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Dr. Dwayne Wasson joins the Wheeler High School faculty as director of orchestras. He comes to Wheeler from Kent State University where he was Assistant Professor of instrumental music education. Prior to Kent State, he taught in Austin, Texas, where he was director of orchestras at Austin High School and served as coordinator of the Austin Youth Orchestra. From 1991-1999, he was orchestra director at the Academy for Academics and Arts in Huntsville, Ala. While in Huntsville, Wasson was assistant conductor of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra and was region chairperson and state secretary for the Alabama Orchestra Association. For the past four summers, he has been on the staff at the University of Richmond as orchestra director at the Virginia Governor’s School. Dr. Wasson received a bachelor
of music education degree from Tennessee Technological University in
Cookeville, Tennessee, and a master of music education degree from Belmont
University in Nashville, Tennessee. In May 2002, he completed his doctorate
in music education from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an
active clinician and adjudicator. Recently, he has presented workshops
that the Ohio Music Educators Convention and the national convention
of the American String Teachers Association. He received National Board
certification in 2003. |