Kevin Sedatole

Kevin Sedatole serves as Director of Bands, Professor of Music, and Chair of the conducting area at the Michigan State University College of Music. At MSU, Professor Sedatole serves as administrator of the entire band program totaling over 700 students, which includes the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Campus Bands, Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass. He also guides the graduate wind-conducting program in addition to conducting the MSU Wind Symphony.
Prior to joining MSU, he was director of bands and associate professor of conducting at Baylor University. Before his appointment at Baylor he served as associate director of bands at the University of Texas and director of the Longhorn Band, and as associate director of bands at the University of Michigan and Stephen F. Austin State University.

Sedatole has conducted performances for the College Band Directors National Association, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as performances in Carnegie Hall. He has conducted across the United States, Europe and Japan. The MSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Professor Sedatole, has given featured performances at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, the national convention of the College Band Directors’ National Association, the prestigious American Bandmasters Association convention, Mid-Europe Festival and Carnegie Hall. Performances conducted by Professor Sedatole have won accolades from prominent composers including John Corigliano, Zhou Tian, David Biedenbender, Robert Beaser, Kevin Puts, Michael Colgrass, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, Ricardo Lorenz, Michael Daugherty, John Mackey, Steven Bryant, Jonathan Newman, Carter Pann, Joel Puckett as well as many others. Most recently Professor Sedatole has taught courses and conducted in Germany at the Bundesakademie fur musikalische Trossingen and in Japan at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo.

Professor Sedatole served on the summer faculties the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp and the Interlochen Music Camp as well as serving on the Board of Directors of the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. He served in leadership positions for the College Band Directors Association and currently is an educational consultant for Perform America-Texas and master educator for Yamaha.

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Kevin Sedatole ist Direktor der Blasorchester, Professor für Musik und Leiter des Dirigierbereichs am College of Music der Michigan State University (MSU). Er beaufsichtigt das Blasorchesterprogramm mit über 700 Studierenden, darunter das Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Spartan Marching Band und Spartan Brass. Außerdem leitet er das Graduiertenprogramm für Blasorchester-Dirigieren und dirigiert das MSU Wind Symphony.
Vor seiner Tätigkeit an der MSU hatte Sedatole Positionen an der Baylor University, der University of Texas, der University of Michigan und der Stephen F. Austin State University inne. Er hat Aufführungen für renommierte Organisationen wie die College Band Directors National Association, die American Bandmasters Association und in der Carnegie Hall dirigiert. Sedatole leitete Konzerte in den USA, Europa und Japan und erhielt Anerkennung von namhaften Komponisten wie John Corigliano und Michael Colgrass.
Sedatole hat in Deutschland und Japan unterrichtet und war Mitglied der Fakultäten des Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp und des Interlochen Music Camp. Er ist zudem Berater für Perform America-Texas und Yamaha-Master-Educator.