UNF Wind Band Workshop

Meet Our Clinicians

• Dr. Devan Moore, Guest Clinician
  

  Dr. Devan L. Moore is the Assistant Director of Athletic Bands at Florida State University. She assists with all aspects of the athletic bands (Marching Chiefs and Seminole Sound), conducts the University Concert Band, and teaches various courses in music education. Prior to her appointment in the College of Music, she was the Assistant Director of Bands at Oklahoma State University.

  Dr. Moore, a native of Tallahassee, FL, attended Florida A&M University (FAMU) where she earned the Bachelor of Science in Music Education. She also earned the Master of Music Education and holds a Ph.D. in Music Education with an emphasis in Wind Band Conducting from Florida State University. Dr. Moore’s dissertation is titled, The Chocolate Maestra: A Narrative Inquiry into the Lived Experiences of Black Female Band Directors. Her conducting teachers and mentors include Prof. Richard Clary, Dr. Patrick Dunnigan, Dr. Alex Jimenez, Dr. Michael Hanawalt, Dr. Julian White, and Dr. Shelby Chipman.

  Dr. Moore has previously held positions as Director of Bands and Orchestra at Fairview Middle School (FL), Assistant Band Director at James S. Rickards High School (FL), Band Director at R. Frank Nims Middle School (FL), and Assistant Band Director at Mundy’s Mill High School (GA).

  Dr. Moore holds professional memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Educators, National Band Association, Florida Music Educators Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, a founding member of the Association of Black Women Band Directors, Tau Beta Sigma Honorary Band Sorority, and Kappa Kappa Psi Honorary Band Fraternity. She is active as an adjudicator and clinician, serving as a solo/ensemble adjudicator, concert band adjudicator, and clinician for district and state honor bands, as well as school ensembles.

• Dr. Erin Bodnar
  

  Dr. Erin Bodnar is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Bands at the University of North Florida where she conducts the Wind Symphony and Concert Band, instructs courses in conducting and coordinates the UNF Conducting Symposium. Under Dr. Bodnar’s baton, the UNF Wind Symphony performed at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Buñol, Spain in July 2019. The UNF NuMIX, co-directed by Dr. Bodnar and Dr. Venet, performed at the College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference in February, 2022. Prior to her appointment at UNF, Dr. Bodnar was Director of Bands at Graceland University for four years during which time the Symphonic Band performed at the Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference. During 2013-2014, Dr. Bodnar was the conductor of the Wind Symphony and Orchestra at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. Bodnar maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician, traveling to Argentina, Thailand, Indonesia, and throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Bodnar has contributed to A Composer's Insight: Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band, Volume 5, the GIA Teaching Music Through Performance Series for Volume 7 and the revised Volume 1. She excelled at teaching both middle and high school band in Alberta, Canada for which she received the Keith Mann Young Band Director’s Award and the Edwin Parr First Year Teacher Award. Dr. Bodnar has presented at conferences in Canada, the United States, Scotland, Thailand and Austria. Her research interests include conducting pedagogy and motor cognition, and her articles have been published in the Journal of Music Teacher Education and Music Perception. An avid runner and group fitness instructor, Dr. Bodnar has completed 55 marathons, including 6 Boston marathons, ten 50 km races and one 100 km race.

• Dr. Timothy Groulx
  

  Dr. Timothy J. Groulx is Associate Professor of Music Education (since 2014) and is the area coordinator and graduate program coordinator for music education. A native of Punta Gorda, Florida, he earned his Ph.D. in music education from the University of South Florida in 2010 where he was recipient of the Presidential Fellowship, and earned his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Teaching from Oberlin Conservatory in 1999. He is also active as a band adjudicator, guest conductor, and clinician. He has published research in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Journal of Band Research, Contributions to Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Music Education Research International, and Update!, and serves on the advisory committee for the International Journal of Music Education, Music Educators Journal, and Research Perspectives in Music Education. He has presented at research and in-service conferences throughout the United States as well as in Austria, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. His research interests include history and sociology of music education, particularly issues regarding race and school segregation, cultural representation in band literature, and has developed a method for instrumental music education that focuses on student creativity and expression prior to music reading. Dr. Groulx was a recipient of the UNF Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in fall, 2022.  

• Dr. Kristen Zelenak
  

  Dr. Kristen Zelenak is currently a Visiting Instructor at the University of North Florida. She teaches the UNF Concert Band, “Sound of the Sky” Osprey Pep Band, and applied conducting lessons for graduate and undergraduate students.

   Zelenak is an active educator, conductor, and chamber musician from New Baltimore, Michigan. She maintains an active schedule as a concert and marching band clinician and adjudicator. Along with her conducting endeavors, she also performs with her saxophone/piano duo, ZelenArch.

  Her favorite projects include commissioning new works from composers of “non classical” spheres. Her debut saxophone album Taking Flight is set to release this fall and it features composers Annie Booth, Ayn Inserto, Katelyn Vincent, Aida De Moya, Yoko Suzuki, and Sam Spear. As a continuation of the project, she is leading a consortium with Annie Booth for a new work for concert band in Spring 2025.

  Prior to her appointment at UNF, she was the Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Saxophone at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. She received her DMA in Saxophone Performance and MM in Wind Band Conducting from Arizona State University. Her MM in Saxophone Performance from Michigan State University and her BME at Central Michigan University. Her teachers include Jason Caslor, Christopher Creviston, Joseph Lulloff, and John Nichol. Prior to finishing her advanced degrees, she taught middle school band in Huntsville, TX.