Vita and Resume
VITA
J. Robert Gaddis
School of Music
Professor Emeritus of Music
Campbellsville University
1 University Drive
Campbellsville, KY 42718
1. Academic Degrees
Ed.D. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY: Curriculum
& Instruction, Music Education emphasis, 1992
M.A.E. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY:
Music Education, 1981
B.M. Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY:
Music Education, Magna Cum Laude, 1972
2. Professional Experience
2015-Retired
2012-2015- Professor of Music, School of Music, Campbellsville University
1996-2012 Professor of Music, Dean, School of Music, Campbellsville University
1986-1996 Associate Professor of Music, Chair, Division of Fine Arts,
1982-86 Assistant Professor of Music, Division of Fine Arts, Campbellsville College
1981-82 Assistant Band Director, Western Kentucky University
1977-79 Band Director, Franklin-Simpson High School, Franklin, KY
1973-77 Band/Choral Director, Central City H.S., Central City, KY
1972-73 Choral/ Band Director, Elizabethtown H.S. Elizabethtown, KY
Music Ministry Experience
1990-Present Minister of Music, Lebanon Baptist Church, Lebanon, KY
1987-88 Minister of Music, First Baptist Church, Albany, KY
1987 Interim Minister of Music, Porter Memorial BC, Lexington, KY
1986-87 Interim Minister of Music, First Baptist Church, Albany, KY
1985-86 Interim Minister of Music, First Baptist Church, Somerset, KY
1979-82 Minister of Music, Calvary Baptist Church, Franklin, KY
1973 Minister of Music, Mill Creek Baptist Church, Radcliff, KY
1970-71 Youth Choir Director, Forest Park Baptist Church, Bowling Green, KY
3. Faculty and Administrative Load Responsibilities
- Conductor of University Orchestra and String Chamber Ensemble
- Teach undergraduate and graduate levels
- Teach applied low brass
- Teach applied conducting and undergraduate and graduate conducting classes
4. Current Professional and Academic Memberships
1. Visitor/Evaluator for National Association of Schools of Music accreditation procedures
College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA)
2. Music Educators National Conference
3. Kentucky Music Educators Association (Past President, member of Board of Directors)
4. Kentucky Association of College Music Departments (Past President)
5. Phi Beta Mu Professional Fraternity
6. Phi Mu Alpha Professional Fraternity
7. Pi Kappa Lambda
5. Professional Assignments and Activities
- Co-organized and managed four European Tours for the University Chorale (1989, 1992, 1996 and 1999).
- Managed and conducted 9-day concert tours of Brazil with the C.U. Jazz Ensemble in March 1999, May 2002 and May 2004.
- Traveled extensively in South Korea, Taiwan, China and Brazil in recruitment efforts and representing Campbellsville University in negotiations for the establishment of educational partnerships with other universities.
6. Publications
Gaddis, J. R., Artistic Conducting Through Sequential Skill Development
Gaddis, J.R., The Application of the Dreyfus Taxonomy to Musical Conducting, University Microfilms International, doctoral dissertation, 1992.
Gaddis, J. Robert, TUBA PLAYERS: Recruiting and Retaining Them for School Bands, Bluegrass Music News (State Journal of KMEA), 1997
Gaddis, J. Robert, Dean Dowdy, an Historical Perspective, Bluegrass Music News, 1997
7. Papers Presented
Gaddis, R., "Application of the Dreyfus Taxonomy to Musical Conducting". Graduate Music Education Forum. Cincinnati Conservatory of Music-University of Cincinnati.1990
Gaddis, R,. “What’s a Taxonomy?”, Kentucky Music Educators Association Annual In-Service Conference, 2006, Louisville, KY.
8. Other Scholarly Activities
- Guest Conductor of Busan (South Korea) Symphony Orchestra, June 2005
- Served as Editorial Board Chair of Bluegrass Music News, Kentucky Music Educators Association state journal
- Presented clinic in Belo Horizonte, Brazil on the topic of Alumni Relations from the Faculty Perspective, August, 2010
- Guest speaker at an international conference in August, 2008 on Assessment in Music Education in Salvador, Brazil
- Presented conducting clinics at Dong Eui University in Busan, South Korea, March 2010
- Presented conducting clinic at Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, March 2010
- Guest Conductor, Tainan University of Technology Symphonic Winds, Tainan, Taiwan, March 2011
- Guest Conductor for International Youth Music Festival, Tainan, Taiwan, August, 2011
- Guest tuba soloist for various concerts and clinics
- Conductor of Handel's Messiah, Vivaldi's Gloria, Brahms’s A German Requiem, Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with Campbellsville University Chorus and Orchestra.
