About the Music Director
IWS Music Director Charles P. Conrad is a lifelong Indianapolis resident, having graduated from Arlington High School and attended the Indiana University School of Music, where he received a Bachelor's degree in Trumpet, studying with legendary trumpet professor William Adam. He earned a Master's degree in Conducting from Butler University and a Doctorate in Conducting from Ball State University, where his dissertation about Hoosier composer and conductor Fred Jewell was named Distinguished Dissertation by the BSU Alumni Association. Dr. Conrad has conducted ensembles in several states, Scotland, England, Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Italy, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Netherlands, and France. He has presented several papers about band history topics at international conferences in America and in Europe. He is the Music Director of the Indianapolis Youth Wind Ensemble and Choir Director of John Knox Presbyterian Church. He maintains a large private trumpet teaching studio and serves as a faculty artist and adjudicator for the National Trumpet Competition. He is an author, having co-written Circus Songs: An Annotated Anthology as well as numerous articles for scholarly and historical journals. He is married to Carmel High School Choral Director and soprano Ann Conrad in spite of the fact that he collects antique band instruments and photographs of bands. They are the proud parents of Molly, a golden retriever/basset hound mix.
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