Coastal Carolina
University Bands proudly present the Third Annual
held on the CCU campus on January 29-February
1, 2009. High School band members are invited to campus for a four day
event with guest clinicians and conductors (see bios below). Students
will be placed, by audition, into the Festival Wind Ensemble or the
Coastal Honor Band. Directors are invited to our speical Director's
Seminarwith internationally respected authorities on
various topics related to instrumental music education (scroll down
for more).
Information
Application Deadline 00/00/00
TENTATIVE STUDENT SCHEDULE
Thursday 1/29/09:
3:00-5:00pm – Registration
4:00-6:00pm – Placement Auditions
6:00-7:00pm - Scholarship Auditions (pre-assigned appointments)
7:30pm – Opening Concert by POP 101 and Meeting for all participants
in Wheelwright Auditorium
8:30-10:00pm – Rehearsals
Festival Wind Ensemble
- Band Hall
Coastal Honor
Band - Wheelwright Auditorium
Friday 1/30/09:
9:00-Noon – Rehearsals in same locations
Noon-1:30pm – Break
1:30 - CCU Faculty & Student Recital
2:30-5:30pm – Rehearsal in same locations
5:30-7:30pm – Break
7:30 - Concert TBA
Sunday 2/1/09:
1:30pm – Final rehearsals (same locations as Saturday afternoon)
3:00pm – CONCERT!! (free admission for all)
CLINICIAN BIO'S
Don
Wilcox(Festival
Wind Ensemble)
When Don Wilcox retired as Director of Bands Emeritus from West Virginia
University in the summer of 2005, he had guided the growth and development
of the University's band program for 34 years. During this time the
WVU Wind Symphony performed numerous special concerts for regional and
national conventions of the ABA, CBDNA, MENC, and WASBE, and toured
nationally. The Mountaineer Marching Band was the 1997 recipient of
the Sudler Trophy, and during the summer of 2001, the Centennial year
of the WVU band program, the WVU Alumni Band toured Europe, performing
concerts in England, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
In 2005 they made their second European Tour with performances in Poland,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, and concluding in
Vienna, Austria. Mr. Wilcox is a Past President of the American Bandmasters
Association and has served extensively on the Board of Directors of
both the John Philip Sousa Foundation and the ABA. He has received WVU's
Outstanding Teacher Award, the 1993 Golden Apple Outstanding Faculty
Award, was chosen for the Great Teachers Seminar and is the first teacher
ever named Distinguished Fine Arts Alumnus of California State University
at Long Beach. Mr. Wilcox is a National Arts Associate by Sigma Alpha
Iota and the recipient of the Sudler Order of Merit from the John Philip
Sousa Foundation, the Distinguished Service To Music Award from the
National Council of Kappa Kappa Psi, and West Virginia University's
Heebink Award for Outstanding Service to the university and the state.
He has received special citations from four Governors for his contributions
to the state of West Virginia. In a teaching and conducting career spanning
forty-eight years Mr. Wilcox has worked with musicians of all ages and
abilities, conducting bands from one-room schools in rural Appalachia
to several of the major concert halls in the world, and in all 50 states
and 18 foreign countries. On four different occasions, he spent a semester
teaching in Tokyo, Japan as guest conductor of the Musashino Academia
Musicae Wind Ensemble, each culminating in tours of Japan and CD recordings
for Sony. Mr. Wilcox has served as guest conductor or visiting lecturer
at more than 50 universities in the United States, Europe, Japan, Thailand,
and China, and in "retirement" maintains an active international schedule
as a clinician and conductor.
Robert
Sheldon (Coastal
Honor Band)
Robert Sheldon has taught instrumental music in the Florida and Illinois
public schools, and has served on the faculty at Florida State University
where he taught conducting and instrumental music education classes,
and directed the university bands. As Concert Band Editor for the Alfred
Publishing Company, he maintains an active composition and conducting
schedule, and regularly accepts commissions for new works. Sheldon received
the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Miami
and the Master of Fine Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the University
of Florida. An internationally recognized clinician, Sheldon has conducted
numerous Regional and All-State Honor Bands throughout the United States
and abroad, is Conductor of the Prairie Wind Ensemble in residence at
Illinois Central College, and teaches Composition at Bradley University.
