Dr. Kevin M. Geraldi Dr. Kevin M. Geraldi is Associate Director of Bands and Director of Orchestral Activities at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In this capacity, he conducts the UNCG Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Band, and Casella Sinfonietta, and is associate conductor of the UNCG Wind Ensemble. In addition, he teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and directs the Wind Ensemble chamber music program. He coordinates the Carolina Band Festival and Conductors Conference and is associate director of the UNCG Summer Music Camp. Previously, he served as Director of Bands at Lander University in Greenwood, SC, from 2000-2002, as director of bands for the Westchester Public Schools in Westchester, IL, from 1996-1998, and as assistant conductor of the Central Illinois and Michigan Youth Symphonies. Dr. Geraldi appears regularly as a guest conductor and he maintains an active schedule as a clinician throughout the country. He has presented clinics at the North Carolina and South Carolina Music Educators Association Conferences, and at National and Southern Division CBDNA Conventions. With the UNCG Wind Ensemble, he has performed in the Music Center at Strathmore, at the national CBDNA convention in Austin, Texas, at the NCMEA conference, and on several commercially available compact discs. As a member of the Franklin Park Brass Quintet, Dr. Geraldi has toured the Midwest, New England, and South Carolina, performing recitals and conducting brass and chamber music masterclasses. A proponent of contemporary music and chamber music, he has commissioned and premiered numerous compositions and published articles in the Music Educators Journal, the Journal of Band Research, the Journal of the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and volume 7 of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band. His compact disc leading the Minerva Chamber Players, featuring nonets by Johannes Brahms and Louise Farrenc, is available on the Centaur Records label. Dr. Geraldi holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in instrumental conducting from the University of Michigan where he studied with H. Robert Reynolds and Michael Haithcock. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Illinois Wesleyan University, where he studied conducting with Steven Eggleston. As a trombonist, his principal teachers have been Thomas Streeter, H. Dennis Smith, David Jackson, and Edward Kleinhammer. Dr. Geraldi is a recipient of the Thelma A. Robinson Award, an award given biennially by the Conductors Guild and the National Federation of Music Clubs. He is a member of the Conductors Guild, the College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the International Trombone Association, and a National Arts Associate of Sigma Alpha Iota. |
