Everything Band Podcast

Just the fourth person to hold the position as conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Mark Scatterday joins the show to discuss that ensemble and his career, and to share advice about conducting and teaching. Topics: Mark's early years growing up as a musician and his path to becoming a music educator and conductor.  The importance of being prepared and how, as a high school band director in Ohio, a chance meeting with Donald Hunsberger changed his life and his career. A lengthy discussion of the program at Eastman including the challenge of programming up to 85 pieces of music every year. Practical tips for score study. Links: Mark Scatterday Eastman School of Music Husa: Music for Prague 1968 Biography: Mark Davis Scatterday is professor of conducting and chair of the Conducting and Ensembles Department at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. As only the fourth conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Scatterday joined a prestigious line of conductors – Donald Hunsberger, Clyde Roller,