Mr. Robison

Director, Morehead City Middle School Band

Jason P. Robison, MAT, NBCT, ASBDA

         Jason Robison graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he received his BM in Education, Cum Laude.  He also attended the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill where he studied trumpet with Professors James Ketch and Dr. David McChesney.  Mr. Robison became a National Board Certified Teacher in 2008 and he attained a Master’s degree in Wind Conducting in 2010 studying under Dr. Bill Malambri at Winthrop University.

         Mr. Robison has enjoyed a very diverse musical career filled with opportunities to perform with such great musicians as Slide Hampton and Vincent Herring.  He has attended Master’s Classes with virtuoso trumpeters such as Arturo Sandoval and Phillip Smith of the New York Philharmonic.  From January 2002 through May of 2004 Mr. Robison maintained a permanent seat in the trumpet section of the Wilmington Symphony Orchestra.  Other performance credits include the Wilmington Theater Company, numerous community events, as well as wedding and religious services.  Jason was invited to join a Wind and Choir ensemble that toured extensively throughout Germany and Austria in 2004. Mr. Robison has performed with the Carolinas Wind Orchestra 2004-2010.  Performance honors include the 2005 American Bandmaster’s Association Convention, Southeastern Division Music Educators National Convention, 2007 Performances in Malgrat De Mar and Barcelona Spain music festivals, 2009 North Carolina Music Educators Convention, and 2010 American Bandmaster’s Association Convention.

         Mr. Robison has been teaching privately since 1998, and was honored to be named student director of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington’s Jazz Lab Band.  His two teaching internships allowed him the opportunity to gain valuable experience in both the high school and middle school band fields.  While teaching at Ashley High School he assisted in the direction of the school’s Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band.  He then worked with his mentor, Steve Morgan, at Myrtle Grove Middle School.  Upon completion of his internships he assumed an interim position of Director of Bands at Waccamaw K-8 in Ash, North Carolina.  With the desire to broaden his own educational experience, Mr. Robison accepted the position of Director of Bands at the Smith Academy of International Languages (later Waddell Academy) and moved to Charlotte in July of 2004.  The band program at Smith Academy grew from 80 to 200+ within Mr. Robison’s first 4 years with critical acclaim being awarded to his jazz band within the first two years culminating with his jazz ensembles performance at the NCMEA conference in 2013.  In 2013 Mr. Robison was inducted into the prestigious ASBDA (American School Band Directors Association). In 2016 Mr. Robison accepted the position as band director at Crestdale middle school.  His 6th, 7th, 8th grade concert and jazz bands have been awarded 40 consecutive Superior ratings at MPA and various festivals since 2007.  Several of Mr. Robison’s students consistently audition and make local, regional, and all-state honors bands.  Mr. Robison served as the North Carolina South Central District Bandmaster Associations Middle School Representative from 2010-2012 and 2014-2017 and Commission/Clinician chair from 2012-2019.  From July of 2010-2012, Mr. Robison served as the musical director of the Queen City Brass Band, a community band formatted as a traditional British Brass Band.  Mr. Robison has been on staff of the East Mecklenburg Marching Eagles 2010-2019. In the fall of 2020 Mr. Robison will assume the roles of Band Director of the Morehead City Middle School Band. Beginning in 2021 Mr. Robison will be on staff of the inaugural season of the Carteret Collective Sound. This ensemble is made up of members of all 3 Carteret County High School Marching band students. His beginning band was featured at the 2023 NCMEA professional development conference in Winston-Salem presenting “Real time teaching: Basics and Fundamentals” and presented a 2024 session entitled “Are you a Proactive Planner or a Nuclear Reactor” about teaching procedures. In 2025, the Morehead City Middle School Band received invitations to perform at the NCMEA Professional Development Conference in Winston-Salem, NC and the 2026 Music for All Southeastern Regional Concert Band Festival in Atlanta, Georgia.  He currently serves as a freelance clinician, adjudicator, and musician around North Carolina in the concert, jazz, and marching band fields. 

