Midwest Clinic Demo Group Performance

Our demonstration performance at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic will take place on Friday, December 16, 11:00 AM in the Grand and State Ballrooms on the fourth floor of the Palmer House.

I’m very excited that Gary Barton will be our rehearsal technician for this clinic session. Mr. Barton is a good friend, a terrific teacher, and I know that he’ll do wonderful work in delivering this rehearsal lab.

Gary Barton received the B.M.Ed. from the University of Louisiana – Monroe and the M.S.Ed. from Indiana University. He currently teaches at the Baker Sixth Grade Campus in LaPorte, Texas where he also works with all aspects of the middle school and high school band programs. His twenty-eight years of teaching have included positions in Meridian, Mississippi, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Knoxville, Tennessee, and Jonesboro, Arkansas. In addition, Mr. Barton served as an Adjunct Instructor of Euphonium and Tuba at Arkansas State University for five years. He served as a member of the faculty of the Indiana University Summer Music Clinic for High School Students for twenty-five years. Mr. Barton is a past-president of the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association and the East Central Mississippi Band Directors Association.

Mr. Barton has been published in The Instrumentalist, The Texas Bandmasters Association Review, The Leblanc Bell, British Columbia Band Talk, and The NBA Journal. He served the National Band Association as Southwestern Division Chairman (1998-2002), Board Member (2000-2002), and Second Vice-President (2002-2004). He is currently serving another term as NBA Southwestern Division Chairman and is a member of the Board of Electors for the NBA Bandmasters Hall of Fame, housed at Troy State University. He was the 1996 Baker Campus Teacher of the Year and was a 1998 inductee into the Band World Magazine Legion of Honor. Mr. Barton holds memberships in Phi Beta Mu, the American School Band Directors Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Association of Concert Bands, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the Texas Bandmasters Association. Mr. Barton has made presentations on the campuses of Kansas State University, Marshall University (WV), Plymouth State University (NH), Mississippi State University, Georgia Southern University, and Henderson State University (AR). He has served as clinician and adjudicator in fifteen states.

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