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About Gary Green (conductor)
- Gary Green is an American conductor, specializing in the wind band. Green is a champion of new music for the wind band, and has commissioned works by such composers as Eric Whitacre, Michael Colgrass, Kenneth Fuchs, David Maslanka, Mark Camphouse, and Christopher Rouse.
- On March 29, 2007, he premiered Rouse's Wolf Rounds at Carnegie Hall in New York with the University of Miami-Frost Wind Ensemble.
- In February 2006, he conducted the East Coast Premiere of David Maslanka's Mass after the composer's 2005 revision, which was performed by the UM-Frost Wind Ensemble, Choral Union, and Miami Children's Chorus, featuring soloists Janice Chandler-Eteme, soprano and Jeffrey Morrissey, baritone.
- He was most recently Professor and Chair, Department of Instrumental Performance, and Director of Bands at the University of Miami-Frost School of Music, where he taught wind band conducting and literature and served as the conductor of the Wind Ensemble, a post he held from 1993 until his retirement in 2015.
- The UM-Frost Wind Ensemble has recorded for the Albany label.
- Other recent performances include Mahler's First Symphony with the UM-Frost Symphony Orchestra. Green holds a B.M.
- degree from Boise State University and an M.M.
- degree from the University of Idaho.
- He formerly conducted the University of Connecticut's Symphony Band, Wind Ensemble, and Marching Band.
- Green also was director of bands at University High School in Spokane, Washington, one of the most widely respected band programs in the nation.
- Throughout his career, Green has received numerous honors and awards.
- His recent conducting activities include events in Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Georgia, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and others.
- In addition, he has conducted all state, regional, national, and international honor bands, most notably in Taipei, Taiwan.
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