Dr. JEANNINE ‘J9’ REMY. DMA : MM : BM
Pan Player, Percussionist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Ethnomusicologist, Lecturer of Music		 Back to Ref: Dr Jeannine 'J9' Remy. Pan Player, Percussionist, Arranger, Composer, Conductor, Ethnomusicologist, Lecturer of Music
 
  
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Dr. JEANNINE REMY is a native of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, USA. She earned both her Bachelors and Masters degrees from Northern Illinois University; and her doctorate in percussion performance from the University of Arizona. As a percussion and music teacher, Dr. Remy has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Idaho State University. As a performer, she has played in numerous symphony orchestras including: Green Bay (WI), Idaho Falls (ID), Oshkosh (WI), Phoenix (AZ), Pocatello (ID), Rockford (IL), and Tucson (AZ).

    During the academic year 2000-2001 Dr. Remy received a Fulbright Grant to further her research on the roots of the ethnic music of TT, particularly the steelpan, and to allow her to interface her material by presenting special music lectures at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Two years later an ethnomusicology position opened up at UWI and Dr. Remy left her tenured position at Idaho State University, sold all of possessions, and moved to Trinidad; bringing among many talents, a precious gift of 'percussion ensemble' to UWI. At The Centre for Creative and Festival Arts (CCFA) she teaches Percussion, Steelpan, Pan Arranging, Steelpan History and Development, Steelpan Literature, World Music and Music of the Caribbean. While she has been in Trinidad she has become the first foreign woman to arrange for a large conventional steelband; and a great deal of her music has now found its way into the graded steelpan exam books.

    Remy was getting seriously involved with pan as an under graduate at NIU; under Prof. G. Allan O'Connor came the music for pan; under Mr. Clifford Alexis (pan maker NIU) came the sticking techniques together with pan building and tuning which she would later expand upon through tutelage from Ellie Mannette (Dr.) (historic Invaders + pan maker West Virginia University) and Vernon Mannette (Invaders + pan maker). She would herself later be instructor for two steel drum building, tuning and performing workshops sponsored by the University of Arizona (1988, 1989); having started a steelband there in 1987. As an in-between; Remy's first Panorama appearance in Trinidad was (as performer) with Invaders in 1989. She then repeated the start-up process at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, starting the UWO Steel Orchestra in 1990; and running drum building, tuning and performing workshops there in 1991. After that, she started another steelband at the Idaho State University, Pocatello, in 1992; mainly teaching percussion performance, and maintaining the ISU Steelband till the time she left them for UWI in 2003.

    Within this period she would graduated onward to work as a composer, arranger and conductor of steelbands; Disneyland's T&T Showboat Steel Orchestra 1995 to 1997; and some large TT steelbands such as Invaders (TTSMF1998; WSMF 2000, 2004) and Hatters (WSMF 2002, JSMF 2004; Panorama 2004, 2005, 2007) Steel Orchestras; taking Invaders to 2 x 5th places, and Hatters to a 7th place, in the WSMF finals. Audiences still talk about her memorial and moving composition entitled The Attacks and Aftermath of September 11th, 2001 [nicknamed 9/11] (2002). She has also studied music with some notable TT musicians such as; the late Anthony Prospect, past Musical Director of the TT National Police Band; and worked collaboratively on various projects with premier TT steelband arrangers, Ray Holman, and Earl Brooks Sr. and with the US/TT arranger Andy Narell.

    Dr. Remy was introduced to Golden Hands by Hatters, in mid-July, during her WSMF 2002 preparations with that steelband. Finding much in common interests; the balloon began rising for Golden Hands when in 2004, Franka Hills-Headley asked Remy to compose a piece Tropical Moods for her daughter, Vanessa Headley, for the upcoming World Steelband Music Festival 2004. Vanessa, then 15, placed third with her rendition of this piece. Since then Dr. Remy has composed No Pretty Laces with which Vanessa emerged champion on the consequent TT Steelband Music Festival 2005. It was her splendid arrangement of Kitchener's Nora, and Ole Lady Walk A Mile and a Half, and Sparrow's Jane and Mr Walker that placed Golden Hands in Winners Row in the National Junior Steelband Music Festival 2005. On two further occasions Dr. Remy's work has been rewarded in The TT Biannual Music Festivals (2006, 2008) by light of the eight trophies won by Golden Hands on each occasion.

    One of Remy's most significant impacts at UWI, and indeed with many of the steelbands that she has worked with, has been her computer literacy through which she persists in her desire to apply IT Technologies, where appropriate, to Music Education. In 2002 up-dates of her digitised music sores went transcontinental from the US to TT, via the internet, to be re-processed in Trinidad to synthesised pan-music CD's and printed scores for distribution to the arranger and players in Hatters panyard for the evenings WSMF practice sessions at the panyard. Since then, working with her piers Mr. Rawle Gibbons and particularly Mr. Satanand Sharma at UWI, she instigated an up-grade of the computing systems and software available to students at the CCFA [ C = Centre for; Now (2008) DCFA - Department of Creative and Festival Arts]. The students now familiarly write, read, compose, produce and communicate music, and lessons; in a digital format.

    Remy was one of the first teachers to produce an interactive CD of Work Manual, Student Music scores, their synthesised sound, and the class participant roll, for distribution to her students; at a 'Pan Arranging' workshop at Skiffle Bunche panyard in August 2004. Having collaboratively re-drafted the manual, now also used by the Pan in Schools Coordinating Council, Remy can be found in the mid-year season, together with other teachers who use it; running 'Arranger Workshops' in various TT panyards. She now touches all 'corners' of pan.

    Apart from at times being an adjudicator at shows, or a radio or TV presenter for some seasonal TT steelband events; she is also tasked with arranging pieces for the remodelled TT National Steel Symphony Orchestra. Remy is known in the traditional steelbands panyards as simply Dr 'J9' or Ms Remy. [From the ordinary citizens of TT, on the streets; Remy has earned the warm sobriquet: 'De White Woman' & 'De White Lady'. - eEd 2014.]

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