Alexander Busby is a music educator and woodwind doubler currently based out of Northwest Houston. In his current position as Assistant Director of Bands at Wayne C. Schultz JH, he teaches 6th - 8th grade band classes in a program with over 300+ students. Prior to this position he was Director of Bands in Columbus ISD (TX), and Associate Director of Bands at Oviedo HS (FL).

In 2022 Alex was awarded the Florida Music Educators Association Exemplary Model Project Award for a grant-funded project, and in 2023 was selected as a quarter finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award. As a woodwind specialist he has performed in recitals, chamber music events and with local symphony orchestras across the southeast U.S. and Texas, as well as in concert halls in Shanghai and Suzhou, China and Taipei, Taiwan. He has been published in Teaching Music, Flute Talk and The Flute View. Most recently he presented a clinic at the NCMEA professional conference in November of 2025.​

 

Alex received the B.M. in Music Education from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the M.M. in Multiple Woodwind Performance (five woodwind track) from East Carolina University. He has participated inadditional programs of study at the University of Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan), NYU Steinhardt, andthe Dalcroze School of Movement and Music. For greater detail please see his complete biography. 

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