Sue Gamble
Host, Central StageSue Gamble, Professor Emerita of music education, taught at Central Michigan University from 1978 to 2016. She also served as chair of the department of music, 1983-1990. She previously taught general music and choral music in grades 7-12 in central Pennsylvania.
She received her bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees from The Pennsylvania State University and has published articles in the Music Educator's Journal, the Midwest Kodály Music Education Association Bulletin and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Bulletin of Research.
She specialized in elementary and middle school music methods as well as in music of world cultures. Dr. Gamble also serves as the on-air host of the WCMU program “Central Stage.”
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This month on Central Stage, Sue Gamble welcomes Dr. Andrew Spencer, Professor of Percussion at the CMU School of Music
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This month on Central Stage, Sue Gamble welcomes Dr. Amon Eady, Director of Choral Studies at the CMU School of Music. A concert featuring all of the CMU Choirs took place on October 13, Listen to selections from that festive occasion on Central Stage, and Fire Up Chips!
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This month on Central Stage, Sue Gamble welcomes Dr. Christopher Chapman, Director of Bands at the CMU School of Music.
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This month on Central Stage, Sue Gamble welcomes Alexandra Mascolo-David, Professor of piano at the CMU School of Music. She is joined by Rubia Santos, her partner in the “Belle Donne Piano Duo.”
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This month on Central Stage, Sue Gamble welcomes Neil Mueller, Professor of Trumpet at the CMU School of Music. Dr. Mueller is joined by several of his colleagues in a program that features Three Preludes by George Gershwin, Concerto Gaucho by Kevin Walczyk and more
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Today Sue Gamble welcomes Dr. Mark Cox, professor of tuba and low brass studies at The CMU School of Music. Dr. Cox will share stories and a wide variety music for tuba and euphonium, that he and his student have performed. This program was first broadcast on July 2, 2021.
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Dr. Fangye Sun, Professor of Violin at the Central Michigan University School of Music, shares a variety of music performed along with some of her colleagues and students.
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This episode of Central Stage features selections from a concert presented October 11, 2018 in Staples Family Concert Hall by the CMU Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Jose-Luis Maurtua.
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Central Stage host Sue Gamble welcomes Dr. Alicia Valoti, Professor of viola at the Central Michigan University School of Music, along with her student, Leonardo Marchiolli Gomes Sobral, who came to CMU to pursue his Master’s Degree in viola performance. They will present music by Max Bruch, Giovanni Paola Colonna, and Lillian Fuchs, as well as discuss the instrument they love.
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Central Stage welcomes Dr. Christopher Chapman, Director of Bands at the CMU School of Music, and Dr. James Batcheller, who directs the Marching Chips. They talk with Sue Gamble about the bands and present student ensemble performances of music by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky as well as rousing selections by the Marching Chips.