Dr. Mark Fonder will be in Bris­bane dur­ing May and June and will be avail­able for work­shops with school and com­munity ensembles. If you would like to book a ses­sion for your ensemble please con­tact the ABODA QLD sec­ret­ary, Alisa Jones, on 0412 016 509 to secure your place.

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Mark Fonder, pro­fessor of music, is the con­ductor of the Ithaca Col­lege Con­cert Band and has been teach­ing con­duct­ing and instru­mental music edu­ca­tion courses at Ithaca Col­lege since 1989. From 1994 to 2003, he was the Chair­man of the Music Edu­ca­tion Depart­ment. He is act­ive as a guest con­ductor, adju­dic­ator, school music con­sult­ant, and clini­cian and has served in these capa­cit­ies through­out the United States. Inter­na­tion­ally, he has guest con­duc­ted, given research present­a­tions or adju­dic­ated bands in Aus­tria, Japan, Canada, China, Singa­pore, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Fonder, a gradu­ate of and twice a fel­low­ship recip­i­ent at the Uni­ver­sity of Illinois, was dir­ector of bands at Park Falls (Wis­con­sin) High School and was on the fac­ulties of the Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Uni­ver­sity of Texas-San Ant­o­nio prior to com­ing to New York. He has also served on the fac­ulties of The Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton, Vander­Cook Col­lege and the East­man School of Music. Dr. Fonder’s research has been pub­lished in vari­ous journ­als includ­ing the Music Edu­cat­ors Journal, Band Dir­ect­ors Guide, Instru­ment­al­ist, Journal of Band Research, Coun­cil for Research in Music Edu­ca­tion and the Journal of Research in Music Edu­ca­tion. He was chair of the Music Edu­cat­ors Journal Edit­or­ial Com­mit­tee from 1998–2002 and is cur­rently the editor of the Journal of His­tor­ical Research in Music Edu­ca­tion.

Dr. Fonder has played prin­cipal trom­bone with the Green Bay (Wis­con­sin) Sym­phony, the Green Bay Packer Band, and the San Ant­o­nio Brass, and for such enter­tain­ers as Robert Goulet, Rich Little, and Rita Moreno. In 1987, Dr. Fonder was awar­ded the National Band Association-Wisconsin Chapter Cita­tion of Excel­lence, in 1998, the Ithaca Col­lege President’s Recog­ni­tion Award and has been the recip­i­ent of a Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin teach­ing fel­low­ship. He has been elec­ted to Phi Delta Kappa, an hon­or­ary edu­ca­tion fra­tern­ity, Phi Kappa Phi, an hon­or­ary schol­ars fra­tern­ity, Pi Kappa Lambda, an hon­or­ary music fra­tern­ity and the pres­ti­gi­ous Amer­ican Band­mas­ters Association.