Faculty & Staff

HaeJu Choi is a collaborative pianist and an instructor in the W.A. and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts at McNeese State University. She also serves as a faculty and a pianist at Interlochen Arts Camp in Michigan since 2019. She has been performing as a staff pianist for MTNA competition, American Protégé, ASTA, AZ…

Garrett Eckl is a musician, programmer, and educator currently based in Lake Charles, LA. He serves on the faculty at McNeese State University as Assistant Professor of Music Production, and does research in the areas of AI-assisted composition, music education software, and audio plug-in development. He earned an M.M. in Computer Music from The Peabody…

Dr. Jeremi W. Edwards, a native of Louisiana, and is an alumnus of McNeese State University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in music education. Subsequently, Dr. Edwards pursued advanced studies and achieved a Master of Music in Theory and Composition at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, under the tutelage of Dr. Quincy Hilliard….

Judy Hand is Associate Professor of Flute and coordinator of the music history area at McNeese State University, where she teaches flute, chamber music, flute pedagogy and literature, music history, and music appreciation. She has held six endowed professorships in music, and has served as Assistant Department Head. She has a BMEd from the University…

“Virtuosismo” and “technical dominance” are the words used by the press to describe American guitarist, Jay Kacherski.  A native of New York, Kacherski has performed around the world as a soloist and member of the Grammy nominated Texas Guitar Quartet. He has performed at distinguished music festivals and venues such as the Festival International de Guitarra de Taxco, Mexico, the Florida Guitar…

Jeffrey J. Lemke is the Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education, Professor of Music with an emphasis on Instrumental Music Education and Popular Music Studies, as well as serving as the Faculty Athletics Representative at McNeese State University. Dr. Lemke teaches courses in instrumental methods and literature, advanced instrumental techniques, historical and philosophical foundations of music…

Kevin McIntyre began playing the trumpet in the fourth grade at Fisher Elementary School in Ewing Township New Jersey. In 1979, during his 10th grade year, Kevin moved to Moss Bluff, Louisiana and began playing the horn at Sam Houston High School. After graduation, Kevin attended McNeese State University and got a Bachelors Degree in…

Brazilian pianist Lina Morita made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013.  Her international career has taken her throughout the U.S., Brazil, Mexico, France, and the Czech Republic. Most recently, she has been invited to present solo recitals at Salão Leopoldo Miguez in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Mexico City at the Museo Mural Diego Rivera and at La Escuela de Musica “Vida y Movimiento” del Centro Cultural Ollin Yoliztli.  Other venues in which she has performed include II Festival Eleazar de Carvalho, IX…

William G. Rose is presently Associate Professor of Music and Assistant Department Head in the W.A and Dorothy Hanna Department of Performing Arts at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, LA, where is in his 36th year of teaching at the University. He teaches the low brass studio, music theory, music technology, conducts the brass…