Related Work Experience

·        Guest conductor/clinician with South Mecklenburg High School Band

·        Guest Adjudicator for East Mecklenburg High School Band

·        Guest Conductor/clinician with Piedmont Community School Band

·        Performer in Wilmington Symphony Orchestra 2002-2004

·   C.M.S. professional development presenter on Brass pedagogy 2005

·        M.P.A. Pre-festival adjudicator for Collinswood Language School

·        Marching band assistant with East Mecklenburg High School Band 2010-present

·        Carolina’s Wind Orchestra performer 2004-2013 (performances at two A.B.A.   conventions, multiple state music educator conventions, musical festival in Spain)

·        Dave Silden Brass Quintet performer 2004-2013

·        Wilmington Theatre Company, Damn Yankee’s pit performer

·        Trumpet and vocal performance tour of Germany and Austria 2004

·        Performed with and hosted Dallas Brass residencies in 2005, 2007, 2011

·        Director of the Queen City Brass Band 2010-2012

·        M.P.A. Pre-Festival adjudicator for East Meck. High School

·        CMS Professional development presenter on teaching rhythm and technique 2016

·        M.P.A. Pre-festival adjudicator for A.G. Middle School 2019

·        Monarch Invitational Marching competition adjudicator 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024

·        White Oak Classic Marching Band Adjudicator 2024

M.P.A. Pre-festival adjudicator for Broad Creek and Croatan High School 2019, 2022

MPA Pre Festival Adjudicator Craven County Bands 2023, 2025

MPA Pre Festival Adjudicator New High School 2025

Pre-MPA Adjudicator for Carteret county school bands 2023, 2024

·        Sectional teacher/clinician at Broad Creek, Croatan, Morehead City, Newport, Havelock, A.G. Middle, Randolph I.B., Carmel middle, Community House middle, Butler High, Grover Fields middle 2019-2020

·        Eastern District Bandmasters Association Professional development presentation; “Tone Matters”2022 and 2023

MCMEA 2023 Clinician "Real Time Teaching" Beginning Band

NCMEA 2024 Clinician "Proactive Planner/Nuclear Reactor"

·        Served as Brass/Marching technician for the Carteret Collective Sound 2021-present

·        Director of the Carteret Community Sunshine Band 2020-Present

·        Clinician Jammin’ in the Sun summer camp Advanced Band

·        Clinician Craven county summer camp Advanced Band

MPA Adjudicator South Central District 2024-Charlotte, NC

Honors

·        7th grade Band selected to perform at the Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center April 2019 as the top middle band in Charlotte

·        8th grade Band selected to perform at the Belk Theater, Blumenthal Performing Arts Center April 2018 as the top middle band in Charlotte

·        Jazz Band Performance at North Carolina Professional Development Conference 2013

·        Elected into American School Band Directors Association 2013

·        South Central District Band Association Clinician and Commission chair 2012-2019

·        Elected South Central District Band Association Middle School Representative 2010-2012, 2014-2017

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2007

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2009, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2009

·        MPA W.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2010, Grade III

·        MPA Western Region Jazz Festival Superior-2010, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2010

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2010

·        MPA W.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2011, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2011

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2012, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2012, Grade I/II

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2012, Grade III

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2013, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2013

·        MPA Western Region Jazz Festival Superior-2013, Grade III/IV

·        UNCC Jazz Festival Superior-2014, Grade IV

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2014, Grade III

·        MPA Western Region Jazz Festival Superior-2014, Grade IV

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2014

·        UNCC Jazz Festival Superior-2015, Grade III/IV

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2015, Grade III

·        MPA Western Region Jazz Festival Superior-2015, Grade III/IV

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2015

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2016, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2016

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2017, Grade III/IV

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2017, Grade III

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2018, Grade IV

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2018, Grade III

·        MPA S.C.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2019, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2019, Grade III

·        MPA E.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2022, Grade III

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2022, Grade III

  MPA E.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2023, Grade III/IV

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2023, Grade III/IV

 MPA E.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2024, Grade II/III

 MPA E.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2024, Grade IV

·        Carowinds Band Festival Superior-2024, Grade IV

MPA E.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2025, Grade II/III

 MPA E.D.B.A. Band Festival Superior-2025, Grade III/IV

·        National Board Certified Teacher 2008-present

·        Nominated as teacher of the year 4 times

Professional Affiliations

· National Association for Music Education

· North Carolina Music Educators Association

· South Central District Band Masters Association

· Eastern District Band Masters Association

· International Trumpet Guild

· Director, Queen City Brass Band 

· Carolinas Wind Orchestra

· American School Band Directors Association