Wvmea clinicians 2016 Brian Baldauff

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Richard Mark Heidel is Director of Bands in the School of Music at The University of Iowa where he conducts the Symphony Band, teaches graduate courses in conducting and band literature, guides the graduate band conducting program, and oversees all aspects of the University of Iowa band program. Ensembles under Dr. Heidel’s direction have performed at national, regional, and state conferences including those of the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Iowa Bandmasters Association, Wisconsin Music Educators Association, Illinois Music Educators Association, and National Band Association-Wisconsin Chapter. He has also led concert tours to Ireland and England as well as throughout the Midwest.

John Hendricks, III is presently serving as Assistant Dean for the College of Creative Arts at West Virginia University, in addition to serving as Director of Bands for the School of Music.  His teaching duties include serving as conductor of the Wind Symphony and instructing conducting courses on the graduate level.  His past duties at WVU include serving as Associate Director of Bands, Director of the Mountaineer Marching Band, Conductor of the Symphonic Band, Assistant Chair for the School of Music, and coordinator of all undergraduate music academic advising.  Prior to his appointments at WVU, he held the position of Assistant Director of Bands at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  He received his Masters Degree in Conducting and his Bachelors Degree in Music Education from West Virginia University.  He also served for five years as the band director at Spencer High School in Spencer, WV.  Besides his current administrative and teaching duties, Professor Hendricks is active as a guest conductor for various honor groups on the county, district, regional, and all-state levels.  He also serves frequently as an adjudicator and clinician throughout the eastern United States.  He has had chapters published in several volumes of the popular Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series by GIA Publications. His current research is focused upon the use of hymns in wind band music. He is a member of several professional music affiliations including the College Band Directors National Association, National Band Association, National Association for Music Education, Phi Beta Mu, and Kappa Kappa Psi.  Professor Hendricks is a past recipient of the “West Virginia Band Director of the Year” award presented by the Tau Chapter of Phi Beta Mu.  Professor Hendricks has been an arranger for university and high school bands, as well as a coordinator for various events and conferences.  He is active in the music program at Wesley United Methodist Church in Morgantown.

Cody Hunter is currently the director of bands for East Hardy schools in Baker, West Virginia. He is also a doctoral candidate in bassoon at the University of Memphis, with a minor concentration in music theory. Prior to studying in Memphis, Cody earned his Master of Music degree from the University of Minnesota and his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. In addition to West Virginia, Cody has held secondary and collegiate teaching positions in Wisconsin, Tennessee, and Arkansas. As a bassoonist, Cody has performed with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Arkansas Symphony, Symphony Orchestra Augusta, and the Central Wisconsin Symphony. Cody’s dissertation is on the history and current use of bassoon speaker keys, an essential, yet overlooked, technique for beginning bassoonists. His bassoon teachers include Lecolion Washington, John Miller, Norbert Nielubowski, and Patricia Holland.