Dr. Stephen EavesDean, College of Music & Performing ArtsView BioDr. Stephen Eaves serves as Dean and Professor of Music for Belmont University’s renowned College of Music and Performing Arts (CMPA). Dean Eaves brings to his position more than 25 years of arts leadership, teaching, and performing. As a leader in the arts he has worked in planning, renovating and building arts facilities; cultivating partnerships in the community; securing financial support outside the university; developing engaging curriculum, and cultivating relevant, entrepreneurial career paths for student artists and performers. He is actively engaged in the arts community as an advocate and board member. Dean Eaves has been recognized for outstanding teaching at three universities and influenced the path of numerous successful students. As a conductor and performer, his choral ensembles have been invited to perform in prestigious national and international venues including Speyer Cathedral (Germany), St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Austria), Coventry Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, the Clare College Chapel (Great Britain) and Carnegie Hall (NY). Dr. Eaves has prepared choirs and conducted collaborative performances with professional orchestras in Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, New York and Arkansas.
Dr. Eaves earned degrees in music education and conducting from Union University, the University of Mississippi and the University of South Carolina. He is an active member of several professional organizations including the International Council of Fine Arts Deans, National Association of Schools of Music, the College Music Society, National Association of Music Education and the American Choral Directors Association. Prior to his service at Belmont University, he served as the Fine Arts Division Chair at Friends University in Wichita, Kansas and held positions as faculty and department administrator for universities in Texas and Arkansas.
Dean Eaves looks forward to his work to lead and serve more than 160 faculty and staff and 900 students in College of Music and Performing Arts’ music, theatre and dance programs.
Dr. Jane DuncanAssociate Dean, College of Music & Performing ArtsView BioDr. Jane G. Duncan holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from Florida State University, an MFA in Acting from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a BA in Theatre from the University of Dayton. Dr. Duncan has worked as a theatre educator for students ranging in age from 4-90, with appointments at the University of Central Arkansas, Barry University, and Nova Southeastern University (NSU), where in 2011 she was recognized with the Adjunct Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Duncan served NSU from 2006 to 2018 in several different roles; she worked on a Department of Education Title V Grant, was Director of Accreditation, and finished as Executive Director of Assessment and Accreditation. Dr. Duncan’s administrative experience spans academic affairs, with special emphasis on academic program review, assessment of student learning outcomes, curriculum development, faculty development, and oversight of compliance with regional (specifically SACSCOC), specialized, and professional accrediting standards.
Dr. Duncan’s creative work encompasses arts administration, dramaturgy, vocal/dialect coaching, and performing as founder and collaborator for Mangrove Creative Collective, Managing Artistic Director/Resident Dramaturg for The Promethean Theatre, dramaturg for new plays by Christopher Demos-Brown, Juan C. Sanchez, Andrew Rosendorf, and Ricky J. Martinez, and collaborations with Florida Stage, New Theatre, Mosaic Theatre, Thinking Cap Theatre, and Zoetic Stage.
Dr. Duncan’s scholarship includes invited presentations and facilitations at international, national, and regional theatre conferences. Dr. Duncan is the co-chair for the Assessment Subcommittee for the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), is published in the Scarecrow Press anthology Theatre and Dance in Eastern Europe: The Changing Scene, has a forthcoming publication in Palgrave Press’ New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts, and is an Associate Editor for the online journal The Qualitative Report.
College of Music & Performing Arts Staff
School of Music
Jeremy LaneDirectorView BioDr. Jeremy S. Lane, Director of the School of Music, oversees all aspects of degree programs, curriculum, and day-to-day- operations. Prior to his appointment at Belmont, Dr. Lane served as Chair of the Department of Music at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and on the music education faculty at the University of South Carolina.
Dr. Lane is the founding director of the Congaree New Horizons Band, a program for adult music learners. His primary research activities have focused on adult music learning, and he had published in leading journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, the International Journal of Community Music, and the Journal of Band Research. He has presented his work at numerous events across the country and internationally, and is the author of a chapter on assessment of adult amateur musicians in an upcoming series to be published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He is co-author (with Scott Rush) of the book Quality of Life Habits of A Successful Band Director, published by GIA.
He is a graduate of New Mexico State University, Baylor University, and earned his Ph.D. in Music Education from Louisiana State University. He and his wife Hallie live in Nashville with their two boys, Griffin and Rhys.
Contact: jeremy.lane@belmont.edu
Jeff KirkAssociate DirectorView BioDr. Jeff Kirk is the Associate Director (Performance Studies) of the School of Music at Belmont University. He joined the Belmont faculty in 1987 and teaches courses in advance contemporary arranging and directs the Jazz Band I - Belmont's premiere jazz ensemble.
Dr. Kirk completed his Doctorate of Education at the University of Memphis, Department of Leadership with an emphasis in Higher Education Administration, received his Master of Music in Music Education from Belmont University and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami. He is a member of the Tennessee Touring Artists Program, member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and a former officer for the International Association of Jazz Educators. He was the director of the 1994 Tennessee All State Jazz Band and also currently serves as a high school woodwind clinician. Professor Kirk has extensive recording experience including: Dion, Firefall, Kenny Rogers, Niteflyte, and others. He also has recorded television jingles for Ford, Toyota, Crook and Chase theme, and several local and national retail stores. As a live performer, he has toured with Pure Prairie League and Maynard Ferguson, and has been the headline act for Big Orange Jazz Festival, Fort Lauderdale Festival, Ringling Brothers-Sarasota Jazz Festival, Kool Jazz Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Summer Lights Festival and more. He has also opened for such acts as Bobby McFerrin, Stanley Turrentine, and Mark Murphy.
