Member Number: 277
Date Put Through: 1 May 1994
James Ripley conducts the Carthage Wind Orchestra and Carthage Concert Band, and is also head of the music department and music education program. He also serves as principal guest conductor of the Sakuyo Wind Orchestra at Sakuyo University in Kurashiki, Japan. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Ripley served as assistant professor of conducting and ensembles at the Eastman School of Music, where he was the associate conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Wind Orchestra, and as conductor of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble at the River Campus of the University of Rochester. Before teaching at Eastman, he was associate director of bands at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and a faculty member at Luther College. He taught in the public schools of Iowa and Minnesota for eleven years. Mr. Ripley is an active arranger and editor of wind ensemble music. His most recent editions are Johannes Brahms' Begrabnisgesang for chorus and band, and a performance edition of Howard Hanson's Pan and the Priest for chamber wind ensemble. He collaborated with Morton Gould on the completion of the American Ballads for band and has also made an edition of Howard Hanson's Triumphal Ode for Military Band. Two of Mr. Ripleys works are published in The Donald Hunsberger Wind Library by Warner Brothers Publications. He has authored several articles that have appeared in The Instrumentalist, Wind Works, BD Guide, and the Journal of Band Research. His professional affiliations include the College Band Directors National Association, World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (Secretary), National Band Association, Music Educators National Conference, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma (honorary member). Mr. Ripley has appeared as guest clinician and conductor throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. He joined the Carthage faculty in 2001.
