Lecture No. 4

Clinton Williams is currently in his seventh year as Director of Bands at Rancho High School. Prior to his appointment at Rancho High School, Williams served as a doctoral conducting assistant at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mr. Willaims taught in Arkansas and Oklahoma from 2000 - 2010 where his ensembles earned the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association Sweepstakes Award, Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association Sweepstakes Award, 2008 M.E.N.C. National Conference Oklahoma Representative in Washington D.C., a four time runner-up at the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association State Marching Championship, and the 2010 Oklahoma Music Educators Association State Honor Band.

The Rancho High School Wind Ensemble was named champion at the National Adjudicators Invitation in Chicago (2015), National Band Champion at the 2019 Canon City Music Festival and a consistent finalist at the Bands of America Regional Marching Competitions in Utah, California, and Arizona. The Rancho Bands have also earned six Southern Nevada Band Association Sweepstakes Awards, for excellence in marching and concert bands. His bands have been invited to perform at the Midwest Clinic, Music for All National Festival, and recognized as the Southwest Division Winner of the 2019-2020 Dr. William P. Foster Award for Excellence.

Lecture No. 3

Dr. Matthew O. Smith is Associate Director of Bands at the University of Kansas, where he conducts the Symphonic Band, the Marching Jayhawks, and teaches in the School of Music. He is also the director of the nationally renowned Midwestern Music Camps held at KU. He has held similar positions in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Iowa State University, Baylor University, and the University of Michigan.

Smith is in frequent demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator, and has presented clinics and research in the United States and Germany. He has been published in The Instrumentalist, the Journal of Band Research, and the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. His professional affiliations include the College Band Directors National Association, the National Association for Music Education, Kansas Bandmasters Association, and the Kansas Music Educators Association. He also holds membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.

Lecture No. 2

Professor Stickney teaches applied trumpet, conducts the University Band, jazz band and pep band, and travels the Midwest as a marching, concert and jazz band clinician and guest conductor.

Stickney brings a distinguished 33-years of public high school band experience to Mount Mercy University. High school concert band and jazz ensembles, under his direction at City High School and Linn-Mar High School, have appeared five times as honor bands at the Iowa Bandmasters Conference in Des Moines. Both music departments were also nationally recognized by the GRAMMY Foundation with five GRAMMY Signature School designations.

Lecture No. 1

Michael Golemo has been the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Iowa State University since 1999. From 2005 to 2017, he also served as the Chair for the Department of Music & Theatre. In addition to conducting the Wind Ensemble and the Symphonic Band, he teaches courses in music education, conducting, and oversees a program of eleven bands.

A native of Chicago, he received his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern University where he studied conducting with John Paynter and saxophone with Frederick Hemke. He completed his doctorate in wind conducting at Michigan State University. He previously served as Assistant Director of Bands at The University of Akron (OH) and prior to that as Director of Bands at Albion College (MI).