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Wednesday, April 17, 2013 All-State Solo Festival


Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm 1:30 pm 2:00 pm 5:30 pm


6:00 pm – 9:30 pm 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm


Friday, April 19, 2013 8:30 am – 12:00 8:30 am – 12:00


Exhibits open


Directors Meeting Auditions begin


Audition results posted Rehearsal


ABA Board Meeting


Exhibits open Rehearsal


David Gregory, Director of Bands at Reinhardt University and Director Emeritus of Tara Winds, has conducted elementary, junior high, high school, community college, university, and professional bands.


9:00 am – 10:00 am 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm


2013 ABA All-State Schedule ABA General Business meeting


Exhibits open Rehearsal


Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:00 am – 8:45 am 8:45 am – 9:30 am 8:45 am – 9:45 am


Middle School Blue Band


ABA Board Meeting


9:30 am – 10:15 am White Band 10:00 am – 10:45 am ABA General Business Meeting 10:15 am – 11:00 am


Red Band


Saturday, April 20, 2013 1:00 pm


Concert 2013 ABA All-State Clinicians Red Band


A former director of bands at Hardaway High School in Columbus (GA), Forest Park High School in Forest Park (GA), and the University of Florida in Gainesville, (FL), and former Clayton County (GA) Coordinator of Instrumental Music, Dr. Gregory served as Assistant


to the


Superintendent in that school system for twelve years until his retirement from public school work in January 2003. Dr. Gregory is a Past President of the National Band Association and currently serves as Advisor to the Executive Committee of that organization.


White Band


Dr. Glenn D. Price is recognized as one of the leading


on international


conductors of today. He has conducted in over 20 countries


ala breve five continents, covering the


gamut from professional chamber players to 450 piece string orchestra, symphony orchestras and wind ensembles to mass bands of over 1500 musicians. He is best- known as a major authority on music for wind groups and in this capacity he has appeared as featured conductor for many professional organizations. These include the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE), the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), the American Bandmasters Association (ABA), the MidWest Clinic, the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), the Encontro Latino Americano (Brazil), the Shizuoka Festival (Japan), the British Association for Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles (BASBWE) and others.


Blue Band


David Starnes joined the School of Music at Western


Carolina


University in the summer of 2011 as Assistant Professor/Director of Athletic Bands. He directs the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band and the Symphonic Band. A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mr. Starnes graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1988, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education. Prior to coming to Western Carolina, Mr. Starnes was the founding Director of Bands at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Kennesaw, Georgia, where he served for eleven years.


William Owens (b. 1963) is a native of Gary, Indiana. He is a seasoned music educator and very active as a composer, clinician and conductor throughout the United States and Canada.


His


compositions for young ensembles display a practical, erudite approach which has firmly established him as a leader in the field.


Middle School Band


Since 1993, Mr. Owens has writtren over 150 commissioned and published works for concert band, string orchestra and small ensemble. His music is programmed at prestigious venues such as the Midwest Clinic, and appears on music lists both nationally and abroad. Principal commissions include those from the the California Band Directors Association, the Florida Bandmasters Association, the Iowa Bandmasters Association, the South Plains College (TX) Department of Fine Arts and the Texas University Interscholastic League. His compositions "Courtlandt County Festival" and "Maesong"


have been


recorded and analyzed in educational text by the GIA series Teaching Music Through Performance In Band. Mr. Owens teaches instrumental music in the Everman (TX) Independent School District and is the Instrumental Editorial Assistant for the FJH Music Company.


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David Gregory


David Starnes William Owens


Glenn Price


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