2017 ATSSB All-State Clinicians

SYMPHONIC BAND:Joseph Missal is celebrating his 31th year as Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Oklahoma State University. In this capacity, he conducts the Wind En-semble and Chamber Winds and guides all aspects of the OSU Band Program. Dr. Missal also directs the graduate conducting program, teaches undergraduate conducting, and serves as Coordinator for Wind and Percussion Studies. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Music Education from Michigan State Uni-versity, a Master of Music in Wind Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from the University of Colorado.

His ensembles have performed for conventions of the Ja-pan Band Clinic (Hamamatsu City, Japan, 2013, 2006), British Association of Symphonic Band and Wind Ensem-bles (Manchester, England, 2003), World Association for Symphonic Bands (San Luis Obispo, California, 1999, Schladming, Austria 1997), the College Band Directors National Association (National Convention, Kansas City, Missouri 2017, Austin, Texas 2009, Denton, Texas 2001, Boulder, Colorado 1995), National Band Association, the Sonneck Society, Kappa Kappa Psi/Tau Beta Sigma, Oklahoma Music Educators Association, the Percussive Arts Society, and the Western States Collegiate Wind Band Festival. He has received praise from composers David Maslanka, Karel Husa, Cindy McTee, David Gill-ingham, Joel Puckett, Paul Dooley, Steven Bryant, Scott

McAllister, Michael Daugherty, Frank Ticheli, Shafer Mahoney, Kathryn Salfelder, James Kazik, Roshanne Etezady, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, John Mackey, Dana Wilson and others for his expressive in-terpretations of their music. Former conducting students now hold high school, college, and professional conducting positions throughout the United States.

A member of CBDNA, WASBE, MENC, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, he has appeared as a guest conductor throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Israel. His writing has been published in the CBDNA Journal, the Canadi-an Band Journal, and the GIA Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Dr. Missal has served as Co-Chairman of the International Wind Band Education Committee for WASBE and is a past President of the Southwest Division of the College Band Directors National Association and the Big Twelve Band Directors Association. In 2001, he received the Wise-Diggs-Berry Award for Teaching Excellence in the Arts at Oklahoma State University and was selected as the 2002 Distinguished Music Professor. Dr. Missal has also served as a guest conductor for the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, the International Trombone Association, and the United States Army Field Band. He is an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. In 2009 he was awarded the Distinguished Service to Music Medal for Concert Band from the National Council of Kappa Kappa Psi.

CONCERT BAND:

JAZZ ENSEMBLE:

Ellen Rowe, jazz pianist and composer, is currently Professor and Chair of the Dept. of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation at the University of Michigan. Ms. Rowe has performed throughout the U.S., as well as touring in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Ireland, Poland, South Africa, and Australia. Her CDs “Sylvan Way”, “Denali Pass”, “Wishing Well” and “Courage Music” are available on PKO records and at CdBaby.com. The Ellen Rowe Quintet was featured at the 2012 Jazz Education Network Conference, the San Jose Jazz Festival, Western Michigan Jazz Festival and 2014 Detroit Jazz Festival.

Ms. Rowe’s compositions and arrangements are published by Doug Beach Music and Sierra Music Publishing and have been performed and recorded by ensembles including the Village Vanguard Orchestra, BBC Jazz Orchestra, U.S. Navy Commodores, Berlin and NDR Radio Jazz Orchestras, DIVA and the Perth Jazz Orchestra. She has received commissions from the Westchester Jazz Orchestra, Detroit Jazz Festival Orchestra, Minnesota Music Educators, Illinois Music Educators and the DIVA Jazz Orchestra in addition to junior high and high school groups throughout the country. In the last several years she

has been Artist-in-Residence at the Grieg Academy in Bergen, Eastman School of Music, University of Wyoming and the Pittsford School District in Pittsford, NY. She has also been selected to conduct All-State jazz ensembles throughout the country, including the MENC All-Eastern and All-Northwest groups.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Gershman is the Director of Wind Ensembles and an Associate Professor of Music at the Capital University Conservatory of Music. His responsibilities include conducting the Symphonic Winds, Wind Symphony, and teaching advanced conducting. His past positions include serving as the Associate Director of Bands at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, the Director of Instrumental Activities at Texas A&M University-Commerce, and the Co-Director of Instrumental Music at Monroe-Woodbury High School in Central Valley, New York. Dr. Gershman holds two degrees from Indiana University: a Bachelor of Music Education with High Distinction and the first Master of Music in Wind Conducting degree conferred by the institution. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting degree at The University of Texas at Austin. His principal conducting teachers include Jerry F. Junkin and Ray E. Cramer.

Dr. Gershman maintains an active guest conducting schedule with both professional ensembles and high school honor bands throughout the country, including an annual series of concerts with the Dallas Winds (formally the Dallas Wind Symphony). He has presented lectures at many state and national conventions and is in high demand as adjudicator, having judged band festivals throughout the United States as well as in Singapore and Australia. In addition, Dr. Gershman has published articles on repertoire, programming, and score study which have been hailed as “groundbreaking.” As an arranger, his transcriptions of works by Frank Zappa, John Corigliano, and Eric Whitacre have received critical acclaim, with performances at Carnegie Hall as well as regional and national conventions.