Curt Ebersole
Director of
Instrumental Music

Curt Ebersole has taught and administered the instrumental music program at Northern Valley Regional High School at Old Tappan since 1982, where he conducts the Wind Symphony, Concert Band, String Ensemble, and Marching Band, and acts as Producer/Conductor of the award-winning musical theater program. His ensembles have earned top ratings in music festivals and exchange concerts in eight states, two Canadian provinces, and the Bahamas, and his instrumental Prism Concerts have become a local rite of spring over the past 20 years. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree and a Master of Music in Conducting degree from Northwestern University, where he studied conducting with John P. Paynter and clarinet with Larry Combs, and a Master of Fine Arts in Clarinet Performance from SUNY-Purchase, where he studied with Ben Armato.

            Mr. Ebersole has served as a guest conductor and clini­cian for many honor bands and adult community ensembles in New Jersey, New York, and Maine, including the Bergen, Rockland, and Orange All-County Bands, Ridgewood Concert Band, Orange County Music Educators Wind Ensemble, Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, New England Music Camp, New York State Area All-State Band, North Jersey Region I Junior Band (50th Anniversary Conductor), North Jersey Region I Symphonic Band, and as rehearsal conductor for the North Jersey Region I Wind Ensemble. He is the founder and coordinator of the Music Educators of Bergen County Wind Conducting Symposium, and he appeared as a clinician at the 2009 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois. In July, 2009 he appeared as guest con­ductor with the Boystown Symphony Orchestra in Busan, South Korea, as part of a cultural exchange program sponsored by Sejong Cultural Empowerment, Inc. As a clarinetist, he per­forms regularly as a chamber musician, band & orchestral player, and basset hornist.

            He is currently the Conductor/Music Director of the Westchester Symphonic Winds, ensemble-in-residence at the Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, New York, where he conducts four concerts annually. He led the ensemble in their Lincoln Center debut on March 2010 in Avery Fisher Hall.

            Mr. Ebersole was selected as the Northern Valley District Teacher of the Year in 1994 and the Bergen County Teacher of the Year in 1995. The Mayor and Council of Old Tappan honored him for twenty years of service to the community in 2002. The New Jersey Music Educators Association chose him as the recipient of the 2003 New Jersey Master Music Teacher Award, and he received a Governor’s Award in Arts Education in May, 2003. In 2009 he was the Northern Valley-Old Tappan recipient of the New Jersey Governor’s Teacher Recognition Award. Yale University will present him with their Distinguished Music Educator Award on June 10.

            His professional memberships include MENC: the National Association for Music Education, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Band Association, the International Clarinet Association, and Pi Kappa Lambda. He has served in various capacities for the Music Educators of Bergen County, the North Jersey School Music Association, the North Jersey Band Festival, and the New Jersey Music Educators Association.

            Mr. Ebersole is a resident of White Plains, New York, and in his spare time he enjoys photography, cycling, downhill skiing, and riding America’s fastest and tallest roller coasters.