Paul Luongo

345 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, WA 99362

(509) 527-5595 – [email protected]

Academic Employment Experience

• Whitman College (Walla Walla, WA) – Orchestra Director 2012-Present
Assistant Professor of Music (2012-2018)
Associate Professor of Music and Paul Garrett Fellow (2018-Present)
• Valencia College (Orlando, FL) – Instructor of Music and Humanities 2010-2012

Education
The Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL) 2003-2010
• Ph.D. Musicology (Historical Emphasis) Spring 2010
Dissertation: “An Unlikely Cornerstone: The Role of Orchestral Transcription in the
Success of the Thomas Orchestra.” (Advisor: Douglass Seaton)
• M.M. Performance: Conducting (Orchestral Emphasis) Spring 2006
Primary Instructor: Alexander Jiménez
• M.M. Historical Musicology Summer 2006
Thesis: “Theodore Thomas’s 1902 Performance of Bach’s B-Minor Mass: Working
within the Grand American Festival.” (Advisor: Douglass Seaton)
Stetson University (DeLand, FL) 1998-2003
• B.M.E. Music Education (Instrumental Emphasis) Spring 2003

Conducting Experience
Whitman College
• Music Director – Whitman Orchestra 2012-Present
Invited performance at the Washington Music Educators Association, State Conference (2018)
Invited performance at the College Orchestra Directors Association, National Conference (2019)
Walla Walla Symphony Youth Orchestra
• Music Director 2014-Present
Walla Walla Symphony
• Primary Guest Conductor 2014-Present
The Florida State University
• Assistant Conductor – University Symphony Orchestra 2005-2006
• Assistant Conductor – University Philharmonia 2004-2006, 2010
• Guest Conductor – Florida State University New Music Ensemble Spring 2005
• Cover Conductor – Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestra Spring 2005
Stetson University
• Assistant Conductor – University Brass Ensemble Fall 2002
Workshops
• Conductors Institute of South Carolina– Fellow Summer 2006
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Classroom Teaching Experience
Whitman College – Associate Professor 2012-Present
• American Musical Identity in the Nineteenth Century
• Classical Music in Film
• Independent Study: Orchestral Conducting
• Independent Study: Thesis Preparation
• Introduction to Music Theory (Theory I)
• Music History I: Medieval-Baroque
• Music History II: Classic and Romantic
• Reading of Music (Theory fundamentals)
• Senior Seminar
• Symphonic Literature
Valencia College – Full Instructor 2010-2012
• Humanities: 20th Century
• Humanities: Enlightenment / Romanticism
• Humanities: Renaissance / Baroque
• Introduction to Humanities
• Introduction to Music Fundamentals
• Music Theory III
• Music Theory IV
• Studio Instruction: Horn
The Florida State University – Graduate Instructor 2005-2009
• Beginning Conducting
• History of Music I: Antiquity to 1750
• History of Music II: 1750 to the Present
• Music Appreciation: Introduction to Music of 18th-19th Centuries
• Survey of Music Literature

Publications
• Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Edition Collection: “Theodore Thomas: Selected Orchestral Arrangements,”
edited by Paul Luongo. In Recent Researches in American Music, A-R Editions, Inc., Summer 2017.
• Scholarly Edition: Theodore Thomas, Arrangements for Small Orchestra, Part 1: “Spring
Song” by Felix Mendelssohn, edited by Paul Luongo. In Special Publications, A-R Editions, Inc.,
Fall 2013.
• Scholarly Edition: Theodore Thomas, Arrangements for Small Orchestra, Part 2: Three Songs
by Ludwig van Beethoven, edited by Paul Luongo. In Special Publications, A-R Editions, Inc., Fall
2013.
• Scholarly Edition: Theodore Thomas, Arrangements for Small Orchestra, Part 3: Sonata in E
Major by J. S. Bach, edited by Paul Luongo. In Special Publications, A-R Editions, Inc., Fall 2013.
• Peer-Reviewed Article: “A Reassessment of Carl Friedrich Zelter's Compositional Career through his Viola
Concerto in E-flat Major.” In Haydn and His Contemporaries, edited by Sterling E. Murray. Ann Arbor:
Steglein Publishing, 2011.
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• Reference Article: “Klemperer, Otto.” In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition,
edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Reference Article: “Marriner, Sir Neville.” In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, second
edition, edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Reference Article: “Solti, Sir Georg.” In The New Grove Dictionary of American Music, second edition,
edited by Charles Hiroshi Garrett. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
• CD Liner Notes: Trumpeting the Stone, Christopher Moore, trumpet. Clarence, N.Y.: Mark Masters,
7394-MCD, May 15, 2008
• Program Notes: Florida State University Orchestras 2005-2007
• Program Notes: Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival Summer 2006

Conference Presentations
International Conferences
• “Theodore Thomas’s 1902 Performance of Bach’s B-Minor Mass: Working within the Grand American
Festival.”
International Symposium: Understanding Bach’s B-minor Mass, Belfast, Northern Ireland (November
2-4, 2007)
National Conferences
• “Editing and Reviving the Orchestral Arrangements of Theodore Thomas.”
The College Orchestra Directors Association, Los Angeles, California (February 1-3, 2018)
• “Finding the Sensational Amidst the Austere in the Concerts of Theodore Thomas.”
The College Orchestra Directors Association, Cleveland, Ohio (January 17-19, 2013)
• “Northern Chauvinism Meets Southern Populism at the 1899 Atlanta Musical Festival.”
The Converse Conference on Southern Culture, Spartanburg, South Carolina (April 11-14, 2012)
• “Achieving Financial Success with an American Orchestra: Mediating Art and Virtuosity with the Thomas
Orchestra.”
Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 3-6, 2011)
• “An Unlikely Cornerstone: The Role of Schumann’s Träumerei in the Success of the Thomas Orchestra.”
Society for American Music, Ottawa, Canada (March 17-21, 2010)
• “A Re-evaluation of Carl Friedrich Zelter's Compositional Style through His Viola Concerto in E-flat
Major.”
Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Claremont, California (February 29-March 2, 2008)
• “Hamlet: Clarification through Liszt's Own Letters.”
The College Music Society, San Antonio, Texas (September 14-17, 2006)

