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Dr. Sigurd Johnson

Director of Athletic Bands
Percussion

E-Mail: Sigurd.Johnson@ndsu.edu
Office: 116A Music Education Building
Phone: (701) 231-7083

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Degrees:

  • D.M.A., University of Memphis
  • M.M., Northwestern University
  • B.A., Concordia College

Dr. Sigurd Johnson is Director of Athletic Bands and an Associate Professor of Music at North Dakota State University. Prior to his appointment at NDSU, he served as Director of Bands and Percussion at Valley City State University in Valley City, ND; Director of Bands and Instrumental Music at Rust College in Holly Springs, MS; and as a percussion arranger and instructor on the staff of the University of Memphis Marching Band.

While living in the mid-south, Dr. Johnson was a member of the percussion section of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, an active jazz and theater freelance performer and a clinician/adjudicator. He also spent four years teaching and performing in Norway. Currently, Dr. Johnson spends a portion of his summer teaching percussion at the International Music Camp, where he is also an executive member of the IMC board and vice-president of the US Corporation. Johnson is the East Region Band Representative for the North Dakota Music Education Association, is a past president of the North Dakota National Band Association; and has served as North Dakota State Chair for the collegiate chapters of the Music Educators National Conference. He is active in the upper Midwest as a percussion, jazz ensemble and concert band clinician and adjudicator, as well as a guest conductor of Festival and Honor bands. Dr. Johnson is a Sabian Cymbals and Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets artist.

 

For more information contact Kay Beckermann , (701) 231-9564
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