Christopher Moore

Christopher Moore currently serves as Director of Athletic Bands and Coordinator of Percussion Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.

He previously served as Assistant Director and Staff Arranger of the Atlanta Olympic Band and Director of Instrumental Music at Marist School in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Jacksonville State University and a Master of Music degree from East Carolina University.

Mr. Moore is an active freelance performer, clinician, arranger, composer and film scorer. In 1999 he served as percussion consultant to Wynton Marsalis on three large works for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Mr. Moore is also coordinator of the Falcons Drumline for the Atlanta Falcons Football Team. He is a member of MENC, Phi Mu Alpha, IAJE and the Percussive Arts Society.

Christopher Moore
Director of Athletic Bands
Coordinator of Percussion Studies

840 McMillan Street
Atlanta, GA USA 30332-0456
chris.moore@music.gatech.edu
TEL: 404.894.8977 FAX: 404.894.9952

Benjamin J. Diden

Benjamin J. Diden is Assistant Director of Bands at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He serves as conductor of the Symphonic Band and Assistant Director of Athletic Bands. His duties also include Music Theory, Applied Clarinet instruction and he serves as the Faculty Sponsor of the Epsilon Theta chapter of Tau Beta Sigma. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Wind Conducting at the University of South Carolina. Mr. Diden received the Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree and the Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting degree from the University of Tennessee.

Mr. Diden served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the Pride of the Southland Marching Band at UT and the Mighty Sound of the Southeast Marching Band at USC, where he worked extensively with the entire band program of each university. As a graduate assistant and member of the UT Wind Ensemble, he performed at Carnegie Hall in 2003 as part of the New York Wind Band Festival. Mr. Diden has served as a conductor and clinician throughout the southeast, including guest conductor of the USC Symphonic Band performance at the 2008 North American Saxophone Alliance conference. He also taught for several years in the public schools of Tennessee. Mr. Diden is a member of MENC, the College Band Directors National Association, the National Band Association and an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Psi.

Benjamin Diden
Assistant Director of Bands

840 McMillan Street
Atlanta, GA USA 30332-0456
benjamin.diden@music.gatech.edu
TEL: 404.894.8951 FAX: 404-894-9952

Andrea Brown

Andrea Brown is currently in her first year as Assistant Director of Bands, Visiting Professor of Music at the Georgia Institute of Technology where she is involved in the instruction of both the athletic and concert band programs. Brown recently completed a DMA in Instrumental Conducting at UNC Greensboro where she was a student of John Locke and Kevin Geraldi and was the conductor of the University Band. During her graduate studies, Brown was a frequent guest conductor for the UNCG Wind Ensemble, UNCG Symphonic Band, and Casella Sinfonietta Chamber Ensemble. Since 2004, she has been a member of the brass staff of the Drum Corps International World Champion Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps of Rockford, Ill., and remains an active concert and marching clinician and adjudicator throughout the southeast.

Originally from Milan, Tenn., she is a graduate of Austin Peay State University where she was named “Outstanding Student in Music” and “Madame Governor.” Brown earned a master of music degree in instrumental conducting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Prior to her position at Georgia Tech, Brown was the assistant director of bands at Austin Peay State University for five years and also taught public school in both Wisconsin and Texas. Brown’s previous marching experience includes membership in the 1994 Cadets of Bergen County and 1993 Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps. Brown is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Kappa Lambda, NCMEA, MENC, CBDNA, and was awared the Rose of Honor as a member of Sigma Alpha Iota Women’s Music Fraternity.

Andrea Brown
Assistant Director of Bands/ Director of Orchestra

840 McMillan Street
Atlanta, GA USA 30332-0456
TEL: 404.894.8974 FAX: 404-894-9952

Chip Crotts

Dr. Chip Crotts has been an on-call artist for the Disney Company and has worked and
recorded throughout the US and Europe. A GRAMMY nominated musician, Chip has
performed with many international artists, including Natalie Cole, Boston Brass, Ray
Charles, Mannheim Steamroller, Manhattan Transfer and Maynard Ferguson. As a first call
player for national touring productions, Chip has played over 40 shows including
Chicago, The Producers, A Chorus Line, The Color Purple, Spamalot, West Side Story
and Thoroughly Modern Millie.

Equally at home as a classical performer, Chip has presented numerous university recitals
and masterclasses and has performed with the orchestras of North Carolina, Alabama,
Huntsville, Austin, Tuscaloosa, Altoona, Abilene, and Chattanooga, among others. He
can also be heard on several CD’s with the SeaBreeze label, as well as recordings with
the University of Texas Wind Ensemble and UT Jazz Orchestra.

As an educator, Dr. Crotts has been Director of the Alabama All-State Jazz Ensemble and
has presented clinics throughout the Southeast and Texas on jazz pedagogy and
development of jazz programs in the schools. He has recently written a series of jazz
articles for System Blue Publications and a new book on trumpet pedagogy and playing
styles is in the works. Chip has also spent time in the marching activity and has been on
the brass staff of Spirit, Phantom Regiment and the Blue Devils. Chip maintains a busy
schedule as clinician and adjudicator and has served as a judge for BOA, DCI, IAJE and
the International Trumpet Guild.

Dr. Crotts holds degrees from East Carolina University, Penn State University and the
Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance with a Jazz Emphasis from the
University of Texas-Austin. Previously, Chip has served on the faculties of Samford
University and Jacksonville State University and is a Yamaha Performing Artist and
Clinician.

Chip Crotts
Director of Jazz Studies

840 McMillan Street
ccrotts3@mail.gatech.edu
Atlanta, GA USA 30332-0456
TEL: 404.894.8974 FAX: 404-894-9952