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NOTE: Meals are not included in your fee. A suggested
restaurant guide will be in your registration packet.
There will be one (1) Staff Development Unit
(PLU or SDU) available for an extra $10 processing fee, and can be obtained by
attending the entire workshop or just all of Saturday. This
workshop meets all national professional development standards.
Faculty
 Allan
McMurray is the Robert and Judy Charles Endowed
Professor of Conducting and Director of Bands at the
University of Colorado-Boulder. Prior to this position
he was on the faculty of the University of Michigan.
Considered one of the world's leading teachers of
conducting, Professor McMurray has guest conducted and
taught conductors in 45 states and 15 foreign countries.
He has been a featured visiting professor at over 200
universities and conservatories nationally. He has
hosted the College Band Directors National Conducting
Symposium at CU-Boulder since 1986. Since Professor
McMurray's arrival in 1978, the University of Colorado Bands
have distinguished themselves with performances at major
conferences and conventions, including International
Conferences in Manchester, England; Nemo Nu Sato, Japan;
Hamamatsu, Japan; and twice at the CBDNA Convention.
WIth a strong commitment to new music, Allan McMurray is a
leader in commissioning compositions by American composers.
He is the author of three DVD's on conducting: "Conducting
from the Inside Out: Gesture and Movement"; "Conducting from
the Inside Out: Conductor and Composer with Frank Ticheli"
and "Kindred Spirits". Allan McMurray is a
Past-President of the College Band Directors National
Association, a recipient of the Bohumil Makovsky Award from
the National band fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, and has been
recognized by California State University Long Beach as
"Distinguished Artist in Classical Music." In December
2004, the Board of Regents designated Allan McMurray as
"Distinguished Professor", the first in the College of Music
to receive this honor and the only one from the Arts to hold
the title.
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Mark Davis
Scatterday
is Professor of Conducting and Chair of the Conducting and
Ensembles Department at the University of Rochester's
Eastman School of Music. As only the fourth conductor
of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Scatterday joined a
prestigious line of conductors in the past fifty-plus years
of the famed ensemble - Donald Hunsberger, Clyde Roller, and
Frederick Fennell. In 2004, he led the EWE in their
return tour to Japan, as well as to Taiwan and Macao.
In 2005, Scatterday led the Eastmand Wind Ensemble in a
highly acclaimed performance at Carnegie Hall and also
conducted a concert in Japan as part of the opening
seremonies of a new concert hall in Karuizawa, joined by
members of the Tokyo Philharmonic. Recently, the EWE
and Scatterday recorded a new CD with the Canadian Brass
entitled Manhattan Music featuring music of
Bernstein, Bramwell Tovey, Rayburn Wright, and Jeff Tyzik --
released in 2008 on Opening Day Records with ArchivMusic
(nominated for a Canadian Grammy, a "JUNO" in 2009).
Professor Scatterday maintains an active guest conducting
schedule as well as researching and writing articles
involving score analysis, performance practices, and
conducting. His articles on Venetian Renaissance wind
music and the wind and percussion music of Karel Husa have
been published in editions of WindWorks, College Band
Director's National Association Journal, and Band Director's
Guide. He is also one of the lead clinicians in the
Frederick Fennell Conducting Masterclasses held annually by
the Conductor's Guild. An advocate of contemporary
music, especially the music of Husa and Roberto Sierra,
Scatterday has commissioned and premiered over 25 works
including Sierra's Diferencias (1997), Fanfarria
(2000), and Octeto (2003), and transcribed his
Fandangos (2004) and Symphonia No. 3 (2009).
He conducted the premiere recording of Robert Sierra's
Cancionero Sefardi with members of the Milwaukee
Symphony on Fleur De Son Classicas (2001), Judith Weir's
Concerto for Piano and Musicians Wrestling Everywhere
with Ensemble X on Albany Records (2006), and Barcelonazo
with the Eastman Musica Nova on Bridge Records (2008) -
nominated for a 2008 Latin Grammy.
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 Robert
W. Rumbelow is in his fourteenth year as Conductor and
Director of Wind Ensemble Activities at the Columbus State
University Schwob School of Music. In addition to teaching
classes in conducting and literature, Dr. Rumbelow is the
conductor of both CSU Wind Ensembles, the faculty Camerata
chamber orchestra, frequent conductor of opera productions,
as well as guest conductor, clinician, arranger, composer,
and lecturer throughout the U.S. and abroad. Rumbelow
received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting
from Eastman where he studied with Donald Hunsberger. Prior
to pursuing his doctoral studies, he successfully served as
a director of bands in the Texas public schools. Before
joining CSU, Dr. Rumbelow served as the associate conductor
of the famed Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind
Orchestra. He also worked with the Eastman Studio Orchestra,
Kilbourn Orchestra, Musica Nova, and the independent
Rochester Chamber Players. He has received several notable
accolades including the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize and
first prize in the Sir Georg Solti International Conducting
Competition sponsored by the Sousa Foundation. In 1997 he
won the North American round of the Tokyo International
Conducting Competition conducting the San Francisco Opera
Orchestra, and progressed to the finals conducting the Tokyo
Philharmonic and the Shinsei Symphony Orchestra. He received
critical praise for his Russian debut conducting the
Hermitage State Chamber Orchestra in April of 2003.
Both NPR
and Georgia Public Broadcasting commonly broadcast
performances of the CSU Wind Ensemble under the baton of Dr.
Rumbelow. The ensemble program has received widespread
praise for live performances at many statewide and national
conferences, as well as their commercial recordings.
Rumbelow has spearheaded many notable commissions and
consortia including premieres of works by Christopher
Theofanidis, Shafer Mahoney, J.M. David, Dorothy Chang, and
many others. His collaborations with artists such as Joseph
Alessi, John Yeh, Christopher Martin, and other top artists
have demonstrated his belief in the highest professional
standards within the educational experience. Rumbelow’s own
compositions and arrangements are performed throughout the
world, and published by Kjos, Ludwig/Masters, Warner
Brothers, and Alfred Music Publishers. His works have been
broadcast on NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, NPR, BBC, and NHK Japan.
Dr. Rumbelow is the recipient of numerous ASCAP Awards for
his writing, has appeared in multiple Who’s Who listings,
earned several citations from the National Band Association,
has been elected to Phi Beta Mu (National Honorary Band
Fraternity), inducted into the High School Band Directors
National Association Hall of Fame, and is currently
President-Elect of the Southern Division of CBDNA.
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