~Nicholas E. Williams~
Assistant Director of Wind Studies
Concert Band conductor
Director of Athletic Bands
nicholas.williams@unt.edu

Nicholas Williams, the Assistant Director of Wind Studies at the University of North Texas, is the Conductor of the Concert Band and the Director of Athletic Bands, including the North Texas Green Brigade Marching Band. In addition to this position, Mr. Williams is in the final stage of doctoral coursework, completing a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Conducting, as a 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 has been very active in DCI. He began his drum corps career playing mellophone in the Madison Scouts. Since the age out year, Mr. Williams has been a member of the brass staffs of theSanta Clara Vanguard, 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. 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, Eruope, Scandinavia, and throughout the United States. He returns annually to Russia 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.



~Eugene Migliaro Corporon~
Director of Wind Studies
Regents Professor of Music
Wind Symphony Conductor
eugene.corporon@unt.edu

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, theCollege 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 ballor, 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.