Dr. Craig A. Fuchs Chair of the Department of Music and Wind Ensemble Conductor Associate Professor of Music Pittsburg State University Department of Music 1701 S. Broadway Pittsburg, KS 66762 620/235-4467 office phone 620/235-4468 fax cfuchs@pittstate.edu

Dr. Craig Fuchs is Chair of the Department of Music and Associate Professor of Music at Pittsburg State University. In addition, he also serves as Director of Bands, overseeing all activities in the band programs. His teaching responsibilities include conducting the Wind Ensemble, as well as teaching conducting and wind literature at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr. Fuchs holds degrees in music education from Missouri Western State College and the University of Missouri-Columbia. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music where his primary conducting mentor was Gary Hill. He has additional instruction through workshops with Jack Stamp, H. Robert Reynolds, and Anthony Meillo. Dr. Fuchs had ten years of teaching experience in the public schools of Kansas and Missouri prior to moving to the collegiate level.

Dr. Fuchs is active as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the Midwest. He has served on international adjudication panels in both Paris, France and Maastricht, The Netherlands. Fuchs is active as a performer on trumpet and was a member of the T.D. Pack Band, the official band of the Kansas City Chiefs, for 13 seasons. Dr. Fuchs holds memberships in MENC, KMEA, KBA, CBDNA, Kappa Kappa Psi, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society.

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