Chris Doane
Dean, School of Music
Christopher Doane is currently
Professor of Music and Dean of the School of Music at the University of
Louisville, a position he was appointed to in the summer of 2002. Prior
to this Dr. Doane served as Coordinator of Performing Arts (2001-02)
and Director of the School of Music at the University of South Florida
(1995-2002) where he served in a variety of instructional and
administrative capacities for a period of twenty years. Dr. Doane has
held appointments at Case Western Reserve University as Director of
Bands and The Ohio State University as graduate teaching assistant. His
academic degrees include the BME and Ph.D. degrees from The Ohio State
University (1974 and 1981) and the Master of Music degree from the
University of Akron (1980).
Publications authored by Christopher Doane have appeared in Research
Perspectives in Music Education, Update - Applications of Research in
Music Education, Triad, Florida Music Director, Contributions to Music
Education, Dialogue in Instrumental Music Education, The
Instrumentalist, The Brass Band Ridge, The Brass Player, and the
College Band Directors National Association Journal. Additionally, he
contributed a chapter on assessment to the MENC publication Music at
the Middle Level: Building Strong Programs and produced a ten-volume
series of instructional videotapes dealing with techniques of teaching
and performance on wind and percussion instruments. Dr. Doane was a
two-time recipient of USF undergraduate teaching awards (1991 and 1995)
and in 1998 was honored as the College Music Educator of the Year by
the Florida Music Educators Association. He was the founding editor of
the journal, Research Perspectives in Music Education, a position that he held for nine years.
