Lance served as a director at the junior high and high school levels in the state of Mississippi where her bands consistently received superior ratings in all categories.
Ms. Lance maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator for both concert and marching band events throughout the country. The MSU Wind Ensemble recently completed a concert tour of Ireland and England in May, 2008.
Professionally, she is a member of the National Band Association, Mississippi Bandmaster’s Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Beta Mu, Phi Kappa Phi, Music Educator’s National Conference, College Music Society and the College Band Director’s National Association.
Blue Band
Sue Samuels is the Director of Bands at
the University of
Alabama at Birmingham. Her responsibilities include teaching and administering the Marching Blazers, the Wind Symphony, and the Blazer Band, as well as teaching courses in conducting and marching band techniques. Since Ms. Samuels
arrived in
Birmingham, the bands at UAB have continued to grow and thrive under her direction. The Marching Blazers continue to wow the crowds with contemporary sights and sounds. The UAB Wind Symphony performs at least 2 concerts per semester at the Alys Stephens Center, and the group continues to perform the very finest literature
available for the
contemporary wind band. UAB continues to host more than 200 high school band performers at the All-Star Band Festival each fall and more than 600 young musicians at the annual Middle School and High School Honor Band festivals each December. The Blazer Band performs throughout the winter at home basketball games, and also accompanies the teams to the Conference USA and NCAA Tournaments. In addition, Ms. Samuels has created the UAB Community Wind Symphony, a group of interested amateur musicians of all ages who perform 3 concerts a year. Ms. Samuels
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is a strong advocate for chamber music and for music education and actively supports the UAB Clarinet Choir, Blazer Woodwind and Brass Quintets, and all other facets of instrumental music at UAB.
Ms. Samuels’ teaching experience prior to her arrival at UAB includes 12 years at Lassiter High School in Marietta Georgia, 1 year as Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Georgia, and 2 years as Director of Bands at WT Woodson High School in Fairfax, Virginia. Under her direction, all bands she conducted received straight superior ratings at festivals over her 14 year career as a high school band director. In addition, the bands at both Lassiter and Woodson performed at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival, and the Lassiter Band won the 1998 Marching Band Grand National Championships.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Ms. Samuels attended Furman University in Greenville where she obtained a Bachelors Degree in Music Education. Ms. Samuels has also been educated at Georgia State University in Atlanta, where
she Music Degree
completed the Master of in Instrumental
Conducting and at the Eastman School of Music. She received the PhD in Music Education from Auburn Univeristy in 2009.
Ms. Samuels is frequently invited to serve as a clinician, conductor, adjudicator, and guest speaker throughout the country. She is a member of the Music Educator’s National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, and the National Band Association.
Middle School Band
Steven Tyndall is currently in his twenty- sixth year of teaching in Georgia public schools. He has been director of bands at Rising Starr Middle School since the school opened in 1997. He currently has 220 students in grades 6-8 comprising three concert bands and a jazz band. Prior to
coming to Rising Starr, he served as band director at McIntosh High and J.C. Booth Middle Schools, both in Peachtree City, Georgia, and also taught in the Griffin- Spalding County School System (Georgia) from 1985 until 1988.
Mr. Tyndall received the Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Jacksonville State University (Alabama) and the Master of Music Education degree from The University of West Georgia.. Mr. Tyndall’s bands have previously performed at the 1990, 1997, and 2003 Georgia Music Educator’s Association In- Service Conferences. He has also had bands perform for the University of Southern Mississippi
Conference in 1992 and 2001,
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University of Georgia Middle School Festival in 1992 and 1999, the Southeastern United States Middle School Concert Band Clinic at Troy State University in 2002, the 57th Annual Midwest Clinic in December 2003, the Western International Band Clinic, held in Seattle, Washington, in 2005, The bands of America Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana in 2006, the 62nd Annual Midwest Clinic in 2008, and will again perform at the 2011 Music For All Concert Band Festival, to be held in Indianapolis, Indiana this March. The McIntosh High School Band performed two concerts as part of the cultural arts program held in conjunction with the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Mr. Tyndall is presently serving as the Georgia Music Educators Association State Band Division Chair.
Mr. Tyndall’s performing experience includes marching with The Spirit of Atlanta Drum & Bugle Corps (1979-1980), The Marching Southerners of Jacksonville State University (1980-1984), and Tara Winds Community Band.
Mr. Tyndall has 2 daughters, Emily, 23, a graduate clarinet
performance student at the Guildhall School for Drama and Music in London, and Erin, 20, a sophomore at North Georgia College and State University. Mr. Tyndall makes his home in Peachtree City with LuAnn, his wife of 27 years.
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