Jeffrey Meyer
Asst Prof Music/Band
Curriculum Vitæ
Fine Arts & Communication
FAB 103 C-43
432 837-8018
jjm15or@sulross.edu
As a conductor and private teacher, I have taught students ages 8-80, from beginners to pre-professional. In addition, I teach courses in Music Education, Composition, Music Theory, Sight Singing and Ear Training, Orchestration, Conducting, Music Appreciation, and Music Technology. I am currently the Director of Bands and Brass Studies at Sul Ross State University in Alpine, Texas, and I have served on the faculties of El Paso Community College, The University of Guam, Highland (Kansas) Community College, and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Additionally, I have provided master classes at Wayland Baptist University, Angelo State University, West Texas A&M University, and I served on the faculty of the First Statewide Band Festival at the Cultural Institute in Tlaxcala City, Mexico. At Sul Ross, I conduct the concert and athletic bands, and I teach all brass instruments. In these courses, we study diverse literature from composers such as David Amram, Kent Kennan, Barbara York, Francis Poulenc, and Fisher Tull, to name a few.
I emphasize strategies for achieving successful performances that communicate and connect with audiences. Chamber music and collaboration is central to my work, and I strive to program literature that spans all the style periods, as well as the music of different ethnologies and national styles, including female and composers of color. We often discuss phrasing regarding formulating a breathing plan, and as such we inevitably study score reading and analysis. My students have gone on to become successful educators and performers, and enter robust graduate programs for Music.
What I love most about teaching is how I can continue to grow as a musician and artist, discovering more about how music works through continuous study. I do not take a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching, and I am always eager to try out new methodologies in classes and lessons, distilling them into my own practice. My aim as a teacher is to empower my students to make their own informed decisions about how to interpret and explicate music that is artful and entertaining, and to always feel that they can rise to meet any performing challenge.
Recently, I served as the conductor/clinician for the 2020 TMEA All-Region 6 Freshman Band in Midland, TX, and the 2019 ATSSB All-Region 22 High School Band in El Paso, TX. I was the tenured principal tubist of the Springfield (Missouri) Symphony Orchestra, and I have performed as a substitute tubist with the Mexico City Philharmonic, Xalapa Symphony Orchestra (Mexico), Chihuahua Philharmonic (Mexico), Juarez Symphony (Mexico), Roswell Symphony (New Mexico), Mansfield Symphony (Ohio), and the Fountain City Brass Band (Kansas), to name a few. I hold the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music, Master of Music from Kent State University, and Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music. I am also a composer and have had original works performed at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City, Casa Loma, in Toronto, Ontario, and the Atkinson Recital Hall in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Summer 2021
| MUS 1309 2W1 | American Music | | Student Evaluation |
Spring 2021
| MUS 1113 001 | Concert Band | |
| MUS 1113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1113 004 | Lobo Spirit Band | |
| MUS 1211 008 | Ind Instruction French Horn | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 2123 001 | Brass Techniques | |
| MUS 3113 001 | Concert Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 004 | Lobo Spirit Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 009 | Individual Instruction Trumpet | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 011 | Ind Instruction Euphonium | | Student Evaluation |
Fall 2020
| FA 1302 W01 | Music Appreciation | |
| MUS 1111 008 | Individual Instrct French Horn | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1111 009 | Individual Instruction Trumpet | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1111 010 | Individual Instructn Trombone | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1111 011 | Individual Instrctn Euphonium | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1111 012 | Individual Instruction Tuba | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1111 013 | Ind Instruction - Percussion | |
| MUS 1113 001 | Concert Band | |
| MUS 1113 002 | Lobo Spirit Band | |
| MUS 1113 003 | Brass Ensemble | |
| MUS 1211 008 | Individual Instruc French Horn | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 009 | Individual Instruction Trumpet | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 010 | Individual Instruct Trombone | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 011 | Individual Instruct Euphonium | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 012 | Individual Instruction Tuba | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 013 | Ind Instruction - Percussion | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3111 008 | Individual Instruc French Horn | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3111 009 | Individual Instruc Trumpet | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3111 010 | Individual Instruc Trombone | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3111 011 | Individual Instr Euphonium | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3111 012 | Individual Instruction Tuba | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 001 | Concert Band | |
| MUS 3113 002 | Lobo Spirit Band | |
| MUS 3113 003 | Brass Ensemble | |
| MUS 3211 008 | Individual Instruc French Hor | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 009 | Individual Instruct Trumpet | |
| MUS 3211 010 | Individual Instruc Trombone | N/A | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 011 | Individual Instr Euphonium | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 012 | Individual Instruction Tuba | N/A | Student Evaluation |
Summer II 2020
| FA 1302 SW1 | Music Appreciation | |
| MUS 1111 SW1 | Indivd. Instructn. French Horn | | Student Evaluation |
Spring 2020
No Student Evaluations due to COVID-19
| MUS 1113 001 | Concert Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1113 002 | Music Theatre Ensembl | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1113 004 | Lobo Spirit Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 008 | Ind Instruction: French Horn | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 010 | Ind Instruction: Trombone | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 011 | Ind Instruction: Euphonium | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 001 | Concert Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 004 | Lobo Spirit Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 009 | Ind Instruction: Trumpet | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 4216 001 | Arranging | | Student Evaluation |
Fall 2019
| MUS 1113 001 | Concert Band | |
| MUS 1113 002 | Lobo Athletic Band | |
| MUS 1113 003 | Brass Ensemble | |
| MUS 1211 008 | Ind Instruction: French Horn | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 010 | Ind Instruction: Trombone | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 2116 001 | Sight Sing Ear Train III | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 001 | Concert Band | |
| MUS 3113 002 | Lobo Athletic Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 009 | Ind Instruction: Trumpet | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3310 W01 | Electronic Music | | Student Evaluation |
Summer 2 2019
| FA 1302 SW1 | Music Appreciation | |
| MUS 3211 009 | Ind Instruction: Trumpet | | Student Evaluation |
Summer I 2019
| MUS 1113 001 | Concert Band |
Spring 2019
| MUS 1111 012 | Ind Instruction: Tuba | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1113 001 | Concert Band | |
| MUS 1113 002 | Theatre Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 1211 010 | Ind Instruction: Trombone | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 2123 001 | Brass Techniques | |
| MUS 3113 001 | Concert Band | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 002 | Theatre Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3113 003 | Brass Ensemble | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 009 | Ind Instruction: Trumpet | | Student Evaluation |
| MUS 3211 011 | Ind Instruction: Euphonium | | Student Evaluation |
