Music Professor Selected as Conductor and Master Teacher for International Symposium

Huntington resident James McRoy, a professor of music at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, has been selected as a Conductor and Master Teacher for an international conducting symposium to be held in Bangkok, Thailand. C.W. Post alumnus Shuichi Komiyama (now professor of conducting at Montana State University and formerly at the College of Music at Mahidol University in Bangkok) is the Artistic Coordinator for the symposium.

This first annual event, titled "InterAsia Conducting Symposia," involves four universities in four countries (United States, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam) in an ongoing series of seminars and workshops for wind band conductors. These seminars will be led by prominent local and international conductors and master teachers. The first of these workshops will be at Rangsit University Conservatory of Music from October 19-24, 2006. Participants will receive a Certificate of Distinction from the two sponsoring universities, Montana State University and Rangsit University.

Dr. McRoy is a professor of music and director of bands at the C.W. Post Campus. In that role, he directs all aspects of the band program, including conducting the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band and Pep Band. McRoy teaches and coordinates the undergraduate and graduate conducting sequence, teaches instrumental music education courses, and coordinates the Brass Studies area.

A native New Yorker, Dr. McRoy holds a doctoral degree in instrumental conducting from Ball State University, and earned a bachelor's and master's degree in music education from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, CUNY. He was a high school band director in New York for 10 years and was the associate director of bands at Ball State University in Indiana for two years. He is currently president of the New York State Band Directors Association, and serves as the New York State Chair for both the National Band Association and the College Band Directors National Association. He is an active guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator both locally and nationally in the northeast and midwest.