About Craig Kirchhoff

Yamaha Master Educator Craig Kirchhoff is a Professor of Music and Director Emeritus of University Bands at the University of Minnesota where he conducted the University Wind Ensemble and guest conducted in the University Opera Program. Kirchhoff also coordinated the graduate program in Wind Ensemble/Band Conducting and has guided all aspects of the University of Minnesota wind band program since 1993.

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Advice from Yamaha Master Educator Craig Kirchhoff

Technique is Secondary to the Music In the spring of 1973, I took my high school band to the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a clinic session with H. Robert Reynolds, then Director of Bands at the University of Wisconsin. Forty-four years later I can still recall the repertoire that that my band — the John Marshall […]