William
Carson
Director
of Bands, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Business Manager, Municipal Band, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
 William
S. Carson is a 1978 honors graduate of Macalester College
in St. Paul, Minnesota where he completed an internship with
the Minnesota Opera and conducted the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
as a student in the ensemble's Young Conductors' Workshop.
Carson continued his studies at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
where he earned a master of Music degree in 1981. After graduation,
Carson directed the high school music program in Carbondale,
Illinois, where his students won the coveted Illinois High
School Music Association Music Sweepstakes Award in 1982.
Carson then served the public schools of West Lafayette, Indiana,
as high school band director and music coordinator before
moving to New Hampshire to become director of jazz studies
at Plymouth State College of the University System of New
Hampshire.
After four years in New Hampshire, Carson moved to Arizona
to pursue his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Arizona State
University Carson spent two years as a graduate assistant
for the ASU Bands and an intern with the orchestra before
he was appointed Director of Bands at Coe College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa.
At Coe Carson conducts the concert band and the jazz band;
teaches conducting, 20th century music history, clarinet,
and jazz history; and supervises the rest of the instrumental
music faculty. In addition to his work at Coe College, Carson
serves as Business Manager of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band.
Carson is an active member of the Music Educators National
Conference, the Iowa Bandmasters Association, the International
Association of Jazz Educators, and the Phi Kappa Phi National
Honor Fraternity.
Carson completed his doctorate in 1992, and two years later
was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Council
for Research in Music Education. The dissertation was also
selected as a runner-up for the Fritz Thelen Prize sponsored
by the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Forderung
des Blasmusik. Most recently Carson was honored by selection
for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in American Education.
Dr. Carson has extensive experience as a guest conductor,
including a recent performance with the United States Army
Field Band. Carson also represented the North Central division
of the College Band Directors National Association at the
CBDNA regional convention in Kansas City in February, 1998,
conducting an honor band of students from the small colleges
of the middle third of the country. Carson has recently been
named an Educational Clinician for United Musical Instruments.
Over the years, Carson's travels as a conductor, clinician,
and performer have taken him to thirty states and eleven foreign
countries.
Information provided by Jazz
Society of Eastern Iowa
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