Choral Guest Clinician - Dr. John Sinclair

Dr. John Sinclair is the Director of Music for Rollins College and holds the John M. Tiedtke Chair of Music. A master teacher, he has received many awards, including the Hugh F. McKean Teaching Award and the Arthur Vining Davis Fellowship, the two highest awards bestowed to Rollins College faculty members. He was twice named United Arts of Central Florida’s “Outstanding Music Educator of the Year” in consecutive years. John is also the Artistic director and Conductor of the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park, Florida.

Band and Orchestra Guest Clinician - Dr. Alexander Jiménez

Dr. Alexander Jiménez is the fourth director of orchestral activities since 1922 at the Florida State University College of Music. In demand as a guest conductor and adjudicator, he has conducted honor and university orchestras, and adjudicated orchestra festivals throughout the United States. He has collaborated with such noted composers as Martin Bresnick, John Harbison, Ladislav Kubik, Chen Yi, and Krysztof Penderecki. He has also collaborated with soloists and ensembles as diverse as Denyce Graves, Bobby McFerrin, the Canadian Brass, and NEXUS. Dr. Jiménez serves as Vice President of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA). He holds memberships in MENC: The National Association for Music Education, the Florida Orchestra Association, and the American Symphony Orchestra League.

Band and Orchestra Guest Clinician - Colonel Hal Gibson

Colonel Hal Gibson is an internationally known musician and conductor with wide experience in all facets of music. He did a career as an Army bandmaster serving at the highest levels and with most prestigious assignments. During his career he served as a bandleader at the military academy at West Point, New York where he also conducted the nationally acclaimed Cadet Glee Club. And later he was for many years the commander and conductor of the Army's "showcase" traveling band, The U.S. Army Field Band, also known as "The Musical Ambassadors of the Army." In 1974 he was selected from the bandleaders of all services to form and conduct a multi-service band for the Department of Defense which would be comprised of members representing all five branches of our uniformed services. Following his retirement from the Army he was appointed director of bands and professor of music at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia where he developed one of the strongest wind studies programs in the entire southeast. In 2004 he was inducted into the National Hall of Fame for Distinguished Band Conductors.