Shannon Kitelinger
Lecturer of Music, Director of Bands
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MM, University of North Texas, Denton
BS, Music Education, cum laude, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
Shannon Kitelinger is newly-appointed Director of Bands at San Diego State University. Prior to his appointment at SDSU he served as a Doctoral Conducting Associate at the University of North Texas where he assisted in all aspects of the world-renowned Wind Studies program, including conducting all university bands, working with the athletic bands, and teaching conducting
Professor Kitelinger received a bachelor of science in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) and a master of music degree in conducting from the University of North Texas (UNT), where he studied with Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He is currently finishing his dissertation on Paul Fauchet’s Symphony in B-flat in fulfillment of the doctor of musical arts degree from the University of North Texas. His secondary courses of study during his graduate work were musicology and horn performance.
Prior to his graduate studies, Mr. Kitelinger taught public school in Western Pennsylvania at the high school, middle school, and elementary levels. His ensembles were consistently awarded superior ratings at adjudication festivals, as well as being chosen twice to perform at Disney Magic Music Days in Orlando, Florida. An active guest conductor, he has served as an adjudicator and clinician for marching and concert band festivals throughout the United States. His drill designs and music arrangements have been performed by marching bands throughout Western Pennsylvania, and from 1997-2005 he was the assistant director of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Drum Major Academy. While in Texas, he served as the first two-year assistant conductor for the Lone Star Wind Orchestra, a professional wind band based in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Mr. Kitelinger has been a recording production assistant for the critically-acclaimed GIA Windworks series, the Klavier Wind Project, the GIA Composer’s Collection, Naxos Wind Band Classics, and also the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. He is published in four volumes of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band as the author of six teacher’s resource guides of wind band repertoire for beginning and advanced levels. In addition, he has authored cd liner notes for the North Texas Wind Symphony compact discs Musings, Archetypes, Homage, Urban Dreams, Chronicles, Domains, and the Jack Stamp Composer’s Collection.
An honoree of Who’s Who Among American Teachers, Mr. Kitelinger holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, California Band Director’s Association, Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity.
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