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2007 Guest Conductor – Frank Wickes
Frank Wickes has served as Director of Bands at Louisiana State University since 1980. Wicks holds the rank of full professor in the College of Music and Dramatic Arts. Receiving degrees from the University of Delaware and the University of Michigan.
In 1999 Wickes was honored at LSU with an endowed Alumni Professorship, and in 2000 received special recognition from the Chancellor for twenty years of distinguished dedication to LSU and his profession. In April of 1994 he was featured in the cover story of the Instrumentalist Magazine. Additional honors include the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal in 1996, the Phi Beta Mu National Bandmaster of the Year in 1998, the Presidency of the National Band Association (1988-1990), The Southern Division Presidency of the College Band Directors National Association (1988-1990), and the Presidency of the American Bandmasters Association (1997-1998).
At LSU, Wickes conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in graduate wind conducting and wind literature, and serves as Director of the Tiger Marching Band. In 1997 the Tiger Band was unanimously named the outstanding marching band of the SEC in a poll taken of the SEC Directors by the Northwest Arkansas Times Newspaper of Fayetteville, Arkansas; and in 2002 the LSU Tiger Band received the Sudler Trophy for a distinguished history of marching and performance excellence.
Wickes is in constant demand as a clinician having served in that capacity throughout the United States, as well as in England, South America, Mexico, and Canada. He has conducted 30 All-State bands and has appeared several times at the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan.
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