Youth Orchestra Of Palm Beach County
Philharmonic
Conductor
Mailing Address
YOPBC
2285 Potomac Road
Boca Raton, FL. 33431
Phone
561 281-8600
Facsimile
561 997-8920
Email
yomail@yopbc.org
Conductor Kyle Prescott is the Associate Chair and Director of Bands in the Department of Music at Florida Atlantic University. His responsibilities include conducting the University Wind Ensemble and Chamber Players, teaching the graduate instrumental conducting sequence and coordinating all aspects of FAU’s comprehensive university bands program. He holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Idaho, and the Master of Music and the Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin, where his principal conducting teacher was Jerry F. Junkin. Additionally, he has studied with exemplary conductors through fourteen international conducting symposia.
Prior to his work at The University of Texas, Dr. Prescott conducted orchestras and bands in the Pacific Northwest. Ensembles under his direction have been invited to perform at the Northwest Regional Conference of the National Association for Music Education in 1997 and 1999, the Southern Conference of the College Band Directors National Association in 2008 and the Florida Music Educators Association Conference in 2009. A strong proponent of music for the next generation, Dr Prescott has conducted nine world premieres in recent years, including works by Arthur Weisberg, Scott McAllister and Libby Larsen.
His research in score analysis and rehearsal has been published in three separate volumes of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series. Dr. Prescott’s wife, Suzanne, is an accomplished double bassist and graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music, and his son, Gabriel plays the trumpet. He is the current Florida State Chair of CBDNA, and Conductor and Music Director of South Florida’s professional wind band, the Florida Wind Symphony.
Kyle Prescott, DMA
Philharmonic Conductor
