Dr. Jeffrey D. Emge
Associate Professor of Music
Chair, Department of Music
The University of Texas at Tyler
jemge@uttyler.edu
(903) 566-7091

Course Schedule

Links
     Resources for Band Directors
          Suggested warm-up for junior high and high school bands

     Composition as a Major
          Sample Student Composition
               "Though I Must Go," by Karl Harmdierks

EDUCATION

DMA in Wind Conducting, Music Theory Cognate
    College-Conservatory of Music
    University of Cincinnati
    Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003

DMA Thesis: "Third-Stream Music for Band: An Examination of Jazz Influences in Five Selected Compositions for Winds and Percussion"

Master of Music Education
    The Florida State University
    Tallahassee, FL 32306

Bachelor of Science in Music Education  
    Tennessee Tech University
    Cookeville, TN 38505

EXPERIENCE

Music Coordinator, 2001-present
    The University of Texas at Tyler

Director of Bands, 2000-2001; Assistant Director of Bands, 1994-2000
    Texas A&M University-Commerce
    (formerly East Texas State University)

Doctoral Associate to Eugene Corporon, 1991-1994
    Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music

Conductor of Chamber Ensembles, January 1993 to June 1994
    Music Society of Northern Kentucky

Director of Bands and Chairman of Music Department, 1988-1991
    Hardaway High School
    2901 College Drive
    Columbus, GA 31906

Assistant Director and Drill Instructor, 1981-1992
    Crescendo Band Camps
    Rio Grande College (OH) and Lebanon Junction (KY) 1985, 1986, 1993

Band and Choral Director, 1984-1986
    Sweetwater High School; Sweetwater, TN

DETAIL OF EXPERIENCE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Texas A&M University-Commerce (East Texas State University)
  -Conducted the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, and Concert Band; responsible for recruiting, rehearsing, and presenting four concerts and tours per school year
  -teach Undergraduate and Graduate Conducting, Music Theory, and Wind Literature
  -teach Summer Marching Band Techniques and Rehearsal techniques (Graduate)
  -Instructor of Oboe; private instruction to both music majors and non-majors
  -Co-director of "Pride" Marching Band; write all music arrangements and share responsibility for drill and all organization of the 150-member band
  -Host annual Junior-Senior Honor Band
  -Administrate Basketball Pep Band
  -Administrate University Bands student workers and Graduate Assistants
  -Design advertisements, promotional posters, and programs for Department of Music and University Bands
  -Designed and taught new Graduate course, Summer 2000: "Introduction to Finale 2000"

University of Cincinnati
-Doctoral Associate of Eugene Corporon; assisted in all aspects of the Wind Studies Dept.
-Organized Wind Symphony tour of Japan: May 10-23, 1993
-Administrator for Summer Conducting and Wind Music Symposium: 1992-1994
-Teaching Assistant with Marching and Basketball Pep Bands: 1991-1993 1992: arranged music, wrote and taught all drill using computer charting for second show of 1992; designed and taught drill for third show in 1991
-Conducted Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band in performance at least twice per year
-Oboe solo work with Wind Symphony appears on two CD’s: KCD-11059 and 11047
-Directed Campus Band-1993
-Teaching Assistant for Conducting, Marching Band Techniques, and Brass Choir

Music Society of Northern Kentucky
-Conductor of Chamber Ensembles; organized, rehearsed, and conducted chamber ensembles in seven concerts per year

Hardaway High School
-Chaired Department of Music
-Conducted Symphonic, Concert, Marching, Jazz, and Pep bands
-Conducted several evening concerts per year with each ensemble
-Conducted two programs per year with each concert ensemble for student body
-Hosted "Fountain City Marching Festival", at that time the largest marching band contest in the Southeast

Crescendo Band Camp
-Wrote and/or taught 30 shows to High School bands from 1981-1993
-Served as Assistant Director for three years- duties involved hiring of sectional staff, educational liaison with band directors, and administrative assistant

Sweetwater High School
-Directed Concert and Marching Bands and Chorus at high school
-Taught seventh and eighth grade bands

