eight-years of high school teaching, Latimer has been active as Church Choir Director, Community Choir Director, Performer, Music Theatre Director, Technical Director, and Scenic Designer. His most recent university position was Assistant Professor of Music Education and Director of the Women's Ensemble at Wichita State University.
His research has been presented at state, national, and international music conventions, and he has served as a reviewer for the Prentice Hall publishing Company and as an Editorial Assistant for the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing. He has published articles in the Choral Journal, and the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing, and is currently engaged in an investigation of the life and con- tributions of Dr. Harold A. Decker, a prominent choral music educator who developed the first professional doc- torate in choral music at the University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign. Dr. Latimer is a frequent clinician and adju- dicator. His professional affiliations include the American Choral Directors Association, Kansas Choral Directors Association, Kansas Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, and the Voice Care Network.
From Auburn University
Corey Spurlin is in his first year as Associate Director of Bands, Marching Band Director, and Assistant Professor of Music at Auburn University. In addition to his work with the Sudler winning Auburn Marching Band and Pep Band, Dr. Spurlin conducts the Concert Band, Campus Band, and is associate conductor of the Symphonic Band. He also teaches courses in conducting and marching band techniques. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting from Louisiana State University, where he studied with Frank B. Wickes, and the Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in music education from the University of Alabama.
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appointment at Auburn, Dr. Spurlin served as a Graduate Assistant for the Band Department at Louisiana State University where he assisted with the LSU Tiger Marching Band and con- ducted the "Bengal Brass" Pep Band. In addition, he was Graduate Associate Conductor of the LSU Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds, and Symphonic Band.
Rick Good was promoted to Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Conducting in 2007. Prior to that pro- motion he served for 13 years as Marching Band Director and Associate
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Professor of Low Brass at Auburn University. His duties included directing the Concert Band, Campus Band, Trombone Choir,
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Ensemble and assisting with the Symphonic Band. In addition, he taught applied trombone, euphoni- um, tuba, low brass methods, graduate classes in conduct- ing, wind literature and marching band techniques. Before coming to Auburn, Dr. Good was the Acting Associate Director of Bands at Arizona State University for one year. In addition, he was a Graduate Teaching Assistant at both Arizona
State and Louisiana State Universities. Dr. Good taught for seven years in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Virginia. The ensembles, under his direction, have per- formed at state music conventions and have received numerous superior ratings at state and national band festi- vals. Dr. Good received his Bachelors degree in Music Education from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, a Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting from Louisiana State University and his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Euphonium Performance at Arizona State University.
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