Director of University Bands
Assistant Director of Bands
Wind Ensemble Conductor

Jeffrey Fuchs (jfuchs@email.unc.edu) joined the faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August, 1995 and currently serves as Director of University Bands. He directs the Marching Tar Heels and the men's Basketball Bands, conducts the UNC Symphony Band, and is responsible for the administration of the entire UNC Band program.

Fuchs also serves as the Chair of the Department of Music Scholarship Committee and sits on a variety of University, Music Department and Athletic Department committees. He has served as the Chair of the Wind and Percussion Area in the past, and served a two-year term (2000-2001) as an elected delegate of the UNC Employee Forum and was active on the University Committee Assignments and Personnel Issues committees. In May 2002, he was selected as a recipient of a C. Knox Massey award, one of the most prestigious honors given by the university to recognize unusual, meritorious or superior contributions by UNC employees.

Prior to joining the faculty at UNC, Fuchs was Director of Bands at St. Charles West High School in St. Charles, Missouri. He has also served as the Assistant to the Director of Bands at the University of Kansas and Truman State University and the Director of Bands at Westran High School in Huntsville, Missouri. Mr. Fuchs holds the Bachelor of Music Education (1983) and Master of Arts (1998) from Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri where he was a student of Dan Peterson and has completed further study at the University of Kansas where he studied with Robert Foster, Thomas Stidham and James Barnes.

Fuchs is a past President of the Atlantic Coast Conference Band Directors Association and served as the conductor and musical director of the Village Band, a community band based in Chapel Hill, from 2000 to 2004. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Upsilon Phi), Kappa Kappa Psi, the College Band Directors National Association, the Music Educators National Conference and the North Carolina Music Educators Association and is a member of the CBDNA Athletic Band Task Force.

 

 
Matthew McClure (mcclure@unc.edu) was appointed Assistant Director of Bands at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in July, 2003. Mr. McClure conducts the University Band assists with the Athletic Bands, and directs the bands for women's basketball games. He also serves as the Saxophone instructor in the Department of Music and coaches saxophone quartets and chamber ensembles.

McClure earned his Master of Music in Conducting and undergraduate degree from The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He began his teaching career in the public schools of Russell County, Kentucky, teaching elementary, middle, and high school band. As a graduate teaching assistant for the UT band program, he worked extensively with athletic bands and conducted each of the concert ensembles. McClure has studied conducting with Gary Sousa and has studied saxophone with Jay Romines and Paul Haar. He has performed as the winner of numerous concerto competitions and at the North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference.
Evan Feldman (evanfeldman@unc.edu) is Conductor of the Wind Ensemble and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to his arrival in North Carolina he was Director of Bands at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, where he directed the Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble, and hosted a weekly radio show entitled "Colonial Classics."

Feldman holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Conducting degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Donald Hunsberger and Mendi Rodan. He received his Master of Music in Conducting from the Ithaca School of Music, studying with Rodney Winther. His undergraduate training was completed at Duke University, with conducting studies with Michael Votta.

Feldman's research on the wind music of Sergei Prokofiev, Antonin Dvorak, and George Enescu has been presented at the national and international conferences of CBDNA (College Band Directors National Association), WASBE (World Organization of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles), and IGEB (International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music).

His arrangements and editions of works by those same composers are published by Tierolff Muziekcentrale (Netherlands). He is a contributing author to A Composer's Insight, volume 3 & 4, published by Meredith Music, which includes his chapters on the wind music of Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and David Bedford. His writings have also been published in The Instrumentalist, the Iowa Bandmaster Journal, the MENC Music Educators Journal, and the IGEB Alta Musica.

Feldman previously taught at Central College, in Pella, IA, and high school in Long Island, New York, his home state. He is active as a guest conductor and clinician.