David Clemmer
Conductor, clinician & lecturer
An advocate for wind literature and ensemble pedagogy in music education, Dr. David Clemmer is active as a conductor, clinician, and lecturer across the US and in Europe. As a champion of music for the wind ensemble medium, Dr. Clemmer is also active in the commissioning of new works and recent collaborations have produced compositions by famed composers Joseph Schwantner, Frank Ticheli, Dana Wilson, and the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner in music, Zhou Long. Clemmer holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri — Kansas City, a Master of Music in Conducting from the University of Oklahoma, and Bachelor of Music Business and Music Education degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington.