2 :30 PM - 3 :30 PM
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Room 109
Success In The Sight-Reading Room
This clinic will outline procedures and practices the director and band should have in place well before contest day. Additionally, a specific systematic approach for the band and director for contest day will be outlined. Mr. Haynes and Mr. Myers will also discuss proven strategies that lead to success for young band directors, as well as the seasoned.
Don Haynes
Don Haynes
Don Haynes has been the Director of Bands at LBJ High School in Austin for 29 years. He often serves as a region band conductor and clinician throughout Texas. He has given conducting work shops at the TBA Convention/Clinic, the Northwestern State University conductor's symposium, and several inservices for band and orchestra directors in Dallas, Corpus Christi, Austin, and Houston.
Don is often called upon to adjudicate UIL music contests and various festivals. In 1994, Don was awarded the UIL Frank Demus Award, as an outstanding band director and teacher in the state of Texas.
In 1998, he received the prestigious African-American Heritage Award by the Austin Public School District.
Don's second passion is officiating high school and college basketball. He has served on several officiating crews for Texas UIL regional basketball tournament championships. In 1996, 1997,1998, Haynes officiated the UIL Girls State 5A-UIL basketball championship tournament (Austin, Texas). Don has served two terms as president of the Austin Basketball Chapter.
Don Haynes is a native of Corpus Christi where he attended Del Mar College. He received his Bachelors and the Masters Degree in Conducting at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cody Myers
Cody Myers
Cody Myers has been the Director of Fine Arts in Amarillo ISD since July, 1997. On his watch the music program in Amarillo, Texas has flourished and its performing ensembles have continued their history of outstanding accomplishments. Prior to his appointment in Amarillo, Mr. Myers enjoyed a successful seventeen year band directing career in West Texas, most recently in Midland, Texas. His bands were consistent winners in UIL competitions and festivals for both concert and marching bands. Myers' bands have appeared in the Texas State Marching Contest, TMEA Honor Band semifinals for 3A and 5A, and the 1995 George W. Bush Gubernatorial Parade in Austin. Many of Myers' students have been named to the Texas All State Bands and have gone on to successful careers as both music faculty and professional musicians throughout the United States.
Mr. Myers attained both his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Education degrees from West Texas State University in Canyon, Texas where he was a trumpet student of Dave Ritter and a band student of his mentor, Dr. Gary Garner. He is an active clinician and adjudicator throughout Texas and the surrounding region. Cody Myers is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Past President of The Texas Music Administrators Conference, former board member of Phi Beta Mu, Alpha Chapter, and current board member of the Texas Bandmasters Association. Mr. Myers performs with the Amarillo Jazz Orchestra and the First Baptist Church Orchestra.
He is married to Starrla, a first grade teacher in Amarillo. Their daughter, Kaci, is a member of the United States Navy. Their son, Holt, serves in the United States Marine Corps.
