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Windiana Concert Band
Windiana is a professional-level concert band, based in northwest Indiana. Windiana's mission is to perform concert band literature at the highest level and to provide a concert band opportunity for professional-level musicians. Members of Windiana have studied with some of the most notable musicians in America, and are highly recognized for their performing and teaching. With concerts designed for audience enjoyment, Windiana performs a wide variety of music. Windiana holds an Organizational Membership in the Association of Concert Bands, which includes BMI/ASCAP Blanket Licensure. Windiana is a registered trademark.
Founded in 2000, Windiana debuted in 2001 at Chesterton (IN) High School and at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis for the state convention of the Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA). Windiana performed again at the IMEA conventions in 2004 and 2011. In 2010, Windiana performed in the concert series for the Portage (IN) Township Live Entertainment Association.
Windiana has completed seven acclaimed concert tours of China (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012), performing concerts in major concert halls and on television for millions of people, and will tour China again in 2013.
Windiana performs twice per year at the historic Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso, where John Philip Sousa and his band appeared four times (1898, 1904, 1907, 1914). Each summer, Windiana performs at Fox Park in LaPorte (IN).
Dr Jeffrey Scott Doebler
Jeffrey Scott Doebler has served as director of music education and bands at Valparaiso University since 1992, following ten years of teaching in the public schools of Emmetsburg, Iowa, and Shakopee, Minnesota. He earned degrees in music education from Luther College (B.A.), Valparaiso University (M.M.), and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D.). His 37-year career in music education has achieved a unique balance of conducting, teacher preparation, leadership, and working with musicians from the beginning through professional levels, but all aspects of his vocation have had an ultimate focus on teaching. He has been recognized for teaching excellence by peers, colleagues and students, including awards from the Indiana Music Education Association (IMEA), Valparaiso University, Luther College, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and the Confucius Institute. Dr. Doebler was a quarter-finalist for the Grammy Music Educator Award in 2014.In a typical year, Dr. Doebler works with over 3000 students. He has appeared professionally in over 25 states, Canada, Malta, Australia, New Zealand, and China. Dr. Doebler is a former president and state editor of the IMEA. He designed the All-State Future Music Educators Colloquium, a program that has been replicated in many other states. Dr. Doebler is a former president of the Indiana Bandmasters Association (IBA). For the IBA, he regularly conducts the All-Region and All-District Honor Bands, he conducted the All-State Band in 2011, and the Junior All-State Band in 2014. He is the first person to conduct at all four levels of IBA honor bands. Dr. Doebler is founder of a professional-level concert band, Windiana, which has toured China nine times, and has also toured Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii. Windiana performed for the national convention of the Association of Concert Bands in 2011 and the National Chinese Language Conference in 2009. Dr. Doebler serves as concert band conductor for Lutheran Summer Music, the national Lutheran high school music camp.He is conductor of the 150-year-old Michigan City Municipal Band.In 2018, he conducted the IMEA All-State Handbell Choir, which is believed to be the first such ensemble in the nation.