Dr. David Wilborn
Associate Professor in Music, Conductor of Concert Band
402C Academic Building
E-mail: wilborn@neo.tamu.edu
Telephone: (979) 458-2735
Fax: (979) 862-2666
Bio
David Wilborn is Assistant Professor of Music and Conductor of the University Concert Band at Texas A&M University. He teaches the low brass studio and also serves as Coordinator for Small Ensembles. Wilborn holds the Bachelor of Music degree from theUniversity of Texas at Austin, the Master of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Texas.
Prior to joining the TAMU faculty, Wilborn served as Director of Bands at Ft. Hays State University, Eastern New Mexico University and Cameron University. He also taught at Ouachita Baptist University, John H. Reagan High School and J. Frank Dobie Middle School in the Austin Independent School District.
Wilborn has served as a clinician, performer, and music advocate throughout the UnitedStates, Europe, and Puerto Rico. He has presented clinics, lectures, performances, and workshops at the Italart Study Abroad Center (Santa Chiara, Italy), Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Music Educators National Conference, Music Educators National Conference Northwest Division, North Central Music Educators National Conference, Eastern Trombone Workshop, College Music Society, College Music Society South Central, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Symposium, Big 12 Area Trombone Conference, Texas Music Educators Association, and the New Mexico Music Educators Association. As a strong advocate of band performance, Wilborn currently hosts a weekly radio show called Time Out for Band for National Public Radio affiliate KAMU FM 90.9. He continues to serve as an honor band clinician and as an adjudicator at band festivals. His articles have been published in the Instrumentalist, ITA Journal, School Band and Orchestra, The New Mexico Musician, and Teaching Music.
As a bass trombonist, Wilborn has achieved positions in such notable ensembles as theEastman Wind Ensemble, Texas Chamber Symphony, Round Top Festival Orchestra, Lawton Philharmonic Orchestra, San Angelo Symphony, Roswell Symphony, Amarillo Symphony, and the Music Academy of the West Orchestra. He has also performed as a soloist with the Little Rock Wind Symphony, Texas A&M University Symphonic Band, and numerous high school bands. He is an Artist/Clinician for the Edwards Trombone Company.
Wilborn is the composer of several new works for brass instruments. His Excursions for Six Trombones was selected as the winner of the 2003 Allen E. Ostrander Trombone Choir Composition Prize; his brass quintet entitled Escapades won the Appalachian State 2004 Brass Chamber Music Festival Composition Contest; and his Three Movements for Brass Sextet won second place at the 2005 Humboldt Composition Contest for Brass Chamber Music. Wilborn's trombone choir arrangement of the concert band classic American Overture by Joseph Willcox Jenkins was a featured selection by the Remington Trombone Choir at the 1996 International Trombone Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their outstanding performance was subsequently aired on National Public Radio's Performance Today. Wilborn's music is published by the International Trombone Association Press, Warwick Music, Kagarice Brass Editions, Brass Chamber Music Press, and Wehr Music House.
Wilborn is affiliated with several professional organizations including: International Trombone Association, College Music Society, National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, American Society of Composers Authors, and Publishers, American Composers Forum, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonians, Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Pi Kappa Lambda, and Phi Beta Mu.
