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Music Director and Conductors
of the Hot Springs Concert Band
 | Craig V. Hamilton, Ph.D.,Music Director and Principal Conductor, is The Lena Goodwin Trimble Professor of Music, Director of Bands, Coordinator of Instrumental Studies and Chairman of the Music Education Department at Ouachita Baptist University.
Follow the link for more information about Dr. Hamilton and Ouachita Baptist University. http://plaza.obu.edu/hamiltonc/index.htm He is active as a clinician and adjudicator in the areas of Marching, Concert and Jazz Bands. Craig earned his Ph.D. in Music Education from the University of North Texas, Master of Music Degree in Trumpet Performance at Arkansas State University, and Bachelor of Music Education Degree from The University of Southern Mississippi. The Ouachita Bands, under Dr. Hamilton's leadership, have toured throughout the United States and Europe, recorded numerous CDs with the Mark recording label and performed at State, Regional and National conferences and meetings. His professional affiliations and awards include Phi Beta Mu, Pi Kappa Lambda, Who's Who Among America's Teachers, Music Educators National Conference, Arkansas School Band and Orchestra Association, Arkansas Bandmasters Association, National Band Association, Association of Concert Bands, and The College Band Directors National Association. |
| Associate Conductors of the Hot Springs Concert Band |  |
Julian Herring, M.Mus. Ed.,Associate Conductor, earned his Bachelor of Music degree at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas and his Masters in Music Education on the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. Mr. Herring joined the HSCB in 1988 as a French Horn player. At the time, he was an award-winning Band Director in the Lake Hamilton School District, working with the High School and Middle School band programs. In 1989, while wining awards at Lake Hamilton, he took on the task of conducting the Hot Springs Community Band. He retired from the HSCB in 1996 and from Lake Hamilton on 1998, re-joining the Band in 1999. Mr. Herring now teaches Horn privately. |  |
Bill Morgan, M.Mus. Ed.,Associate Conductor, joined the HSCB in 2002. He and his wife, Nyla, moved to Hot Springs Village from the Dallas area. Bill earned his Bachelor and Masters in Music Education at Texas Christian University and worked toward his Doctorate in Administration a the University of North Texas. A Band Director in the Dallas School District for 10 years, he subsequently became Coordinator of Music Education for the Dallas School District. He ended his career as Executive Director of Human Resources. Bill directs the Village Big Band, serves as Vice-President of the Hot Springs Community Bands Board of Directors, is a member and instrumentalist of the Village Chorale and serves on the Hot Springs Village Community Concert Association Board of Directors. |  |
Ken Williams, M.Mus.,Associate Conductor, earned the Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1985 and the Master of Music degree (emphasis in instrumental conducting) from the University of Central Arkansas in 1998. He has been the director of bands for the Malvern Public System since 1999 and has been on staff at Malvern since 1990. Ken joined the HSCB in 2001 as a member of the trombone section. Ken's professional affiliations include the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra, Phi Beta Mu professional music fraternity, the American School Band Directors Association and he is a past president of the Arkansas Bandmasters Association. |
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