Noel Painter

Currently, Painter directs all component of the core music theory curriculum in the School of Music, including the primary theory sequence, Music Culture, Musical Style and Analysis, Aural Training, Functional Keyboard, and the upper-division theory courses Orchestration and Arranging, Counterpoint, and Advanced Analytic Techniques. His work coordinating core curricula has resulted in a compilation of supplemental listening material for all aural training courses with recordings from a wide variety of vocal, chamber and ensemble literature excerpts, as well as a series of text books for the creatively-designed functional keyboard curriculum.

In 2009, Painter was awarded the William Hugh McEniry Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award, first presented to a faculty member in 1975, is the most prestigious honor given to a Stetson University faculty member at the DeLand campus and represents excellence in both teaching and scholarship. Michael King, PhD, the 2008 winner, described Painter as "an amazing teacher who has been consistently lauded as one of Stetson [University]'s best. His students are driven by his high standards and expectations, are inspired by his enthusiasm for his subject and for teaching, and are impressed by his ability to ensure that everyone in his classes is learning... ! One of his students even described him as the 'jewel in the crown of the Stetson University faculty.'" Painter is only the fourth music faculty member to be awarded the McEniry Award.

Prior to his arrival at Stetson University, Painter taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester. A result of his commitment to teaching and scholarship, Painter was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, the Sloan Scholarship Award and the Edward Peck Curtis Teaching Award -- the highest graduate award available to graduate assistants at any of the University of Rochester's six campus branches.

Painter has studied with some of the most renowned names in music, including percussion studies with John Beck, and music theory with Elizabeth Marvin, Robert Morris, David Beach and Bob Gauldin. His early research examined contour analysis and transformation networks, twentieth century tonal systems, and aural training pedagogy. More recently, Dr. Painter has presented research at the 2015 Sharing Excellence Colloquium [Accommodations as an Opportunity for Creativity and Deeper Inclusion for All Students (with Stacy Collins)] and the 2016 Academic Chairpersons Conference [Making Decisions That Faculty Support: Healthy Systems for Administrative Collaboration (with Thomas Gilmore Masse)]. Painter received his PhD, MM [percussion], and MA from the Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester), and a BM from Furman University.