Guests,
Welcome to the Bands at the Conservatory Website!
I am extremely excited about our Wind Band Teaching Symposium on our campus that is designed for K-12 music educators from around this region and the entire country. There will be numerous clinics and sessions presented during the week-long symposium by many guest presenters. Sessions on gesture, pedagogy, literature, philosophy, score study, marching band and other topics will be covered during the symposium. The dates for the event are July 12-17, 2009. Please visit the symposium website for more information http://conservatory.umkc.edu/bands/symposium.asp.
As you are planning for the next year please save the date for the Midwest Honor Band Festival and Symposium January 14-16, 2010 on our campus. The clinicians will include Richard Floyd, Greg Gausline, Eric Rombach-Kendall, and Cheryl Floyd.
If you are a band director and are reading this, I would like to make a standing offer to you. If you would like to bring one of your concert ensembles to our campus to attend a concert, I would be delighted to meet with the ensemble to discuss the pieces they will hear that evening. In addition, if you would like to bring your ensemble to our campus earlier in the afternoon, I would be happy to work with the ensemble in any manner you feel would be appropriate (clinic, comments, etc). That evening, I would recognize the director(s) and ensemble from the podium. Ticket fees would be waived for you, your chaperones and your students.
Finally, I know that I speak for my other band colleagues, Joe Parisi, Associate Director of Bands and Dana Buchanan, Administrative Assistant and our graduate student assistants, in my conveyance that we are here to serve our institution and community/region/nation in any way possible to further the cause of music education. If we can help in any way, please do not hesitate to call on us. Be our guests at a concert-we will hold tickets (free of charge) for you. Contact Dana at buchananda@umkc.edu for more information on these free concert tickets.
Don't forget to mark your calendars for July 12-17, 2009 and January 14-16, 2010. You will not want to miss these wonderful events!
Hopefully, we will meet in person soon.
Sincerely,
Steven D. Davis
Director of Bands and Wind Ensembles
Conservatory of Music
University of Missouri, Kansas City
