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Executive Director
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Cecil Wilder is currently employed as Executive Director for the Georgia Music Educators Association, having held that position since 1996. Prior to that he worked for nineteen years in the Clayton County (GA) schools as Director of Bands at Jonesboro Senior High School, Conductor of the Clayton County Youth Symphony, and as Lead Teacher for Instrumental Music.
Before coming to Clayton County Cecil was Director of Bands at Kendrick High School in Columbus, Georgia from 1969-1977 and at Rothschild Jr. High School in Columbus from 1967-1969. He also was employed at Auburn University as Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Music Department at Auburn University from 1973-1977.
Cecil holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from Auburn University and has done additional graduate study at Georgia State University, Columbus State University, the University of West Georgia, and Northwestern University where he participated in their Summer fellows Program in Music Education.
Cecil also served as Music Director and Arranger for the Miss Georgia Scholarship Pageant (a state affiliate of the Miss America Pageant) from 1969-1985, as principal trombonist of the Columbus (GA) Symphony Orchestra from 1967-1977, and has worked extensively as a free-lance trombonist and arranger. He is currently a member of the Atlanta Seventeen, a not-for-profit jazz band in the Atlanta area.
Bands and orchestras under his direction have performed at the Georgia Music Educators Association In Service Conference (five times) the National Convention of the American School Band Directors’ Association, the Tri-State Conductor’s Conference at Florida State University, the Southeastern United States Band Clinic at Troy State University, the Southern Instrumental Conductors’ Conference at the University of Southern Mississippi, and the Mid West International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
Cecil has served as adjudicator and clinician for bands and orchestras throughout the southeastern United States and ensembles under his direction consistently earned superior ratings during his thirty-year career as a music educator. During his teaching career he maintained an active private low brass studio and had many students selected for the Georgia All State Bands during that time.
Cecil’s wife, Ann, is a former music teacher in Muscogee, Clayton and Fayette Counties, and has been employed by Delta Airlines since 1989. Her current job is as an analyst in their Line Maintenance Department.
They have two daughters. Their oldest daughter Betsy, holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education from the University of Georgia and a Masters from the University of South Carolina, also in music education. Betsy is a former music teacher in Clayton and Gwinnett Counties and in Milan, Italy. She is currently employed in the Microelectronics Research Center at Georgia Tech.
Their younger daughter, Debbie lives in Port Orange, Florida, where she is employed as a teacher at the Port Orange Presbyterian School. She holds a Bachelors degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Georgia. Her husband, Mike, is the Manager of the Port Orange City Planning Department and was a member of the Lassiter High School Band. Mike holds a Bachelors degree in Geography from the University of Georgia and a Masters in Urban Planning from Georgia Tech. They have two sons, Ben, who is eight, and Evan, who is five.
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