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"James M. Guthrie (D.M.A., Louisiana State University, composer, performer, and music educator), currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music, and as Artistic Director of the Meherrin Chamber Orchestra at Chowan University. Dr. Guthrie serves as the area coordinator for the Music Industry Track. In addition to course work in the music industry, his teaching duties include Applied Strings, Organ, Theory, Aural Skills, and Composition. Guthrie coordinates the annual Music Industry Day event, as well as two New Music Day concerts at Chowan.

Dr. Guthrie has been active in the research and performance practices of music from early periods in music history. He founded the Chowan University Collegium Musicum in 2007, and performs on a variety of period instruments, including the harpsichord, virginal, viola da gamba, and recorder. He has performed with the LSU Collegium Musicum, the Delta Viol Consort, the ULL Collegium Musicum, the Chowan University Collegium Musicum, the Meherrin Chamber Orchestra, the Chowan Chorus, the Cantata Chorus, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra and the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. " Visit website for more information. (ed.)

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