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carnochan@mail.utexas.edu

Dr. Robert Carnochan is the Director of the Longhorn Band, Associate Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. His responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of the 380-member Longhorn Band, conducting the UT Wind Symphony, and teaching undergraduate and graduate conducting. Prior to his appointment at UT, he served as Associate Director of Bands at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Director of Bands at Northeastern Oklahoma State University, and Associate Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. Dr. Carnochan began his professional teaching career as Director of Bands at Dundalk High School in Baltimore, Maryland.

Dr. Carnochan has collaborated with and received praise from a number of composers including John Corigliano, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, Gunther Schuller, Frank Ticheli, and Dan Welcher. He is active as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator throughout the United States and maintains memberships in the Conductors Guild, the College Band Directors National Association, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the Texas Bandmasters Association. In 2007 Dr. Carnochan was inducted into the Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Mu an international honorary bandmasters fraternity as well as awarded the UT DADs Association Centennial Professorship.

Dr. Carnochan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education from Towson University, a Master of Music degree in Wind Conducting from The University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin. His primary conducting teachers have been Jerry Junkin., Allan McMurray, and Dana Rothlisberger.