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Your Support System

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The Music and Theatre Arts Department faculty and staff are dedicated to sharing their knowledge to give our Blugolds the support they need and the best education they can get. Our professors have a multitude of experiences onstage, offstage, and within their communities. Get connected with them to learn more about their capabilities and how it can benefit you.

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Department Chair
Nicholas Phillips
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Music and Theatre Arts Department
Chair, Department of Music & Theatre Arts
Professor of Music-Piano
Haas Fine Arts 156A
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
Faculty and Staff
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Music and Theatre Arts Department
Lecturer of Music - Flute
Lecturer - Music Theory
Haas Fine Arts 146
121 Water St.
Eau Claire, WI 54702
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Music and Theatre Arts Department
Professor of Music-Trumpet, Director of Jazz Studies, Founder of Eau Claire Jazz Inc.
Fine Arts 226
FIne Arts building
121 Water St.
Eau Claire, WI 54703
Jennifer Chapman
She/Her
Music and Theatre Arts Department
Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
Professor of Theatre Arts
Haas Fine Arts Center 174
105 Garfield Ave.
Eau Claire, WI 54701
Fall semester 2024:
Tues/Thurs 11-11:50 a.m. (HFA 174)
Wed 3-3:50 p.m. (Pablo 246)
and by appointment

Dr. Chapman teaches classes in history, literature, and drama-in-education. She directs for the mainstage annually, and bi-annually tours a theatre for youth production to elementary schools, grades K-5. She is an affiliate faculty member of the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department.

Professional portrait of Jeffery Crowell
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Music and Theatre Arts Department
Professor of Music-Percussion
245 Haas Fine Arts Center
Eau Claire, WI 54701

Dr. Jeffery Crowell is an Emmy Award winning percussionist and Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he teaches applied percussion and percussion techniques, conducts the UW-Eau Claire Percussion Ensembles, instructs the Blugold Marching Band Drumline, and leads Jazz Ensemble III, part of the outstanding UW-Eau Claire award-winning jazz area.

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Alum
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Music and Theatre Arts Department
Senior Lecturer of Music - Piano
Haas Fine Arts 259
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
by appointment
Laura Dunbar headshot
she/her/hers
Music and Theatre Arts Department
Associate Professor of Music Education
Music Education Coordinator
Haas Fine Arts Center 251
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54702
Monday - Thursday 12:00 - 1:00 pm and by appointment

Laura Dunbar is Associate Professor of Music Education, Elementary Specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where she also serves as Music Education Coordinator and teaches music education courses.

Christa Garvey
she/her/hers
Music and Theatre Arts Department
Professor of Music-Oboe
Haas Fine Arts 148
121 Water St.
Eau Claire, WI 54702
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Music and Theatre Arts Department

Haas Fine Arts Center 156
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI 54703
United States