Not Your Forte
Not Your Forte is a music education podcast designed to help music educators around the world. Hosted by Eric Tinkler and Dr. Payne, Not Your Forte covers all aspects of music education, and has featured a multitude of guests, including Dr. Tim, Paula Crider, and more! Find us anywhere that podcasts are available and check us out on Facebook for up-to-date news and additional content.
Not Your Forte
Intro to Conducting with Dr. Wimmer
**Reupload. Originally Posted 5/1/20**
Raise your baton, ready your highlighters and pens, and don’t forget to grab that score as Dr. Payne and Eric begin our month long Conducting Bootcamp! Starting off we are bringing back the basics as we discuss various conducting concepts that will provide either a good starting place for the beginning conductor or a review of the fundamentals for those more experienced! Dr. Alex Wimmer, the Assistant Director of Bands at Kansas State joins Not Your Forte once more to go in depth on conducting basics, practice techniques and available resources.
Continue to join Not Your Forte throughout the month of May as we feature guests such as Dr. Alex Wimmer, Dr. Frank Tracz, Dr. Onsby Rose, Mrs. Diane Koutsulis and Dr. Mike Raiber and explore all aspects of conducting as a music educator!
Dr. Alex Wimmer is currently serving as the Assistant Director of Bands at Kansas State University. His duties include directing the Wind Symphony, Cat Band (basketball pep band), Volleyball Band, Pub Crawl Band, Assistant Marching Band Director for the Pride of Wildcat Land (KSUMB), arranger and drill designer for the KSUMB, and instructor of undergraduate and graduate courses in conducting, arranging, and marching band techniques. Prior to his appointment at Kansas State University, Dr. Wimmer was a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Kansas State University Bands. He assisted with all concert and athletic ensembles, undergraduate conducting courses, and Percussion Ensembles. His research interests include undergraduates conducting with expressivity and qualitative research.
Originally from Gretna, Nebraska, Dr. Wimmer received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2007, his Master of Music degree in Education with an emphasis in Wind Conducting from Kansas State University in 2014, and his Doctorate in Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction from Kansas State University in 2017. Dr. Wimmer was the Director of Bands at Gretna High School and the Assistant Director of Bands at Gretna Middle School from 2007-2012. Under his direction his concert, jazz, and marching bands received consistent superior ratings. He was a recipient of the Jack R. Snider Young Band Director Award in 2011 and served on the Nebraska Music Educators Association Leadership Academy from 2011-2012.
Dr. Wimmer is in demand as a conductor, clinician, and adjudicator as well as a percussion specialist. His professional affiliations include the Kansas Music Educators Association, the Kansas Bandmasters Association, the National Association for Music Education, the College Band Directors National Association, the Percussive Arts Society, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Phi Kappa Lambda.
(Biography courtesy of KSU Bands)
Not Your Forte Podcast is a music education podcast that is geared towards helping Music Education students survive and thrive throughout their undergrad as well as prepare to enter the "real world". Not Your Forte is brought to you by Eric Tinkler, a senior in music education at Kansas State and Dr. Phillip Payne, the Undergraduate Music Education advisor at Kansas State.
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