Adjudicators
Adjudicators
Week 1 Adjudicators
Rita Burns Rita Burns is a retired school band and choral music teacher from Edmonton, Alberta. She currently conducts Cosmopolitan Music Society’s Wednesday Band. Rita is also a frequent guest conductor, band clinician, adjudicator, and conference speaker. She is delighted to be the sight-reading and fundamentals clinician for Festival of Bands. Rita is a two-time president of the Alberta Band Association and a past-president of Music Alberta, Pro Coro Canada, Choir Alberta, and Sing for Life Society of Alberta. She is currently on the boards of Alberta Summer Workshop Association and Pro Coro Canada. Over her career, Rita Burns has received several awards: the David Peterkin Award for excellence in band music from the international band fraternity, Phi Beta Mu (Mu Alpha Chapter); the Alberta Band Association Elkhorn Award for band director of the year; a provincial Excellence in Teaching Award; a Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence; and the Vondis Miller Legacy Award for lifetime achievement from Alberta Band Association.
Dr. Danielle Gaudry is Assistant Professor of Music at California State University, East Bay where she serves as Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental Music. She conducts the Wind Symphony and the Chamber Winds, in addition to teaching classes in instrumental music education and conducting. Originally from Canada, Dr. Gaudry taught high school instrumental music in Winnipeg for seven years and she spent fourteen years serving in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Dr. Gaudry holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting with a Cognate in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music in Conducting from The Pennsylvania State University. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts (Wind Conducting) from the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Music with Honors in Music Education from McGill University.
Dr. Gaudry holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting with a Cognate in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Master of Music in Conducting from The Pennsylvania State University. She earned a Graduate Diploma of Fine Arts (Wind Conducting) from the University of Calgary, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Music with Honors in Music Education from McGill University.
Richard Mayne currently serves as Professor of Music at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado. Dr. Mayne is the current Music Director/Conductor of the Fort Collins Wind Symphony. He is an active guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, China, and Lebanon. He is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) and in 2017 was elected to its Board of Directors. Recent honors also include his induction into the Colorado Bandmasters Hall of Fame as the 2013 honoree. Dr. Mayne completed his Ph.D. in Music Education at The Ohio State University (OSU), where he studied conducting with Craig Kirchhoff and Richard Blatti. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Music Education from Arizona State University, studying conducting with Richard Strange and Robert C. Fleming, and trombone performance with Gail Wilson.
Thomas McCauley is currently the Director of University Bands in the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey where he conducts the Montclair State University Wind Symphony and teaches both graduate and undergraduate conducting. He has held similar positions in the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois in addition to teaching high school instrumental music in Nevada for nine years. Dr. McCauley has twice appeared as a clinician at the MidWest Clinic in Chicago. McCauley is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout North America. Each November, he hosts and teaches a symposium at Montclair State University called the Weekend Wind Conducting Symposium with special guest clinicians and participants from around the world, and he has recently accepted a position as a Conn-Selmer Educational Clinician. Dr. McCauley’s book titled, Adventures in Band Building (or How to Turn a Less-Than-It-Could-Be into a More-Than-It-Should-Be) is published by G.I.A. Publications. McCauley is the Founder and Artistic Director of Windhaven; an intensive, week-long performance opportunity for wind players and percussionists ages 18-28, which takes place each May at the Kinhaven Music School in the beautiful mountains of Weston, Vermont.
Marguerite Wilder is recognized as a conductor and clinician, having conducted All State and Honor Bands in the United States and Canada. Her in-service sessions are featured at both local and regional school systems and universities. Her Motivational Techniques for the Beginning Band Clinics have been featured at Midwest, state and national conventions.
She is a contributing editor for Do It Band and Recorder Methods; Habits of a Successful Musician and Middle School Musician. She is a contributing author for Teaching Music through Performance in Beginning Band, Vol. 1 & 2: and Middle School Band. A graduate of the University of Georgia and Georgia State University, she has many professional organization affiliations include NAFME, GMEA, NBA, Phi Beta Mu and FAME. She serves as a consultant, clinician, author and editor for GIA Publications, Inc. and is a Yamaha Master Educator.
She is a contributing editor for Do It Band and Recorder Methods; Habits of a Successful Musician and Middle School Musician. She is a contributing author for Teaching Music through Performance in Beginning Band, Vol. 1 & 2: and Middle School Band. A graduate of the University of Georgia and Georgia State University, she has many professional organization affiliations include NAFME, GMEA, NBA, Phi Beta Mu and FAME. She serves as a consultant, clinician, author and editor for GIA Publications, Inc. and is a Yamaha Master Educator.
Week 2 Adjudicators
Dr. Gordon R. Brock is Professor Emeritus and former Director of Bands at the University of North Florida’s School of Music in Jacksonville, Florida, where he conducted the Wind Symphony, instructed courses in conducting and woodwind performance, coordinated the graduate instrumental conducting program and the annual UNF Conducting Symposium. Under his direction, the UNF Wind Symphony performed at the FMEA State Conference, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall-Lincoln Center and the Southern Division CBDNA Conference.
