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Published on: 8/8/2002
Last Visited: 4/11/2003
Alice Cavanaugh
The Music Department at Suffolk's Ammerman Campus has found a new voice and it belongs to Alice Cavanaugh.Although both of her parents teach music-her father is a university professor in Rhode Island, while her mother teaches at a small, private elementary school-Alice notes that she did not consider a career in the field until she went to college.During her sophomore year at Smith College in Massachusetts, she was inspired and influenced by her choral director and she went on to take conducting classes and even assisted the director in her senior year.After graduating from Smith in 1995, Alice enrolled in the graduate program at Indiana University's prestigious School of Music.She received her Master's from Indiana in 1997 and then spent the next two years teaching at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire.She admits that Phillips Exeter was "an intense experience"; since it is a boarding school, both students and faculty live on campus and teachers literally "live the job."Alice points out, however, that this immersion helped her to refine and hone her teaching abilities.She also met her husband while she was there.She moved on to the D.M.A. (Doctor of Musical Arts) program at Stony Brook in 1999 and impressively completed her doctoral degree by 2001.She taught for one year at Concordia College in Bronxville and finally came to Suffolk in the fall of 2002, although she continues to commute from Westchester to Selden on a daily basis.
Alice is impressed with the music program at Suffolk particularly because she believes that it provides music majors with a solid foundation for more advanced study.Not only does she work with the College Choir and the Suffolk Singers, but she is also the Director of the Community Chorus in Babylon, which boasts an impressive 50-year history.Alice would love to see more faculty get involved with the College Choir because she sees it as a more informal opportunity for faculty to get to know the students and she also thinks that it would help with student retention.Ultimately, she would like to develop the choir so that it could perform for the community and so that more people could hear what Suffolk and what Alice are all about!
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