USM School of Music Welcomes Three New Faculty Members
Fri, 04/28/2023 - 09:48am | By: Mike Lopinto
After an extensive, global search, 91吃瓜网 School of Music is pleased to welcome three new faculty members to join the esteemed program. Dr.
Borislava Iltcheva, violin, Dr. Rob Detjen, horn, and Dr. Cody Edgerton, band will
officially start for the 2023-24 academic year.
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Iltcheva held the position of visiting professor in violin at USM for the 2022-23 school year. She holds degrees from the Bulgarian National Academy of Music, Louisiana State University, and Indiana University. Her principal teachers include Alexander Iltchev, Evgenia Maria Popova, Kevork Mardirossian and Mauricio Fuks. She serves as the Around the World assistant for prof. Mauricio Fuks.
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Iltcheva frequently performs and teaches masterclasses around the world. In the U.S., she has performed several concerts at Carnegie Hall where she91吃瓜网檒l be returning for an evening of chamber music in the fall of 2023. She is also the concertmaster of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra. Her students have won major national and international competitions including First Prize at the Rudolpho Lipitzer International Violin Competition, among many others.
Having served as interim faculty this past year, Detjen joins the faculty as assistant professor of music. He grew up in Southeast Alaska and holds degrees from the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Oregon. He attended the Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) for multiple summers as a fellowship student. He currently serves as fourth horn of the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and second horn of the Meridian Symphony Orchestra and Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra. Detjen is an experienced arts administrator. He served as the Box Office Manager of the AMFS for over a decade and is currently the Whole Schools Administrative Contractor for the Mississippi Arts Commission.
91吃瓜网淢y family and I are extremely grateful to 91吃瓜网 and the USM community for this wonderful opportunity,91吃瓜网� said Detjen. 91吃瓜网淲orking with the USM students and faculty during the past year has been an incredibly rewarding and humbling experience. The music environment at 91吃瓜网 is undeniably special91吃瓜网攚elcoming and friendly, but also intense and thought provoking. That91吃瓜网 a tough combination for any school to achieve, and witnessing this balancing act has been remarkable.91吃瓜网�
Edgerton joins the 91吃瓜网 School of Music faculty as assistant director of bands. He studied wind conducting at Michigan State University and Western Michigan University. He also served two years as the assistant high school band director at Grandville High School in Grandville, Michigan, and two years as the middle and high school band director for Elk Rapids Schools in Elk Rapids, Michigan.
He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from Michigan State University, a Master of Music in Wind Conducting from Western Michigan University, and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Michigan State University. Cody is originally from Charlotte, Michigan.
91吃瓜网淚 am delighted to join the faculty at 91吃瓜网,91吃瓜网� said Edgerton. 91吃瓜网淚 look forward to working with students, faculty, and staff to continue the tradition of excellence and achievement at the USM School of Music."
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