John Duff
School of Music

Professor
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E: jduff@ufl.edu

Address:
130e MUB P.O. Box 117900
Gainesville, Fl 32611-7900


Dr. John A. Duff has served as Director of the School of Music at Southwest Texas State University in San Marcos. He came to SWT from Western Kentucky University after serving as head of the Department of Music and professor of trombone studies since 1991. Prior to Kentucky, he lived in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he taught eleven years at the University of Alaska.

Originally from the Northwest, Dr. Duff received his undergraduate training at the University of Washington in Seattle where he studied conducting with Vilem Sokol and William D. Cole, and trombone with Stuart Dempster. After five years of teaching in the public schools in Eastern Washington, he left for Michigan State University where he studied trombone with Curtis Olson while earning his Master of Music and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

With over twenty-five years of conducting experience, Dr. Duff has worked with musicians from junior high through professional levels in the areas of both band and orchestra. He has conducted in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest, Michigan, Kentucky and Great Britain. From 1995 until 2000, Dr. Duff served as music director and conductor of the Bowling Green Western Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Duff and his wife Donna have two children.


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