RICHARD WYMAN

CONNECTING PEOPLE WITH MUSIC

Personal Profile

As professional conductor, concert host, producer, performer, and teaching artist, Dr. Richard Wyman connects people with music in creative and innovative ways. He developed, hosted, and/or conducted over 400 concerts as Assistant Director of the U.S. Coast Guard Band, including acclaimed “Young People’s Concerts” for 6000 students annually. He founded and oversaw interactive assembly programs presented in CT, reaching 50,000 elementary students since 2000, and  produced ten CG Band CDs and two White House “Pageant of Peace” PBS specials. In the 1990’s he worked at the forefront of the “teaching artist” movement, as his saxophone quartet developed large communities of music lovers in Moultrie, GA and Paintsville, KY, through year-long National Endowment for the Arts rural residency grants; resulting in a feature story on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, and four White House performance visits. Wyman has done extensive scholarly work on American composer John Adams, published in Volume 10 and 11 of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, and maintains memberships in the Conductors Guild, ACDA, WASBE, and CBDNA. He earned a DMA in Conducting from the University of Connecticut, MM from the University of Illinois, and BM from the Eastman School of Music. Primary conducting teachers have been Jeffrey Renshaw and Frank Battisti.