REYNOLDS CONDUCTING INSTITUTE CLINICIAN
Jamie L. Nix is Director of Wind Ensembles, Professor of Music, and holds The Hal J. Gibson Distinguished Chair in Conducting at Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. Nix, the first recipient of the Sam and Jacquie Rawls Distinguished Music Professorship at CSU, conducts the Schwob Wind Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, heads the graduate wind band conducting program, and hosts the annual Schwob Conductors Workshop. Previous posts include Associate Director of Bands and the Donald R. Shepherd Assistant Professor of Conducting at the University of Michigan, where he was director of the Michigan Marching Band, and Assistant Director of Bands at The University of Texas.
Under his direction, the Schwob Wind Ensemble performed at the 2015 CBDNA National Conference, the 2012 CBDNA Southern Division Conference, and the 2018 and 2012 GMEA State Conferences. Nix has led performances with the World Youth Wind Symphony at Interlochen, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, United States Army Field Band, and for several international events including the Alberta International Band Festival, International Double Reed Society Conference, International Trumpet Guild Conference, and the International Trombone Festival Conference. Nix has conducted All-State Bands in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Missouri, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia, as well as the Music for All Summer Symposium and numerous honor bands and orchestras in North America. Nix has been a conducting symposium clinician at LSU, Michigan State University, UMKC, University of Colorado-Boulder, and The University of Texas. As an orchestral conductor, he has led performances with the CSU Schwob Philharmonic, was music director of the Advanced Young Musicians String Orchestra in Coral Gables, FL, and in 2008 participated in the International Mahler/Brahms Conducting Festival with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic in the Czech Republic.
Nix, elected into the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 2016, holds a DMA degree in conducting from the University of Miami Frost School (Gary Green), two MM degrees, in trombone performance and conducting, from the University of Michigan (H. Robert Reynolds), and a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Auburn University. Nix is a conductor or producer on the following CDs: Vital Signs (George Curran, New York Philharmonic), Atlanta Chamber Winds, Psychedelia (James Markey, Boston Symphony bass trombone), A Beautiful Noise (featuring trombonists Joseph Alessi, Charles Vernon, Paul Pollard, and others), Wolf Rounds, The Blue Album, Brooklyn Bridge, The Victors Valiant, and the Schwob Wind Ensemble CD entitled Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs, released on the Summit Records label in 2017.