Randall Coleman is currently the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He conducts the UTC Wind Ensemble and the Marching Mocs and teaches courses in conducting and music education.

Before his tenure at the University of Tennessee Chatanooga, Professor Coleman was the associate director of bands at the University of Alabama. At UA, he was the conductor of the Alabama Symphonic Band and was one of the directors of the Million Dollar Band. He also taught graduate and undergraduate conducting and wind band literature classes. Professor Coleman also served as the Coordinator of the Crimson Music Camps and the Alabama Honor Band Festivals. Additionally, Professor Coleman serves as Conductor and Artistic Director of the Alabama Winds, an all-adult community wind band based in Birmingham, Alabama. Before his appointment to the faculty at the University of Alabama in 2007, Mr. Coleman enjoyed a 25-year career as a high school band director and supervisor in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, and his Master of Music Education from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Professor Coleman has been published seven times as a research associate to the <em>Teaching Music Through Performance in Band</em> book series published by GIA publications. He has conducted the University of Alabama Million Dollar Band in performances at the Southeastern Conference Football Championships, and in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida, and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona where the Crimson Tide won the 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2020 National Championships. Under his direction, the Alabama Symphonic Band gave invitational performances at the Alabama Music Educators’ Association Inservice Conference and the 2014 College Band Directors’ National Association Southern Division Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, and at the 2020 College Band Directors’ National Association Southern Division Conference in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The Alabama Winds has given invitational performances at the 2015 and 2019 Alabama Music Educators’ Association Inservice Conference, the 2016 University of Alabama Honor Band Festival, and the 2020 Samford University Honor Band Festival. Alabama Winds was also a featured performer at the 2017 Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.

Professor Coleman is an elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and serves the National Band Association as Immediate Past-President. Professor Coleman also holds membership in the National Association for Music Education, the Tennessee Music Educators’ Association, the East Tennessee Band and Orchestra Association, Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters’ Fraternity, and Kappa Kappa Psi.

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Dr. Myra Rhoden serves as the director of bands and Fine Arts Department chairperson at Fayette County High School in Fayetteville, Georgia. Located twenty miles south of downtown Atlanta, the Fayette County High School Band program has performed at national and international venues and consists of a competitive marching band and winter guard, three concert bands, a jazz band, and several chamber ensembles. Recent invitational performances include the Georgia Music Educators Association (GMEA) In-Service Conference, the Kennesaw State University Concert Band Festival, and honor band festivals at the University of Alabama, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Georgia. Her marching bands have been finalists at Bands of America Regional and Super-Regional Championships and have won numerous Grand Championships at area competitions.

Dr. Rhoden has been awarded the National Band Association’s Citation of Excellence on four occasions, has been named STAR Teacher at FCHS, was named Teacher of the Year on two occasions, was selected for membership in the Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity, and was presented the 1995 Sallie Mae First Class Teacher Award, a national award given to one teacher in each state for an outstanding first year of teaching. She recently presented a clinic at the 2017 GMEA In-Service Conference and was named the National Band Director of the Year by the National Association for Music Education for the 2017-2018 school year. She is the founder of the Athena Music and Leadership Camp, a summer band and orchestra camp for middle and high school-aged girls that was created to promote musical excellence while emphasizing self-esteem and leadership skills, and the New Notes Band Camps, summer day camp programs for middle school musicians in the metropolitan Atlanta area.

Before joining the faculty at Fayette County, Dr. Rhoden taught at the middle and high school levels in Alabama. A native of Tuskegee, Alabama, she received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Music Education from the University of Alabama and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Southern Mississippi. Dr. Rhoden serves as a GMEA All-State Band Organizer and has served as the GMEA District VI Band Chairperson. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Southeastern United States (SEUS) Honor Band Clinic at Troy University, served on the Board of Directors for the Alabama Bandmasters Association, and is honored to be a clinician and adjudicator throughout the southeast. She resides in Fayetteville with her husband, Errol Jr., and son, Errol III.

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