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Thomas McCauley is currently Director of University Bands and Professor of Music in the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University in New Jersey where he conducts the Montclair State University Wind Symphony, the Symphonic Band, and teaches both graduate and undergraduate conducting. He has held similar positions in the states of Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois, in addition to teaching high school instrumental music in Nevada for nine years. Composers including Karel Husa, David Gillingham, Michael Daugherty, Joseph Turrin, Bruce Yurko, Robert Aldridge, Morten Lauridsen, Armando Bayolo, and O’Neal Douglas have praised his work. Dr. McCauley has appeared as a clinician at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago on three different occasions. Each November, he hosts and co-teaches the Weekend Wind Conducting Symposium at Montclair State University, with special guest clinicians and participants from around the world.

Dr. Thomas McCauley is in demand as a guest conductor and clinician, and ensembles under his direction have appeared at regional, national, and international conventions and conferences.
McCauley has collaborated with artists including Dame Evelyn Glennie, Arturo Sandoval,
Imani Winds, Manhattan Brass Quintet, Demondrae Thurman, Monarch Brass, and Phil Smith among others. In February of 2019, Dr. McCauley led the Montclair Wind Symphony in concert at the 2019 College Band Directors Association national conference in Tempe, Arizona. And the appearance of the Montclair State Wind Symphony at the WASBE International Conference in Prague, Czech Republic in July of 2022 was the first in the school’s history.

Dr. McCauley’s book titled, Adventures in Band Building (or How to Turn a Less-Than-It-Could-Be into a More-Than-It-Should-Be) is published by G.I.A. Publications. He has been published in The Instrumentalist magazine, several state music magazines, and in the second edition of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, Vol I published by G.I.A. publications. In 1995, the Nevada Music Educators Association named Dr. McCauley Music Educator of the Year and in 2006, the Indiana Music Educators Association honored Dr. McCauley with an Outstanding University Music Educator Award. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the New Jersey Band Association, is the New Jersey State Representative of the College Band Directors National Association, and is the former New Jersey State Representative of the National Band Association. He is also an active member of the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and the National Association for Music Education, in addition to serving as a Conn-Selmer Educational Clinician. Dr. McCauley holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Music Education from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and earned a D.M. in conducting from Northwestern University.

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Conducting / Music Education

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