Timothy Todd Anderson has been at the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 2011.  In addition to his marching band responsibilities, Dr. Anderson also directs the Pep Band, the Concert Band, teaches Marching Band Techniques and works with student teachers.  During the summers, he is the conductor of the Amherst Community Band.  Dr. Anderson previously served as the Associate Director of Bands at California State University, Fresno, from 2006 – 2011.  He is a frequent clinician and guest conductor with school band programs throughout New England.  Dr. Anderson holds the Bachelor of Music from the University of Iowa, the Master of Music in Wind Conducting from the University of Florida, and the Doctorate of Education in Music Education from the University of Illinois.  His career began as an instrumental music teacher in the West Marshall Community School District of State Center, Iowa.

Andrew Boysen, Jr. is presently a professor in the music department at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and teaches conducting and composition. Under his leadership, the UNH wind symphony has released six recordings and been invited to perform at regional conventions of the College Band Directors National Association and National Association for Music Education. Previously, Boysen taught at Indiana State University and Cary-Grove (IL) High School, and was the music director and conductor of the Deerfield Community Concert Band. He remains active as a guest conductor and clinician, appearing with high school, university and festival ensembles across the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.

Boysen earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where he served as conductor of the Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He received his Master of Music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University in 1993 and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education and music composition from the University of Iowa in 1991.

He maintains an active schedule as a composer, receiving commissions from festival, university, and high school concert bands across the United States. Boysen won the College Band Directors National Association Composition Contest in 2013, the International Horn Society Composition Contest in 2000, the University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and has twice won the Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in 1991 and 1994. Boysen has several published works with the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Wingert-Jones Music, Alfred Music, Ludwig Masters Music, and C. Alan Publications, including pieces for band, orchestra, clarinet and piano, and brass choir. Recordings of his music appear on the Sony, R-Kal, Mark, St. Olaf and Elf labels.

As Director of the Division of Wind Band Studies and Professor of Conducting, Thomas Leslie has earned recognition for high quality performances of the UNLV Bands.  During his tenure at UNLV, his bands have received critical acclaim from members of the international music world.  Such notables include composers Malcolm Arnold, Bruce Broughton, Eric Whitacre and Frank Ticheli; United States Marine Band Conductor Emeritus Colonel John Bourgeois, (Ret.); Colonel Lowell Graham, Conductor United States Air Force Band, (Ret.); United States Navy Band Conductor Commander John Pastin (Ret.); Dr. Harry Begian, Director Emeritus, University of Illinois; Grammy Award winning recording artists Eric Marienthal, Jimmy Haslip, Will Kennedy, Bernie Dresel, Mitchel Forman and Russell Ferrante.

Recognized for a fresh, interpretative style among collegiate wind orchestras, Thomas Leslie and the UNLV Wind Orchestra continue to excel in their commitment to commission new works by the next generation of the world’s finest young composers.  This ensemble, under Professor Leslie’s baton, has premiered numerous pieces commissioned by UNLV, Professor Leslie and the Wind Orchestra.  Professor Leslie has conducted, and recorded twenty-one compact disc recordings with the UNLV Wind Orchestra.  They are: 1994 – The UNLV Wind Symphony; Ghost Train; Gawd$illa Eats Las Vegas; It Takes a Village; Monkey; No Mo’ Chalumeau; Chunk (all title tracks commissioned by Thomas Leslie); BCM… Saves the World; Bandanna, the complete Daron Hagen opera; 3 Steps Forward, the premiere disc in the new UNLV Wind OrchestraSeries for Klavier Recordings; Spiritual Planet; 4 Flew Over the Hornet’s Nest; The Quest; Vegas Maximus; Concerto for Marienthal; Marquee Mojo; Lost Vegas; Ventanas; The Return; and 24K Gould, and Quaternity, the newest release in this collection.  All of these recordings have received noteworthy acclaim in professional review journals in addition to high praise from colleagues throughout the world. Several of the UNLV Wind Orchestra Series recordings have received nominations for GRAMMY AWARD consideration in the “best classical performance” category.

