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Richard Clary
Richard Clary is Professor
of Music, Senior Band
Conductor and Director of
Wind Ensemble Studies at
Florida State University in
Tallahassee. His primary
duties at FSU include
serving as Music Director
and Conductor for the University Wind Orchestra and
Chamber Winds, and the guidance of the graduate
wind band conducting program. Prior to his 2003
appointment to the FSU faculty, Mr. Clary served as
Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Conducting
at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. Prior to his
appointment at UK, Mr. Clary served as a member of the
music faculties of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City,
the University of Arizona in Tucson, and Marcos de Niza
High School in Tempe, Arizona.
Mr. Clary holds Bachelor and Master of Music
diplomas in Music Education from the Arizona State
University School of Music, and is a Candidate for
the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Instrumental
Conducting at the University of Washington in Seattle,
where he was a student of Peter Erös and Tim Salzman.
An active clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor,
Mr. Clary has served in these capacities throughout the
United States, in the District of Columbia and in three
of the Provinces of Canada. In addition to his various
band-related activities, he has also enjoyed successful
engagements as guest conductor with numerous
professional ensembles including the Lexington
Philharmonic (KY), the Renton Civic Theater (WA), and
Wichita Falls (TX) Symphony Orchestras.
Mr. Clary holds active memberships in several
professional organizations including the Music Educators
National Conference, the Florida Music Educators
Association, the Florida Bandmasters Association, the
College Band Directors National Association, the World
Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Phi
Beta Mu and is proud to be an Honorary Member of
the national band sorority, Tau Beta Sigma. He has
also served as a state chairman for the National Band
Association. In March 2000, he was honored by election
into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association.
He resides in Tallahassee with his wife, Lauren, and their
two children, Emily and Ryan
Richard Floyd
In 1983, Richard Floyd was
appointed State Director
of Music Activities for the
University Interscholastic
League at the University
of Texas at Austin, where
he coordinates all facets
of secondary school music
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competition for some 3,500 performing organizations
throughout the state. In addition, he routinely serves
as an adjunct member of the faculty in the university
Department of Music on an as-needed basis.
His other professional endeavors include the
post of Musical Director and Conductor of the Austin
Symphonic Band, which he has held since 1986. Prior
to his appointment at the University of Texas, Mr. Floyd
served on the faculty at the University of South Florida
as Professor of Conducting and at Baylor University in
Texas where he held the position of Director of Bands for
nine years.
Throughout Mr. Floyd’s professional career, he has
held positions of leadership on many state and national
committees for music education and wind music
performance. Presently, he is a member of the John
Philip Sousa Foundation Board of Directors, the American
Bandmasters Association Composition Competition
Selection Committee and is an ex-officio member of
the Texas Music Educators’ Association Executive Board.
He is a past chairman of the National Federation Music
Committee and has served as Secretary of the College
Band Directors National Association since 1979.
Col. Arnald Gabriel
2008 BOA Hall of Fame
Recipient
Col. Arnald D. Gabriel retired
from the United States Air
Force in 1985 following a
distinguished 36 year military
career, at which time, he was
awarded an unprecedented
third Legion of Merit for his service to the United States
Air Force and to music education throughout the
country. He served as Commander/Conductor of the
internationally renowned U.S. Air Force Band, Symphony
Orchestra and Singing Sergeants from 1964 to 1985.
In 1990, he was named the first Conductor Emeritus
of the USAF Band at a special concert held at DAR
Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. Col. Gabriel served
on the faculty of George Mason University in Fairfax,
Virginia, from 1985 to 1995, as Conductor of the GMU
Symphony Orchestra and as Chairman, Department of
Music for eight of those years. Following his separation
from the Army in 1946, Gabriel enrolled in Ithaca
College, where he earned both Bachelor and Master of
Science degrees in Music Education.
Col. Gabriel’s professional honors include numerous
awards and he inducted into the National Band
Association Hall of Fame of Distinguished Band
Conductors, becoming the youngest person ever to have
received this honor, and was an inaugural inductee to
the Distinguished Alumni Wall of Fame of Cortland High
School in Cortland, New York. He is also a Past President
of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association.
Jerry Junkin
Jerry F. Junkin serves
as Artistic Director and
Conductor of the Dallas
Wind Symphony, as well as
Director of Bands, Head of the
Division of Conducting and
Ensembles and the Frank C.
Erwin Centennial Professor of
Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin. Professor
Junkin became conductor of The University of Texas Wind
Ensemble in the fall of 1988, following an appointment
as Director of Bands at the University of South Florida.
From 1978 to 1982, he served as Assistant Director of
Bands at UT, after which he held a similar position at The
University of Michigan. In addition to his responsibilities
as Professor of Music and Conductor and Music Director
of the UT Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds, he serves
as Head of the Conducting Division and teaches courses
in conducting and wind band literature. He is a recipient
of the Texas Excellence in Teaching awards, presented
annually by the Ex-Student’s Association and he has
recently been named an Outstanding Young Texas Ex by
that same organization.
James Keene
James F. Keene is Director
of Bands/Professor of Music
at the University of Illinois.
Appointed in 1985, he is only
the fourth person to hold that
position since 1905. During
his 21-year tenure at Illinois,
the Symphonic Band and
Wind Symphony, under his direction, have been selected
to perform for every major music conference in the U.S.,
have toured throughout the country, as well as Great
Britain, and have performed in several of the America’s
prestigious concert halls.
Mr. Keene is a Past-President of the prestigious
American Bandmasters Association and recently
completed a term as chairman of the Board of Directors.
He is also a Past-President of the National Band
Association, and The Big Ten Band Directors Association.
For several years, he served as chairman of the ABA/
Ostwald Composition Contest, and is currently a member
of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Band Research.
Recently, Professor Keene was named Honorary
Life Member of the Texas Bandmasters Association,
becoming only the sixth person to be so honored in the
55-year history of that organization.
Craig Kirchhoff
Craig Kirchhoff is professor of
conducting, Director of Bands
and conductor of the Wind
Ensemble at the University
of Minnesota School of
Music. He coordinates the
graduate program in wind