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Department of Music
John Boyd
 Dr.
John Boyd, considered to be one of the most dynamic
wind conductors in the country today, is equally at home with educational
and professional organizations. He has guest conducted The U.S.
Army Band twice, conducted/lectured at the Royal Northern College
of Music at Manchester, UK, and the 9th WASBE International Conference.
He has also conducted at state and regional CBDNA and MENC performances,
the Western Collegiate Wind Festival, Fresno, in addition to receiving
invitations to appear at three National Music Educators Conferences.
Boyd has recorded two critically-acclaimed albums with the Kent
State University Wind Ensemble which was recently released on ELF
as John Boyd Conducts American. In 1995, he released, to rave reviews,
the compact disc Capriccio with the Indiana State University Symphonic
Wind Ensemble and Faculty Winds. Three additional compact discs
were released: Tapestries and Wind Songs, featuring the ISU Faculty
Winds, and Symphonic Moments, featuring the ISU Symphonic Wind Ensemble.
As an active arranger and composer of all forms of wind ensemble
music, he has published works in the catalogs of Ludwig, G. Schirmer,
Barnhouse, Cole, and Associated Music. Boyd is now working with
Frederick Fennell in a new sonic adventure for the ELF label in
which they will record wind band repertoire with the Philharmonia
a Vent, a professional wind orchestra. Recent reviews of cd releases
in the American Record Guide and Fanfare have described Boyd's conducting
"... phrases are well articulated and finely etched." The performance
has a "keen sense of ensemble as well as fine intonation. Sound
is rich and clean, with the expected bite in the brass." "The conducting
is all authoritative, vigorous, and evokes playing that is spirited
and expressive."
Dr. Boyd is Director of Bands, professor of music, and Coordinator
of the Wind/Percussion Division at Indiana State University. He
received a Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music degrees
from Northwestern University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree
from the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Dr. Boyd did advanced
study in conducting with John Paynter, Bernard Rubenstein, and Crawford
Gates. Prior to joining the Indiana State University faculty in
1989, Dr. Boyd taught at Northern Illinois University, Wichita State
University, Kent State University, and the University of Arizona.
D.M.A. University of Missouri Kansas City; M.M.
Northwestern; B.M.E. Northwestern University.
Office: CA 224
Phone: (812) 237-2752
 E-Mail: jboyd7@isugw.indstate.edu
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