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Dr. Sion "Ted" Honea
thonea@uco.edu
Dr. Sion M. "Ted" Honea combines expertise in scholarly research and practical performance in a way rare among university music faculty. Well known in the United States for his articles on horn pedagogy and performance practice, he also maintains an active performance career, performing repertoire from all periods of the literature for horn.
Returning home to teach at his alma mater, Honea holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Central Oklahoma, a Master of Arts with additional doctoral study in musicology at the Eastman School of Music and a second master's degree and a PhD in classics from the State University of New York-Buffalo. Dr. Honea has studied horn with Verne Reynolds, Paul Ingraham and Melvin Lee and natural horn with Richard Seraphinoff.
He has authored numerous scholarly and pedagogical publications, including articles in The Horn Call, Music Educators Journal, Music Reference Services Quarterly, MLA Notes; American Music Teacher; Ad Parnassum; Journal of Religious History, Classical World, Journal of Ritual Studies, Journal of Academic Librarianship, Journal of Library Administration, and New Library Scene.
He has served as a member of the preservation committee Research Library Group and Music Library Association, as treasurer of the American Liszt Society, and he is the current archivist for the International Horn Society. Dr. Honea is a member of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music, the International Horn Society, the College Music Society and the National Association of Schools of Music. He received the University of Central Oklahoma's "Vanderford Distinguished Teacher Award" for the College of Arts Media & Design in 2006 and the University's "Modeling the Way Award" in 2008. Dr. Honea has recently focused his efforts in scholarship on the history of wind literature, its performance practice and performing on the natural horn.
Previous staff employment included service at Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music (1978-1998) where he was conservator, head of rare books and special collections and archivist. Previous faculty appointments include the University of Rochester (1986-88), Eastman School of Music (1991-98) and George Eastman House Institute for Conservation (1992-98).