HONORS/AWARDS/PUBLISHED WORKS/PREMIERES
Recent Honors/Awards
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2023-24, in college/university musical theater division for Sunday in the Park With George
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2023-24, in college/university wind ensemble
Recipient of the 2023 BroadwayWorld Oklahoma Best Music Direction/Orchestra Performance award for OCU's production of Sweeney Todd
Finalist for the 2023 Warsaw Wind Band Conducting Competition
Second Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2022-23, in college/university wind ensemble
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2022-23, in college/university musical theater division for Side Show
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2021-22, in college/university wind ensemble
Third Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2019-20, in the college/university opera division for Cendrillon by Jules Massenet
Second Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2019-20, in college/university wind ensemble
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2019-20, in the college/university musical theater division for Side Show
Second Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2017-18, in the college/university opera division for Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly
2017 production of Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly (Matthew Mailman, Music Director) won first place in division three of the National Opera Association Production Competition
2014 One of 10 conducting fellows selected for the 2014 Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Summer Conducting Seminar with Markand Thakar and Henry Fogel
2011 production of Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini (Matthew Mailman, Music Director) won first place in division three of the National Opera Association Opera Production Competition
2000, 02, 04, 06, 08, 13, 15 Conducted nine convention performances
2003 Promoted to rank of Full Professor
2000 Awarded university tenure
2001 Bass School of Music Student Choice “Life’s Example Award”
2000 School of Music nominee for University Excellence in Teaching Award
1998, 1999 conducted at OK Mozart Festivals in Bartlesville, OK
Presentations/ Published Works/ Recordings/ Other Honors
Presentation "Time and Conducting...It's About Time!", Oklahoma City University Summer Workshop, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 21, 2018
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", Oklahoma Bandmasters Association Annual Convention, Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 20, 2016
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", Texas Music Educators Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 11, 2016
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", College Orchestra Directors Association Annual International Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 13, 2015
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", Missouri Music Educators Association Annual Conference, Osage Beach, Missouri, January 24, 2014
Presentation “The Skype’s the Limit: options for using Skype for long-distance teaching and rehearsing”, Oklahoma Music Educators Association Fall Conference, Oklahoma City, October 20, 2011
Presentation “Conductors…..what are we doing?!”, Southeastern Oklahoma State University Fall Music Education Workshop, Durant, OK, September 17, 2011
Presentation “Know Your Stuff…Then Stuff It! (Thoughts from a Former Insider)” at Oklahoma City University Composers’ Forum in Oklahoma City, OK, November 14, 2008
Presentation “Le Nozze di Figaro: Thoughts from the Pit” at Sigma Alpha Iota Zeta B Province Day in Oklahoma City, OK, February 21, 2009
Presentation “Thoughts from a Former Insider” Society of Composers, Inc. in Oklahoma City, OK, February 28, 2009
Presentation “What Conductors of the New Generation Should Know: Breaking Stereotypes and Making Role Models” at Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, AR, June 10, 2007
Presentation “What Conductors of the New Generation Should Know: Breaking Stereotypes and Making Role Models” at Sigma Alpha Iota Province Day in Oklahoma City, OK February 26, 2005
Presentation “The Hindemith Symphony: A Four-Movement Work?” at College Band Directors National Association national convention in Denton, TX February 21, 2001
Author – Article “Martin Mailman Remembered” published in the Phi Beta Mu Newsletter Spring 2001
Author – Article “Martin Mailman Remembered” published in The Instrumentalist November 2000
Arrangement of Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 314 for Harmonie published by Southern Music Publishing Company
