Faculty and Staff
Trever R. Famulare
Trever R. Famulare is Department Chair, 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, Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Brass Chamber Ensemble, and teaches various academic courses within the Department of Music and Theatre Arts. Beginning in 2020, he assumed the responsibilities as the Artistic Director of the Shippensburg Summer Music Festival. Mr. Famulare also serves as the advisor for Shippensburg's chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national band service fraternity.
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 organizations including the Music Educators National Conference, the New York State School Music Association, and is a member and current Vice-President for the Pennsylvania Collegiate Bandmasters Association.
A New York native, Mr. Famulare received his Bachelor's degree from the College of St. Rose (New York), and earned his Graduate degree from Syracuse University (New York). 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. He continues to actively serve as guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator at festivals across the eastern region.
Karin J. Bohleke
Since 2007, Karin J. Bohleke has served as the director of the Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University. She holds a Ph.D. in French language and literature from Yale University, and also serves periodically as an adjunct professor of French at Shippensburg. She formerly worked at Hood College in Frederick, MD, where she taught French, Russian, Classical Mythology, and Humanities for the graduate school. In addition to authoring multiple exhibit catalogs, she has presented her continuing historical costume research at annual symposia of the Costume Society of America as well as published in Dress, The Daguerreian Annual, American Periodicals, Civil War Historian, and Costume. Her research interests focus on the nineteenth century and include fashion, early photography, pre-Tutankhamun Egyptomania fashions for women, the dissemination of French fashions in the United States, and women’s travel accounts of journeys to Egypt. Her current research projects involve the study of clothing in nineteenth-century photos of African Americans, both enslaved and free, as well as the use of fashion as an ideological function of modernity in early sixteenth-century Reformation pamphlets and women’s portraits.
She has been an avid seamstress, embroiderer, and lace-maker since childhood, and she uses her advanced needle skills in textile conservation and restoration. She and her husband teach Civil War and historic social dancing, proctor balls, and lecture and perform. Together they collect vintage clothing, fashion magazines in French and English, early cased images, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and dance-related paper ephemera and use their resources to teach others about American material culture.
Fred Dade
Fred Dade is Assistant Professor of Music at Shippensburg University where he teaches Introduction to Music, Fundamental Music Skills, Class Piano, and American 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.
Mark L. Hartman
Mark L. Hartman is Associate Professor of Music and Director of the University-Community Orchestra at Shippensburg University. Dr. Hartman has taught at Central College, Houghton College, Wake Forest University, and the Winston-Salem public schools. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Violin Performance and the Master of Music degree in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he studied violin with Katie Lansdale and Rachel Huang. Earlier studies were with Elaine Richey and Vartan Manoogian at the North Carolina School of the Arts. He has also studied Suzuki Pedagogy with William Starr and has done post-doctoral studies in violin literature and pedagogy with Charles Castleman at the Eastman School of Music, Burton Kaplan of the Manhattan School of Music and baroque performance practice with Stanley Ritchie at Indiana University. He has been Concertmaster of the Southern Tier (New York) and the Oskaloosa (Iowa) Symphonies, Assistant Concertmaster of the Salisbury (North Carolina) Symphony and a member of the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad and the Greensboro Symphonies. Since 1993 he has been a regular performer at the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival and also currently performs with the Shippensburg Festival Orchestra and the Gettysburg Chamber orchestra.
Dr. Hartman has served as an adjudicator for competitions in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Iowa. He has a particular interest in performing, teaching, and researching the use of string instruments in jazz. He has presented his work towards creating developmental study materials for string players based on jazz harmonies to American String Teachers Association national conferences in Reno and Kansas City. He has studied jazz pedagogy with Jamey Aebersold and jazz string performance with the Turtle Island String Quartet. He has also performed on mandolin, guitar, and banjo for performances by the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra, the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony, and the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival.
Paul Leitner
Paul Leitner is Professor of Theatre Arts at Shippensburg and teaches courses in Introduction to Theatre, Theatre History and Children’s Theatre. A native of Baltimore, he received the Ph.D. in Theatre History and Criticism from the University of Nebraska and joined the Theatre Arts department in 1990. At Shippensburg, he has designed scenery for over 35 theatre productions and functioned as co-producer for the University's Second Stage Academic Theatre Ensemble.
For nine years, Dr. Leitner, served as co-director of The Little Princess Playhouse. The playhouse produced over 40 children’s theatre productions in a performance space located in Shippensburg’s historic Stewart Hall. Productions included Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Snarls, and A Princess Christmas.
