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Headshot of Col. Don Schofield

Week 1: June 2-6

Colonel Don Schofield is the commander and conductor of The United States Air Force Band. He is responsible for all activities of this 184-member squadron including equipping, training and deploying Airmen musicians to perform nearly 1,600 missions each year. Schofield recently completed command with the United States Air Forces in Europe Band stationed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, where he oversaw and directed more than 400 missions annually across Europe and Africa in a 104-nation area of responsibility.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Schofield received his bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Georgia, his master’s degree in music from Louisiana State University, and his doctoral degree from Boston University. Prior to receiving his commission at Officer Training School in 1997, Schofield was a public-school band director for 6 years in Georgia. His previous commands include the United States Air Forces in Europe Band in Germany, the United States Air Force Academy Band at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado, the Band of the Air Force Reserve at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, and the Band of Mid-America at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. Colonel Schofield also served as the Deputy Commander, 11th Operations Group and the Director of Operations for The United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C.

Schofield has conducted military bands, professional orchestras, and school honor bands throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, and Ukraine. He has led international performances with artists such as Kid Rock, Little Big Town, Josh Turner, Lee Ann Womack, Chris Daughtry, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Lonestar, Wynonna Judd, Naomi Judd, Robin Meade, Amy Grant, Take 6, Diamond Rio, the Miracles, Lee Greenwood, Gary Morris, Brian McKnight, Gordon Goodwin, and Yuri Mynenko. As a result of his musical leadership during internationally broadcast productions at the Grand Ole Opry, Schofield was twice recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as a Top Four Finalist for a prestigious Emmy Award.

Schofield’s leadership has been recognized by the U.S. Air Force by being named the United States Air Forces in Europe’s Public Affairs Communication Excellence Field Grade Officer of the Year, the United States Air Force Academy’s Public Affairs Field Grade Officer of the Year, the Air Force Reserve Command’s Public Affairs Field Grade Officer of the Year, Air Mobility Command’s Band Officer of the Year, and Air Force Materiel Command’s Band Officer of the Year. Under his command, the United States Air Forces in Europe Band was named the winner of the 2017 Brigadier General Dalton Award for the best Public Affairs Unit in the United States Air Force. Schofield’s contributions resulted in the United States Air Force Academy Band and the Band of Mid-America being awarded the Colonel George S. Howard Citation of Musical Excellence for military concert bands.

Headshot of Linda Morehouse

Week 2: June 9-13

Dr. Linda R. Moorhouse serves as Professor of Music and the Director of the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She contributes to the campus community through her roles with the University Senate, the University Senates Conference, and the Athletic Board. Before her current role, she served for eight years as the School’s Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies, and prior to that, she led the University Bands program within the School of Music. She was also a 2020-21 Fellow in the Big Ten Academic Alliance Academic Leadership Program.

Before joining the University of Illinois School of Music in fall 2010, Moorhouse served on the faculty at Louisiana State University for more than 20 years, where she was the recipient of LSU School of Music and several campus-wide awards for teaching excellence. At LSU she taught conducting, conducted the Symphonic Winds, and served as drill designer, choreographer, co-director and teacher of record of the LSU Tiger Marching Band, one of a select few award-winning college marching bands in the country. Under her leadership, the LSU Tiger Band received the Sudler Trophy (the “Heisman trophy” of college marching bands) and won the 2008 ESPN/Paramount Pictures “Battle of the Bands” contest. She also managed the LSU Summer Music Camps.

Moorhouse is active as a conductor, clinician, and adjudicator both nationally and internationally and her service to the band profession is a matter of record. Concert ensembles under her direction at two different Research I universities have been featured at national and regional conferences of the College Band Directors National Association, the North American Saxophone Alliance International Conference, and the American Bandmasters Association National Convention.  She is a Past President of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and is a past President and former Executive Secretary of the National Band Association, the largest professional organization for bands. She is also a past President of the Women Band Directors International, where she is a recipient of the organization’s Silver Baton and International Golden Rose awards for outstanding leadership and service to the music profession. Honored as a Member Laureate (member of international distinction) of Sigma Alpha Iota, professional fraternity for women in music, Moorhouse is also a recipient of the Diploma of the Sudler Order of Merit from the John Philip Sousa Foundation in recognition of extraordinary service to the music community. The National Band Association has recognized her contributions to the music profession on numerous occasions with the NBA Citation of Excellence, the Distinguished Service Award, and election to the Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts (AWAPA), considered the “Oscar” of the band world. She is the 72nd inductee of this honored academy of prominent musicians and educators. Moorhouse is a recipient of the Paula Crider Outstanding Band Director Award from Tau Beta Sigma, national band service sorority, and is also a member of the VIP community within the Division of Education at Conn-Selmer, Inc., and she is recognized in Grove Music Online.

In addition to her conducting and teaching accolades, Moorhouse has several publication credits including research contributions to multiple volumes of both the Composer’s Insight–Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band (Meredith Music) series and the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band (GIA) series, along with other Meredith Music publications.

International engagements include serving as a conductor on multiple western European tours with the United States Collegiate Wind Band, serving as an adjudicator on two jury panels for the World Music Contest in Kerkrade, Netherlands, and serving as a speaker for the International Round Table Conference as part of the 2017 World Music Contest. She also appeared as a conducting clinician and conductor with Portugal’s Wind Ensemble of Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, has adjudicated Singapore’s National Youth Music Festival on multiple occasions, and has worked as a clinician and adjudicator in Western Australia.

Moorhouse earned a Doctor of Musical Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Washington in Seattle, where she studied with Peter Erös and Timothy Salzman. She holds a Master of Music Education degree from Louisiana State University, and a Bachelor of Music Education with Honors from the University of Florida, where she is a member of the University of Florida Bands Hall of Fame.

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