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Matthew Roeder is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies + Enrollment Management and Summer Session Dean for the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music.听Additionally, Roeder is an Associate Professor of Conducting + Music Education teaching both graduate and undergraduate instrumental conducting courses. For 17 years prior to this administrative appointment, Roeder held the position of Associate Director of Bands +听Director of the CU Boulder Golden Buffalo Marching Band. Before arriving at CU Boulder in the fall of 2000, Roeder taught instrumental music as the Director of Bands + Performing Arts Department chairman at Parkville High School in Baltimore County, Maryland. In this capacity, he was recognized by the Maryland General Assembly for outstanding service and dedication to Parkville and the students in the Performing Arts Department.
As a clinician, adjudicator听and guest conductor, Roeder has developed an international and national presence with numerous professional appearances in Canada, France听and the United Arab Emirates as well as across the United States including as guest conductor of the New Jersey All State Symphonic Band in 2016. Roeder has been published as a contributing author in multiple volumes of the听Teaching Music Through Performance in Band听series available through GIA Publications.听He is a co-author in听The Journal of Research in Music Education, Volume 57, No. 4 and produced the CU Boulder Wind Symphony鈥檚 recording entitled 鈥淥f Love and Life.鈥� He remains an active member of the College Band Directors National Association, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, National Association for Music Education and Colorado Music Educators Association, and is a lifetime member of Phi Mu Alpha as well as an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi.
Roeder participated in the CU Boulder Excellence in Leadership program as well as the CU Boulder Faculty Leadership Institute. He has been honored twice with the Marinus Smith Award from the University of Colorado Parents Association and he received the Residence Life Academic Teaching Award for two consecutive years. Roeder鈥檚 work with composer Jake Runestad resulted in a wind band transcription of the choral piece 鈥淟et My Love Be Heard鈥� premiered by the CU Boulder Symphonic Band in February 2018. Additionally, Roeder鈥檚 own transcription of John Corigliano鈥檚 鈥淧romenade Overture鈥� was performed by the CU Boulder Wind Symphony in Boettcher Concert Hall as part of the CU at Boettcher concert in April 2018.
Roeder is Conductor Laureate of the Colorado Wind Ensemble, the only wind ensemble outside of academia in the Denver metropolitan area, for which he served as Conductor and Music Director over 10 seasons (2004-2014). Under his direction, the Colorado Wind Ensemble was proud to present the Opening Keynote Concert for the CMEA Clinic/Conference in January 2010.听As Music Director, Roeder led the initiative to institute the Colorado Wind Ensemble Commissioning Project resulting in published compositions by Michael Colgrass, Carter Pann听and Steven Bryant.
Roeder earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in instrumental conducting + literature from the University of Colorado听Boulder.听He received his Master of Music in music education with a conducting emphasis from the Peabody Conservatory of The Johns Hopkins University and his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.