Dr. Kirk was nominated in two Grammy categories (best jazz album and best jazz instrumental solo) for his album entitled Clouds (Jazz Mania Records). He has been nominated for the Nashville Music Award and was selected as Middle Tennessee 1995 Jazz Musician of the year. His new album project for 88 Grand Productions, Come Thou Fount, is a collaborative effort with keyboardist Russell Davis.
Contact: jeff.kirk@belmont.edu
Joel TreybigAssistant Director of Graduate StudiesView BioDr. Joel Treybig is Professor of Trumpet in the Belmont University School of Music where he works with undergraduate and graduate trumpet students, performs with the Belmont Brass Quintet, and directs brass ensembles. Treybig serves as the Assistant Director of the School of Music and coordinates the graduate program within Belmont’s School of Music. He has performed with symphony orchestras in Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas and has performed as principal trumpet with Nashville Opera and Nashville Ballet, with the Nashville Symphony, and with numerous pit orchestras and chamber groups. He is an active solo recitalist and clinician and has performed as a guest artist throughout the United States, including diverse venues such as CBDNA and TMEA conferences, International Trumpet Guild conferences, the Midwest Trumpet Festival, Spivey Hall, Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts, and the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast. He performs frequently in and around Nashville as a freelance performer, regularly with the Belmont Brass Quintet, and is an active studio musician for film and video game soundtracks.
His performances of contemporary music have earned the praise of such American composers as John Cheetham, Eric Ewazen, Stanley Friedman, Stephen Michael Gryc, Karel Husa, Anthony Plog, and Joan Tower. Kent Kennan, upon hearing Treybig play his sonata, wrote "A first-rate trumpet player! I wish all performances of this piece sounded as good!" and Anthony Plog wrote of Treybig "A great player, and great interpretation of Four Themes..." after hearing his performance of Plog's 4 Themes on Paintings of Edvard Munch. Treybig's doctoral treatise, An Investigation and Analysis of Karel Husa's Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Orchestra, was praised by Dr. Husa as being exceptional and wrote that he considered the treatise to be "one of the most conscientious research documents on any of my compositions."
Treybig received his Doctor of Musical Arts in performance from the University of Texas at Austin, his Master of Music in performance from the University of Akron and his Bachelor of Music Education from Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music and has also completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. His Primary teachers include Mary Squire, James Darling, David Duro, Scott Johnston, Murray Greig, and Raymond Crisara. His articles and music reviews have been published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and he has published multiple compositions and arrangements that are published by Eighth Note Publications. His biography has been listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among American Teachers and was selected for inclusion in David Hickman’s Trumpet Greats: A Biographical Dictionary. Treybig’s solo, chamber, and orchestral performances have been broadcast on public radio throughout the southeast, and he has recorded two CDs, entitled Lux et Lapis – Music for Two Trumpets and Organ, and Awakenings, with Adam Hayes, trumpet, and Andrew Risinger, organ. He has also recorded a CD of music for solo trumpet and organ with Andrew Risinger entitled Rhapsodia Sacra. Treybig is a Yamaha Performing Artist and performs exclusively on Yamaha instruments.
- Bach - J. S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No, 2, mvt. III: Allegro assai: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjnf13DJb6A
- Williams – With Malice Toward None: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r6as77sRrg
- Treybig – “Prince of Denmark’s March” Fantasy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGgxjZnTvtE
- traditional – Amazing Grace (arr. Treybig): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vual-mgnTg
Contact: (615) 460-6079 or joel.treybig@belmont.edu
Department of Theatre & Dance
Brent MaddoxDepartment ChairView BioBrent Maddox is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance. Along with directing responsibilities for the program, Brent teaches voice and movement, period style acting, and stage combat classes for the BFA Actor training program. Before arriving at Belmont, Brent served on the Artistic staff at the Gainesville Theatre Alliance where he coached voice and movement style for multiple productions including An Ideal Husband directed by Gay Hammond, and Equus directed by Georgia Shakespeare’s Artistic Director, Richard Garner. While at GTA, Brent taught classes and workshops in voice for the actor, Laban movement analysis, mask characterization, Viewpoints, commedia dell’arte, and stage combat (unarmed and rapier).
As an educator, he served as the Department Chair and Artistic Director at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, TX for two years, where he was an active member in the Southwest Theatre Association and the Texas Education Theatre Association.
His professional theatre experience includes performing with companies across the U.S. such as The Main Street Theatre in Quakertown, PA; The Lincoln Amphitheatre in Lincoln, IN; The North Country Center for the Arts in Lincoln, NH; the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, TX and, most recently as Vincent in Vincent in Brixton with Actors Bridge Ensemble in Nashville, TN. His directing credits include the recent production of Belmont University’s Tartuffe and Antigone for the Belmont Repertory Company; Romeo & Juliet, Children of Eden, Smokey Joe’s Café, and The Front Page for the Gainesville Theatre Alliance in Gainesville, GA.
Brent has earned degrees in Theatre from Gainesville College, Brenau University, and the University of Alabama, where he completed his Master of Fine Arts in Theatre with an emphasis in acting. While at UA, he studied movement with Laban specialist, Tiza Garland and received “Actor Combatant” recognition from the Society of American Fight Directors under the instruction of certified teacher, Robert Wesley.
As an acting member in the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA), Brent regularly attends voice and movement workshops throughout the country. He has studied voice and movement with such professionals as master teacher and creator Catherine Fitzmaurice of the Fitzmaurice Voiceworks; certified master teacher Nancy Krebbs in the Lessac Approach; master teachers Louis Colaianni and Dave Demko in Linklater Voicework; master teacher Ragnar Freidank in the Michael Chekhov Technique; and Commedia dell’arte with Fabrizio Paladin at the Actor’s Movement Studio, NYC. His most recent professional engagement included working with world-renowned voice and acting coach, Patsy Rodenburg at the Michael Howard Studio in New York.