Author – Article “The ‘White Canvas’ Approach to Conducting” published in Teaching Music February 2000
Research Associate and Writer - Teaching Music Through Performance in Band (pub. G.I.A.), Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, Marches, and Young Bands editions
Recorded Martin Mailman’s Concertino for Clarinet and Band for Carl Fischer Music Publishers with OCU Symphonic Band and Patricia Card
Author - Dissertation (pub. UMI): “An Interpretive Approach to Two Wind Partitas of Franz Vincent Krommer: Partita in F, Op. 57 (1808) and Partita in E-flat, Op. 79 (1810)”
Author - Fundamentals of Conducting Course Supplement Book
Delivered paper - “No Strings Attached: A History of Bands in America” – presented at the American Music Festival, Duncan, Oklahoma, July 1996
Co-founded Oklahoma CBDNA Band Literature Clinic for all Directors and a Mentorship program for second- and third-year teachers for the 2000 OMEA In-Service Conference
Election to Sigma Alpha Iota, Alpha Zeta Chapter in 2000 as National Arts Associate
Election to Phi Beta Mu, Beta Chapter in 1998
International Who’s Who Among American University Professors and Teachers
International Who’s Who in Music
University of North Texas Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award 1995
Pi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Doctoral Student in UNT College of Music Award 1993, 1994, 1995
UNT Toulouse Scholarship Award 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-1995
Departmental Honors - Bachelor of Music in Theory/Composition, Northwestern University
Premieres
Michael Gaydeski – Supernova (2014)
World premiere April 29, 2014
Edward Knight – Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon (2012)
World premiere November 29, 2012
Edward Knight – Hit On All Sixes (2008)
World premiere December 7, 2008
Kristopher Maloy – Emerging Light (2005)
World premiere November 30, 2006
Edward Knight – To the Stars (brass fanfare) (2006)
World premiere April 1, 2006
Jack Stamp – Down East Fanfare (2002)
Oklahoma premiere October 2, 2003
Martin Mailman – Concerto for Wind Orchestra (Variations), Op. 89 (1993)
Oklahoma premiere, November 20, 2001
Christopher Tucker – Urban Divertimento (2000)
World premiere November 12, 2000
Martin Mailman – Pledges, Op. 98 (1998)
World premiere November 14, 1999
Edward Knight – Route 66 (1997)
World premiere March 6, 1998
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2023-24, in college/university musical theater division for Sunday in the Park With George
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2023-24, in college/university wind ensemble
Recipient of the 2023 BroadwayWorld Oklahoma Best Music Direction/Orchestra Performance award for OCU's production of Sweeney Todd
Finalist for the 2023 Warsaw Wind Band Conducting Competition
Second Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2022-23, in college/university wind ensemble
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2022-23, in college/university musical theater division for Side Show
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2021-22, in college/university wind ensemble
Third Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2019-20, in the college/university opera division for Cendrillon by Jules Massenet
Second Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2019-20, in college/university wind ensemble
Finalist in The American Prize Conducting, 2019-20, in the college/university musical theater division for Side Show
Second Place in The American Prize Conducting, 2017-18, in the college/university opera division for Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly
2017 production of Dark Sisters by Nico Muhly (Matthew Mailman, Music Director) won first place in division three of the National Opera Association Production Competition
2014 One of 10 conducting fellows selected for the 2014 Baltimore Chamber Orchestra Summer Conducting Seminar with Markand Thakar and Henry Fogel
2011 production of Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini (Matthew Mailman, Music Director) won first place in division three of the National Opera Association Opera Production Competition
2000, 02, 04, 06, 08, 13, 15 Conducted nine convention performances
2003 Promoted to rank of Full Professor
2000 Awarded university tenure
2001 Bass School of Music Student Choice “Life’s Example Award”
2000 School of Music nominee for University Excellence in Teaching Award
1998, 1999 conducted at OK Mozart Festivals in Bartlesville, OK
Presentations/ Published Works/ Recordings/ Other Honors