- Guest Conductor with Campbellsville University Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and Trumpet Ensemble
- Conductor of the Lake Cumberland District All-District High School Band
- Conductor of the Fourth District All-District Jazz Ensemble
- Conductor of Third District Junior High All-District Band
- Adjudicator for All-State auditions
- Adjudicator of various marching band contests
- Adjudicator of KMEA Regional Music Festivals in Madisonville, Lexington, Morehead, and Bowling Green
- Adjudicator of Invitational Music Festivals in Kentucky
- Conductor of the Fourth District Choral Festival, 2001
- Conductor of 2003 Third District KMEA All-District 9-10 Band
- Performing and traveling in England, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, France, Canada, Bahamas, Brazil, Korea, Taiwan, China
9. Awards and Honors
- Named Phi Beta Mu “Kentucky Outstanding Young Band Director of the Year”, 1977
- Named Fourth District Music Educators Association “College Music Teacher of the Year” 1990 and 1997 and “Citation of Service” 2000.
- Commissioned a "Kentucky Colonel", November 9, 1999
- President of Kentucky Music Educators Association July 1999-June 2001
- Past President of Kentucky Association of College Music Departments
- Named Campbellsville University “Distinguished Professor” 1999
- Awarded “Distinguished Service Award” by Kentucky Music Educators Association-2003
- Named to the 2004 Marquis’ Who’s Who in America
- Named to the 2002 and 2003 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
- Named Professor Emeritus of Music
J. Robert Gaddis, Professor Emeritus
School of Music
Campbellsville University
1 University Drive, UPO 792
Campbellsville, KY 42718
270-789-5269
jrgaddis@campbellsville.edu
Home address:
109 Canterbury Way
Campbellsville, KY 42718
___________________________________________________________________________________
J. ROBERT GADDIS
Resumė
Dr. J. Robert Gaddis has retired from Campbellsville University and is now Professor Emeritus of Music. Dr. Gaddis served as head administrator in the School of Music at Campbellsville University for twenty-six years. In July, 2012, Gaddis stepped down from the Dean position and returned to the full-time faculty status. In addition to conducting the University Orchestra, teaching responsibilities for Dr. Gaddis include music education courses, conducting classes, applied conducting, and applied tuba.
Dr. Gaddis has been listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and was named as Distinguished Professor at Campbellsville University in 1999. In 2003, Dr. Gaddis was awarded the Distinguished Service Award from Kentucky Music Educators Association. He taught music education and conducting classes in the MAM program being offered at the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Recife, Brazil. Dr. Gaddis was the Guest Conductor of the Busan (Korea) Symphony Orchestra in June of 2005 and has served as guest conductor of various honors bands and choirs in Kentucky. Just recently, Dr. Gaddis was guest conductor of the Tainan University of Technology Symphonic Winds in Tainan, Taiwan and guest conductor of the International Youth Music Festival in Tainan, Taiwan.
Dr. Gaddis holds the Bachelor of Music and Master of Arts in Music Education degrees from Western Kentucky University and the Doctor of Education degree with an emphasis in Music Education from the University of Kentucky. Before coming to Campbellsville University in 1982, Dr. Gaddis directed chorus and bands for seven years in public schools of Kentucky.
Since Dr. Gaddis became the head administrator of the music program, the program has grown from 27 undergraduate music majors to 160 music majors in undergraduate and graduate programs. Also the program achieved national accreditation with the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM). The program has added a marching band, various wind and percussion ensembles, choral ensembles, opera workshop and an orchestra and strings program. Dr. Gaddis is a visitor/evaluator in the accrediting process for National Association of Schools of Music.
Because of its significant growth in numbers and excellence in performance, the University Orchestra, under the direction of Dr. Gaddis, was invited to perform at the Kentucky Music Educators Association Professional In-Service Conference in February of 2004. In February, 2007 and February, 2014, the String Chamber Ensemble performed at the Kentucky Music Educators Association conference in Louisville. As Dean of Music, Dr. Gaddis has taken the University Jazz Band on three concert tours of Brazil and has managed and co-organized four concert tours of Europe for the University Chorale. Campbellsville University also has developed a strong graduate music program, offering seven master’s degrees on the Campbellsville campus and offered a Master of Arts in Music degree on the campus of the Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in Recife, Brazil.
Through the efforts of Dr. Gaddis, educational partnerships have been established with Mokwon University, Taijeon, Korea, Tainan University of Technology, Tainan, Taiwan, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China. Educational partnerships have been established with several Baptist institutions in South America.
Dr. Gaddis has served as minister of music in various churches across Kentucky for over thirty years. Professional affiliations in which Dr. Gaddis is involved include a two-year term (1999-2001) as President of the Kentucky Music Educators Association. In his second year as president of KMEA, Kentucky hosted the Southern Division of Music Educators National Conference in their bi-annual meeting. He holds membership in the College Orchestra Directors Association, (CODA), Music Educators National Conference, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha, and Phi Beta Mu Band Fraternity.
