Music

Guest Clinicians

Alfred W. Dentino

Alfred W. Dentino, an alumnus of Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in Concord, Massachusetts, received his Bachelor of Music Education Degree from The Ohio State University in 1976. While at Ohio State, he was principal clarinetist and President of The Ohio State University Concert Band under the direction of Donald
E. McGinnis. He earned his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1991 where he won the Crite Prize for his thesis research into portrayals of musical instruments in ancient Greek art.

Mr. Dentino has taught in the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools, Wachusett Regional School District in Holden, Massachusetts, and the Concord Public Schools and the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District in Concord, Massachusetts. From 1992 until he retired from public school education in 2012, he served as Director of Bands at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School where his responsibilities included directing the Repertory and Concert Bands, football Pep Band, Orchestra, and Jazz Bands, as well as conducting the Pit Orchestra for the school’s annual musical.
Under his direction, the CCHS Concert Band earned nineteen gold medals at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) State Concert Festival. The CCHS Concert Band undertook extremely successful tours of Hokkaido, Japan in 1998, 2004, 2007 and 2010; and the CCHS Jazz Band visited Beijing, China in 2000. The CCHS Concert Band performed at some of the finest concert venues in the world including Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Kitara Hall in Sapporo, Japan, and Symphony Hall in Boston. The joint Sapporo Shiroishi Symphonic Wind Ensemble and
Concord-Carlisle Concert Band concerts at Boston’s Symphony Hall in 2003 and 2008 were incredible experiences for performers and audience members alike.

In “retirement”, Mr. Dentino continues to teach. He maintains an active private lesson studio, is Assistant Director of the Lexington Bicentennial Band, and serves the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division as conductor of the Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble Concert Band. Mr. Dentino continues to guest lecture and adjudicate band festivals across the country. He has served MICCA as President, is the recipient of the MICCA Hall of Fame Award in 2001, and continues to serve MICCA as a clarinet and ensemble adjudicator and clinician.

Mr. Dentino also maintains an active relationship with schools and school bands in Japan, particularly with Massachusetts’ Sister State, the island prefecture of Hokkaido. He makes nearly annual visits to Japan and undertook his fifteenth visit there as a chaperone and consultant with the Concord-Carlisle Concert Band on their return visit to Hokkaido in April of 2019.

Mr. Dentino and his wife, Chris, live in Sterling, Massachusetts.

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Dr. Adam E. Lambert

Adam E. Lambert is the Director of Bands and Brass Studies at Southern Utah University where he directs the Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble One. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and applied trumpet lessons. Adam oversees all aspects of the band program at SUU, including supporting the Athletic Bands and serving on the board for the Cedar City Community Band, which he established in 2016. 

An active conductor and clinician, Adam regularly receives invitations to direct instrumental performances locally and abroad, including four invitations to conduct university and professional ensembles in China. He is a regular conductor for the American Fork Symphony, a previous assistant conductor for the Orchestra of Southern Utah, and he has conducted high school honor bands throughout the West, including the 2022 Utah All-State Symphonic Band. Adam organizes and conducts the annual SUU High School Honor Band Festival, which draws over 200 auditions from nearly 40 schools across five states, including California, Arizona, Colorado and Idaho. 

While earning a Doctorate in trumpet performance from the University of North Texas, Adam played and recorded for the series Teaching Music Through Performance with the UNT Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Corporon. He performed numerous solo recitals as part of the Lambert-Margetts Duo and has played professionally with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Tuahacan and others. In 2012, he was listed as a Conn-Selmer performing artist for Bach trumpets.

Dr. Lambert was honored, this past winter, to be elected Utah Music Educators Association President Elect starting July 2023.

Adam is supported by his wife who serves as Director of Concurrent Enrollment at SUU, is an adjunct low brass professor, and recently retired as president of the Iron County School Board. Together, they have four wonderful children, two beautiful daughter-in-laws, and one perfect grandchild. Adam loves the outdoors where he and his family love to run and bike mountain trails.

