Dr. Andrew Boysen, Jr., Guest Conductor
Andrew Boysen, Jr. is presently a professor in the music department at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and teaches conducting and composition. Under his leadership, the UNH wind symphony has released seven recordings and been invited to perform at regional conventions of the College Band Directors National Association and National Association for Music Education. Previously, Boysen taught at Indiana State University and Cary-Grove (IL) High School, and was the music director and conductor of the Deerfield Community Concert Band. He remains active as a guest conductor and clinician, appearing with high school, university and festival ensembles around the world.
Boysen earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the Eastman School of Music, where he served as conductor of the Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble. He received his Master of Music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University in 1993 and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education and music composition from the University of Iowa in 1991.
He maintains an active schedule as a composer, receiving commissions from festival, university, and high school concert bands across the United States. Boysen won the College Band Directors National Association Composition Contest in 2013, the International Horn Society Composition Contest in 2000, the University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and has twice won the Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in 1991 and 1994. Boysen has several published works with the Neil A. Kjos Music Company, Wingert-Jones Music, Alfred Music, Ludwig Masters Music, and C. Alan Publications, including pieces for band, orchestra, clarinet and piano, and brass choir. Recordings of his music appear on the Sony, R-Kal, Mark, St. Olaf and Elf labels.
Mr. Joe Gulledge, Guest Conductor
Joe Gulledge served as a band director in South Carolina for 28 years. He is past president of the South Carolina Band Directors Association and the current president for the South Carolina Music Educators Association. Mr. Gulledge received his Master of Arts in conducting at Sam Houston State University in 2010 and a Bachelor of Music from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in 1994.
Concert ensembles under Mr. Gulledge’s direction have received consistent superior ratings at the South Carolina CPA in grades IV and VI masterworks. Most recently, the Clover High School Wind Ensemble was featured as a performing ensemble at the 2022 SCMEA Professional Development Conference. Marching bands under his direction have been finalists at Bands of America Regional and Super Regional events eight times. For the past 25 years, his programs have also received the Outstanding Performance Award established by the South Carolina Band Directors Association.
Mr. Gulledge is also an active adjudicator, clinician, and performer across the Southeast. He was inducted into the South Carolina Band Directors Association Hall of Fame in 2022. His professional affiliations include the South Carolina Band Directors Association, South Carolina Music Educators Association, National Association for Music Educators, American School Band Directors Association, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Mr. Gulledge is a native of Lilesville, NC. He currently resides in Rock Hill, SC with his wife Suzanne and their two children.
For more information please contact:
Lorrie Crochet, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Music, Professor of Music, Director of Bands
Office: 122 Conservatory of Music
Phone: 803/323-4610
E-mail: crochetl@winthrop.edu
Kristin Arp
Professor of Music, Assistant Director of Bands
Office: 224 Conservatory of Music
Phone: 803/323-2572
E-mail: arpk@winthrop.edu