As a high school band director, Leslie won numerous state and national championships while teaching in Iowa, Indiana and Arizona. While teaching at UNLV starting in1985, Professor has been featured as an adjudicator and conductor throughout the United States, additionally Professor Leslie has been invited to conduct performances and clinics internationally in Australia, Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, England, Scotland, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Canada.  Under his direction, the UNLV Wind Orchestra has appeared as an invited performing group at the College Band Directors National Association Conference in March 1994, the Music Educators National Conference Biennial Convention in April 1998, the American Bandmasters Association National Convention in March 2001, and numerous state music educator conferences.  The UNLV Wind Orchestra performed as the featured ensemble at the Hokkaido Band Association Clinic in Sapporo, Japan, in May 2002, and was featured in a multiple performance tour at the La Croix Valmer International Music Festival in St, Tropez, France in June 2005 and June 2016.  The UNLV College of Fine Arts awarded Professor Leslie the College of Fine Arts Teacher of the Year Award in 2006.  Most recently, Maestro Leslie and the internationally acclaimed UNLV Wind Orchestra were awarded the American Prize for Best American Collegiate Wind Ensemble for the year 2020.

Thomas Leslie received degrees in Music Education from The University of Iowa and Indiana State University.  Elected in March of 2012, Professor Leslie served office as the 75^th President of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and currently serves as a member of the ABA Nominating Committee, the ABA Membership Committee and the ABA Past President’s Ad Hoc Committee. He was originally inducted to membership in 1997 and he hosted the National Convention of this very distinguished group in Las Vegas in March 2001.  He continues to be a long-standing member of the College Band Directors National Association, and has served as Western Division Chair for the National Band Association. Professor Leslie currently serves on the Board of Directors for the John Philip Sousa Foundation.

Dr. Steven R. Riley (MA 2013 / DMA 2015) is Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Director of Bands at Arkansas State University. He directs the Sound of the Natural State, Howlers Basketball Band, Volleyball Band, Concert Band, teaches marching band techniques, and supervises student teaching interns. He also serves as a co-advisor for the Arkansas State University Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia chapter. Prior to A-State, Dr. Riley was Director of Bands at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he was an administrator in Student Affairs and served as director of the marching band, pep band, and led the creation of a 60-member college concert band.

Dr. Riley studied at The University of Iowa where he was a student of Dr. Mark Heidel and held the Myron D. Welch Conducting Fellowship. At Iowa, Dr. Riley, was twice named a “Top 10 Finalist” in the National Band Association’s Young Conductor Mentor Project and conducted for the Office of the President of the United States. Furthermore, he designed multiple halftime shows performed by the Hawkeye Marching Band which were featured nationally on SI.com.

Dr. Riley is an active guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician having led multiple regional honor bands in the Mid-South and Northeast United States. In 2019, Dr. Riley was invited to the 24th World Scout Jamboree in West Virginia to lead the Inaugural World Scout Jamboree Band comprised of musicians from over 25 countries. Dr. Riley has contributed several articles to The Instrumentalist and the National Band Association Journal and has presented at the Massachusetts Music Educators Association (MMEA) State Conference in Boston. Dr. Riley’s public school experience includes serving as Director of Instrumental Music at Johnsburg High School in the northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Rose Schmidt Riley (BM/TEP 2012) is a K-8 music teacher for Bay School District in Bay, Arkansas. Prior to joining the staff at Bay in 2020, Rose taught 1-6 music in the Jonesboro (AR) Public Schools, 6-8 band at Goddard Scholars Academy in the Worcester (MA) Public Schools, and K-5 music in the Davis County (IA) Community School District. She holds a BM in trumpet performance and music education (with honors) from The University of Iowa and a MME in music education from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Rose is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of music educators and was a district-level mentor for 2 early-career colleagues in Davis County, mentored students in EDTL:3620 Methods & Materials: General Music for 5 semesters, and is currently hosting 2 student teaching interns from Arkansas State University. She has completed World Music Drumming Level 1 training, First Steps in Music training, and Kodaly Level 1 training.

Rose is the Vice-President, Ritual of the Jonesboro Alumnae and Patronesses chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. When global pandemics don't limit community music making, she sings with the Arkansas State University Community Choir and plays cornet with the Diamond Brass Band. She is affiliated with the National Association for Music Education, Arkansas Music Educators Association, the Organization of American Kodaly Educators, the American Orff Schulwerk Association, the Feierabend Association for Music Education, the Early Childhood Music & Movement Association, and the National Education Association.