Vice President

SHELBY CHIPMAN (FL)

NOMINEE, VICE-PRESIDENT

DR. SHELBY RAWN CHIPMAN professor of music at Florida A&M University (FAMU) in Tallahassee. His responsibilities in the Department of Music include teaching Instrumental Music Education, Conducting, and assisting with coordinating student recitals and student teachers. Additionally, he serves as director of the Marching and Pep Bands, Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, and String Ensemble.

He is a native of Miami, where he graduated from Miami Northwestern Senior High. He received his Bachelor of Science degrees in Computer Science and Music Education from Florida A&M University, where he was conducting student of the late Dr. William P. Foster and Dr. Julian E. White. Professor Chipman completed his master’s degree in music education at the University of Illinois and received his PhD in music education from Florida State University (FSU), where he studied with Dr. Bentley Shellahamer. Dr. Chipman’s dissertation was “A Survey of Perceptions of At-Risk Students by Secondary School Band Directors.” He continues to present research on educator challenges with teaching in urban school districts. Prior to his appointment at FAMU, he taught music in the Miami-Dade County Public School system for 10 years. His band program at Miami Central High School developed into one of the finest band programs in the country. As much as a teacher as he was a musician, Dr. Chipman was named Teacher of the Year during the 1993-94 school year. Under his leadership the Rocket Marching band performed in the 1993, 1995, and 1997 King Orange Jamboree Parades, 1993 Heritage Festival (New Orleans), 1990-96 FAMU’s Homecoming Festivals (Tallahassee, FL) 1992-97 MLK Parades & Festival (St. Petersburg, FL), 1997 Macy’s Day Parade (New York City), and numerous other marching events. The Miami Central High School Symphonic Band performed at the prestigious Bands of America National Concert Festival in Indianapolis, IN. During his tenure in MiamiDade County Public Schools, he served as district secretary, chairman, ethics, all state, and the executive board of Florida Bandmasters Association.

Dr. Chipman is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi Band Fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Florida Music Educators Association (FMEA), Florida Bandmasters Association (FBA), College Band Directors National Conference (CBDNA), Florida Music Education Association (FMEA) Multicultural Network, and Bethel AME Church (Tallahassee). He has coordinated numerous band festivals and had the pleasure of working with James Croft, James, Keene, Andre Thomas, Jim Sparks, Gary Green, Anthony Maiello, Alex Jimenez, and Eugene Corporon, who represent some of the finest conductors in the world. In addition to working with these outstanding conductors, Dr. Chipman has presented music education and conducting clinics on several public school and college campuses, as well as given lectures at the FMEA conference, TMEA in San Antonio, Texas, and the Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.

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Dr. Chipman currently serves as President of the Florida Music Education Association and he is an active adjudicator and clinician throughout the Southeastern United States. He also serves as music director/ conductor of the Tallahassee Big Bend Community Orchestra. The Florida A&M University Wind Symphony and Symphonic Bands perform regularly on campus during the fall and spring semesters as well as at divisional, national, and professional music conferences. Under his direction, wind symphony has performed at the Florida Music Educators Association Conference in Tampa, Florida, Carnegie Hall, New York City, and has been invited to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Dr. Chipman has published numerous articles and completed research in the areas of instrumental conducting, atrisk student success and the student teaching experience. His Dissertation focused on “A Survey of Perceptions of At-Risk Students by Florida Secondary School Band Directors.” He has also published articles in the Florida Music Director on Band Director Success and will be featured in the fall publication of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Band Director Marching Band Digest.

Dr. Chipman is married to Detrick LaShawn, a fourth grade teacher at Kate Sullivan Elementary School (Tallahassee) and together they have one son, Israel Armenian Chipman, who is in his final year as student at Leon high school in Tallahassee.

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MATT TEMPLE (IL)

NOMINEE, VICE-PRESIDENT

MATT TEMPLE was appointed Director of Bands at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, in 2007. Under Mr. Temple’s direction, the New Trier Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed at the Midwest Clinic, Music for All National Concert Band Festival, Illinois Music Education Conference, University of Illinois Superstate Festival, and Chicagoland Invitational Concert Band Festival. They have also performed in the Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago, and throughout Italy. Additionally, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed with soloists from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, including Stephen Williamson (Principal Clarinet), Chris Martin (Principal Trumpet), and Tage Larsen (Trumpet). The New Trier wind ensembles have produced ten years of CD recordings mastered by Mark Custom Recording. In 2014, the New Trier band program was an inaugural national winner of the “Blue Ribbon Award” for Programs of Excellence presented by the National Band Association.

Mr. Temple is currently serving on the Executive Committee of the National Band Association as the Second Vice-President. He has served three previous terms on the NBA Board of Directors as the North Central Division Chair and as a High School Representative. During this biennium, he was humbled to be a member of the newly formed Inclusion-DiversityEquity-Awareness (IDEA) committee. As an outgrowth of this work, Mr. Temple conducted an extensive interview with Alfred Watkins about his experiences and perspectives as a Black band director, which appeared in two parts in the NBA Journal. As the former committee chair for the NBA Programs of Excellence Award, he coordinated the evaluation and selection of the winners from 2016-2020. In 2017 and 2020, Mr. Temple hosted an NBA Conducting Workshop at New Trier High School for music education students from universities throughout Illinois. The New Trier Symphonic Wind Ensemble has performed previously at the NBA Band Director Workshop, and Mr. Temple has presented two sessions at the same workshop.

As a contributing editor for The Instrumentalist magazine, Mr. Temple has authored many articles over the past decade and has also served on the Advisory Committee for NAfME’s Music Educators Journal. He has received the NBA Citation of Excellence multiple times, and in 2015, Mr. Temple was recognized by his colleagues with the Outstanding Chicagoland Music Educator Award. He is Past President and a founding member of the Illinois committee for Comprehensive Musicianship through Performance (CMP). Additionally, Mr. Temple has presented sessions on music selection, score study, studentcentered instruction, and innovative band curriculum at multiple universities, state music conferences, and twice at the Midwest Clinic. During the pandemic, he was invited to present several webinars. Mr. Temple frequently serves as a clinician and guest conductor throughout the U.S.

Mr. Temple is a strong advocate of new music. He has commissioned multiple composers through his participation in the Consortium for the Advancement of Wind Literature, including

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Michael Markowski, Ryan George, Jonathan Newman, Roshanne Etezady, Jess Turner, and Wataru Hokoyama. He also has been involved in consortiums that have commissioned Jim Stephenson, James David, Reena Esmail, Jennifer Jolley, Eric Whitacre, David Gillingham, James Curnow, Mark Camphouse, Kimberly Archer, and Shawn Okpebholo. Just prior to the stay-at-home order in 2020, New Trier hosted a visit from composer Omar Thomas. Subsequently, Mr. Temple wrote the article, “Promoting Social Justice through Of Our New Day Begun by Omar Thomas,” which appeared in the summer 2020 NBA Journal.

Mr. Temple earned his bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a master’s in conducting from Eastern Illinois University, and an additional master’s in educational leadership from Aurora University. Prior to his appointment at New Trier, Mr. Temple served as the Fine Arts Chair at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois, from 2000-2007, and as the music director at Flora High School from 1994-1998. Mr. Temple was elected to the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 2017 and is also an elected member of the American School Band Directors Association and the honorary society, Phi Beta Mu. Other professional memberships include the Illinois Music Educators Association, National Association for Music Education, and National Band Association.

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