Music ed faculty have recordings published

Three members of the university's Department of Music Education faculty have released compact disk recordings or had their compositions appear on CDs recently.

Mark Applebaum, assistant professor, wrote and performed the compositions for Mousetrap Music, published by Innova Records in 1996. Applebaum performed the collection of "sound sculpture improvisations" on electro-acoustic instruments.

Applebaum has performed extensively with improvisational trios. In 1997, he received the American Music Center's Stephen Albert Award.

He holds a bachelor's degree from Carleton College and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California at San Diego.

Assistant professor Gail Levinsky is a founding member of the VISION Quartet, whose 1995 recording, Conicality, features works by Adler, Xenakis, Bubalo, and Steel.

She has performed throughout the United States, most recently at the 1998 Biennial Conference of the North American Saxophone Alliance.

Levinsky holds a bachelor's degree from Butler University and master's and doctoral degrees from Northwestern University.

Professor Douglas McConnell's piece for solo piano, Nocturne, appears on the CD Contemporary American Electric Music for the Piano, Volume 4. The collection is being distributed by Centaur Records and New Ariel Recordings.

McConnell, who is the department's composer-in-residence, received a doctoral degree from the University of Cincinnati. He received the MSU Alumni Association's 1993 Faculty Achievement Award for Lower Level Teaching and in 1996 won a Grisham Faculty Achievement Award.