O. Richard Bundy joined the University Park faculty in 1983. He is director of the Penn State Marching Blue Band. In addition, he teaches courses in conducting, marching band techniques, instrumental music education, and band literature.
An active guest conductor and adjudicator, Bundy has conducted ensembles and presented clinics throughout the eastern United States and Canada. He is a member of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), Music Educators National Conference, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He is a past president of the Eastern Division of CBDNA and Phi Beta Mu, Nu chapter.
He received his undergraduate degree in music education from Penn State and, after receiving a master's degree from The University of Michigan, returned to Penn State for his doctoral degree. Prior to his appointment to the faculty, he served as trombonist with the United States Continental Army Band and as band director/instrumental music instructor in the Iroquois School District, Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Gregory Drane, a native of Miami, Florida, earned bachelor’s degrees in music education and music performance (saxophone) at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach. Upon completion of a master’s degree in music education at Penn State, Drane joined the School of Music faculty as instructor and assistant director of Athletic Bands in 2005.
Drane works closely with all aspects of the Athletic Bands program, serving as assistant director of the Penn State Marching Blue Band and director of the Pride of the Lions (POTL) basketball pep bands. Drane is active as an arranger and drill designer. In addition to his duties with the Athletic Bands program, Drane assists with conducting non-major concert bands and is an instructor for music classes offered to non-majors for General Arts credit. Drane is a member of Phi Mu Alpha and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association.
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Dennis Glocke joined the faculty of the Penn State School of Music in 1996 when he was appointed director of concert bands. He has received degrees in conducting from Northwestern University, where he studied with John P. Paynter, and in music education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where his principal teachers were H. Robert Reynolds and Eugene Corporon. Prior to his appointment at Penn State, he served as associate director of bands at The University of Michigan, director of bands at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, and as a band director in the Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, public schools.
His extensive knowledge of conducting, repertoire, and rehearsal techniques for wind groups of all ages has brought Glocke invitations to appear as guest conductor and clinician throughout the country, including clinic sessions at the Wisconsin Music Educators Conference, the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association conducting symposium, The Conductor's Art conducting workshop at the University of Michigan, the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Band Association, and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Conference. Glocke has also conducted and taught at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay Summer Music Camp, the Michigan All-State Band program at Interlochen, the Point Music Camp of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater Summer Music Camp, and Summer Music at Penn State. His Penn State ensembles have performed at the Eastern Division Conference of the College Band Directors National Association and the Pennsylvania Music Educators State Conference.
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