Mr. David Carbone has over 30 years of experience in the marching and pageantry arts as a performer, educator, arranger, and adjudicator, including a 23 year career as a band director and music educator at the high school and collegiate levels in Florida, Ohio, and Texas. At the start of his career in Florida, Mr. Carbone's marching ensembles earned Division I “Superior” ratings every year at FBA District contest, while his concert ensembles earned straight superior ratings on stage 6 years consecutively. While in Ohio and Texas, his marching ensembles advanced to Bands of America (BOA) Regional and Super Regional Championship Finals competitions fourteen times, the Grand National Semi-Finals five times, and have won two BOA Grand National Class Championships - one each in Class A and AA. The Bellbrook High School indoor percussion ensemble, in which Mr. Carbone directed and arranged for, earned the WGI Bronze Medal in the Scholastic Open division at the Winterguard International world percussion championships. As a band director at a 6A high school in Texas, Mr. Carbone's concert ensembles earned the coveted UIL “Sweepstakes” Award each and every year (8 consecutive), while earning an invitation to perform at Carneige Hall.

Mr. Carbone is an active adjudicator for Music For All, Bands of America, Winterguard International, and Drum Corps International as well as several local and regional circuits nation-wide. He holds a Masters Degree in Wind Band Conducting from the University of South Florida, as well as a Bachelors Degree in Music Education from the University of Miami (FL). His collegiate experience includes graduate teaching assistantships at the University of South Florida as well as an appointment as visiting professor and interim Associate Director of Bands at the University of Texas at Arlington, where he served as director of the UTA Maverick Marching Band, and conductor of the University Concert Band and Symphonic Band.

Mr. Carbone resides in the Hilton Head Island area of South Carolina with his beautiful wife Carrie, son Beckett, and daughter Jordan.

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