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Alfred W. Dentino

Alfred W. Dentino, an alumnus of Concord-Carlisle Regional High School in Concord, Massachusetts, received his Bachelor of Music Education Degree from The Ohio State University in 1976. While at Ohio State, he was principal clarinetist and President of The Ohio State University Concert Band under the direction of Donald

E. McGinnis. He earned his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1991 where he won the Crite Prize for his thesis research into portrayals of musical instruments in ancient Greek art.

Mr. Dentino has taught in the Columbus, Ohio Public Schools, Wachusett Regional School District in Holden, Massachusetts, and the Concord Public Schools and the Concord-Carlisle Regional School District in Concord, Massachusetts. From 1992 until he retired from public school education in 2012, he served as Director of Bands at Concord-Carlisle Regional High School where his responsibilities included directing the Repertory and Concert Bands, football Pep Band, Orchestra, and Jazz Bands, as well as conducting the Pit Orchestra for the school’s annual musical.

Under his direction, the CCHS Concert Band earned nineteen gold medals at the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors Association (MICCA) State Concert Festival. The CCHS Concert Band undertook extremely successful tours of Hokkaido, Japan in 1998, 2004, 2007 and 2010; and the CCHS Jazz Band visited Beijing, China in 2000. The CCHS Concert Band performed at some of the finest concert venues in the world including Mechanics Hall in Worcester, Massachusetts, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Kitara Hall in Sapporo, Japan, and Symphony Hall in Boston. The joint Sapporo Shiroishi Symphonic Wind Ensemble and

Concord-Carlisle Concert Band concerts at Boston’s Symphony Hall in 2003 and 2008 were incredible experiences for performers and audience members alike.

In “retirement”, Mr. Dentino continues to teach. He maintains an active private lesson studio, is Assistant Director of the Lexington Bicentennial Band, and serves the New England Conservatory Preparatory Division as conductor of the Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble Concert Band. Mr. Dentino continues to guest lecture and adjudicate band festivals across the country. He has served MICCA as President, is the recipient of the MICCA Hall of Fame Award in 2001, and continues to serve MICCA as a clarinet and ensemble adjudicator and clinician.

Mr. Dentino also maintains an active relationship with schools and school bands in Japan, particularly with Massachusetts’ Sister State, the island prefecture of Hokkaido. He makes nearly annual visits to Japan and undertook his fifteenth visit there as a chaperone and consultant with the Concord-Carlisle Concert Band on their return visit to Hokkaido in April of 2019.

Mr. Dentino and his wife, Chris, live in Sterling, Massachusetts.

Dr. Adam E. Lambert

Dr. Adam E. Lambert is the Director of Bands and Brass Studies at Southern Utah University where he directs the Wind Symphony and Jazz Ensemble One. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting and applied trumpet lessons. Adam oversees all aspects of the band program at SUU, including supporting the Athletic Bands and serving on the board for the Cedar City Community Band, which he established in 2016.

An active conductor and clinician, Adam regularly receives invitations to direct instrumental performances locally and abroad, including four invitations to conduct university and professional ensembles in China. He is a regular conductor for the American Fork Symphony, a previous assistant conductor for the Orchestra of Southern Utah, and he has conducted high school honor bands throughout the West, including the 2022 Utah All-State Symphonic Band. Adam organizes and conducts the annual SUU High School Honor Band Festival, which draws over 200 auditions from nearly 40 schools across five states, including California, Arizona, Colorado and Idaho.

While earning a Doctorate in trumpet performance from the University of North Texas, Adam played and recorded for the series Teaching Music Through Performance with the UNT Wind Symphony under the direction of Eugene Corporon. He performed numerous solo recitals as part of the Lambert-Margetts Duo and has played professionally with the Utah Shakespeare Festival, Tuahacan and others. In 2012, he was listed as a Conn-Selmer performing artist for Bach trumpets.

Dr. Lambert was honored, this past winter, to be elected Utah Music Educators Association President Elect starting July 2023.

Adam is supported by his wife who serves as Director of Concurrent Enrollment at SUU, is an adjunct low brass professor, and recently retired as president of the Iron County School Board. Together, they have four wonderful children, two beautiful daughter-in-laws, and one perfect grandchild. Adam loves the outdoors where he and his family love to run and bike mountain trails.