GLEN ADSIT

Glen Adsit is the Director of Bands and Associate Director of Instrumental Studies at The Hartt School where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Contemporary Players Ensemble, and guides all aspects of the graduate wind conducting program. Under his direction, the Hartt Wind Ensemble has performed twice at both the College Band Director’s National Association regional conference in addition to their 2007 performance at the CBDNA National conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Guest soloists have included Joseph Alessi, Robert Black, Marc Goldberg, Scott Hartman, Carrie Koffman and Ben Toth. Composers Bright Sheng, Michael Colgrass, Joan Tower, Michael Daugherty, Joseph Schwantner, Susan Botti, Joe Turrin, Steve Gryc and Nebojsa Zivkovic have all been composers in residence with the Wind Ensemble. An advocate of new music, he is the founder of the National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group, which has over 50 member schools with a mission to commission the world’s finest composers to write for wind ensemble. His professional conducting includes three productions of the Nutcracker, two pops concerts, many educational concerts with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and a series of educational concerts with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra in Rochester, New York and the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prior to his appointment at The Hartt School, he was the Associate Director of Bands at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Previous to his university appointments, he taught for seven years in the Michigan public schools at both the junior high and high school levels. Under his direction, the Plymouth Centennial Marching Band was a two-time Bands of America Grand National Champion. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in music education and trombone performance and a Master’s degree in wind conducting, both from the University of Michigan.