Dr. Christy Banks (left) and Jessica Lindsey (right) work with clarinet students at a master class during the Millersville Single Reed Symposium in Millersville Pennsylvania.
Dr. Christy Banks and Jessica Lindsey perform a duet at the Millersville Single Reed Symposium.
Dr. Christy Banks, guest artist, serves as Assistant Chair of the Music Department at Millersville University of Pennsylvania where she teaches clarinet and saxophone as well as curricular offerings in the Music Business and Technologies program.
Dr. Banks has performed with many professional ensembles such as the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra, the Nebraska Symphony Chamber Orchestra, the Third Chair Chamber Players, the Lincoln Municipal Band, the Huntington Trio, Harrisburg Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, and the Reading Symphony. She is the Pennsylvania state chair of the International Clarinet Association and the founder of the Millersville University Single Reed Symposium.
Dr. Jay W. Gilbert, guest clinician, is Director of Bands and Chair of the Music Department at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska. He conducts the Concert Band and oversees all aspects of the instrumental music education program. He holds degrees in music education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Masters and Doctoral degrees in conducting from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois where he studied with the renowned conductor and arranger John P. Paynter, and the outstanding orchestral conductor Victor Yampolski.