Allan Goodwin

Allan F. Goodwin is the Associate Director of Bands and Director of Athletic Bands at Oklahoma State University. In these capacities, Professor Goodwin serves as the Director of the CowboyMarching Band, principal conductor of the Symphonic Band, and teaches courses in instrumental music education.

Prior to his appointment at Oklahoma State, Professor Goodwin served for 12 years as Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, and taught courses in advanced instrumental conducting, wind band administration and repertoire, and instrumental rehearsal techniques at Texas A&M University-Commerce.  The TAMUC “Pride” Marching Band, for which Goodwin served as director, program coordinator and arranger, was a regular invitee to exhibition performances at Bands of America and Texas UIL Area and State Marching Contest events, with performances including the Bands of America Grand National Championships.

At Texas A&M University–Commerce, Professor Goodwin also served as Director of the SummerMusic Camp Series, which collectively drew over 1,000 prospective students to campus each Summer. Goodwin also created and coordinated curriculum for the Marching Arts Director Symposium, a three-day workshop for high school band directors from around the country, which offered hands-on instructional sessions and masterclasses with industry leaders in the marching and pageantry arts.

Prior to his time in Commerce, Prof. Goodwin served for ten years as the charter Director of Bands at Sachse High School, a large 6A high school in the Garland Independent School District, in Northeast Dallas. In his fifteen years of public school teaching, Mr. Goodwin has also been part of the band staff at Naaman Forest High School and served as Supervisor of Instrumental Music and Director of Bands for the Ponca City Public School System, in North Central Oklahoma.

A native of Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Goodwin holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of North Texas College of Music and a Master of Music degree in Music Education and Conducting from the University of Tulsa’s Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences. While at TU, Mr. Goodwin served as a director, drill designer and arranger for the university’s “Sound of the Golden Hurricane” Marching Band, coordinator of athletic bands, conductor of the Concert Band and brass choir, and as an instructor in brass pedagogy. His principal teachers include Robert Winslow, Dennis Fisher, Gerald Siverson, Kenneth G. Grass and Wayne Downey. He has collaborated, hosted symposia and honor band events with conductors including Frederick Fennell, Ray Cramer, Gary Green, Alan McMurray, Craig Kirchhoff, Steven Davis, Kevin Sedatole, Emily Threinen, Paula Crider, Richard Floyd, and Jack Delaney (among others), and has collaborated with composers including, but not limited to, Michael Daugherty, James Syler, Steven Bryant, Paul Dooley, James Stephenson, Michael Markowski, Jim Bonney, Julie Giroux, Nathan Daughtrey, and John Mackey.

Professor Goodwin is active as an arranger, program coordinator, clinician, consultant, and adjudicator for marching bands throughout the Southwest, is in demand as a clinician with public school concert ensembles, and frequently serves as an honor band conductor and teacher staff development speaker. An alumnus of The Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps, he has also been an instructor and recruiter for the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, from Denver, Colorado, Black Gold Drum and Bugle Corps, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Capital Regiment, from Columbus, Ohio.

Mr. Goodwin holds a lifetime teaching certificate in the state of Texas, is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, The National Association for Music Education, The Oklahoma Music Educators Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma.