Ausdemore, Jeff
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Jeff Ausdemore serves as President and Co-Founder of Stryvemind.com, a revolutionary online music education platform that impacts students and educators around the world. This venture serves student musicians, music educators and administrators in many capacities, including a world class private lesson faculty, educational consulting, as well as the Stryve Academy. Prior, Mr. Ausdemore served as Director of Music at Grapevine-Colleyville’s iUniversity Prep. In this expanded role, Mr. Ausdemore oversaw all music curricula, including music theory, music history, music composition/arranging, as well as applied music for all primary and secondary level students. In addition, Mr. Ausdemore created the iMusic Club, a club dedicated to enriching the lives of all students enrolled at iUniversity Prep. Mr. Ausdemore served eleven years as the Director of Percussion Studies at Colleyville Heritage High School. In this role, he served as the percussion coordinator, head of jazz studies, and co-director/composer/arranger of the Colleyville Heritage marching band. The CHHS percussion program enjoyed national notoriety, including gold medals in the NTCA Indoor Circuit, PAS Marching Percussion titles, the PAS “Call for Tapes” winners, the PAS Small Ensemble Champions, as well as multiple regional marching percussion accolades.
Previously, Mr. Ausdemore taught at the University of Texas Arlington as adjunct professor of percussion, serving as the percussion arranger/assistant director of the UTA Marching Band, teaching percussion pedagogy/techniques classes, assisting the UTA percussion ensemble, and maintaining a full private studio as well. Mr. Ausdemore has composed/arranged, instructed and consulted with numerous high school and college marching bands throughout the US. In addition, Ausdemore has worked with Drum Corps International ensembles including the Cavaliers, Phantom Regiment, and the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps. During Mr. Ausdemore’s tenure at the Blue Knights, the percussion program produced several percussion individual solo championships, percussion ensemble championships, and a strong reputation for excellence, placing in the elite “top 12” in the Drum Corps International Championships consistently.
As a composer, Mr. Ausdemore has contributed original works for piano, instrumental guitar, contemporary multimedia, percussion and choir, percussion solo instruments, percussion ensemble, as well as wind ensemble and marching band. Several ensembles have commissioned and premiered Mr. Ausdemore’s works on recordings and live concerts, including the Music for All national festival, the Interlochen Fine Arts Academy summer camp, as well as the 2021 Midwest Clinic.
Mr. Ausdemore's professional affiliations include adjudication roles for Drum Corps International, Winter Guard International, Bands of America, a marching percussion committee member for the Percussive Arts Society, the Texas Music Educator's Association, the Texas Bandmasters Association, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, and currently serves as the current Vice President of Percussion and Winds on the executive board of the North Texas Color Guard Association. Jeff Ausdemore is proud to endorse and serve as an artist clinician for Dynasty Musical Instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Remo drumheads, and ProMark sticks and mallets. [1]
Works for Percussion
Deinde - Percussion 13
Fanfare Triumvirate - Percussion 15
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