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Graduate Students Andrea Brown 
Andrea Brown is currently a DMA Conducting student at UNC Greensboro where she is the conductor of the University Band. She is on a leave of absence from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN, where she completed five years as assistant director of bands and director of athletic bands. At APSU she directs the "Governor's Own" Marching Band, Govs Pep Band, and Symphonic Band, and also assists with the APSU Wind Ensemble which has had recent performances at the 2008 CBDNA Southern Division Conference in Columbus, GA, and at the 2008 Tennessee Music Educators Association Conference in Nashville, TN, in which she was a guest conductor. In 2005, she was awarded a CBDNA grant to attend the UNT Conducting Collegium where she studied with Eugene Corporon, Dennis Fisher, and Jack Stamp. Brown has also had three rehearsal guides published in the popular GIA Publications series, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. Originally from Milan, Tennessee, she is a graduate of APSU and has earned a master of music degree in horn performance and a master of music education degree with a cognate in instrumental conducting from UNC Greensboro. Brown was a member of the AA Brass Quintet, which won the 2001 International Brass Quintet Competition and she has performed with the Boston Brass, North Carolina Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Long Bay Symphony, and the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Brown is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, TMEA, MENC, CBDNA, and was awarded the Rose of Honor as a member of Sigma Alpha Iota Women's Music Fraternity. She is a charter member of UNCG's Kappa Gamma chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota and a charter member and past president of the Clarksville (TN) Alumnae Chapter. Kiyoshi Carter Kiyoshi Carter is currently pursuing his Master's in Instrumental Conducting at UNCG. Prior to this Kiyoshi was the director of bands and AP Music theory teacher at Southwest Guilford High School in High Point. While at Southwest his responsibilities included marching band, concert band, jazz band, concert percussion ensemble and a chamber music program. Bands under his direction received superior and excellent ratings at state festivals and competitions. During the summers Kiyoshi serves on the faculty of the North Carolina Governor's School as a wind band conductor. He received his bachelor's degree from UNCG in 2004. In 2005 he was named a Wal-Mart Teacher of the year for Guilford County. Kiyoshi is slated to conduct the Guilford County All-County band this upcoming April. |