Richard Floyd
Evaluator SRCF- Biography
Richard Floyd is enjoying his 56thrd year of active involvement as a conductor, music educator and administrator. For 31 years Floyd served as State Director of Music for the University Interscholastic League at the University of Texas at Austin where he coordinated all facets of secondary school music competition for some 3500 performing organizations throughout the state. He currently holds the title of Texas State Director of Music Emeritus. His other professional endeavors include the post of Musical Director and Conductor of the Austin Symphonic Band. Former positions include Professor of Conducting and Wind Ensemble Conductor at the University of South Florida, Director of Bands at Baylor University and 11 years as a member of the music faculty in the nationally acclaimed Richardson, Texas school band program.
Mr. Floyd has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe as a clinician, lecturer, adjudicator and conductor including appearances in 43 states and 10 foreign countries. His areas of primary interest include conducting, wind band repertoire and the entrenchment of performance-based music programs within the academic framework of the secondary school curriculum.
In 2002 he received the prestigious A.A. Harding Award presented by the American School Band Directors Association in recognition of his significant and lasting contributions to the school band movement. The Texas Bandmasters Association named him Texas Bandmaster of the Year in 2006 and also recognized him with the TBA Lifetime Administrative Achievement Award in 2008. Most recently he received the Texas Music Educators Association Distinguished Service Award in 2009 and was inducted into the Bands of America Hall of Fame and Texas Phi Beta Mu Hall of Fame in 2011. That same year he was awarded the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic Medal of Honor for distinguished service and contributions to bands, orchestras and music education. In 2013 he was elected to the National Band Association Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts recognizing excellence and exceptional service to bands.
He is the author of the critically acclaimed book “The Artistry of Teaching and Making Music” published by GIA Publications.