Brian Gibbs

Associate Director of Bands
Director, Bearkat Marching Band

Assistant Professor of Music

Brian Gibbs is the Associate Director of Bands, Director of the Bearkat Marching Band

and Assistant Professor of Music at Sam Houston State University. He is the conductor of

the Symphonic Band and teaches courses in music education.  Mr. Gibbs previously taught

at Texas Christian University and in the Birdville, Cypress-Fairbanks, Carrollton-Farmers

Branch and Richardson public schools. 

Mr. Gibbs is currently a PhD candidate in education at the Walden University Richard

W. Riley College of Education and Leadership. He holds a B.M. degree from Southern

Methodist University and a M.S. degree in Business and Human Relations from Amberton

University. Mr. Gibbs has presented workshops on music education research at the

conventions of the California Music Educators Association and the Tennessee Music

Educators Association.

Mr. Gibbs is active in the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Music

Adjudicators Association, the National Association of Music Educators, the College Band

Directors National Association, the World Association for Symphonic Bands and

Ensembles, and the Association for Moral Education.

 

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Matthew McInturf

Director of Bands

Professor of Music

Matthew McInturf is Professor of Music, Director of Bands and Director of the Center for

Music Education at Sam Houston State University. He previously taught at Florida

International University and in the public schools of Richardson, Texas. He holds degrees

from the University of North Texas and the University of Houston and is a doctoral

candidate in conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

He has studied conducting with Anshel Brusilow, Eddie Green and Eugene Migliaro

Corporon and composition with Michael Horvit and Darrell Handel.

Throughout his career, Mr. McInturf's ensembles have been recognized for their musical

accomplishment. He has performed throughout the United States and recordings of his

performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio. In 1991, conducting the

J. J. Pearce High School Band, he performed an acclaimed concert at the Mid-West Clinic,

with trombone soloist Christian Lindberg. He has performed at the Texas Music Educators

Association Convention and at the Southwest Regional Convention of the College Band

Directors National Association with the SHSU Wind Ensemble.

An advocate of new music, Mr. McInturf has continued to commission new works for

wind ensemble. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World-Wide Concurrent

Premiers and Commissioning Fund, Inc., a non-profit corporation that works internationally

to form consortiums to commission significant new works from contemporary composers.

He is a Past President of the Texas Bandmasters Association and is a region officer in the

Texas Music Educators Association. He is active in the College Band Directors National

Association, the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensemble and the College

Music Society.

 

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John Lane

Director of Percussion Studies

Assitant Professor of Music

Dr. John Lane is an active percussion soloist, chamber musician, composer, educator, and

has performed throughout the Americas and Japan. Recent credits include performances

with his percussion trio (with Christopher Deane and Brian Zator), Pulsus, at the Hokuto

International Music Festival in Japan, a concerto performance with the National Symphony

of Panama, an appearance on the Van Cliburn Foundation’s concert series, Modern at the

Modern, at the Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, and presentations at the Percussive

Arts Society International Conventions in 2003, 2004, 2008, and 2009.

Currently, John is Director of Percussion Studies and Assistant Professor at Sam Houston

State University in Huntsville, Texas where he teaches applied percussion and directs the

Sam Houston Percussion Group and SHSU Steel Band. Prior to his appointment at SHSU,

John taught as a lecturer at the University of Wyoming and as a teaching fellow at the

University of North Texas and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

Commissioning new works for percussion and creative collaborations are an integral part

of John’s work. Over the last few years, he has been connected with a number of

composers including Peter Garland, Emiliano Pardo, Mara Helmuth, Michael Fiday,

Christopher Deane, John Luther Adams, Kyle Gann, Michael Byron, Wen Hui Xie, Jude

Traxler, Kazuaki Shiota and Alex Kotch.

His compositions have been featured on the Sonic Explorations concert series, the

MUSICX new musicfestival at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music; the Loeffler

New Music Symposium at Chico State University in California; and at the Cincinnati

Contemporary Art Center. One of his works, Sparrow Song, was recently published in

Notations 21 (New York: Mark Batty Publishers, 2008). John has several on-going

interdisciplinary collaborations with writers Ann McCutchan and Todd Boss, percussionist

Allen Otte, and has created original music for choreographer/dancer Hillary Bryan.

John has recorded for the Klavier and GIA record labels with the North Texas Wind

Symphony and can be heard on the television series, Wyoming Voices (produced by

Wyoming Public Television). Articles, interviews, and educational writing have been

published in Windsong, 21st-Century Music, Texas Band Master’s Review and

Percussive Notes. John is also a former marching member of the Cavaliers Drum and

Bugle Corps.

John has presented clinics and masterclasses on topics including contemporary music,

orchestral percussion, and jazz drumset at the following institutions/venues: Danilo Perez

Jazz Foundation, National Institute of Culture in Panama, Texas Music Educator’s

Association Convention, Texas Band Master’s Association Convention, Percussive Arts

Society Days of Percussion (Wyoming, Louisiana, and Texas), University of Colorado,

Colorado State University, University of Wyoming, University of Arizona, Chico State

University, Southern Oregon University, Stephen F. Austin State University, University of

Hawaii, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, and the University of Mississippi.

John holds a DMA in percussion performance from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory

of Music, a MM from the University of North Texas, and a BM from Stephen F. Austin

State University. John is also a Yamaha Performing Artist and an Artist for Innovative

Percussion and Evans Drumheads.

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