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TBA Bandmaster of the Year 2018



                                               Kenneth Capshaw





              Kenneth Capshaw was born in Silver City, New Mexico  Texas Bandmasters Exemplary High School Band Award
            on September 8, 1947, and the Capshaw family moved  in July of 2012. Mr. Capshaw holds the assistant principal
            to El Paso, Texas when he was two years old. He  trumpet position with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra,
            attended Bonham Elementary and Junior High Schools,  and is a founding member of the forty-two year old
            and graduated from Burges                                                 El Paso Brass. He has been
            High School in 1965, where he                                             a guest soloist, clinician, and
            was a three-year Texas All-State                                          adjudicator throughout the
            trumpet player. Mr. Capshaw                                               Southwest for many years.
            graduated from the University                                                Mr. Capshaw is a member
            of New Mexico in 1972 with                                                of the Texas Music Educator
            a bachelor’s degree in Music                                              Association, Texas Bandmasters
            Education.                                                                Association, Texas Music
              Kenneth    Capshaw     is                                               Adjudicators Association  and
            currently the Assistant Director                                          Phi Beta Mu. He received the
            of Bands at the University of                                             Band World Legion of Honor
            Texas at El Paso. He has been                                             Award in October of 2010
            involved in music education                                               and  the  Texas  Bandmasters
            in the El Paso community for                                              Meritorious    Achievement
            over forty years, and was a                                               Award in July of 2011. He
            band director in the El Paso                                              was inducted into the Phi Beta
            Independent School District for                                           Mu Texas Bandmasters Hall of
            twenty-five years. He began his                                           Fame in July of 2013. Kenneth
            teaching career at Henderson                                              was elected to the American
            Middle School in 1972, and                                                Bandmasters Association in
            taught band at Morehead                                                   March of 2016.
            Middle School and El Paso                                                    Kenneth and his wife,
            High School. He left the school                                           Louise, are proud parents of
            district in 1981 for the business world, but resumed his  five children, and have seven beautiful young grandchildren
            teaching career in 1996 to begin a sixteen-year tenure at  along with two foster grandchildren. They are a branch of
            Coronado High School. The concert, jazz, and marching  the very musical family founded by Ross Capshaw, former
            bands at all of his schools have been consistent sweepstakes  Director of Fine Arts in the El Paso Independent School
            winners. The Coronado High School Band received the  District and member of the TBA Hall of Fame.

















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