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Directors
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Mr.
Bobby Francis, Director of Bands
 Mr.
Francis conducts the University Wind Symphony, along with teaching
conducting and music education courses. Groups under his direction
have performed at Carnegie Hall, the College Band Director's National
Association Regional Conference in Kansas, the Texas Music Educator's
Association Conference, the CBDNA National Conference in Georgia,
and most recently the CBDNA Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He
presented a clinic at the 2000 Texas Music Educators Association
Conference for a “standing-room only” crowd entitled:
“Solutions to Common Ensemble Problems”. He is music director
of Texas “Lone Star” Ambassadors for Music, a performing
organization consisting of college and high school students from
across Texas. The group has had many European performance tours,
and will tour Europe again in the near future. Mr. Francis continues
as an active concert and marching band clinician and adjudicator
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Mr.
Brian Youngblood, Associate Director of Bands
 Mr.
Youngblood directs the Horned Frog Marching Band and the TCU Symphonic
Band. Before coming to TCU, Mr. Youngblood taught in the public
schools for twelve years. He spent his first ten years teaching
in the Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD at L.D. Bell High School where his
groups received recognition for outstanding performances at festivals
throughout Texas. Mr. Youngblood has also served on the faculties
at the Texas Tech Band Camp, University of North Texas Drumline
Camp, and Stephen F. Austin Summer Percussion Camp. He is active
as a drill writer, an arranger for marching band/percussion, and
as a clinician and adjudicator. He regularly consults with and writes
shows for 20 high school bands in the five state region. His drills
won three state championships and placed in the finals at many festivals
every year.
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Mr.
James McNair, Jr., Assistant Director of Bands
 James
McNair is still a new addition at Texas Christian University.
Previous to this appointment at TCU, Mr. McNair taught for ten
years in some of the country’s finest band programs including
Lake Highlands High School, The Colony High School and Cross Timbers
Middle School. In the summer of 2001, Mr. McNair served on the
brass staff of the Drum Corps International World Champion Cavaliers
from Rosemont, Illinois. Mr. McNair is an active clinician and
adjudicator throughout the state and has been a clinician for
the Texas Music Educators Convention and Texas Bandmasters Conventions
in San Antonio. Mr.
McNair is also in high demand as one of the most versatile freelance
trombonists in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. Mr. McNair is a former
member of “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band in Washington,
D.C. where he performed regularly at the White House for the President
of the United States, on Marine Band recordings, and on national
tours.
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Mr.
Curtis Wilson, Director of Jazz Studies
 Mr.
Wilson has been at TCU since 1976. Prior to that, he served as
Director of Bands at Ashland College; Ashland, Ohio (1972-1976).
From 1968-1972 he was on the music faculty of Valley City State
College; Valley City, North Dakota. As a professional woodwind
performer he has played with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians,
Glenn Miller - Tex Beneke Orchestra, and many others. His conducting
experience ranges from marching band to the Fort Worth Chamber
Orchestra. He has music published for the Marching Band, Symphonic
Band, and Jazz Ensembles. The TCU Jazz Ensemble has performed
at the Montreux jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland along with
performances in Austria, Hungary, Poland, the Soviet Union and
Italy.
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