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Conductor: Region III all-region band (1/20-21/05)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band (12/14/04)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble (12/8/04)
Oboist: First Christian Church (12/5/04)
Convention attendance: NASM national convention in San Diego (11/20-23/04)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band (11/9/04)
Guest choral director: First Presbyterian Church (11/7/04)
Host: Harvey Pittel sax quartet (10/18/04)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble (10/6/04)
Host: Tyler ISD string concert (9/30/04)
Clinician: Cedar Hill HS (9/27/04)
Arranger: Cedar Hill High school marching band (July 2004)
Conductor and staff member: Texas Ambassadors of Music in Europe Tour (July 2-23/04)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band (54/04)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble (4/29/04)
Clinician: Kilgore Junior College (4/29/04)
Host: Dimitri Ratser Piano Recital (4/14/04)
Adjudicator: Tyler ISD pre-UIL bands (4/8/04)
Adjudicator: Cedar Hill HS bands (4/6/04)
Composition premiere: America Marches On! for piccolo/piano (4/4/04)
Adjudicator: Region XX pre-UIL concert band festival (4/2-3/04)
Adjudicator: Region IV pre-UIL concert band festiival (3/30/04)
Clinician: Hubbard MS (3/24/04)
Clinician: Garland HS (3/18/04)
Host: Tyler Music Coterie Scholarship auditions (3/13/04)
Oboist: Northeast Texas Symphony (3/12/04)
Clinician: Horn HS (3/11/04)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble (3/4/04)
Oboist: First Presbyterian Church, Tyler (2/29/04)
Saxophonist: TJC musical “Wizard of Oz” (2/25-28/04)
Adjudicator: Cedar Hill ISD solo-ensemble festival (2/21/04)
Clinician: Commerce High School (2/17/04)
Oboist: East Texas Symphony Orchestra (2/7/04)
Lecturer: Brookhaven Community College; topic: transfer requirements (2/5/04)
Clinician: Wills Point HS (2/5/04)
Host: Cooper HS concert (1/28/04)
Conductor: Region IV all-region band  (1/24/04)
Adjudicator: area oboe and bassoon auditions (1/10/04)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band (12/9/03)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble (12/3/03)
Host: Region 21 all-region choirs (11/22/03)
Guest Conductor: Palestine High School marching band (10/9/03)
Guest Conductor: Cedar Hill High School marching band (9/29/03)
Guest Conductor: Cooper High School marching band (9/15/03)
Oboist: First Presbyterian Church–Tyler (8/24/03)
Clinician: Tyler Junior College Woodwinds (8/6/03)
Oboist: Northeast Texas Symphony (7/4/03)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band Patriotic concert at Bergfeld Park (7/3/03)
Oboist: First Baptist Church of Mineola (6/29/03)
Oboist: Northeast Texas Symphony (6/28/03)
Oboist: First Presbyterian Church–Tyler (5/18/03)
Guest Conductor: Kerr-Alief, Taylor, and Hastings (Houston) High School bands (4/17/03)
Guest Conductor: Denison High School band (4/10-11/03)
Guest Conductor: John Tyler High School band (4/9/03)
Guest Conductor: Kaufman High School band (4/7/03)
Guest Conductor: Moore Middle School band (4/4/03)
Guest Conductor: Hubbard Middle School band (4/4/03)
Guest Conductor: Sherman High School band (3/25/03)
Guest Conductor: Cedar Hill High School band (3/20/03)
Oboist: Northeast Texas Symphony (3/14/03)
Guest Conductor: Moore Middle School band (3/6/03)
Assistant Producer: Tyler Big Band Recording Session (3/2/03)
Woodwind Performer: TJC Spring Musical Crazy for You (2/26/03-3/1/03)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band (2/25/03)
Composition premiere: Vaughn Fanfare for brass and percussion (2/25/03)
Guest Conductor: Chapel Hill High School band (2/25/03)
Adjudicator: Cedar Hill ISD Solo-ensemble Contest (2/22/03)
Guest Conductor: Garland High School Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band (2/20/03)
Guest Conductor: Robert E Lee High School band (2/11/03)
Spring 2003--Private oboe instructor to three area students; all made the all-region band in 2002;
      2 made all-area; one made 1st chair all-state band for ATSSB
Saxophonist: Tyler Big Band (1/25/03)
Guest Conductor: Cedar Hill High School Band (1/20/03)
Clinician: Conducting Symposium at Centenary College (1/18/03)
Conductor: All-region Wind Ensemble for District 8, Louisiana (1/17/03)
Conductor: TMEA region 4 junior high band (12/6/02)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble Concert (12/5/02)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band Concert (12/3/02)
Oboist: all-region junior high choir concert in Marshall (11/23/02)
Conductor: Tyler Community Band Concert(11/5/02)
