Dr. Jeffrey Boeckman is the Director of Bands at California State University, San Bernardino. He conducts the Symphonic Band and Chamber Winds, directs CSUSB’s pep band, “The Wild Bunch,” and oversees the instrumental music department. He also teaches courses in conducting, wind literature, music education and music theory. Under his direction, the CSUSB Bands have worked with guest artists and composers, initiated commissioning projects, and premiered several new works. Dr. Boeckman is also the founder and musical director of the Inland Empire Youth Wind Symphony, a performing ensemble of San Bernardino & Riverside Counties’ most talented high school musicians.  He was recently named Associate Conductor for the San Diego Winds, a professional wind band in San Diego, CA.

Prior to this appointment, he served as the Associate Director of Bands at Texas A&M University-Commerce, where he directed both the Symphonic Band and the Pride Marching Band. He also previously directed the instrumental music program at Roanoke College in Virginia. For five years, he was the Director of Instrumental Music at Shasta High School in Redding, California, where he led the bands, orchestra, and chamber ensembles in acclaimed performances at festivals and on national and international tours. Dr. Boeckman also directed the Redding Symphony Youth Orchestra for three seasons, and served as guest conductor for the Redding Symphony Orchestra.

 A passionate advocate of new music, Dr. Boeckman has worked with such composers as Michael Colgrass, Jeffrey Brooks, and David Maslanka on performances of their music and has premiered a number of works, including Scott Gendel’s opera Iphigenia at Aulis. Ensembles under his direction have performed at such venues as the 2005 TMEA Conference. He has served as an adjudicator and clinician at concert, marching, and solo festivals across the country, and as a guest conductor of honor bands in several states. His scholarly work has been presented at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) International Conference and the California Music Educators Association (CMEA) State Conference, and has been published in the Journal of Band Research; his book A Counterpoint of Characters: the Music of Michael Colgrass was recently published by VDM Verlag.

Dr. Boeckman holds degrees from the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Arizona, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His principal conducting teachers include Michael Senturia, Gregg Hanson and James Smith.