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Dr. Evan Feldman is Associate Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Band and teaches courses in conducting and music education. He also directs the Triangle Wind Ensemble, Greensboro Concert Band, and Mallarme Youth Chamber Orchestra. He is an active guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. Dr. Feldman’s college textbook, Instrumental Music Education, is published by Routledge and has been adopted by university music education programs throughout the country. This Spring he launched the first MOOC (massive open online course) dedicated to conducting and rehearsal technique. Over 15,000 students enrolled through Coursera.org. He is also a contributing author to three volumes of the series A Composer’s Insight, including chapterson the wind music Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, David Bedford, and Adam Gorb. His writings have also been published in The Instrumentalist, the Iowa Bandmaster Journal, the MENC Music Educators Journal,and the IGEB Alta Musica. Dr. Feldman’s arrangements and editions of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Enescu, Antonin Dvořák, Ariel Ramirez, and Sergei Prokofiev are published by Tierolff Muziekcentrale, and his research on wind music has been presented at the national and international conferences of CBDNA (College Band Directors National Association), WASBE (World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles), and IGEB (International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music). Dr. Feldman earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Donald Hunsberger and Mendi Rodan and served as an assistant conductor for the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind Orchestra. A native of Long Island, Dr. Feldman previously taught at Central College (Pella, IA), the College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, VA), and high school music in Hicksville, NY (Nassau County).