Alexander Busby is the Director of Bands at Columbus High School in Columbus, Texas. As a music educator he was named a quarterfinalist for the 2023 Grammy Music Educator award (selected as one of 207 out of over 1,500 submissions) and inducted into the 2023 Marquis Who's Who in America.  His article title “Project Grow Music” was published in Teaching Music, a publication by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). He been awarded multiple grants from “Grants for Great Ideas” and was recently awarded the 2022 Florida Music Educators Association(FMEA) Exemplary Model Project Award; a statewide recognition. Mr. Busby has also been published in Flute Talk and The Flute View. Prior to this position he was the Associate Band Director at Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida for two years.

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As a woodwind doubler and flutist he has performed across the southeast U.S. in recitals, chamber music events and with local symphony orchestras. He was the 2019 Overall Winner of the Demarre McGill Masterclass Competition at Charleston Southern University and finalist in the 2019-2020 Concerto Competition at East Carolina University. Mr. Busby has performed throughout the southeast U.S. and Texas, as well as in concert halls in Shanghai and Suzhou, China and Taipei, Taiwan.

 

Alex received the BM in Music Education from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the MM in Multiple Woodwind Performance (five woodwind track) from East Carolina University. During his time at East Carolina University he taught woodwind methods and applied flute and saxophone as part of his graduate teaching assistantship. For greater detail please see his complete biography. 

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