Lauren Reynolds is Associate Professor of Music, Director of Concert Bands, and Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies at the University of Delaware School of Music, where she serves as conductor of the University of Delaware Wind Ensemble and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting and wind literature. She received her Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Master of Music degree in Conducting from the University of Delaware, and her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting, cognate in Flute Performance, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. 

Dr. Reynolds has conducted ensembles from the middle school through professional levels and has served as an adjudicator and clinician throughout the United States. Under her leadership, the University of Delaware Wind Ensemble has participated and led in the commissioning of numerous works for winds and won second place in the 2021 American Prize for Band/Wind Ensemble Performance College/University Division. Their 2019 tour of Spain culminated in an invited performance at the annual Úbeda Festival of Music and Dance, and they were featured performers at the 2020 and 2024 CBDNA Eastern Division Conferences. In 2022 the ensemble was selected to perform at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Conference in Prague.

Dr. Reynolds is a past president of the Eastern Division of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). She resides in Maryland with her husband, a professional bassoonist, and her two children.

Catharine Sinon Bushman is the Associate Professor of Music Education and Instrumental Conducting at St. Cloud State University (MN). Her teaching responsibilities include leading the Wind Ensemble, conducting and courses in music education. Dr. Bushman received a DMA in Wind Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin. She holds degrees in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University. Previously, Dr. Bushman served on the faculty at Winthrop University (SC) and St. Olaf College (MN). Dr. Bushman began her career teaching high school bands in Marietta, Georgia, just outside of Atlanta. Her professional memberships include Minnesota Society for Music Education, College Band Directors National Association, National Band Association, Women Band Directors International, Minnesota Music Educators Association and Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. She holds leadership or mentor roles with the Institute for Composer Diversity, Minority Band Directors Association, Girls Who Conduct, Athena Music & Leadership Camps, the WBDI Member Journal and the On the List Project.

Conductor and educator Dr. Danielle Gaudry is the Director of the Wind Orchestra and Associate Professor of Instrumental Conducting at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University since 2023. Prior to that, she served for ten years as Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental Music at the California State University, East Bay. Originally from Winnipeg, she taught high school instrumental music in Canada for several years. She proudly served as a musician and conductor in the Canadian Armed Forces for fourteen years, most notably as Director of Music of The Regimental Band of The Royal Winnipeg Rifles and as Conducting Instructor at the Canadian Forces Logistic Training Centre. Retaining her military affiliations in the US, Captain Gaudry was the Associate Conductor with the 38th Infantry Division Band, Indiana National Guard for three years. Dr. Gaudry earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting with a Cognate in Music Education from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She also holds degrees from The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Calgary, the University of Toronto, and McGill University. At home, Danielle and her husband, a musicologist, maintain a fast-paced life with their two sets of energetic twin boys.

A dynamic conductor of both wind band and orchestral ensembles, Leah McGray is currently the Conductor of the Wind Orchestra at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Previously, she was the Director of Instrumental Studies for the State University of New York at Geneseo, and Rhodes College in Memphis TN, conducting the Geneseo Symphony Orchestra, Geneseo Wind Ensemble, the Rhodes College Orchestra and Wind Ensemble, and teaching classes in conducting and musicianship. Dr. McGray earned her degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, the University of Toronto, and Acadia University. She is in demand internationally as an adjudicator across the United States, South Korea, and Canada, and has been guest conductor for a variety of youth orchestras and honour bands, including the 2023 National Youth Band of Canada. Twice awarded major research grants, her scholarship explores techniques of non-verbal leadership, and wind ensemble repertoire by traditionally underrepresented composers.

Dr. Emily Moss is Professor of Music and the Director of Bands at the University of New Mexico where she conducts the Wind Symphony, teaches graduate conducting, and oversees the band and conducting areas. She previously held similar positions at California State University, Los Angeles and the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Dr. Moss attended the University of Washington in Seattle, earning a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education. After teaching middle school band for six years, she served as a teaching assistant with the University Bands at the University of Northern Colorado, earning her Master’s degree in Wind Conducting and the Doctor of Arts in Music Education and Bassoon Performance. As a conductor and clinician, Dr. Moss is in high demand across North America and regularly gives band clinics at middle and high schools in her local region and beyond. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband Noah and their daughters Ella and Sadie.

Dr. Angela Schroeder (she/her) is currently Professor of Music in the Department of Music at the University of Alberta. She is the Director of Bands, the Director of Undergraduate Programs, and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Summer Band. Angela was awarded the 2016 Faculty of Arts Award for Undergraduate Teaching, and the 2017 Rutherford Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by the University of Alberta. She teaches courses in conducting and music education, and works with Graduate students in instrumental conducting. Angela is also the conductor of the St. Albert Community Band, an ensemble that is currently in their 55th concert season. 

Angela is a graduate of the University of Calgary (B.Mus, B.Ed, Dip. F.A.), Northwestern University (M.Mus) and the University of North Texas (D.M.A). She has been a guest conductor, lecturer and adjudicator for bands and educators in festivals and clinics throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, China and Thailand. She is a contributor in Canadian Winds, and wrote chapters in eleven volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series.

Dr. Courtney Snyder is Associate Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Conducting at the University of Michigan where she conducts the Concert Band, teaches undergraduate and graduate instrumental conducting, assists in administrating the Michigan Bands program, and directs the Michigan Youth Symphonic Band. Previously, Dr. Snyder served as the Assistant Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and was Music Director for the Nebraska Wind Symphony. An active guest conductor and clinician nationally and internationally, Snyder is a contributing author to the book The Horizon Leans Forward: Stories of Courage, Strength, and is published in several journals including SBO, The Instrumentalist, and NAfME’s Music Educators Journal. She’s received awards from Tau Beta Sigma, National Band Association, Women Band Directors International and The American Prize. Prior to directing college ensembles, Dr. Snyder taught middle and high school band and orchestra in Michigan. She is a past president of Women Band Directors International and a Conn-Selmer clinician.