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.
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Recordings of the Westchester Symphonic Winds
are available
on their site.
Basset horn: Schubert Symphony No. 5 with the
International Clarinet Association Clarinet Choir (Harvey Herman,
conductor), July 2004.
Basset horn: Mendelssohn Konzertstück No. 2
with the Teaneck Summer Band (with Jeff Bittner, clarinet and Evan Cooper,
conductor), July 2003
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