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Instructional Staff Macy's Great American Marching Band
 
Dr. Richard Good - Co-Director

Dr. Rick Good was promoted to Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Conducting in 2007. Prior to that promotion he served from 1995 as Marching Band Director and Associate Professor of Low Brass at Auburn University. Under his direction the Auburn University Marching Band received national acclaim. The marching band’s membership grew from 275 to 375, the largest marching band in the history of Auburn University, during his tenure as director, and in 2004, the AU Marching Band received the Sudler Trophy Award, the nation's highest and most coveted award for college and university marching bands. In January of 2005, the band was selected by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to attend the Inaugural Parade of George W. Bush. In 2006, the band was selected as one of the top ten marching bands in the country featured at the LSU Hall of Fame Museum entitled “America’s Finest University Marching Bands.”

He received his Bachelors degree in Music Education from Mansfield University in Pennsylvania, a Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting from Louisiana State University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Euphonium Performance from Arizona State University.  Before coming to Auburn, Dr. Good was previously the Acting Associate Director of Bands at Arizona State University.  He has also performed professionally at Busch Gardens theme park in Virginia.  Dr. Good originally hails from Allentown, PA, which is affectionately know as Band City, USA.  He is active as a performer, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the country and holds various memberships in professional organizations.

 

Dr. Jon Woods - Co-Director

Dr. Jon Woods is in his twenty-third year as Director of The Ohio State University Marching Band. He served as Associate Director for ten years before coming director. His duties with the band include Principal Field Conductor, Show Coordinator, and Administrator. Dr. Woods also serves as administrative coordinator and conductor of all Athletic Bands, which provide for various campus sporting events. As a faculty member of the School of Music, his teaching responsibilities include graduate music courses, graduate advising for masters and doctoral students, secondary instrumental methods, marching band techniques, supervision of student teachers, and principal conductor of The Concert Repertory Band. 

A recipient of the School of Music Distinguished Teaching Award, Dr. Woods is recognized nationally as a clinician and adjudicator for both marching and concert band festivals. He received his Bachelors Degree from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, his Masters Degree from The Pennsylvania State University and his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan.

 
Dr. Douglas Rosener

Dr. Rosener is currently the Associate Director of Bands at Auburn University, AL.  Doug received his Bachelors degree in Music Education from Penn State University, his Masters in Percussion Performance from the University of North Texas, and his Doctorate in Percussion Performance from the University of Colorado in Boulder.  Dr. Rosener’s previous appointments include Director of Percussion Studies at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and as Interim Director of Percussion Studies at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. He has also served as battery caption head of the Blue Knights WGI percussion ensemble from Denver, Colorado, winning three world championships and three second place finishes in six years. Several of Dr. Rosener’s percussion ensemble compositions and arrangements have been published through Drop6 Publications, and he continues to remain active as a percussion composer/arranger, clinician, and judge for High Schools and Universities throughout the United States. Dr. Rosener is an Artist/Clinician for Vic Firth and Sabian.

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