Boise State Bands is pleased to host the 2025 edition of its Wind Band Clinic on February 6-7, 2025.
Our Wind Band Clinic provides an environment for you and your students to perform in our world-class Morrison Center Main Hall for a supportive community audience and nationally recognized wind band clinicians. A fully detailed schedule of events will be included with a post-registration informational packet.
Benefits include:
- Performance in the renowned Morrison Center Main Hall
- Two separate clinics by nationally recognized wind band experts
- Recorded comments and feedback from Boise State wind band faculty
- Director and Clinician luncheon
- Boise State Symphonic Winds open rehearsal
- Boise State Applied Faculty performances
- Boise State student Q&A
- Quality performance recordings
Application and Fees
- Participating ensembles will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis until the slots for both days are full.
- This will all be provided for $350. If you are interested in bringing a second band, the fee will be discounted to $150 for the second group.
- Checks are due by January 24, 2025, and should be made payable to Boise State University Department of Music. Invoices will also be sent to the director’s email listed in the registration form.
- Registration for priority scheduling is due by December 5, 2024
Guest Clinicians
Dr. Richard Mark Heidel
Richard Mark Heidel is Director of Bands and Professor of Music in the School of Music at the University of Iowa, where he conducts the Iowa Symphony Band, teaches graduate courses in conducting and wind literature, guides the graduate wind conducting program, and oversees all aspects of the University of Iowa band program.
Ensembles under Dr. Heidel’s direction have performed at national, regional, and state conferences, including those of the American Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Iowa Bandmasters Association, Wisconsin Music Educators Association, Illinois Music Educators Association, and National Band Association-Wisconsin Chapter. He has also led multiple concert tours to the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as throughout the Midwest and East Coast.
A native of Texas, Heidel holds a Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Music in Conducting from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, as well as a Doctor of Education in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His principal teachers include James F. Keene, James Sudduth, Gary Smith, Keith Bearden, Donald Schleicher, John Grashel, Eunice Boardman, Richard Tolley, and Michael Ewald. Prior to his appointment to the University of Iowa faculty in 2008, Dr. Heidel served as Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, and as a teaching assistant in the School of Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to his university teaching experiences, Heidel taught in Texas for nine years, serving as Director of Bands at Muleshoe High School, Levelland High School, and Monterey High School in Lubbock.
Dr. Heidel has presented clinics and workshops at state music conferences and universities in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, and he has appeared as guest conductor and clinician in more than 35 states, Washington, D.C., and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, with additional engagements in Ireland, Vietnam, and Austria.
Dr. Heidel has held leadership positions within numerous professional organizations, including the National Band Association, American Bandmasters Association, College Band Directors National Association, and Big Ten Band Directors Association. His list of more than 30 publications includes articles in the National Band Association Journal, Teaching Music, Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, and Iowa Music Educator.