Faculty and Staff

Fred Dade

Fred Dade is Assistant Professor of Music at Shippensburg University where he teaches Introduction to Music, Fundamental Music Skills, and is the conductor of the Inspirational Chorale, a choral ensemble that sings African American gospel music. A native of Chicago, Mr. Dade is currently pursuing completion of the Ph.D. Degree from the University of Michigan, Anne Arbor. Prior to relocating to Pennsylvania, Mr. Dade served as a Teaching Assistant in the School of Music at the University of Michigan, and served as the Minister of Music at Amistad Community Church - United Church of Christ in Ann Arbor. Mr. Dade directed college gospel choirs at Aurora University (IL) and Concordia University (IL), and founded, accompanied, and directed the Gospel Choir at Wheaton College (IL). Additionally, Mr. Dade worked with the church choirs in the Chicago area, including the First Progressive Church of Christ, and he taught elementary general music in the Chicago public schools for seven years. Mr. Dade has extensive experience accompanying many different types of choirs and soloists, including the opportunity to accompany mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson for a recital in February 2002, as well as accompanying George Shirley, Professor of Voice at the University of Michigan. He studied piano with Lynn Bartholomew and Louis Nagel, and he holds the Master of Music Degree in Music Education from Roosevelt University and the Bachelor of Science Degree from Wheaton College.

Trever R. Famulare

Trever R. Famulare is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Shippensburg University.  Mr. Famulare joined the faculty in the Fall of 2001 and is integrally involved with the instrumental music program at the university.  He is the director of the Red Raider Marching Band, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Brass Chamber Ensemble, and teaches various academic courses within the Department of Music and Theatre Arts.  Mr. Famulare also serves as the advisor for Shippensburg’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national band service fraternity.  In 2002, he reorganized and currently performs across the region in the Cumberland Brass Quintet.

Mr. Famulare has been distinguished as an honorary member of the Syracuse University’s Eta Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Sigma, a national band service sorority and Shippensburg University’s Lambda Delta chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi.  He also has professional membership in several musical groups, including the Music Educators National Conference, the New York State School Music Association, and is the current President for the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association.

A New York native, Mr. Famulare received his Bachelor’s degree from the College of St. Rose, and earned his Graduate degree from Syracuse University.  Prior to his appointment at Shippensburg University, he successfully served as a public high school band director for 13 years in central New York.  Mr. Famulare also served as a special consultant to the “Pride of the Orange” Syracuse University Marching Band for several years.  In addition, he continues to actively serve as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator at festivals across the eastern region.

He lives in Shippensburg, PA with his wife Marybeth and daughters Alana and Hannah.

Mark Hartman

Mark Hartman  Assistant Professor

Margaret Lucia

Margaret Lucia is Associate Professor of Music at Shippensburg University and teaches Introduction to Music, Theory I and II, Class Piano I and II, and Women in Music. Receiving the Ph.D. Degree from the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Lucia is a versatile teacher and performer of the piano who has premiered several new music works, appearing at festivals in Kyoto, Japan, California and the Midwest, as well as at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. In addition, she has presented lecture recitals on music by women throughout the United States, most recently in Atlanta and Kansas City. Dr. Lucia performed concertos by Mozart and Franck with Shippensburg University's Summer Festival Orchestra in July of 2001. While in California, she was the pianist in chamber music seminars with Rafael Druian and a performer with the San Diego Museum of Art Chamber Ensemble and SONOR, a contemporary music ensemble. Her teachers have included Aube Tzerko at UCLA and the Aspen Music Festival, and Marion Hall, Gyorgy Sebok, and Gunther Ludwig at Indiana University. She has taught at the University of Redlands, the University of California, San Diego, and Grinnell College in Iowa, and holds a bachelor and master degree in piano from Indiana University.

Dennis Ritz

Dennis Ritz is Professor of Music at Shippensburg University and directs the Shippensburg University-Community Orchestra and Woodwind Ensembles. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in orchestral conducting from Michigan State University and the Master of Music Education Degree from Mansfield University (PA). His graduate concentrations also include oboe and English horn performance, music theory, and composition. Dr. Ritz is a composer and the author of materials, including Preband and Lettersongs, for students' first experiences with wind and percussion instruments. He is a College/University Music Education program reviewer for the Pennsylvania Department of Education and president of the Board of Trustees at the New England Music Camp. He is listed in the 2002 and 2004 editions of Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Dr. Ritz is also an avid antique collector and instrument rated pilot.

Blaine Shover

Blaine Shover is Professor of Music at Shippensburg University and conducts the Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers, is Musical Director for the Music Theatre, and serves as the Artistic Director and Conductor of the Summer Music Festival at Shippensburg University. Receiving the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree from the University of Illinois, Dr. Shover is also the founder-director of the S.U. Festival Chamber Choir, an ensemble of professional vocalists, is Choir Director at Christ United Methodist Church in Shippensburg, PA, and is the Director of the Concord Chamber Singers of Bethlehem, PA, a touring ensemble that has performed extensively in Europe and will tour Luxemburg, Belgium, and the Netherlands in June 2003. In addition to his artistic and conducting responsibilities, Dr. Shover teaches upper level history courses in the Renaissance/Baroque, Classical/Romantic, and Twentieth Century, as well as Introduction to Music. He also holds the Master of Music Degree from Temple University, and serves as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator at numerous choral and orchestra festivals in New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.

Paris Peet

Paris Peet teaches performance classes at Shippensburg. He holds an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of South Carolina. He is a member of Actors Equity Association and has appeared at regional and summer theatres that include The Alley Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre, The Charlotte Repertory Company, The Houston Shakespeare Festival, The East Carolina Playhouse and Totem Pole Playhouse. Paris also works with ballet and theatre companies as a fight arranger. He has directed fight scenes for Columbia City Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet and Richard II at the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger. At Shippensburg University, Paris choreographed fights for My Voice is my Sword, an adaptation of Shakespearean history plays that toured to area schools. Paris was a teaching artist at The Delaware Institute for the Arts in Education where he appeared in productions of L’Histoire du’Soldat and Old Times. He has been a guest artist at Miami University of Ohio where he directed fight scenes for Romeo and Juliet under the direction of Stan Brown. Paris is a Full Professor of Theatre at Shippensburg University and was a co-producer and director for Shippensburg University’s Second Stage Theatre Ensemble until 2006. Paris is also active in Shippensburg University’s Interdisciplinary Arts Program.

Paul Leitner

Paul Leitner - After receiving the Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Nebraska, Paul Leitner joined the Theatre Arts department in 1990.  Since then, he has designed scenery for over 35 Shippensburg University academic theatre productions.  Dr. Leitner has also enjoyed directing five plays (Oleanna, Tracers, Someone to Watch Over Me, The States of US, and My Voice is My Sword for the academic producing ensemble: Second Stage.

During his tenure at Shippensburg, Dr. Leitner has also designed and built three temporary laboratory spaces for theatre training at the university: a 40 seat acting/classroom in Stewart Hall, an 80 seat thrust stage in the University’s former television studio, and a 70 seat hybrid proscenium space at the Shippensburg Borough’s community center.

Dr. Leitner is a Full Professor of Theatre and teaches classes in Introduction to Theatre and Theatre History.