Houston Symphonic Band's Leadership and Directors

 

Executive Board

Matt Glose – President

Joel Colvin - Vice President
Ann Gullion – Secretary
George Gehring – Treasurer

Lee Ann Lawrence - Member at Large

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Conductors

 

Jennifer Siler-Hunt - Music Director, Conductor

Mark Veenstra - Assistant Conductor

Fred Angerstein - Director Emeritus
 

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Jennifer Siler-Hunt – Music Director

 

Jennifer received her Bachelor's in Music Education from the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, where she was the Assistant Director of the UST Wind Ensemble, and her Masters in Education from Sam Houston State University. She began teaching band in 2010 at The Kinkaid School. She is currently the Band Director at The Village School in Houston. She has studied clarinet with Richard Nunemaker of the Houston Symphony, Tom Phillips of the Shreveport Symphony, and conducting with Fred Angerstein. 

 

Jennifer currently plays clarinet and conducts with the Houston Symphonic Band, and has performed on several international tours throughout Europe and Asia. She is the Contest Chair for the Houston Symphonic Band's Concert and Sightreading Contest, the former founder of The Jazz Reboot Project, and the former Houston Area Private Schools All-City Honor Band Coordinator, and ATSSB Region 23/27 Secretary. Her passions in music education are technology and globalization, her thesis on the Globalization of Performance Based Music Education was published by the Journal of Universality of Global Education Issues in 2017. She is an advocate for music education throughout Houston. 

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Fred Angerstein – Director Emeritus

 

Retired from 44 years of service as the Director of Band at the Kinkaid School, Mr. Angerstein's bands are award-winning ensembles that have toured the world, most notably – a two-week tour of China in the summer of 2004 at the invitation of the Chinese Government.

 

Mr. Angerstein studied at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Julliard School of Music and at the University of Houston, receiving Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Applied Music. His conducting teachers include Jorge Mester, Dennis Russell Davies, Leonard Bernstein, and A. Clyde Roller.

 

 

His past positions include student conductor of orchestras and opera at the Julliard School, assistant conductor of the New York Choral Society, conductor of the Rufino Opera Company of New York, assistant conductor of the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Opera Company, director of the Second Wind Ensemble at the University of Houston, assistant conductor of the Houston Civic Symphony, and clinician/conductor of various All-Region and All-State bands.

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