Brian Silvey

Brian A. Silvey (BME, Morehead State University; MME, Wichita State University; PhD, University of Texas-Austin) is Director of Bands, Professor of Music Education, and Associate Director of the School of Music at the University of Missouri. At MU, he teaches undergraduate and graduate music education courses, supervises music education doctoral students, conducts the Wind Ensemble, and provides oversight to the entire band program. Dr. Silvey has presented music education research and teacher preparation clinics at state, national, and international venues.

He is published in the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Research in Music Education, Psychology of Music, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Journal of Band Research, Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, Research and Issues in Music Education, the Choral Conductor’s Companion, and the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. A co-authored book chapter on conducting with Dr. Steven Morrison from Northwestern University was published in the Oxford Handbook of Music Performance. He currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Music Education, College Band Directors National Association Research Journal, and the Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education. Dr. Silvey is the Research Grant Chair for the American Bandmasters Association. He previously served as Editor of the National Association for Music Education journal, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Research in Music Education and as Editor of the Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education.

His research interests include conducting expressivity and effectiveness, instrumental conducting pedagogy, intonation strategies, and preservice teacher preparation. While at the University of Missouri, Dr. Silvey has received the Writing Intensive Teaching Excellence Award, the School of Music Faculty Excellence Award, the Gold Chalk Award for Teaching Excellence, and the William T. Kemper Award for Teaching Excellence, the most prestigious teaching award given to faculty at MU. He is an experienced events adjudicator, guest conductor, and guest clinician, having worked with bands across the United States.