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Randall Coleman is currently the Associate Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Alabama where he serves as the conductor of the Alabama Symphonic Band, the Associate Conductor of the Alabama Wind Ensemble and the Associate Director of the “Million Dollar Band.”  He also teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and wind band literature classes.    Coleman joined the faculty at the University of Alabama after a successful 25 year career as a high school band director and supervisor in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia.  He received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama, and his Masters of Music Education degree from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Coleman has been an active member of the Georgia Music Educators’ Association, where he has held the office of President, First Vice-President and State Band Division Chair. Coleman has also served as Georgia State Chair for the National Band Association.  He was awarded the Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association on eight occasions and was the 1992 recipient of the American School Band Directors Association’s Stanbury Award for the state of Georgia and the southeastern United States.  Mr. Coleman was inducted into the John Philip Sousa Foundations’ “Legion of Honor” in 2004 and is also listed in “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.”

Bands under Coleman’s direction have consistently received superior ratings on the concert stage as well as the marching field.  His concert ensembles have performed on three occasions in Carnegie Hall in New York, New York. During his tenure at Milton High School in Milton, Georgia, the Milton Wind Ensemble was invited to perform at the National Convention of the Music Educators’ National Conference, the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival and the Georgia Music Educators’ Association State Conference.  Marching bands under his direction have won numerous “Grand Championship” awards and also participated in the prestigious New Year’s Day Parade in London, England, in 1996 and 2001 and the 2004 Fiesta Bowl Parade in Phoenix, Arizona.  Coleman remains in demand as a marching and concert band clinician and adjudicator across the country and in Europe.