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• Professor of Music, Jacobs School of Music
• Director of Bands, Department of Bands

Education:

• M.M. , University of Michigan, 1983
• B.M.E. , Indiana University, 1975

Background:

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Stephen Pratt conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches graduate wind conducting courses and is the chair of the Department of Bands in the Jacobs School of Music.

In demand as a guest conductor, clinician, and adjudicator of wind bands and orchestras across the country, he was honored as a faculty member of the highest distinction in 1988 by the combined honor societies on campus. Professor Pratt is recipient of the Distinguished Service to Music medal awarded by Kappa Kappa Psi, the national collegiate band honorary organization. He has also been honored with the Outstanding Bandmaster award, Gamma chapter (Indiana) of Phi Beta Mu, 1998, and the Outstanding University Music Educator award, Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA), 2001.

He is a past president of the College Band Directors National Association North Central Division and past president of the Indiana Bandmasters Association. Mr. Pratt is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association as well as a member of the executive board of the National Band Association.

Professor Pratt is music director/conductor emeritus of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra.