51st Annual Band Music Reading and
Directors Clinic

January 29–31, 2009

2009 clinic sponsored by Rettig Music of Defiance, Dublin, Lima, Toledo and Westlake.

Special Guest Conductor

Dr. John Climer
Director of Bands, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Dr. John Climer is the director of bands and professor of music at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts. At UWM, Climer oversees all aspects of the University Bands ensembles and operations, guides the graduate wind conducting program, and serves as conductor of the Wind Ensemble, the University’s premiere wind band. Climer recently completed a fourteen-year tenure at Ohio University as professor of music and director of bands. In addition to conducting the Ohio University Wind Ensemble, he served as director of the New Music Ensemble and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in wind literature and conducting.

Climer maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has served as a guest artist at numerous festivals, universities and concert venues including the Eastman School of Music, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the University of South Florida, the Rocky Mountain Music Festival (Canada) among others. As an advocate for new music, Climer has been involved in numerous commissioning projects leading to works by composers Chen Yi, Akira Miyoshi, Warren Benson, Mark Phillips, Roberto Sierra, Walter Mays, Timothy Broege, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Schelle and John Orfe.

Climer is vice president-elect of the North Central Division of the College Band Directors National Association and the former editor of “The Report,” an online publication of CBDNA. He is the recipient of the 1997 Ohio University School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2001 Ohio University College of Fine Arts Outstanding Teacher Award and the 2007 Outstanding Music Educator Alumni Award from the University of Akron.

Climer earned degrees from the University of Akron, Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music. He has served on the faculties of Ohio University, the University of North Dakota, Emory University (Atlanta GA) and Ohio Northern University; he is a former conductor of the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony.

Dennis Zeisler
Director of Bands, Old Dominion University

Dennis J. Zeisler has been on the faculty of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia for more than two decades, serving as director of bands, professor of clarinet and saxophone, and chairman of the Music Department. Under his direction, the Old Dominion University Wind Ensemble has developed into a premiere performing ensemble and has received critical acclaim for performances of works by Colgrass, Ring, Sochinski, Camphouse, Hailstork, Smith and Erickson. They have recorded for TRN Music Publishers and Frank Erickson Publications. As chair for the last twelve years, he has overseen the steady growth of the Old Dominion University Music Department at the undergraduate and graduate level. Professor Zeisler has a B.M., B.M.E. and M.M. from the University of Michigan, where he was solo clarinetist of the Symphony Band under the direction of Dr. William D. Revelli. He was solo clarinetist of the Detroit Concert Band under the direction of Dr. Leonard Smith and clarinet soloist with the United States Military Academy Band at West Point. Zeisler had his New York debut in Carnegie Recital Hall in May 1974 and has performed at three International Clarinet Society conferences. He is on the faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan where he is principal clarinetist of the faculty orchestra and conductor of faculty and staff ensembles. In 1998, Professor Zeisler was awarded membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. In 1999, he received the Orpheus Award from Phi Mu Alpha for “significant and lasting contributions to the cause of Music in America,” and the Virginia Music Educator of the Year Award from the Virginia Music Educators Association. He is founder and conductor of the Virginia Wind Symphony, a professional wind group made up of primarily music educators from throughout the southeastern Virginia area.

Featured Bands

• Central Crossing High School Symphonic Band, Grove City, Robert McNutt, director
• Thornapple-Kellogg High School Symphonic Band, Middleville, Mich., Ray Ricket, director
• Swanton High School Concert Band, Swanton, Pam Kazmierczak, director
• Wauseon High School Symphonic Band, Wauseon, Tracy Behrman and Eric Boswell, directors
• BGSU Concert Band—Dr. Carol Hayward, conductor
• BGSU Wind Symphony—Dr. Bruce Moss, conductor
• High School Honors Bands—featured guest conductor

Nominations

Directors may nominate qualified students for the honors bands.

For More Information

Contact
Dr. Bruce Moss
Director of Band Activities
College of Musical Arts
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0290

Phone: (419) 372-2186, Fax: (419) 372-2210, Email: bbmoss@bgsu.edu