Illinois Band Conductors Symposium

February 13–14, 2025

Registration will open on December 2. There are a limited number of Active Conductor positions, but we accept an unlimited number of Observers and Performer Participants.

Please email bands@illinois.edu if you have questions.

Click below to register beginning 9:00 AM, December 2.

Join the University of Illinois band faculty and special guest Gary Green at this two-day symposium which includes conducting, rehearsal techniques, repertoire, pedagogy, and educational philosophy. Prof. Green is Professor Emeritus of Conducting and Director Emeritus of University Bands at the University of Miami, where he taught from 1993 to 2015. In addition to supervising all band activities, he was the conductor of the renowned Frost Wind Ensemble, supervised all graduate conducting students in the wind and percussion area and served as the Chairman of Instrumental Performance for seventeen years. Under his direction, the Frost Wind Ensemble performed on two separate occasions for the convention of the American Bandmasters Association as well as twice for the national convention of the College Band Directors National Association. 

Throughout his career, Professor Green was influential in commissioning and recording new works for winds and percussion. These commissions include composers Joel Puckett, Mason Bates, Michael Daugherty, David Maslanka, Paul Dooley, Steven Bryant, James Stephenson, Christopher Theofanidis, John Harbison, Eric Whitacre, Frank Ticheli, and others. Urban Requiem by Michael Colgrass was commissioned by the Abraham Frost Commission Series and has become a standard in the repertoire for wind ensemble.

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.

Symposium Clinicians