Paula Crider is Past President of the National Band Association. She has been a member of NBA since 1969. Following a distinguished thirty-three year teaching career, Professor Crider continues to work with young musicians and has served as guest conductor, lecturer and adjudicator in twenty-nine states, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
Prior to her seventeen years of service on the faculty of the University of Texas, Ms. Crider enjoyed 16 years of public school teaching. She has taught at all levels, and holds the distinction of having been the first female in the State of Texas to serve as Director of Bands at a class 5-A high school. Her Crockett High School Bands in Austin, Texas earned numerous awards and honors, performed for national conventions, and were twice named Texas State Class 5A Marching Band Champions. Her band's performance at the Second Biennial NBA Convention in Knoxville, Tennessee remains a most memorable event in her musical career.
Professor Crider retired from The University of Texas in 1999 where she served as director of the renown University of Texas Longhorn Band. While at the university she taught conducting, brass techniques, and marching band methods; supervised student teachers; and conducted the Symphony Band. Honors and awards include the Eyes of Texas awards for teaching excellence, the Tau Beta Sigma/Kappa Kappa Psi Outstanding Service to Music award, the Sudler Legion of Merit, and the Texas Bandmaster's Meritorious Achievement Award. She is a member of the prestigious American Bandmaster's Association, and is the third woman to have been so honored.
Trumpeter, trombonist and composer Michael Philip Mossman has been active on the international scene since the age of 17. Mr. Mossman has performed and recorded with his own groups and with bands led by a virtual who's who of the music industry. He is currently lead trumpeter with Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.
Michael has been involved in music education throughout his career, holding positions on the faculties of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Rutgers University, The New School for Social Research, Bloomfield College, Manhattanville College, and the New Jersey Summer Arts Institute. Michael is currently Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York City.
Jay Ramsey is the Cedar Falls West Music Repair Associate. He's been working on horns of students and directors alike for the past 7 years.
Robert B. Morrison is the founder and chairman emeritus of the Music for All Foundation. Prior to founding Music for All, Mr. Morrison served as the C.E.O. of the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, the national non-profit organization committed to restoring music education in America's public schools. Mr. Morrison's work has earned VH1 Save The Music an Emmy, a Peabody and eleven Beacon Awards. During Mr. Morrison's tenure, Save The Music restored over 1000 public school music programs in 80 communities through donations of $25 million worth of musical instruments bringing music instruction back for over 500,000 children.
Prior to joining VH1 Save The Music, Mr. Morrison served as Director of Market Development for NAMM: The International Music Products Association. Mr. Morrison was also Executive Director of the American Music Conference (AMC), where he directed AMC's media efforts, including the "Music Makes You Smarter" media campaign and served as a leader of the National Coalition for Music Education.
Prior to joining NAMM and AMC, Mr. Morrison was a senior executive with the Pearl Corporation. In addition to EMMY and Peabody Awards, Mr. Morrison has received an honorary doctorate degree from the State University of New York. He received the Mr. Holland's Opus Award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Music Distributors Associations. Mr. Morrison is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Berklee College of Music in Boston and currently serves on several music and arts education policy boards.
Jay Bocook, Director of Athletic Bands, is a native of Clearwater, Florida, a Furman graduate, and is recognized internationally as a composer, arranger, conductor and educator. In 1982, Bocook was appointed director of bands at Furman University where he remained until 1989. He has served as Assistant Conductor of the Greenville Symphony Orchestra and remains a principal composer and arranger for Hal Leonard Corporation. He is the music arranger for the eight-time World Champion Garfield Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps.
Scott Teeple joins the School of Music faculty as Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison, beginning with the 2007-08 academic year. He conducts the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and teaches conducting.
Before coming to Wisconsin, Mr. Teeple was the Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to Ann Arbor, Mr. Teeple's public school experience was as instrumental music educator at Port Huron Northern High School where he conducted the concert, marching and jazz bands and taught a music appreciation course. Mr. Teeple has also served on the faculty at St. Clair County Community College and has taught low brass for the All-State program at Interlochen.
He continues to be in demand as a clinician and guest conductor throughout the United States. Along with his regular duties, he has served as guest clinician at the Conn-Selmer University summer program for music educators and continues to serve as a guest conductor/clinician throughout the United States. As a conductor, he has participated in numerous conducting clinics across the country most recently in the Pierre Boulez Workshop at Carnegie Hall. He has served on the executive board of the Wisconsin Music Educators' Association (North-Central Vice President) and on the Arts Alliance of Portage County.
Chris Fonck currently serves as Band Sales Team Lead for West Music, and has been an active percussionist and instructor for over 20 years. Mr. Fonck has performed in a variety of groups including concert, jazz, and marching bands at the University of Iowa and the University of Central Missouri, and remains an active percussionist in various civic groups and with his own rock-based group. Chris has recently created Drums In Motion, which provides orchestral and marching percussion clinics, arranging, and private instruction to schools and organizations in the Eastern Iowa area. |
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