Conductor/Director
Jim McGonigal, Music Director
 Jim is beginning his third season as our conductor and takes the podium after 20
years of previous conducting experience at both the high school and college level. The
majority of his teaching/conducting was in Florida with brief sojourns out of state to
Kansas and Ohio.
He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Florida State University and has completed all course work requirements for the Doctor of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Concert bands, marching bands and jazz ensembles under his direction were consistently rated among the best in the Southeastern United States and received numerous local and regional awards. Many of his former students have gone on to highly successful careers in teaching music and in professional performance.
Jim’s professional memberships have included The Florida Bandmaster’s Assn., The College Band Director’s National Assn., The National Band Assn. (charter member), as well as Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a men’s music fraternity and Kappa Kappa Psi (honorary member), a men’s band fraternity. He is also a member of the Association of Concert Bands (a national community band organization) and participates annually in the national convention concert band. Jim plays trombone with several local area big bands and also performs regularly with The New Presbyterian Church Brass Quintet and the Broward Brass.
Our conductor’s knowledge and expertise have launched our organization into a highly successful expansion effort which has greatly contributed to our group growing both in membership and in musicality!
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