AOA All-State 2010 Clinicians


Jeff Reynolds is currently Chairman of the Department and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Highly acclaimed as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator, speaker, and teacher, Dr. Reynolds has been heralded as “one of America’s most exciting, sensitive, and innovative conductors”. He holds the Bachelor of Music in Voice and Church Music from Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, the Master of Music in Conducting


from Southwestern


Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the University of Illinois where his dissertation was The Choral Music of Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986).


As Music Director of


the International Cathedral Music Festival, singers and instrumentalists from all over the world have performed under his direction in such historic venues as Salisbury Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, St. John’s, Smith Square – London, Christ Church – Oxford, St. Mary’s Church – York, St. Giles Cathedral – Edinburgh, the Domkirche and Schloss Esterhazy – Eisenstadt, St. Etienne-du-Mont – Paris and the Votivekirche and St. Stephan’s Cathedral in Vienna. In addition, he has conducted numerous orchestras including the Arkansas Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Brevard Symphony (Florida), Fort Worth Symphony (Texas), Sarum Chamber Orchestra (England), and members of the London Philharmonic and the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.


For three years choruses under


Dr. Reynolds’ direction were selected as the Chorus-in-Residence for the Seminar fur Klassiche Musik in Eisenstadt, Austria, where Dr. Reynolds served as lecturer on the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Ensembles under his direction have also been featured at state and regional conventions for conductors and music educators.


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A native of Chattanooga, Gary Wilkes is an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he received his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education. After graduation, he attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and was awarded a Master of Music Diploma in Bassoon Performance. At SMU he studied conducting with James Rives- Jones, associate conductor with the Dallas Symphony and the Colorado Symphony. Over the past thirty-one years, he has taught both bands and orchestras in Texas and Tennessee. Currently, he is the orchestra teacher at the Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, where he teaches more than 125 string students in grades 6-12. For the past sixteen years he has been the music director of the Chattanooga Symphony Youth Orchestras and the conductor of the Chattanooga Symphony.


Youth Jeff Reynolds


traveling, and spending time with best friend and wife, Robyn.


James Barket has been the Orchestra Director at Webb Bridge Middle School in Alpharetta, GA since August of 2000. The WBMS orchestra program includes five active performing groups, three of whom regularly perform at GMEA LGPE. WBMS groups have performed at the ASTA National Orchestra Competition in Kansas City and at the GMEA In-Service conference. Dr. Barket has also taught at Parker Mathis Elementary and Lowndes Middle School in Lowndes County, GA. He directed the Summer Program of the Valdosta Symphony Youth Orchestra in 1999, and managed the orchestra during the 1999-2000 school year. From 2000-2004, Dr. Barket was Co-Director (with Jennifer Barket) of the GaASTA/NSOA Orchestra Camp. He also was the coordinator (with Kevin Majeske) of the GMEA District V Elementary Orchestra Clinic from 2003-2005. Dr. Barket served as GMEA State Orchestra Chairperson from 2005-2007.


James Barket holds a Doctor of Gary Wilkes


In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he currently serves the music teachers of Tennessee as President of the


Tennessee Music


Education Association and he is immediate Past-President of the Tennessee chapter of A.S.T.A. He holds membership in the Phi Beta Mu Honorary Band Director’s Fraternity, and was recently honored as one of Tennessee’s outstanding teachers by the Board of the Tennessee Governor’s School of the Arts. He is a bassoonist with the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra, Director of Music at First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, and during leisure moments, he enjoys cooking,


Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, a Master of Music degree from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Hartford. He also studied in Vienna Austria at the Hochschule fur Musik as a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship. From 1994-2000, James Barket was on the faculty at Valdosta State University in Valdosta Georgia. He has performed as Principal Bassist of the


Symphony Orchestra, Principal Bassist of the


Valdosta Albany


James Barket


Symphony Orchestra, Bassist in the VSU Faculty Jazz Quintet, and Per Service Bassist with the Savannah Symphony Orchestra. James has been married to Jennifer Barket since 1991. Jennifer is a studio cello teacher in the Alpharetta area. Their son Daniel studies piano and cello.


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