Vocal Jazz

Dr. Sheryl Monkelien

Sheryl Monkelien is currently an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Education at Mansfield University, in Mansfield, Pennsylvania.  She teaches elementary and secondary methods, supervises student teachers, teaches graduate courses in music education and directs the Mansfieldians – Vocal Jazz.  

Dr. Monkelien received her BM (music education) from Iowa State University, and her MM (choral conducting) and PhD (music education) from The University of Nebraska.  She also studied for two years at the Phil Mattson School of Music with vocal jazz educator Phil Mattson.  Before coming to Pennsylvania, she taught music at the elementary, middle, high school and college levels in Iowa, Washington, Massachusetts, North Dakota, and Nebraska. 

Dr. Monkelien is an experienced jazz singer, conductor and clinician.  Her vocal jazz ensembles have performed at numerous festivals, state and regional conferences; and in 2006, the Mansfieldians performed in the Tenth Annual Vocal Jazz Festival at Carnegie Hall with guest conductor Phil Mattson.  She has presented sessions at PMEA, ACDA-PA, and IAJE conferences, has presented to directors at PA Regional and District Chorus and Professional Development Conferences, has guest conducted several PMEA District vocal jazz ensembles, conducted the 2007 Pennsylvania All-State Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and presented at the 2007 Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.  Her paper The Influence of Phil Mattson on Vocal Jazz Education in America was published in IAJE’s 2004 Jazz Research Proceedings Yearbook.  She currently serves as Coordinator of All State Jazz for PMEA, and as ACDA Eastern Division Vocal Jazz Repertoire & Standards Chair.

Dr. Monkelien, as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, and The Boston Pops Orchestra under conductors Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Roger Norrington, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Helmuth Rilling and John Williams, and has appeared on several PBS Evening with Pops television specials.

Jazz Band

Dr. Michael Galloway

Dr. H. Michael Galloway - Jazz Ensemble/Trumpet - BME, Baldwin-Wallace College; MM, New England Conservatory; DMA, Hartt College. Dr. Galloway's jazz teaching includes courses in improvisation and arranging. He also conducts the award-winning MU Jazz Ensemble, which has appeared at major festivals, conferences, and conventions. He has performed with the U.S. Marine Band, National Gallery Orchestra, Duluth-Superior, Elmira, and Williamsport Symphonies, and at the White House, Kennedy Center, Wolf-Trap, and Smithsonian. Recordings include Nineteenth Century Ballroom Music on keyed bugle (Nonesuch), and the Mansfield Brass Quintet CD Voluntary, on which many of the selections are his arrangements. He recently arranged Duke Ellington's Come Sunday for the Mansfieldians Vocal Jazz ensemble.