无码专区 Band Directors' Symposium
The 无码专区鈥檚 School of Music is proud to host the 4th annual Band Directors鈥� Symposium on June 3-4, 2025. This year's clinician will be Robert Tyrome Herrings, III, who is in his twenty-first year of teaching and has been teaching in Leander ISD since 2004. Prior to his appointment as Director of Bands at Vista Ridge High School, he was the Director of Bands at Artie Henry Middle School from 2004-2024.
Participants in the symposium will play in a lab band (no performance) that will focus on rehearsal techniques, and the methods discussed will be useful for middle school through collegiate musicians. In addition, there will be several sessions led by area teachers and/or university professors that concentrate on specific issues that are problematic for many teachers including:
- Conducting
- Brass
- Woodwinds
- Percussion
- Jazz
- Singing
- Instrument Repair
- And Much, Much More
All clinics will be hands-on. In addition to playing in the lab band, directors are encouraged to bring instruments to actively participate in clinics and masterclasses. This symposium is open to current and future middle or high school directors. Please note that you are not required to be at all sessions to attend. You can do whatever you need to make it work for you.
PARTICIPANT INFORMATION
Fee = $150
$50 for current college students and those about to enter their first year of teaching
CLINICIAN
Robert Tyrome Herrings, III is in his twenty-first year of teaching and has been teaching in Leander ISD since 2004. Prior to his appointment as Director of Bands at Vista Ridge HIgh School, he was the Director of Bands at Artie Henry Middle School from 2004-2024.
In 2003, Mr. Herrings received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he studied under Michael Haithcock, Jeff Grogan, Dr. Kevin Sedatole and Barry Hopper. While in college, Mr. Herrings was a member of the Baylor University performing wind bands, as well as a member of the Baylor University Golden Wave Band.
During his twenty years at Artie Henry Middle School, the Henry Middle School Honors Band was selected to perform at the 2008 and 2013 Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, Washington. The program was named the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2024 TMEA Class CCC Honor Band and was also selected to perform at the 2010, 2012, 2016 and 2022 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. In June 2011, Mr. Herrings and the program were awarded the prestigious John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Silver Cup Award, and in July of the same year, Mr. Herrings was named the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Young Bandmaster of the Year. In May of 2014, the Texas Chapter of the American School Band Directors Association awarded the Outstanding Band Program Award to the Artie Henry MS Band Program, and in November of the same year, the Henry MS Percussion Ensemble was selected to perform at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2018, the Henry MS Band Program was selected as the Texas Bandmasters Association Exemplary Middle School Band Award winner. Most recently, the program at Henry MS was named the National Band Association's Programs of Excellence Blue Ribbon Band Award winner.
An active clinician and adjudicator around the state, Mr. Herrings is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, American Bandmasters Association as well as an educational consultant for the Conn-Selmer Division of Education. Mr. Herrings also serves as the Vice President of Phi Beta Mu Alpha Chapter, TMEA Region 32 Band Division Vice President, as well as the Region 32 TBA representative.
Mr. Herrings enjoys motivating young musicians to achieve the highest level of performance by sharing his extreme love and passion for music with them on a daily basis. He feels honored, privileged and extremely blessed to have a loving mother and grandmother, many great mentors, band directors and close friends who have influenced his career thus far.
Above all, his students have been his greatest inspiration!