Dr. Evan Feldman is Director of Wind Studies and Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in conducting and music education. He also directs the Triangle Wind Ensemble and is an active guest conductor and adjudicator, with engagements in Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, and Tanzania, as well as all-state, all-district, and all-county honor bands throughout the United States. Under his direction, the UNC Wind Ensemble has twice been invited to perform at the College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference, and the Triangle Wind Ensemble has received two invitations to perform at the North Carolina Music Educators Conference. Dr. Feldman previously served as Principal Guest Conductor of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, where he led education, holiday, and pops concerts. He has conducted classical and pops concerts with the North Carolina Symphony, and frequently conducts the Chapel Hill Philharmonia Orchestra. Dr. Feldman’s college textbook, Instrumental Music Education (Routledge Publishing), is in its 4th edition and has been widely adopted by university music education programs. He authored the first MOOC (massive open online course) dedicated to conducting and rehearsal technique. Over 35,000 students have enrolled through Coursera.org. He is editor of the WASBE Journal (World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles) and the CBDNA Journal (College Band Directors National Association), both dedicated to research about wind music, its history, and its performance practice. His arrangements and editions of music by Léo Delibes, Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Enescu, Antonin Dvořák, Ariel Ramirez, and Sergei Prokofiev are published by Tierolff Muziekcentrale. Dr. Feldman previously taught at the College of William and Mary (VA) and Central College (IA). He earned the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied with Donald Hunsberger and Mendi Rodan and served as an assistant conductor for the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Eastman Wind Orchestra. He received his Masters in Conducting from Ithaca College and his Bachelor of Arts in Music from Duke University. He previously taught high school band in Hicksville, NY.