2025 Dallas Strings/TODA Winter Clinic | Rehearsal Lab
New this year - Bass-ic Repair clinic AND Reading Session
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Pricing: Active, Retired, Past Presidents - $30, Students - free

2025 Current Membership required

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We will have on-site registration on January 11!  See you there!

University of Texas Arlington
Specific campus location TBD
8:30 AM - Onsite Registration & Continental Breakfast

Schedule: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Featuring: Dr. Clifton Evans, Margaret Brown

12:00 PM - Lunch Break

1:30 PM - Bass pedagogy and repair clinic, Dr. Jack Unzicker

2:30 PM - IDEA Reading Session
featuring music chosen by the TODA IDEA committee from BIPOC composers

 Dr. Clifton Evans currently serves as Director of Orchestras, Associate Professor of Music, Graduate Advisor, and String Area Coordinator at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Evans has enjoyed a conducting career that has taken him to Hong Kong, England, China, Austria, the Czech Republic and throughout the United States.

In addition to his duties as a professor at UTA, Dr. Evans maintains an active schedule at summer festivals, conventions, and workshops. For six years, he conducted the Fargason concerts for the Texas Music Teachers Association, which featured concerto competition winners selected from across the state of Texas. He also conducted the prestigious American Festival for the Arts Conservatory Orchestra in Houston numerous times and has been invited back for the 2022 season. In the summers of 2010, 2013, and 2017, he presented conducting workshops and other lectures at the state convention for the Texas Orchestra Directors Association in San Antonio. Each summer at UTA, he serves as Executive Director and a faculty member of the Texas Conducting Workshop, a program he founded together with the string faculty, and Summer Strings, a camp that hosts roughly 400 students from throughout the DFW Metroplex.



Margaret Brown is in the fourth year of her second career as Adjunct Assistant Music Professor at UT Arlington. She serves in the String Music Education Department and as University Supervisor of Music Education Clinical Teachers.

Ms. Brown joined the UTA faculty in 2020, after retiring from 34 years as a public school teacher at high schools and middle schools, in North, East and West Texas. Earned BME from Texas Wesleyan and MMEd from Texas Tech.

Experience includes Texas Tech Master Teacher of the String Project, Clinician, Adjudicator, Youth Orchestra Conductor, TMEA Region Chair and Secretary, TMAA, Mu Omicron, Sigma Alpha Iota, Who's Who in Music, Lifetime member of PTA, International performances,  Board member of TexASTA and TODA Board.

We are pleased to have Dr. Jack Unzicker join us this year for an additional clinic, "Bass-ic" Repair

Jack Unzicker is the Associate Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas at Arlington and is a sought-after performer and educator. He has extensive and varied experience in all performance areas, from early music to contemporary, solo, chamber, and orchestral, as well as jazz and electric bass. He maintains an active performing schedule, over 500 performances since his appointment at UT Arlington in 2012.

As a pedagogue, Dr. Unzicker serves on the board of the Bradetich Foundation, a double bass performance and education organization. He served as the Bass Forum Editor for the journal American String Teacher and has been featured in articles on playing and teaching the double bass in The Strad, Bass World, American String Teacher, and Strings Magazine. He frequently performs, adjudicates, and presents at the International Society of Bassists, American String Teachers Association, and Texas Music Educators Association Conventions. In the summers, he performs and teaches as Artist Faculty and as the Assistant Director of the Annual Bradetich Double Bass Master Classes.