COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCESMUSIC AND THEATRE DEPARTMENT

Contact Info

Music and Theatre
Alexander Music Center
110 Kiltie Road
Edinboro, PA 16444
Phone: (814) 732-2555

Dr. Gary Grant
Chairperson
Office: Alexander Music Center
Room 127
Phone: (814) 732-2555
Email: ggrant@edinboro.edu

Request Information

Follow the EU Music Department

Faculty and Staff

At Edinboro University, small class sizes and an internationally recognized instructional faculty—90 percent of whom hold terminal degrees in their field of study—offer students the personalized, high-quality education they need to succeed.

Name Department / Office Contact

Gary Grant, PhD
Chairperson and Music Education

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-2792
William P. Alexander Music Center, 114 and 127
ggrant@edinboro.edu

Bio

Bradley Amidon, MFA
Percussion

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-2492
William P. Alexander Music Center, 116
bamidon@edinboro.edu

Bio

Mary Beth Armes
Voice

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1252
William P. Alexander Music Center, 122
mbarmes@edinboro.edu

Bio

Daniel Burdick, DMA
Low Brass, Music History

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-2647
William P. Alexander Music Center, 119
dburdick@edinboro.edu

Bio

Elizabeth Etter, DMA
Piano

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1219
William P. Alexander Music Center, 121
eetter@edinboro.edu

Bio

Mari Howells, MAST,MM
Clarinet

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1445
William P. Alexander Music Center, 109
mhowells@edinboro.edu

Charles Lute, MEd
Jazz Ensemble, Concert Band, Highland Drumming

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-2797
William P. Alexander Music Center, 110
clute@edinboro.edu

Bio

Howard Lyon
Strings, String Ensemble

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1359
William P. Alexander Music Center, 108
hlyon@edinboro.edu

Bio

Cody Mott
Choir Director

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1218
William P. Alexander Music Center, 115
cmott@edinboro.edu

Sean Regan
Pipes, Pipe Band

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1451
William P. Alexander Music Center, 111
sregan@edinboro.edu

Bio

Sean Patrick Regan (SPR) is a third-generation bagpiper. A student of his father, Patrick Regan, SPR completed a degree in Music Education (Summa Cum Laude) with the Bagpipe as his primary instrumental focus at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. After teaching at the middle/high school level and privately for several years, he has returned to higher education as the Pipe Band Director at Edinboro, and is concurrently pursuing the Master of Music in Bagpipe Performance at Carnegie Mellon University.

Professor Regan has been at the top of American solo bagpipe competition for over a decade, and is a former national and world solo piping champion. He has played in pipe bands at the Midwest, North American, Canadian, European, and World Pipe Band championships, winning the Midwest and Canadian championships. He has taught as a guest instructor at the College of Piping, in Glasgow, and currently instructs the Balmoral Pipes & Drums and the Grand Prairie Firefighters Pipes & Drums. He competes actively as a member of both the Balmoral P&D and the Carnegie Mellon University Pipe Band, and performs nationally with The Rogues, “America’s Celtic Band.”

SPR is featured as a soloist and ensemble member on several albums, including “A Band Transformed”(2006), by Steel Thistle Pipes & Drums, “Début”(2011), by The Great Lakes Pipe Band, “An Afternoon on the Pipes”(in post-production), by himself, “Chimera X”(2013), through Edinboro University, “That’s Too Bad”(2018), with Apologetix, and most recently “25… and LIVE!”(2019), with The Rogues. Additionally, he is published in “The Voice,” the quarterly publication of the Eastern United States Pipe Band Association, as a correspondent on bagpipe education. He is sponsored in part by Lindsey Bagpipes Company, Lone Star Piper, and the Saint Andrew’s Society of Pittsburgh.

Additional information may be found at these websites:
www.sprbagpiper.com
www.therogues.com
www.balmoralpipesanddrums.org

Diann Smith
Marching Band

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1216
William P. Alexander Music Center, 118
dsmith@edinboro.edu

Bio

Starla Thompson
Clerk Typist 2

Music and Theatre Department

(814) 732-1210
(814) 732-2555
William P. Alexander Music Center, 129
sthompson@edinboro.edu