Meet the NIB Composer and Conductor Commissioned Composer Jack Stamp
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r. Jack Stamp is Professor of Music and Conductor of Bands at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Band, and teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate conducting. Dr. Stamp received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education degree from IUP, a Master’s in Percussion Performance from East Carolina University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from Michigan State University where he studied with Eugene Corporon. Prior to his appointment at IUP, he served as chairman of the Division of Fine Arts at Campbell University in North Carolina. He also taught for several years in the public schools of North Carolina. In addition to these posts, Dr. Stamp served as conductor of the Duke University Wind Symphony (1988-89) and was musical director of the Triangle British Brass Band, leading them to a national brass band championship in 1989. In 1996, he received the Orpheus Award from the Zeta Tau Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha for service to music and was named a “Distinguished Alumnus” of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 1999, he received the “Citation of Excellence” from the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. In 2000, he was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. He has won the praise of American composers David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio, Samuel Adler, Robert Ward, Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, Nancy Galbraith, and Bruce Yurko for performances of their works. He is also a contributing author to the “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” series released by GIA Publications. He is founder and conductor of the Keystone Wind Ensemble, which has recorded two CDs of his works on the Citadel label (“Past the Equinox: The Music of Jack Stamp” and “Cloudsplitter”). }
NIB Conductor Don Wilcox
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s the Director of Bands at West Virginia University since l971, Don Wilcox has guided the growth and development of the University’s band program to a position of national recognition.The six bands, housed in the multimillion dollar Creative Arts Center, provide the university community with over fifty performances each year, and have performed for enthusiastic audiences in over twenty states. The top concert organization, the WVU Wind Symphony, has performed for regional and national conferences of the Music Educators National Conference, and College Band Directors National Association, as well as for the first international meeting of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Manchester, England, in 1981. In April of 1996, they performed the opening concert of the first Atlanta International Band and Orchestra Conference. Mr. Wilcox is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is active at the national level in numerous professional organizations, serving on the Board of Directors of the American Bandmasters Association, the John Philip Sousa Foundation, and the Atlanta International Band and Orchestra Clinic. He has received several significant honors, including WVU’s Outstanding Teacher Award, the 1993 Golden Apple Outstanding Faculty Award, and special citations from three Governors for his contributions to the state of West Virginia. In 1986, he became the first teacher ever to be named a Distinguished Fine Arts Alumnus of California State University at Long Beach. In 1997, he received three major awards: 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. In 2000 he was elected President of the American Bandmasters Association. In forty years of working with musicians of all ages and abilities, Mr. Wilcox has conducted bands from oneroom schools in rural Appalachia to several of the major concert halls in the world, and in 48 states, and 16 foreign countries. He has served as guest conductor and lecturer at more than three dozen universities in America, Europe, Japan, and Thailand, and maintains an active international schedule as a clinician and conductor. }
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