2012 ABA All-State Clinicians
Red Band
and Director of Bands at The University of Tennessee-Martin. He has guest conducted in Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ireland, Singapore, and throughout the eastern United States. Dr. Gausline is published in the journals for the National Band Association and World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, School Band and Orchestra Magazine, Keynotes Magazine, and several publications offered by GIA publications, Inc. Commissioning projects include works by Michael Torke, Joel Puckett, James Syler, Daniel Bukvich, and Rob Smith. He received the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Miami in Coral Gables and taught in the public schools of Florida.
White Band
chamber music, and was from 2003 to 2008 Associate Director of the UT Butler School of Music. As Music Director of the UT Chamber Winds, Dr. Hanna has led performances of that ensemble at the 2002 and 2004 College Band Directors National Association Southwestern Division Conferences. Dr. Hanna is also the director of The University of Texas Longhorn Music Camps, serves as faculty sponsor for the Alpha Tau chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi, and serves as Editor of the College Band Directors National Association Report. He is arranger and editor of numerous works for winds, and regularly authors program notes for a wide variety of performances, including an upcoming CD release by the Cavell Trio.
Blue Band
Dr. Gregg Gausline is Associate Director of Bands at The University of Georgia where he is the conductor of the UGA Wind Symphony, teaches courses in advanced conducting, and is chair of the conducting area. Prior positions include Director of Instrumental Studies at Indiana/Purdue University-Fort Wayne
Scott S. Hanna serves as Assistant Director of Bands at The University of Texas at Austin, Music Director and Conductor of the Symphony Band and Associate Director of the Longhorn Band. He teaches courses in conducting and
Dr. C. David Ragsdale is the Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at
the University of Alabama in
Huntsville, Alabama. In addition to his university teaching responsibilities in the areas of music education and conducting, Dr. Ragsdale conducts the Huntsville Youth Orchestra, the Huntsville Chamber Winds, and is an avid conductor and clinician throughout
the Southeast.
Additionally, Dr. Ragsdale is a contributing author for McGraw Hill’s “Experience Music” textbook and GIA Publication’s popular “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” textbook series and is a producer of two compact discs in national circulation on the Naxos Classical Music label.
Prior to UA Huntsville, Dr. Ragsdale served as the Associate Director of Bands for the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami where he directed the internationally-acclaimed "Band of the Hour" Marching Band for the Miami Hurricanes. In 2004, Dr. Ragsdale was
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