• UA Fort Smith Head Carillonneur
• Guest Carillonneurs

UA Fort Smith Head Carillonneur

Stephen Husarik, professor of humanities / music UA Fort Smith, is an associate member of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America. He has traveled widely and collected music from bell towers in France, Belgium, Holland and America for performance on the UA Fort Smith carillon. Husarik supervises the daytime concerts, performs regularly on the Sunday afternoon carillon series and gives lecture-demonstrations to visitors at the Reynolds Tower. Dr. Husarik holds a Ph.D. in music literature from the University of Iowa.

Guest Carillonneurs

Teri Bailey is staff accompanist at UA Fort Smith, studio pianist for Omega Sound Recording Studio and a member of the Don Bailey Jazz Combo. She received a B.M.E. from the University of Nebraska and has taught piano, elementary and Jr. high school music for many years.

George Mann is choirmaster / organist at Goddard United Methodist Church. He is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University (sacred music and voice) and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has served as accompanist in church and musical theaters and to operatic singers Marilyn Mims, Christine Donahue and Barbara Tucker.

William Murray received an A.B. degree from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and a M.Mus. degree from the American Conservatory of Music, Chicago. He is a fellow in the American Guild of Organists and has interests in choral music, organ music, and pipe organ building.

Dawayne Stamper is assistant music director at the 1st Baptist Church, Lavaca. He served as a carillon assistant in the Scholar-Preceptor Program at UA Fort Smith. Stamper won the 1994 Arkansas Federation of Music Club state piano competition and was selected as outstanding UA Fort Smith piano student in 1996.

Rebecca Timmons holds an Ed.D. degree in Education from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She studied organ at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Her carillon recitals achieve thematic unity by arranging melodies into and among the programmed works. She has been a business instructor at UA Fort Smith since 1988.

Rosilee Walker is director of keyboard activities at UA Fort Smith. She holds a D.M.A. in piano performance from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory and performs regularly on the Sunday afternoon carillon series. Dr. Walker gives recitals and master classes as a member of the touring roster of both the Arkansas Arts Council and the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

UA Fort Smith students Lindsay Hobbs, Jeremy Marston, Daniel Watson and Kara Young perform on the Sunday Afternoon carillon series during the 2007-08 season.