![]() ![]() During the 2005-06 school year, Craig served as assistant director of bands at Washington Community High School. His students regularly attend the IMEA district and state festivals in the orchestral, jazz, and band divisions. Craig also maintains an extensive private brass studio, teaching trumpet, French horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba lessons to students of all ages. He has taught competitive marching brass and arranged for Morton High School, who have been named the 2005 through 2017 class 2A Illinois State Champions. Craig marched with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps baritone line in 1998 and worked with the Cavaliers brass staff in 2001. Additionally, Craig has served as a marching band adjudicator throughout the Midwest. His clients are regular State Class Champions, Band of America (BOA) Super Regional Finalists, BOA Grand National Semi-Finalists, and BOA Super Regional Class Champions. Since 2001, Craig has arranged music and written drill for competitive high school marching bands across the country. Craig is also a published composer with Alfred, TRN, and FJH Music Publishers. His compositions for band, orchestra, choir, soloists, and small ensembles have been performed across the country. Craig has been commissioned to write concert band literature for Jr. His work “Moon Shadows” was also a finalist 2018. In 2014, Craig’s commission “A Light Still Remains” was a finalist in the National Band Association’s Merrill Jones Composition Contest for Concert Band. Craig was also a finalist in the 2nd International Frank Ticheli Composition Contest with his work “Re-Connected” for wind ensemble. In 2005, he was chosen as a participant in the National Band Association’s Young Composer Mentor Project sponsored Bands of America. Craig was also a finalist in the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards in 20. In 2001, Craig won the Creative Division of the Bradley University Research and Creative Achievement Exhibition with Subliminal Designs, a composition designed using music notation through alternative visual representations. Since then Craig has had the opportunity to work closely with Jack Stamp, David Maslanka, and David Holsinger. While there, he studied composition under Stephen Taylor and Rick Taube and also served as a teaching assistant, instructing undergraduate theory and ear-training courses. He obtained his Masters in Music Composition in 2003 from the University of Illinois in Champaign. Craig Fitzpatrick holds a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, where he studied composition with Stephen Heinemann. ![]()
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