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.”
In addition to success on
the marching field, members of Dr. Good’s
low brass applied studio have earned
numerous awards and competitions, including
the Blanca Renard Award, the Tamblyn
Scholarship, and competitions with the
International Tuba Euphonium Conference and
the Music Teachers National Association. His
low brass students have also earned faculty
and instrumental music directing positions
at major universities, including the
University of Michigan and Mississippi State
University, and teaching assistantships at
universities such as Arizona State
University, University of Texas-Austin,
Notre Dame, University of Iowa, Florida
State University, and the University of
Alabama.
In addition to overseeing
the successful development of all university
bands, as Director of Bands, Dr. Good’s
current duties include conducting the Auburn
University Symphonic band, the university’s
top performing instrumental ensemble and the
AU Wind Ensemble, a smaller select group
that features soloists and sections in
unique musical opportunities. He also
teaches undergraduate and graduate classes
in conducting as well as wind literature.
Before coming to Auburn,
Dr. Good was the Acting Associate Director
of Bands for one year at Arizona State
University, where he earned his Doctor of
Musical Arts degree in Euphonium
Performance. In addition to serving as a
graduate teaching assistant at ASU, he was
also a teaching assistant at Louisiana State
University, where he earned a Master of
Music Degree in Wind Conducting. Dr. Good
received his Bachelors degree in Music
Education from Mansfield University in
Pennsylvania, and during his entire academic
career, he had the opportunity to study with
nationally-renowned names in conducting and
low-brass performance, such as Richard
Strange, Frank Wickes, Donald Stanley, Sam
Pilafian, Dan Perantoni, and Larry Campbell.
Dr. Good taught for seven
years in the public schools of Pennsylvania
and Virginia. The ensembles, under his
direction, have performed at state music
conventions and have received numerous
superior ratings at state and national band
festivals. Dr. Good also served on the
summer brass and conducting faculty for five
years at the prestigious Blue Lake
International Fine Arts Camp in Michigan
while teaching at Auburn University.
Dr. Good has received many
honors and awards. In 2006, he was named the
Co-Director of the Macy’s All-American
Marching Band, working collaboratively with
Jon Woods from The Ohio State University. In
June of 2003, Dr. Good served as the
Executive Musical Director of the Alabama
Ambassadors of Music, which consisted of
highly talented high school and college
vocal and instrumental musicians who
embarked on a sixteen-day musical tour of
seven European countries. He has been
honored with the College of Liberal Arts
Teaching Effectiveness Award in Fine Arts
and named a Faculty Honoree by the Cardinal
Key Honor Society at Auburn. Presently, he
is a member of the National Band
Association’s Board of Directors and serves
as Marching Band Executive Chairman. Dr.
Good holds various memberships in national
and international organizations and is
active as a freelance musician and an
adjudicator throughout the United States,
Mexico, Caribbean, and Europe. |
