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Dr. Brian Lamb
blamb@ucok.edu
Brian Lamb is the Director of Bands at the University of Central Oklahoma, where he conducts the Wind Symphony, teaches conducting and instrumental music education courses, and guides all aspects of the UCO band program. Lamb also serves as the conductor of the Oklahoma Youth Wind Symphony.
Dr. Lamb made his Carnegie Hall debut in May, 2005, performing with UCO friend and colleague Tess Remy-Schumacher in the Weill Recital Hall. In March, 2006, Lamb and the UCO Wind Symphony performed for a full house in the Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall. The UCO Wind Symphony, with Lamb as conductor, has garnered national attention and acclaim from audiences, composers, and critics alike for outstanding and creative performances and for playing an active role in commissioning projects and consortiums, including work with Carolyn Bremer, Richard Danielpour, and the National Wind Ensemble Consortium Group.
Lamb received the bachelor’s degree in music education from Baylor University, the master’s degree in trumpet performance and literature from the University of Notre Dame, and the doctor of musical arts degree in conducting from the University of North Texas. He has studied conducting with Eugene Corporon, Michael Haithcock, Larry Rachleff, Alan McMurray, and Jack Stamp. Prior to his UCO appointment, Dr. Lamb was the Director of Instrumental Studies at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri. Before beginning his doctoral study, he served as director of bands and chairman of the fine arts department at James Bowie High School in Arlington, Texas.
Still active as a trumpet performer, Dr. Lamb currently plays in the UCO Faculty Brass Quintet, and he has been a member of the Texas Wind Symphony, the Waco Symphony and the South Bend Symphony. Having taught in Texas, Missouri, Indiana, and now Oklahoma, Dr. Lamb is very active as a clinician and guest conductor all over the southwest, and his groups have received acclaim for performances at regional, state, and national conventions. He has contributed several published works to various journals and textbooks, and he is the author of “Music is Magic,” a children’s radio program airing on KCSC—90.1 FM. He is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society, the College Band Directors National Association, Oklahoma Music Educators Association, Oklahoma Bandmasters Association, Music Educators National Conference, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and he was recently honored as a Friend of the Arts by Sigma Alpha Iota.