Dear Mason Music Family,

Happy New Year! We are pleased to announce our Spring 2025 Dewberry Faculty Artist Series (free Sunday concerts in Harris Theater) and Spring 2025 Dewberry School of Music Concert Series featuring our outstanding student ensembles.  

We are thrilled to welcome two new adjunct applied professors in Composition for our spring 2025 semester: Dr. William Kenlon and Prof. Brendan Sweeney. We are also pleased to welcome Prof. John Heilig, new adjunct theory and aural skills professor. How happy we are to welcome these exceptional artist-faculty members to our Mason family!

With warmest wishes for a new year filled with good health and with beautiful music to inspire and uplift,

Dr. Linda A. Monson, Director

Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music

Dewberry Faculty Artist Series

Spring 2025

Dewberry School of Music

Spring 2025 Concert Series

Announcing New Adjunct Faculty

Dr. William Kenlon is a newly appointed adjunct applied composition faculty member in the Dewberry School of Music, effective Spring 2025. Based in Washington D.C., Dr. Kenlon is a composer specializing in music for chamber, choral, and jazz ensembles. Described as "pointed and groovy" (New Music Box), Kenlon's music continues to garner praise for its "lyrical personality that is original and strong" (Boston Musical Intelligencer), and for its sophisticated tonal explorations: "solid without being dense, clear without being sparse, and ever-changing without being random."

Prof. Brendan Sweeney is a newly appointed adjunct applied composition faculty member in the Dewberry School of Music, effective Spring 2025. He is an award-winning educator, arts technologist, and internationally-performed composer whose music and research explores the intersection of modern technology and human expression. A passionate educator, Prof. Sweeney’s research focuses on the importance of developing pedagogical approaches in the arts to support student success in an ever-evolving technological world.

Prof. John Heilig (he/him/his) is a newly appointed adjunct classroom faculty member in Aural Skills and Music Theory in the Dewberry School of Music for the Spring 2025 semester. He is a PhD candidate in Music Theory at Indiana University, and is very excited to teach Music Theory and Aural Skills at George Mason University in Spring 2025. His research interests include twelve-tone music, electroacoustic music, musical texture, and performance and analysis.