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Ellen Rennie Flint is a member of the faculty of the Visual and Performing Arts Department, as well as the Conservatory at WilkesUniversity. She has served as President of the Northeast Chapter of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association (PMTA) of Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) for two terms and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of PMTA. Flint currently serves as the Chair of Performance Competitions for the Eastern Division of Music Teachers National Association and was recently elected to a two-year term as Director-Elect of MTNA Eastern Division. In addition to her work with MTNA, Flint is also an active member of The College Music Society and serves on the CMS National Task Force for Outreach and Higher Education.
Flint holds the Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, the Master of Music in Music Theory from the Shepherd School of Rice University in Houston, TX, and the Ph.D. in Music Theory from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her teachers include Melissa Wuslich-Marrion and Meryl Ettleson (piano) and Paul Cooper, Arthur Gottschalk, and Thomas DeLio (music theory).
Since coming to Wilkes University in 1990, Flint has remained active as a published scholar and as a solo and collaborative pianist. She has presented collaborative and solo lecture-recitals at the state conventions of the Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association and performed regularly with singers and instrumentalists in the region. She serves as a regular guest lecturer and presenter of papers at regional, national, and international conferences on music theory and contemporary music and as an informal advisor to performers of Xenakis' music in the United States, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.
Flint’s journal articles and book and music reviews have appeared in The Musical Quarterly, Perspectives of New Music, Contemporary Music Review, and American Music Teacher. Recent presentations include papers delivered at the joint meeting of the Society of Composers International and Music Theory Midwest in Iowa City and at the Colloque: Présences de Iannis Xenakis in Paris. She is a member of "SAX," Société des amis de Xenakis, an international society of composers, theorists, musicologists, architects, and mathematicians founded in 1998, and dedicated to the performance, study, and preservation of the works of Xenakis. Her paper, "The Experience of Time in Psappha," was published in January 2001, by Montpéllier Press in the Proceedings of the Colloque: Présences de Iannis Xenakis.
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