Before joining UNF, Dr. Brock was Director of Bands at the University of North Dakota, conductor of the Greater Grand Forks Youth Symphony. Twice honored by the Alberta Provincial Government for his nationally recognized ensembles and contributions to music education, he has also served as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Israel, as well as the United States Army Field Band and Chorus, and the President’s Own United States Marine Band.
Before joining UNF, Dr. Brock was Director of Bands at the University of North Dakota, conductor of the Greater Grand Forks Youth Symphony. Twice honored by the Alberta Provincial Government for his nationally recognized ensembles and contributions to music education, he has also served as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States, Canada, Japan, Israel, as well as the United States Army Field Band and Chorus, and the President’s Own United States Marine Band.
Colin Clarke is sought after as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer/arranger, having captured the attention of instrumental and choral ensembles, schools and music festivals across Canada and the United States. Colin’s credits include collaboration with world-renowned artists and ensembles including the United States Air Force Band of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, Orchestra London Canada, the New Symphony Orchestra of Sofia, Bulgaria, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Ballet Jörgen, trumpet virtuoso Allan Vizzutti, the Canadian Brass and the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets, the official fanfare ensemble for the President of the United States. With a passion for music education and outreach, Colin maintains a commitment to working with young people and the community. He has also conducted numerous bands, orchestras and choirs throughout Canada and the U.S., and has lead the Provincial Honour Bands of Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island. In the spring of 2008 he served as conductor of the prestigious National Youth Band of Canada. Abroad, Colin has lead performances in the United States, Western Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia. Colin was honoured with a Molson Great Canadian Award, one of 150 awards given to Canadians across the country for making a difference in their communities.
Ken Rogers taught Middle, Junior High, and High School band for 32 years and attended the Provincial Festival of Bands annually for 30 consecutive years until retiring last June from Lethbridge Collegiate Institute where he taught Gr. 9-12 band, jazz band, and guitar. Ken has also taught low brass studio at the University of Lethbridge and currently conducts the choir at McKillop United Church in Lethbridge. He conducted the Lethbridge Community Bands for 20 years and enjoys conducting musicals, most recently “Titanic, the Musical” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” in benefit of the Lethbridge Seniors Organization and “Les Miserables” and “Sweeney Todd” with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra. He thoroughly enjoys adjudicating at festivals and has taught low brass and conducted bands several times at MusiCamrose, MusiCamp Red Deer, and Red Deer College Adult Community Band Workshop. Ken conducted the Alberta Band Association’s Northern Alberta Junior Honour Band in 2006 and 2019, as well as the University of Lethbridge High School Honour Band in 2019. Ken is a member of the band director fraternity Phi Beta Mu, an honourary life member of the Lethbridge Community Band Society, a Past President of the Alberta Band Association, and has served on the boards of the Canadian Band Association and Choir Alberta. He was the recipient of the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s “Legion of Honor Laureate” award in 2015, the “David J. Peterkin Memorial Award” in 2010 for outstanding service to band music in Alberta, and the Alberta Band Association's “Elkhorn Award” for Band Director of the Year in 2002. Ken lives in Lethbridge with his pianist wife of 35 years, Christine, and they have 2 grown children attending university, Camille pursuing a Master of Music degree at the University of Toronto, and Christopher pursuing a Doctorate in Engineering Physics at Stanford University in California.
After 39 years of teaching, Mark Lane is Professor Emeritus at Central Washington University and currently is the West Educational Support Manager for Conn-Selmer, Inc. Mark is a Past President of the Washington Music Education Association and the NW Division President of National Association for Music Education. He has received numerous awards including three National Band Association Citations of Excellence and the Sudler Order of Merit. Mark is in the Washington Music Educator Association Hall of Fame and awarded the WMEA/WIAA 2015 Music Educator of the Year and the National Federation of State High School Associations Section 8 2016-17 Outstanding Music Educator Award. In 2017 Mark was awarded the National Association for Music Education Northwest Division Outstanding Leadership Award. His bands have performed at conferences in both Oregon and Washington as well as two appearances in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade and the BOA/MFA National Concert Band Festival.
Dr. Gillian MacKay is Professor of Music of the University of Toronto, where she conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches conducting. Gillian has an active professional career as a conductor, trumpeter, adjudicator, and clinician. She has conducted honour ensembles throughout Canada and internationally, and serves as Associate Conductor of the Denis Wick Canadian Wind Orchestra. Dr. MacKay has adjudicated Canadian band festivals at local, provincial, and national levels in Canada. She has conducted honour bands and judged competitions abroad, including Singapore, Thailand, and Korea. Dr. MacKay enjoys presenting clinics and workshops at conferences and symposia, and is known for her work on the relationship between conducting and mime. Currently, she is investigating the application of the Michael Chekhov acting technique to movement and meaning in conducting. Gillian leads the University of Toronto Wind Conducting Symposium each July, and has been the guest instructor at other symposia in Canada and abroad. Gillian earned degrees and diplomas from University of Lethbridge, University of Calgary, McGill University, and Northwestern University.