NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds + Andrew McMahan, William Drury 

Guest conductor Andrew McMahan and William Drury, NEC's Conductor of Wind Ensembles, lead the NEC Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Winds in a program featuring Kurt Weill's Little Threepenny Music (Kleine Dreigroschenmusik), Husa's Smetana Fanfare, Omar Thomas' ('08 MM)&nbsp;Shenandoah, John Mackey's Aurora Awakes, and "Red Cape Tango" from Michael Daugherty's Metropolis Symphony. Andrew McMahan is the director of wind bands and associate professor of music at Lamar&nbsp;University. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conducting and music&nbsp;education and serves as the artistic director and conductor of the Wind Ensemble. He also&nbsp;oversees all ensembles under the purview of the Lamar University Wind Band Program,&nbsp;including the Jazz Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Pep Band and Marching Band. He also&nbsp;serves as the artistic and administrative director of the Lamar University Summer Band&nbsp;Camp as well as the founder and director of the annual Lamar University Honors Wind&nbsp;Symphony. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Prior to his appointment at Lamar University, McMahan served as the director of wind&nbsp;bands and associate professor at Cal Poly State University, a position he held from 2010-2017. He taught courses in music theory and conducting, as well as instrumental literature&nbsp;and rehearsal techniques. He also served as administrator, artistic director and conductor&nbsp;for the Wind Ensemble. During his tenure at Cal Poly, the Wind Ensemble&nbsp;performed&nbsp;internationally, including a 12-day performance tour of England, Ireland and Scotland in&nbsp;2013. McMahan and the Cal Poly Wind Ensemble also hosted the 82 nd annual American&nbsp;Bandmasters Association convention in 2016. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Before moving to California, McMahan served as the director and principal conductor of&nbsp;the University of Minnesota Campus Orchestra. Additionally, he often appeared as a guest&nbsp;conductor with the University of Minnesota Wind Ensemble, Symphonic and University&nbsp;Bands. He also served as the announcer and for the 320-member strong “Pride of&nbsp;Minnesota” Marching Band. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;McMahan spent four years as the director of instrumental studies and instructor of&nbsp;secondary music education at Simpson College, just outside of Des Moines, Iowa. He also&nbsp;served as the executive director and founder of the Simpson College Big Band Jazz Camp,&nbsp;a week-long festival of jazz studies held each June. A native of North Carolina, McMahan earned his Bachelor of Science in Music Education&nbsp;from Western Carolina University, Master of Music degree from the University of&nbsp;Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of&nbsp;Minnesota. He began his career as a high school music teacher in the suburbs of&nbsp;Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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