Don Wilkinson teaches Oboe, Bassoon, Saxophone, Woodwind Methods and Music Appreciation. He also directs the Basketball Pep Band. Dr. Wilkinson's background includes fifteen years as an elementary, junior high, and high school band director in the public schools of California. While spending band director's hours at school, he remained an active performer, playing with the Fresno Opera Orchestra, several community orchestras, dance bands and show orchestras, in addition to solo and chamber music performances with his wife Judi Wilkinson.

His Doctorate, completed at the University of Arizona in 1984, is unique in that it was the University's first woodwind performance degree granted with all five woodwinds emphasized equally. Dr. Wilkinson taught woodwinds and jazz band at Hastings College in Nebraska, and Oboe, Saxophone and Jazz Band at Western Kentucky University. While in Kentucky, Dr. Wilkinson performed extensively on flute and oboe with the Claremoor Chamber Players, a group that became well known in the state. In El Paso, Dr. Wilkinson performs on oboe, bassoon and saxophone with the El Paso Opera Orchestra, Bruce Nehring Singers, Pro Musica and many other groups. Dr. Wilkinson is currently finishing a larger research project involving oral cavity acoustics and intuitive teaching techniques for wind instruments.