Allan Goodwin
Associate Director of Bands, Director of the "Pride” Marching Band

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Allan F. Goodwin is the Associate Director of Bands at A&M–Commerce. Professor Goodwin additionally serves as the Director of the “Pride” Marching Band, principal conductor of the Symphonic Band, and teaches courses in advanced instrumental conducting, wind band repertoire, administration and rehearsal techniques, and marching band methods. The “Pride” Marching Band is a regular invitee to exhibition performances at Bands of America and UIL Area and State Marching Contest events, with recent performances including the 2019 Bands of America Grand National Championships.

Mr. Goodwin is the Director of the A&M–Commerce Summer Music Camp Series, which collectively draws over 1,000 prospective students to campus each Summer. Mr. Goodwin is also the creator, director and curriculum coordinator of the Marching Arts Director Symposium, a three-day workshop for high school band directors nationwide, which offers hands-on instructional sessions and masterclasses with industry leaders in the marching and pageantry arts.

Prior to his time in Commerce, Mr. Goodwin served for ten years as the charter Director of Bands at Sachse High School, a large 6A high school in the Garland Independent School District in Northeast Dallas. In his fifteen years of public school teaching, Mr. Goodwin has also been part of the band staff at Naaman Forest High School and served as Supervisor of Instrumental Music and Director of Bands for the Ponca City Public School System in North Central Oklahoma.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Goodwin served as a director, drill designer and arranger for the University of Tulsa “Sound of the Golden Hurricane” Marching Band, coordinator of athletic bands, conductor of the Concert Band and brass choir, and as an instructor in brass pedagogy. His principal teachers include Robert Winslow, Dennis Fisher, Gerald Siverson, Ken Grass and Wayne Downey. He has hosted symposia and honor band events with conductors including Ray Cramer, Gary Green, Alan McMurray, Steven Davis, Kevin Sedatole, Paula Crider, Richard Floyd, Jack Delaney, and Matthew McInturf, among others.

Mr. Goodwin is active as an arranger, program coordinator, clinician, consultant, and adjudicator for marching bands throughout the Southwest, is in demand as a clinician with public school concert ensembles across the state, and frequently serves as an honor band conductor and teacher staff development speaker. An alumnus of The Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps, he has also been an instructor and recruiter for the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, from Denver, Colorado, Black Gold Drum and Bugle Corps, from Tulsa, Oklahoma and Capital Regiment, from Columbus, Ohio.

Educational Background

  • MME, Conducting, University of Tulsa – Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences School of Music, 1997
  • B.M., Music Education, University of North Texas – College of Music, 1993

Professional Memberships

  • MUS 310 – Music Education Technology
  • MUS 404 – Marching Band Technique
  • MUS 414 – Conducting II
  • MUS 419 – Wind Band Administration
  • MUS 420 – Wind Band Rehearsal Techniques
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