Leroy Lane, Associate Music Director

Leroy Lane became Associate Director of the Indianapolis Municipal Band in July 2007. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music where he obtained a double major in tuba performance and music education. His post baccalaureate education continued at the University of Michigan and San Diego State University.

Prior to Indianapolis, he served as band director in middle and secondary schools in Michigan and California as well as Adjunct Professor at Western Michigan University and Point Loma Nazarene University. Before retiring from public school teaching, he received the San Diego City School David Paul Schuchman award for the Outstanding Secondary Music Teacher of 2005 and the Paul Harris Fellow award from the Rotary International for outstanding leadership in teaching in the San Diego area in 2004.

He served seven years as band director for the Livingston County Concert Band in Michigan and played principal tuba for thirteen years in the Grossmont Symphony Orchestra in San Diego as well as guest player in several bands and orchestras in that area.

Mr. Lane has had the privilege of playing under the direction of many of the world’s finest conductors and teachers. Attending five summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp, he studied tuba under Rex Conner and, as a member of the camp orchestra, was honored to play at the White House for President John F. Kennedy.

As first chair tuba with the University of Michigan Symphony and Marching Bands, he played under the direction of Dr. William D. Revelli and Mr. George R. Cavender and studied tuba with Abe Torchinsky, formerly of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has played under famed composers and arrangers including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Robert Russell Bennett, Eugene Ormandy, Vincent Persichetti, Vittorio Giannini, Norman dello Joio, Frederick Fennell, A. Clyde Roller, Jerry Bilik, and world renowned pianist Van Cliburn.