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University of Wisconsin Whitewater
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Todd Fiegel has guest conducted throughout the United States and Canada, as well as in Europe and Japan. Though he now makes his home in Salt Lake City, he has strong Wisconsin roots. A native of Elkhorn, Wisconsin, he is former Director of Bands at UW-Eau Claire, taught at Horicon and Tomahawk High Schools, and received bachelors and masters degrees from UW-Madison. Prior to his appointment in Eau Claire, he was Director of Bands at Idaho State University and Muskingum College and professor of conducting and trumpet at the University of Montana. He holds a doctorate from the University of Colorado.
Dr. Fiegel is a serious scholar of film music, regularly conducting live score performances with their films and also lecturing on the subject. His thorough examination of Bernard Herrmann's masterful score for "The Day the Earth Stood Still" was recently published in "The Journal of Film Music." He has arranged numerous scores for brass band, brass quintet, and tuba-euphonium ensemble and is the creator of The "Celluloid Tubas" and "Celluloid Brass" Shows, which have been given over 200 times, including five performances at international conferences. He has presented concerts with Jens Lindemann, Fritz Kaenzig, the Boston Brass, the U.S. Army Brass Quintet, the Denver Brass, and will perform with Calgary's Altius Brass in late 2009.
When not working with bands or film music, Todd Fiegel is associate conductor, arranger, and solo cornetist with the Utah Premiere Brass Band and also recently conducted a series of concerts with the Salt Lake Symphony.