Attendance: Duncanville Marching Band Contest (11/2/02)
Attendance: UIL region 3 marching band contest (10/23/02)
Conductor: UT Tyler Wind Ensemble Première Concert (10/10/02)
Marching Band Clinician: Cedar Hill HS (9/30/02)
Guest Conductor: Chapel Hill HS (9/24/02)
Oboist: First Presbyterian Church service (6/23/02)
Oboist: East Texas Symphony Orchestra (5/11/02)
Oboist: Community Wind Symphony (4/30/02)
Guest Conductor: Sherman HS bands (4/4/02)
Guest Conductor: Canton HS band (3/4/02)
Recital Sponsor: Deborah Williamson, Soprano (2/25/02)
Saxophonist/Clarinetist: Crazy for You (2/27/02-3/2/02)
Convention Attendance: Texas Music Educators Convention in San Antonio (2/20/-23/02)
Oboist: East Texas Symphony Orchestra (2/16/02)
English Hornist: Northeast Texas Symphony orchestra (2/14,15,17/02)
Adjudicator: Region 3 solo-ensemble competition at Mesquite HS (2/9/02)
Conducting symposium participant at Centenary College (1/19/02)
English Horn Performance with East Texas Symphony Orchestra (1/12/02)
Oboist/Vocalist: Marvin UMC; 12/16/01
Saxophonist: UTT/TJC Wind Ensemble for Commencement; 12/15/01
Adjudicator: UIL all-region band auditions; 12/8/01
Oboist: UT Tyler choir concert; 12/2/01
Host: String Quartet of the Conservatory of Southern Chile; 11/29/01
Oboist: Tyler Civic Chorale; 11/17/01
Guest clinician: Canton HS, Canton, TX; 11/12 and 19/01
Oboist: First Christian Church, Tyler, TX; 11/11/01
Oboist: East Texas Symphony Orchestra; 11/3/01
Guest clinician: Mansfield HS, Mansfield, TX; 10/17/01
Host: US Air Force Band of the West Brass Quintet Concert; 10/14/01
Adjudicator: DeSoto Marching Contest; 10/7/01
Oboist: first UMC of Gilmer, TX; 10/7/01
English Horn: East Texas Symphony Orchestra; 10/6/01
Guest clinician: Mansfield HS, Mansfield, TX; 10/2/01
Oboist and Vocalist: Lovers Lane UMC (Marvin UMC choir retreat); 9/15-16/01
Oboist: First Christian Church, Tyler, TX; 8/17/01
Applied oboe teacher: six area high school oboists (Fall 2001)
      (one made all-state oboe and two others made all-region)
Music arranger: Mansfield HS Marching Band 2001
Attendance: Region 21 UIL music meeting; 8/21/01
Oboist: First Baptist Church, Mineola, TX; 7/1/01
Principal Oboist: Northeast Texas Symphony; 6/30/01
Concert: Director’s Band: TAMU-C Summer music camp; 6/21/01
Recording Sessions for CD: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble; 4/30/01-5/4/01
Concert: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble; 4/30/01
Concert: TAMU-C Concert Band; 4/25/01
Guest clinician: Sherman HS, Sherman, TX; 4/19/01
Adjudicator: West Mesquite pre-UIL concert bands; 4/3/01
Guest clinician: Greenville HS, Greenville, TX; 4/2/01
Concert: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble at Tyler pre-UIL contest; 3/31/01
Adjudicator: Tyler ISD pre-UIL Concert Band; 3/31/01
Guest clinician: Ford MS, Allen, TX; 3/29/01
Guest clinician: Garland HS, Garland TX (all three bands); 3/27/01
Guest clinician: West Mesquite HS, Mesquite, TX; 3/27/01
Guest clinician: Commerce HS, Commerce, TX; 3/13/01
Concert: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble; 3/7/01
Guest clinician: Rowlett HS, Rowlett, TX; 3/6/01
Guest clinician: Celina HS, Celina, TX; 2/26/01
Convention Attendance: National CBDNA convention-Denton, TX; 2/22-24/01
Guest clinician: Denison HS, Denison TX; 2/20/01
Oboe Instructor: Sherman ISD oboists (eight); spring semester 2001
Principal Oboist: Northeast Texas Symphony; 2/16/01 and 2/18/01
Convention Attendance: annual TMEA convention; 2/8-10/01
All-Region Conductor: UIL Region IV ninth grade; 1/27/01
Guest clinician: Martin HS, Arlington, TX; 1/30/01
Guest clinician: Ford HS, Quinlan, TX; 1/25/01
All-Region Conductor: UIL Region VII Concert Band; 1/12-13/01
English Horn and second oboe (on-call):: East Texas Symphony Orchestra (2001-2002)
Conductor: All-region High School Band, Region VII (January 2001)
Conductor: All-region Junior High Band,  Region IV (January 2001)
Host: Region 4 9th grade All-region auditions (November, 2000)
Conductor: Honor Band, 45th Annual Junior-Senior Honor Bands (November 2000)
Clinician: Concert Band Director’s Workshop, (June 2000)
Clinician and Conductor: Director’s Band, Summer Music Camps (June, 2000)
Clinician: Alvarado HS (runner-up to State 3A Honor Band) (May 2000)
Host: Commerce ISD 6th grade solo-ensemble (May 2000)
Guest Conductor: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble in concert (April 2000)
Adjudicator: Celina ISD Solo-Ensemble Contest (April 2000)
Adjudicator: Garland ISD Pre-UIL Contest (April 2000)
Adjudicator: West Mesquite Invitational Pre-UIL Contest (April 2000)