Currently, Paul and Gretchen Leitner collaborate with the third grade students enrolled in Grace B. Luhrs Elementary School and undergraduates from the College of Education to provide educational theatre experiences. Elementary Education majors explore dramatic arts, improve student literacy, grow confidence within the classroom setting, and foster an appreciation for the arts. Production topics include: Greek myths, Shakespeare and classic children’s literature.
Dr. Leitner lives in Shippensburg with his wife Gretchen and daughter Rose. He enjoys architecture and civil war relic hunting.
Margaret Lucia
Pianist Margaret Lucia performs a wide range of keyboard repertoire, from the traditional—concertos of Mozart and Beethoven and romantic works of Chopin and Schumann—to the highly gestural, uniquely tonal or atonal compositions of contemporary composers. A passionate advocate of new music, she has premiered several works, appearing at festivals and in concert throughout the United States as well as in Japan and Europe. As a Fulbright Scholar in 2016-17, she collaborated with women composers in Spain, and performed their works in several concerts in Madrid, Salamanca, and Palma de Mallorca. She was invited to return to Spain in 2019 for a concert tour, in which she presented contemporary works by both Spanish and American women composers. This tour was partially supported by a Seed Grant from the New York Women Composers in NYC. In November, 2011, she was a featured performer on the Festival Internacional de Música Contemporanea in Havana and has recorded music by Cuban women composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. in 2009 she formed the Vox Terra Ensemble, which performs new chamber music works in honor of Earth Day, as well as additional concerts throughout the year. In June of 2003, she performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in New York City with tenor Jon Robert Cart in a joint recital featuring vocal and solo piano music of Spain and Latin America; they performed there again in May 2005, in works by Mexican composers of the 20th century. As a member of the Lucia Duo, she has performed frequently with her husband, violinist Anthony Lucia, including a concert of the violin and piano sonatas of Joaquin Turina in Spain in 2005. Lucia’s performances of music by women are many and widespread. She performed works by American composer Anna Rubin and Greek composer Sofia Kamiyanna in Flagstaff, Arizona in September, 2011. In 2002, she appeared at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. for the International Alliance of Women in Music’s Annual chamber music festival. She performed music of contemporary Japanese women at the Universität in Zurich in 2007, and the music of Cuban women for the American Musicological Society Conference in Quebec, also in 2007. In addition, Dr. Lucia has appeared in lecture-recitals of contemporary and historical piano music by women composers in Vancouver, New York, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Portland, Salt Lake City, and San Antonio, as well as many other U.S. cities. While completing her Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego, Dr. Lucia was the pianist in chamber music seminars conducted by violinist Rafael Druian, was keyboardist with the San Diego Symphony and a frequent performer with the San Diego Museum of Art Chamber Ensemble and SONOR, a contemporary music ensemble. Her teachers have included the late Aube Tzerko at the University of California, Los Angeles and Aspen Music Festival, and Marion Hall, Gyorgy Sebok, Gunther Ludwig, and Zhanna Arshanskaya Dawson. Currently a Professor in the Department of Music and Theatre Arts at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania, she has also taught at the University of Redlands, the University of California, San Diego, and Grinnell College in Iowa.
Chris Ritter
Wind conductor and saxophonist Chris Ritter (b. 1985) has established himself as an active educator and musician in Pennsylvania and Southern New England.
Committed to the pursuit of great music for winds and percussion, he has programmed works by Gabrieli, Mendelssohn, Grainger, Ives, Colgrass, Ticheli and many others. Chris is currently the Director of Bands at Waynesboro Area Senior High School (PA; 2013 to present) and an adjunct instructor at Shippensburg University (PA; 2014-present), where he conducts/coaches single reed chamber ensembles. Prior to completing graduate study as assistant to his mentor, Dennis Glocke, Chris taught at the Lehigh Valley Charter High School for the Performing Arts (Bethlehem, PA), served as Interim Director of Bands at East Stroudsburg High School South (PA), and was a substitute music teacher in the greater Pittsburgh area. As a dedicated faculty member of the Honors Music Institute at Penn State (formerly, Summer Music at Penn State), he served as Head Counselor (2013), Academic Coordinator (2012), Saxophone Instructor (2007), Academic Elective Instructor (2006-2008), and Counselor (2005-2008).
