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DENNIS G. WARING, Ph.D. Professional Profile Dr. Dennis Waring is founder and owner of Waring Music. Dr. Waring is an ethnomusicologist, educator, author, instrument maker, collector, performer, and arts consultant. He teaches World Music, American Music, and Music Education courses on the university level, and is involved in public education in primary, middle, and high schools. Upon receiving a Bachelor's of Music Education from the University of Kansas (`67), he taught in public schools in Missouri, New Jersey, Vermont, and Manitoba, Canada. After earning his doctorate from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (`87), Waring taught at Wesleyan, Brown University, Trinity University, University of Connecticut, and other regional state universities. His World Music Teacher Institutes often take him from coast to coast. He recently returned from a four month journey around the world as shipboard ethnomusicologist with the University of Pittsburgh's Semester At Sea program and was even on MTV's "Road Rules"! Waring has authored six books with two more on the way. Subject matter ranges from building home-made instruments and playing the Brazilian samba to treatises on Victorian reed organs and making electric guitars. His performance interests are equally diverse. At home with all musical styles-folk to fusion-he often performs using his own hand-crafted instruments. As a Connecticut Commission On the Arts Master Teaching Artist and official Connecticut State Troubadour for 2003 - 2004, Waring regularly tours the east coast presenting educational programs for audiences of all ages. He also performs with the world music ensemble, Sirius Coyote. Presently, he is launching a manufacturing effort to supply inexpensive instruments for classrooms. ETHNOMUSICOLOGIST: General World Music and Euro-American Classical, Folk, and Popular Music. Expertise in Latin American, West African and East Asian music and music of the United States, Canada and Europe. Other specialty areas include Organology, Folklore and Popular Culture of the USA. MUSIC EDUCATOR: Over thirty years experience as a music educator. Multicultural specialist.. Consultant in curricular development and teacher education. PERFORMER AND PRESENTER: Multi-instrumentalist musician: classical, folk, jazz, ethnic. Multicultural workshops and concert performances. Artist/scholar residencies in various institutions. Educational in-service facilitator and conference presenter. INSTRUMENT MAKER: Maker of traditional and original musical instruments. Authored six publications on instrument making. COMPOSER AND ARRANGER: Soundtrack projects for video documentaries and instructional media. Productions include several audio tapes and CDs.
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