07/16/2021
SAVE THE DATE!!! ETSU Department of Music
Join us Friday, January 28 and Saturday, January 29, 2022 for the 43rd Annual ETSU High School Honor Bands Festival, which will be hosted in the new Martin Center for the Arts.
Guest Conductors:
GOLD BAND:
Dr. Jack Stamp
Currently serving as “International Composer in Association” to the world-renowned Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band. Dr. Stamp received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education Degree from IUP, a Master’s in Percussion Performance from East Carolina University (ECU), and a Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Conducting from Michigan State University, where he studied with Eugene Corporon. Dr. Stamp’s primary composition teachers have been Robert Washburn and Fisher Tull, though he was strongly influenced by his music theory teachers at IUP and ECU. Recent studies include work with noted American composers David Diamond, Joan Tower, and Richard Danielpour.
He retired as Professor of Music and Director of Band Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in 2015 after 25 years, where he conducted the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band and taught courses in undergraduate and graduate conducting.
He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer throughout North America and Great Britain. His compositions have been commissioned and performed by leading military and university bands across the United States. He has won the praise of American composers David Diamond, Norman Dello Joio, Michael Torke, Samuel Adler, Robert Ward, Robert Washburn, Fisher Tull, Nancy Galbraith and Bruce Yurko for performances of their works. He is also a contributing author to the “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” series.
In 1996, he received the Orpheus Award from the Zeta Tau Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha for service to music and was named a Distinguished Alumnus of Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 1999, he received the Citation of Excellence from the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association. In 2000, he was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association.
BLUE BAND:
Mr. Steven Barton
Steven Barton began his public school teaching career in Iroquois, South Dakota, where he taught band and chorus for three years and Webster, South Dakota where he taught band for two years. After earning his Master’s degree, he was Director of Bands for two years at Garner Senior High School in North Carolina. He then returned to Virginia in 1986, spending fifteen years as Director of Bands at Manchester High School, four years at Lloyd C. Bird High School and Salem Church Middle School, and eleven years at Thomas Dale High School. He has taught Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Marching Band, Percussion, Music Theory, String Orchestra, Guitar, and Piano. He also taught Jazz Band and Jazz Improvisation. His ensembles at Manchester High School and Thomas Dale High School were highly regarded and earned may awards and accolades. In 2017 he was inducted into the Manchester Lancer Band Hall of Fame.
Steven Barton has composed several pieces for concert band, jazz band, and orchestra, several of which are published. Cradlesong (1994) and For The New Day Arisen (1997) published by Barnhouse; Twilight Shadows (1999), featuring the euphonium, was commissioned and premiered by the Michigan State University Bands in honor of the 100th birthday of director emeritus Leonard Falcone; Hill Country Flourishes (2001) written for the Hill Country Middle School in Austin, Texas; Welcome to Holland and Kingsfold, both published by C. Alan Publications as well as others. For The New Day Arisen, Cradlesong, and Hill Country Flourishes are included in the acclaimed series Teaching Music Through Performance In Band. Most recently, he has published A Festive Fanfare, Sagittarian Dances, and Ebenezer Variants through Knightwind Publishing.
Steven Barton retired at the end of the 2015-2016 school year after 37 years. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and a Master of Music degree in percussion performance from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1983.
