DR. JASON GARDNER
Associate Director of Bands
Director of the Marching Mountaineers
Assistant Professor of Music
Dr. Jason Gardner is the Associate Director of Bands in the Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University. He is the director of the 275 member Marching Mountaineers, conducts the Symphony Band, and teaches various music education courses.
Dr. Gardner brings fourteen years of public school teaching service and five years experience working with college bands to Appalachian State. He recently completed his Doctor of Musical Arts in music with a concentration in Wind Band Conducting and a Cognate in Horn Performance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at Illinois he served as a graduate teaching assistant with the University of Illinois Bands and was the recipient of the TJ Harris award for excellence in conducting.
While studying at the University of Illinois, Dr. Gardner served as an adjunct instructor at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL where he conducted the Symphonic Winds and was Music Director of the Indiana Youth Wind Symphony in Indianapolis, IN. During this time Dr. Gardner focused on introducing works composed by women and underrepresented minorities to his students at both UI and IWU.
In 2016 he received his Master of Music in Wind Conducting degree from Ball State University where he served as a graduate teaching assistant with the BSU Bands and received the Ball State Merit Fellowship Award. His primary conducting teachers are Dr. Stephen Peterson and Dr. Thomas Caneva. In 2000 he earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Taylor University in Upland, IN.
Office Location:
Room 103-B Broyhill Music Center
Phone Number:
828-262-6474
Email:
Courses Taught:
Marching Mountaineers
Appalachian Symphony Band
Marching Band Techniques
Band Techniques
Band Literature
Lab Band Teaching Seminar
Student Teaching Supervisor