NH Band Directors Association

MEET the CLINICIANS - Caitlin Ramsey & Missy Shabo, presenting:
"Setting Up Beginners for Success: Front-loading, Markings, and Mini-Lessons"

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Caitlin Ramsey, Co-Director of Bands at Cape Elizabeth Middle School, where she has taught since 2010, has been an active clinician and guest conductor throughout New England for the past twenty-two years. She currently serves as the Eastern Division Representative on the National Council of Band Education, coordinator for the Maine Music Education Association District 1 7/8 and 6th Grade North Honors Festivals, and Secretary for MMEA District 1. A 2009 Maine Arts Teaching Fellow and the 2020 MMEA Music Educator of the Year, Mrs. Ramsey has led the Cape Elizabeth Middle School bands in consortium commissions with composers JaRod Hall, Andrew Boysen, Randall Standridge, and Frank Tichelli. She holds undergraduate degrees in horn performance and music education from Miami University and a Master of Music from Kent State University.

Missy Shabo has served as Co-Director of Bands at Cape Elizabeth Middle School since 2022, following her tenure as Director of Bands at Scarborough Middle School. A saxophonist, she holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Music Education from the University of Southern Maine and earned a Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Leadership in 2022. With over eighteen years of experience as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor, she was named the 2024 Maine Music Educators Association Middle School Music Educator of the Year. Since 2015, she has served as Director of Summer Camps at the Osher School of Music, where she also conducts the Youth Band Camp, and she remains active professionally as MMEA District I Treasurer and Honors Festival band manager, as well as a member of both MMEA and the National Band Association.


Presented by:
NH Band Directors Association
Keene State College Music Department

MEET the CLINICIANS - Matthew Mailman, presenting:
"Ron Nelson’s Final Band Works You’ve Never Heard Of"

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Dr. Matthew Mailman is Professor of Conducting in the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City University, a position he has held since 1995. Dr. Mailman has had extensive and diverse experience conducting bands, operas, musicals, orchestras, choirs, and chamber music. He serves as Music Director of OCU's award-winning Wind Ensemble and Wind Philharmonic and a Music Director for the Oklahoma Opera and Music Theater Company. At OCU, Dr. Mailman has conducted fifty-nine operas and musicals and has led the Wind Ensemble and Wind Philharmonic in eighteen world premieres, on five tours, at two OK Mozart Festivals, and at ten convention performances. He teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and founded OCU's Masters in Conducting program. Dr. Mailman is the Music Director and Founder of the Oklahoma Youth Winds.


Presented by:
NH Band Directors Association
Keene State College Music Department

We're just TWO WEEKS away from some of the best professional development you can get anywhere! And there is still ample time to register!

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Presented by:
NH Band Directors Association
Keene State College Music Department