Washington Wind Symphony

Edwin C. Powell maintains an active schedule as a clinician and adjudicator worldwide conducting groups from San Francisco, California to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a contributing author for the immensely popular sic volume text book series Teaching Music through Performance in Band, by GIA Publications and is published in the Journal of Band Research. Dr. Powell has also been active as a production assistant for the Klavier Wind Recording Project and recently served as the Associate Producer for the Albany Records recording of Bandanna, an Opera in Two Acts by Daron Aric Hagen.

Dr. Powell is the Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he is responsible for conducting the University Wind Ensemble and the Concert Band. Additionally, he teaches Conducting and Music Education courses. Dr. Powell comes to PLU via the University of Tennessee where he was Assistant Director of Bands responsible for the Symphonic Band, the 350 member Pride of the Southland Marching Band, conducting courses and music education methods courses.

Dr. Powell has earned degrees from the University of the Pacific, the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and The University of North Texas where he completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting. At North Texas, Dr. Powell was a Graduate Teaching Fellow studying conducting with Eugene Migliaro Corporon while responsible for teaching conducting courses, Chamber Winds and the North Texas Concert Band. While in Cincinnati he served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant studying Music Education with Dr. Lizabeth Wing while responsible for teaching a variety of courses from Instrumental Methods to Music in Childhood Education. Dr. Powell maintains active memberships in the College Band Director National Association, the Conductors Guild, Music Educators National Conference, Washington Music Educators Association and Pi Kappa Lambda.