He holds membership in several organizations that promote music and
music education. The American School Band Directors Association has
honored him with the Volkwein Award for composition and the Stanbury
Award for teaching. He has also been a twenty-time recipient of the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher's Standard Award
for his compositions in the concert band repertoire. His compositions
have been recorded and released on compact discs including, Images:
The Music of Robert Sheldon, and Infinite Horizons: The Music of Robert
Sheldon, as well as numerous other recordings. Mr. Sheldon has been
the topic of articles published in The Instrumentalist, Teaching Music
and School Band and Orchestra Magazine, and is one of eleven American
wind band composers featured in Volume I of Composers on Composing Music
for Band. He was honored by the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu
in 1990 as being the International Outstanding Bandmaster of the year.
DIRECTOR'S SEMINAR
Friday 1/30/09:
9:00-Noon – Inclusive Marching Band Show Design (Clinician TBA)
-Location:Brooks Stadium Pressbox Hospitality Suite
Noon-1:30pm – Break
1:30 - CCU Faculty & Student Recital
2:30-5:30pm – Percussion Clinic (Kurry Seymour) - Location:
Percussion Studio
5:30-7:30pm – Dinner w/Clinicians
7:30 - Concert TBA
When Don Wilcox retired as Director of Bands Emeritus from West Virginia
University in the summer of 2005, he had guided the growth and development
of the University's band program for 34 years. During this time the
WVU Wind Symphony performed numerous special concerts for regional and
national conventions of the ABA, CBDNA, MENC, and WASBE, and toured
nationally. The Mountaineer Marching Band was the 1997 recipient of
the Sudler Trophy, and during the summer of 2001, the Centennial year
of the WVU band program, the WVU Alumni Band toured Europe, performing
concerts in England, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
In 2005 they made their second European Tour with performances in Poland,
the Czech Republic, Hungary, the Slovak Republic, and concluding in
Vienna, Austria. Mr. Wilcox is a Past President of the American Bandmasters
Association and has served extensively on the Board of Directors of
both the John Philip Sousa Foundation and the ABA. He has received WVU's
Outstanding Teacher Award, the 1993 Golden Apple Outstanding Faculty
Award, was chosen for the Great Teachers Seminar and is the first teacher
ever named Distinguished Fine Arts Alumnus of California State University
at Long Beach. Mr. Wilcox is a National Arts Associate by Sigma Alpha
Iota and the recipient of the Sudler Order of Merit from the John Philip
Sousa Foundation, the Distinguished Service To Music Award from the
National Council of Kappa Kappa Psi, and West Virginia University's
Heebink Award for Outstanding Service to the university and the state.
He has received special citations from four Governors for his contributions
to the state of West Virginia. In a teaching and conducting career spanning
forty-eight years Mr. Wilcox has worked with musicians of all ages and
abilities, conducting bands from one-room schools in rural Appalachia
to several of the major concert halls in the world, and in all 50 states
and 18 foreign countries. On four different occasions, he spent a semester
teaching in Tokyo, Japan as guest conductor of the Musashino Academia
Musicae Wind Ensemble, each culminating in tours of Japan and CD recordings
for Sony. Mr. Wilcox has served as guest conductor or visiting lecturer
at more than 50 universities in the United States, Europe, Japan, Thailand,
and China, and in "retirement" maintains an active international schedule
as a clinician and conductor.
Robert Sheldon has taught instrumental music in the Florida and Illinois
public schools, and has served on the faculty at Florida State University
where he taught conducting and instrumental music education classes,
and directed the university bands. As Concert Band Editor for the Alfred
Publishing Company, he maintains an active composition and conducting
schedule, and regularly accepts commissions for new works. Sheldon received
the Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Miami
and the Master of Fine Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the University
of Florida. An internationally recognized clinician, Sheldon has conducted
numerous Regional and All-State Honor Bands throughout the United States
and abroad, is Conductor of the Prairie Wind Ensemble in residence at
Illinois Central College, and teaches Composition at Bradley University.
He holds membership in several organizations that promote music and
music education. The American School Band Directors Association has
honored him with the Volkwein Award for composition and the Stanbury
Award for teaching. He has also been a twenty-time recipient of the
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publisher's Standard Award
for his compositions in the concert band repertoire. His compositions
have been recorded and released on compact discs including, Images:
The Music of Robert Sheldon, and Infinite Horizons: The Music of Robert
Sheldon, as well as numerous other recordings. Mr. Sheldon has been
the topic of articles published in The Instrumentalist, Teaching Music
and School Band and Orchestra Magazine, and is one of eleven American
wind band composers featured in Volume I of Composers on Composing Music
for Band. He was honored by the International Assembly of Phi Beta Mu
in 1990 as being the International Outstanding Bandmaster of the year.
