Honor Band Clinicians
Dr. Timothy Kaiser
Dr. Timothy Kaiser serves as Director of Instrumental Activities and Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music Education at Oklahoma Baptist University. In this capacity, he oversees all artistic, educational, and administrative aspects of the Instrumental Studies area, conducts the OBU Symphonic Winds and OBU/Shawnee Community Orchestra, teaches upper-division music education courses, and supervises student teachers.
Dr. Kaiser’s professional experience encompasses all ensemble types at all levels of instruction. He is a popular clinician and adjudicator, and his presentations on curriculum, rehearsal pedagogy, and wind band history have been featured at conferences nationally and internationally. Recent research is slated for publication by the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music and Oxford University Press.
Dr. Kaiser holds degrees from The University of Arizona, The University of Texas at Arlington, and University of the Pacific. His professional affiliations include the College Band Directors National Association, National Association for Music Education, National Band Association, International Society for the Research and Promotion of Wind Music, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America, and Society of Pi Kappa Lambda.
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate is a devoted father, classical composer, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, and is dedicated to the development of American Indian classical composition. The Washington Post raves that “Tate is rare as an American Indian composer of classical music. Rarer still is his ability to effectively infuse classical music with American Indian nationalism.”
Tate is a 2022 Chickasaw Hall of Fame inductee, a 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from The Cleveland Institute of Music and was appointed 2021 Cultural Ambassador for the U. S. Department of State. He is Guest Composer, conductor, and pianist for San Francisco Symphony’s Currents Program, and was recently Guest Composer for Metropolitan Museum of Art’s program, Home with ETHEL and Friends. Tate is a governor-appointed Creativity Ambassador for the State of Oklahoma and an Emmy Award-winner for his work on the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority documentary, The Science of Composing.
His commissioned works have been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and Chorus, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, South Dakota Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Ballet, Canterbury Voices, Dale Warland Singers, Santa Fe Desert Chorale and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. His music was recently featured on the HBO series Westworld.
Tate has held Composer-in-Residence positions with the League of American Orchestras and New Music USA, the Joyce Foundation/American Composers Forum, and Grand Canyon Music Festival Native American Composer Apprentice Project, among others. Tate was the founding composition instructor for the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy. In addition to his work based upon his Chickasaw culture, Tate has worked with the music and language of multiple tribes, such as: Choctaw, Navajo, Cherokee, Ojibway, Creek, Pechanga, Comanche, Lakota, Hopi, Tlingit, Lenape, Tongva, Shawnee, Caddo, Ute, Aleut, Shoshone, Cree, Paiute, and Salish/Kootenai.
Among available recorded works are Iholba‘ (The Vision) and Tracing Mississippi, recorded by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, and his Lowak Shoppala' (Fire and Light), recorded by Nashville String Machine with the Chickasaw Nation Children’s Chorus and Dance Troupe alongside vocal soloists and narrators, both out on Azica Records. His Metropolitan Museum of Art commission, Pisachi (Reveal), is featured on ETHEL’s album Documerica. Azica recently released Tate’s inaugural composition, Winter Moons, and his Moonstrike, recorded by Apollo Chamber Players.
Tate earned his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from Northwestern University and his Master of Music in Piano Performance and Composition from The Cleveland Institute of Music. He has performed as First Keyboard on the Broadway national tours of Les Misérables and Miss Saigon and been a guest pianist and accompanist for the Colorado Ballet, Hartford Ballet, and numerous ballet and dance companies.
Tate’s middle name, Impichchaachaaha', means “their high corncrib” and is his inherited traditional Chickasaw house name. Learn more at www.jerodtate.com.