Constance Cook Glen
Senior Lecturer in Music (Music in General Studies); Coordinator, Music in General Studies
Contact Information:
cglen
[at]
indiana [dot] edu
(cglen@indiana.edu)
Sycamore Hall, SY136
Department
Music in General Studies Program
Education
- M.M. in Musicology, Piano, Theory, Indiana University, 1982
- B.A. in History, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1978
- B.M. in Piano, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1977
Biography
Connie Cook Glen serves as Senior Lecturer and Coordinator for the Music in General Studies program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Ind. She regularly teaches courses on the American Musical, Opera Theatre, Music Appreciation, and The Live Musical Performance. At IU, Glen has been the recipient of numerous awards, including ArtsWeek grants in 2009 and 2010 (presentations titled "American Politics through the Musical Looking Glass" and "Music and Nature: The Composer's Perception"), an Active Learning Grant from Instructional Support Services in 2008, and the Blue Ribbon Award for Outstanding Instructors, given by the Disability Student Services Office in 2004. Glen is acclaimed as an inspiring lecturer and frequently appears as guest speaker at a variety of university forums.
Glen holds undergraduate degrees in piano performance and history from Nebraska Wesleyan University and graduate degrees in musicology, piano, and theory from Indiana University (Ph.D. candidacy). She has developed courses and presentations on her current research and pedagogical interests (opera appreciation, the aesthetics of the American musical, women in music, and music listening for the non-major). In addition to teaching for the Jacobs School of Music, Glen teaches for IU's Bloomington Continuing Studies Division and designs and facilitates the Jacobs-Kelley Cultural Leadership Program. In 2008, she collaborated with Haitian conductor Jean Montès to provide a summer music festival experience for Haitian students at the Jacobs School. A firm believer in community involvement, Glen volunteers her musical skills as a pianist to promote and champion contemporary composers, and, for five years, served as president of a local chamber music group (Community Chamber Music Association). In 2002, she co-chaired the Bloomington Multicultural Festival in association with the Lotus International Music and Arts Festival. In addition, Glen previously worked with issues of civility, harassment, and student rights at the IU Office of Student Ethics and Anti-Harassment Programs, presenting throughout the university and nationally on these topics.
For the past 18 years, Glen has been both faculty and musical director at two summer camps in Colorado—originally in Estes Park and now at the University of Denver, where she is the founder/director of the Lamont School of Music Summer Pre-College Academy. Creating and providing enriched musical opportunities for students is one of Glen's passions, and she believes that her work at both the Jacobs School of Music and the Lamont School of Music does this very well.