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Robert D. Jorgensen
rdj2@uakron.edu
Robert D. Jorgensen is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at The University of Akron (UA) of Akron, Ohio. He also serves as Assistant Director of the UA School of Music, which has nearly 400 majors and 32 full-time faculty in an array of undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
Under his direction, The University of Akron Symphonic Band has been invited to perform at seven conferences of the Ohio Music Education Association, the 1992 conference of the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) in East Lansing, Michigan, the 1998 CBDNA conference in Kansas City, Missouri, and the 2003 American Bandmasters Association convention at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. The Symphonic Band also performed at Severance Hall in Cleveland in April 2003. The University of Akron Symphonic Band will perform at the CBDNA Conference at the Cincinnati Conservatory/College of Music in February 2004.
Professor Jorgensen has been widely honored as a music educator and band conductor. He received the Outstanding Bandmasters Award from the International Assembly of the Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity at the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, Illinois, in 1999. He received the Citation of Excellence Award from the National Band Association in 1981 and the A. Frank Martin Award from Kappa Kappa Psi in 1992.
He was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association in 1991 and was recently elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors of this organization. He also is Past-President of the Mid-American Conference Band Directors Association.
A frequent clinician and adjudicator throughout the country, Professor Jorgensen has been invited to guest conduct numerous honor bands and music camps, including the International Music Camp and the Interlochen Arts Camp.
Professor Jorgensen holds professional memberships in the National Band Association (Board of Directors, 1982-84), College Band Directors National Association, Music Educators National Conference, Ohio Music Education Association, and Phi Beta Mu.
He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree from Michigan State University, where he was a student of Leonard Falcone. From 1969 to 1972, he was euphonium soloist with the United States Army Field Band in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining the music faculty at The University of Akron in 1987, Professor Jorgensen was on the faculty at Morehead State University, Kentucky, and was Director of Bands at Midwestern State University, Texas. His concert band in Texas performed for the Texas Music Educators Association convention and the Texas Bandmasters Association convention.
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