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Staff
 Dr.
Linda R. Moorhouse
Associate Director of Bands
Linda R. Moorhouse (Associate Director of Bands). Appointed to the LSU music faculty in 1985, Dr. Moorhouse conducts the LSU Symphonic Winds, and is Co-Director of the LSU Tiger Marching Band, where she serves as the primary
instructor, also overseeing administrative activities in addition to drill and show design. In addition, Dr. Moorhouse teaches courses in undergraduate conducting, and she administers the LSU Summer Music Camps.
Dr. Moorhouse is a past recipient of LSU's Tiger Athletic FoundationPresident's Award, a campus-wide award for teaching excellence, in addition
to the School of Music Excellence in Teaching Award. Outside LSU, she has
been recognized by the John Philip Sousa Foundation with the Sudler Order of
Merit, is a Member Laureate of Sigma Alpha Iota, and has received the Silver
Baton and Golden Rose awards from the Women Band Directors International.
Honored by the National Band Association with the Citation of Excellence,
she has received the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster Award for Louisiana,
and has been recognized by Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Her biography will be included in the upcoming edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and Grove Music Online.
The LSU Symphonic Winds has been invited to perform for the College Band Directors National Asssociation/National Band Association Southern Division Conference in February 2010. The LSU Tiger Band has been recognized nationally in the last ten years. In 2002 the LSU
Tiger Band received the Sudler Trophy, "the Heisman Tropy of college marching bands," for a distinguished history of marching
and musical excellence. In 2008 the Tiger Band won the "Battle of the Bands" a college marching band contest sponsored by ESPN, Lucasfilm and Paramount Pictures, and in the fall of 2009 the LSU Tiger Band was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Off campus, Dr. Moorhouse maintains an active schedule having appeared as a
guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States, and
in Japan, Western Europe and Canada. An elected member of the prestigious
American Bandmasters Association, she serves as a Past President and Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the National Band Association. Dr.
Moorhouse also serves on the Sudler Trophy Committee of the John Philip
Sousa Foundation, and is a member of CBDNA and Phi Beta Mu.
Dr. Moorhouse has served as a contributing author for five volumes of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series (GIA Publications). She
is also a contributing author for three books: A Composer's Insight–-Thoughts,
Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band (Volumes
2 and 3, Meredith Music), and The Music Directors Cookbook (Meredith
Music). In addition, she is editor of The NBA Journal, official journal of
the National Band Association.
Dr. Moorhouse received a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of
Florida, a Master of Music Education from LSU, and a Doctor of Musical Arts
in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Washington.
Linda R. Moorhouse, D.M.A.
Associate Director of Bands
Department of Bands
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
Voice: 225/578-2384
Fax: 225/578-4693
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