Mailing Address
School of Music
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, Texas 78666
Office: 512-245-2651
Fax: 512-245-8181
music@TxState.edu
Howard Hudiburg is Director of Orchestral Activities and Associate Professor at Texas State University-San Marcos. He conducts the symphony orchestra and teaches applied bass, instrumental conducting and string education classes, and supervises string education student teachers. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and Southwest Texas State University. Mr. Hudiburg studied post-graduate conducting with Victor Yampolsky, Kirk Trevor and Mariusz Smolij at Northwestern University, with Harold Faberman at the Conductors Institute, University of South Carolina at Columbia, and with Pierre Boulez at Carnegie Hall, New York City with the Cleveland Orchestra in residence. Under his direction, the Southwest Symphony Orchestra performed at the Texas Music Educator's Association/American String Teacher's Association Clinic/Convention in 1993. Under his leadership, the orchestra toured Europe in 1995, performing in Poland, the Czech Republic, and in Austria, and in May, 2000 in Scotland and England. Master classes and clinics include those given at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Texas Orchestra Director's Convention. Engagements as guest conductor include festival and collegiate orchestras in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Hong Kong, and in Singapore this coming May. As a double bassist and electric bassist, Mr. Hudiburg has performed across the United States and Europe. For nearly two decades, Professor Hudiburg has enjoyed working with music students and teachers from Texas high schools and junior high schools as clinician, guest conductor, and adjudicator. Mr. Hudiburg is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the Texas Music Educator's Association, the Texas Orchestra Director's Association, and the College Orchestra Director's Association. He is an ordained and licensed Minister of Music and resides in central Texas with his wife Marianne, and daughters Sarah and Edye.