Bryan Dunlap
- Director, Le 91心頭利嫋 College Pep Band Music
Bryan Dunlap is a life-long Central New Yorker who has been a music educator for 25 years. Originally from Baldwinsville, he received his Bachelor���s Degree from Ithaca College where he served as the Director and Administrator for the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia/Ithaca College Pep Band.
Bryan has served as a band director at all levels of public school instruction, including jazz and competitive marching band. He currently serves as a middle school band director in the East Syracuse Minoa Central School District where he directs the 120-student sixth grade band, the Pine Grove Middle School Jazz Ensemble, and also conducts the pit orchestra for Spartan Stage at ESM Central High School. Many of Bryan���s students have gone on to participate in NYSSMA Conference All-State, receive local and national citations, and also pursue careers as music educators and performers.
As a performer, Bryan has studied saxophone for nearly forty years and has had the pleasure of performing both as a soloist and alongside many local and national jazz and rock artists. An accomplished woodwind doubler, he enjoys the challenge of ���juggling instruments��� and has performed in over one hundred scholastic and professional/regional theater productions.
Bryan resides in Syracuse with his wife and four children. He enjoys cooking and the outdoors, and can rarely be found without a cup of coffee within arm���s reach.
Education:
- B.M., Ithaca College
- M.A., University of Hawai���i at Manoa