Article Referee Experience

Eras (Online journal, School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.)
• Double blind referee Spring 2014

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Invited Guest Lecturing and Conducting
• Conductor – College Orchestra Directors Association, Whitman Orchestra performance Spring 2019
• Conductor – Washington Music Educators Association, Jr. All-State Orchestra Spring 2019
• Conductor – Washington Music Educators Association, Whitman Orchestra performance Spring 2018
• Conductor & Lecturer – Anne Arundel Community College Spring 2017
• Conductor & Lecturer – Carthage College Spring 2017
• Conductor & Lecturer – Messiah College Spring 2017
• Conductor – University of Idaho Fall 2016

Clinician/Adjudication
• Adjudicator and Clinician – CBMEA Large Group Orchestra Festival Spring 2018
• Adjudicator and Clinician – CBMEA Large Group Orchestra Festival Spring 2017
• Adjudicator –Young Artists Competition (Mid-Columbia Symphony) Spring 2016
• Adjudicator and Clinician – Central Washington Univ. Orchestra Festival Spring 2016
• Adjudicator and Clinician – CBMEA Large Group Orchestra Festival Spring 2016
• Adjudicator – WMEA South West MS/HS String Festival Spring 2015

Grants, Awards, and Fellowships

• Paul Garrett Fellow (Whitman College) 2018-Present
“Awarded on the basis of several criteria, which include scholarly qualifications and a
high degree of demonstrated competence in teaching.”
• Cross-Disciplinary Learning and Teaching Initiative 2014
Participant: “Navigating the Intuitive: The Pedagogy of Creativity”
• Louis B. Perry Summer Research Award 2013
Grant for research with Whitman student, Cheney Doane: “Theodore Thomas:
Selected Orchestral Arrangements.” Published in the summer of 2017.
• Curtis Mayes Research Fellow 2009
Grant for dissertation research at the Newberry Library in Chicago and the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Malcolm Brown Paper Prize 2008
Annual prize for best student paper, Musicology, Florida State University
• Pi Kappa Lambda 2004
National Honor Society in Music
• Psi Chi 2002
National Honor Society in Psychology

Faculty and Professional Organization Committees

• Whitman Council on Student Affairs (elected faculty governance) 2018-2021
• Whitman Council on Academic Standards (elected faculty governance) 2018-2021
• Whitman Faculty Search Committee: Tenure-Track Choral Professor 2017
• College Orchestra Directors Association, Western region, President 2016
• College Orchestra Directors Association, Western region, Vice President 2015
• Whitman Faculty Search Committee: Visiting Asst. Prof. of Music (Ethnomusicology) 2015
• Whitman Council on Student Affairs (elected faculty governance) 2015-2018

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• Whitman Council on Academic Standards (elected faculty governance) 2015-2018
• Whitman Faculty Search Committee: Visiting Asst. Prof. of Music (Choral) 2015
• Whitman Fulbright (Teaching) Committee 2014
• Whitman Faculty Search Committee: Tenure-Track Ethnomusicology Professor 2013
• Whitman Faculty Search Committee: Tenure-Track Piano Professor 2012
• College Orchestra Directors Association, Western region, Secretary-Treasurer 2012-2014
• College Orchestra Directors Association, National Historian 2012-2014

Performance Instruction
• Orchestral Conducting: Anthony Hose (Stetson, 2001-2003) / Alexander Jiménez (FSU, 2003-2006)
• Horn: William Rogan (Stetson, 1998-2002) / William Capps (FSU, 2003-2004)
• Early Music—Recorder, Crumhorn, and Sackbut: Jeffery Kite-Powell (FSU, 2004-2008)

Primary Research Interests

American Music Narratology

American Orchestra (1850-1950) American Exceptionalism
Performance Practice Orchestral Transcription
Orchestral Repertoire Interdisciplinary Studies

Professional Affiliations
• American Musicological Society • National Association for Music Education
• College Music Society • Society for American Music
• College Orchestra Directors Association • Washington Music Educators Association
• League of American Orchestras

References
Douglass Seaton Rachel Chacko Edward Kawakami
Warren D. Allen Associate Professor of Music Assistant Professor of Music
Professor of Music History and Flute Director of Orch. Activities
Florida State University Whitman College Carthage College
College of Music 345 Boyer Ave. 2001 Alford Park Drive, JAC 114
Tallahassee, FL 32301-1180 Walla Walla, WA 99362 Kenosha WI 53140-1994
(850) 644-6545 (509) 527-5234 (262) 551-6565
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Alexander Jiménez Jeffery Kite-Powell

Professor of Conducting Coordinator and Professor of Musicology (retired)
Florida State University Florida State University
College of Music 4460 Charles Samuel Dr.
Tallahassee, FL 32301-1180 Tallahassee, FL 32309
(850) 644-3507 (850) 893-9502
[email protected] [email protected]
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