Alexander Busby is currently the Director of Bands at Columbus High School in Columbus, Texas. Most recently he was named a quarterfinalist for the 2023 Grammy Music Educator award (selected as one of 207 out of over 1,500 submissions) and added to the 2023 Marquis Who's Who in America. In August of 2022 his article on “Project Grow Music” was published in Teaching Music, a publication by the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Mr. Busby and “Project Grow Music” received the 2022 FMEA Exemplary Model Project Award at the 2022 Florida Music Educators Association Professional Development conference in Tampa Bay, FL. Prior to this position he was the Associate Band Director at Oviedo High School in Oviedo, Florida for two years.

 

During his time at Oviedo High School he was named Teacher of the Week, was awarded multiple grants from The Foundation at SCPS, Grants for Great Ideas, worked to restructure the band program by adding a third large performing ensemble and was part of the 2021-2021 OHS Leadership Academy Cohort. Mr. Busby directed the Director of the Symphonic and Concert Bands, taught Group Keyboard/Music History and assisted with all aspects of the competitive 5A Marching Lions and concert band program. During his time at OHS the marching band competed in marching band festivals, MPA, Bands of America regionals and Florida Marching Band Championships.

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Prior to his appointment at OHS, Mr. Busby taught woodwind methods and applied flute and saxophone as part of his graduate teaching assistantship at East Carolina University. Mr. Busby has been published in the national professional instrumental magazines Flute Talk  and The Flute View. As a national and international performer, he has performed throughout the states of Texas, Florida, and North Carolina as a freelance musician, as well as in concert halls in Shanghai and Suzhou, China and Taipei, Taiwan. Mr. Busby has participated in extended programs of study at the University of Taipei (Taiwan), New York University Steinhardt School of Music, and the Dalcroze School of Music and Movement. 

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Mr. Busby received the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education, magna cum laude, from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor and the Master of Music degree is Multiple Woodwind Performance from East Carolina University. Mr. Busby has studied all five woodwind instruments during and after his formal education. His principal teachers were Dr. Christine Gustafson (flute), Prof. Sheryl Goodnight (flute), Prof. Bo Newsome (oboe), Prof. Christopher Ulffers (bassoon), Dr. Douglas Moore-Monroe (clarinet) and Dr. Jeffrey Bair (saxophone). 

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Alexander Busby 是德克薩斯州哥倫布市哥倫布高中即將上任的樂隊總監。最近，他被提名為 2023 年格萊美音樂教育家獎的四分之一決賽選手（在 1,500 多份參賽作品中被選為 207 人之一）。今年 8 月，他關於“Project Grow Music”的文章將發表在美國音樂教育協會 (NAfME) 的出版物《音樂教學》上。 Busby 先生和“Project Grow Music”在佛羅里達州坦帕灣舉行的 2022 年佛羅里達音樂教育工作者協會專業發展會議上獲得了 2022 年 FMEA 模範項目獎。在擔任此職位之前，他曾在佛羅里達州奧維耶多的奧維耶多高中擔任樂隊副總監兩年。

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在奧維耶多高中期間，他被評為本週教師，獲得了 SCPS 基金會的多項資助，即“偉大創意資助”，通過增加第三個大型表演樂團來重組樂隊計劃，並且是 2021- 的一部分2021 年 OHS 領導學院隊列。 Busby 先生指導交響樂團和音樂會樂隊的總監，教授團體鍵盤/音樂史，並協助參與競爭性 5A 行進獅和音樂會樂隊計劃的各個方面。在 OHS 期間，軍樂隊參加了軍樂隊音樂節、MPA、美國樂隊地區和佛羅里達軍樂隊錦標賽。 ​​​​

 

在 OHS 任職之前，Busby 先生在東卡羅來納大學擔任研究生助教期間教授木管樂器並應用長笛和薩克斯管。巴斯比先生曾在國家專業器樂雜誌 Flute Talk 和 The Flute View 發表文章。作為一名國內和國際表演者，他以自由音樂家的身份在德克薩斯州和北卡羅來納州各地演出，並在上海、中國蘇州和台灣台北的音樂廳演出。 Busby 先生曾參加台北大學（台灣）和紐約大學斯坦哈特音樂學院的擴展學習項目。

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Busby 先生以優異的成績獲得 Mary Hardin-Baylor 大學的音樂教育音樂學士學位和東卡羅來納大學的多重木管樂器演奏碩士學位。 Busby 先生在接受正規教育期間和之後學習了所有五種木管樂器。他的主要老師是 Christine Gustafson 博士（長笛）、Sheryl Goodnight 教授（長笛）、Bo Newsome 教授（雙簧管）、Christopher Ulfers 教授（巴鬆管）、Douglas Moore-Monroe 博士（單簧管）和 Jeffrey Bair 博士（薩克斯管）。