AMEA 2009 Clinicians and Performers Joel Mason,
a native of Huntsville, Alabama, attended both Mountain Gap Middle School and Grissom High School where he played tuba and bass trombone. Following graduation, he attended the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music where he earned a Bachelor of Music Degree with honors. At CCM he played in all of the major ensembles, including the prestigious Brass Choir, Wind Symphony and Philharmonia Orchestra. While at CCM, Joel won the Brevard Music Center Concerto Marathon and the MENC/Marine Corps Young Artist Competition. After commencement, Joel took a position with the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps fromWilmington, Delaware, as a Contrabass Bugle Technician. He has completed a Master of Music Degree inWind Conducting from Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. Joel isDirector of Bands atMountainGapMiddle Schoolwhere he teachesmore than 200 students in both concert and jazz settings. Prior to his appointment at Mountain GapMiddle School, Joel was a co- director at Dupont-Tyler Middle School and assistant director at McGavock High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Additionally, Joel has served on the faculty of Middle Tennessee State University, University ofNorthAlabama,Austin Peay StateUniversity, andUniversity ofAlabama inHuntsville as adjunct instructor of tuba&euphonium. He currently serves as the conductor of The Brass Band of Huntsville and is the Vice-chairman for the Alabama Bandmasters Association - District One. Joel is very active as a chamber musician, clinician, conductor and private teacher. He also plays tuba, euphonium or bass trombone in the Brass Band of Huntsville, Twickenham Winds, Bavarian Sauerkrauts, and Flint River Brass Quintet. In addition to music activities, Joel is an avid boater, pilot, and motorcyclist.
The Hillcrest High SchoolWind Ensemble is made up of 54 of the top musicians at Hillcrest High School. Nearly 50% of the embers of the wind ensemble are labamaAll-State players and over 75%of e ensemblemembers have participated in
he District V Honor Band. In addition, ree of themembers have performed in the ational Honor Band/Orchestra of merica. The ensemble has received
nothing less than superior ratings at the istrict and state levels since its inception hree years ago. Furthermore, in 2008, the ensemble received best in class and second overall at Festival Disney. In addition to receiving the great honor of performing at he 2009 AMEA Conference, the wind nsemble was also selected to perform at
The National Concert Band Festival of America in Indianapolis, Indiana in March 2009.
Joyce Cauthen
is the executive director of the Alabama Folklife Association, a statewide organization that sponsors research, promotion and preservation of Alabama’s folk culture. She is the author ofWith Fiddle andWell- Rosined Bow: Old-Time Fiddling in Alabama, published in 1989 by the University of Alabama Press, and has served as the producer of numerous recordings of traditional music of Alabama, including Possum Up a Gum Stump: Home, Commercial, and Field Recordings of Alabama Fiddlers. She served as editor of Benjamin Lloyd’sHymnbook: A Primitive Baptist Song Tradition and produced the accompanying CD.Her last projectwas a CDand booklet entitled Bullfrog Jumpedwhich features recordingsmade acrossAlabama of children’s folksongs and games in 1947. She is a graduate of Texas Christian University and has a master’s degree in English from Purdue University.
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