2026 NATIONAL WIND BAND HONORS ADJUDICATORS

Matthew McInturf recently retired as Professor of Music and Director of Bands at Sam Houston State University. He is the founder of the SHSU Director of the Center for Music Education. He previously taught at Florida International University and in the public schools of Richardson, Texas.  

Dr. McInturf received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where he was a student of Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Theory from the University of North Texas, where he studied conducting with Anshel Brusilow and a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Houston where he studied composition with Michael Horvit and conducting with Eddie Green.

Throughout his career, Dr. McInturf’s ensembles have been recognized for their musical accomplishment. He has performed throughout the United States and recordings of his performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio. In 1991, conducting the J. J. Pearce High School Band, he performed an acclaimed concert at the Mid-West clinic, with trombone soloist Christian Lindberg. He has performed at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention, the American Bandmasters Association Convention and the Southwest Division Convention of the College Band Directors National Association with the SHSU Wind Ensemble.

An advocate of new music, Dr. McInturf has continued to commission works for wind ensemble. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World-Wide Concurrent Premiers and Commissioning Fund, Inc., a non-profit corporation that works internationally to form consortiums to commission significant new works from contemporary composers. Dr. McInturf has served on the National Commissioning Committee of the College Band Directors National Association and the Commissioning Committee of the American Bandmasters Association.

Dr. McInturf has an ongoing commitment to music education and frequently serves as a presenter for teacher in-service and consultant for public schools. He has been a guest lecturer in music education for universities and professional conferences. In his role as the Director of the SHSU Center for Music Education, he coordinated a program of performance based pedagogy workshops that offer valuable tools for practicing teachers and was the Managing Editor of Praxis, the online journal of the Center for Music Education. He has served on the College Band Directors National Association Music Education Task Force.

Dr. McInturf is a Past President of the Texas Bandmasters Association, and a Past President of the Southwestern Division of the College Band Directors National Association. He has served as the Vice President and Chair of the College Division of the Texas Music Educators Association and is the Region IX College Division Chair. He is active in the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles and the American Bandmasters Association. In 2017, he was honored by the Texas Bandmasters Association as “Bandmaster of the Year.” 

Lynne Jackson is currently in her 56th year as a music educator. She has degrees from the University of Michigan and Vandercook College of Music. Ms. Jackson is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University, where she teaches graduate music classes. Lynne also recently retired from Berkner High School in Richardson, Texas and continues to serve the Berkner community to this day.

After beginning her career in southwestern Michigan, Lynne moved to Texas and spent 26 years teaching in Richardson as a member of the J.J. Pearce High School band staff.  In 1983, Ms. Jackson was selected as a Richardson ISD Teacher of the Year. In 1995, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Ms. Jackson a grant to study Mozart in Vienna, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic. Since that time, Ms. Jackson has been inspired to travel and teach extensively throughout Europe, Asia, South America and Canada. Lynne is a Conn-Selmer Educator and member of the Conn-Selmer Hall of Fame. Through Conn-Selmer, she was able to participate with the Conn-Selmer Institute in Chengdu, China where she worked closely with music educators and students on two separate occasions.

In 2010, Ms. Jackson was awarded the Meritorious Achievement Award by the Texas Bandmaster’s Association. In 2016, Lynne was inducted into the Phi Beta Mu Texas Bandmaster’s Hall of Fame. In addition to her membership in the Texas Bandmasters Association, Ms. Jackson’s professional affiliations include Phi Beta Mu and the Texas Music Educators Association. Lynne is the founder of Young Educator Seminars, YES, which offers continuing professional development to North Texas music educators. Lynne is widely known throughout Texas as a clinician, and mentor to young students and teachers.

Kevin Sedatole serves as Director of Bands, Professor of Music, and Chair of the conducting area at the Michigan State University College of Music. At MSU, Professor Sedatole serves as administrator of the entire band program totaling over 700 students, which includes the Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, Campus Bands, Spartan Marching Band and Spartan Brass. He also guides the graduate wind-conducting program in addition to conducting the MSU Wind Symphony. Prior to joining MSU, he was director of bands and associate professor of conducting at Baylor University. Previous to his appointment at Baylor he served as associate director of bands at the University of Texas and director of the Longhorn Band, and as associate director of bands at the University of Michigan and Stephen F. Austin State University.

