Bill Wynn - Director of the Heritage Middle School Bands

Bill Wynn is the Director of Bands at Heritage Middle School and is the Assistant Director of Bands at Heritage High School. Since opening in 2005, Heritage Middle School has had its symphonic, jazz, and percussion ensembles earn superior and grand champion ratings throughout the Southeastern United States. Mr. Wynn began the band program at Heritage Middle School after four years at Tyner Academy in Chattanooga, TN.
Before moving to Chattanooga, Mr. Wynn was an active musician in the Chicago area, performing as a bass trombonist with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Elmhurst Symphony, the DuPage Symphony, the Southwest Suburban Symphony, and the Chicago Brass Choir and as a baritone vocalist with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, His Majesty’s Clerkes, and the Ravinia Festival Chorus. In Chicago Mr. Wynn also taught brass lessons, master classes, and music theory at the MERIT School of Music.
In addition to his responsibilities at Heritage, Mr. Wynn is currently the low brass instructor at Cadek Conservatory of Music (Chattanooga, TN) and performs with the Chattanooga Symphony, Enigma Tuba Quartet, and the Chattanooga Trombone Quartet. Mr. Wynn’s private brass students have been top All-State members in six states, principal players in the Chicago, Atlanta, Chattanooga, and St. Louis youth symphonies. Mr. Wynn holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and is currently studying for his Master of Music Degree in Conducting from the American Band College at Sam Houston State University. Mr Wynn has also completed 2 years of graduate study in Developmental Cognitive Psychology at the University of Chicago.
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Before moving to Chattanooga, Mr. Wynn was an active musician in the Chicago area, performing as a bass trombonist with the Ravinia Festival Orchestra, the Elmhurst Symphony, the DuPage Symphony, the Southwest Suburban Symphony, and the Chicago Brass Choir and as a baritone vocalist with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, His Majesty’s Clerkes, and the Ravinia Festival Chorus. In Chicago Mr. Wynn also taught brass lessons, master classes, and music theory at the MERIT School of Music.
In addition to his responsibilities at Heritage, Mr. Wynn is currently the low brass instructor at Cadek Conservatory of Music (Chattanooga, TN) and performs with the Chattanooga Symphony, Enigma Tuba Quartet, and the Chattanooga Trombone Quartet. Mr. Wynn’s private brass students have been top All-State members in six states, principal players in the Chicago, Atlanta, Chattanooga, and St. Louis youth symphonies. Mr. Wynn holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and is currently studying for his Master of Music Degree in Conducting from the American Band College at Sam Houston State University. Mr Wynn has also completed 2 years of graduate study in Developmental Cognitive Psychology at the University of Chicago.
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Blair Callaway - Director of the Heritage High School Bands

Blair Callaway is in his third year as director of the Heritage High School "Legion of Generals." Prior to Heritage High School, Blair was the band director at Gilmer High School in Ellijay, GA; Foley High School in Foley, AL; Alma Bryant High School in Irvington, AL; and Russellville High School in Russellville, AL.
Blair is a 1982 graduate of Ringgold High School. He received his Masters of Arts Degree from the University of North Alabama in Florence, AL and his Bachelors of Science Degree from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL. He has marched with the Guardsmen, Cavaliers and Suncoast Sound Drum and Bugle Corps.
Blair is a member of the Music Educators National Conference, Georgia Music Educators Association, American School Band Directors Association and the Epsilon Nu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He was the 2006 Foley High School Teacher of the Year. Blair is a church pianist and while in Alabama played trombone with the Baldwin Pops Community Band. He has judged and served as a clinician in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. His bands have performed in the Fiesta Bowl Parade, Blue Cross/Blue Shield National Band Championships, the Loyola University Invitational Concert Band Festival, the Boscov's Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Atlanta Festival of Trees Parade, and the GMAC Bowl Parade. His bands have also performed at a St. Louis Cardinal's baseball game, Walt Disney World, Epcot Center, and Universal Studios. Blair was elected Treasurer of the American School Band Directors Association at the 2008 National Convention in Milwaukee, WI and is in his third term as treasurer for the association.
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Blair is a 1982 graduate of Ringgold High School. He received his Masters of Arts Degree from the University of North Alabama in Florence, AL and his Bachelors of Science Degree from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL. He has marched with the Guardsmen, Cavaliers and Suncoast Sound Drum and Bugle Corps.
Blair is a member of the Music Educators National Conference, Georgia Music Educators Association, American School Band Directors Association and the Epsilon Nu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He was the 2006 Foley High School Teacher of the Year. Blair is a church pianist and while in Alabama played trombone with the Baldwin Pops Community Band. He has judged and served as a clinician in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana. His bands have performed in the Fiesta Bowl Parade, Blue Cross/Blue Shield National Band Championships, the Loyola University Invitational Concert Band Festival, the Boscov's Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Atlanta Festival of Trees Parade, and the GMAC Bowl Parade. His bands have also performed at a St. Louis Cardinal's baseball game, Walt Disney World, Epcot Center, and Universal Studios. Blair was elected Treasurer of the American School Band Directors Association at the 2008 National Convention in Milwaukee, WI and is in his third term as treasurer for the association.
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