Clinician: Ford MS Concert Bands (March 2000)
Clinician: Greenville HS Concert Band (March 2000)
Adjudicator: Farmers Branch ISD Pre-UIL Contest (March 2000)
Adjudicator: Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Solo-Ensemble Contest (February 2000)
Clinician: Commerce HS Concert Band (4 times, February-April  2000)
Host: All-region Junior High Band Auditions for Region IV (December 1999)
Administrator: Summer Marching Band workshop (June 1999)
Music arranger: Robert E. Lee HS halftime show (May 1999)
Adjudicator: Music in the Parks  and Heritage Festivals (Spring 1999)
Conductor: AAA region 4 High School all-district band (March 1999)
Oboist: Rutter Requiem  at Wesley UMC (March 1999)
Adjudicator:  HEB solo-ensemble (February 1999)
Conductor: Dallas All-City HS Band (January 1999)
Assistant Director: Texas “Lone Star” Abassadors of Music (Europe Tour—July 1998)
Guest Conductor: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall (April 26, 1998)
Adjudication: Heritage Festivals, San Antonio, TX (April 1998)
Host: UIL District 3 Solo-Ensemble festival (March 1998)
Conductor: Louisiana District 8 All-District Band (January 1998)
Principal Oboe: Northeast Texas Symphony (1994-present)
Public recital: Faculty Woodwind Quintet (November 1997 and March 1997)
Clinic-recital: “All-State etudes for Oboe” at TBA convention (July 1997)
Adjudication: Linden-Kildare Concert Band festival (April 1997)
Adjudication: American Classic Festivals, San Antonio, TX (April 1997)
Conductor: All-Region Junior High Band for Region XXI (April 1997)
Adjudication: Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Solo-Ensemble Contest (February1997)
Guest Conductor: TAMU-C Wind Ensemble at National CBDNA Convention (February 1996)
Conductor: Washington County, VA, All-County High School Band (January 1997)
Assistant Director: Texas Lone Star Ambassadors Concert Band Tour (Europe-July 1996)
Conductor: Region 4-AAA High School Honor Band (May 1996)
Adjudication: American Classic Festivals, Arlington, TX (April 1996)
Guest Clinician: Mount Pleasant High School Wind Ensemble (April 1996)
Adjudication: Celina ISD Solo-Ensemble Contest (April 1996)
CD Producer: Depauw University Wind Ensemble (April 1996)
Guest Conductor: ETSU Wind Ensemble at Southwest Regional CBDNA (February 1996)
Adjudication: Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD Solo-Ensemble Contest (February1996)
CD Assistant Producer: “Bird Songs”, KCD-11071 for UNT Wind Ensemble (April 1995)
CD Assistant Producer: “Tributes”, KCD 11070 for UNT Wind Ensemble (March 1995)
Recorded and Produced “ETSU at the Meyerson” (February 1995)
Convention attendance: CBDNA National Convention- Boulder, CO (February 1995)
Adjudication: Solo-ensemble Contest for Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD (February 1995)
Conductor: Blue Band for ETSU Junior/Senior Honor Band (November 1994)
Oboe Clinician: Canton HS and Mabank HS, TX (October 1994)
Attendance: UIL Region IV Band Director’s meeting (August 1994)
Administrator: Conducting and Wind Music Symposium- CCM (Summer 1994)
Conductor: Dogwood Arts National Concert Band Camp- Knoxville, TN (June 1994)
CD Producer: “Winds and Voices”, MCC-1530 for Indiana University (PA)
Adjudication: OMEA Marching Band contests (from 1991 to 1994)Lecture-Recital: “A Comparison of the original Serenade in B-flat by Mozart With
    Published Editions” (March 1994)
Guest Conductor: CBDNA regional Convention in Omaha, NE (February 1994)
Oboe Clinician: Dogwood Arts Concert Band Camp- Knoxville, TN (Summer 1992-1993)
Administrator: Conducting and Wind Music Symposium- CCM (Summer 1993)
Guest Conductor: Hamamatsu Nishi High School Band; in Hamamatsu, Japan (May, 1993)
CD Producer: “The Music of Jack Stamp”, MCD-1332 for Indiana University (PA)
CD Assistant Producer: “American Dreams”, KCD-11048 for CCM Wind Symphony
Administrator: Conducting and Wind Music Symposium- CCM (Summer 1992)
Lecture/Presentation: “A Comparison of Copland’s Original El Salón México for Orchestra With the Band          Transcription by Mark Hindsley” (July
    1992)
Organizer and Host: GMEA District 3 Solo and Ensemble Contest (1990 and 1991)
GMEA District 3 representative to State Band Council (1990)
Performances-oboe with the Columbus (GA) Symphony (1990)
Host—GMEA District III Solo-Ensemble (1990-1991)
Representative: GMEA District III to State Band Council (1990)
Performances-oboe with the Pensacola (FL) Symphony (1988)
Performance-oboe with the Tallahassee Symphony (1987)
Lecture: “ The Career Ladder and How it Effects Music Teachers”: University of Tennessee (April 1986)

