Meet our conductor Margie Landis Music Director and Conductor MMCB Home Page

Margery Landis has been directing bands in the mid-coast area for many years. From 1986-1995 she taught instrumental music in the elementary schools of SAD#75 and directed the Elementary School Honors Band. She has been Director of Bands at Mt. Ararat Middle School since 1995, where she leads the Concert and Jazz Bands. Her bands have performed in the Hall of Flags at the state capital in Augusta (1993), at Maine Music Educators Conferences (1995, 2003, and 2007), the Augusta Civic Center for the Maine Association of Middle Level Educators (2000), in Providence , Rhode Island, for the New England League of Middle Schools (2001), and annually along the shores of the Cathance River.

Ms. Landis is active as a horn player and teacher. She serves on the applied music faculty of Colby and Bates Colleges, plays Principal Horn in the Colby College Orchestra, and in the horn section of the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra. She has performed with the Scottsdale Baroque Orchestra, Phoenix College Community Symphony, Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Maine Chamber Ensemble, Utah Symphony, Spokane Symphony, Washington-Idaho Symphony, Northwest Wind Quintet, and Idaho Brass Quintet.

During the 2008/2009 school year Margery took a leave of absence from teaching and studied music therapy with Barbara Crowe and conducting with Wayne Bailey at Arizona State University in Tempe. Margery received a B.A. in Music History from the University of New Hampshire and a M.M. in Performance from the University of Idaho. Her primary teachers include Verne Windham of Spokane, and Mike Hatfield at the Aspen Music Festival.

 

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