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Dr. Angela Schroeder, Conductor
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A native of Calgary, Dr Angela Schroeder completed undergraduate studies in Music at University of Calgary, majoring in Secondary Education, with performance studies in piano and trumpet. She also completed the Diploma of Fine Arts in Wind Band Conducting at University of Calgary under the supervision of Glenn Price. After 3 years of teaching at various secondary schools in the Calgary area, Angela Schroeder entered the Master's program in Wind Band Conducting at Northwestern University, completing her studies there in 2004 with Mallory Thompson. She has recently completed her thesis requirements for the D.M.A. in Wind Band Conducting at the University of North Texas, under the supervision of Eugene Corporon.

Dr Schroeder is currently Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Music of the University of Alberta. She is the Director of Bands, the area coordinator for the Winds and Percussion, and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and the Orchestral Winds and Percussion. She teaches courses in conducting and wind band education, and works with Graduate students in Wind Band conducting. She previously taught conducting at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

Angela Schroeder is well known in the Alberta music education community, not only through her teaching and conducting both in schools and in community music organizations, but through her involvement as an executive director of the Alberta Band Association for several years. Angela performs on cornet and trumpet with the Mill Creek Colliery Band and the Concordia University Orchestra, and has guest conducted and adjudicated numerous school bands in festivals and clinics throughout Western Canada. She is a contributor in three volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series, which profile wind literature for all levels of instrumental instruction, published by GIA.