Michael
Schaff is an Associate Professor of Music Education at The Crane School
of Music located within SUNY College at Potsdam , where he also serves
as the Director of General Education. He conducts the Crane Concert
Band, Potsdam Community Band and teaches conducting
and music education
courses. . Additional conducting assignments have included the Crane
Spring 1999 opera production, Puccini's La Boheme and the faculty new
music ensemble NUMA. Dr. Schaff also conducts the Clarkson Community
Orchestra, has conducted the Northern Symphonic Winds, the Orange
County New York Music Educators Wind Ensemble, and at the New England
Music Camp, in Maine. Previously at Colorado State University he served
as Director of Bands, Director of the Marching Band and Horn
Instructor. He was also Musical Director and Conductor of the Denver Concert
Band, and was horn soloist and
conductor
for the DCB in England, Scotland and Wales. He performed
French horn in the Cheyenne Symphony,
He performed French horn in the Cheyenne Symphony, the Ft. Collins
Symphony, and the Front Range Chamber Players. Dr. Schaff taught grades
six through twelve in the public schools for six years in Georgetown ,
Texas , where his bands won state and national recognition, and where
he earned a Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association.
Dr. Schaff holds a Bachelor in Music Education degree from The Ohio
State University, a Master of Music degree in applied French horn from
The University of Texas at Austin , and is the first graduate of the
Doctor of Music degree in Wind Conducting from Indiana University . He
maintains a busy schedule as a clinician, adjudicator and guest
conductor for bands and orchestras of all levels, throughout North
America. He is a member of CBDNA, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi
Kappa Lambda and Phi Kappa Phi.
