Assistant Director of Bands
Matthew M. Shrewsbury, Assistant Director of Bands / Director of Athletic Bands, is the director of the CCU Marching Band and Pep Band, and assistant conductor of the Coastal Youth Wind Ensemble and Coastal Carolina University Symphonic Band. He is the founding artistic director of the Upstate Winds and former Director of Bands at Dixie High School in Due West, S.C.
 
During his career as an undergraduate music major, he participated in numerous ensembles ranging from: The Mighty Sound of the Southeast Marching Band, basketball pep band, concert and university bands, wind ensemble, Left Bank Big Band, chamber winds, trombone choir, the Carolina Trombone Collective, numerous chamber ensembles and the Columbia College Wind Ensemble. He studied trombone with Bradley Edwards.
 
He then moved to Myrtle Beach, S.C., where he began work on his graduate degree and studied conducting with Dr. James Tully, Director of Bands at Coastal Carolina University. During his career at Coastal Carolina University, he held the position of head graduate assistant for the university bands. He conducted the university symphonic band, chamber ensembles and Spirit of the Chanticleer Marching Band while performing with the Jazz After Hours Big Band and as a member of the trombone section with the Long Bay Symphony Orchestra.
 
He holds a B.M. in music education from the University of South Carolina and an M.Ed. from Coastal Carolina University. His primary conducting and trombone teachers were James Tully, Andrew Gowan and Bradley Edwards. He is a frequent adjudicator, lecturer, clinician, drill designer and freelance trombonist in and around the Southeast.
 
Shrewsbury is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference, International Trombone Association, International Tuba Euphonium Association, National Band Association, Association of Concert Bands, College Music Society, College Band Directors National Association, South Carolina Music Educators Association and the South Carolina Band Directors Association.

Contact Info:
109 Coastal Band Hall
843.349.2775
mshrewsbury@coastal.edu