Everything Band Podcast

Tim Heath is the Director of Athletic Bands at Wake Forest University. Topics: Tim’s background growing up in Eastern North Carolina playing trumpet in the high school band and drum set on the side and how he ended up becoming a music teacher. Tim’s early teaching jobs, his decision to go back to school to earn a doctorate, and why that led him to teaching middle school for a year. Thoughts about how to communicate the value of the arts. Being a doctoral student at the University of Alabama and working with the Million Dollar Band. Moving from Samford University to Wake Forest University and what he’s learned as a college athletic band director that he would apply if he could go back to his days as a high school band director. Links: Wake Forest Athletic Bands Maslanka: Concerto for Clarinet and Band Biography: Dr. Tim Heath is the Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Teaching Professor at Wake Forest University. Prior to Wake Forest, he was the Director of Athletic Bands and Assistant Professor of Mu