Sedatole has conducted performances for the College Band Directors National Association, American Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as performances in Carnegie Hall. He has conducted across the United States, Europe and Japan. The MSU Wind Symphony, under the direction of Professor Sedatole, has given featured performances at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, the national convention of the College Band Directors’ National Association, the prestigious American Bandmasters Association convention and Carnegie Hall. Performances conducted by Professor Sedatole have won accolades from prominent composers including John Corigliano, Robert Beaser, Kevin Puts, Michael Colgrass, Donald Grantham, David Maslanka, Ricardo Lorenz, Michael Daugherty, John Mackey, Steven Bryant, Jonathan Newman, Carter Pann, Joel Puckett, Dan Welcher as well as many others. Most recently Professor Sedatole has taught courses and conducted in Germany at the Bundesakademie fur musikalische Trossingen and in Japan at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo.

Professor Sedatole serves on the summer faculty of the Interlochen Music Camp and the Board of Directors of the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Additionally he served as president of the North Central division of the College Band Directors National Association.

Dr. Emily Threinen is an Associate Professor of Music and serves as Director of Bands at the School of Music of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; she began this post in 2016. In this position, Threinen conducts the acclaimed University Wind Ensemble, guides the graduate wind band conducting program, and provides administrative leadership for all aspects of the University of Minnesota-TC Band Program. Prior to her appointment at Minnesota, Threinen served as Associate Professor, Director of Bands, and Artistic Director of Winds and Brass at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Assistant Professor, Director of Bands at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia; Director of the Duke University Wind Symphony in Durham, North Carolina; Director of the Concordia University Wind Ensemble in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Conductor of the Dodworth Saxhorn Band in Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Director of Bands and Instrumental Music at Harding High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, where she received the Outstanding Teacher Award. 

Threinen consistently works with composers, arrangers, and performing artists of varied disciplines. Residencies, recordings, and engagements with composers and new compositions are integral to her creative work. In addition to contributions in several articles, interviews, and books, Threinen has been published in multiple volumes of the GIA “Teaching Music Through Performance in Band” book series, where she has been recognized as a strong scholarly contributor. She is active across the nation and abroad (including work in Korea, Costa Rica, Australia, Spain, Brazil, and Canada), as a guest conductor, clinician, and conference presenter. Threinen is a strong advocate for music education and is proud to serve as a Yamaha Master Educator. She is an active member of these organizations: American Bandmasters Association (ABA), World Association for Symphonic Band and Ensembles (WASBE), College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), Big Ten Band Directors Association, National Band Association (NBA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and Pi Kappa Lambda and Kappa Kappa Psi as an honorary member. 

David Kehler serves as Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the Kennesaw State University  Bobbie Bailey School of Music where he is Music Director and Conductor of the KSU Wind Ensemble. In  addition, he supervises and guides all aspects of the KSU Band program, which now enrolls over 700  students. Dr. Kehler also teaches courses in instrumental conducting, symphonic repertoire, and  twentieth century music. Professor Kehler is the recipient of several awards including the Kennesaw State  University College of Arts 2020 Teaching Award, and the 2021 Research and Creative Activity Award and  the 2024 Service Award. An advocate of new music, Dr. Kehler has commissioned more than two-dozen  composers, including several Pulitzer Prize winners to write new compositions for wind ensemble.  

Along with his university responsibilities, David Kehler serves as Music Director and Conductor of the  Atlanta Wind Symphony, a position he has held since 2017. Under his leadership, the AWS is now  considered one of the top adult bands in the United States today and has been a featured ensemble at  the 2020 and 2025 Georgia Music Educators Conference, and the 2021 Midwest International Band and  Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. In addition, the Atlanta Wind Symphony can be heard online as the reference  recordings for several composer’s new music, including Tyler S. Grant.  

Previously, David Kehler served as Associate Conductor of the Dallas Winds and served as Founder and  Conductor of the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra Wind Symphony. Previous academic appointments  were at Southern Methodist University, the University of Rhode Island, and Bay City Western High  School, in Bay City, Michigan. Growing up in Michigan, Dr. Kehler received his Bachelor of Music  Education and Master of Music in Conducting degrees from Michigan State University, followed by his  Doctor of Musical Arts degree in instrumental conducting from the University of Texas at Austin.