[Dr. Eric L. Hinton;
Conducting the Wind Orchestra, Eric
L. Hinton, Cambria Press (2008)]
Eric
L. Hinton, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Music/Director of Bands
at Susquehanna University. He has made a specialty of conducting
wind bands for youth, and has authored a book, Conducting the Wind
Orchestra: Meaning, Gesture and Expressive Potential, published by Cambria Press (2008).
In the current issue
of Symphony E-Notes,
the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra makes an announcement about Eric
L. Hinton, Interim Conductor of the Williamsport Symphony Youth
Orchestra (WSYO):
“As
the season ended for the WSYO, so did Dr.
Eric Hinton's
year as interim conductor. As he becomes more active as a guest
conductor for festivals regionally and nationally, the demands on his
time have simply become too diverse for him to continue as the WSYO's
conductor. We say thank you to Dr. Hinton for stepping in this season
and for his excellent work with the WSYO musicians.”
On November 10, 2011
Susquehanna University published:
Eric Hinton,
assistant professor of music and director of bands at Susquehanna
University,has been named conductor of the Williamsport Symphony
Youth Orchestra (WSYO), an outreach program of the Williamsport
Symphony. The Youth Orchestra is composed of high school students
from Williamsport and surrounding areas.
At Susquehanna,
Hinton conducts the symphonic wind ensemble, symphonic band and
stadium band. He teaches trumpet and conducting, as well as courses
in brass instrument pedagogy and the history of literature of the
wind orchestra. He is also director of the Susquehanna University
High School Wind Ensemble Institute, which brings more than 50
talented wind and percussion students to campus each summer for an
intense week of chamber music and wind ensemble performance.
“I’m
very excited about this new association [with the WSYO], not only
because it brings me back to orchestral conducting—something that I
did a great deal of in Great Britain—but also because I’m working
with talented, motivated high school students. This is something that
I enjoy very much,” Hinton said.
Hinton received his
doctorate degree from the Birmingham Conservatoire in England, where
he conducted the Junior School Symphony Orchestra and Wind Orchestra.
He served as a member of the board of trustees and education adviser
to the Aston Performing Arts Academy, an organization that works in
partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to bring
instrumental music instruction to African-Caribbean students in
deprived areas of Birmingham. He has also conducted the Hertfordshire
and Cambridgeshire youth wind orchestras.
Hinton has conducted
at numerous all-state, region, district and county band festivals in
Pennsylvania and New York, and conducts the symphonic band at the New
England Music Camp in Sidney, Maine. His university ensembles have
been invited to perform at the Music Educators National Conference
and the College Band Directors National Association, among other
professional conferences. His first book, “Conducting the Wind
Orchestra: Meaning, Gesture and Expressive Potential,” was
published in December 2008 by Cambria Press.
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