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Dr. Linda R. Moorhouse joined the Illinois faculty in the fall of 2010 and currently serves as Interim Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music. Within the School of Music she serves as conductor of


Red Band


television, radio and the stage. His original symphonic


compositions


2014 ABA All-State Clinicians include


the Illinois Wind Symphony and teaches courses in graduate and undergraduate conducting and graduate wind literature. Prior to her Illinois appointment, she served on the faculty at Louisiana State University for over 20 years, where she was the recipient of select campus-wide awards for teaching excellence. Dr. Moorhouse is active as a conductor, clinician and adjudicator nationally and internationally and her service to the band profession is a matter of record. She is an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, and is both a Past President and the current Executive Secretary of the National Band Association, where she also serves as Editor of the NBA Journal. She is a Past President of Women Band Directors International and is a Member Laureate of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional fraternity for women in music.


In recognition of


extraordinary service to the music community, she was awarded the "Diploma of the Sudler Order of Merit" from the John Philip Sousa Foundation, and has received multiple "Citations of Excellence" from the National Band Association.


White Band


Samuel R. Hazo resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his wife and children. In 2003, Mr. Hazo became the first composer in history to be awarded the winner of both composition contests sponsored by the National Band Association. He has composed for the professional, university and public school levels in addition to writing original scores for


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performances with actors Brooke Shields, James Earl Jones, David Conrad and Richard Kiley. Most recently, Mr. Hazo was asked by the Newtown School District to compose the memorial for the children and women who were lost in the tragedy at their Sandy Hook Elementary School. The result was a major work for Choir, Orchestra and Wind Band combined titled "Glorificare." It was premiered in May of 2013 by the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and VOCE Singers performing side-by-side with the Newtown High School musicians. Mr. Hazo also composed "Bridges," which he was requested to write by Virginia Tech University following their tragic shootings. In 2012, two of Mr. Hazo's compositions were performed at the London Summer Olympic Games. Samuel R. Hazo has been a music teacher at every educational grade level from kindergarten through college, including tenure as a high school and university director.


Blue Band


Dr. Mark J. Walker serves as Director of Bands, Coordinator of Winds and Percussion and Associate Professor of Music at Troy University where he conducts the Troy University Symphony Band, the nationally renowned “Sound of the South” Marching Band, teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting, marching band techniques, measurement and evaluation, and music education. In addition to his teaching duties, Dr. Walker serves as Chairman of the Southeastern United States Clinic and Honor Bands, Executive Director of the Middle School Southeastern United States Band Clinic and Honor Bands, and is the Director of the “Sound of the South” Summer Music Camp and Director’s Clinic. He also serves as Co- Chair of the National Band Association’s Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band Directors. Dr. Walker is a published


author, whose articles appears various music education publications and is the editor of the book The Art of Interpretation of Band Music published by GIA. He is a contributor to The Euphonium Source Book, published


by Indiana University Press. Additionally, Dr. Walker is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Band Research. Dr. Walker keeps an active guest conducting and clinic schedule, and has appeared as a conductor and adjudicator in Canada. Dr. Walker is married to Jessica Walker, who teaches sixth grade at Goshen Elementary, and resides in Troy with their daughter, Emily.


Middle School Band


Linda J. Gammon is currently the director of middle school bands at Rachel Carson Middle School in Fairfax County, VA. She is a native of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine and received her Bachelor of Science degree in music education from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts degree in conducting from George Mason University. Under Ms. Gammon’s direction, her middle school bands have earned consistent superior ratings, awards, and enjoy state, regional and national recognition including four appearances at the 1992, 1993, 2000, 2012 Virginia Music Educators State Conferences and the 1993, 2000 Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. In 1997 Ms. Gammon and the Robinson Middle School Symphonic Band were awarded the prestigious John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Silver Cup Award, the highest honor bestowed on a middle school band program. Ms. Gammon currently serves as the VMEA Conference Coordinator and is a Past President of the Virginia Music Educators Association, the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association, and the Fairfax County Band Directors Association She has been recognized twice by the School Band and Orchestra Magazine as one of the “Fifty Directors Who Make A Difference”, awarded numerous National Band Association “Citations of Excellence” and recognized by the Women Band Directors International as the 2003 Scroll of Excellence recipient. In 2007 Ms. Gammon was awarded the Virginia Outstanding Music Educator of the Year Award and in 2014 the Fairfax County Band Director of the Year.


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