GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - AUGUST 2016

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GLOBAL MUSIC FEATURE Assistant Professor of Music & Director of Bands at Drexel University
Orchestra music is enjoyed globallyand yet there are very few professional black conductors. As such, when we get the opportunity to interview one, we take it! Griots Republic had the opportunity to interview Dr. Wesley Broadnax about his love of chamber music and his travels. TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF: I am Dr. Wesley J. Broadnax, Assistant Professor of Music & Director of Bands at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. My duties include conducting the Concert Band, Pep Band and teaching a survey course entitled Introduction to Music. I have held this position since Fall 2013. Prior to my appointment at Drexel, I served on the faculties of the University of Delaware, California State University-East Bay, and Michigan State University. Professionally, I am the artistic director/conductor of the Mid-Atlantic Chamber Players, and co-conductor of the International Wind Ensemble in Italy. I am a native Texan, born and raised in East Texas and attended the Texas Public Schools. Most of my immediate family still reside in Texas. HOW DID YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN MUSIC? Music has been a major part of my life since being a toddler, from dancing to pop songs of the 1970s to admiring my mother singing in our church choir. I joined my elementary school beginning band program in the 6th grade as a trombonist. Learning the instrument really paved the way for me excelling in music and developing my musical skills. I had EXCELLENT music teachers in my junior high and high school programs in East Texas, and I was fortunate enough to be co-drum major of our high school marching band during my senior year, perform with our symphonic band and jazz band, and win such honors as being selected for various honor bands, and ultimately being selected for the 1988
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