Glen Adsit is the Director of Bands at The Hartt School, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, co-conducts the Foot in the Door Ensemble, and teaches graduate conducting. Professor Adsit was appointed the Director of Bands at The Hartt School in 2000 and was awarded the 2014 Larsen Award for outstanding teaching at the University of Hartford. In addition, in 2015, he was named one of the “Top 40 Educators Making a Difference” by Music For All.

Ensembles under his direction have performed at the Musikverein (Vienna, Austria), Benaroya Ilsley Hall (Seattle, Washington), Carnegie Hall’s Stern Hall (New York, New York), the Central Conservatory (Beijing, China), Harpa, (Reykjavík, Iceland), Kodak Hall at Eastman Theater (Rochester, New York) and Symphony Hall (Boston, Massachusetts), Hill Auditorium (Ann Arbor, Michigan). 

A champion of new music, the Hartt instrumental ensembles have premiered over fifty works and have hosted hundred’s of guest conductors, composers, and performers in his time at Hartt.

He is currently serving as the President-Elect of the College Band Director’s National Association. In addition, Adsit is the founder of two national consortium groups; National Wind Ensemble Consortium (NWECG), institute for the Advancement of Secondary and Primary Instrumental Repertoire Excellence (ASPIRE).

Before his career in academia, he was a public-school band director at both the junior and senior high levels in the Plymouth-Canton School District in Plymouth-Canton, Michigan.