Rich Stichler
Office: Fine Arts Center 308
Email:Richard-Stichler@utc.edu
Phone: (423) 425-4601
Adjunct Professor
Instructor for Applied TromboneDirector:
- Trombone Ensemble
- Ed. Spec. ,Technology Leadership - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- M.M., Music Education - The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
- B.M. Music /Trombone Performance - The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Rich Stichler is Adjunct Professor of Trombone/Low Brass and also conducts the UTC Trombone Ensemble. He currently is Director of Bands at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School, and was Director of Bands at Ridgeland High School in Rossville from 1993 to 1999. Before coming to Georgia, he taught band and orchestra in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Under his direction the LFO and Ridgeland Bands have received consistent superior ratings for marching, concert, and jazz in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. The LFO Symphonic Band performed, by invitation, at the 2001 University of Georgia High School Music Festival. Stichler served as GMEA District Seven Band Division chair and organizer of the GMEA All-State Jazz Ensemble from 2002-2007. Currently, he is president of the Georgia Association of Jazz Educators.
He maintains a busy schedule as a professional trombonist in the Chattanooga and Atlanta areas and has also free-lanced and taught privately in Arizona, California, Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas. He has performed with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, The Fresno Philharmonic, The Riverside Symphony Orchestra and Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Marching Band, the 1986 Disneyland All-American College Band, and the 15th Air Force Band of the Golden West at March Air Force Base in California from 1987 to 1991. His primary teachers included Thomas Ervin, Lewis Van Haney, George Roberts, Mike Suter, George Camp, Kenny Trimble and Jeff Reynolds.
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