User:Wayne F Pegram

WAYNE F. PEGRAM Dr. Wayne F. Pegram, is an Emeritus Music Professor from Tennessee Tech University. He is a Hall of Fame honoree from both the Tennessee Music Educator Association, and the Tennessee Bandmasters Association. He was also honored by Tennessee Collegiate M.E.N.C. for the twelve years that he served as State Advisor for them, and the Tennessee Tech Chapter of Collegiate M.E.N.C., honored him with a Commemorative Brick on the National Music Educator Association's Walk of Fame in Washington D.C...

Dr. Pegram’s forty five year teaching career has been devoted primarily to the state of Tennessee, beginning the summer of 1959. During his nine years as a school music director (in Loudon, Franklin, Knoxville, and Murfreesboro), all music ensembles were always rated Superior. While earning his Masters Degree he was the Visual Designer and Drill Instructor for the Pride of the Southland Band, at U.T. Knoxville, and served as director of the Varsity Band. While earning his Doctorate Degree at Northern Colorado University, he directed some Jazz Ensembles, ran the Electronic Music Lab, and taught Woodwinds. For twenty five years Dr. Pegram was primarily a Band Director. During the years that he served as Director of Bands at Tennessee Tech; their Marching, Jazz, and Concert Bands were invited to perform at all major regional and national high profile events. The Tech Symphony Bands and Wind Ensembles, under his direction were asked to record more than thirty albums for regional, national, and international distribution. He concluded his thirty five tenure at Tennessee Tech by serving as Professor of Music, and Coordinator of Music Education. Also during that time span he served as Coordinator for the Wind and Percussion Instrumental Auditions with the Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, and won the two year audition process for Music Director/Conductor of the Tech Community Symphony Orchestra. He founded the Tennessee Ambassadors of Music, and for fifteen years led thousands of student musicians and their teachers on seven country European Tours. He remains musically active writing for and singing Bass with Mastersingers, the community chorus for the Upper Cumberland, and St. Michael’s Episcopal Choir. He plays Tenor Saxophone, and Flute with his own Quartet, and is Music Director, and ride tenor for the Big Band Sound, a regional Dance Band. He is founder, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Cookeville Community Band. As a Professional Arranger and Composer he wrote functional music for his school groups beginning the first year that he taught, and now has more than sixty works published by Neil Kjos, C.L. Barnhouse, Hal Leonard, Ludwig, Warner Brothers, Belwin-Mills, and Parker Publishing Companies. He wrote his own Marching Band Series, Corps Impact, with Hal Leonard Publishing. He has just opened a new web based business called WPPublishing.net.