Previous solo performances have featured the works of Desenclos, Yoshimatsu, Mobberley, Rogers, Noda, et al. Chris was a performing member of the Rhode Island Wind Ensemble (RIWE) and served on the RIWE Board of Directors (2012-2013). His university saxophone quartet, Reed Disorder, performed at the 2007 International Saxophone Symposium presented by the U.S. Navy Band at George Mason University. Past European appearances include Jazz à Vienne and the Montreux Jazz Festival as a member of the State College Area High School Jazz Band (’03).
He has served as a clinician/presenter at the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA) Annual In-Service Conference and PMEA Summer Conference by invitation of the professional development coordinator. Chris is an active member of the Franklin-Fulton County Music Educators Association Executive Council and serves as Franklin County Representative to the PMEA District 7 Executive Board.
Chris holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from The Pennsylvania State University (’07) where he studied with Dr. David Stambler (saxophone), Dr. O. Richard Bundy and Dennis Glocke (conducting). He resumed study with Glocke in 2010 and earned a Master of Music degree in Band and Wind Ensemble Conducting (Penn State, ’12).
Elizabeth Lins Shoenfelt
Elizabeth Lins Shoenfelt, Coloratura Soprano, graduated magna cum laude from Messiah College with a degree in music education and has divided her energy between teaching, performing, and choral conducting since that time. She received her master’s degree in vocal performance and pedagogy from the Pennsylvania State University and completed her doctoral studies in vocal performance at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia, with a research focus on microtonal singing in the music of Norwegian contemporary composer Lasse Thoresen. Dr. Shoenfelt is in demand as a soloist, voice teacher, guest conductor, and choral clinician. Currently she serves assistant professor of music at Shippensburg University, where she also directs the choirs, and is contributing faculty in voice at Dickinson College. Additionally, she has taught at Bloomsburg University, Wilson College, and Messiah College.
In addition to teaching at Shippensburg University and Dickinson College, Dr. Shoenfelt maintains a private voice studio and is a recurring choral adjudicator and clinician. Dr. Shoenfelt has served on the executive board of the American Choral Directors Association of Pennsylvania as the repertoire and standards chair for women’s choirs and directed the Susquehanna Young Women’s Chorale from 2009-2015 Ms. Shoenfelt is a frequent recitalist throughout central Pennsylvania and Virginia and has sung principal roles with opera companies in Harrisburg and Philadelphia.
She made her professional debut at the age of twenty with the Harrisburg Opera Company singing the role of Juliet Brooks in the Pennsylvania premiere of Benjamin Britten’s The Little Sweep. Since 2008 she has been featured several times as the soprano soloist in the Summer Festival Series at the Luhrs Center. Beginning in 2010, she appeared multiple times as a guest artist with the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra in performances of Schubert, Mahler, Mozart, and programs of arias, and she is the recurring soprano soloist in Handel’s Messiah with the Pennsylvania Consort. Ms. Shoenfelt has also had the privilege of repeat performances as a guest artist with the Shippensburg University Community Orchestra as well as the West Shore Symphony Orchestra.
Dr. Shoenfelt has completed young artist programs in Siena, Italy, and Songfest in Malibu where she worked with composers such as Lori Laitman, Jake Heggie, and John Musto as well as acclaimed pianists and coaches Martin Katz and Graham Johnson. She has sung in a variety of venues throughout the United States and Europe, including performances for the former governor of Pennsylvania, several Miss Americas, and a concert appearance with Kenny Rogers.
Suzanne Thierry
Suzanne Thierry directs the Flute Choir at Shippensburg University. She has appeared as a soloist or chamber musician on a variety of venues, including National Public Radio, and has worked with composers from around the United States as a performer of contemporary music. A former faculty member of Bowling Green State University, she served as an administrator for the University’s New Music & Art Festival and MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, and as an instructor of flute. Thierry has also worked on several projects with the National Flute Association including competition coordinator, newly-published music judge, and convention program book designer, and has served as a reader for the AP National Music Theory Exams. As an active freelance musician, she has performed with the Shippensburg Summer Festival Orchestra, the Celtic Women troupe, Chambersburg Ballet Orchestra, Mercersburg Chorus Orchestra, Maryland Symphony, Camp Hill Light Opera Experience Orchestra, and the Hagerstown Band. She has also taught at Wilson and Dickinson Colleges. Currently, she works full time as a music teacher in the Chambersburg Area School District and does adjudication for area music competitions. Thierry earned a bachelor’s degree in performance from the University of Alabama, and masters’ degrees in performance and music history from Bowling Green State University, with additional course work in Nice, France, at the International Summer Academy. Her teachers include Sheryl Cohen and Judith Bentley, and master class experience with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alain Marion, and Samuel Baron.