Presentation "Time and Conducting...It's About Time!", Oklahoma City University Summer Workshop, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 21, 2018
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", Oklahoma Bandmasters Association Annual Convention, Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 20, 2016
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", Texas Music Educators Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, February 11, 2016
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", College Orchestra Directors Association Annual International Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 13, 2015
Presentation "Conductors, What the Heck Are We Doing?!", Missouri Music Educators Association Annual Conference, Osage Beach, Missouri, January 24, 2014
Presentation “The Skype’s the Limit: options for using Skype for long-distance teaching and rehearsing”, Oklahoma Music Educators Association Fall Conference, Oklahoma City, October 20, 2011
Presentation “Conductors…..what are we doing?!”, Southeastern Oklahoma State University Fall Music Education Workshop, Durant, OK, September 17, 2011
Presentation “Know Your Stuff…Then Stuff It! (Thoughts from a Former Insider)” at Oklahoma City University Composers’ Forum in Oklahoma City, OK, November 14, 2008
Presentation “Le Nozze di Figaro: Thoughts from the Pit” at Sigma Alpha Iota Zeta B Province Day in Oklahoma City, OK, February 21, 2009
Presentation “Thoughts from a Former Insider” Society of Composers, Inc. in Oklahoma City, OK, February 28, 2009
Presentation “What Conductors of the New Generation Should Know: Breaking Stereotypes and Making Role Models” at Opera in the Ozarks in Eureka Springs, AR, June 10, 2007
Presentation “What Conductors of the New Generation Should Know: Breaking Stereotypes and Making Role Models” at Sigma Alpha Iota Province Day in Oklahoma City, OK February 26, 2005
Presentation “The Hindemith Symphony: A Four-Movement Work?” at College Band Directors National Association national convention in Denton, TX February 21, 2001
Author – Article “Martin Mailman Remembered” published in the Phi Beta Mu Newsletter Spring 2001
Author – Article “Martin Mailman Remembered” published in The Instrumentalist November 2000
Arrangement of Mozart Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 314 for Harmonie published by Southern Music Publishing Company
Author – Article “The ‘White Canvas’ Approach to Conducting” published in Teaching Music February 2000
Research Associate and Writer - Teaching Music Through Performance in Band (pub. G.I.A.), Volumes I, II, III, IV, V, Marches, and Young Bands editions
Recorded Martin Mailman’s Concertino for Clarinet and Band for Carl Fischer Music Publishers with OCU Symphonic Band and Patricia Card
Author - Dissertation (pub. UMI): “An Interpretive Approach to Two Wind Partitas of Franz Vincent Krommer: Partita in F, Op. 57 (1808) and Partita in E-flat, Op. 79 (1810)”
Author - Fundamentals of Conducting Course Supplement Book
Delivered paper - “No Strings Attached: A History of Bands in America” – presented at the American Music Festival, Duncan, Oklahoma, July 1996
Co-founded Oklahoma CBDNA Band Literature Clinic for all Directors and a Mentorship program for second- and third-year teachers for the 2000 OMEA In-Service Conference
Election to Sigma Alpha Iota, Alpha Zeta Chapter in 2000 as National Arts Associate
Election to Phi Beta Mu, Beta Chapter in 1998
International Who’s Who Among American University Professors and Teachers
International Who’s Who in Music
University of North Texas Outstanding Teaching Fellow Award 1995
Pi Kappa Lambda Outstanding Doctoral Student in UNT College of Music Award 1993, 1994, 1995
UNT Toulouse Scholarship Award 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-1995
Departmental Honors - Bachelor of Music in Theory/Composition, Northwestern University
Premieres
Michael Gaydeski – Supernova (2014)
World premiere April 29, 2014
Edward Knight – Seventh Day of the Seventh Moon (2012)
World premiere November 29, 2012
Edward Knight – Hit On All Sixes (2008)
World premiere December 7, 2008
Kristopher Maloy – Emerging Light (2005)
World premiere November 30, 2006
Edward Knight – To the Stars (brass fanfare) (2006)
World premiere April 1, 2006
Jack Stamp – Down East Fanfare (2002)
Oklahoma premiere October 2, 2003
Martin Mailman – Concerto for Wind Orchestra (Variations), Op. 89 (1993)
Oklahoma premiere, November 20, 2001
Christopher Tucker – Urban Divertimento (2000)
World premiere November 12, 2000
Martin Mailman – Pledges, Op. 98 (1998)
World premiere November 14, 1999
Edward Knight – Route 66 (1997)
World premiere March 6, 1998