School
of Music Faculty
Dr.
Catherine Allard
Voice
Music History
Director of Collegiate Singers
Bryden
Atwater
Percussion
Dr.
Larry Blocher
Director
Music Education
Bands
Dovie Cutchen
Strings
Piano
Dr. William Denison
Piano
Organ
Matt Dunlap
Guitar
Carol
Franks
Flute
Music
Theory
Sam Fredrick
Music Appreciation
Ralph
Ford
Director of Bands
Coordinator of Winds and
Percussion
Carla Gallahan
Horn
Music Education
Bands
Dr. Michael Hix
Coordinator of Choral Music
Voice
Dr. Meg Jackson
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Voice/Ethnomusicology
Dr. John Jinright
Double Reeds
Piano
Music Industry
Tori Lee
Show Choir
Dr. Diane Orlofsky
Director of Concert Chorale
Music Education
Choir
Piano
Dr. Timothy Phillips
Music History
Clarinet
James
Smith
Coordinator of Undergraduate
Music Studies
Trombone
Ray
Smith
Saxophone
Music Technology
Bands
Robert W. Smith
Coordinator of Music Industry
Gwen Threadgill
Class Piano
Music Eduation
Carl Vollrath
Composition
Music Appreciation
Dr. Mark
Walker
Associate Director of Bands
Coordinator of Graduate Studies
Low Brass
Lewis Webb, Jr.
Gospel Choir
Choir
Class Voice
Piano
Voice
Andy Williamson
Guitar
Dr. Hui-Ting Yang
Instructor of Piano
Accompanist
Dr. James Zingara
Coordinator of Applied Studies
Trumpet
Brass Ensembles
Ginger Zingara
Music Appreciation
Theory
Orchestra
School of Music Staff
Jo
Williamson-Adcock
Administrative
Assistant
School of Music
Monique Crawley
Administrative Assistant
University
Bands
Graduate Assistants
Tori Lee
University Chorus
Music Education
Tony Hawthorne
University Bands
Dawn Parkinson
University Chorus /
Music Education
David Samuel
University Bands
Eric Ward
Music Industry
Sean Weiler
University Bands
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 Ray Smith
rsmith@troy.edu
John M. Long School of Music
Long Hall Band Office
Troy University
Troy, AL 36082
(334) 670-3282
(334) 670-5664 (fax)
Faculty members since the fall of 1990. Graduate of Troy and the University of South Florida with degrees in music education and performance. Raymond Smith has taught for more than thirty years at all levels including elementary, junior high, high school, university, and graduate studies. Mr. Smith’s teaching experiences include concert band, wind ensemble, marching band, jazz ensemble, music theory, applied woodwinds, woodwind techniques, jazz history, instrument repair, music technologies, and concert band literature.
Raymond Smith is an active soloist, recitalist, clinician, and adjudicator. Mr. Smith has been featured soloist with the Troy University Symphony Band on many occasions. His other professional credits include performances with the Florida Orchestra, Tampa Bay Symphony, Gulf Coast Symphony, Sarasota Opera, Tampa Ballet, Moscow Ballet, Jeoffrey Ballet, Barnum and Bailey Circus, and many Broadway musicals. As a professional free-lance woodwind specialist, Mr. Smith has played with many of the top recording artist in the jazz, pop, county, and classical music fields. His first record contract was at the age of 15. Since then he has recorded, performed with, and accompanied many of the legends of jazz and commercial music. Some of these artists include jazz artist Sammy Davis, Jr., Al Hirt, Lionel Hampton, Burt Bacharach, Julie Andrews, and Ella Fitzgerald; country artists Eddie Arnold, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Kenny Rogers; pop stars: Gladys Knight, The Four Tops, The Temptations, and the Platters; entertainers Bob Hope, Red Skelton, and Steve Allen; and many others.
Raymond Smith’s conducting experience includes all-star bands, honor bands, community bands, orchestras, choirs, musicals, and director of a network television affiliate. His teachers include some of the finest conductors and educators in America, including John M. Long, Dick Floyd, William Revelli, Stanley DeRusha, and Donald Hunsburger.
Mr. Smith’s past and present affiliations include the Phi Bata Mu, American School Band Directors Association, the National Band Association, the Alabama Bandmasters Association, the Florida Bandmaster Association, the Georgia Music Educators association, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma. Mr. Smith has received many individual honors including Teacher of the Year in Gulf County, Florida, Outstanding Larders in Elementary and Secondary Education, NAACP Service Award and the National Cancer Society service award.
Raymond is currently professor of woodwinds and director of the “Sound of the South” Concert Band.
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