AWARDS AND HONORS

Texas A&M University-Commerce (East Texas State University)
-National Sponsor Award, Tau Beta Sigma, 2000
-Guest Conductor of Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall (1998)
-Guest Conductor of Wind Ensemble at CBDNA National Convention—Athens, GA (1997)
-Guest Conductor of Wind Ensemble at TMEA convention (1997)
-Guest Conductor of Wind Ensemble at CBDNA Regional Convention (1996)

Hardaway High School
-GMEA District III ratings for Symphonic Band:
      Superior in Grade VI (1991); Superior in Grade V (1990); Excellent in Grade VI (1989)
-GMEA District III ratings for Concert Band:
      Superior in Grade III (1991); Excellent in Grade III (1990); Excellent in Grade III (1989)
-Marching Band 1988-1990: five Superior ratings and two Excellent ratings
-Students in Hardaway High School Bands from 1988-1991 won music scholarships to the following Universities: Auburn, Cincinnati Conservatory, Columbus College, Florida State, Georgia State, Georgia Tech, Georgia Southern, University of Georgia
-Average of five students per year in All-state Band and Orchestra
-Selected for and participated in 1989 Cherry Blossom Parade: Washington, D.C.
-First place Concert Band in Class AAA at 1990 Smoky Mountain Music Festival, Gatlinburg
-appearance on "Good Morning America", Nationally televised (November 10, 1988)

Sweetwater High School
-First Superior rating ever won by SHS Concert Band (1985)
-First Superior rating ever won by Marching Band (1984)

CONDUCTING TEACHERS AND COACHES
Eugene Corporon (1991-1994)
Mallory Thompson (Summer 1994)
John Whitwell (February 1994)
Gerhard Samuel (private study-1993)
Ron Johnson (Summer 1993)
James Croft (1986-88 and Summer 1992)
Frank Battisti (Summer 1991)