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. He holds the degrees of Bachelor of Music Education from Northwestern University, Master of Music in Conducting from Northwestern University, and Master of Fine Arts in Clarinet Performance from SUNY-Purchase. Beyond conducting the Wind Symphony, Concert Band, String Ensemble, and Marching Band at NVOT, he acts as Producer and Conductor of the award-winning musical theater program. His ensembles have performed in music festivals and exchange concerts in eight states, two Canadian provinces, and the Bahamas.

    He 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, the Ridgewood Concert Band, the Greater New York Wind Symphony (formerly the Orange County Music Educators Wind Ensemble), the Adelphi Chamber Orchestra, the North Jersey Region I Junior Band, the 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. In 2008 he was named Conductor/Music Director of the Westchester Symphonic Winds, ensemble-in-residence of the Tarrytown Music Hall, Tarrytown, New York. In 2009 he appeared as guest conductor with the Boystown Symphony Orchestra in Busan, South Korea. As a clarinetist, he performs regularly as a chamber musician, band & orchestral player, and basset hornist.

    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. In July, 2009 Mr. Ebersole was awarded a scholarship to travel to South Korea as part of a cultural exchange program sponsored by Sejong Cultural Empowerment, Inc. He has been selected as a clinician for the 2009 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois.

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