Professor of Speech Science and Voice in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at The University of Iowa and in the School of Music, and is a member of the Bioengineering faculty at the same institution. Formally educated as a physicist and engineer, Dr. Titze has applied this knowledge to a lifelong love of vocal music. His research interests include biomechanics of tissues used in phonation, acoustic phonetics, speech science, voice disorders, professional voice production, musical acoustics, animal vocalization, singing synthesis and the computer simulation of voice.

He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Utah and his doctoral degree in physics from Brigham Young University. He has published widely in the area of voice and has authored the well-known text, Principles of Voice Production. He is currently completing a text entitled 'Vocology' and another entitled The 'Myoelastic - Aerodynamic Theory of Phonation'. With more than 250 journal articles to his credit, Dr. Titze is a guest lecturer throughout the world. His concerts and educational lectures with “Pavarobotti,” a singing robot, have been publicized internationally in such publications as USA Today, The Chicago Tribune and major publications in Vienna, New York and Rome. Dr. Titze is the recipient of the William and Harriott Gould Award for laryngeal physiology, the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigation Award, the Claude Pepper Award and the Quintana Award. In addition to his scientific endeavors, Dr. Titze continues to sing, giving recitals of classical songs and show tunes. For a partial - but continuously updated list of Dr. Titze's publications, explore the National Library of Medicine's website, PubMed.

Keith Waters

is Associate Professor at the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a jazz pianist, he has recorded and performed throughout the United States, Europe, and in Russia, and has appeared in concert with jazz artists saxophonist James Moody, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, saxophonist Eddie Harris, vocalists Sheila Jordan, Chris Connor, Carol Fredette, and Meredith D'Ambrosia, appearing in venues such as the Blue Note and the Village Gate in New York, and the Kennedy Center and Blues Alley in Washington DC. He performed a concert tour of the Czech Republic in March of 2004. His playing has been featured in Jazz Player magazine, and his most recent recording is a Chet Baker tribute CD with former Baker sideman Phil Urso.

Together with Henry Martin, he has co-authored the book Jazz: The First Hundred Years, published by Schirmer Publications and released in September of 2001. His book, Rhythmic and Contrapuntal Structures in the Music of Arthur Honegger, was published by Ashgate Publications in 2002. He has written articles for the Annual Review of Jazz Studies, Current Musicology, the Jazz Educator's Journal, and the Bulletin of the Association Arthur Honegger, and has given lectures at the Sorbonne, Oxford University, University of Limerick, Amsterdam Conservatory, the Paul Sacher Foundation, and the Musikhochschule Winterthur-Zrich. He received a Ph.D. degree in Music Theory from the Eastman School of Music, and a Master's of Music degree in Jazz Piano from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Kevin Kennedy