In 2015 the Wind Ensemble performed in the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas and last fall the 60-member ensemble completed a three-day performance tour through Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee featuring music inspired by the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Knighten currently serves as president of the Southwestern Division of CBDNA. Since his appointment as director of bands the Wind Ensemble, a select group of the university's finest woodwind, brass, and percussion players, has been invited to perform at the 20 Southwestern Division conferences of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) in Fayetteville and Boulder, Colorado. In 2012, Knighten was promoted to director of bands and assumed oversight over all aspects of the band program including conducting the Wind Ensemble, leading the graduate instrumental conducting program, and teaching conducting as well as band literature courses. "It is a great honor to be elected to an organization committed to maintaining the tradition of excellence in band performance, research, and musical contributions to our culture," said Knighten. Some 300 conductors and composers throughout the United States and Canada are members. The organization honors outstanding achievement by invitation to membership and strives to enhance the concert band and its music by example and leadership. – Christopher Knighten, director of bands in the Department of Music, has been elected to the American Bandmasters Association. Christopher Knighten works with a University of Arkansas Conducting Symposium participantįAYETTEVILLE, Ark.
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