Alisha Bowden

Alisha Bowden

Alisha Bowden is originally from Warner Robins, Georgia and is currently in her sixteenth year teaching middle school band. For fourteen years we taught at Richmond Hill Middle School in Richmond Hill, GA. Under her direction, the program grew from 150 to over 400 students. Her ensembles have consistently received superior ratings at Large Group Performance Evaluations, the Southern Star Music Festival, the Dixie Classic Invitational, and the National Adjudicators Invitational. The band was awarded the 2011 Exemplary Performance Award from GMEA, has performed at the GMEA Educator’s In-Service Conference, has won several state level awards with the National Wind Band Honors, and has commissioned pieces by numerous composers, including most recently commissions by David R. Gillingham and David R. Holsinger.

She has also taught at Osborne Middle School in Gwinnett County, GA. She earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in music education from Columbus State University, with emphasis in Percussion and Instrumental Conducting, where she studied with Dr. Robert W. Rumbelow. Mrs. Bowden is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Education in Curriculum Studies (Music Education Emphasis) from Georgia Southern University. She has performed with the Tara Winds, LaGrange Symphony Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, North Georgia Winds, and the Savannah Winds. She has appeared as a guest soloist with the Middle Georgia Concert Band and the Columbus State University Orchestra and a guest conductor of the Middle Georgia Air Force Brass Quintet and Columbus State Faculty Brass Ensemble.

She has worked with Jack Delany, James Keene, Thomas Lee, and Jerry Junkin on conducting and has been involved in performances and recordings with Matthew Welch, Joseph Alessi, Christopher Martin, Mark Hughes, Jens Lindemann, John and Molly Yeh, Donald Hunsberger, and James Jordan. Alisha Bowden’s article “An Analytical and Educational Analysis of Keneth Hesketh’s ‘Vranjanka’” was published in the Winter 2008 edition of Great Britain’s “Wind” journal. Alisha Bowden is currently residing in Braselton, GA with her husband and two sons.

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