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Eugene Migliaro Corporon guides all aspects of the program, including the masters and doctoral degrees in Wind Conducting. Mr. Corporon is a graduate of California State University, Long Beach and Claremont Graduate University. His performances have drawn praise from colleagues, composers and critics alike. Mr. Corporon has held positions at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michigan State University, the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, and California State University, Fullerton. His ensembles have performed at the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic, the Southwestern Music Educators National Conference, the Texas Music Educators Convention, the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the International Clarinet Society Convention, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, the National Wind Ensemble Conference, the College Band Directors National Association Conference, the Japan Band Clinic, and the Conference for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles. Having recorded over 600 works, including many premieres and commissions, his groups have released fifty recordings on the Toshiba/EMI, Klavier, Mark, CAFUA, Donemus, Soundmark, GIA, and Centaur labels. These recordings, two of which have appeared on the Grammy nomination ballot, are aired regularly on radio broadcasts throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Mr. Corporon maintains an active guest conducting schedule and is in demand as a conductor and teacher throughout the world. He is Past President of the College Band Directors National Association, and has been honored by the American Bandmasters Association and by Phi Beta Mu with invitations to membership. Mr. Corporon, a frequent guest conductor at the Showa Academia Musicae in Atsugi, Japan has also served as a visiting conductor at the Interlochen World Center for Arts Education and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He is co-host with Barry Green on The Inner Game of Music video, which focuses on overcoming mental obstacles, and achieving one’s full potential as a performer. He is co-author of the book Teaching Music Through Performance in Band that is published in five volumes by GIA Publications. This series includes ten sets of Resource Recordings by the North Texas Wind Symphony. The Teaching Music Project emphasizes the importance of comprehensive conceptual learning in the music-making process. Professor Corporon is a recipient of the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Citation for advancing the cause of music in America, the University of North Texas Student Government Association Honor Professor Award for teaching excellence, student rapport, and scholarly publications, the American School Band Directors Association A. A. Harding Award for making significant and lasting contributions to the school band movement and the California State University, Long Beach, College of Fine Arts and Department of Music Distinguished Alumni Awards. He is grateful to many people for their guidance and inspiration in his life. Among them are Charles Yates, Robert Reynolds, Benton Minor, Don Wilcox, Larry Maxey, Jack Hopkins, Frederick Fennell, Barry Green, James Jordan and Carolyn Corporon.
Dennis Fisher is integrally involved with the conducting and music education programs at the UNT. A Kansas native, he holds degrees from Emporia State University and Fort Hays State University. Mr. Fisher brings to his position a wide variety of experience and expertise as a conductor, arranger, clinician, educator, and consultant. Mr. Fisher is very active as an arranger for all wind mediums, including symphonic band, marching band and chamber music. His arrangements and transcriptions have been performed by major wind groups and military bands around the world, including the United States Air Force Heritage of America Band, the Air Force Band of the Rockies, and the Dallas Wind Symphony. He frequently serves as a clinician, conductor, and adjudicator throughout the country having lectured, conducted and performed in Thailand, Japan, Great Britain, Europe, Scandinavia, and throughout the United States. He will return to Russia in March to serve as visiting guest conductor of the Volga Professional Wind Orchestra in Saratov, and the State Wind Orchestra at the Moscow State Conservatory. Mr. Fisher has recorded extensively on the Mark, Eurosound, and Klavier labels with the University of North Texas Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony. His compact disc recording, Diversions, of the UNT Symphonic Band was awarded a grammy nomination in 2001. He serves as recording and editing producer of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series compact disc recordings, and Teaching Music Through Performance in Beginning Band compact disc recording, published and distributed by G.I.A. Publications. He is the author of Improved Score Study and Focused Listening Techniques for the Conductor (2002) and is co-author of Contemporary Warm-up Studies and Techniques for Band. Mr. Fisher holds professional memberships in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia,
Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association,
National Band Association, and the College Band Directors National
Association. He has also been honored with invited membership in
Phi Beta Mu, National Band Fraternity. Other honors include, twice
being named “Top Prof” by the Mortarboard Society at
UNT, and with the UNT Community Award.
In addition to his position in Wind Studies, Mr. Williams is a Doctoral Conducting student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon. Prior to this assignment at the University of North Texas, Mr. Williams, a three-time honoree of Who’s Who Among America’s Educators, was the Director of Bands at Clark High School in Plano, Texas. In his last year of public school teaching, he was honored as the Clark High School Teacher of the Year, a Finalist for the Plano ISD Teacher of the Year, and was named a “Ross Perot Excellence in Teaching Award” recipient-an award given to only four secondary teachers annually in the Plano ISD. During his tenure at Clark High School, the band program received consistent sweepstakes awards, and under his baton, the Honors Band was awarded Best in Class or Best in Contest in every festival in which the band performed. Nicholas is active in the Drum Corps International activity, where he is currently the Brass Caption Head of the Santa Clara Vanguard. He has also taught for the Madison Scouts, Southwind, and the Boston Crusaders, where he has served in various capacities ranging from Brass Instructor to Brass Caption Head/Staff Coordinator. Mr. Williams is active in the United States and Asia as a clinician, adjudicator, and arranger; his arrangements for percussion ensemble, concert band, and marching band are performed by outstanding high school and college organizations throughout the country. His professional affiliations include Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. |
Eugene
Migliaro Corporon
Dennis
W. Fisher 
Nicholas
E. Williams