Carol Ayres, Professor of Music and Director of Bands has taught at Iowa Lakes Community College since 1988.

Her teaching duties include directing Iowa Lakes Community College’s jazz band, handbell choir, brass ensemble, jazz combo, percussion ensemble and woodwind ensemble. Carol also teaches many sections of music appreciation and jazz appreciation in face-to-face classroom situations and also online.
 

Carol holds music education degrees from the Buena Vista University and the University of South Dakota.

An active arranger, pianist and woodwinds player, she performs frequently in various venues in groups such as the Dick Baumann Monday Night Big Band. Professor Ayres has a CD, Beautiful Friendship, which is a recording of the University of Okoboji Reggie Schive Summer Jazz Camp staff.  Carol is the camp director, which celebrated its 28^th anniversary in the summer of 2008.

Email: cayres@iowalakes.edu
Carol’s class schedule

Brett J. Fuelberth, is in his eleventh year as the Director of Choral Activities at Iowa Lakes Community College, where he directs four choirs, one handbell choir, and teaches Music Theory Lab and Music Appreciation. 

He received a master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State College, where he was under the direction of Dr. Cornell Runestad. 

 
Since coming to Iowa Lakes, he has initiated the annual Elizabethan Madrigal Feastes, Church Choir Festivals, Coffee House Nights, concerts with the Sioux City Symphony, and an online Music Theory course. 

He has served as the Two-Year College Choir Repertoire & Standards Chair for the Iowa Choral Directors Association, and is advisor for the Laker Life Club at Iowa Lakes. 

Currently, he is the organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Estherville, and volunteers for the American Cancer Society as entertainment chair for Emmet County’s Relay for Life.  Brett has been married for fifteen years to his wife, Barb, and they have two sons, William and Matthew and one daughter, Anna.

Email:  bfuelberth@iowalakes.edu
Brett’s class schedule

Nancy J. Batz is in her 10th year as the private vocal music teacher at Iowa Lakes Community College.  She received her Bachelor’s Degree from Grinnell College and has continued her education at Augustana College, St. Thomas, Hamline University, University of Sioux Falls, and Michigan University.  She has also completed Level I, II, and III of the Carl Orff Course.  She has taught vocal music in Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota Schools for over thirty years, teaching all levels of students.  Residing in Spirit Lake, Iowa, she also teaches many voice and piano lessons to high school and middle school students from her own studio.  She and her husband, Dr. Ron Batz, have three children and seven grandchildren.

Gary Lambert is originally from Cambridge, MN, and graduated from Northwestern College in St. Paul, MN. Gary has been part of education for many years, particularly in special education. Gary, his wife Linnea, and son Carter, moved to Milford from Minneapolis in May 2004.

Arnie Schilling received a B.F.A. in Music Education and M.M. in Music Literature from the University of South Dakota. He has also completed additional graduate study at Augustana, Northern State University, University of Iowa, Indiana University, and Iowa State University.

Arnie has taught vocal and instrumental music, language, literature, and writing at the high school and collegiate levels in South Dakota and Iowa. He has taught piano at Iowa Lakes Community College for seven years. Arnie has worked as a piano technician for over thirty years. Presently, he serves as organist for First Presbyterian Church in Armstrong and the Ringsted Presbyterian Church. In addition, he works with a gospel quartet as advisor, pianist, and arranger.  Arnie lives in Armstrong, Iowa.