About Kevin Sedatole and Gary Lewis

Kevin Sedatole serves as Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Michigan State University, He serves as administrator of the entire band program totaling over 700 students, which includes the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Campus Bands, Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass. He also guides the graduate wind-conducting program in addition to conducting the MSU Wind Symphony. Sedatole is a Yamaha Master Educator. Gary Lewis is the Director of Orchestral Studies and the Bob and Judy Charles Professor of Conducting at the College of Music at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a Yamaha Master Educator and Music Director of the West Texas Symphony Orchestra.

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Advice from Yamaha Master Educators Kevin Sedatole and Gary Lewis

Kevin Sedatole: Only You Can Do the Music Early on in my college teaching career, I was trying to prioritize what aspect of teaching to focus on. I remember [Professor] John Whitwell preaching to our music education students, “Only do the things that only you can do.” What he meant was, only you can do the […]